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898 Reducing Neonatal Infections in South and Southern Central Vietnam: The Opinion of Health Caregivers

Background Infection represents a consistent cause of neonatal mortality in high as well as low income countries. In this study, we assessed the opinion of healthcare providers on how to improve neonatal infection control and prevention in South and Southern Central Vietnam hospitals. Methods Fifty-four participants to a workshop on infection control and prevention were asked to fill out an anonymous, written questionnaire regarding the priorities that could improve neonatal infection control and prevention in provincial hospitals in South and Southern Central Vietnam. Results Hand washing, exclusive breastfeeding and safe disposal of medical waste were scored by participants as the highest priorities for preventing neonatal infections. Education through instructional posters and written guidelines, family contact, kangaroo-mother-care, limitation of invasive procedures and screening for maternal GBS infection received relatively low scores. Conclusions The opinions of operators involved in neonatal health match international recommendations for infection prevention with regards to some, but not all, issues, suggesting the need for a better understanding of this phenomenon. Our results may contribute to better design interventions for infection prevention in settings with limited resources.
Painted stained glass

We propose a new region-based method for stained glass rendering of an input photograph. We achieve more regular region sizes than previous methods by using simple linear iterative clustering, or SLIC, to obtain tile boundaries. The SLIC regions respect image edges but provide an oversegmentation suitable for stained glass. We distinguish between important boundaries that match image edges, and unimportant boundaries that do not; we then resegment regions with unimportant boundaries to create more regular regions. We assign colors to stained glass tiles; lastly, we apply a painting layer to the simplified image, restoring fine details that cannot be conveyed by the tile shapes alone. This last step is analogous to the overpainting done in real-world stained glass. The outcome is a stylized image that offers a better representation of the original image content than has been available from earlier stained glass filters, while still conveying the sense of a stained glass image.
Should I stay or should I go? Multi-focus identification and employee retention in post-acquisition integration

Retaining key employees is often one of the most crucial goals when an acquirer buys a target firm. However, what determines whether employees stay or leave once the firm has been bought? This article investigates how organizational and occupational identification influence employee exit intentions. Based on a longitudinal configurational study in two acquired hospitals, our findings challenge the popular belief that identification with the organization consistently increases retention, and we stress the important effect of occupational identification, which has been largely neglected by research on post-acquisition integration. We find that under certain conditions, occupational identification increases employees’ exit intentions but that neither identification with the firm nor identification with the occupation are necessary or sufficient to entice employees to stay or leave. Instead, their effects are contingent on the professionalization of an occupation and the degree to which employees’ expectations have been disappointed. Our findings further suggest that attention is an important mediating mechanism linking identification and exit intentions, as employees focus predominantly on topics that relate to the social entities they most strongly identify with. This article develops theory on the effects of social identification on exit intentions after acquisitions and contributes to research on multi-focus identification and post-acquisition integration.
Multidisciplinary Team Management of Gynaecological Cancers

Gynaecological malignancies represent a highly specialized area of oncology and should be managed within the context of a multidisciplinary team (MDT). This model is becoming standard not only in gynaecology but also with all cancer types. In this chapter we discuss the benefits of this approach in terms of delivery of care, compliance with best practice, patient outcomes, and requirements for the establishment and running of an MDT. An overview of the management for newly diagnosed gynaecological malignancies, including ovarian, fallopian tube, peritoneal, endometrial, cervical, vulval, and vaginal cancers is provided. Preoperative imaging is crucial for surgical and radiotherapy planning, in particular, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is now an integral part of assessment. The role of surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy is reviewed with an emphasis on the controversial issues and recent advances in each of the tumour types. Keywords: multidisciplinary team; epithelial ovarian cancer; endometrial cancer; cervical cancer; vulval cancer; vaginal cancer; surgery; radiotherapy; chemotherapy; diagnostic imaging
The ManageMed Screening

