Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Alumina-on-Alumina Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Minimum 18.5-Year Follow-up Study

Background: The purpose of this retrospective study was to report the results, after a minimum of 18.5 years of follow-up, in a consecutive series of total hip arthroplasties performed with an alumina-on-alumina combination. Methods: One hundred and eighteen consecutive total hip arthroplasties were performed in 106 patients between 1979 and 1980. The prostheses combined a 32-mm alumina head and an all-alumina socket. Both components were cemented in eighty-five hips, both components were implanted without cement in twenty-nine, and only the stem was cemented in four. The mean age of the patients at the time of the index arthroplasty was 62.2 years (range, thirty-two to eighty-nine years). Results: At the 18.5 to 20.5-year follow-up evaluation, forty-five patients (fifty-one hips) were alive and had not had a revision, twenty-five patients (twenty-five hips) had undergone revision of one or both components, twenty-seven patients (thirty hips) had died, and nine patients (twelve hips) had been lost to follow-up. The mean Merle d’Aubigné hip score (and standard deviation) was 16.2 ± 1.8 points at the latest follow-up evaluation. The rate of survival at twenty years, with revision for any reason as the end-point, was 85.6% for the cementless cups compared with 61.2% for the cemented cups and 84.9% for the cementless stems compared with 87.3% for the cemented stems. Wear of the prosthetic components was undetectable on plain radiographs. Periprosthetic cystic or scalloped lesions requiring the use of allograft bone during revision were present in three of the twenty-five revised hips. In addition, seven hips had moderate acetabular osteolysis treated with a 4-mm-larger cup. No fracture of the alumina socket or head was recorded. The mean acetabular wear rate in this series was <0.025 mm/yr. Conclusion: With the alumina-on-alumina total hip arthroplasty, minimal wear rates and limited osteolysis can be expected up to twenty years after the operation, provided that sound acetabular component fixation is obtained.
Individual differences predictive of drinking to manage anxiety among non-problem drinkers with panic disorder.

BACKGROUND Alcohol problems co-occur with anxiety disorders at a rate that far exceeds chance ("comorbidity"). One view suggests that risk for developing a comorbid alcohol use disorder is increased when alcohol is used routinely to cope with anxiety symptoms ("self-medication"). Indicating that this view is overly broad, however, the literature suggests that only a subgroup of anxiety-disordered individuals tend to drink to manage their symptoms. Therefore, we set out to identify psychological characteristics that might mark those for whom drinking to cope with anxiety is most likely. Our survey of the literature identified several possibilities, including anxiety-related personality traits (anxiety sensitivity, self-consciousness and Trait Anxiety); higher-order personality dimensions (Harm Avoidance, Reward Dependence, and Novelty Seeking); and, finally, alcohol outcome expectancies (specifically, those related to tension-reducing effects from alcohol). METHODS In a sample of nonproblem drinkers with panic disorder, we regressed predictor variables on several alcohol use measures, including drinking aimed at the control of anxiety symptoms ("self-medication"). RESULTS Although each variable related positively to a self-medicating style of drinking, expectancies for tension reduction from alcohol use accounted for about twice as much variance as did the other predictors. With simultaneous entry in a step-wise regression analysis, only tension-reduction alcohol outcome expectancies and the Harm Avoidance personality dimension were retained as significant predictors. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest that development of a self-medicating style of drinking among individuals with panic disorder is predicated, in part, on specific psychological characteristics of the individual. Alcohol outcome expectancies emerged as the single most important predictor of drinking behavior in this anxiety-disordered sample.
Nenets Reindeer Herding and Industrial Exploitation in Northwest Russia

Exploration and extraction of mineral resources threaten reindeer herding, a traditional livelihood of the Nenets, the indigenous population of the Nenets Autonomous District in northwest Russia. Reindeer herders are worried about the degradation of the environment and encountering oil workers on the tundra. Based on previous experience they feel they cannot influence development despite new legislation, which is supposed to take into account traditional livelihoods.
Predictor of Auditory Performance in Mandarin Chinese Children With Cochlear Implants

