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‘A Source of Sanity’: The Role of Social Support for Doctoral Candidates’ Belonging and Becoming

Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the role of social support in the PhD. Despite universities’ efforts to provide a collegial PhD experience, candidates report isolation and loneliness in doctoral education – a factor contributing to attrition. Background: Previous research (Mantai & Dowling, 2015) defined social support in four categories: moral, emotional, guiding and mentoring, companionship, and collegiality. Social support is facilitated in various formal and informal groupings. Socialisation into scholarly communities promotes researcher identities through a sense of belonging. Developing a strong researcher identity through social connections benefits a student’s physical and emotional well-being, PhD progress, and investment in researcher careers. Methodology: This paper is based on thematic analysis of focus groups and one-on-one interviews with 64 PhD candidates from two Australian metropolitan universities. Contribution: Students’ perspectives on social support during PhD study are largely missing in the literature, as more importance is placed on academic support. This paper provides rich empirical evidence to show that support afforded by candidates’ personal, social, and professional relationships is critical in doctoral candidates’ identity development. Findings: First, investigating social support from the student perspective shows that it promotes students’ researcher identity development, sense of belonging, and community. Second, the paper extends our understanding of what social support means as it examines this concept in the context of student diversity. This paper confirms social support in the PhD extends beyond the institutional higher degree research environment and includes outside support by family, friends as well as online communities. Recommendations for Practitioners: Promote and improve support services, networking opportunities, and social connections within academia and beyond. Invest in understanding students’ diverse backgrounds and individual circumstances as well as goals. Recommendation for Researchers: Evaluate existing social support structures in place and identify social support needs of doctoral candidates at your particular institution. Impact on Society: Institutions, governments, and individuals heavily invest in PhD degrees financially and psychologically. This research aims to improve outcomes for society by developing skilled and confident graduates. Future Research: Future research ought to focus on the issues experienced by students of particular demographic backgrounds and on how to best support them.
Mixed results of a pilot RCT of time-limited schema mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and competitive memory therapy plus treatment as usual for personality disorders.

Waiting lists for psychotherapy for patients with personality disorders are increasing; there is an imbalance between the number of patients seeking help and the amount of therapy available. Thus, there is a need for time-limited treatments that are effective for specific patients and their specific problems. This pilot randomized controlled trial aimed to investigate the effectiveness of two 8-week group modules + treatment as usual (TAU): schema mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (SMBCT) and competitive memory therapy (COMET) with special attention to predictors and mediators of change. Patients (N = 58) were randomized to either SMBCT + TAU or COMET + TAU. The dropout rate was 34%. Time effects were found for both treatments, but neither was more effective than the other, and around 23% showed deterioration after treatment. Explorative analyses suggested that predictors for change were severity of psychological distress and a demanding and/or punitive attitude toward oneself at baseline. Global severity index change in the beginning of the treatment mediated schema changes later on in treatment. SMBCT + TAU and COMET + TAU might be mostly suitable for patients with high levels of symptom severity followed by high scores on parent modes. More research is needed to tailor these time-limited therapies to specific personality problems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Reading Between the Lines: An Intersectional Media Analysis of Female Sex Offenders in Florida Newspapers

v LIST OF TABLES . vii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . 1 CHAPTER 2: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS: GENDER, SEX OFFENDING, & MEDIA . 8 CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY . 61 CHAPTER 4: RESULTS . 79 CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION . 94 REFERENCES . 110
Burnout Leads to Premature Surgeon Retirement: A Nationwide Survey

Background: Retirement of surgeons has important workforce implications given the shortage of surgeons throughout the country. Our study was designed to evaluate factors that influence surgeon retirement decisions. Material and methods: A paper-based survey regarding retirement decisions was mailed nationwide from April to June of 2018 to retired General, Colorectal, Vascular, and Cardiothoracic surgeons that are members of the American College of Surgeons. Results: A total of 2295 of 5282 surveys were completed (43.4% response rate). The mean age of respondents was 79.0 ± 0.8 years, their mean age of retirement was 63.9 ± 0.1 years, and their mean interval since retirement was 15.2 ± 0.9 years. The five most common reasons for retirement were advancing age, personal health, increased outside interference, burnout, and worsening malpractice environment. The most common reported health problems leading to retirement were musculoskeletal disorders. The percentage of reported burnout was significantly lower in academic surgeons (5.8%) vs. surgeons in private practice (10.5%); academic/private practice combination (10.0%); those employed by community hospital or health system (11.4%); and Veteran Affairs institution, military hospital, and Indian Health Service (13.8%). Burnout was the only factor associated with an earlier retirement age (61.2 ± 0.4 years vs. 65.8 ± 0.2 years in the absence of burnout). Results were comparable when stratified by surgical specialty. Conclusion: Our survey brings awareness to potentially-modifiable factors influencing surgeon retirement, such as outside interference, occupational health problems, burnout, and worsening malpractice environment. Understanding why surgeons retire can help motivate healthcare organizations better manage their surgical workforce and prevent premature retirement.
COULD HERBAL MEDICINE BE A COMPLEMENTARY THERAPY IN LEUCORRHEA TREATMENT AND CARE

