Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Personality Type and Self-perception of Hearing Aid Benefit

Title of Document: PERSONALITY TYPE AND SELFPERCEPTION OF HEARING AID BENEFIT Allyson Adrianne Segar, Au.D. , 2006 Directed By: Director of the Doctoral Program in Clinical Audiology, Sandra Gordon-Salant, Ph.D., Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Hearing aid benefit is frequently assessed using subjective measures in which the patient is asked to respond to a series of questions regarding how much benefit they feel they are receiving from their hearing aids. Previous research has shown that audiological factors are related to the amount of self-reported benefit from hearing aids, but these factors do not explain all of the variance in hearing aid benefit scores. The purpose of this investigation was to assess the relationship between several non-audiological factors, including personality, mood, and gender, to self-reports of hearing aid benefit. Measures of hearing aid benefit, personality, and mood were obtained from 20 older adult listeners with sensorineural hearing loss who were experienced hearing aid users. The two measures of hearing aid benefit were the Hearing Aid Performance Inventory (HAPI) (Walden, Demorest, & Hepler, 1984) and the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) (Cox & Alexander, 1995); the two measures of personality were the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Myers & McCaulley, 1985) and the Keirsey Four Types Sorter (Keirsey, 1998); and the mood assessment was the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (Watson, Clark & Tellegen, 1988). The results demonstrated significant relationships between extraversion/introversion and selfreported hearing aid benefit, and between mood and self-reported hearing aid benefit. Overall, the measures of mood, Keirsey personality type, and gender were predictors of difficulty communicating in a reverberant environment while wearing hearing aids, and accounted for 71 percent of the variance on this subscale. The results of this study have provided evidence that self-reported hearing aid benefit is associated with certain non-audiological factors including extraversion/introversion preference, certain Keirsey personality types, mood, and gender. Although these factors explained a relatively small amount of the variance in HAPI and APHAB scores, they still provide support for the notion that the amount of benefit an older adult individual reportedly receives from his or her hearing aids is not entirely dependent on hearing sensitivity, but on other attributes that characterize an individual. The findings suggest that certain dimensions of personality should be considered when developing an individualized treatment plan for a patient prior to hearing aid delivery. PERSONALITY TYPE AND SELF-PERCEPTION OF HEARING AID BENEFIT
Motor subtype and cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease, Parkinson’s disease with dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies

Background: A previous cross sectional study found over-representation of a postural instability gait difficulty (PIGD) motor subtype in Parkinson’s disease patients with dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), compared with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Aims: (1) To examine rates of cognitive and motor decline over two years in PD (n = 40), PDD (n = 42) and DLB (n = 41) subjects, compared with age matched controls (n = 41), (2) to record whether motor phenotypes of PD, PDD, and DLB subjects changed during the study, (3) to find out if cognitive and motor decline in PD was associated with baseline motor subtype, and (4) to report the incidence of dementia in PD patients in relation to baseline motor subtype. Results: Most of PDD and DLB participants were PIGD subtype at baseline assessment. In the non-demented PD group, tremor dominant (TD) and PIGD subtypes were more evenly represented. Cognitive decline over two years was greater in PDD and DLB groups (mean decline in MMSE −4.5 and −3.9, respectively), compared with PD (−0.2) and controls (−0.3). There was an association between PIGD subtype and increased rate of cognitive decline within the PD group. Of 40 PD patients, 25% of the 16 PIGD subtype developed dementia over two years, compared with none of the 18 TD or six indeterminate phenotype cases (χ2 = 6.7, Fisher’s exact test p<0.05). Conclusion: A PIGD motor subtype is associated with a faster rate of cognitive decline in PD and may be considered a risk factor for incident dementia in PD.
An Orphan LuxR Homolog of Sinorhizobium meliloti Affects Stress Adaptation and Competition for Nodulation

ABSTRACT The Sin/ExpR quorum-sensing system of Sinorhizobium meliloti plays an important role in the symbiotic association with its host plant, Medicago sativa. The LuxR-type response regulators of the Sin system include the synthase (SinI)-associated SinR and the orphan regulator ExpR. Interestingly, the S. meliloti Rm1021 genome codes for four additional putative orphan LuxR homologs whose regulatory roles remain to be identified. These response regulators contain the characteristic domains of the LuxR family of proteins, which include an N-terminal autoinducer/response regulatory domain and a C-terminal helix-turn-helix domain. This study elucidates the regulatory role of one of the orphan LuxR-type response regulators, NesR. Through expression and phenotypic analyses, nesR was determined to affect the active methyl cycle of S. meliloti. Moreover, nesR was shown to influence nutritional and stress response activities in S. meliloti. Finally, the nesR mutant was deficient in competing with the wild-type strain for plant nodulation. Taken together, these results suggest that NesR potentially contributes to the adaptability of S. meliloti when it encounters challenges such as high osmolarity, nutrient starvation, and/or competition for nodulation, thus increasing its chances for survival in the stressful rhizosphere.
Effect of nalbuphine on the motility of the sphincter of Oddi in patients with suspected sphincter of Oddi dysfunction.

