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THE EARLY OUTCOME OF MECHANICAL VERSUS KINEMATIC ALIGNMENT OF TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY : A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMISED CONTROL

We performed a prospective double-blind randomised controlled trial to compare the functional outcome of patients receiving a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in mechanical alignment (MA) with that of kinematic alignment (KA). A total of 71 patients undergoing TKA were randomised to either MA (n=35) or KA (n=36). The knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score (KOOS), Euro-Qol (EQ-5D), range of motion (ROM), two minute walk, and timed up and go tests were assessed pre-operatively, 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, and one year. There were no significant differences in the patient demographics or pre-operative outcome scores between the two groups (p>0.1). There were no statistically significant differences in the KOOS (difference 1.3, 95% confidence interval (CI) -9.4 to 12.1, p=0.80), EQ-5D (difference 0.8, 95% CI -7.9 to 9.6, p=0.84), ROM (difference 0.1, 95% CI -6.0 to 6.1, p=0.99), two minute distance tolerance (difference 20.0, 95% CI -52.8 to 92.8, p=0.58), or timed up and go (difference 0.78, 95% CI -2.3 to 3.9, p=0.62) between the MA and KA groups at one year. No functional difference was observed between MA and KA of TKA, however this represents the early outcome and longer follow up is required to ensure these results are observed into the long-term.
ESTIMATION OF DIETARY HABITS AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG YOUNG POPULATION IN VOJVODINA : BMI-FORAGE APPROACH

Healthy diet and development of proper dietary habits in adolescence combined with sufficient physical activity are recognized as the key factors of a long-term health. This study was conducted to gain an insight into the dietary habits, the frequency of meal intake and physical activity of the young population by applying a survey. Surveyed participants were Hungarian nationality students who attended elementary and high schools in the province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The total number of participants was 525 (42.5% males and 57.5% females) most of which were from the rural area. To address the nutritional status and risk for overweight among the young population, body mass index (BMI) of the participants was determined. The majority of participants had normal range nutritional status (70.48%) followed by overweight (19.81%) and obese (7.62%). Overweight and obese nutritional statuses were more common among male participants. Increasing number of participants with overweight nutritional status was noticed in the 7 grade of elementary school (25.81%). Insufficient physical activity and irregularities in meals intake were also noticed within the studied population which is an indicator of potential obesity development in adulthood.
ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES AND TRANSISTOR APPLICATIONS OF MoS 2 / MX 2 / MoS 2 TRILAYER HETEROSTRUCTURES

In recent years, a lot of scientific research effort has been put forth for the investigation of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDC) and other Two Dimensional (2D) materials like Graphene, Boron Nitride. Theoretical investigation on the physical aspects of these materials has revealed a whole new range of exciting applications due to wide tunability in electronic and optoelectronic properties. Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDC) and their bi-layer/tri-layer heterostructures have become the focus of intense research and investigation in recent time due to their promising electronic and optoelectronic applications. In this work, we have presented a first principle simulation study on the electronic properties of MoS2/MX2/MoS2 (M=Mo or W; X=S or Se) trilayer heterostructure. We have investigated the effect of stacking configuration, bi-axial compressive and tensile strain on the electronic properties of the trilayer heterostructures. In our study, it is found that, under relaxed condition all the trilayer heterostructures at different stacking configurations show semiconducting nature. The nature of the bandgap, however, depends on the inserted TMDC monolayer between the top and bottom MoS2 layers and their stacking configurations. Like bilayer heterostructures, trilayer structures also show semiconducting to metal transition under the application of tensile strain. With increased tensile strain, the conduction band minima shifts to K point in the Brillouin zone which leads to a lowering of electron effective mass at conduction band minima. The study on the projected density of states reveal that, the conduction band minima is mostly contributed by the MoS2 layers and states at the valance band maxima are contributed by the middle TMDC monolayer. In our study, the highest bandgap was found for MoS2/WS2/MoS2 trialyer while the lowest bandgap was found for the MoS2/WSe2/MoS2 trilayer. Besides exploring the electronic properties, we have explored device level performance of trilayer TMDC heterostructure (MoS2/MX2/MoS2; M=Mo or, W and X=S or, Se) MOSFETs in the quantum ballistic regime. Our simulation shows that device ‘on’ current can be improved by inserting a WS2 monolayer between two MoS2 monolayers. Application of biaxial tensile strain reveals a reduction in drain current which can be attributed to the lowering of carrier effective mass with increased tensile strain. Due to low bandgap MoS2/WSe2/MoS2 trilayer heterostrcuture MOSFETs were found to be showing high off-state leakage and thereby high sub-threshold swing. In addition, it is found that gate underlap geometry improves electrostatic device performance by improving sub-threshold swing. However, increase in channel resistance reduces drain current.
MICROMORPHOLOGY OF A SMALL DINOFLAGELLATE PROROCENTRUM MARIAE-LEBOURIAE ( PARKE 8 c BALLATINE ) COMB . NOV

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Role of some growth Characters in Improving the Drought Tolerance in Rice.

