Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Psychometric Properties of the Hebrew Version of the Dutch Work Addiction Scale (DUWAS-10)

ABSTRACT The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Hebrew version of the Dutch Work Addiction Scale (DUWAS-10), developed by Schaufeli, Shimazu, and Taris (2009). Three hundred fifty-one employees completed a questionnaire measuring workaholism; of these, 251 employees completed questionnaires measuring work engagement, job satisfaction, overcommitment, and burnout. The results confirmed the expected two-factor structure of workaholism: working excessively and working compulsively. Strong correlations were obtained between self-reports and peer-reports, and satisfactory correlations were obtained between the first and second administrations of the DUWAS-10. Furthermore, DUWAS-10 scores showed predictable relations with actual number of hours worked per week, work engagement, job satisfaction, overcommitment, and burnout. Interestingly, despite working fewer hours per week, women reported higher levels of workaholism in comparison to men, and managers reported higher levels of workaholism in comparison to nonmanagerial employees.
Lobbying of commercial diplomats: institutional setting as a determining factor

The aim of this research is to contribute to the understanding of how commercial diplomats lobby for public procurement contracts. The institutional environment has ramifications for the manner of lobbying and for the practice of commercial diplomacy. This research brings together these streams of literature, and a conceptual model is developed. By means of an in-depth, single-case study, investigating the lobbying activities of EU diplomats in Indonesia, the study aimed to illustrate the model and draw the list of lobbying activities applicable for commercial diplomats. The findings reveal that in a weak institutional development environment, the diplomats focus on informational lobbying and rely heavily on their networks. If the decision-making powers are decentralized, the diplomats target more decision-makers. If diplomats do not have an access to decision-makers then ‘voice’ lobbying is applied. If the decision-makers are not elected, the diplomats do not engage in constituency-building lobbying. The findings illustrate the plausibility of the introduced conceptual model. They also suggest that domestic factors, such as interest in the host country, priority status of the host country and historical bilateral ties can positively influence the lobbying activities of the diplomats as well.
Poverty and the (Broken) Promise of Higher Education

In this article, Vivyan Adair argues that educators committed to fostering social and economic equity through education must challenge themselves to understand how crucial postsecondary education is to low-income single mothers, to recognize that this student population is increasingly "at risk," and to work against legislation that at best discourages, and at worst prohibits, these students from entering into and successfully completing postsecondary degree programs. Integrated into her discussion of recent welfare reform legislation are findings from her research. She presents data from interviews, in which students describe their desire to further their education and the frustrating obstacles that make this endeavor difficult and often impossible. Adair demonstrates that low-income, single-mother students experience dramatic and enduring benefits from completing college degrees, but that the opportunity and support required to do so is increasingly limited. She concludes that we must take steps toward .
SertralineMay Improve Language Developmental Trajectory in Young Children with Fragile X Syndrome : A Retrospective Chart Review

1 Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (MIND) Institute and Department of Pediatrics, University of California-Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA 2 Division of Human Genetic, Center for Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University, Central Java Semarang 50231, Indonesia 3 Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand 4 Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95817, USA 5 Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA 95817, USA 6 Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA 95817, USA
The association between birth condition and neuropsychological functioning and educational attainment at school age: a cohort study

Objective Poor condition at birth may impact on IQ, although its effect on other measures of neurodevelopment is unclear. The authors' aim was to determine whether infants receiving resuscitation after birth have reduced scores in measures of attention, memory and language skills or the need for educational support at school even in the absence of clinical encephalopathy. Methods Three groups of term infants were identified from the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children: infants resuscitated at birth but asymptomatic for encephalopathy (n=612), infants resuscitated who developed symptoms of encephalopathy (n=40) and the reference infants who were not resuscitated and had no further neonatal care (n=8080). Measures of attention, language, memory and the need for educational support were obtained for children between 8 years and 11 years. Test results (standardised to a mean of 100 and SD of 15) were adjusted for clinical and social covariates. Missing covariate data were imputed using chained equations. Results Infants asymptomatic after resuscitation had similar scores to those not requiring resuscitation for all measures while infants who developed encephalopathy had lower working memory (−6.65 (−12.34 to −0.96)), reading accuracy (−7.95 (−13.28 to −2.63)) and comprehension (−9.32 (−14.47 to −4.17) scores and increased risk of receiving educational support (OR 6.24 (1.52 to 26.43)) than infants thought to be well at birth, although there was little evidence for an association after excluding infants who developed cerebral palsy. Conclusions The authors found no evidence that infants who were resuscitated but remained well afterwards differed from those not requiring resuscitation in the aspects of neuropsychological functioning assessed in this study. Infants who developed neonatal encephalopathy had evidence of worse functioning, particularly in language skills and were more likely to receive educational support at school.
The role of public trust during pandemics: Implications for crisis communication.

