Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of divorce education on mediation process and outcome

A nationwide survey of practitioner-level mediators (n = 253) was conducted to determine their views on the effectiveness of divorce education programs for parents on both the process and the outcome of divorce mediation. Over three-quarters of the respondents reported that divorce education programs were available in their communities, most typically run by the local court or by an independent, nonprofit organization, and over half are mandatory. Over half of the mediators report that they do formal divorce education with clients at least sometimes. Perceived impacts on the mediation process and outcome included greater focus on the children, more cooperation and better communication skills demonstrated by the parents, fewer sole custody parenting plans, and a trend toward less time required to reach agreement. Modal responses indicated that mediators generally believe divorce education is appropriate for highly conflicted and power-imbalanced couples but is less so for couples involved in substance or spousal abuse. Just over two-thirds believe divorce education should be mandatory for all divorcing couples with children. Results are discussed in terms of programmatic needs.
A national action plan for sharable and comparable nursing data to support practice and translational research for transforming health care

BACKGROUND There is wide recognition that, with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), large data sets are available for research. However, essential standardized nursing data are seldom integrated into EHRs and clinical data repositories. There are many diverse activities that exist to implement standardized nursing languages in EHRs; however, these activities are not coordinated, resulting in duplicate efforts rather than building a shared learning environment and resources. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to describe the historical context of nursing terminologies, challenges to the use of nursing data for purposes other than documentation of care, and a national action plan for implementing and using sharable and comparable nursing data for quality reporting and translational research. METHODS In 2013 and 2014, the University of Minnesota School of Nursing hosted a diverse group of nurses to participate in the Nursing Knowledge: Big Data and Science to Transform Health Care consensus conferences. This consensus conference was held to develop a national action plan and harmonize existing and new efforts of multiple individuals and organizations to expedite integration of standardized nursing data within EHRs and ensure their availability in clinical data repositories for secondary use. This harmonization will address the implementation of standardized nursing terminologies and subsequent access to and use of clinical nursing data. CONCLUSION Foundational to integrating nursing data into clinical data repositories for big data and science, is the implementation of standardized nursing terminologies, common data models, and information structures within EHRs. The 2014 National Action Plan for Sharable and Comparable Nursing Data for Transforming Health and Healthcare builds on and leverages existing, but separate long standing efforts of many individuals and organizations. The plan is action focused, with accountability for coordinating and tracking progress designated.
Frequency- and time-domain FEM models of EMG: capacitive effects and aspects of dispersion

Electromyography (EMG) simulations have traditionally been based on purely resistive models, in which capacitive effects are assumed to be negligible. Recent experimental studies suggest these assumptions may not be valid for muscle tissue. Furthermore, both muscle conductivity and permittivity are frequency-dependent (dispersive). In this paper, frequency-domain and time-domain finite-element models are used to examine the impact of capacitive effects and dispersion on the surface potential of a volume conductor. The results indicate that the effect of muscle capacitance and dispersion varies dramatically. Choosing low conductivity and high permittivity values in the range of experimentally reported data for muscle can cause displacement currents that are larger than conduction currents with corresponding reduction in surface potential of up to 50% at 100 Hz. Conductivity and permittivity values lying toward the middle of the reported range yield results which do not differ notably from purely resistive models. Also, excluding dispersion can also cause large error-up to 75% in the high frequency range of the EMG. It is clear that there is a need to establish accurate values of both conductivity and permittivity for human muscle tissue in vivo in order to quantify the influence of capacitance and dispersion on the ENIG signal.
Seventh Grade Students' Qualitative Understanding of the Concept of Mass Influenced by Real Experiments and Virtual Experiments.

