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A Competence Model for Design Managers : A Case Study of Middle Managers in Korea

The more that design is used as a means to gain competitive advantage and as a strategic tool in the corporate environment, the more the roles and responsibilities of designers expand (Borja de Mozota, 2002; Bruder, 2011; Perks, Cooper, & Jones, 2005; Stevens & Moultrie, 2011; von Stamm, 2004). Accordingly, design managers are also called upon to push the boundaries of their activities. Cooper and Press (1995) showed that certain procedural actions in design management (planning, organizing, implementation and monitoring, and evaluation) are carried out across three management levels (the board, middle management, and design activity). Best (2006), Chung (1998), and Lockwood (2010) categorized design management activities as strategic (e.g., corporate design; policy, mission, and agenda; corporate strategy), tactical (e.g., design organization; teams, processes, and systems; process in the business unit), or operational (e.g., design project; tangible product, service, and experience; physical design outcomes). Borja de Mozota (2003) suggested similar levels of design management activities, but incorporated aspects such as strategy, planning, human resource and structure, and communication. With these diversified levels of design management activities, design managers are taking on an increasingly complex role. Accordingly, their competences have been discussed in design management literature. Briggs, Green, and Lombardi (1998) specified three critical elements for a design manager: design skills, knowledge of human dynamics, and knowledge of basic business practices. Green et al. (2004) and Peters (2012) noted that design managers should have management and negotiation skills, business savvy, understanding of people and processes, and expert knowledge of design. Moreover, some studies investigated the competences of design leaders in particular. Several scholars concurred that design leadership requires such abilities as envisioning the future, directing and nurturing creativity, and strategic thinking (McCullaph, 2008; Turner & Topalian, 2002). Han and Bromilow (2010) categorized various design leadership competences into creative leadership, business awareness, and relationship/communication. Maciver (2012) emphasized that design leadership involves balancing old ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Patients ’ Satisfaction after Electronic Medical Records Implementation in a Tertiary Hospital in North Central Nigeria

Introduction: The cardinal objective of the services rendered by the pharmaceutical services department is to improve patient compliance to medication, as it is an important factor in the prognosis of numerous diseases. Much attention within the healthcare industry is focused on patients’ satisfaction with the quality of healthcare services. Reports has it that Electronic Medical Records (EMR) have the potential to affect healthcare delivery by reducing costs, enhancing patient safety, increasing quality and improving efficiency. Patients’ satisfaction after electronic medical records implementation with respect to pharmaceutical services has not been studied in our facility, therefore the need for this work. Methodology: Our work is an institutional based cross-sectional descriptive study. The study populations are 300 registered patients that have accessed pharmaceutical services in the study facility. Data on different variables were collected using a pre-tested self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire was developed and validated by calculating its Cronbach alpha factor in SPSS (version 21) software. The factor was found to be 0.9. Results: Most (27.7%) of the respondents, were in the age group of 41-50 years and were mostly Females (52.2%). Most of the respondents (24.7%) had secondary education. Also of interest to note is that 21% of the respondents had a tertiary Education. 31.3% of the respondents have been patients of this Hospital for between 5-9years while 30.3% have been Patients of the Hospital for between 1-4 years, Respondents’ satisfaction was assessed base on five pharmacy related characteristics which are Location of Pharmacy, Prescribed Drugs Are Available, Time It Takes To Wait For Service, Pharmacists’ Counseling, EMR Has Improved Services Here overall satisfaction status with pharmacy related services shows 139 (46.3%) were satisfied with pharmacy services under EMR platform while 53.7% or 161 Respondents were not satisfied. Conclusion: we observed that demographic variables plays vital role in improving Patients’ satisfaction. Improving skills of EMR frontline workers, infrastructure, management, and resource allocation are important interventions to improve the EMR system performance in the study area.
Effect of Curcumin, Mixture of Curcumin and Piperine and Curcum (Turmeric) on Lipid Profile of Normal and Hyperlipidemic Rats