The present investigation was carried out at the farm of the of Rice Research and Training Center, Sakha, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, during 2014 and 2015 seasons to evaluate some growth and yield parameters in rice by using eight rice varieties under normal and drought conditions. The results indicated that, the parents Sakha 106, Giza178, Nerica4 and WAB880 and the crosses (Sakha106 × Giza177), (Sakha106 x Sakha102), (Giza178 × Giza177), (WAB880 × Nerica4) and (IRAT112 × Nerica4) were found to have the most desirable mean values under the two environments and their combined data. Genotypes, parents and the crosses mean squares and their interactions with environments were found to be highly significant for all studied characters. The most pronounced useful heterosis effects relative to the better parents for all characters were detected in the crosses (Sakha106× Giza 177), (IRAT170 × Nerica4),( Giza 177 × IRAT112),( Giza177 × Nerica4) and (Sakha102 × IRAT112) under the two environments and their combined data. Over dominance was detected in most crosses for plant height, number of tillers / plant, panicle length, relative water content and grain yield/plant. The values of potence ratio was less than unity in most crosses for days to heading, chlorophyll content, flag leaf area, flag leaf angle and leaf rolling. The results showed also high genetic variance for days to heading, plant height and flag leaf angle. However moderate values were obtained for chlorophyll content, flag leaf area and grain yield / plant, and low estimates of number of tiller/ plant, relative water content, panicle length and leaf rolling. High heritability values had been obtained for plant height, chlorophyll content, flag leaf area, flag leaf angle and grain yield / plant. The results obtained here indicates the relative importance of physiological parameters such as chlorophyll content, flag leaf area, flag leaf angle, relative water content and leaf rolling as selection criteria for drought tolerance. Also, the existence of significant amounts of genetic variation among the tested materials suggests their potential in breeding for water deficit tolerant rice genotypes.
Entrepreneurial orientation and the mediating role of organisational learning amongst Indian SSMEs

Purpose: This study examines organisational learning as a mediator among Small-Scale Manufacturing Enterprises (S-SMEs) which comprise the majority of economic activity in an emergent/developing economy. This study offers further understanding regarding the mediating role of organisational learning in developing world economies, due to its potential regional influence. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional survey of Indian S-SMEs was undertaken from the District Industrial Center. The study employed a systematic sampling technique to contact owner/managers. Overall, 204 S-SMEs owners/managers participated in the study and 192 usable survey instruments were received. Findings: The study offers novel insights to the following questions. First, the factors that prompt entrepreneurial orientation to achieve superior business performance, i.e. the antecedents of entrepreneurial orientation? The results reveal competitor orientation is an antecedent of entrepreneurial orientation that leads to an S-SME’s business performance. Second, the outcomes of entrepreneurial orientation, i.e. the consequences of entrepreneurial orientation? The study reveals organisational learning and business performance are the corollary of entrepreneurial orientation. Third, the examination of whether organisational learning mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and business performance? The findings found the effects of entrepreneurial orientation on business performance are, in part, mediated by organisational learning. Research limitations: The present study is not devoid of limitations which need to be addressed in future studies. First, the present study has not included other strategic orientations, like technology orientation, production orientation and selling orientation which also play a crucial role in business performance. Second, other constructs may have significant relationship with market and entrepreneurial orientation which has been ignored by the present study. Third, the study is industry-sector specific and has not considered alternative sectors which also may play a potential role. Originality/value: This study enhances the existing S-SME literature by identifying factors contributing to entrepreneurial orientation and its repercussions on business performance. For S-SMEs.it adds credence to the role played by organisational learning in mediating the link between entrepreneurial orientation and business performance which potentially encourages owner/managers to dedicate increased time and resources toward creating and maintaining a conducive learning environment. The results support entrepreneurs in acknowledging the importance of competitor orientation during the emergence and development of entrepreneurial orientation, specifically in emerging economy contexts.
ser violence towards nursing professionals in mental health services nd emergency units

