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Collaborative depression care management and disparities in depression treatment and outcomes.

CONTEXT Collaborative depression care management (DCM), by addressing barriers disproportionately affecting patients of racial/ethnic minority and low education, may reduce disparities in depression treatment and outcomes. OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of DCM on treatment disparities by education and race/ethnicity in older depressed primary care patients. DESIGN Analysis of data from the randomized controlled trial Prevention of Suicide in Primary Care Elderly: Collaborative Trial (PROSPECT). SETTING Twenty primary care practices. PARTICIPANTS A total of 396 individuals 60 years or older with major depression. We conducted model-based analysis to estimate potentially differential intervention effects by education, independent of those by race/ethnicity (and vice versa). INTERVENTION Algorithm-based recommendations to physicians and care management by care managers. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Antidepressant use, depressive symptoms, and intensity of DCM over 2 years. RESULTS The PROSPECT intervention had a larger and more lasting effect in less-educated patients. At month 12, the intervention increased the rate of adequate antidepressant use by 14.2 percentage points (pps) (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.7 to 26.4 pps) in the no-college group compared with a null effect in the college-educated group (-9.2 pps [95% CI, -25.0 to 2.7 pps]); at month 24, the intervention reduced depressive symptoms by 2.6 pps on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (95% CI, -4.6 to -0.4 pps) in no-college patients, 3.8 pps (95% CI, -6.8 to -0.4) more than in the college group. The intervention benefitted non-Hispanic white patients more than minority patients. Intensity of DCM received by minorities was 60% to 70% of that received by white patients after the initial phase but did not differ by education. CONCLUSIONS The PROSPECT intervention substantially reduced disparities by patient education but did not mitigate racial/ethnic disparities in depression treatment and outcomes. Incorporation of culturally tailored strategies in DCM models may be needed to extend their benefits to minorities. TRIAL REGISTRATION clinicaltrials.gov Identifier for PROSPECT NCT00279682.
The effect of urban redevelopment on retail shopping property values: a case study in Hong Kong

Purpose – Redevelopment, an essential aspect of the urban regeneration process, brings positive externalities to neighbourhoods. This study evaluates the effect of the improvements of neighbourhoods, brought about by redevelopment, on nearby ground-floor retail shopping property values. This study uses a hedonic price model to determine whether there is a relationship between redevelopment work and nearby shopping property values and the influence of neighbourhood improvements on the price of shopping properties if there is such relationship. The analysis is based on three large-scale redevelopment projects, each having a commercial space ranging from 30,000 to 50,000 sq.ft. The results show that an improved neighbourhood environment brings significant value enhancement to nearby shopping properties. Potential tenants are willing to pay a sale rental price premium ranging from 13% to 34% on shops located near redeveloped areas. The results also reveal that potential shop tenants are willing to pay a premium of 0.1% more on a shop with a cockloft. These findings imply that a neighbourhood environment that has been improved through well-planned redevelopment projects adds value to nearby properties. This study contributes an indication of the amount a tenant or buyer would be willing to pay on shops near redeveloped areas and can be used as a reference for users, developers and investors.
Disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management: Evidence from China

This paper first evaluates the quality of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information disclosed in each report using content analysis. Results suggest that 41% of the sample firms fail to provide any information of the 42 CSR activities that allow outside stakeholders to understand their CSR actions; 42% offer text descriptions of their general CSR activities, but only 17% provide statistics about their achievements or other quantitative figures. Further, this paper also compares firms' environmental disclosure from the aspect of environmentally sensitive or ownership patterns. Results indicate that environmentally sensitive industries (ESIs) and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are significantly more committed to environmental information disclosure, particularly in ‘paying attention to energy saving/carbon reduction and development of circular economy’ and ‘promotion of research, new techniques, and methods of energy saving/carbon reduction’, both of which are under the energy saving/carbon reduction dimension. This paper attempts to provide some evidence related to Chinese firms coping with global warming. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
Median Cleft of the Lower Lip: Report of Two New Cases and Review of the Literature