Objective: The objectives of this investigation were to analyze auditory performance among Mandarin-speaking school-aged children with cochlear implants from their parents' perspective and to derive predictive factors of the performance. Study Design: Parental perspective survey of cochlear implant outcome was developed, and factor analysis of auditory performance was performed by analysis of variance. Categorical regression and Pratt measure of relative importance were approached to derive predictive factors of the performance. Setting: Chung Shan Medical University, School of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, and 7 major cochlear implant hospitals in Taiwan. Patients: A total of 177 parents of school-aged children with cochlear implants, with a mean age of 11.36 years (range, 6.75-18.75 yr), were included as participants from 7 major cochlear implant centers nationally. Intervention: All children received unilateral multichannel cochlear implants for a 1-year experience. Main Outcome Measures: The CAPR was the measure of auditory performance, and 31 variables from 5 parts of the recipients' information were explored as independent variables. Results: Of all children with implants, 63.8% reached the level of telephone use. Analysis of variance showed that 9 variables correlated significantly with auditory performance (F = 14.04, p < 0.001; multiple R = 0.79, R2 = 0.63). Categorical regression demonstrated that 5 factors, namely, "no additional disabilities," "oral/aural communication mode at home" and "at school," "educational placement," and "perception of implantation decision" predicted auditory performance. Conclusion: Parental perspective survey demonstrated the level of auditory performance among 177 school-aged children with implant. Five factors were found to predict the auditory performance of these children, suggesting the recipient's participation in the environments, oral/aural communication mode, and without additional disabilities significantly contributing auditory performance. The parent's view of cochlear implantation provides not only an important value of children's function in real life but also as another outcome measure.
Organisational trust, affective commitment and bureaucratic control

Abstract In this study, we examined the relationship between employee perceptions of organisational trust and their affective commitment. We also tested the extent to which the strength of this relation depended on the structural context. Data were provided by employees drawn from a variety of organisational settings. In addition to indicating their levels of organisational trust and affective commitment, study respondents were asked to describe their organisation's structure in terms of five bureaucratic characteristics. Consistent with our predictions, the relation between organisational trust and affective commitment was found to be more pronounced when the organisation's structure was less bureaucratic (controlling). However, there is also evidence for the paradoxical effects of bureaucracy as both enabling and disabling at the same time. We discuss the theoretical implications of these findings, and consider whether bureaucracy is an enabling, disabling, or enabling-and-disabling organisational form.
Business values, management and conflict handling: issues in contemporary Singapore

Outlines the conflict‐handling style of a representative sample of 303 Singaporeans. Using the Thomas‐Kilmann conflict mode instrument, investigates some interesting gender, age, role and occupational differences in conflict‐handling style. Suggests that, while Western thought and practice emphasize collaboration in resolving conflict in organizations, the cultural value systems of different Asian cultures emphasize unassertiveness. Suggests that the issue may be about the conflict between traditionalism and modernism, and that economic development brings with it an inevitable change in the psychological practice of capitalism.
Adapting Instruments for Use in Multiple Languages and Cultures: A Review of the ITC Guidelines for Test Adaptations

Summary: To facilitate the development of valid multicultural/multilingual tests, the International Test Commission (ITC) prepared the ITC Guidelines on Test Adaptations. This paper reviews the current version (cf. Van de Vijver & Hambleton, 1996), which consists of 22 guidelines on recommended practices pertaining to context, development, administration, documentation, and test-score interpretation, by identifying key principles in test adaptations and comparing them to a content analysis of the ITC Guidelines. The content analysis revealed a number of inconsistencies and ambiguities in a few guidelines, and proposals for reformulating them are given. A checklist to supplement the more narrative guidelines would also be helpful. Nevertheless, the review clearly demonstrates that the ITC Guidelines on Test Adaptations address key principles in test adaptations and constitute a significant standard or “code of conduct” in this field.
A biochemical translinear principle with weak inversion ISFETs

A weak inversion region is shown to exist in ion-sensitive field effect transistor (ISFET) sensors. It is therefore proposed that the ISFET and its chemically sensitive (ChemFET) counterparts be used as translinear elements in the synthesis of novel biochemical input stages which perform real-time mathematical manipulation of biochemical signals. A Biochemical Translinear Principle using weakly inverted ChemFETs is presented. A low-power current-mode input stage circuit is presented as an application of the principle. This yields a linear relation between drain current and hydrogen ion concentration valid over four decades. This paper demonstrates an important and necessary step toward biochemical VLSI.
Foci and correlates of organizational identification

Adopting the social identity perspective on organizational identification proposed by Ashforth and Mael (1989), the present study tested two hypotheses concerning the importance of work-group identification (WID) relative to organizational identification (OID). WID was predicted to be stronger than OID as well as more predictive of organizational attitudes and behaviour. Data about employees’ WID, OID, job satisfaction, turnover intentions, job involvement, and job motivation from two samples (N = 76 and N = 163) supported these predictions. We conclude that our understanding of organizational attitudes and behaviour has much to gain by an open eye for the multiple foci of identification that are associated with organizational membership, and that managerial practice may benefit from an increased focus on the work group.
Characterising the Health Information Consumer: An Examination of Digital Television Users

