Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Developing a Workplace Violence Program in the Home Health Care Setting

Workplace violence is escalating at an alarming rate. The home health care field is a particularly vulnerable area because services are provided to a cross-section of the community, and the care is provided within the community rather than within a contained structure. Home health care employers are encouraged to develop effective workplace violence prevention programs that include control measure strategies within the office and in the field, coupled with diversified education programs. Educating staff and maintaining open communication with all employees will serve to contain the costs of the agency as well as to allay staff anxieties, thereby maintaining productivity.
A survey on power control issues in wireless sensor networks

ith the proliferation in sensor nodes and the development in wireless communication technologies, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have gained worldwide attention in recent years. They facilitate monitoring and controlling of physical environments from remote locations with great accuracy and represent a significant improvement over wired sensor networks. WSNs are employed in a vast variety of fields, such as: environmental monitoring (e.g., temperature, humidity), monitoring disaster areas providing relief, file exchange, conferencing, home, health (monitoring patients and assisting disabled patients), commercial applications including managing inventory and monitoring product quality and military purposes. Their function is to collect and disseminate critical data, while their position does need to be engineered or predetermined, in contrast to the wired ones. This allows random deployment in inaccessible terrains or disaster relief operations. On the other hand, this also means that WSN protocols and algorithms must possess self-organizing capabilities [1]. Realization of the wireless sensor network applications requires wireless ad-hoc networking techniques. Although a great number of protocols and algorithms have been proposed for wireless ad-hoc networks, they are not well-suited to the unique features and application requirements of WSNs for the following reasons: • The topology of a WSN changes very frequently. • The number of sensor nodes in a WSN can be several orders of magnitude higher than the number of sensor nodes in a wireless ad-hoc network. • Sensor nodes are densely deployed in a sensor field • Sensor nodes mainly use a broadcast communication paradigm, whereas most wireless ad-hoc networks are based on point-to-point communications. • Sensor nodes may not have global identification due to their large amount of overhead and large number of sensors in the WSN. • Sensor nodes are limited in power, computational capacity and memory. This last requirement is the primary limitation of the WSNs. Their survivability, as it has already been mentioned, depends on power control and power management of the consumed energy, as well as on network connectivity. Considerable research has been focused at overcoming the deficiencies of energy consumption of the sensor nodes, guaranteeing the sensor network's existence and increasing the sensor network's lifetime in such energy-constrained environments through more power control schemes regarding resource allocation, routing and low-energy consumption. This survey attempts to provide an overview of these issues as well as the solutions proposed in recent literature. ABSTRACT A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is actually composed of a large number of very small …
Robust 3GHz CMOS low noise amplifier adapted for RFID receivers

A 3GHz source degenerated low noise amplifier (LNA), is developed to support a Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) receiver in a variation tolerant environment. The standard LNA design was adapted for this purpose and was designed for 180nm CMOS process. The amplifier provides a forward gain (S21) of 12.27dB with a Noise Figure (NF) of 1.81dB, while drawing a power of 8mW from a 1.5V supply. We also present a reliability analysis of the effect of process variations on circuit performance. Monte Carlo (MC) simulations were used to verify these effects on the NF and Stability factor (Kf) of the LNA. The resulting spread obtained shows robustness to process parameter variations.
Herb and Supplement Use Among the Retail Population of an Independent, Urban Herb Store

The prevalence of herbal medicine use among American adults is well documented. Because of the possible herb–drug interactions, health care providers need to be aware of herb and supplement use by their patients. This descriptive pilot study (N = 35) was designed to explore the demographics, beliefs, concurrent pharmaceutical use with herbs and supplements and their primary sources of information, and reporting of use to health care providers by customers at a retail specialty “herb” store. Results revealed that 62.5% of study participants who used herbs regularly also used pharmaceuticals. Among those who used herbs and supplements with pharmaceuticals, only 33% reported that they “always” tell their care provider about them. Forty-one percent reported that they receive most of their information about herbs and supplements from retail staff, but only 3% of participants reported that their primary source of information was a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist. Findings provide direction for future study.
Evaluating Health Service Delivery to Children With Chronic Conditions and Their Families: Development of a Refined Measure of Processes of Care (MPOC−20)

This article describes the development of a shorter and improved version of the 56-item Measure of Processes of Care (MPOC) to create MPOC−20. MPOC is a measure of parents' perceptions of the extent to which specific behaviors of health care professionals occur. MPOC−20 is a self-administered, parent-completed questionnaire that was derived from the original MPOC, using both conceptual and empirical approaches. Further refinements to MPOC−20 were made in its formatting and clarity of response options. MPOC−20 retains the same conceptual structure of five scales that reflect the essential features of family-centered service. We provide evidence of good internal consistency, reliability, and validity using pre-existing data sets and a new independent sample from a province-wide survey. MPOC−20 offers users a measurement option that is useful for program evaluation and quality assurance activities as well as for research purposes.
LES ANTIBIOTIQUES DANS L'ALIMENTATION ANIMALE