Curcumin is a polyphenolic, yellow pigment obtained from rhizomes of Curcuma longa (curcum), used as a spice and food colouring. The extracts have several pharmacological effects. We evaluated the effect of curcum, curcumin, and mixture of curcumin and piperine on plasma lipids in normal and hypercholesterolemic rats. A total of 270 rats, divided into 27 groups, were used. G1, G11: control, G2-G11: normal rats fed control diet supplemented with different levels of curcumin and curcum (G2-G6: 0.1%, 0.25%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 2.0% respectively, G7-G11: 1.67%, 4.167%, 8.34%, 16.67%, and 33.34). G12-G26: at first fed control diet supplemented with 2% cholesterol then G13-17, 21-25 fed a control diet supplemented with different levels of curcumin, and curcum [the same levels as G2-G11; G18-20 fed control diet supplemented with mixture of curcumin (0.1, 0.25, 0.5%) and piperine (20 mg/kg BW)], G12 was sacrificed before addition of studied materials, G26 were fed control diet. Lipid profile, triacylglycerol and phospholipids of plasma and organs as liver and heart were measured. Serum cholesterol (total, LDL-C, VLDL-C), triacylglycerol and phospholipids contents were elevated in cholesterol-fed rats, while HDL-C were decreased. Curcum, curcumin have hypocholesterolemic effect on both normal and hypercholesterolemic rats being more effective in hypercholesterolemic rats. Curcumin reduces cholesterol by interfering with intestinal cholesterol uptake, increasing the conversion of cholesterol into bile acids and increasing the excretion of bile acids. Using curcumin+piperine is better than using curcumin alone. All doses had the same effect, but using the lower level (0.5%) is better than using 2.0% level. Liver cholesterol, triacylglycerol and phospholipids contents and cardiac cholesterol were elevated in hypercholesterolemic conditions. Dietary curcumin showed a distinct tendency to counter these changes. Piperine was added to curcumin to enhance its bioavailabilty through increasing curcumin absorption and reducing its metabolism in liver. The use of curcum, curcumin, and mixture of curcumin and piperine may be useful in the management of cardiovascular disease. Using the lower level (0.5%) is better than using 2.0%. Piperine enhances the bioavailabilty of curcumin.
Stress Spillover, African Americans’ Couple and Health Outcomes, and the Stress-Buffering Effect of Family-Centered Prevention

This study investigated (a) the stress spillover pathways linking contextual stressors, changes in couple relationship functioning and depressive symptoms, and changes in individuals’ physical health, and (b) the stress-buffering effect of participation in an efficacious, family centered prevention program designed to protect couples from the deleterious effects of stressors. The sample consisted of 346 rural African American couples (63% married) who participated in a randomized controlled trial of the Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) program. Participants were assessed at three time points across 17 months. Results examining stress spillover within the control group indicated that elevated current, but not prior, financial hardship was associated with decreased effective communication, relationship satisfaction, and relationship confidence as well as increased depressive symptoms; current levels of racial discrimination also predicted greater depressive symptoms. Relationship confidence and relationship satisfaction, but not communication or depressive symptoms, in turn predicted declines in self-reported physical health. Results examining stress-buffering effects suggested that participation in ProSAAF protected individuals’ relationship confidence from declines associated with elevated financial hardship. In addition, the indirect effect linking financial hardship to declines in physical health through relationship confidence that emerged among participants in the control group was no longer evident for ProSAAF couples. Results highlight the effect of contextual stressors on African Americans’ couple and individual well-being and the potential for the ProSAAF program to provide a constructed resilience resource, protecting couple’s confidence in their relationship from the negative effects of financial hardship and, consequently, promoting physical health.
Endothelial ERK signaling controls lymphatic fate specification.

