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Older lesbians' experiences with home care: Varying levels of disclosure and discrimination

ABSTRACT There is considerable evidence that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults have experienced barriers to health care access and have profound fears about how they will be treated in the long-term care system, but the specific experiences of older lesbians have received less attention. Most older adults needing long-term services and supports (LTSS) prefer to remain at home, and this is true for lesbians as well. This article reports on a national, qualitative study of the experiences of 20 older lesbians (age 65 and older) with home care workers. The experiences of six informal partner caregivers with home care services are also included. Emergent themes regarding level of disclosure, experiences with homophobia, evaluation of care received, and thoughts about ideal LTSS are described. Most study participants did not disclose their sexual orientation to their home care workers. A significant minority experienced homophobia, but nearly all ultimately found workers who provided good care with which they were comfortable. Their visions of ideal LTSS included greater affordability and particular qualities that were important for home care workers to possess, such as competence, caring and acceptance. Practice and policy implications are outlined including careful recruitment, training and supervision of home care workers to foster lesbian-sensitive care, but also improved wages and work conditions in order to maintain a quality home care workforce.
ANALYSIS OF AN INCLINED SEMI-CIRCULAR SLOT IN THE NARROW WALL OF A RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE

An inclined semi-circular slot cut in the narrow wall of a rectangular waveguide has been analyzed. By enforcing the boundary condition of continuity of the tangential magnetic field at the slot aperture, an integral equation with the aperture electric field as the unknown has been obtained and solved by the method of moments (MoM). The equivalent slot admittance is then determined. Different slot parameters, such as scattering coefficients, normalized resonant conductance, resonant length versus tilt angle, and radiation patterns, have been studied. The results obtained by the MoM have been verified by comparing them against those results obtained with HFSS.
Nmnat3 Is Dispensable in Mitochondrial NAD Level Maintenance In Vivo

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is an essential co-enzyme mediating various enzymatic reactions. Mitochondrial NAD particularly occupies a considerable amount of total NAD in cells, and serves as a co-enzyme in tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle), β-oxidation, and oxidative phosphorylation. Despite the importance of mitochondrial NAD, its synthesis pathway remains unknown. It has been proposed that NAD synthesis enzyme, Nmnat3, was localized in mitochondria, but its physiological relevance to the metabolism in mitochondria was not fully elucidated. Previously, we have reported that murine Nmnat3 protein was strongly expressed in the cytoplasm of mature erythrocytes, in which mitochondria were absent, and Nmnat3-deficient mice (Nmnat3-KO mice) exhibited splenomegaly and hemolytic anemia due to reduced NAD levels in mature erythrocytes. These results challenged the role of Nmnat3 in mitochondrial NAD synthesis. In this study, we demonstrated that mitochondrial NAD levels in various tissues, except for red blood cells, were unchanged in Nmnat3-KO mice. We also analyzed the metabolites in glycolysis and TCA cycle and found that there were no differences between Nmnat3-KO and WT mice. In addition, the aged Nmnat3-KO mice had comparable NAD levels to that observed in WT mice. Our results indicated that Nmnat3 is dispensable in the maintenance of mitochondrial NAD levels, and that other NAD regulatory pathways may exist in mitochondria.
Pengaruh Kepuasan Kerja Dan Disiplin Kerja Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan Pada Bank Rakyat Indonesia Cabang Putri Hijau Medan

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of job satisfaction and employee discipline on the work performance of Bank Rakyat Indonesia Branch Putri Hijau Medan. This type of research is associative. The population of this research is all employees in a marketing department of Bank Rakyat Indonesia Branch Putri Hijau Medan as many as 31 employees and all become sample. This research uses census method or saturated sample. Methods of data collection of this study are questionnaires, interviews, and documentation. Methods of data analysis using descriptive analysis and multiple linear regression. The results of this study indicate that job satisfaction has a positive and insignificant effect on employee performance, Discipline has the positive and significant influence on performance, while simultaneously job satisfaction and work discipline together positively influence to employee performance of Bank Rakyat Indonesia Branch of Putri Hijau Medan. Employee discipline has a dominant influence on job satisfaction. The coefficient of determination (Adjusted R Square) is 0.162 means that 16.2% performance variables can be explained from job satisfaction and employee discipline while as much as 83.8% can be explained by other variables which are not examined by researchers in this study.
Faculty Development for Advancing Community Engagement in Higher Education: Current Trends and Future Directions

