Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Quality of Life Among Adolescents with Type I Diabetes Mellitus in Assiut

Background: Adolescents with diabetes mellitus type 1 often describe their situation as hard because any chronic condition has an impact on aspect of life in addition to the specific illness demands. Objective: To assess quality of life (QOL) and associated factors among adolescents with type I diabetes mellitus who attended the Health Insurance Clinic in Assiut city. Subjects and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on diabetic students who attended the health insurance Clinic in Assiut between June, 2009 and August 2010. A modified form of Diabetes Quality of life for Youth (DQOLY) questionnaire was used. It consists of 35 items on three subscales: Worry about diabetes (9 items), impact of diabetes (15 items) and satisfaction with treatment and life (11 items). Responses to questions were scored using three-point Likert scale. Lower score indicate a poor quality of life. Cronbachcoefficient of the instrument used was 0.87 indicating its internal consistency reliability. In addition demographic and disease related data were collected. Results: A total of 396 patients aged 12-18 years (mean SD 14.7± 1.9) were included in the study. Males were 54.8%. About 60% of the studied adolescents were worried about their bodies look different because of diabetes and worried to get complications. 69.5% of cases feel physically ill and 46.7% miss school because of diabetes. 43.7% of cases feel embarrassed being in public. Adolescents with diabetes duration from 1-5 years had a higher score of QOL than whose with duration >5 years (88.6±8.2vs. 86.1±7.1, p=0.01). Patients with better metabolic control had a higher score of quality of life than whose with poor control (87.2 ±8.5vs. 80.3 ±8.7, p=0.039). Conclusion: The impact of diabetes was readily apparent affecting physical, school and social functioning of the adolescents. Good metabolic control and intensified insulin regimen are associated with a better quality of life. So interventions to improve metabolic control and type of insulin regimen are recommended to improve QOL for all diabetic patients. Correspondence to: Dr. Eman M.M. Monazea, The Departments of Public Health & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University
Why Are Low-Wage Workers Signing Noncompete Agreements?

ABSTRACT Policymakers are concerned by evidence that noncompete agreements (NCAs) are widely used in low-wage jobs. We show that firms that would otherwise not use NCAs are induced to use one in the presence of frictions to adjusting wages downward. Using a new survey of salon owners, we find that declines in the terms of trade for employees and increases in the minimum wage lead to higher NCA use, but only at firms for which the employee’s cost of an NCA likely exceeds the employer’s benefit. Furthermore, minimum wage increases have a negative effect on employment only where NCAs are unenforceable.
European Conference on Information Systems ( ECIS ) 2004 Using Web Systems for eProcurement : An Extension of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology

This paper is research in progress on an extension of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to web systems usage for e-procurement. Focusing on business-to-business transactions, this research explores an extended version of the UTAUT that integrates core drivers and deterrents of web systems usage and investigates the consequence of such usage on corporate buyers. Data collected from 136 corporate buyers from over 120 organizations helped with the validation of the instrument. Intermediary results from a cluster analysis show differences among respondents that improve our understanding web-based procurement practice.
A Study on Hepatoprotective Activity of Mimosa pudica in Albino Rats

Liver disease is one of the outrageous diseases all over the world. Nature is the source of wide range of plants with medicinal value. Hence our study is focused on the study of efficacy and hepatoprotective activity of Mimosa pudica on experimentally induced hepatotoxic rats. Twelve healthy albino rats were taken for the study. These animals were segregated into 3 groups viz. normal, untreated and treated containing 4 animals in each group. Before the injection of hepatotoxic substance to the rats, they were fasted overnight. Then 0.3 ml of CCl4 with paraffin in the ratio of 3:1 was injected for 10 days per animal. The crude powder of Mimosa pudica was administered to the animals belonging to the treated group starting from the day of injection of CCl4 and was continued for 10 days. The liver function of the 3 distinct groups of the animals was assessed by collecting the blood sample and liver homogenate. The elevation in the serum and tissue markers was found in the group of animals under the untreated group. The treated group of animals showed approximately equal levels of enzyme markers as found in the normal animals. Hence, the hepatoprotective activity of Mimosa pudica is confirmed.
Procrastination and School Attachment in Adolescents

ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: Received 01.10. 2008 Available online 08.12. 2018 The aim of this research is to examine the relationship among adolescents' internet addiction, academic motivation, academic procrastination, and school attachment levels. In line with this general objective, hypotheses have been tested withstructural equation modeling. The universe of the research is composed of the students who are studying in the official high schools in Elazig province center. The sample of the research 689 (383 female, 306 male) adolescents were selected by stratified sampling method. Young Internet Addiction TestShort Form (YID-SF), Academic Motivation Scale (AMS), Academic Procrastination Scale (APS) and School Attachment Scale for Children and Adolescents (SAC) were used as data collection tools in the research.Before the proposed hypothetical model was tested, each latent variable was tested with measurement models to determine if it could be used in structural models. In this context, structures related to latent variables have been tested with measurement models. The measurement models were tested with Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). It has been found that the measurement models in the CFA result have acceptable adaptability values. Then the proposed hypothetical model was tested. As a result of the analysis, all pathways of the hypothetical model were found to be statistically significant. The fit indices for the proposed hypothetical model have acceptable values. Findings show that the proposed hypothetical model has acceptable adaptation with research data. When the results of the research are evaluated as a whole; internet addiction effect academic motivation in the negative direction. On the other hand, it affects the academic procrastination in the positive direction. Academic motivation affects academic procrastination in the negative direction. On the other hand it affects the school attachment in the positive direction. Academic procrastination affects school attachment in the negative direction. Finally, internet addiction is indirectly affecting the school attachment and on the negative direction. © 2018 IOJES. All rights reserved
How to retain employees?: The impact of job satisfaction, locus of control, and organizational training

>> How to retain employees? The impact of job satisfaction, locus of control, and organizational training. << Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to examine the relationship between turnover intentions and job satisfaction and the moderating role of locus of control in this relationship. Furthermore, I investigate the impact of training as an organizational policy instrument to prevent turnover. Design/methodology/approach Unique employee survey data for the Dutch public and privatized sectors is used and matched to administrative data from the Dutch pension fund for public sector employees (ABP). The final estimation sample consists of 16,684 observations. Moderating and mediating analyses are estimated using OLS, random and fixed effects regressions when possible. Findings I find evidence for a significantly negative relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intentions. This relationship is moderated by locus of control, being stronger for internals. The thesis also shows that training participation is positively related to job satisfaction. OLS estimates show a mediation effect of job satisfaction on the relationship between training and turnover intentions. This result is, however, not robust to the inclusion of individual fixed effects. I further find that the relationship between training participation and turnover intentions differs with the type of training provided: besides the negative impact on turnover intentions due to an increase in job satisfaction, general training directly increases turnover intentions. Practical implications This thesis shows the economic significance of locus of control for HR practices. It is therefore in the interest of organizations to gather information about employees’ job satisfaction as well as their locus of control, to prevent future turnover. Moreover, organizational training courses can be provided to improve job satisfaction which in turn may lower turnover intentions. HR professionals are recommended to provide predominantly firm-specific training when lowering turnover intentions is their policy aim. Contribution This thesis examines the relationship of job satisfaction on turnover intentions by focusing on the moderation impact of locus of control. This contributes to the small literature that has empirically documented the importance of locus control for voluntary turnover. Moreover, by providing an organizational strategy to overcome turnover intentions, this thesis contributes to the human capital literature. I add to the literature by specifically analyzing the impact of training participation on turnover intentions and establishing whether it differs with the degree to which training is general.
Differential Responses and Controls of Soil CO2 and N2O Fluxes to Experimental Warming and Nitrogen Fertilization in a Subalpine Coniferous Spruce (Picea asperata Mast.) Plantation Forest

Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as CO2 and N2O from soils are affected by many factors such as climate change, soil carbon content, and soil nutrient conditions. However, the response patterns and controls of soil CO2 and N2O fluxes to global warming and nitrogen (N) fertilization are still not clear in subalpine forests. To address this issue, we conducted an eight-year field experiment with warming and N fertilization treatments in a subalpine coniferous spruce (Picea asperata Mast.) plantation forest in China. Soil CO2 and N2O fluxes were measured using a static chamber method, and soils were sampled to analyze soil carbon and N contents, soil microbial substrate utilization (MSU) patterns, and microbial functional diversity. Results showed that the mean annual CO2 and N2O fluxes were 36.04 ± 3.77 mg C m−2 h−1 and 0.51 ± 0.11 µg N m−2 h−1, respectively. Soil CO2 flux was only affected by warming while soil N2O flux was significantly enhanced by N fertilization and its interaction with warming. Warming enhanced dissolve organic carbon (DOC) and MSU, reduced soil organic carbon (SOC) and microbial biomass carbon (MBC), and constrained the microbial metabolic activity and microbial functional diversity, resulting in a decrease in soil CO2 emission. The analysis of structural equation model indicated that MSU had dominant direct negative effect on soil CO2 flux but had direct positive effect on soil N2O flux. DOC and MBC had indirect positive effects on soil CO2 flux while soil NH4+-N had direct negative effect on soil CO2 and N2O fluxes. This study revealed different response patterns and controlling factors of soil CO2 and N2O fluxes in the subalpine plantation forest, and highlighted the importance of soil microbial contributions to GHG fluxes under climate warming and N deposition.
Aids and Society Research Unit THE AURA OF SILENCE : A PSYCHOSOCIAL ANALYSIS OF STIGMA AMONGST STUDENTS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF HIV AND AIDS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