Workplace violence is present in many work sectors, but in the area of mental health, nurses have a higher risk due to the close relationship they have with users. This study analyzed hostile user statements against nursing professionals of Mental Health Services and Emergency Units in Health Service (MHS) hospitals in Murcia, Spain, and determined the frequency of exposure to the different violent user behaviors. The study was carried out with a sample of 518 nursing professionals from four hospital services: Mental Health, Emergency Units, Medical Hospitalization, and Maternal-and-Child. The nursing staff of Mental Health and Emergency Units was the most exposed to violence. Non-physical violence was more frequent in Emergency Units, whereas physical violence was more frequent in Mental Health. Among the consequences of exposure to non-physical violence are workers’ emotional exhaustion and the presence of psychological distress. © 2016 Published by Elsevier España, S.L. U. on behalf of Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/4.0/). Violencia de los usuarios hacia los profesionales de salud mental y urgencias
Knowledge on factors of congenital heart disease among Paediatric doctors of selected Hospitals in Dhaka City , Bangladesh : A Cross Sectional Study ”

To assess the level of knowledge on factors of congenital heart diseaseamong Paediatricdoctors ofsome selected hospitals in Dhaka City this descriptive cross sectional study was done. The study was a descriptive type of cross sectional study place was Anwar Khan Modern Medical College Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital 103Paediatric doctors who passed M.B. B.S Examination recently and who can participate willingly were included. About 60% (59.2%) respondents were below 25 years, 42(40.8%) of respondents were between 26-30 years. The mean age of respondent was 25.28±0.94 years, minimum 23 and maximum age 28 years. Out of 103 Paediatric doctors, 48(46.6%) were male and 55(53.4%) were female. Most of the respondents 205(85.4%) were Muslim. Majority of the participants (41.7%) were from medicine department, 26.2% participants were from surgery, 30.1% patients were from Obs and Gynae and 1.9% participants were from other department. Most of the participants (98.1%) had knowledge about congenital heart disease. 96.1% had knowledge regarding the risk factors of congenital heart disease. 52.4% participants reports that genetics is 1 of the factors responsible for CHD. 44.7% participants reported age of mother, 40.8% participants told that mother with HTN, 39.8% participants told mother with DM, 33% reported mother with obesity, 27.2% reported environmental and 57.3% participants noted all of them are responsible factors for CHD. 98.1% participants had knowledge about sign and symptoms of CHD, they reported abnormal heart study, a bluish discoloration of skin, fingernails tip of nose lips, fast breathing, poor feeding and poor weight were 90.3%, 92.2%, 73.8%, 72.8% and 69.9% respectively. Most of the participants 98.1% had knowledge about heart murmer and 96.1% participants had knowledge about cyanosis. Majority of the participants 85.4% reported that CHD can be diagnosed. 52.4% respondents had knowledge about new screening test for CHD. Most of the participants (97.1%) reported that CHD can be treated. Maximum respondents 76.7% noted that CHD can be treatment by both conservative and surgical procedure, 16.6% reported surgical treatment and only 6.8% reported CHD can be treatment by conservative treatment. Majority of the Paediatric doctors had satisfactory knowledge (88.3%). If doctors have the required knowledge on this topic then they can serve our community as they are alert about this disease.
MICROENTERPRISES AND SIGNIFICANT RISK FACTORS IN LOAN PROCESS

Aleksandr Ključnikov, University of Business and Law, Prague, Czech Republic, E-mail: kliuchnikov@gmail.com ABSTRACT. Microenterprises – small companies with their own characteristic features – are a major component of the economic system, which brings positive effects on employment, increases the supply of goods and services, promotes the growth of competition in the market and performs other important functions in the economic system. Microenterprises face sufficient problems with the access to bank financing, which is a base for their sustainable growth. The aim of this paper was to define and quantify significant risk factors of microenterprises’ credit financing in the current dynamic economic environment and to compare the significant position of these undertakings in relation to commercial banks by gender, education of the entrepreneur and the company’s age. Our research confirmed the impact of the age of the company in the perception of the growing important of the credit risk during the crisis, and the level education of the entrepreneur in relation to the familiarity with the conditions under which the banks provide loans. All other monitored factors do not have any statistically significant impact on the monitored risk factors in the loan process. Our results show that the main problems of the micro enterprises are an absolute unfamiliarity with the credit conditions of the commercial banks across the entire spectrum of the researched groups, and their persuasion of the lending criteria to be non-transparent. Received: October, 2015 1st Revision: December, 2015 Accepted: January, 2016
Package for the analysis of epistatic networks