This research involved the conduct of a conceptual review of 28 refereed journal articles and a survey of campus centers for community engagement staff to identify salient features and trends of existing faculty development programming designed to advance service-learning and community engagement in higher education. Results of this investigation are presented and discussed. The article begins with an overview of theoretical frameworks and competency-based approaches for faculty development. The narrative concludes with additional questions and suggestions for future research and practice.
Autonomic dysfunction in multiple sclerosis.

OBJECTIVE Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system. Autonomic dysfunction in MS patients may cause significant morbidity. The aim of this controlled cross sectional study was to investigate the prevalence, pattern and severity of autonomic dysfunction in Iraqi MS patients and to correlate them with patient`s age, disease course, duration and severity. METHODS Fifty-five patients with clinically definite MS according to Poser`s criteria attending Baghdad MS clinic at Baghdad Teaching Hospital were studied between July 2000 and August 2001. Each patient was assessed according to a detailed protocol paper. Expanded disability status scale was used to assess the severity of the disease. The severity of autonomic symptoms was classified according to autonomic nervous system disability scale (ANSDS). Five standardized autonomic cardiovascular (Ewing) tests were performed for every patient which included: heart rate responses to deep breathing, Valsalva maneuver and standing, and blood pressure responses to standing and sustained hand grip. Forty matched healthy subjects were studied as a control group who were assessed with the same protocol paper, ANSDS and Ewing tests. RESULTS Autonomic symptoms were significantly more prevalent in MS patients than in the controls. Cardiovascular, urinary and gastrointestinal symptoms were highly prevalent. The severity of the different autonomic symptoms as assessed by ANSDS, were higher in the patients than the controls. All 5 Ewing tests in the patients showed highly significant abnormal results as compared to those of the control. Definite parasympathetic derangement was found in 45.5% of the patients while combined sympathetic and parasympathetic derangements were found in 34.5% of the patients. There were significant correlations between the finding of definite autonomic dysfunctions and the age of the patients at the time of assessment and the duration of the disease. CONCLUSION Autonomic dysfunctions as assessed by a formal interview, ANSDS and by Ewing tests were common in Iraqi MS patients. Careful attention to autonomic disturbances should be considered in the routine evaluation of MS patients which might help in improving their quality of life.
Analisis Kinerja Layanan dan Kepuasan Pelanggan terhadap Loyalitas Nasabah Tabungan

Research aims to know the influence of the Service Performance and Costumer Satisfaction loyality to the obligor Bank Mandiri branch Samarinda as well as to self relianthknowing variable does influential dominant among variable Service Performance and Customer Satisfaction of the Loyalty of the depositor Bank Mandiri branch self contained Samarinda.Sample on the basis Formula Solvin by Umar (2003: 146) obtained 95 or use calculationang depositor Bank Mandiri branch Samarinda.Method of data gathering used directly to the pil is interview involved with the matters discussed and give a list of question to depositor savings Bank Mandiri branch Samarinda.Analyzed data using equipment analysis multiple regression the testing done with t test, and test coefficient of determination to assistance software SPSS.Research Results show that collectively same Service performance and Costumer satisfaction influential Significant agains Loyality depositor Bank Mandiri branch Samarinda.Variable Costumer Satisfaction have influence dominant Loyalty to the obligor Bank Mandiri branch Samarinda. Nugroho ( 2005 : 11 ) declare that to regression compounded better use R Square yes have adjustable or written adjusted R Square method of 0,120 this give a sense 12% of variation variable dependent that is Loyalty of the depositor Bank Mandiri branch Samarinda can descoribed by the independent variable Service Performance and Customer Satisfaction now the rest 88% annotated by factors of variable other unknown and notiucluded in the research.
Addentum to: Conformal invariance and near-extreme rotating AdS black holes

