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Reimagining fitness practice in schools: An experimental study on self-perceptions and motivational outcomes in youth

BACKGROUND: Physical fitness testing in physical education (PE) is mandatory in several US states, based on the promise that testing will “assist students in establishing lifelong habits of regular physical activity. ” However, in actuality, the influence of fitness practice for testing, as commonly implemented in schools, on motivational outcomes remains largely unknown. Modifying the experience of fitness practice testing by translating psychological theory into practice may represent untapped potential in the effort to promote physical activity in childhood. Thus, the purpose of the present study is to examine the effect of different structures of fitness practice (traditional versus needs supporting lessons) on affect and motivational outcomes, as well as the moderating role of BMI and self-perceptions. METHODS: Using a within-subject experimental design, the present study measured pre-post changes on two 20 to 30-minute PE lessons of fitness practice (traditional versus novel): one simulated traditional testing (using standard FITNESSGRAM instructions) whereas the other (“novel”) emphasized positive peer interactions and alternative ways of delivering the same tasks. The dependent variables were positive affect (Feeling Scale), arousal (Felt Arousal Scale), body related emotions (Body Esteem Scale), enjoyment (PACES), intention, and need satisfaction (Activity Feeling States Scale). The sample consisted of 148 students in 4 5 and 6 grade (119 normal-weight, 29 overweight; 77 female), recruited from two schools in Central Iowa. Physical activity during both PE lessons was measured by accelerometers (Sensewear Armbands), and BMI records were obtained from the schools.
IMPLEMENTING ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE IN SMALL BUSINESSES IN NEW ZEALAND : AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION

The implementation of off-the-shelf small business accounting (SBA) software has become widespread among small and medium sized enterprises as it has become affordable and technically powerful. At the same time, selecting and implementing a suitable accounting software from among the numerous available software packages is often difficult for small businesses. Using interpretive approach based upon a qualitative research methodology, this paper explores the challenges faced by small businesses in New Zealand implementing SBA software. User confusion, lack of external guidance and support, and lack of accounting skills have been identified as major issues faced by small businesses in implementing SBA software. The external consultant’s play significant role in successful implementation of SBA software, but currently very little research has been done in this area.
A Cross-sectional Study to Evaluate Diabetes Management, Control and Complications in Patients with type 2 Diabetes in Bangladesh

Background: Management of type 2 diabetes is not uniform. The aim of the study was to assess diabetes care delivery and status of long-term diabetes related complications. Methods: DiabCare is an observational, non-interventional, cross-sectional study of hospital-based outpatient type 2 diabetes care. Results: A total of 2092 patients participated in the study: mean age 51.3±11.0 years, and duration of diabetes 7.6±5.4 years. The patients were almost equal in both genders (male: 49.8% vs. female: 50.2%) and the largest homogenous ethnic group was Bangladeshi (99.6%). The percentage of patients with HbA1c < 7.0% (< 53 mmol/mol) was 22.5% and mean HbA1c was 8.8±2.2 %. The proportion of patients using insulin was 58.0% (n=1214) at a total daily dose of 34.4±14.7 IU. The most common diabetes related complications were: Peripheral neuropathy (39.0%) and eye complications (21.7%). Duration of diabetes was associated with higher odds of CV complications, diabetic nephropathy and eye complications [adjusted OR 1.03, p=0.007; 1.05, p<0.001 and 1.05, p<0.001 respectively]. Age also has emerged as a significant predictor for these complications. More than half of patients (56.1%) indicated their concerns about hypoglycaemia. A large proportion of patients were non-adherent to clinical recommendations. Conclusions: Poor glycaemic and metabolic control over a long period of time contributes to chronic diabetic complications. This underpins the need to further optimise the control strategies and maintain quality diabetes management standards in Bangladesh and also improving awareness among health professionals with intensive education programs for diabetes subjects is also recommended. Birdem Med J 2017; 7(1): 17-27
Dental caries in children: a comparison of one non-fluoridated and two fluoridated communities in NSW.