This research is conducted among 65 seventh graders (12-14 years old) who attend introductory course on physics. Tests and interviews are used to trace the roots of the students’ misconceptions about mass. Results from the research reveal serious weaknesses in students’ understanding of concept of mass, and its confusion with concepts of density and weight. Pre-conceptions about dependence of volume and mass of physical body and concept of heavy materials have deep impact on students understanding of mass and its measurement. Also, poor understanding of inertia signals that it might be more natural way for students to present mass as property of matter that comprises the body. Sources of misconceptions are found in the prior students’ experience in informal, as well as in formal education. Later include students’ vocabulary development, physics curriculum structure, and physics textbook. Weaknesses are detected in the non-physics teachers’ competences who teach physics concepts. All of the research findings are supported by similar findings in other researches which confirm that detected misconceptions are generic. In order to minimize the existence of detected misconceptions, directions for revision of the curriculum and textbook are proposed. Also, directions for methodological approach are given.
The value of immunohistochemistry on paraffin wax embedded tissue sections in the differentiation of small lymphocytic and mantle cell lymphomas.

AIMS: To determine whether immunohistochemistry applied to paraffin wax embedded biopsy tissue can be used to distinguish between B-small lymphocytic lymphoma (B-SLL) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). METHODS: Formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded tissue blocks of 12 cases of B-SLL and 12 cases of MCL were retrieved from the files of the Department of Pathology, Southampton University Hospitals Trust. Following antigen retrieval, where appropriate, sections were stained for CD3, CD5, CD20, CD23, CD43, Cyclin D, PGP9.5, and MIB1 using a streptavidin-biotin complex technique. RESULTS: CD20 stained the neoplastic cells of B-SLL and MCL, and CD3 labelled the reactive T cells in these tumours. In B-SLL, the T cells were generally dispersed among the tumour cells, whereas in MCL they often formed bands around tumour cell nodules. CD5 could be detected on T cells, following antigen retrieval. The level of expression on B cells of B-SLL and MCL was generally too low to allow detection in paraffin wax embedded tissues. CD23 stained B-SLL but not MCL. However, it could be detected in only five of the 12 cases of B-SLL. CD43 could be detected in most cases of B-SLL and MCL. It is not, therefore, of value in distinguishing between these tumours. It will, however, help in the differentiation of B-SLL and MCL from other low grade B cell lymphomas, such as follicle centre cell and marginal zone lymphomas. Cyclin D was expressed in all of the MCL but in none of the B-SLL. PGP9.5 showed reactivity in most cases of MCL and much weaker reactivity in B-SLL. The proliferation indexes of MCL were generally higher than those of B-SLL, as measured by MIB1 labelling. Both tumours, however, showed a wide range of values and considerable overlap. CONCLUSION: Staining for Cyclin D is the most reliable immunohistochemical mean of differentiating between B-SLL an MCL. High levels of PGP9.5, expressed in MCL, may be related to the degradation of Cyclin D by the ubiquitin pathway.
Referent Selection: How the Women in Sport Journalism Shape Their Perceptions of Job Satisfaction

Job satisfaction is an essential construct explaining human behavior in organizations. To fully understand the construct, however, it is necessary to recognize how employees establish satisfaction levels. One method has been to explore who employees use as a basis of comparison—referent others—when establishing their perceptions of equity, which influence satisfaction. This study expanded the body of knowledge associated with satisfaction and sport organizations by using nontraditional participants—members of the Association for Women in Sports Media. The referent-selection processes used by these women in determining their level of satisfaction in five specific areas of job satisfaction were compared. The Job Descriptive Index was used to establish satisfaction levels, and a Referent Selection Instrument identified whom the participants used as a basis of comparison. The findings indicate the extent to which the participants made referent comparisons, what comparisons were made, and the relationship betw.
Ethnicity and Contemporary American Culture

