Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Variables associated with the hours worked by Iowa dentists

___________________________________ Fang Qian ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank those professors in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry who were instrumental in helping me complete this program. I would like to thank Dr. Steven Levy, the former program director, for his endless encouragement and willingness to work with my schedule to help me complete this program while attending classes part time. I would like to thank Dr. Raymond Kuthy, my thesis chair, for his tireless repetition of concepts that were initially foreign to me. His mentorship over the past three years has been invaluable and greatly appreciated. I want to thank my committee, Drs. Teresa Marshall, Michelle McQuistan and Fang Qian for their dedication and guidance as I worked to complete this project. I would like to thank all of the other professors in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry who offered kind words of encouragement along the way. Most importantly, I want to thank my family, without whom I could have never done this. To my father and mother, I want to thank you for encouraging and supporting me through my early years of education, so that I could embark upon this degree program. To my wonderful husband, Rick, without your help, I could not have started or finished this program. To my amazing children, David and Lauren, thank you for being patient with me as I spent endless hours at the computer trying to finish this academic endeavor in the limited time that I had available to me.
Thinker-listener pair interactions to develop students metacognitive strategies for mathematical problem solving

This paper describes a strand of a larger project examining student mathematical problem solving (Hedberg, Wong, Ho, Lioe, & Tiong, 2005). The initial parts of the project studied the effectiveness of students’ metacognitive strategies as they solved problems in pairs. This follow-up study employed the Whimbey & Lochhead (1999) Thinker-Listener pair approach and one of the same pairs was selected to solve problems within this context. The protocols when the pair solved a similar problem in preand post-tests were transcribed and analysed using modified Artzt & Armour-Thomas’s (1992) framework classifying their cognitive and metacognitive thinking, and their performances were compared. The analysis revealed that within the Thinker-Listener context, they were more engaged in each other’s ideas, spent more time on metacognitive behaviours, and had higher regulatory behaviour. The results suggest that Thinker-Listener approach can be effectively extended on to a larger scale of pairs with longer periods of time to observe the effectiveness in developing students’ metacognitive strategies
FACTORS INFLUENCING SUICIDAL IDEATION AMONG KOREAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Korea has the highest suicide rate among the OECD countries, and the suicide rate is highest among young adults in their 20s, most of whom are university students. Therefore, suicide among Korean university students is a public health issue that is of interest to us. This study was investigated the factors affecting suicidal ideation among 344 Korean university students. These factors are absence of parents, depression, and quality of life. The results of the study indicate the need to actively identify the group of university students in their 20s with high risk of suicide through continuous evaluation of depression, and to improve the quality of life as a method of preventing suicide. In addition, the effect of absence of parents on the suicidal ideation among Korean university students suggests that parental support may play an important role in suicide prevention.
Better Late? Characteristics of Late Respondents to a Health Care Survey. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

This American Statistical Association presentation examines late respondents, who are of interest to researchers because their characteristics may differ from those of early respondents and may even suggest important factors that can be used in nonresponse compensation procedures. The findings show that data quality was poorer for late respondents, which may have implications for the reliability of their responses.
Fatores prognsticos na revascularizao do miocrdio em pacientes idosos

The trend in Brazil of erroneously delaying myocardial revascularization in the elderly determined this study. Three hundred consecutive elderly patients (mean age: 73,92, standard deviation: 3.32). Between October 1992 and July 1995, 361 consecutive patients underwent isolated coronary artery bypass grafting, of whom 111 (30,7%) were females and 250 (69,35) males. There were 128 (35,5%) diabetic patients and 128 (36,7%) were in NYHA III/IV. Univariate analysis per-operatory of 19 factors followed by multivariate logistic regression analysis of the significant variables (p 0.005) were done. Major complication ocurred in 178 (49.3%) and were independent predictors of operative morbidity: Diabetes mellitus, NYHA funcional classification, urgent cases and DP2. There were 33 (9,1%) in hospital deaths, and diabetes mellitus, NYHA functional classification, unstable pre-operative angina and cerebral vascular acidents, renal failure, infection and insufficiency respiratory failure were independent predictors of operative mortality. We concluded that coronary artery bypass grafting is possible in elderly patients with a favorable outcome, especially when done in patients with normal to moderately depressed left ventricular function.
An Analysis of Built Environment Factors in Residences and the Associated Effects on Mental Health Symptoms of United States Veterans