AIM The aim of the Child Dental Health Survey in Lithgow was to establish the oral health status of primary schoolchildren to assist the local council in deciding whether to fluoridate the water and to provide a baseline for future monitoring of changes in caries rates. METHODS All six primary schools in Lithgow were invited to participate, and 653 children aged 6-12 years were clinically examined for dental caries. World Health Organization criteria were used, whereby a decayed tooth is defined as a cavity into the dentine. Caries prevalence was measured as the mean number of decayed, missing and filled teeth (primary: dmft; secondary: DMFT). Significant caries indices were calculated to categorise children with the mean dmft/DMFT score of the highest 30 percentage (SiC) and the highest 10 percentage (SiC(10)) of caries. Data for Lithgow were compared with school dental service data for the socioeconomically comparable fluoridated townships of Bathurst and Orange. RESULTS The primary dentition caries estimates (dmft, SiC and SiC(10)) in Lithgow children aged 6 years were 0.92, 2.72 and 5.81, respectively; the estimates for permanent dentition caries (DMFT, SiC and SiC(10)) in Lithgow children aged 12 years were 0.69, 2.05 and 6.41, respectively. The caries prevalence in the permanent dentition of Lithgow children was significantly higher than that in children living in the fluoridated towns of Bathurst and Orange. No significant differences were observed in the estimates for primary teeth. CONCLUSION Although the mean levels of dental caries in schoolchildren in Lithgow were low, oral health inequalities exist between children residing in non-fluoridated Lithgow and the fluoridated locations of Orange and Bathurst. The local council decided that Lithgow will have fluoridated water by December 2010.
Lateral Preference of Preschool and Primary School Children

Cross-sectional development and consistency of four lateral preference behaviors (hand, foot, ear, eye) in 79 preschool and 131 primary school children were studied. Although predominant right-sidedness is manifested in the limbs and sensory organs, only handedness showed a significant increase over the age range studied (3 yr. to 9 yr., 11 mo.). Approximately 85% of children in preschool and 87% in primary school showed lateral consistency in the upper and lower extremities. The concordance between other sidedness behaviors reflected only chance associations in both samples. The results indicate that lateral preference behaviors in children are not unidimensional.
Abused to Abuser

Abstract This study examines the “Abused-to-Abuser” (AtA) hypothesis of the etiology of adult male sexual attraction to boys, which proposes that a boy who is sexually “abused” will, when older, be predisposed to become an “abuser” of other boys. An Internet survey of participants in online discussion groups and news groups oriented towards men sexually attracted to boys resulted in a convenience sample of 290 males, of whom about one-quarter reported a boyhood sexual experience with an older male. Nearly three-quarters of these experiences were not perceived as being negative either at the time they occurred or in retrospect. These results from a non-clinical/non-prison sample do not support the AtA hypothesis, and are consistent with similar findings from clinical/prison samples.
Offspring of older parents are smaller—but no less bilaterally symmetrical—than offspring of younger parents in the aquatic plant Lemna turionifera

Abstract Offspring quality decreases with parental age in many taxa, with offspring of older parents exhibiting reduced life span, reproductive capacity, and fitness, compared to offspring of younger parents. These “parental age effects,” whose consequences arise in the next generation, can be considered as manifestations of parental senescence, in addition to the more familiar age‐related declines in parent‐generation survival and reproduction. Parental age effects are important because they may have feedback effects on the evolution of demographic trajectories and longevity. In addition to altering the timing of offspring life‐history milestones, parental age effects can also have a negative impact on offspring size, with offspring of older parents being smaller than offspring of younger parents. Here, we consider the effects of advancing parental age on a different aspect of offspring morphology, body symmetry. In this study, we followed all 403 offspring of 30 parents of a bilaterally symmetrical, clonally reproducing aquatic plant species, Lemna turionifera, to test the hypothesis that successive offspring become less symmetrical as their parent ages, using the “Continuous Symmetry Measure” as an index. Although successive offspring of aging parents older than one week became smaller and smaller, we found scant evidence for any reduction in bilateral symmetry.
Simultaneous presence of different Borrelia burgdorferi genospecies in biological fluids of Lyme disease patients