We obtained retarded Green's functions for massless scalar fields in the background of near-extreme, near-horizon rotating charged black hole of five-dimensional minimal gauged supergravity in Phys. Rev. D84, 044018 (2011). For general nonextreme black holes, we also derived the radial part of the massless Klein-Gordon equation with zero azimuthal-angle eigenvalues, and showed that it is a general Heun's equation with a regular singularity at each horizon $u_k$ ($k=1,2,3$) and at infinity. We derived explicitly that the residuum of a pole at each $u_k$ is associated with the surface gravity there. In this addendum, probing regular singularities at each $u_k$ we complete the derivation of the full radial equation with nonzero azimuthal-angle eigenvalues. The residua now include modifications by the angular velocities at respective horizons. This result completes the analysis of the wave equation for the massless Klein-Gordon equation for the general rotating charged black hole of five-dimensional minimal gauged supergravity.
Research Paper Series Globalisation and Labour Markets Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? an Empirical Investigation Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? an Empirical Investigation Non-technical Summary

Acknowledgements Part of the research for this paper was conducted while both authors were visiting the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Earlier versions were presented at the first meeting of the society for the study of economic inequality (ECINEQ) held in Palma de Mallorca, on July 20 th – 22 nd , 2005 and at the SOEGW conference, held in Rimini on August 29 th – September 1 st , 2006. The usual disclaimers apply. Holger Görg gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Leverhulme Trust (Programme Grant F114/BF). Abstract We use a panel of more than 100 countries for the period 1980 to 2002 to analyse the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether this relationship is non-linear, in line with a theoretical discussion. We find that the effect of FDI differs according to the level of development: we depict two different patterns, one for OECD (developed) and one for non-OECD (developing) countries. Results suggest the presence of a non linear effect in developing countries; wage inequality increases with FDI inward stock but this effect diminishes with further increases in FDI. For developed countries, wage inequality decreases with FDI inward stock and there is no robust evidence to show that this effect is non-linear. When investigating the impact of the increasing importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) for host countries, most research concerns itself with effects on efficiency or, more specifically, productivity and economic growth at either the macro or the micro level. While it is generally found that FDI can have positive growth and, hence, efficiency effects, what is generally neglected is the issue of equality. However, not least the publication of books such as Naomi Klein's (2000) No logo or Stiglitz's (2002) Globalization and its discontents has brought this issue back to the forefront of public and policy attention. While FDI may bring benefits to the domestic economy it is by no means clear whether everyone will benefit to the same extent or indeed whether some will be better off while others will suffer from this. This paper addresses the question as to whether foreign direct investment has an effect on domestic wage inequality, by using a large panel of countries for a recent period (1980 – 2002). Our empirical approach is inspired by a theoretical framework where wage inequality is examined in a model of a general …
Trust enhanced technology acceptance model - consumer acceptance of mobile payment solutions

This study aims to explore and model the central consumer perceptions that affect the decision of whether to use mobile payment systems. In particular, we study whether the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) describing user acceptance of technology offers comprehensive explanation for consumer decisions related to adoption of mobile payments. This study is based on two rounds of focus group interviews, the total number of subjects interviewed being 61. Our analysis suggests that the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) provides a good basis to explain use of mobile payment solutions, yet, our data proposes that a new construct, trust, should be included into the model to augment the present descriptors in explaining consumer adoption decisions in the mobile payment context.
Seropositivity for Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 Virus among Frontline Health Care Personnel