The United States is one of the most culturally diverse societies. Research has documented numerous differences in cultural orientations across U.S. ethnic/racial groups. But with continual intergroup interactions and increasing influxes of non–European Americans, it remains unclear to what extent these cultural differences persist in the long term. Via meta-analysis, we compared African, Asian, Latino, and European Americans on horizontal–vertical individualism–collectivism. There were no ethnic/racial differences in the mean scores of both variants of collectivism, although European Americans were higher in vertical individualism than African Americans and Latino Americans. Longitudinal analyses pointed to evidence of a convergence of cultural orientations, but analyses of the intercorrelations between the four dimensions of individualism–collectivism revealed noticeable group differences. The discussion elaborates on processes that may promote cultural convergence. Remarks are also made with regard to the persistent cultural, political, and economic group differences that are evident in the meanings and compatibility of different value dimensions.
Donor retention in health care in Iran: a factor analysis

Background: Long-term financial support is essential for the survival of a charitable organization. Health charities need to identify the effective factors influencing donor retention. Methods: In the present study, the items of a questionnaire were derived from both literature review and semi-structured interviews related to donor retention. Using a purposive sampling, 300 academic and executive practitioners were selected. After the follow- up, a total of 243 usable questionnaires were prepared for factor analysis. The questionnaire was validated based on the face and content validity and reliability through Cronbach’s α-coefficient. Results: The results of exploratory factor analysis extracted 2 factors for retention: donor factor (variance = 33.841%; Cronbach’s α-coefficient = 90.2) and charity factor (variance = 29.038%; Cronbach’s α-coefficient = 82.8), respectively. Subsequently, confirmatory factor analysis was applied to support the overall reasonable fit. Conclusions: In this study, it was found that repeated monetary donations are supplied to the charitable organizations when both aspects of donor factor (retention factor and charity factor) for retention are taken into consideration. This model could provide a perspective for making sustainable donations and charitable giving
A relevância do córtex pré-frontal no transtorno obsessivo compulsivo

Estudos recentes de neuroimagem funcional, imagem cerebral e neurocirurgia vem revelando a possibilidade do Cortex Orbital Frontal (COF) estar relacionado a fisiopatologia do Transtorno Obsessivo Compulsivo (TOC). Porem, o estudo destas relacoes ainda esta num estagio inicial. Da mesma forma esta disfuncao frontal levaria estes individuos a terem urna performance mais pobre em testes neuropsicologicos que avaliam funcoes frontais. Devido a isto, haveria alteracoes autonomicas que influenciariam, segundo a teoria dos marcadores somaticos, em dificuldades na tomada de decisoes e memoria de trabalho. Objetivo: o presente estudo elegeu os seguintes objetivos: 1) avaliar as respostas autonomicas, atraves da Condutância Eletrica da Pele (CEP), sob relaxamento e sob estresse, em individuos com TOC e controles. 2) Verificar a performance destes individuos nos testes neuropsicologicos, assim como, as possiveis relacoes entre estas performances com as respostas da CEP sob relaxamento e sob estresse. 3) lnvestigar a existencia de relacao entre a intensidade de resposta autonomica com os resultados dos testes neuropsicologicos que avaliam funcoes executivas. 4) Investigar a existencia de relacao entre a severidade do TOC e resposta autonomica sob relaxamento e estresse. 5) Averiguar a existencia de relacao entre severidade do TOC e resultados em avaliacao neuropsicologica que avaliam funcoes executivas. Pacientes e metodos: foram estudados 58 individuos. 28 com TOC, segundo criterios do DSM-IV e 30 controles. Todos os sujeitos foram submetidos a urna entrevista de anamnese, entrevista diagnostica, a escalas de severidade de TOC, Depressao e de Ansiedade, bem como avaliacao neuropsicologica de funcoes frontais (FAZ, Stroop, WCST, Trail e Atencao Concentrada) e de CEP sob relaxamento e estresse. Testes estatisticos compararam o grupo com TOC e o Controle quanto a CEP, a performance dos testes neuropsicologicos e as escalas psiquiatricas. Tambem foram feitas correlacoes entre a CEP com os testes neuropsicologicos, com as escalas psiquiatricas, com o uso ou nao de medicacao, o periodo da doenca e com as variaveis socio-demograficas do grupo TOC. Tambem foram avaliadas as correlacoes entre os resultados dos testes neuropsicologicos com a severidade do TOC, uso de medicacao e periodo da doenca. Resultados: Houve um aumento significativo da media da condutância sob stress em comparacao com o relaxamento, tanto no grupo TOC (p=0,038), quanto nos Controles (p=0,00l). Por outro lado, nao houve diferenca significativa entre as condutâncias em repouso (p=0,95O) e nem sob estresse (p=0,744) entre os dois grupos. Com relacao aos testes neuropsicologicos somente no Wisconsin (WCST) a performance dos sujeitos com TOC mostrou-se significativamente mais pobre do que a do grupo Controle (p=0,002). Nem no grupo TOC e nem no grupo Controle houve uma correlacao significativa entre os parâmetros de condutância e o desempenho nos testes. Nao foram observadas correlacoes significativas entre a CEP e os escores (numero de sintomas) na escala YBOCS,…
European Journal of Psychological Assessment The Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of Positive and Negative Affect : A Study in Iran and the USA