BACKGROUND Nalbuphine is an ideal supplementary analgesic drug for midazolam-induced conscious sedation during operative endoscopy because it has no cardiovascular effect and only a moderate depressive effect on respiration. However, no data are available as to whether nalbuphine is suitable as an analgesic drug during endoscopic sphincter of Oddi manometry. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of nalbuphine on the sphincter of Oddi motility in patients with a suspected sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. METHODS Seventeen patients who were suspected clinically to have SOD after cholecystectomy were prospectively investigated. Five mg of midazolam was administered intravenously before the procedure to induce conscious sedation. After approximately 5 minutes of stationary sphincter of Oddi manometry recording (baseline), either 10 mg of nalbuphine or saline solution (placebo) was administered intravenously in random fashion and pressure was recorded for a further 5 minutes. Maximum sphincter of Oddi basal pressure and average phasic contraction amplitude and frequency were measured before and after the infusion of the drug or saline solution. RESULTS Nalbuphine administration effectively enhanced the sedation obtained with midazolam without any adverse effect. When the sphincter of Oddi manometric periods before and after the administration of nalbuphine versus placebo were compared, there was a significantly increased basal sphincter of Oddi pressure only in the nalbuphine group: respectively, 49 (18) and 77 (29) mm Hg (p = 0.003) versus 51 (24) and 49 (23) mm Hg (p = 0.9). The phasic contraction amplitude did not change in response to nalbuphine, but the phasic contraction frequency increased significantly, from 5 (3) to 8 (4) per minute (p = 0.04). CONCLUSIONS Nalbuphine has a stimulatory effect on sphincter of Oddi motility in patients with a suspected sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. Nalbuphine should not be used as premedication before endoscopic ERCP if sphincter of Oddi manometry is to be performed.
Assessment of Charisma as a Factor in Effective Teaching

In order to advance the effectiveness of higher education, we concentrated attention on teachers' classroom behaviours and aimed to develop an inventory for evaluating teacher's charisma in college settings. This study identified teacher characteristics that are indicators of teaching charisma and then developed a teaching evaluation questionnaire based on these indicators. The exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis resulted in a 23-item Inventory of Teaching Charisma in College Classroom (ITCCC) that comprises four factors: knowledge, character traits, teaching techniques, and humor. As opposed to the questionnaire widely used in higher education institutions in Taiwan that mainly focuses on the evaluation of teacher's teaching method or attitude, the new measure enables college students to evaluate teacher's teaching in terms of their charisma. An advantage of thus instrument is that it has just a few items and is therefore easy to administer and to complete. It results in good response rates from students and the analysis is straightforward, since the scores on the items are simply summed to get the subscale scores. The results can serve as a basis for teachers to improve these skills or qualities and may provide a framework to help teachers to increase their teaching efficiency.
Perils of correlating CUSUM‐transformed variables to infer ecological relationships (Breton et al. 2006; Glibert 2010)

a U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California bDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, California c National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark dCenter for Watershed Sciences, and Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis, Bodega Bay, California e Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, California f Australian Centre for Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia g U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, California hJohn Muir Institute of the Environment, Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Watershed Sciences Center, University of California, Davis, California i Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany
The Attentional Cost of Amplitude and Directional Requirements When Pointing to Targets

The aim of this study was to investigate the comparative cost of accuracy constraints in direction or amplitude for movement regulation. The attentional cost is operationally defined as the amount of disturbance created in a secondary task by the simultaneous execution of a pointing task in direction or amplitude. The cost is expressed in terms of modifications in response to a secondary task, consisting of a foot-pedal release in response to an auditory stimulus (probe). The probe was introduced during the programming portion or the first, middle, or last portion of the pointing movement. The independent variables were the requirements of the task: direction or amplitude, and the moments of occurrence of the probe. Subjects were submitted to eight experimental conditions: (1) simple foot reaction time to a buzzer; (2) single directional task; (3) single amplitude task; (4) dual directional task (i.e. directional task with probe); (5) dual amplitude task (i.e. amplitude task with probe); (6) retest of foot simple reaction time; (7) retest of single directional task; and (8) retest of single amplitude task. Regulation in direction was more attention-demanding than regulation in distance in terms of programming. During pointing in amplitude, probe RT increased monotonically from start to end of movement execution, whereas directional pointing did not lead to any significant probe RT changes. These results emphasize the specific attentional loads for directional and amplitude pointing tasks, hence the involvement of different central nervous system mechanisms for the programming and regulation of the directional and amplitude parameters of pointing movements.
Health and Gender in Female-Dominated Occupations: The Case of Male Nurses