Seroprevalence of antibodies to influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus among 193 emergency department health care personnel was similar among 147 non–health care personnel (odds ratio 1.4, 95% CI 0.8–2.4). Working in an acute care setting did not substantially increase risk for virus infection above risk conferred by community-based exposures.
Circadian Factors in Coping with Chronic Stress

Circadian rhythms, cyclic changes that repeat approximately once every 24 hours, regulate daily temporal processes of physiology and behaviour in all living organisms. Rhythmicity is adaptive, providing advantages for survival, growth, and reproduction. For human beings, this includes rhythmic regulation of mental, physical, and emotional responses to stressors. In this dissertation, we addressed how human beings facing major stressors such as chronic disease (in this case, cancer), are influenced by circadian timing, specifically chronotype and sleep quality. A broad epidemiological study was conducted among individuals in different roles (patients, medical staff, and familial caregivers) facing a common stressor to assesses their ability to cope with the situation. Breast cancer patients provided real-time reports of their coping across the day. Patients and familial caregivers completed retrospective average ratings for their coping across the day across treatment, along with details on use of coping behaviours. Oncology staff provided ratings of their burnout, and Professional Quality of Life (ProQoL). These data were all assessed in relation to chronotype and sleep quality, and to an extent, in relation to personality. Chronotype and sleep quality influenced coping within each group, but their impacts were not correlated. Nonetheless, working at chronotypically optimal times improved ProQoL. ‘In the moment’ coping ratings from patients reflected their chronotype, as did their recalled coping. ‘Openness’ was positively linked with ProQoL among staff, and with an engagement coping
DNA methylation of tumor suppressor and metastasis suppressor genes in circulating tumor cells.

BACKGROUND Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are associated with prognosis in a variety of human cancers and have been proposed as a liquid biopsy for follow-up examinations. We show that tumor suppressor and metastasis suppressor genes are epigenetically silenced in CTCs isolated from peripheral blood of breast cancer patients. METHODS We obtained peripheral blood from 56 patients with operable breast cancer, 27 patients with verified metastasis, and 23 healthy individuals. We tested DNA extracted from the EpCAM-positive immunomagnetically selected CTC fraction for the presence of methylated and unmethylated CST6, BRMS1, and SOX17 promoter sequences by methylation-specific PCR (MSP). All samples were checked for KRT19 (keratin 19, formerly CK-19) expression by reverse-transcription quantitative PCR. RESULTS In CTCs of patients with operable breast cancer, promoter methylation of CST6 was observed in 17.9%, BRMS1 in 32.1%, and SOX17 in 53.6% of patients. In CTCs of patients with verified metastasis, promoter methylation of CST6 was observed in 37.0%, BRMS1 in 44.4%, and SOX17 in 74.1%. In healthy individuals, promoter methylation of CST6 was observed in 4.3%, BRMS1 in 8.7%, and SOX17 in 4.3%. DNA methylation of these genes for both operable and metastatic breast cancer was significantly different from that of the control population. CONCLUSIONS DNA methylation of tumor suppressor and metastasis suppressor genes is a hallmark of CTCs and confirms their heterogeneity. Our findings add a new dimension to the molecular characterization of CTCs and may underlie the acquisition of malignant properties, including their stem-like phenotype.
Visual Programming

"End-user development (EUD) is a research topic within the field of computer science and human-computer interaction, describing activities or techniques that allow end-users to program computers. People who are not professional developers can use EUD tools to create or modify software artifacts (descriptions of automated behavior) and complex data objects without significant knowledge of a programming language. The most popular EUD tool is the spreadsheet. " Source: http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/End-user_development
Linking resources to career satisfaction through work–family enrichment