Abstract Proper management of one's own medications can be a crucial skill for maintaining independent living, perhaps especially for elderly persons who tend to take many medications and have multifaceted medication routines. Determining if patients can manage and adhere to their medication routines can be a challenging undertaking for health care professionals responsible for making these decisions. The ManageMed Screening, an assessment tool designed to quickly determine if someone can handle a moderately difficult medication routine, is introduced here. Initial psychometric testing has demonstrated that the ManageMed Screening has adequate reliability and concurrent validity. The test holds promise for use in the field of rehabilitation.
The Effects of Phonemic Awareness Instruction on the Writing Ability of First Grade At Risk Students.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of increased phonemic awareness instruction on the writing ability of At Risk first graders. Twenty-three students from a suburban first grade classroom in Central New Jersey were involved in the study. Twelve at risk students were divided into two groups, each of which received one half hour of daily supplemental reading instruction from the Basic Skills teacher which included phonemic awareness activities such as letter recognition, letter/sound correspondences, rhyme, segmentation, word families, and Elkonin boxes. The eleven control children received reading instruction solely from the classroom teacher who used a basal reading program. Scores from a pretest which was administered in May of kindergarten were compared to a post test which was given at the end of January of first grade and evaluated auditory discrimination, word awareness writing ability and writing samples. Both control and experimental samples made considerable growth in spelling and writing abilities from the end of kindergarten to January of first grade. The experimental sample demonstrated the greatest increases in the posttest results after increased phonemic awareness instruction, even though the control group had overall higher scores. Children who are low in phonemic awareness require explicit training in becoming aware of the internal structure of sounds in words which develops their ability to spell words phonetically. As the students become more aware of phonemes and their written form, they become more confident about their writing ability. (Author/RS) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** The Effects of Phonemic Awareness Instruction on the Writing Ability of First Grade At Risk Students
Ambiguity and the computational feasibility of syntax acquisition

The thesis presents a framework that can be used for empirical and formal analysis of parameter setting models of language acquisition. Such models attempt to mirror computationally the process by which children acquire the grammar of their native language. Research into formal language learning theory standardly focuses on issues of learnability—Under what conditions is learning possible? The thesis contributes to the important, but under-investigated question of feasibility—Is acquisition possible within a reasonable amount of time and/or with a reasonable amount of work? The proposed framework formalizes existing notions such as the rate of parametric ambiguity and parametric expression within a generally defined parameter space, so that different types of learning algorithms and grammar spaces can be explored. Two influential learning algorithms are examined in detail: The Triggering Learning Algorithm (Gibson and Wexler, 1994) and The Structural Triggers Learner (Fodor, 1998). Empirical results indicate that the Triggering Learning Algorithm's simple hill-climbing search heuristics are sufficient to acquire the target grammar without the learner's consumption of an unreasonable number of input sentences when the learning space contains a strong correlation between the similarity of languages and the grammars that generate them. The results also indicate that the Structural Triggers Learner's use of structural information lying beneath the surface word order of an input sentence allows for feasible learning when the rate of parametric expression varies across the input sentences encountered by the learner. Notably, however, both models are acutely sensitive to changes in the rate and type of ambiguity present in the domain. A small change in just one of the factors that contributes to the distribution of ambiguity has a large impact on learning efficiency.
LPC and MFCC Performance Evaluation with Artificial Neural Network for Spoken Language Identification

Automatic language identification plays an essential role in wide range of multi-lingual services. Automatic translators to certain language or routing an incoming telephone call to a human switchboard operator fluent in the corresponding language are examples of these applications that require automatic language identification. This paper investigates the usage of Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) and/or Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) with Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for automatic language identification. Different orders for the LPC and MFCC have been tested. In addition, different hidden layers, different neurons in every hidden layers and different transfer functions have been tested in the ANN. Three languages; Arabic, English and French have been used in this paper to evaluate the performance of the automatic language identification systems.
Gender as a moderator of the relationship between job demand and quality of work-life of police personnel in Lagos, Nigeria

Previous studies have linked quality of work-life with functional job behaviours which may enhance the quality of services rendered by police personnel. However, there is a need to investigate how gender may moderate the connection between job demand and quality of work-life, especially among female police personnel who are often faced with challenges of balancing family and work responsibilities. Against this background, this study tested the level at which gender moderates the relationship between job demand and police personnel’s quality of work-life. Participants were 944 police personnel (429 females; 515 males) whose ages ranged from 24 to 60 years (M = 38.66 years, SD = 8.43). The study hypotheses were tested with 3-step hierarchical multiple regression. The results showed that job demand led to a significant decrease in quality of work-life of police personnel. Gender significantly moderated the relationship between job demand and quality of work-life, in such a way that female police personnel had better quality of work-life than their male counterparts. The findings of this study indicated that gender is an important factor in police personnel’s quality of work-life. In order to improve the quality of work-life of police personnel in Nigeria, police personnel should be exposed to adequate job rewards, which may balance out the adverse effects of job demand. Also, Ministry of Police Affairs in Nigeria should provide support to police personnel especially the males in order to improve their quality of work-life.
Improving Municipal Solid Waste Collection Services in Developing Countries: A Case of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Nepal