Oligonucleotide primers based on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato ospA gene sequences have been designed for use in the PCR to type all (SL primers) or each (GI to GIII primers) of the B. burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies involved in Lyme disease. These genospecies-specific primers were then used in the PCR on 24 biological fluids collected from 18 neuroborreliosis patients. Among the samples tested, 20 contained DNA from Borrelia garinii, 11 contained DNA from B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, and 10 contained DNA from Borrelia afzelii. In toto, 10 patients appeared to have been infected by a single genospecies and 8 were infected by more than one Lyme disease-associated genospecies. Serum specimens from six patients were absorbed with heterologous antigens and tested by Western blotting (immunoblotting). In four cases, residual immunodetection revealed specific epitopes of genospecies also detected by PCR; in two of them, the concordant results indicated pluri-infection of the patients. In the other two cases, Western blotting showed specific antibodies for two genospecies of Borrelia, while PCR detected DNA from only one. In summary, the data underscored the relatively high prevalence of pluri-infections in Lyme disease and confirmed the association of B. garinii with neuroborreliosis.
A Quantitative Prediction Model for Hardware/Software Partitioning

An important step in Heterogeneous System Development is Hardware/Software Partitioning. This process involves exploring a huge design space. By using profiling to select hot-spots and estimate area and delay we can prune the design space considerably. We present a Quantitative Model that makes early predictions to prune the design space and support the partitioning process. The model is based on Software Complexity Metrics, which capture important aspects of functions as control intensity, data intensity, and code size. To remedy interdependence among software metrics, we performed a Principal Component Analysis. The hardware characteristics were determined by automatically generating VHDL from C using the DWARV C-to-VHDL compiler. Linear regression on these data generated our model. The model error differs per hardware characteristic. We show that for flip-flops the mean error is 69%. In conclusion, our quantitative model makes fast and sufficiently accurate area predictions in support of early Hardware/Software Partitioning.
The interaction between music and language in learning and recall in children with autism spectrum condition

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Transference Focused Psychotherapy and the Language of Action

Transference focused psychotherapy (TFP) is a psychoanalytic psychotherapy for individuals with personality disorders that is evidence based (Clarkin, Levy, Lenzenweger, & Kernberg, 2007; Clarkin, Yeomans, & Kernberg, 2006; Doering et al., 2010; Giesen-Bloo et al., 2006). An important component of the treatment is examining the transference in the moment-to- moment interactions between the patient and therapist, in order to draw the patient’s attention to her thinking and assumptions, and to the emotional conclusions she makes that are outside her awareness. Roy Schafer, in A New Language for Psychoanalysis (Schafer, 1976) describes how people can actively choose to think and act while simultaneously hiding elements of the truth about these actions from themselves, and proposes the use of action language in our thinking about our work. In this article, clinical examples show how TFP allows for clarification and interpretation of a patient’s activity in a session. The article illustrates how the language of action supports and enhances the TFP psychotherapist’s way of talking to patients.
The long terminal repeat is not a major determinant of the cellular tropism of human immunodeficiency virus type 1

The long terminal repeats (LTRs) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) strains from the central nervous systems of four patients with AIDS and of an HIV-1 isolate which is highly macrophage-tropic were isolated by using the polymerase chain reaction. In transient transfection assays, these LTRs demonstrated no significant difference in basal or stimulated levels of transcription in any of a variety of cell lines tested, compared with expression directed from the LTR of a T-lymphocyte-tropic strain of HIV-1. Chimeric viruses were created with the LTRs of the macrophage-tropic and brain-derived viruses ligated to the viral backbone from a T-lymphocyte-tropic strain. No change in cellular tropism was demonstrated with these chimeric viruses. Thus, unlike the LTRs of some murine retroviruses, the LTR of HIV-1 does not appear to play a major role in determining cellular tropism.
Prevalence of, and risk factors for, HSV-2 antibodies in sexually transmitted disease patients, healthy pregnant females, blood donors and medical students in Tanzania and Norway