Current awareness and statistics regarding negative mental health outcomes of United States Military and Veteran populations justify research into causes and methods to assist those afflicted. Growing academic research indicates connections between the built environment and the mental health of its occupants may be important. This research is intended to explore this relationship with a Veteran study group. Through the completion of a literature review, key built environment factors associated with various mental health conditions were identified. Mechanisms and pathways through which these factors can affect mental health conditions were explored. An analysis of residential built environment factors and Veteran mental health symptoms helps bring an understanding to design considerations that may be beneficial to individuals with military experience. Furthermore, a discussion into the applicability of results, as well as cost and benefits of military design for mental well-being is presented.
Fitting in: Different Types of Person-Environment Fit as Drivers of Career Self-management in Kuwait

Contributing to emerging efforts to integrate the understudied career self-management (CSM) with person- environment fit research, this study aims to assess the unique effects of person-organization, person-coworkers and needs-supplies fits on employees’ deployment of career advancement strategies. A questionnaire was completed by 548 highly educated young Kuwaitis and self-initiated expatriates (Arab and South Asian) working in medium and large Kuwaiti organizations. The simultaneous effects of the three types of fits is assessed and the findings demonstrate that an increase in person-coworkers fit and decrease in person-organization and needs-supplies fits consistently encourage the deployment of career advancement strategies concerning accessing influential networks, self-promotion, competence building and psychological boundaryless. A relatively more robust effect of person-coworker fit has been detected. It is attributed to the Arab collectivistic culture and to the construct being a career competency and a contextual factor as per the “intelligent career” theory. Interventions should be mindful of the differential effects of different types of fit on CSM. Developing organizational ‘standards of fit’ and CSM skills are essential for individual career development and organizational success. The study provides unique information about the understudied constructs of CSM and person-environment fit in a traditional and high inequality Arab Middle Eastern country, and infers the causes of the inconsistent effects of contextual factors reported by previous studies.
Early mathematics – teacher communication supporting the pupil’s agency

ABSTRACT There is a substantial body of knowledge on the importance of language for learning mathematics and the importance of attending to the pupils’ strategies in the meaning-making process. In this Norwegian case study, I investigate a skilled teacher’s communication while scaffolding 18 pupils’ work in Year 2–4 while working in small groups with developing and formulating their strategies without any substantial teacher interventions. To understand what characterises the teacher’s communication I analyse audiotapes from three lessons using a framework developed for detailed studies of mathematical discourses on turn-to-turn basis. The findings showing the teacher’s scaffolding of processes needed to clarify the pupils’ own thinking, are elucidated through the words of the teacher from an interview and discussed in the light of recent research on dialogic teaching and the theory of didactical situations in mathematics.
Identity Complexity and Integration in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Heterosexual Adolescents and Emerging Adults: Implications for Clinical Practice

The study aimed at assessing whether differences exist in identity complexity and integration between 31 lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) and 33 heterosexual youths whose mean age was 21.47 (SD = 3.27). It constitutes a pilot study using a newly created questionnaire, called Identity Labels and Life Contexts Questionnaire (ILLCQ), which assesses the interplay between identity dimensions and life contexts. The ILLCQ allows to assess identity integration on three levels: 1) the integration among the different domains of identity in their intersection with the various life contexts (assessed through salience and centrality); 2) the integration between an individual’s self-definition and the definition mirrored by others (perceived self-recognition); and 3) the integration between how she/he feels her/himself to be and the way she/he shows her/himself to others. Results suggest that identity salience is significantly variable across the life contexts for both LGB and heterosexual youths. The only significant difference found between groups was higher salience and centrality of the sexual orientation domain for LGB youths. This constitutes a sort of core identity for LGB participants, which seems to be missing in the heterosexual counterparts. LGB youths reported general lower identity recognition on the part of other people. Implications for clinical practice are discussed.
NCAA In-Season Coaching Time Regulations Negate Strength and Conditioning Gains in Women’s Division-II Basketball Team

Strength and conditioning (SC) coaches are responsible for student-athletes’ conditioning. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) time regulations may hinder SC coach’s success. This study aimed to characterize the effects of NCAA in-season time restrictions of SC training on preseason lower-body power performance in a collegiate DII women’s basketball team. During pre-season 14 players completed 3 hrs/wk of SC, while the in-season time was reduced to 2 hrs/wk. Average countermovement jump (CMJ) height and peak average power (PAP) were measured 1/wk for 10 weeks. CMJ and PAP examined relatively, allometrically scaled and analyzed using repeated measures ANOVAs primary for time and secondary for position. Statistical significance was set at p <0.05. Statistical analyses were performed using R. Training season differences were found for PAP (F(9, 117) = 4.63, p<. 001, η2=. 263) and scaled PAP scores (F(4.8, 62.4) = 2.78, p=. 0265, η2=. 176). Pre-season PAP was higher than in-season controlling for player position (Est = 93.22 W, SE = 38.88, p = .033). Forwards had higher PAP than guards (Est = 400.6 W, SE=157.7, p =.022). Scaled PAP was higher pre-season than in-season controlling for player position (Est = 5.727(W · kg-0.67), SE = . 85, p =. 002). SC program success is subjected to the NCAA regulations. Three hrs/wk seem to be the threshold that below that pre-season lower-body performance gains during the in-season are diminished. NCAA regulations may need to be revised so they do not influence the work of SC coaches.
An investigation into the patient experience of Cauda Equina Syndrome: A qualitative study