Lymphatic vessels are thought to arise from PROX1-positive endothelial cells (ECs) in the cardinal vein in response to induction of SOX18 expression; however, the molecular event responsible for increased SOX18 expression has not been established. We generated mice with endothelial-specific, inducible expression of an RAF1 gene with a gain-of-function mutation (RAF1(S259A)) that is associated with Noonan syndrome. Expression of mutant RAF1(S259A) in ECs activated ERK and induced SOX18 and PROX1 expression, leading to increased commitment of venous ECs to the lymphatic fate. Excessive production of lymphatic ECs resulted in lymphangiectasia that was highly reminiscent of abnormal lymphatics seen in Noonan syndrome and similar "RASopathies. " Inhibition of ERK signaling during development abrogated the lymphatic differentiation program and rescued the lymphatic phenotypes induced by expression of RAF1(S259A). These data suggest that ERK activation plays a key role in lymphatic EC fate specification and that excessive ERK activation is the basis of lymphatic abnormalities seen in Noonan syndrome and related diseases.
Ceramic capacitors: Turning a deficiency into an advantage

The feasibility of applying standard commercial ceramic capacitors (CC) for controlling a series resonant converter was examined by a simulation model that was calibrated experimentally. The study reveals that the CC could be a viable control element for resonant converters. It is shown that CC controlled series resonant converter can be operated under ZVS. The results of this study show that control attributes of the capacitor controlled SRC are identical to those of the conventional frequency controlled SRC, if the range of the capacitor change is equal to the range of the frequency change in the conventional converter, squared. Based on the present investigation, capacitance ratios of 1:5 can be practically achieved with commercial CC. It was found that the nonlinearity nature of the CC has only a minor effect due to the narrow bandwidth nature of resonant converters.
Detecting Alterations in Substantia Nigra in Parkinson ’ s Disease

Introduction Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used to detect the alterations in the substantia nigra (SN) in Parkinson’s disease (PD). For quantitative analysis of the effects of PD, the SN was usually segmented manually in previous studies. However, possible inaccuracy and inconsistency in delineating the SN may confound the results from the manual approach, leading to negative reports . In this study, a semiautomated method was applied to investigate changes in signal intensity and volume of the SN associated with PD. Contributions of changes in these MRI measures to the behavioral outcomes of PD were also examined.
Alcohol consumption, perceptions of community responses and attitudes to service provision: results from a survey of Indian, Chinese and Pakistani young people in Greater Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

AIMS To gather prevalence data regarding alcohol consumption and gauge perceptions of community responses to alcohol and service provision in a sample of Pakistani, Indian and Chinese young people aged 16-25 years, in Greater Glasgow, Scotland, UK. METHODS A survey methodology utilizing purposive sampling techniques (n = 174) was employed. Data were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. RESULTS Alcohol consumption amongst the target populations is currently lower than that of the general population. Predictors of alcohol consumption were found to include self-reported importance of religion (a negative association with consumption) and having same-ethnicity friends who drink alcohol. There was a lack of consensus amongst participants regarding whether service provision should be part of the mainstream or specialist for black and minority ethnic individuals. CONCLUSIONS Alcohol consumption in the target populations may be increasing and service provision could benefit by including specialist services for black and minority ethnic groups, in addition to mainstream services that need to be culturally sensitive.
Electrical and optical co-stimulation in the deaf white cat

Spatial selectivity of neural stimulation with photons, such as infrared neural stimulation (INS) is higher than the selectivity obtained with electrical stimulation. To obtain more independent channels for stimulation in neural prostheses, INS may be implemented to better restore the fidelity of the damaged neural system. However, irradiation with infrared light also bares the risk of heat accumulation in the target tissue with subsequent neural damage. Lowering the threshold for stimulation could reduce the amount of heat delivered to the tissue and the risk for subsequent tissue damage. It has been shown in the rat sciatic nerve that simultaneous irradiation with infrared light and the delivery of biphasic sub-threshold electrical pulses can reduce the threshold for INS [1]. In this study, deaf white cats have been used to test whether opto-electrical co-stimulation can reduce the stimulation threshold for INS in the auditory system too. The cochleae of the deaf white cats have largely reduced spiral ganglion neuron counts and significant degeneration of the organ of Corti and do not respond to acoustic stimuli. Combined electrical and optical stimulation was used to demonstrate that simultaneous stimulation with infrared light and biphasic electrical pulses can reduce the threshold for stimulation.
FSSC 22000 Packaging Implementation: a Plastics Industry Research