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. LES ANTIBIOTIQUES DANS L’ALIMENTATION ANIMALE J. P. Vachel, R. Février
Complementary Therapy Used by Hispanic Women During Treatment for Breast Cancer

The purposes of this study are to assess Hispanic women’s use of complementary interventions during breast cancer treatment and delineate the association between the most burdensome side effects and the most frequently used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The researchers examined both descriptive statistics and correlational relationships between side effects and CAM. Data were collected from a convenience sample (N = 125). The mean age was 54, the educational average was less than 10 years, and the median income level was less than $20,000 per year. CAM was positively correlated with family income. Prayer was used by 93% of the women, humor was used by 83%, and 65% used exercise. The most frequent side effect of hair loss (70%) was the most bothersome side effect. The most burdensome and unmanageable side effects were bowel problems and nausea. Nurses play a key role in offering affordable, culturally appropriate symptom management interventions.
Estrogen-Induced Alterations in the Regulation of Mineralocorticoid and Glucocorticoid Receptor Messenger RNA Expression in the Female Rat Anterior Pituitary Gland and Brain

The influence of estrogen (E) on corticosterone (CORT) receptor function in neural tissue was investigated in female Sprague-Dawley rats. This was accomplished by using a sensitive solution-hybridization RNase protection assay to examine the effect of E on the regulation of CORT receptor mRNAs. Animals were bilaterally ovariectomized (OVX), and a Silastic capsule (0.5 cm) containing 17beta-estradiol was sc implanted. Control animals received a blank capsule. Animals were killed 1, 7, or 21 days later. Anterior pituitary glucocorticoid receptor (GR) mRNA levels were significantly lower (P < 0.01) in E-treated rats at all time points examined. Hippocampal GR mRNA levels were significantly decreased below OVX values (P < 0.01) after 1 and 21 days of E treatment. Hypothalamic-preoptic area (HPOA) GR mRNA levels were significantly lower (P < 0.01) than OVX values only after 21 days of E treatment. Mineralocorticoid receptor mRNA levels were significantly lower after E treatment (P < 0.01) at all time points and in all three tissues examined. In a second study, we administered the GR-specific agonist RU 28362 (40 mug/100 g BW for 4 days) or the nonspecific agonist dexamethasone (DEX; 40 mug/100 g BW for 4 days) to OVX - and OVX + E-treated animals. The administration of RU 28362 significantly down-regulated hippocampal GR mRNA (P < 0.05) in OVX rats only. In contrast, DEX administration significantly down-regulated hippocampal GR mRNA (P < 0.05) in both control and E-treated animals. The administration of DEX or RU 28362 significantly reduced GR mRNA levels (P < 0.05) in the HPOA of OVX control animals, but not E-treated animals. Thus, E treatment results in a loss of the glucocorticoid receptor's ability to down-regulate its mRNA. These studies, combined with our earlier findings that E treatment impairs the ability of GR to down-regulate its protein (8), provide evidence that E interferes with glucocorticoid receptor function.
Dopaminergic Neurons Protected from Degeneration by GDNF Gene Therapy

Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) supports growth and survival of dopaminergic (DA) neurons. A replication-defective adenoviral (Ad) vector encoding human GDNF injected near the rat substantia nigra was found to protect DA neurons from the progressive degeneration induced by the neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) injected into the striatum. Ad GDNF gene therapy reduced loss of DA neurons approximately threefold 6 weeks after 6-OHDA lesion, as compared with no treatment or injection of Ad lacZ or Ad mGDNF (encoding a biologically inactive deletion mutant GDNF). These results suggest that Ad vector-mediated GDNF gene therapy may slow the DA neuronal cell loss in humans with Parkinson's disease.
Therapeutic Mirror Interventions

The mirror is an object that shows one a reflected image of body areas. There appears to be limited nursing literature about the role of a nurse in the use of a mirror. There is, however, literature of the therapeutic use of mirrors in medicine, neurology, psychiatry, psychology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and rheumatology. The objective of this article is to review the basic elements and the underlying theoretical framework of mirror interventions. In 2007 to 2008, a keyword, abstract, and title search was conducted for therapeutic mirror studies between the years 1998 and 2008. A multidisciplinary, integrated review approach was used when it became apparent that there were limited nursing studies. Qualitative and quantitative strategies for reviewing evidence were used, and a narrative synthesis approach was used to guide the comprehensive synthesis. Underlying theoretical models were identified, and five elements of mirror interventions were synthesized from the literature.
Self-Compassion