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to identify how Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES) symptoms may be more effectively identified by patients along with their experiences with clinicians. Patient’s symptoms and understandings of their condition were explored, including issues associated with bladder, bowel and sexual function. METHOD: An interpretive research paradigm using a narrative approach was adopted utilising qualitative one-to-one semistructured interviews. Narrative research is a useful way to explore patients’ perceptions of and the meanings attached to CES symptoms. The clinical setting was within an NHS Foundation Trust in an industrial town in the Northwest of England. Participants were recruited from the population of patients who, in the preceding 18 months had attended the Orthopaedic service for care related to CES. New cases presenting during the data collection period were also eligible for inclusion. Ten patients consented, 7 females and 3 males, average age 58.5 years (range 33–72). All interview data was transcribed and subjected to narrative analysis. The narrative analysis explored perceptions of and the meanings associated with the personal and emotional aspects of the participant’s pain and symptoms, along with how these aspects of the participants experiences were relayed to the clinician or affected their interaction with clinicians. RESULTS: Narrative analysis identified two key issues to be essential in facilitating timely diagnosis of CES a) clinician’s knowledge of signs and symptoms and an awareness of these by patients b) communication about these signs and symptoms using a language understandable to both patients and clinicians.
Requesting Accommodation for a Disability: A Telephone Survey of American Medical Schools.

Members of the committee on disabilities of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) contacted 107 of 126 American Medical Schools to determine the number of students requesting accommodation for a disability, the time at which the request was made, the type of disability, and the type of accommodation offered. The survey determined that 2.3% of medical students request accommodation for disabilities that are overwhelmingly cognitive in nature. Accommodations offered usually consist of extra time and/or a quiet room for examinations. Many medical students make accommodation requests only after experiencing the heavy demands of the first two years of the curriculum.
The Malvinas Current at the Confluence With the Brazil Current: Inferences From 25 Years of Mercator Ocean Reanalysis

Twenty‐five years of high‐resolution (1/12°) ocean reanalysis are used to examine the Confluence of the Malvinas Current (MC) with the Brazil Current (BC) from synoptic to interannual time scales. The model transports of the MC (38.0 Sv ± 7.4 Sv 57 at 41°S) and the BC (23.0 Sv ± 11 Sv at 36°S) agree with observations. The model shows the branching of the MC near the Confluence with an offshore branch returning south and an inner branch sinking below the BC and managing to continue northward along the continental slope. Northward velocities associated with the subsurface inner branch peak at 40 cm/s at 36°S at 700‐m depth. The model documents the migrations of the Subantarctic (SAF) and Subtropical Fronts (STF) at the Confluence. The SAF and STF positions vary over a large range at synoptic (800 km) and interannual scale (300 and 200 km, respectively) compared to the rather small seasonal migrations of the STF (150 km) and SAF (50 km). While trends in the MC are small over the 25 years of the reanalysis, the BC becomes more intense (12.5 cm/s), saltier (0.37 psu), and warmer (2.5°C) in the upper 1,000 m. These trends are accompanied with a southward displacement of the STF and the SAF of 150 and 50 km.
Work calling and humility: framing for job idolization, workaholism, and exploitation

ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to explore how work communication can lead to a sense of calling that engenders negative outcomes (i.e., job idolization, workaholism, and exploitation), as well how the virtue of humility may buffer these effects. First, we seek to clarify interdisciplinary work highlighting the role communication plays in the development of the dark side of a calling. Second, we consider the complexity of humility as an organizational value. Third, we suggest humility functions as a mitigating frame against job idolization, workaholism, and exploitation for those who perceive of their work as a calling and for those with whom they work (as leaders, followers, or peers). We propose that at the heart of a healthy work calling is a robust integration of humility, and conclude by outlining promising directions to better understand the discursive implications of humility and work calling outcomes.
Markets, Organizations, Institutions, and National Identity: Pan American Airways, Postcoloniality, and Latin America