Using questionnaire data from digital television subscribers, links are established between the information sources used and the characteristics and interests of users. The research establishes that groupings can be made and identifies user groups most likely to use each source type. Four groups of users are identified and described: active traditional information users, passive traditional information users, electronic isolated users and electronic sociable users. The research forms part of an ongoing research project, which has, as part of its aim, the task of identifying particular users with the information sources that may be most appropriate for them.
Terahertz quantum cascade lasers

Quantum cascade lasers operating at far-infrared (terahertz) frequencies have now been demonstrated. We review the fabrication, operation, and performance of these lasers, and indicate recent results in which devices have been developed to operate continuous wave, at temperatures greater than 77 K, emit at frequencies down to 3.5 THz, and produce tens of milli-Watts of power. These results are an encouraging step towards a widely applicable solid-state terahertz source, and the development of terahertz photonics.
Parent and Child Personality Traits and Children's Externalizing Problem Behavior From Age 4 to 9 Years: A Cohort-Sequential Latent Growth Curve Analysis

Cohort-sequential latent growth modeling was used to analyze longitudinal data for children's externalizing behavior from four overlapping age cohorts (4, 5, 6, and 7 years at first assessment) measured at three annual time points. The data included mother and father ratings on the Child Behavior Checklist and the Five-Factor Personality Inventory and teacher ratings on the Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children of 674 children of a proportional stratified general population sample. Results indicated a significant nonlinear decline in problem behavior from ages 4 to 9. Child benevolence was negatively related to initial levels of problem behavior. Higher scores on emotional stability in children corresponded to larger reductions of problem behavior over time. Parents' conscientiousness and emotional stability were negatively related to initial levels of externalizing problem behavior. At the age of 4 years, boys had higher initial scores than girls, but boys and girls followed a similar developmental trajectory.
Objective evaluation of radial pulse signal

Radial pulse signal analysis is an extensively explored diagnostic tool in traditional Indian as well as Chinese school of medicine. Objective examination of radial pulse signal and effect on its temporal domain characteristics features, as a result of activities conducted on healthy individuals have been evaluated. Radial pulse analysis, using pulse peak-peak variability-basis, on lines similar to heart rate variability, has been performed. Analysis of radial pulse signal for extracting respiration, thermoregulation and auditory perception related rhythms, prominently visible in HRV spectrum, has been attempted and results compare well with those reported from HRV analysis. Effects of posture change on pulse signal, have also been examined.
When Do Employees Identify? An Analysis of Cross‐Sectional and Longitudinal Predictors of Training Group and Organizational Identification1

Organizational research has shown the impact of organizational identification on employees' attitudes and behavior, and its relevance for economic success (Haslam, 2004). Furthermore, the necessity to differentiate levels of identification within organizations has been emphasized (van Knippenberg & van Schie, 2000). Little is known, however, about predictors of different identification levels within organizations and their influence on the development of identification. In a longitudinal study with training groups of flight attendants, we investigated how foci of identification (training group, organization) were differentially predicted by cross-sectional and longitudinal variables. Interpersonal attraction related to training group identification, whereas professional motivation related to organizational identification. Furthermore, expected job circumstances and professional motivation were longitudinal predictors for training group identification and organizational identification, respectively.
A Conceptualization of the Relationships Between Quality, Satisfaction, Behavioral Intention, and Awareness of a Festival

The purpose of this research is to examine how festivals can promote food products and influence customers' behavioral intentions by using a structural equation model. The aim of the study is to apply a model relating to the quality, satisfaction, and behavioral intention to a construct, such as awareness. The structural equation model was tested on a sample of 352 visitors who attended a local food and wine festival in Sauris' rural area in Friuli Venezia Giulia, northeast Italy. This food festival is considered to have a fundamental element of differentiation as it offers distinctive and unique local products such as the Sauris' smoked ham. The empirical validation of this model supports almost all the research hypotheses. These findings contribute to better ways of understanding that quality and satisfaction of a festival can affect awareness and behavioral intentions.
Description of a new species of Eupsophus (Amphibia: Neobatrachia) from the Valdivian Coastal range, Southern Chile: an integrative taxonomic approach

We describe a new species of Eupsophus from the Coastal Range of Southern Chile. The new taxon can be differentiated using an integrative taxonomic approach that includes advertisement call, reproductive mode, tadpoles, and mtDNA D-loop sequences. Based on karyological characters, the new species is assigned to the roseus Group (2N=30), and differs from all described species therein by having early winter breeding season, terrestrial tadpoles and its advertisement call with spectral elements reaching the 20 kHz. Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial data place the new species as sister taxon of E. migueli. The discovery of this new species highlights the importance of the multisource approaches to discover cryptic diversity as well as to establish the basis for prioritizing policies and conservation efforts on Chilean batrachofauna.
Talc pleurodesis for the management of malignant pleural effusions in Japan.