ABSTRACT Using the work–family enrichment (WFE) model and social exchange theory as the theoretical underpinnings, our study investigates WFE as a mediator of the effects of material resources (i.e. salary, job security) as well as psychological resources (i.e. self-esteem) on career satisfaction. Our study gathered data from frontline employees (FLEs) in small- and medium-sized hotels in Delhi, the capital city of India, and gauged the aforementioned relationships through partial least squares structural equation modelling. The results suggest that FLEs’ satisfaction with salary and job security needs fosters WFE that in turn gives rise to satisfaction with their career in the organisation. The results also suggest that FLEs’ satisfaction with esteem needs stimulates WFE that in turn engenders career satisfaction. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of the empirical findings in the paper.
Exponential sensitivity of noise-driven switching in genetic networks

There is increasing experimental evidence that cells can utilize biochemical noise to switch probabilistically between distinct gene-expression states. In this paper, we demonstrate that such noise-driven switching is dominated by tails of probability distributions and is therefore exponentially sensitive to changes in physiological parameters such as transcription and translation rates. Exponential sensitivity limits the robustness of noise-driven switching, suggesting cells may use other mechanisms in order to switch reliably. We discuss our results in the context of competence in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Intimate Partner Violence, Interpersonal Aggression, and Life History Strategy

We integrate life history (LH) theory with “hot/cool” systems theory of self-regulation to predict sexually and socially coercive behaviors, including intimate partner violence (IPV) and interpersonal aggression (IPA). LH theory predicts that a variety of traits form LH strategies: adaptively coordinated behavioral clusters arrayed on a continuum from slow to fast. We test structural models examining 2 propositions: (a) “hot” cognitive processes, promoted by faster LH strategies, increase the likelihood of sexually/socially coercive behaviors that make up IPV and IPA; (b) “cool” cognitive processes, promoted by slower LH strategies, buffer against the likelihood of sexually/socially coercive behaviors that make up IPV and IPA. We present single and multisample structural equations models (SEMs and MSEMs) testing hypothesized causal relations among these theoretically specified predictors with IPV and IPA. Study 1 develops a Structural Equation Model for IPV; Study 2 extends the model to IPA using MSEM and provides 5 cross-cultural constructive replications of the findings. Integrating LH theory and hot/cool systems analysis of cognitive processes is a promising and productive heuristic for future research on IPV and IPA perpetration and victimization.
Reproducibility of measurement techniques used for creatine kinase, interleukin-6 and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein determination over a 48 h period in males and females

ABSTRACT To examine the reproducibility of three measurement techniques used to determine creatine kinase, interleukin-6 and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, 50 participants had blood samples taken on two occasions. Fingertip plasma samples were analysed using the Reflotron for CK determination. Venous blood samples collected into serum separator tubes were used for IL-6 and hs-CRP analyses. IL-6 was measured using an enzyme linked immune assay development kit. The hs-CRP was measured by an in-house ELISA method. Dependent t-tests showed no systematic bias between samples. The interdian CV was 20.0% for CK, 15.3% for IL-6 and 44.2% for hs-CRP. The intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.90 for CK, 0.98 for IL-6 and 0.70 for hs-CRP. The 95% limits of agreement were −69.7 to 63.5 IU/L for CK, −1.48 to 1.80 pg/ml for IL-6 and −1.10 to 0.91 µg/L for hs-CRP. The results demonstrate low absolute reproducibility, which may obscure a true experimental effect.
More competent than warm: The implicit stereotypes of Americans.

Past research, based on explicit measures, has shown that Americans are rated as competent but not warm. In the present study, we assessed the implicit stereotype of Americans along the two dimensions of competence and warmth. Participants (Italian university students) completed a Go/No-go Association Task, in which Americans and Italians were the target categories and competence and warmth the target attributes. They also completed a questionnaire measuring three individual difference variables, namely Social Dominance Orientation, national identification, and political orientation. We hypothesized that Americans would be more associated with competence than warmth; we also expected Americans to be more associated with competence and less with warmth than Italians. Predictions were supported. The implicit associations were not correlated with the individual difference variables, thus suggesting they are a reflection of a well-learned cultural stereotype of Americans.