Purpose – Through a case study of Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), this paper sets out to explore the roots of twentieth century globalization and the postcolonial nature of the trading relations involved. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on Foucault's broad notion of “the archive” a critical hermeneutics approach is used to examine a series of company‐produced texts, including minutes, travelogues, company narratives, annual reports, film, diaries, and published histories. Findings – The paper argues that Pan Am contributed to the “idea of Latin America” and, in the process contributed to practices of dependency that served the interests of the USA. Drawing on a case study of Pan Am, the paper further argues that multi‐national corporations help to establish the contours of international trade by influencing the very character and boundaries of the territories traded in, with troubling implications for the countries traded in. Research limitations/implications – As a detailed case study extension of the findings to other global trading arrangements needs to take into account to social‐political context and relational histories of the players involved. Practical implications – The paper generates insights into the role of rhetoric in developing trading relationships and its roots in embedded notions of postcolonial thinking and generalizations. Originality/value – The paper contributes to an understanding of the role of language and the social construction of national identities involved in the development of international business.
Thermal Effects of Ground Faults on MV Joints and Cables

In recent years, an anomalous increase of faults in underground medium voltage (MV) cable lines has been recorded in Italy, especially during summer; the largest number of faults affected cable joints. The assessment of joint thermal stress, both in normal operation and during faults, is paramount. The study presented in this paper focuses on cable heating effects due to short circuit currents flowing through cable screens during ground faults (e.g., in case of cross country faults, CCFs, whose current values are comparable to line-to-line short circuit), considering the contact resistance (CR) between cable screens and copper stocking due to inaccurate joint manufacturing. A thermal model, already developed and discussed by the authors in previous papers, has been extended and applied in this study in order to assess the CR effects in cable and joint heating during failures. Parametric studies have been carried out on a typical cable-joint system, varying fault current and CR values, as well as considering protection schemes normally adopted by distribution system operators (DSOs) in Italian MV distribution grids. Results show that for CR values larger than few milliohms, fault currents due to CCFs are able to overheat the joint well beyond the maximum tolerable temperature of insulation, thus leading to cable failures when the shortest fault clearing times (i.e., 120 ms) are considered.
Evaluating the determinants of Vietnamese frequent flyers’ loyalty in civil aviation industry: The case of Delta air lines

Article history: Received: July 9 2019 Received in revised format: July 19 2019 Accepted: August 23, 2019 Available online: August 23, 2019 Customer loyalty plays an important role for the success of aviation companies. Most airlines companies recognized that a frequent flyer is about 10 times more valuable than an associational flyer. As a result, it is essential to evaluate determinants of Vietnamese frequent flyers related to loyalty toward American-based airlines like Delta Air Lines. The customer loyalty was impacted by service quality, brand image, perceived value, pricing policy, and customer satisfaction. A sample of 300 Vietnamese frequent flyers of Delta Air Lines was collected for this study. The primary data was analyzed with SPSS and AMOS. The results indicate that service quality had no impact on customer loyalty of Delta Air Lines frequent flyers in Vietnam while the rest variables maintained some effects. There were several limitations of this study such as sampling, questionnaires design, and data collection. This research also contributed implications for further studies about customer loyalty in aviation industry. © 2020 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada
A Preliminary Investigation of Cognitive Features Associated With Worry Among African American Youth

Although knowledge of the cognitive factors that place children at risk for worry has grown, little is known about these processes within African American youth. The present study investigated cognitive factors associated with worry in a sample of 47 African American children, ages 8 to 13. Participants completed self-report measures of worry, intolerance of uncertainty, positive and negative beliefs about worry, and negative problem orientation. Results supported the hypothesis that cognitive factors demonstrated significant positive associations with worry. Based on a model predicting worry from all cognitive factors, negative beliefs about worry emerged as the only individual predictor. This is the first study to examine cognitive factors associated with worry in an African American sample of children and provides initial support for the applicability of these cognitive factors in future examinations of worry within this population. Future research should continue to explore cognitive as well as other factors that predispose African America children to worry.
Conflicts and challenges faced by ultra-orthodox Jewish social work students: Broaching and a social constructivist approach to supervision as a forum for resolution

ABSTRACT The ultra-orthodox Jewish community is undergoing a societal change that has allowed young adults from the community to pursue higher education – including social work. As members of an insular population, these students face the challenge of integrating into a social work community whose values are very different from their own. Educators and supervisors are, by proxy, tasked with facilitating this complex integration. I propose three categories of challenges faced by ultra-orthodox students; values, community norms, and lost idealizations. The paper explores these classifications and examines how a social constructivist supervision approach can play a unique role in traversing these challenges.