This concept analysis uses a modification of the evolutionary method (Rodgers, 1989) to identify the antecedent, attributes, and consequences of self-compassion. The antecedent to self-compassion is suffering, experienced in six possible realms: an event, a situation, an emotional response, a psychological state, spiritual alienation, or a physical response to illness or pain. Suffering has three dimensions: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and contextual. Suffering manifests as a pattern of decreased self-care, decreased ability to relate to others, and diminished autonomy. The attributes of self-compassion are self-kindness, mindfulness, commonality, and wisdom. The consequences of self-compassion are the opposite of the antecedent: self-compassion manifests as a pattern of increased self-care capacity, compassion for others, and increased relatedness, autonomy, and sense of self. Ideal, borderline and contrary cases of self-compassion provide examples of the concept. The article concludes with a discussion of implications of the concept of self-compassion for nursing practice and research.
Comparative Analysis of Two Musical Genres Within a Multisensory Environmental Intervention

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if there were any differences in the behavioral responses of persons with dementia while listening to nonreligious and religious music within a multisensory environment. Research Design: A within-subjects, repeated measures design was used. Method: Participants were exposed to both musical genres during multiple sessions over a 4-week period. Neuropsychiatric symptoms were recorded before and after the musical intervention. Behavioral responses to the music were recorded while listening to themusic. Findings: No significant difference was found between the numbers of neuropsychiatric behaviors observed before and after the participants listened to the nonreligious and religious music. A significant difference was found between the musical interventions as a whole and the number of agitated behaviors before and after intervention. No significant difference was found in the observed behavioral responses with the nonreligious and religious music. Conclusions: Music can be a useful intervention to reduce neuropsychiatric symptoms in persons with dementia.
An Experiment in Peace: Reconciliation-Aimed Workshops of Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian Youth

The goal of the present study is to examine workshops of Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian youth conducted in the post-Oslo era with the aim of promoting reconciliation and peacebuilding between the sides. The workshops were organized by an Israeli-Palestinian organization, in the framework of a peace education project. In these workshops, youth from pairs of Israeli and Palestinian high schools met for two days to discuss social, cultural and political topics. Each workshop included approximately 20 youths from each side that were led jointly by a Jewish-Israeli and a Palestinian group facilitator. The study examines four facets of these dialogue events, using both quantitative and qualitative research methods: (1) structure of activities and practices of transformative dialogue used in the encounter events; (2) attitudes and mutual stereotypes held by youth from both sides prior to the beginning of the workshops; (3) mutual perceptions and attitudes expressed by participants during the encounter; (4) effects of participation in the workshops on stereotypes held by the Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian youth (pre-post comparisons).
Alzheimer Disease and Environmental Exposure to Neurotoxic Factors: A Controversy

Background : Common neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer disease are a major public health issue because of their high prevalence and etiopathogenic complexity. Ageing, combined with a genetic predisposition and modifiable risk factors including cardiovascular factors, has been shown to be the main risk factor of Alzheimer and related diseases. The international scientific community suspects that physicochemical environmental factors may be involved. The lack of consensus justifies a general review of current knowledge on the role of environmental neurotoxic factors in the occurrence of some neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer disease. Methodology: A literature search was conducted on PubMed using the keywords dementia, dementia syndrome, Alzheimer disease, Alzheimer type dementia, exposure, neurotoxicity aluminium, mercury, pesticide. After reading all of the abstracts and ruling out irrelevant articles, only relevant articles in English or French were selected. We read more than 600 abstracts and based on these we selected and read 352 articles, 176 for each of the two authors. Finally, our bibliography includes 78 articles. Results: The neurotoxicity data from animal experiments are old, and in the professional environment there is no evidence regarding the gradient of environmental toxicity.
Hippocampal Head Size Associated with Verbal Memory Performance in Nondemented Elderly