Median clefts of the lower lip and mandible are rare craniofacial clefts. Couronné in 1819 was the first to describe the condition. The midline cleft of the lower lip was classified by Tessier as a type 30 craniofacial cleft. Recently, the total number of the reported cases had increased to about 66 in the world literature. In addition, 2 more patients are presented here. The first case involves only a small notch in the vermilion; the deformity was treated by Z-plasty. In the second case, a midline incomplete cleft of the lower lip, a sublingual abnormal frenulum, a complete cleft in the mandible, a bifid sternum, a presternal skin tag, and a ventricular septal defect in the heart were present. At operation, Z-plasty of the lingual frenulum released the normal-sized tongue. The lip cleft was corrected by a simple V excision followed by closure in 3 layers. The mandibular segments were “vitalized” with a bone rongeur and immobilized in the predetermined position with an interosseous stainless steel wire. Because the bone fusion was complete, the stainless steel wire was taken out after 3 months so that it would not prevent mandibular development. Our treatment methods and others are discussed.
Customer satisfaction and its consequences on customer behaviour revisited

Explores the extent to which the form of the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer behaviour is different under conditions of “low” satisfaction and “high” satisfaction. Three behavioural variables (word‐of‐mouth, feedback to the supplier, and loyalty) were examined. The results point to the fact that differences in the form do exist. Moreover, the results show that differences exist between the differences, in the sense that different patterns emerge for each behavioural variable.
Parental Emotional Support and Subsequent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among Children

ABSTRACT. This study examined the association between early emotional support provided by parents and child internalizing and externalizing problems, using a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of 1361 children. Parental emotional support was assessed using the Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment, incorporating both parent report and interviewer observation. We found that, controlling for child externalizing problems at age 6 years, parental emotional support at age 6 years was negatively related to child externalizing problems at age 8 years. A developmental model that assessed the timing of the emergence of this relationship was then analyzed by including parental emotional support at ages 2, 4, and 6 years as predictors of child externalizing problems at age 8 years. The developmental model suggested that less parental emotional support as early as age 2 years is associated with later externalizing problems in children. This study discusses the importance of very early parental emotional support in promoting positive child development.
Motor Schema — Based Mobile Robot Navigation

Motor schemas serve as the basic unit of behavior specifica tion for the navigation of a mobile robot. They are multiple concurrent processes that operate in conjunction with asso ciated perceptual schemas and contribute independently to the overall concerted action of the vehicle. The motivation be hind the use of schemas for this domain is drawn from neuro- scientific, psychological, and robotic sources. A variant of the potential field method is used to produce the appropriate velocity and steering commands for the robot. Simulation re sults and actual mobile robot experiments demonstrate the feasibility of this approach.
Concepts and Results for 3D Digital Terrain-Based Wave Propagation Models: An Overview

Mobile communication links are severely influenced by propagation effects. Wave propagation in the VHF/UHF frequency range over natural and man-made terrain is strongly dependent on topography and morphography. Propagation modeling is based on a ray-optical approach. Wave interactions, like diffraction and scattering, over the propagation path are described by the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) and physical optics (PO). Propagation models for rural and urban areas are presented for 2-D and 3-D ray tracing. Near-range models apply to the corresponding areas in forest and urban sites. The field-strength delay spectrum describes ray contributions with deterministic amplitudes but statistical phases are used to derive time-and frequency-domain channel characteristics. Comparisons between measured and predicted data are presented. >
Essays of financial factors and firm export behavior

This thesis includes three main chapters that are the outcome of different research projects. All chapters stand as independent papers, but they are linked by the common focus on firm financial factors and export behavior, and by the use of microeconometric methodologies applied to firm-level data. The first two chapters investigate, respectively, the impact of export activity on firms’ access to credit and the role of corporate financial structure as a determinant of exporters’ ability to compete on foreign markets through quality. The third chapter looks instead at the scope for promoting investment and exports of small and medium enterprises through the introduction of more favorable Corporate Taxation rates.
Explaining the Disquotational Principle

Questions about the relative priorities of mind and language suffer from a double obscurity. First, it is often not clear which mental and linguistic facts are in question: we can ask about the relationship between any of the semantic or syntactic properties of public languages and the judgments, intentions, beliefs, or other propositional attitudes of speakers of those languages. Second, there is an obscurity about what ‘priority’ comes to here.
Air Pollution Causes Violent Crime