This study investigated the factor structure and measurement invariance of the Mroczek and Kolarz’s scales of positive and negative affect in Iran (N = 2,391) and the USA (N = 2,154), and across gender groups. The two-factor model of affect was supported across the groups. The results of measurement invariance testing confirmed full metric and partial scalar invariance of the scales across cultural groups, and full metric and full scalar invariance across gender groups. The results of latent mean analysis revealed that Iranians scored lower on positive affect and higher on negative affect than Americans. The analyses also showed that American men scored significantly lower than American women on negative affect. The significance and implications of the results are discussed.
Agrammatic Broca's Aphasia Is Not Associated with a Single Pattern of Comprehension Performance

One influential hypothesis posits that the brain regions implicated in Broca's aphasia are responsible for specific syntactic operations that are necessary for the comprehension and production of sentences (Grodzinsky, 1986, 1990, in press). The empirical basis of this hypothesis is the claim that Broca's aphasics have no difficulty understanding sentences in the active voice (and other "canonical" sentence types, such as subject relatives and clefts with negative predicates), but perform at chance level with passive voice constructions (and other "noncanonical" sentences such as object-gap relatives and object clefts). In the face of well-established results indicating that Broca's aphasics can exhibit several different performance patterns on these sentence types, Grodzinsky, Piñango, Zurif, and Drai (1999) argued that these conflicting results do not challenge the theory when the data are analyzed appropriately. They carried out a creative statistical analysis of the comprehension performance of published cases of Broca's aphasia and concluded that all of these cases are in agreement with the predicted pattern: chance on passives and 100% correct on actives. Here we show that the statistical reasoning adopted by Grodzinsky et al. (1999) is flawed. We also show that the comprehension performance of a substantial number of the Broca's aphasics in their own sample does not conform to the pattern required. Rather, contrary to these authors' claim, Broca's aphasia is not associated with a consistent pattern of sentence comprehension performance, but allows for a number of distinct patterns in different patients.
The Stability of IRT b Values

This study investigated possible explanations for an observed change in Rasch item parameters (b values) obtained from consecutive administrations of a professional licensure examination. Considered in this investigation were variables related to item position, item type, item content, and elapsed time between administrations of the item. An analysis of covariance methodology was used to assess the relations between these variables and change in item b values, with the elapsed time index serving to control for differences that could be attributed to average orpool changes in b values over time. A series of analysis of covariance models were fitted to the data in an attempt to identify item characteristics that were significantly related to the change in b values after the time elapsed between item administrations had been controlled. The findings indicated that the change in item b values was not related either to item position or to item type. A small, positive relationship between this change and elapsed time indicated that the pool b values were increasing over time. A test of simple effects suggested the presence of greater change for one of the content categories analyzed. These findings are interpreted, and suggestions for future research are provided. For a large testing program that requires the administration of multiple operational forms over time, an item bank of calibrated items is often developed and used as the source of items for the operational forms. To increase the size of the bank, blocks of tryout items often are administered with the operational forms and calibrated with the operational items so that these tryout items will be placed on the bank scale. Using this procedure, the tryout items are preequated to the bank scale before they are used as operational items in an examination.
Work—life initiatives and organizational change: Overcoming mixed messages to move from the margin to the mainstream