Eleven white, well-educated students from the University of Cape Town, all actively involved in the field of HIV/AIDS, were interviewed through a freeassociative-narrative method. This study sought to explore these students’ perceptions of and associations with HIV/AIDS and those infected, in an attempt to assess the extent to which stigma may occur amongst these students. To the authors’ knowledge, no other studies exploring HIV/AIDS-related stigma have been done on young adults who are actively engaging with, and highly educated on, issues around HIV and AIDS. The accounts revealed that underneath the overt denials of fear, the epidemic does seem to evoke various fears and anxieties for these students. Through their constructions of HIV/AIDS, the participants tend to ‘other’ the epidemic and those infected and thus distance themselves from a sense of threat. Such representations therefore appear to serve a protective function, enabling the participants to defend themselves from the anxieties they experience surrounding the epidemic. In line with psychosocial understandings of HIV/AIDS stigma, the results from this study indicate that this ‘atypical’ group of students may possess certain stigmatizing tendencies. This points to the fact that HIV/AIDS stigma may not be the product of a lack of education or ‘faulty’ thinking. There were however multiple, often contradictory and conflicting voices heard throughout the interviews. Many participants expressed an awareness of, and uneasiness with, their ‘othering’ and potentially stigmatizing tendencies. It is in this space, that the potential for change, and stigma reduction may exist. The findings from this study thus have both theoretical and practical implications for conceptualizing, and challenging HIV/AIDS stigma.
Global Research Unit Working Paper # 2017-009 Real Exchange Rates and Sectoral Productivity in the Eurozone Martin Berka

We investigate the link between real exchange rates and sectoral TFP for Eurozone countries. We show that real exchange rate variation, both cross-country and time series, closely accords with an amended Balassa-Samuelson interpretation, incorporating sectoral productivity shocks and a labor market wedge. We construct a DSGE model to generate a cross-section and time series of real exchange rates to compare to data. Estimates from simulated regressions are very similar to estimates for Eurozone data. Our findings contrast with previous studies that have found little relationship between productivity and real exchange rates among high-income countries that have floating nominal exchange rates. JEL classification: F41, F31
Additive Covariogram Models and Estimation through Projections

The paper considers the problem of estimating the covariogram of a stochastic process. Additive covariance models are used, but unlike in previous work by other authors, their estimation is based on projections in the inner product space of sufficiently regular functions. The method can easily accommodate the estimation of the mean of the process from the data through a linear regression model or the inclusion of a nugget effect in the additive covariance model. Asymptotic properties of the resulting estimators are worked out, without explicit assumptions about the functional form of model components or that of the true covariogram. Expressions for the bias of the estimator in misspecified models (it is unbiased if the models for the mean and the covariance are correctly specified), expressions for the estimator’s variance in the normal case and bounds for variance of the estimator under relaxed assumptions are derived. Both in-fill asymptotics and expanding-domain asymptotics are considered, the latter under the more restrictive assumption that the process is isotropic. A new definition of in-fill asymptotics based on the notion of discrepancy is introduced. Non-stationary covariance structures can be accommodated by the projection estimator and the in-fill asymptotic results hold. The techniques are applied to a data set of Davis (1973) and illustrate some of the advantages over the traditional methods. Mathematrical Subject Classification. Primary 62M30; Secondary 62G05, 62P12
Childhood adrenocortical carcinoma as a sentinel cancer for detecting families with germline TP 53 mutations

Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is a highly penetrant, autosomal dominant disorder where affected individuals carry a 50% risk of developing cancer before 30 years of age. It is most commonly associated with mutations in the tumour suppressor gene, TP53. Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a very rare paediatric cancer, and up to 80% of affected children are found to carry germline TP53 mutations. Hence, we propose using childhood ACC incidence as selection criteria for referral for TP53 mutation testing, independent of familial cancer history. Under the auspices of the Malaysian Society of Paediatric Haematology–Oncology, four eligible children diagnosed with ACC over a 30-month study period were referred for mutation testing. Three had a germline TP53 mutation. Subsequent TP53 testing in relatives showed two inherited mutations and one de novo mutation. These findings strongly support paediatric ACC as a useful sentinel cancer for initiating a germline TP53 /LFS detection programme, particularly in countries where the lack of structured oncogenetic practice precludes the identification of families with LFS features.
Effect of Tender Coconut Water on Blood Lipid Levels in Hight Fat Diet Fed Male Rats