Scientific evidence is that ozone exposure induces aggression, irritability, impulsivity and loss-of-control in humans, mice, monkeys and other animals. Consistent with this we use data from Los Angeles to generate the first evidence causally linking day-to-day variations in air quality to violent crime. The effect is substantial. Using IV methods with wind direction as instrument our preferred specification points to a 17% increase in assaults for a 10 ppb increase in daily fine particulate pollution. We also identify very small positive impacts of carbon monoxide (CO). The results satisfy a wide set of robustness checks. Cost-benefit analyses that fail to account for these effects will substantially under-estimate the case for air quality regulation.
Posttranscriptional regulation by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Rev and human T-cell leukemia virus type I Rex proteins through a heterologous RNA binding site

The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Rev and human T-cell leukemia virus type I Rex proteins induce cytoplasmic expression of incompletely spliced viral mRNAs by binding to these mRNAs in the nucleus. Each protein binds a specific cis-acting element in its target RNAs. Both proteins also associated with nucleoli, but the significance of this association is uncertain because mutations that inactivate nucleolar localization signals in Rev or Rex also prevent RNA binding. Here we demonstrate that Rev and Rex can function when tethered to a heterologous RNA binding site by a bacteriophage protein. Under these conditions, cytoplasmic accumulation of unspliced RNA occurs without the viral response elements, mutations in the RNA binding domain of Rev do not inhibit function, and nucleolar localization can be shown to be unnecessary for the biological response.
The polycentricity of expansion strategies: Beyond performance as a main driver

TH E O LCEN TR IITY O F EPAN IO N TR ATEG ES Organizations undertake alliances, joint ventures (JVs), and mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to expand, overcome dependencies, and improve their autonomy, legitimacy, and performance. In this dissertation, a polycentric perspective is applied to investigate the origins and performance of alliances, JVs, and M&As. The results suggest that resource dependence theory is one of the primary explanations of the prevalence of the forenamed expansion strategies. In terms of performance, we find that the effect of less invasive arrangements, such as alliances, is more positive in the short-term, whereas the effect of M&As often manifests itself in the long run, through first enhancing an organization’s autonomy and legitimacy and then its accounting-based returns. Moreover, organizations have responded to antitrust legislation by forming more alliances and JVs, whereas such legislation is detrimental to the formation and performance of M&As. Additionally, organizations base their decisions to form alliances or JVs or to pursue M&As on the experience they have obtained from previous similar arrangements. Last, a micro-level perspective is used to examine how advisors interact with decision makers to propel their deal-driven orientation, their desire to acquire, while preserving their ignorance and even promoting information asymmetries. Through this the dual role of advisors is exposed, as they seem to simultaneously generate and escalate momentum. In sum, the findings suggest that a combination of environmental, contextual, organizational, and interpersonal factors explain the origins and success of expansion strategies. In particular, these factors seem to be more interrelated than has been previously noted in studies that assess how organizations can maintain their performance. Therefore, several macroand micro-level factors explain the origins and performance of expansion strategies.
Commonality in Misvaluation, Equity Financing, and the Cross Section of Stock Returns

Behavioral theories suggest that investor misperceptions and market mispricing will be correlated across firms. This paper uses equity financing to identify comovement in returns and commonality in misvaluation. A zero-investment portfolio (UMO, Undervalued Minus Overvalued) built from repurchase and new issue stocks captures excess comovement in general stock returns relative to a set of multi-factor models. Adding UMO to the 3-factors makes the alphas insignificant for portfolios with extreme size and book-to-market, or based on M&A, convertible bond issuance, and dividend initiation, resumption, and omission. The loadings on UMO incrementally predict the cross-section of returns on portfolios as well as individual stocks. Further evidence is consistent with the UMO loading proxying for the common component of a stock's misvaluation.
Travel Nurses' Experience Of Organizational Change: An Exploratory Study

v 1. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . 1 Statement of the Problem. 1 Significance of the Problem. 2 Statement of Purpose. 3 Research Questions . 4 Operational Definitions . 4 Theoretical Framework. 5 Assumptions. 5 Limitations. 6 Summary. 6 2. CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 7 Introduction. 7 Humanistic Nursing Communication Theory. 7 3-Step Change Theory. 10 Empirical Literature. 11 Summary. 21 3. CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY . 22 Introduction. 22 Design. 22 Setting and Sample. 22 Instrumentation . 22 Procedure. 23 Protection of Human Subjects. 24 Data Analysis . 24 Summary. 25 4. CHAPTER 4: RESULTS. 26 Introduction. 26 Sample. 26 Research Question One. 26 Research Question Two. 32
TGV or not TGV in WB?—That is the question