The present review examined the importance of trust when preparing for and during a pandemic. The reviewed literature suggests that trust in health agencies positively influenced people’s willingness to adopt recommended behavior. Most of these studies are atheoretical, and due to the lack of a common framework for trust and its antecedents, finding commonalities among the studies may seem difficult. The trust, confidence, and cooperation model was used to uncover the commonalities among the various studies on trust. This framework suggests that a distinction between values and past performance may be helpful to better understand the impact of trust on risk perception and behavior. Based on the reviewed literature, the following five recommendations relevant for crisis communication during pandemics were identified: A diverse set of experts should be used as communicators, medical personnel need to model the recommended behavior, a transparent information strategy should be used, the focus should be not o.
Patient Choice in Kidney Allocation: The Role of the Queueing Discipline

This paper develops and analyzes a queueing model to examine the role of patient choice on the high rate of organ refusals in the kidney transplant waiting system. The model is an M/M/1 queue with homogeneous patients and exponential reneging. Patients join the waiting system and organ transplants are reflected by the service process. In addition, unlike the standard M/M/1 model, each service instance is associated with a variable reward that reflects the quality of the transplant organ, and patients have the option to refuse an organ (service) offer if they expect future offers to be better. Under an assumption of perfect and complete information, it is demonstrated that the queueing discipline is a potent instrument that can be used to maximize social welfare. In particular, first-come-first-serve (FCFS) amplifies patients' desire to refuse offers of marginal quality, and generates excessive organ wastage. By contrast, last-come-first-serve (LCFS) contains the inefficiencies engendered by patient choice and achieves optimal organ utilization. A numerical example calibrated using data from the U.S. transplantation system demonstrates that the welfare improvements possible from a better control of patient choice are equivalent to a 25% increase in the supply of organs.
Does Growth in Childhood ADHD and Depression Symptoms Predict Binge-Eating During Adolescence

Binge-eating disorder (BED) refers to experiencing a loss of control while eating high quantities of food in a short period of time. A serious public health concern, BED is highly comorbid with other psychological disorders and increases risk for obesity and other health concerns, such as metabolic disorder and diabetes. Little is known about what mental health symptoms contribute to the development of BED for children and adolescents. Research with adults indicates that two strong predictors of binge-eating behavior include impulsivity and depression, and these symptom areas may contribute to BED for youth, as well. In the current study, I evaluated the extent to which ADHD symptoms, depression symptoms, and these symptoms together predict binge-eating symptoms. Further, the degree to which developmental patterns of symptom severity for both ADHD and depression symptoms remain consistent from childhood to adolescence is also unclear. Although current research indicates that ADHD is a chronic, lifelong behavioral disorder, some research indicates that some youth may display onset of ADHD as late as 12 years of age and other findings indicate that some children display remission of symptoms as they reach adolescence. Thus, the degree to which ADHD remains a consistent diagnosis across childhood and adolescence appears unclear. Likewise, the correspondence between childhood and adolescent symptoms of depression also is unclear. Risk for depression escalates during adolescence, particularly for girls, but the degree to which those who develop clinical levels of depression symptoms in
Creating a community of allies: how one school system attempted to create an anti-racist environment

This article describes the efforts of a suburban school district—Newton, Massachusetts—to examine the role of racism in the underachievement of students of colour, and to engage in the process of becoming an anti-racist school community for the benefit of all. Written from the perspectives of a white male school superintendent and a black female consultant, both centrally involved in the change process, the article identifies several key elements used in a comprehensive effort to establish anti-racism as a core value in the district. Included is a description of the creation of a professional development course called ‘Anti-racism and effective classroom practices for all’, which provided a common language and conceptual framework for thinking about how to move from passively racist practices to actively anti-racist ones. The lessons learned in this process are shared here in the spirit of encouraging others to act within their schools and communities.
Link mining: a survey