The goal of this work is to examine the differential impact that carrying out nursing tasks may have on the health of male nurses who perform their work in female-dominated occupation, and the modulating effect of their conformity to male gender norms. Our study includes 98 male nurses and 98 female nurses, from the University Hospital of Getafe, (in Madrid). The participants completed sociodemographic questionnaire, physical health and Self-perceived Job Satisfaction questionnaires, the GHQ-12, and the Conformity to Gender Norms Questionnaires (CMNI). In general, the male nurses enjoy better health than the female nurses in the variables analyzed. With regard to conformity to masculine gender norms, they show lower conformity to the traditional masculine gender norms than men from the general population. However, the relation of the studied health variables with conformity to masculine gender norms shows classic pattern of habitual health in the men.
Practical grading system for evaluating cisplatin ototoxicity in children.

PURPOSE We present a new ototoxicity grading system that has clearly defined and frequency-specific audiometric criteria. The purpose of this study was to validate this grading system by assessing its correspondence to audiology treatment recommendations and comparing it with the currently utilized Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE). PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective chart review was conducted using audiologic, demographic, and clinical data from 134 children receiving 149 courses of chemotherapy consisting of cisplatin and/or carboplatin. Pure-tone audiograms were evaluated using both our proposed grading criteria and the CTCAE criteria. The resulting grades were then compared with charted audiologic interventions and a number of clinical parameters to assess the clinical validity of the grading scale. RESULTS Chang grade 2a or higher predicted audiologic intervention. Although both the Chang and CTCAE ototoxicity grades were significantly related to audiologist recommendations for assistive devices such as hearing aids and/or frequency modulated systems (P < .0001), the Chang scale was more specific, with the CTCAE scale diverging from clinical recommendation at higher grades. As expected, patients receiving cisplatin had more severe hearing loss with concurrent carboplatin administration, radiation therapy exposure, younger age, smaller body-surface area, longer treatment exposure, and more severe disease. CONCLUSION This grading system provides robust and clinically useful criteria to represent clinical hearing loss induced by ototoxicity with regard to the impact on speech and language and the need for assistive hearing devices. It is both more specific and more sensitive than the traditional CTCAE criteria for identifying clinically significant ototoxicity.
Survey on practice of venom immunotherapy in France

Introduction Venom immunotherapy (VIT) is the only efficient prevention for sting-induced anaphylaxis, but its application is not without risks and needs precautions and standardization. European guidelines were proposed in 2005, but recent practice surveys and more recent knowledge raise the need for an update. The aim of this study was to analyze VIT practices in France, based on previous surveys in Europe but also extended to outcome event management. Material and methods A paper questionnaire was sent widely to persons involved in venom treatment. Results Eighty-six responses could be included from physicians actively involved in VIT induction evenly distributed in France. The survey shows that VIT was engaged from grade III down to grade I reactions, starting preferentially with the ultra-rush protocol. Premedication was used by 42% only and risks induced by co-treatment with β-blockers were well known but not with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors. However, side effects were very variably managed from arrest to enhancement in doses, time-delay or duration. Similarly, we observed a large discrepancy in treatment evaluation (skin tests, biology, timing and interpretation), decision making for treatment termination (when and how long to be prolonged) and post-treatment follow-up (adrenaline kit, event record) as well as procedures in case of late relapse (new induction, different doses). Conclusions Our study shows that most recommendations were fully or partially followed and may need reminding, but many points need to be completed or updated with new tools and knowledge acquired during the last 10 years.
The spiral of silence and journalists' outspokenness on Twitter

This study examined whether Twitter can serve as a public sphere where opinion leaders – in this case, journalists – speak up about politically controversial issues. Based on the theoretical framework of the spiral of silence (SOS), 118 Korean journalists from nine national newspapers and two network broadcasting companies were surveyed about their behavior on Twitter with regard to two controversial issues in South Korea. Results showed that journalists who perceived a greater discrepancy between their opinions and the opinions of Twitter users about controversial issues in South Korea were less willing to voice their opinions on Twitter; moreover, the journalists' ideology was found to be a significant factor in expressing their opinions about controversial issues on Twitter. Specifically, politically conservative journalists were more likely to perceive that their opinions were in the minority; therefore, they were less likely than politically liberal journalists to discuss their opinions on Twitter because use of that particular technology is generally regarded in Korea as favored by liberals. This study contributes to the SOS theory by applying public opinion theory to opinion leaders, particularly journalists, and by suggesting that ideology can be a key factor in individuals' ability to perceive discrepancy with opinions of others. This study also contributes to the SOS literature by expanding the majority influence from offline to online environments, especially on Twitter.
Approximate XML joins