The whole body plethysmograph is a device beloved by generations of pulmonary physiologists since it was first introduced for the measurement of thoracic gas volume (TGV) by DuBois and colleagues in 1956. ’ One reason for this love affair is the simple beauty of the mathematical application of Boyle’s law to measure a physiological parameter. Another is that the test requires no complex respiratory equipment, no rebreathing of inert gases, and no active cooperation on the part of the subject. All that has to be measured are two pressures during a few respiratory efforts against an occlusion at the mouthpiece-the airway pressure at the mouth (Pm) on the patient side of the occlusion and the pressure in the closed plethysmograph chamber surrounding the subject (Pb). The changes in these pressures (APm, APb) together with barometric pressure less water vapor pressure (Pbar-47) and the calibration factor to convert change in plethysmograph pressure to change in volume (Bfact) give TGV from:
The cost‐effectiveness of infliximab in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis in Spain. Comparison of clinical trial and clinical practice data

Objective: To estimate the cost‐effectiveness of treating ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with infliximab (Remicade®) in Spain for up to 40 years. Methods: A previously published disease model was adapted to the Spanish setting using resource consumption from a cross‐sectional burden of an illness study in 601 patients in Spain. Cost‐effectiveness estimates were based on a placebo‐controlled clinical trial as well as an open clinical study in Spain. In the model, patients with insufficient response to treatment at 12 weeks [Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) <4 or ⩾50% reduction] discontinue treatment. The results are presented in 2005 euros, from societal and health‐care payer perspectives. Results: In the societal perspective, infliximab treatment dominates standard treatment in both analyses. In the perspective of the health‐care system, with the assumption that, over the long term, functional ability of patients on treatment would decline at half the natural rate, the cost per quality‐adjusted life year (QALY) gained was estimated at EUR 22 519 (double‐blind trial) and EUR 8866 (open study). Assuming that patients’ function on treatment remains stable, the cost‐effectiveness ratios are EUR 15 157 and EUR 5307, respectively. Under the most conservative assumption (no effect of treatment on progression), the ratios are EUR 31 721 and EUR 13 659, respectively. In addition, the results are sensitive to the time horizon and discontinuation rates. Conclusions: Our results indicate that infliximab therapy for patients with active AS should be cost‐effective both in the societal perspective (dominating) and in the perspective of the health‐care system (ranges from EUR 5300 to EUR 32 000 per QALY) in Spain.
The Deployment of Broadband Internet in Australia: Areas for Attention and Implications from Canada and Korea

Broadband Internet connectivity is currently seen as a means to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of an economy. The deployment and use of broadband capabilities is high on the current political agenda in many developed and developing countries, including Australia. But despite ongoing efforts to promote broadband in Australia, deployment has been much slower than expected. This paper aims to identify areas that have been holding up the broadband development in Australia. In examining four areas for attention (demand, competition, price and the role of government), we refer to experiences in Canada and Korea, both leaders in broadband deployment, to show the differences in each area. Although each country discussed here has its own policy agenda and some unique circumstances related to broadband deployment, implications from this paper will provide valuable input for policy makers and industry leaders in Australia (and elsewhere) as they develop strategies to encourage more widespread broadband deployment.
A Canadian Perspective on Learning Disabilities

Canadian practice and research with children and adults with learning disabilities are described and analyzed. After an examination of the historical basis for current practice, the societal and cultural factors affecting education of children with learning disabilities, services for adults, and research are discussed. It was found that policy and legislation regarding special education vary considerably from province to province, and identification practices and service delivery models vary even within provinces. The fact that Canada has two official languages (English and French), a large multicultural community, and a Native population with special needs often arising from poverty has an impact on the education of children with learning disabilities and on sample description in research. Although school-age children are relatively well served, services for preschool children and adults with learning disabilities are minimal. The positive features of Canadian service delivery are that most programs are publicly funded, decision making tends to be nonadversarial and collaborative, and the needs of the whole child are typically considered.