Background: Dyslipidemia is a lipid metabolic disorder characterized by an increased levels of Triglycerides (TG), Total Cholesterol (TC), LowDensity Lipoprotein (LDL)cholesterol, and decreased Hight-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels. Aim and Objectives: To investigate the effect of the administration of tender coconut water on blood lipid levels in male wistar rats. Material and Methods: Twenty four male wistar rats were randomly divided into four group of six animals each. Group K1 served as control, Group K2 was fed quail egg yolk (1g/rat/day). Group K3 was given coconut water (8 ml/rat/day) orally. Group K4 was given simvastatin (0.18 mg /rat /day) orally for 21 days. Results: that increased levels of TC, LDL and TG with decreased level of HDL were shown in group K2 compared with group K1. Decreased levels of TC, LDL and TG levels were observed significantly in both groups K3 and K4 than K2. Administration of 8ml coconut (200g/kg b w for 21 days) could lower TC, LDL and TG levels with an increased HDL level (p <0.05). Conclusion: The administration of tender coconut water has shown lower total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglyserides levels and increase HDL serum levels in male wistar rats fed a high fat diet.
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The rise of algorithmic decision making led to active researches on how to define and guarantee fairness, mostly focusing on one-shot decision making. In several important applications such as hiring, however, decisions are made in multiple stage with additional information at each stage. In such cases, fairness issues remain poorly understood. In this paper we study fairness in k-stage selection problems where additional features are observed at every stage. We first introduce two fairness notions, local (per stage) and global (final stage) fairness, that extend the classical fairness notions to the k-stage setting. We propose a simple model based on a probabilistic formulation and show that the locally and globally fair selections that maximize precision can be computed via a linear program. We then define the price of local fairness to measure the loss of precision induced by local constraints; and investigate theoretically and empirically this quantity. In particular, our experiments show that the price of local fairness is generally smaller when the sensitive attribute is observed at the first stage; but globally fair selections are more locally fair when the sensitive attribute is observed at the second stage—hence in both cases it is often possible to have a selection that has a small price of local fairness and is close to locally fair.
Impairments in Regulating the Speed-Accuracy radeoff Predict Symptoms of ttention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

ttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common child neuropsychiatric disorder. It has a great impact on affected individuals and their families, because individuals ith ADHD have trouble adapting their behavior appropriately to ocial and environmental demands. For example, children with DHD might have trouble waiting their turn in conversation or taying in their seat in the classroom (impulsive symptoms), or they ight have trouble focusing on the task at hand and become disracted easily (inattentive symptoms). Such symptoms can be coneptualized as poor adaptation of behavior to social or environental demands and have often been attributed to deficits in igher-order cognitive processes. Indeed, functional imaging studes have shown changes in brain activity on tasks that tap these rocesses (1– 4 for review). However, these studies have one thing n common: they use paradigms where subjects respond differenially to different classes of stimuli. As such, these tasks require the ubject to make a perceptual decision in choosing the most approriate course of action. One example is the go/no-go paradigm, here one stimulus requires a button-press as soon as possible, hereas another requires the suppression of that same button ress. A basic assumption of these paradigms is that children with DHD are capable of making such basic perceptual decisions as ell as typically developing children. It is an open question whether his is indeed the case. If children with ADHD are impaired in balncing the speed and accuracy with which they make such deci-
Reversal of in Shewanella algae by CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing.

CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing is a promising approach to validate the gene function. of carbapenem-resistant organisms, there is an urgent need for new treatment options. Shewanella algae is an emerging pathogen found in marine environments throughout the world that has increasing resistance to carbapenem. The organism is also a possible antibiotic resistance reservoir in humans and in its natural habitat. The development of CRISPR/Cas9-based methods has enabled precise genetic manipulation. A number of attempts have been made to knock out resistance genes in various organisms. The study used a single plasmid containing CRISPR/ Cas9 and recE/recT recombinase to reverse an antibiotic-resistant phenotype in S. algae and showed bla OXA-55 -like gene is essential for the carbapenem resistance. This result demonstrates a potential valida- tion strategy for functional genome annotation in S. algae . (cid:1) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Cairo University. This isanopenaccessarticle under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). CRISPR/Cas9 involves simple assembly of crRNA (spacer) from the II CRISPR/Cas9 In repair template (homology for using well-developed assembly techniques. Simple conjugation of pCC1-Cas9-oriT-sgRNA-donor into the Shewanella host results in efﬁcient gene the needed to manipulation compared an alternative to previous large-scale PCR screening or genomic expression library cloning for gene function demonstrates a potential validation