Mutations or changes in the genetic endowment are the engine of evolution. They can be found in coding or non-coding regions of the genome, those found on coding regions are usually the most interesting ones as in many cases they can lead to changes in the behaviour of the effects on the organism. Between negative effects, mutations have been traditionally related to diseases assuming that these changes favor a certain disease. Nevertheless nowadays it is well known that many diseases are caused by epistasis which means that interactions between several mutations cause the disease. Due to the complexity it is problematic to study these epistatic relationships or high order relationships. As a result, new methods for studying genotype-phenotype need to be designed. These methods use, in this specific case, pairwise exhaustive epistatic analysis complement it with graph theory. The main purpose of this study is to contribute to the current state of the art with a software capable to identify genotype-phenotype relationships, especially those that were described previously. A ​software package written in R, which is one of the most used programing languages among software developers in biology and biomedicine, is created and offers a simple interface to complete an epistatic network analysis. The package creates a graph of SNPs turning it into a genes allowing the user to choose the top genes or SNP and then gives the possibility to open the graph in an external software. The aim of the tool is to be able to allow its management with external programmes like they are Galaxy, for creation and management of workflows, and Cytoscape, a software for visualization and management of graphs. Both tools are commonly used by the target population. The result of this project intends to provide all necessary tools to allow more users to perform GWAS expanding the use of it and favouring the increment of results and knowledge.
Ways of Measuring the Effectiveness of Team Work

The ability to work in teams is an attribute highly valued by employers of information technology (IT) graduates. For IT students to effectively engage in team work tasks, the process of working in teams should be satisfying for the students. This work explored whether university students who were involved in compulsory team work were satisfied with their experience. The research was seeking predictors of satisfaction with team work which may lead to educators being able to plan interventions that improve students’ experiences. Team work satisfaction was measured by asking students to reflect on their current team work experience while rating their level of agreement with statements relating to Global Satisfaction (e.g., Group members interact well with each other.) and Global Dissatisfaction (e.g., My group isn’t very efficient). The statements were taken from a set generated by Keyton (1991) in her study of group work satisfaction in university level students. Potential predictors were also assessed by the survey and included: previous experience with team work; perceived usefulness of team work training; familiarity with team members; and gender mix within the team.
A Contour Representation and Retrieval Algorithm based on Polar-histogram

This paper presents a novel method for contour-based shape retrieval. First, they come from contour points which can represent the shape very well as the object contour points got by contour tracing and denoising. Corner points, sampled points and two vector sets are obtained by leading vectors from each point to the contour centroid point. Then, the polar histogram of directions and distance in the vector sets are used to describe the shape. Finally, it combines the similarity measurement criterion of two contours with the polar histogram of the two feature points. The experiment result shows that our algorithm is efficient and is with better performance in the robustness to the scaling, rotation and translation, compared with the traditional algorithms.
School of Computing 2004-0101 An analysis of case-base editing in a spam filtering systems

Because of the changing nature of spam, a spam filtering system that uses machine learning will need to be dynamic. This suggests that a case-based (memory-based) approach may work well. Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is a lazy approach to machine learning where induction is delayed to run time. This means that the case base can be updated continuously and new training data is immediately available to the induction process. In this paper we present a detailed description of such a system called ECUE and evaluate design decisions concerning the case representation. We compare its performance with an alternative system that uses Näıve Bayes. We find that there is little to choose between the two alternatives in cross-validation tests on data sets. However, ECUE does appear to have some advantages in tracking concept drift over time.
Tilburg University When do German Firms Change their Dividends ?

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the dividend policy of German firms is more flexible than the one of their Anglo-American counterparts. This paper analyses the decision to change the dividend for a panel of 221 German firms from 1984 to 1994. The choice of the period of study is motivated by the fact that at the start of this period there was an economic boom which was followed by a recession. Consistent with the traditional dividend literature, e.g. Lintner (1956), net earnings are key determinants of the decision to change the dividend. However, the study comes up with two findings which are contrary to Lintner (1956) and Miller and Modigliani (1961). First, the level of net earnings is not the only key determinant of the dividend decision, as the occurrence of a loss – whatever its magnitude – has an explanatory power exceeding the one of the level of the loss. Second, dividend cuts or omissions tend to be temporary and the majority of German firms quickly (within two years) revert to their initial dividend level. This stands in marked contrast with DeAngelo et al. (1992) who find that US firms are more likely to reduce their dividend when earnings deteriorate on a permanent basis. Furthermore, the fact that German firms frequently omit and cut their dividend and quickly return to their initial dividend suggests that dividends in Germany have less of a signalling role than dividends in the US and the UK. Our findings also contradict Bhattacharya’s (1979) argument that the costs of dividend changes are asymmetric with dividend reductions being more costly to the firm than dividend increases. Finally, we find evidence that firms with banks as their major shareholder are more willing to omit their dividend than firms controlled by other types of shareholder. Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rafel Crespi, Carles Gispert, Joe McCahery, Colin Mayer, Christian Schlag, Reinhardt Schmidt, and Mark Wahrenburg for comments and suggestions. All remaining errors are the ones of Luis Correia da Silva.