This paper presents the outcomes of an exploratory research carried out in companies, which are located in Brazil. They are FSSC-22000-certified food plastic packaging manufacturers. In order to identify the key aspects of the implementation process and certification, a questionnaire was developed and sent to twenty certified organizations. Out of them, eleven of which participating companies responded in a collaborative way. Based on the data obtained, improving competitiveness and customer retention were the reasons, which led the companies to seek the certification. However, the greatest difficulties were related to personnel, which presented technical and behavioral issues. In addition, it was noted that an overall satisfaction, derived from after-certification benefits, has been arisen in the companies. For instance, enhanced employee awareness, improved company’s image and winning new customers, significantly contributing to their competitiveness, are some of the benefits found in this process.
Leptospirosis and Workplace Environmental Risk Factors among Cattle Farmers in Northeastern Malaysia

Background: Leptospirosis is an emerging zoonosis and its occurrence has been reported to be rising globally. The environment plays an important role in the survival of Leptospira and determines the risk of infection. Those who were exposed to and had contact with contaminated environment through their occupational, recreational and other activities can be infected with the organism. Objective: To determine the seroprevalence of leptospirosis among cattle farmers, prevalence of pathogenic Leptospira, and the workplace environmental risk factors for leptospirosis among cattle farmers in northeastern Malaysia. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 120 cattle farmers was conducted. The participants answered an interviewer-guided questionnaire that consisted of sociodemographic and workplace environment characteristics questionnaire, before having their blood sample taken for microscopic agglutination test (MAT). Seropositivity was determined using a cut-off titer of ≥1:100. 248 environmental samples were also collected from the cattle farms for polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Results: The overall seroprevalence of leptospiral antibodies was 72.5% (95% CI 63.5% to 80.1%) and the prevalence of pathogenic Leptospira in the cattle farms environment was 12.1% (95% CI 8.4% to 17.0%). The independent factors associated with seropositivity of leptospirosis among cattle farmers were positive pathogenic Leptospira in the environment (Adj OR 5.90, 95% CI 1.34 to 26.01) and presence of garbage dumping in the farm (Adj OR 2.40, 95% CI 1.02 to 5.65). Conclusion: Preventing leptospirosis incidence among cattle farmers necessitates changes in work environment. Identifying modifiable factors may also contribute to the reduction of infection.
Co‐culture of adipose‐derived stem cells and chondrocytes on three‐dimensionally printed bioscaffolds for craniofacial cartilage engineering

Reconstruction of craniofacial cartilagenous defects are among the most challenging surgical procedures in facial plastic surgery. Bioengineered craniofacial cartilage holds immense potential to surpass current reconstructive options, but limitations to clinical translation exist. We endeavored to determine the viability of utilizing adipose‐derived stem cell‐chondrocyte co‐culture and three‐dimensional (3D) printing to produce 3D bioscaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering. We describe a feasibility study revealing a novel approach for cartilage tissue engineering with in vitro and in vivo animal data.
Exploring the Links between Task-level Knowledge Management and Project Success