This article examines perspectives on employer work—life initiatives as potential organizational change phenomena. Work—life initiatives address two main organizational challenges: structural (flexible job design, human resource policies) and cultural (supportive supervisors, climate) factors. While work—life initiatives serve a purpose in highlighting the need for organizational adaptation to changing relationships between work, family, and personal life, we argue they usually are marginalized rather than mainstreamed into organizational systems. We note mixed consequences of work—life initiatives for individuals and organizations. While they may enable employees to manage work and caregiving, they can increase work intensification and perpetuate stereotypes of ideal workers. In order to advance the field, organizations and scholars need to frame both structural and cultural work—life changes as part of the core employment systems to enhance organizational effectiveness and not just as strategies to support disadvantaged, non-ideal workers. We conclude with an overview of the articles in this special issue.
Facilitating and Promoting Innovative Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong: Theory and Practice

This paper analyzes recent policy initiatives designed to stimulate innovative entrepreneurship in Hong Kong. I construct a conceptual framework informed by the theory of market failure and posit five key obstacles to innovative entrepreneurship in order to examine Hong Kong's efforts through public policy to strengthen innovative entrepreneurship and to offer broad policy prescriptions. Aligning the initiatives undertaken in Hong Kong with the barriers that inform the conceptual framework contributes to scholarship in the area of innovative entrepreneurship, lays the foundation for future research to match policy measures with outcomes in Hong Kong, and aids cross-cultural research to determine whether aspects of the framing are specific or generalizeable. Copyright © 2011 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Long-Term Outcomes after Stroke in Elderly Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Hospital-Based Follow-Up Study in China

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) significantly increases the risk of stroke and disease burden; it is an established predictor of poor outcomes after stroke. However, reported differences in outcomes after stroke among elderly patients between AF and non-AF group are conflicting. We aimed to compare differences in outcomes at 1 year and 3 years after stroke among elderly patients (aged ≥ 75 years old) between AF group and non-AF group. Methods: We recruited 1070 consecutive elderly patients who experienced acute ischemic stroke between January 2008 and December 2013 in Jiamusi University First Hospital, China in this study. Information regarding stroke subtype, severity, risk factors, and outcome (mortality, dependency, and recurrence) at 3 and 12 months after stroke were recorded and assessed between AF group and non-AF group. Results: The prevalence of AF was 16.1% overall, with a similar trend in the prevalence of AF between men and women. The AF group were more likely to experience severe stroke compared to the non-AF group (32.0 vs. 11.9%, respectively; P < 0.001). There were no obvious differences between groups regarding the prevalence of hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, current smoking, and alcohol drinking but there was a higher prevalence of diabetes in the non-AF group (20.3 vs. 30.1%, P = 0.010). Mortality and dependency rates were significantly higher in the AF group than in the non-AF group at 1 year after stroke (29.6 vs. 17.8%, P = 0.001 for mortality; and 59.5 vs. 36.1%, P = 0.010 for dependency) and 3 years after stroke (46.1 vs. 33.2%, P = 0.032 for mortality; and 70.7 vs. 49.2%, P = 0.010 for dependency); however, there was no significant between-groups differences in rates of recurrence across the follow-up periods. The results for dependency remained stable after adjustment for sex, stroke severity, and stroke risk factors at 3 years after stroke (OR, 2.26; 95% CI, 1.06–4.81; P = 0.034); however, the relationship between AF and mortality and recurrence disappeared after adjusting for these covariates Conclusion: These findings suggest that it is crucial to highlight the treatment of elderly stroke patients with AF in order to reduce poor outcomes among the elderly and to reduce the burden of AF in China.