Many datasets of interest today are best described as a linked collection of interrelated objects. These may represent homogeneous networks, in which there is a single-object type and link type, or richer, heterogeneous networks, in which there may be multiple object and link types (and possibly other semantic information). Examples of homogeneous networks include single mode social networks, such as people connected by friendship links, or the WWW, a collection of linked web pages. Examples of heterogeneous networks include those in medical domains describing patients, diseases, treatments and contacts, or in bibliographic domains describing publications, authors, and venues. Link mining refers to data mining techniques that explicitly consider these links when building predictive or descriptive models of the linked data. Commonly addressed link mining tasks include object ranking, group detection, collective classification, link prediction and subgraph discovery. While network analysis has been studied in depth in particular areas such as social network analysis, hypertext mining, and web analysis, only recently has there been a cross-fertilization of ideas among these different communities. This is an exciting, rapidly expanding area. In this article, we review some of the common emerging themes.
Effect of liver fat on insulin clearance.

A fatty liver is associated with fasting hyperinsulinemia, which could reflect either impaired insulin clearance or hepatic insulin action. We determined the effect of liver fat on insulin clearance and hepatic insulin sensitivity in 80 nondiabetic subjects [age 43 +/- 1 yr, body mass index (BMI) 26.3 +/- 0.5 kg/m(2)]. Insulin clearance and hepatic insulin resistance were measured by the euglycemic hyperinsulinemic (insulin infusion rate 0.3 mU.kg(-1). min(-1) for 240 min) clamp technique combined with the infusion of [3-(3)H]glucose and liver fat by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. During hyperinsulinemia, both serum insulin concentrations and increments above basal remained approximately 40% higher (P < 0.0001) in the high (15.0 +/- 1.5%) compared with the low (1.8 +/- 0.2%) liver fat group, independent of age, sex, and BMI. Insulin clearance (ml.kg fat free mass(-1). min(-1)) was inversely related to liver fat content (r = -0.52, P < 0.0001), independent of age, sex, and BMI (r = -0.37, P = 0.001). The variation in insulin clearance due to that in liver fat (range 0-41%) explained on the average 27% of the variation in fasting serum (fS)-insulin concentrations. The contribution of impaired insulin clearance to fS-insulin concentrations increased as a function of liver fat. This implies that indirect indexes of insulin sensitivity, such as homeostatic model assessment, overestimate insulin resistance in subjects with high liver fat content. Liver fat content correlated significantly with fS-insulin concentrations adjusted for insulin clearance (r = 0.43, P < 0.0001) and with directly measured hepatic insulin sensitivity (r = -0.40, P = 0.0002). We conclude that increased liver fat is associated with both impaired insulin clearance and hepatic insulin resistance. Hepatic insulin sensitivity associates with liver fat content, independent of insulin clearance.
“ Beneficial ” Delays in Debt Restructuring Negotiations

Delays in debt restructuring negotiations are commonly observed and are widely regarded as costly and inefficient. This paper argues, however, that delays can be beneficial in that they allow the economy to recover from a crisis and make more resources available to settle the defaulted debt. As a result, the negotiating parties can be better off by waiting and then dividing a larger “cake. ” To examine whether this argument can explain the observed length of delays in the recent debt restructurings, this paper constructs a dynamic model of sovereign default in which debt renegotiation is modeled as a stochastic bargaining game based on Merlo and Wilson’s (1995) framework. Quantitative analysis shows that this model can generate an average delay length comparable to that experienced by Argentina in its most recent debt restructuring. JEL Classification Codes: E43, F32, F34
Lag time in an incident reporting system at a university hospital in Japan

Background: Delays and underreporting limit the success of hospital incident reporting systems, but little is known about the causes or implications of delayed reporting. Setting and methods: The authors examined 6880 incident reports filed by physicians and nurses for three years at a national university hospital in Japan and evaluated the lag time between each incident and the submission of a report. Results: Although physicians and nurses reported nearly equal numbers of events resulting in major injury (32 v 31), physicians reported far fewer minor incidents (430 v 6387) and far fewer incidents overall (462 v 6418). In univariate analyses, lag time was significantly longer for physicians than nurses (3.79 v 2.20 days; p<0.001). In multivariate analysis, physicians had adjusted reporting lag time 75% longer than nurses (p<0.001) and lag time for major injuries was 18% shorter than for minor injuries (p = 0.011). Adjusted lag time in 2002 and 2004 were 34% longer than in 2003 (p<0.001). Conclusions: Physicians report fewer incidents than nurses and take longer to report them. Quantitative evaluation of lag time may facilitate improvements in incident reporting systems by distinguishing institutional obstacles to physician reporting from physicians’ lesser willingness to report.
Does the subtropical jet catalyze the midlatitude atmospheric regimes?