Municipal solid waste management is one of the major challenges that cities in developing countries are facing. Although waste collection services are critical to build a smart city, the focus of both scholarship and action/activism has been more on the utilization of waste than on collection. We devised a choice experiment to elicit the preferences of municipal residents with regard to the various attributes of solid waste collection services in the Bharatpur Metropolitan City of Nepal. The study showed that households identify waste collection frequency, timing of door-to-door waste collection services, and cleanliness of the streets as the critical elements of municipal waste collection that affect their welfare and willingness to pay. While almost all households (95%) were participating in the waste collection service in the study area, more than half (53%) expressed dissatisfaction with the existing service. Women were the main actors engaged in waste collection and disposal at household level. The results of the choice analysis suggest that households prefer a designated waste collection time with waste collection bins placed at regular intervals on the streets for use by pedestrians who often throw garbage on the streets in the absence of bins. For these improvements, households were willing to pay an additional service fee of 10–28% on top of what they were already paying. The study also finds that municipal waste collection can be improved through the involvement of Tole Lane Committees in designing the timing and frequency of the service and by introducing a system of progressive tariffs based on the number of storeys per house.
PENINGKATAN KECERDASAN NATURALIS PADA ANAK USIA 5-6 TAHUN MELALUI MODEL PEMBELAJARAN DI SENTRA BAHAN ALAM

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui peningkatan kecerdasan naturalis melalui model pembelajaran sentra bahan alam pada anak usia 5-6 tahun di Taman Kanak-kanak Bina Prestasi Kependidikan Bersama Kebon Jeruk Jakarta Barat. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode Penelitian Tindakan Kelas ( classroom action research ). Subjek penelitian adalah anak kelompok B2 Taman Kanak-kanak BPKB Jakarta Barat yang terdiri dari 14 anak. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah observasi partisipan. Analisis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif, yaitu suatu analisis data yang bersifat mengambarkan kenyataan atau fakta sesuai dengan data yang diperoleh. Hasil penelitian menyimpulkan bahwa model pembelajaran sentra bahan alam dapat meningkatkan kecerdasan naturalis pada anak usia 5-6 tahun. Hal ini dapat terlihat hasil kemampuan anak pada tahap pra siklus sebesar 55%, pada siklus I sebesar 70%, sedangkan pada siklus II mencapai 83%.
Vital Involvement in Old Age

ABSTRACT Most longitudinal studies of adult development end in middle or late middle age. The logistical difficulties of following up people for prolonged periods may only partially explain this gap in our knowledge. Another explanation is that most developmental researchers have not yet themselves reached old age. Their personal inexperience with this stage of life is a significant handicap in their ability to understand the questions it raises.Erik Erikson, the 95-year-old grandfather of the empirical study of normal development, is in a unique position to fill this gap in psychological research. Along with his wife and a younger colleague, he had followed up a group first encountered as parents of children studied developmentally since the 1930s. In Vital Involvement in Old Age, the three investigators present the results of their interviews with these 29 men and women, aged 75 to 95 years. Unlike the subjects of cross-sectional studies of the
PILIHAN RAYA UMUM KE-14 (PRU-14) DAN TUMBANGNYA BARISAN NASIONAL (BN) DI PARLIMEN SILAM