The hippocampus plays a crucial role in the consolidation of memory. Anatomically, the hippocampal head, body, and tail are connected to separate regions of the entorhinal cortex, which conveys processed information from the association cortices to the hippocampus. Little is known, however, about the functional segregation along its longitudinal axis. In the present study, we investigated whether the hippocampal head, body, or tail is selectively involved in verbal memory performance. A total of 511 nondemented participants, aged 60-90 years, underwent a three-dimensional HASTE brain scan in a 1.5-T MRI unit. Hippocampal volumes were measured by manual tracing on coronal slices. Segmentation was performed in anterior-posterior direction on the basis of predefined cutoffs allocating 35, 45, and 20% of slices to the head, body, and tail, respectively. Memory performance was assessed by a 15-word learning test including tasks of immediate and delayed recall. To analyze the association between head, body, and tail volumes and memory performance, we used multiple linear regression, adjusting for age, sex, education, and midsagittal area as a proxy for intracranial volume. Participants with larger hippocampal heads scored significantly higher in the memory test, most notably in delayed recall (0.41 word per SD increase in left hippocampal head (95% CI (0.16, 0.67)), 0.33 word per SD increase in right hippocampal head (95% CI 0.06, 0.59)). Our data suggest selective involvement of the hippocampal head in verbal memory, and add to recent findings of functional segregation along the longitudinal axis of the hippocampus.
Family Efficacy as a Protective Factor Against Immigrant Adolescent Risky Behavior

Research suggests that family efficacy—defined as a family’s beliefs in its capability to manage different situations in order to achieve a desired outcome—is linked to a decreased likelihood of adolescents to engage in risky health behaviors. It is not clear, however, if this is true for immigrant families when they are encountering with increased challenges in their host countries. To provide holistic nursing care to immigrant families, it is important to know the sources of family efficacy particularly for immigrant adolescents when they are developing health behavior. This integrative review examined existing literature to learn about the sources of family efficacy among immigrant adolescents and how different domain of family efficacy is related to risky behaviors. We examined 22 studies on the topics of immigration, adaptation, risky adolescent behavior, and family function. Findings showed that multidimensional sources of family efficacies (specifically those in the relational, pragmatic, and value-laden domains) exert significant positive effects on immigrant adolescents’ health behaviors.
The Heroin Prescribing Debate: Integrating Science and Politics

People dependent on heroin who do not respond to other treatments have been treated by a combination of heroin and methadone. In this Policy Forum, Bammer et al. argue that the debate about the merits of this treatment could be substantially informed by clinical trials that meet rigorous scientific standards. Because of the complexities of working with the dependent user population and the social and individual risks associated with this potential treatment, a series of interlocking trials with various designs and control groups are essential, and social impacts must also be monitored. Heroin will always be a second- rather than first-choice treatment, and if trials show that it has any value, the political outcome will be medicalization, not legalization.
Depression in Older Adults in Primary Care

Depression in older adults is a problem often encountered in primary care. While depression is evident in all populations in the primary care setting, assessment and care are more complicated in the older adult due to factors such as comorbidities, clinical presentation, adverse drug effects and drug interactions, and psychosocial factors. Due to these complications, it is essential to incorporate both conventional and alternative methods in assessment and treatment. This article aims to define depression in older adults, present the epidemiology, discuss clinical presentation and screening, and offer an integrative approach to intervention, including both pharmacological and nonpharmacological methods. Providing holistic and integrative care to older adults diagnosed with depression in the primary care setting is essential to promote healing and recovery. This article aims to provide insight for nurses, nurse practitioners, and other providers regarding the holistic and integrative care of depression in older adults in the primary care setting.
Architectural Study of a Block-Recursive Motion Estimation Algorithm

The block-recursive algorithm for motion estimation is an option to classical methods like block-matching usually used in conventional coding schemes based on motion compensation. The block-recursive algorithm considered in this study as been developed at IRISA in the Temis group. It is composed of three steps: estimation, deterministic relaxation, and quadtree region splitting. These steps are iteratively executed until convergence.To be fully exploitable, a specialized VLSI architecture for motion estimation must satisfy the following features: real-time performance, modularity, easy external interfacing, flexibility and reduced internal complexity. In this paper, we analyse these different features with regards to the numerous parameters of the considered block-recursive algorithm. The influence of parameters on the quality of the coding algorithm is measured through numerous simulations. Architectural mechanisms required for an efficient implementation are also presented and discussed. This study falls within the framework for derivation of a specialized parallel architecture from the initial sequential algorithm specification.
Network Function Virtualization: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges

Network function virtualization (NFV) has drawn significant attention from both industry and academia as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning. By decoupling network functions (NFs) from the physical devices on which they run, NFV has the potential to lead to significant reductions in operating expenses (OPEX) and capital expenses (CAPEX) and facilitate the deployment of new services with increased agility and faster time-to-value. The NFV paradigm is still in its infancy and there is a large spectrum of opportunities for the research community to develop new architectures, systems and applications, and to evaluate alternatives and trade-offs in developing technologies for its successful deployment. In this paper, after discussing NFV and its relationship with complementary fields of software defined networking (SDN) and cloud computing, we survey the state-of-the-art in NFV, and identify promising research directions in this area. We also overview key NFV projects, standardization efforts, early implementations, use cases, and commercial products.