Understanding the atmospheric low‐frequency variability is of crucial importance in fields such as climate studies, climate change detection, and extended‐range weather forecast. The Northern Hemisphere climate features the planetary waves as a relevant ingredient of the atmospheric variability. Several observations and theoretical arguments seem to support the idea that winter planetary waves indicator obey a non‐Gaussian statistics and may present a multimodal probability density function, thus characterizing the low‐frequency portion of the climate system. We show that the upper tropospheric jet strength is a critical parameter in determining whether the planetary waves indicator exhibits a uni‐ or bimodal behavior, and we determine the relevant threshold value of the jet. These results are obtained by considering the data of the NCEP‐NCAR and ECMWF reanalyses for the overlapping period. Our results agree with the non‐linear orographic theory, which explains the statistical non‐normality of the low‐frequency variability of the atmosphere and its possible bimodality.
MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MENGENAL KONSEP BILANGAN 1-10 MELALUI PERMAINAN BOWLING PLASTIK BAGI ANAK TUNARUNGU RINGAN

This research background light by deaf children who are not familiar with the concept of number 1-10. Based on this study aims to introduce the concept of numbers 1-10 correctly and see if the plastic bowling games can improve children's ability to recognize the concept of number 1-10.This research uses experimental research is in the form of Single Subject Research (SSR) with AB designs . The research was first seen from the baseline condition, after that proceed on the condition of Intervention. The data obtained were processed by the graphics.The results of this study indicate that children's ability to recognize the concept of numbers 1-10 can be increased through plastic bowling game. Performed at baseline conditions in the five-time observation of children's ability to recognize the concept of numbers as much as 0% -10%, the intervention conditions increased the ability of the child is a child could recognize the concept of number as many as 10% -100%.
Spontaneous Oscillations of Collective Molecular Motors

We present a physical mechanism which can lead to oscillatory motion of molecular motors cooperating in large groups when the system is elastically coupled to its environment. Analytical and numerical calculations reveal a characteristic type of oscillatory behavior with cusplike extrema. Typical oscillation frequencies are determined by the internal time scales of the motors. The physical mechanism we describe generates in a natural way many of the characteristic properties of spontaneous oscillations observed in some muscles and myofibrils.
The role of star performers in software design teams

Purpose – This study seeks to extend previous research on experts with mainly ad‐hoc groups from laboratory research to a field setting. Specifically, this study aims to investigate experts' relative importance in team performance. Expertise is differentiated into two categories (task functions and team functions) and the paper aims to investigate whether experts in task and team functions predict team performance over and above the team's average expertise level.Design/methodology/approach – Longitudinal, multi‐source data from 96 professional software design engineers were used by means of hierarchical regression analyses.Findings – The results show that both expert members in task functions (i.e. behavior that aids directly in the completion of work‐related activities) and the experts in team functions (i.e. facilitation of interpersonal interaction necessary to work together as a team) positively predicted team performance 12 months later over and above the team's average expertise level.Research limi.
Characterization of a Cytosolic NiFe-Hydrogenase from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis KOD1

ABSTRACT We have identified an NiFe-hydrogenase exclusively localized in the cytoplasm of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis KOD1 (T. kodakaraensis hydrogenase). A gene cluster encoding T. kodakaraensis hydrogenase was composed of four open reading frames (hyhBGSLTk), where the hyhSTk and hyhLTk gene products corresponded to the small and the large subunits of NiFe-hydrogenase, respectively. A putative open reading frame for hydrogenase-specific maturation endopeptidase (hybDTk) was found downstream of the cluster. Polyclonal antibodies raised against recombinant HyhLTk were used for immunoaffinity purification of T. kodakaraensis hydrogenase, leading to a 259-fold concentration of hydrogenase activity. The purified T. kodakaraensis hydrogenase was composed of four subunits (β, γ, δ, and α), corresponding to the products of hyhBGSLTk, respectively. Each αβγδ unit contained 0.8 mol of Ni, 22.3 mol of Fe, 21.1 mol of acid-labile sulfide, and 1.01 mol of flavin adenine dinucleotide. The optimal temperature for the T. kodakaraensis hydrogenase was 95°C for H2 uptake and 90°C for H2 production with methyl viologen as the electron carrier. We found that NADP+ and NADPH promoted high levels of uptake and evolution of H2, respectively, suggesting that the molecule is the electron carrier for the T. kodakaraensis hydrogenase.