Sabah sering dianggap sebagai fixed deposit Barisan Nasional (BN) dan UMNO sejak 1994. Kemenangan yang sering dicapai dalam oleh UMNO/BN Sabah dan Sarawak dalam PRU sejak 1994, 1998, 2004, 2008 dan 2013 merupakan testimoni kepada realiti ini. Namun dalam PRU-14, BN gagal mempertahankan kedudukannya di Sabah apabila secara teknikal telah kehilangan kuasanya kepada Parti Warisan yang kemudian telah berkuasa di Sabah. Di Parlimen Silam yang merupakan fixed deposit BN, mereka telah kalah 4-0 kepada Parti Warisan. Makalah ini membincangkan antara isu yang membawa kepada kekalahan ini antara lain; kepimpinan, tidak peka kepada masalah penduduk setinggan, nepotisme, isu tanah, ESSCOM, kenaikan kos sara hidup dan 1MDB. Kaedah kualitatif telah digunakan dengan temu bual, pemerhatian dan kepustakaan. Temu bual telah dibuat dengan calon bertanding, ahli politik (UMNO) dan Parti Warisan serta masyarakat di Parlimen Silam. Makalah ini mendapati bahawa keengganan BN belajar dari segi sejarah bahawa rakyat Sabah dan pengundi Silam yang rasional memilih menukar kerajaan jika mereka tidak puas hati dengan kerajaan sebagaimana yang pernah berlaku pada 1976 (USNO), 1985 (Berjaya) dan 1994 (PBS). Kegagalan belajar dari sejarah mengakibatkan BN tumbang di Parlimen Silam dalam PRU-14 , kubu kuatnya selama ini.AbstractSince BN/UMNOs entry into East Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak were often referred to as BN/UMNOs fixed deposit states following their victory during the 1994, 1998, 2004, 2008 and 2013 general elections. However, GE-14 saw the change in BN's hold on Sabah when Parti Warisan came to power. In the Parliament Seat of Silam, BN lost 4-0 to Parti Warisan. This article looks into the factors that contributed to this defeat amongst which was the lack of attention on the squatter problems, nepotism, land issues, ESSCOM, rising costs of living and 1MDB. Qualitative methods such as interviews, observation, and secondary data i.e. newspapers, journal articles, books and internet were used. Interviews with contending candidates, political members from both BN and Parti Warisan, as well as the general community in Silam was carried out. The findings observed was the failure of BN to heed lessons from past elections whereby voters in Sabah would rationally vote to change governments if they were not satisfied with the government of the day, as was the case in 1976 (USNO), 1985 (Berjaya) and 1994 (PBS). It was this lack of attention to history which saw BN's lost over its stronghold in Silam during GE-14.
Optimal power control in a wireless network using a model with stochastic link coefficients

This paper addresses optimal power allocation in a wireless communication network under uncertainty. The paper introduces a framework for optimal transmit power allocation in a wireless network where both the useful and interference coefficients are random. The new approach to power control is based on a stochastic programming formulation with probabilistic SIR constraints. This allows to state the power allocation problem as a convex optimization problem assuming normally or log‐normally distributed communication link coefficients. Numerical examples illustrate the performance of the optimal stochastic power allocation. A distributed algorithm for the decentralized solution of the stochastic power allocation problem is discussed. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005
The role of sleep in consolidation of multi-item bound representations

A wealth of literature has demonstrated that in terms of memory representations, items are not encoded equally. In part this has been suggested to be affected by conceptual knowledge, with items with pre-existing conceptual knowledge easier to encode and thus, more salient in subsequent representations. However, it is not known how this may affect different item modalities such as actions, objects, people, and locations. As such, this thesis seeks to understand the factors that can affect the different item modalities in multi-item memory representations primarily focusing on the role of sleep, which has been demonstrated to be beneficial for memory consolidation. In paper 1 the role of culture (Western v East Asian) was examined in differences in bound memory representations, focusing on object-scene and action-scene pairings. It was observed that culture was not a factor for actionscene pairings but Western participants were significantly more accurate than East Asian participants for object-scene pairings. Furthermore, object-scene recognition was significantly more accurate than action-scene recognition across both cultures, suggesting a difference between actions and objects in ease of recognition. In paper 2 this was expanded to see the role of sleep in consolidation of action-scene/object-scene pairings. As with paper 1 object-scene pairings were significantly more accurate than action-scene pairings in immediate testing, and object-scene recognition experienced a benefit of sleep, with accuracy higher in the sleep group than the wake group. This difference was not replicated in the action-scene task. Paper 3 sought to apply the previous results to a practical situation, that of eyewitness testimony as the existing literature has revealed that within eyewitness testimony participants are susceptible to errors of binding at retrieval. Across the two sessions we observed a significant difference in item modality, with action details recalled to a higher level than object, location, and people details but there was no effect of sleep/wake. Paper 4 moved away from visual memory and instead focused on the role of sleep on conceptual knowledge using the DRM paradigm. Participants were trained on 12 DRM wordlists and then were assigned either to a short-term wake group or a nap group monitored with polysomnography. At retrieval, sleep significantly increased lure-unseen acceptance compared to the equivalent period of wake, providing evidence of sleep promoting false memory generation. Furthermore, RH spindle generation relative to LH spindle generation was significantly correlated with false recognition of lure-unseen words, suggesting a central role of the RH in false memory generation.