The prevalence of specific HSV-2 antibodies was studied in Tanzanian and Norwegian sexually transmitted disease (STD) patients (1095) and non-STD patients (488). Correlates to demographic and behavioural factors were evaluated. Seropositivity was determined by the non-commercial peptide-55 enzyme-linked immunoassay. The prevalence of HSV-2 antibodies was 70% in Tanzanian and 17% in Norwegian STD patients, 35% in Tanzanian blood donors and pregnant women, and 4, 7 and 14% in Norwegian medical students, blood donors and pregnant women respectively. A higher HSV-2 prevalence was associated with female sex, increasing age, previous STDs, history of genital HSV infection, coitarchal age (age at first intercourse) <15 years and HIV seropositivity. Compared to previous data, the prevalence of HSV-2 antibodies in Tanzanian STD patients has increased remarkably. In Norwegian STD patients our results are consistent with, or lower than, the prevalence previously reported in Western Europe. Demographic rather than behavioural factors were associated with higher prevalence of HSV-2 antibodies in STD patients.
The Effects of a Statewide Evaluation Initiative in Gifted Education on Practitioner Knowledge, Concerns, and Program Documentation

When well-considered and grounded in current knowledge, program evaluations of services to gifted learners can be a powerful tool for increasing practitioners’ knowledge and self-efficacy, and for effecting positive programmatic changes. The Arkansas Evaluation Initiative (AEI) in Gifted Education, a Jacob K. Javits-funded project, was implemented statewide to improve the quality of gifted program evaluations. The AEI focused on improving services, especially for underrepresented groups of students, by building statewide capacity in local districts to conduct formative program evaluations. Results indicate that practitioner knowledge of program evaluation increased. Attitudinal data also indicate that gifted education practitioners are interested in learning more about program evaluation, but are moderately concerned about the time, logistics, resources, and their skill in facilitating changes needed to improve formative program evaluations in their schools. Finally, the intervention resulted in improved documentation of programs and services with respect to underserved groups, stakeholder involvement, and student outcome data.
Acute Interstitial Pneumonia: A Clinicopathologic, Ultrastmctural, and Cell Kinetic Study

Eight cases of acute interstitial pneumonia were studied to define the clinical and pathologic features and to determine the relationship to chronic interstitial pneumonia. Clinically, this disease differs from the chronic interstitial pneumonias by a sudden onset and a rapid course. Five patients died of respiratory failure after 23 days to 2 months, and two died of other complications after 3½—6 months. An etiologic agent could not be identified in any case. The histologic hallmark was interstitial fibrosis and edema associated with type II pneumocyte hyperplasia. The fibrosis differed from that seen in the chronic interstitial pneumonias by extensive fibroblast proliferation and relatively little collagen deposition. Autoradiographic studies of tritiated thymidine (3H-TdR) uptake showed high labeling indices in interstitial cells and type II pneumocytes. Evidence of acute lung injury, including both endothelial and epithelial cell damage, was a prominent ultrastructural feature. These findings emphasize that acute interstitial pneumonia is a clinically and pathologically distinct form of interstitial pneumonia that should be separated from the group of chronic interstitial pneumonias.
Reading Recovery: An Evaluation of the Four-Year i3 Scale-Up