XML is widely recognized as the data interchange standard for tomorrow, because of its ability to represent data from a wide variety sources. Hence, XML is likely to be the format through which data from multiple sources is integrated.In this paper we study the problem of integrating XML data sources through correlations realized as join operations. A challenging aspect of this operation is the XML document structure. Two documents might convey approximately or exactly the same information but may be quite different in structure. Consequently approximate match in structure, in addition to, content has to be folded in the join operation. We quantify approximate match in structure and content using well defined notions of distance. For structure, we propose computationally inexpensive lower and upper bounds for the tree edit distance metric between two trees. We then show how the tree edit distance, and other metrics that quantify distance between trees, can be incorporated in a join framework. We introduce the notion of reference sets to facilitate this operation. Intuitively, a reference set consists of data elements used to project the data space. We characterize what constitutes a good choice of a reference set and we propose sampling based algorithms to identify them. This gives rise to a variety of algorithmic approaches for the problem, which we formulate and analyze. We demonstrate the practical utility of our solutions using large collections of real and synthetic XML data sets.
Time to Socialize

Organizational socialization is a communicative practice that affects and is affected by organizational temporality. The relationship between organizational socialization practices and organizational temporality is empirically explored through a questionnaire focusing on Ballard and Seibold's temporality dimensions and measures emphasizing structural dimensions of socialization tactics. Findings indicate that the perception of time as scarce is related to organizational members' development of formal structures that promote socialization of newcomers. Further, findings suggest that organizational members holding a future temporal focus may engage in the development of formal socialization structures that provide social support for newcomers and help newcomers predict their career path within the organization.
Motion of three-dimensional elastic films by anisotropic surface diffusion with curvature regularization

Short time existence for a surface diffusion evolution equation with curvature regularization is proved in the context of epitaxially strained three-dimensional films. This is achieved by implementing a minimizing movement scheme, which is hinged on the $H^{-1}$-gradient flow structure underpinning the evolution law. Long-time behavior and Liapunov stability in the case of initial data close to a flat configuration are also addressed.
Diversity of Member Composition and Team Learning in Organizations

Summary Statistics for Study Variables 69 Table 11: 1-tailed Pearson Correlations between Demographic Diversity and the Team Learning Process (N=33) 72 Table 12: 1-tailed Pearson Correlations between Demographic Diversity and Process Conflict (N=33) 73 Table 13: 1-tailed Pearson Correlations between Demographic Diversity and Team Performance (N=33) 74 Table 14: 1-tailed Pearson Correlations between Learning Style Diversity and the Team Learning Process (N=33) 75 Table 15:
Pre-Pregnancy BMI, Gestational Weight Gain, and the Risk of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Cohort Study in Wuhan, China

Background Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are major causes of maternal death worldwide and the risk factors are not fully understood. Few studies have investigated the risk factors for HDP among Chinese women. A cohort study involving 84,656 women was conducted to investigate pre-pregnancy BMI, total gestational weight gain (GWG), and GWG during early pregnancy as risk factors for HDP among Chinese women. Methods The study was conducted between 2011–2013 in Wuhan, China, utilizing data from the Maternal and Children Healthcare Information Tracking System of Wuhan. A total of 84,656 women with a live singleton pregnancy were included. Multiple unconditional logistic regression was conducted to evaluate associations between putative risk factors and HDP. Results Women who were overweight or obese before pregnancy had an elevated risk of developing HDP (overweight: OR = 2.66, 95% CI = 2.32–3.05; obese: OR = 5.53, 95% CI = 4.28–7.13) compared to their normal weight counterparts. Women with total GWG above the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendation had an adjusted OR of 1.72 (95% CI = 1.54–1.93) for HDP compared to women who had GWG within the IOM recommendation. Women with gestational BMI gain >10 kg/m2 during pregnancy had an adjusted OR of 3.35 (95% CI = 2.89–3.89) for HDP, compared to women with a gestational BMI gain <5 kg/m2. The increased risk of HDP was also observed among women with higher early pregnancy (up to 18 weeks of pregnancy) GWG (>600g/wk: adjusted OR = 1.48, 95% CI = 1.19–1.84). Conclusion The results from this study show that maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, early GWG, and total GWG are positively associated with the risk of HDP. Weight control efforts before and during pregnancy may help to reduce the risk of HDP.