Research on explaining task-level knowledge management in achieving capital facility project success is limited. The purpose of this paper was two-fold. The first objective of this study was to validate a model for assessing the relationships between task-level knowledge management and project success. The second objective was to evaluate the moderating role of project characteristics in the relationship between task-level knowledge management and project success. This paper empirically investigated a sample of capital facility projects in the construction industry. The structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was used to validate the research model. These results suggested that knowledge management used in certain project tasks contributes to project success. On the other hand, the findings indicated that the relationship between task-level knowledge management and project success depends on team size, owner regulation, project environmental uncertainty, complexity, and time availability. Specifically, the results suggested that large project teams are more likely to achieve project success when they experience high levels of knowledge management than small project teams. Private projects are more likely to achieve project success when they experience high levels of knowledge management than public projects. It was also clear that projects under high and medium uncertainty may achieve higher levels of project success when they experience high levels of knowledge management than those under low uncertainty. In addition, projects with high and medium complexity were more likely to be successful when they experience a high level of knowledge management than projects with low complexity. Finally, the results also suggested that projects with an unrealistic schedule were more likely to be successful when they experienced a high level of knowledge management than projects with a realistic schedule.
Genotoxic Effects of Exposure to Gasoline Fumeson Petrol Pump Workers

Background: Petrol pump workers are occupationally exposed to gasoline and its fumes consisting of several mutagenic chemicals. Objective: To evaluate the genotoxic effects of exposure to gasoline fumes on petrol pump workers. Methods: The study groups included 70 petrol pump workers (exposed group) and 70 healthy age-matched individuals with no known exposure (comparison group). Buccal micronucleus cytome assay (BMCyt) was performed to check the genotoxicity caused due to inhalation of gasoline fumes. Results: The frequencies of micronucleated cells, nuclear bud, condensed chromatin cells, karyorrhectic cells, pyknotic cells, and karyolytic cells were significantly higher in the exposed workers compared to the comparison group. Conclusion: Exposure to gasoline fumes is associated with increased frequency of cell abnormalities. This may lead to various health consequences including cancer in those occupationally exposed to gasoline fumes.
Altered Brain Activation during Emotional Face Processing in Relation to Both Diagnosis and Polygenic Risk of Bipolar Disorder

Objectives Bipolar disorder (BD) is a highly heritable disorder with polygenic inheritance. Among the most consistent findings from functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) studies are limbic hyperactivation and dorsal hypoactivation. However, the relation between reported brain functional abnormalities and underlying genetic risk remains elusive. This is the first cross-sectional study applying a whole-brain explorative approach to investigate potential influence of BD case-control status and polygenic risk on brain activation. Methods A BD polygenic risk score (PGRS) was estimated from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium BD case-control study, and assigned to each individual in our independent sample (N=85 BD cases and 121 healthy controls (HC)), all of whom participated in an fMRI emotional faces matching paradigm. Potential differences in BOLD response across diagnostic groups were explored at whole-brain level in addition to amygdala as a region of interest. Putative effects of BD PGRS on brain activation were also investigated. Results At whole-brain level, BD cases presented with significantly lower cuneus/precuneus activation than HC during negative face processing (Z-threshold=2.3 as cluster-level correction). The PGRS was associated positively with increased right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) activation during negative face processing. For amygdala activation, there were no correlations with diagnostic status or PGRS. Conclusions These findings are in line with previous reports of reduced precuneus and altered rIFG activation in BD. While these results demonstrate the ability of PGRS to reveal underlying genetic risk of altered brain activation in BD, the lack of convergence of effects at diagnostic and PGRS level suggests that this relation is a complex one.
Super-resolution radar imaging based on experimental OAM beams

A super-resolution imaging technique based on the vortex electromagnetic (EM) wave, which carries orbital angular momentum (OAM), is reported in this paper. The proof-of-concept experiment for the EM vortex imaging is conducted. An imaging processing method based on the real-world OAM radar data is proposed to obtain the target profile. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed imaging method and demonstrate that the vortex EM wave can be exploited to image targets with high-resolution beyond the limit of the array aperture. This breakthrough on the Rayleigh limit paves the way for innovative techniques in radar imaging and remote sensing.