CPRE released its evaluation of one of the most ambitious and well-documented expansions of a U.S. instructional curriculum. The rigorous independent evaluation of the Investing in Innovation (i3) scale-up of Reading Recovery, a literacy intervention for struggling first graders, was a collaboration between CPRE and the Center for Research on Education and Social Policy (CRESP) at the University of Delaware. The CPRE/CRESP evaluation revealed that students who participated in Reading Recovery significantly outperformed students in the control group on measures of overall reading, reading comprehension, and decoding. These effects were similarly large for English language learners and students attending rural schools, which were the student subgroups of priority interest for the i3 scale-up grant program. The study included an in-depth analysis of program implementation. Key findings focus on the contextual factors of the school and teachers that support the program’s success and the components of instructional strength in Reading Recovery. Disciplines Curriculum and Instruction | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Educational Methods | Education Policy | Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration | Elementary Education and Teaching | Reading and Language Comments View on the CPRE website. This report is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn. edu/cpre_researchreports/81 CONSORTIUM forPOLICYRESEARCH inEDUCATION A RESEARCH REPORT UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MARCH 2016 Henry May
Die historische Pädagogik in Ungarn. Geschichte und heutiger Stand The Historical Educational Research in Hungary. His History and Actual Position

Der Aufsatz gibt einen Uberblick uber die Hauptperioden der ungarischen historischen Padagogik in ihrer Geschichte seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. In der ersten Periode wurde sie dann seit der Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts zu einem Lehrfach der Lehrerbildung. Das Fach und sein Literatur haben einen Kanon gebildet, der bis heute wirksam ist. Seit den 1970er und 1980er Jahren hat sich auch in der Erziehungswissenscheften eine neue sozialwissenschaftlich orientierte Historische Forschung herausbildet, derer internationale Trends begann die ungarische historische Padagogik seit Anfang der 1990er Jahren zu rezipieren. In dem zweiten Teil wird der heutige Stand dieser Entwicklungsperiode mit den Hauptakteuren, institutionellen Kontexten, grundlegenden Werken, theoretisch-methodischen Debatten dargestellt. How to reference this article Nemeth, A. (2016). Die historische Padagogik in Ungarn. Geschichte und heutiger Stand. Espacio, Tiempo y Educacion , 3(1), 85-110. doi: http://dx.doi. org/10.14516/ete.2016. 003.001. 6
Post Mortem Diagnosis in Sudden Neurovascular Death Victims : A Study of Macroscopic Findings

Among all the illnesses, which can blow out life’s candle, cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) is the most alarming to the spectator, most grievous to the patient and most baffling to the physician. The aim of the study was to evaluate the data with respect to incidences, epidemiological aspects, impact of risk factors, estimate the survival time and cause of death in relation to sudden natural neurovascular death victims. This study was conducted on 63 victims of sudden neurovascular death brought to Seth G.S. Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India during period from January 2014 to July 2015. The incidence of sudden natural neurovascular deaths among the total medico legal autopsies is 2.88%, with most affected age group of 41-50 years. The male to female ratio was 3.2:1. Smoking and alcohol habits outnumbered the other risk factors. Most common cause of death was intracerebral haemorrhage located in basal ganglia region.
Addition of lenalidomide to rituximab, ifosfamide, carboplatin, etoposide (RICER) in first-relapse/primary refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Relapsed/refractory diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is associated with a poor prognosis. Outcomes are particularly poor following immunochemotherapy failure or relapse within 12 months of induction. We conducted a Phase I/II trial of lenalidomide plus RICE (rituximab, ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide) (RICER) as a salvage regimen for first‐relapse or primary refractory DLBCL. Dose‐escalated lenalidomide was combined with RICE every 14 d. After three cycles of RICER, patients with chemosensitive disease underwent stem cell collection and consolidation with BEAM [BCNU (carmustine), etoposide, cytarabine, melphalan] followed by autologous stem cell transplantation (autoSCT). Patients who recovered from autoSCT toxicities within 90 d initiated maintenance treatment with lenalidomide 25 mg daily for 21 d every 28 d for 12 months. No dose‐limiting or unexpected toxicities occurred with lenalidomide 25 mg plus RICE. Grade 3/4 haematological toxicities resolved appropriately, and planned dose density and dose intensity of RICER were preserved. No lenalidomide or RICE dose reductions were required in any of the three cycles. After two cycles of RICER, nine of 15 patients (60%) achieved a complete response, and two achieved a partial response (13%). Combining lenalidomide with RICE is feasible, and results in promising response rates (particularly complete response rates) in high‐risk DLBCL patients.