OBJECTIVE Malignant pleural effusions are commonly treated with tube drainage followed by chemical pleurodesis to maintain the patient's quality of life. While talc is now accepted to be a worldwide gold-standard sclerosing agent for treating malignant pleural effusion, it is not yet approved in Japan. Instead, many patients are administered OK-432 for pleurodesis, which carries the risk of complications such as high-grade fever, chest pain, anaphylactic shock, interstitial pneumonia and acute renal failure. To assess the efficacy and safety of talc as a sclerosing agent in the management of malignant pleural effusions in Japanese patients. METHODS Pleurodesis was performed using 4 g of sterile talc with thoracoscopic talc poudrage or the administration of talc slurry via a chest tube in patients with malignant pleural effusions. RESULTS A total of 57 patients were included. The success rate of pleurodesis assessed on chest radiography at 30, 90 and 180 days was 90.6%, 80.9% and 76.1%, respectively. Complications occurring after talc pleurodesis included fever in 10.5% of the patients and chest pain in 14.0% of the patients. No major complications were reported. CONCLUSION Talc pleurodesis is an effective and safe treatment for the management of malignant pleural effusion in Japanese patients.
Interactional pragmatics and court interpreting: An analysis of face

This article reports on an investigation of face in a triadic speech event, a prosecutor’s interpreter-mediated questioning of a defendant in a criminal trial at a Danish district court. The power differential of this particular speech event makes it inherently threatening for the less powerful individual, the defendant, who by consenting to make a statement potentially puts his face at risk in multiple ways. Moreover, his face-protecting strategies may result in the prosecutor’s face being threatened. Simultaneously, while attending to the face-work of the primary participants, the interpreter has her own face to attend to as a professional. Consequently, the aim of the investigation was to explore face-work in the speech event and the interpreter’s strategies for translating and coordinating face-work. The analysis revealed that the interpreter frequently modified face-threatening and face-protecting utterances in an attempt to protect her own face and/or the face of one of the primary participants.
Molecular Mapping of PMR1, a Novel Locus Conferring Resistance to Powdery Mildew in Pepper (Capsicum annuum)

Powdery mildew, caused by Leveillula taurica, is a major fungal disease affecting greenhouse-grown pepper (Capsicum annuum). Powdery mildew resistance has a complex mode of inheritance. In the present study, we investigated a novel powdery mildew resistance locus, PMR1, using two mapping populations: 102 ‘VK515' F2:3 families (derived from a cross between resistant parental line ‘VK515R' and susceptible parental line ‘VK515S') and 80 ‘PM Singang' F2 plants (derived from the F1 ‘PM Singang' commercial hybrid). Genetic analysis of the F2:3 ‘VK515' and F2 ‘PM Singang' populations revealed a single dominant locus for inheritance of the powdery mildew resistance trait. Genetic mapping showed that the PMR1 locus is located on syntenic regions of pepper chromosome 4 in a 4-Mb region between markers CZ2_11628 and HRM4.1. 6 in ‘VK515R'. Six molecular markers including one SCAR marker and five SNP markers were localized to a region 0 cM from the PMR1 locus. Two putative nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR)-type disease resistance genes were identified in this PMR1 region. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) and genetic mapping analysis revealed suppressed recombination in the PMR1 region, perhaps due to alien introgression. In addition, a comparison of species-specific InDel markers as well as GBS-derived SNP markers indicated that C. baccatum represents a possible source of such alien introgression of powdery mildew resistance into ‘VK515R'. The molecular markers developed in this study will be especially helpful for marker-assisted selection in pepper breeding programs for powdery mildew resistance.
Creating a temporary community? An ethnographic study of a residential fieldtrip

This paper explores the evolving perceptions of community sentiments, for three teachers and 36 AS-level students on a week-long residential fieldtrip. For this in-depth study I adopted an ethnographic methodology in which I participated in, observed and recounted some of the complex and fluid spatial arrangements and processes, analysing their influence on social relationships and attitudes to learning at a UK residential field study centre. Whilst seemingly offering a different and more informal educational setting from school, I argue that the accompanying teachers attempted to influence proceedings through spatial management to meet some of their explicitly declared aims for the trip. Furthermore I argue that the physical isolation of the centre, together with the deliberately managed exclusion of external influences, effectively created a bounded setting, thereby temporarily replicating some of the characteristics associated with traditional notions of community. Within this teacher-shaped environment evolving relationships linked to the new place setting, together with impromptu communitas moments, contributed to community sentiments in line with more contemporary interpretations of the concept.