Background : The frequency of using the antibiotics and antifungals as a treatment of leucorrhea may cause the bacterial and fungal resistance. Therefore, a treatment is not always optimal and sometimes leads the infection to be worsen. The herbal medicine is needed as an alternative treatment. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of using various herbal medicine in the management of leucorrhea. Methodology : The literature review was conducted in several electronic databases i.e., Google Scholar, Science Direct, and PubMed. The protocol for this study was PRISMA. The keywords such as "herbal medicine" and "leucorrhea" or "vaginal infection" were used to select the literatures. This study only selected the studies conducted during 2000 to 2019, presented in English and used clinical trial research design. Results : This study obtained 10 of 5184 total publications from electronic databases. The publication about herbal medicine for leucorrhea, both of herbal medicine and placebo, herbal medicine compared to conventional medicine and herbal medicine combined with conventional medicine showed that herbal medicine could reduce the symptoms and complaints of leucorrhea which had the ability to be an antimicrobial agent. In contrast, 2 studies revealed the side effects of herbal medicine, i.e., irritation, vomiting, and dry vagina. Conclusion : Herbal medicine was effective as a treatment of leucorrhea and had the prospect to develop as a complementary therapy for treating the leucorrhea.
MR-NET: Exploiting Mutual Relation for Visual Relationship Detection

Inferring the interactions between objects, a.k. a visual relationship detection, is a crucial point for vision understanding, which captures more definite concepts than object detection. Most previous work that treats the interaction between a pair of objects as a one way fail to exploit the mutual relation between objects, which is essential to modern visual application. In this work, we propose a mutual relation net, dubbed MR-Net, to explore the mutual relation between paired objects for visual relationship detection. Specifically, we construct a mutual relation space to model the mutual interaction of paired objects, and employ linear constraint to optimize the mutual interaction, which is called mutual relation learning. Our mutual relation learning does not introduce any parameters, and can adapt to improve the performance of other methods. In addition, we devise a semantic ranking loss to discriminatively penalize predicates with semantic similarity, which is ignored by traditional loss function (e.g., cross entropy with softmax). Then, our MR-Net optimizes the mutual relation learning together with semantic ranking loss with a siamese network. The experimental results on two commonly used datasets (VG and VRD) demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach.
Regulating the CCNB1 gene can affect cell proliferation and apoptosis in pituitary adenomas and activate epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

The aim of the present study was to investigate the role and potential regulatory mechanisms of cyclin B1 (CCNB1) in the proliferation, apoptosis and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in pituitary adenomas. A total of 24 specimens were included in the present study. The expression levels of CCNB1 protein in two normal pituitary and 22 pituitary adenoma tissues were determined by western blotting. CCNB1 was knocked-down by lentiviral-mediated infection of short hairpin RNA (shRNA) in GH3 and MMQ cell lines. The proliferation, cell cycle and apoptosis of GH3 and MMQ cell lines were detected using a Cell Counting Kit-8 and flow cytometer. Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR was utilized to detect the expression level of CCNB1 gene and EMT markers. In the present study, resveratrol (RES) was used as an inhibitor of CCNB1. The protein expression level of CCNB1 in pituitary adenomas was higher than that in normal pituitary tissue, as assessed by western blot analysis. In addition, the expression level of CCNB1 in invasive pituitary adenomas was higher when comparing invasive pituitary adenomas and non-invasive pituitary adenomas. Knockdown of CCNB1 resulted in significant decreases in cell viability and proliferation, arrested cell cycle at the G2/M phase and increased apoptosis. In addition, knockdown of CCNB1 significantly decreased the expression levels of the mesothelial cell marker N-cadherin (P<0.001), but significantly increased the expression levels of the epithelial cell markers E-cadherin (P<0.01) and p120-catenin (P<0.001). Further analyses identified that RES inhibited the expression level of CCNB1, and RES treatment exhibited a similar effect as CCNB1 shRNA infection. The present study suggested that suppressing the expression level of CCNB1 could regulate the proliferation and apoptosis of pituitary tumor cells and alter the expression level of various EMT markers. In addition, RES treatment could be used as an inhibitor of CCNB1. The present study also identified the molecular mechanisms underlying CCNB1 role in EMT.
Social Trust Formation in the Workplace: Applying the Job Strain Model to Explain Variations in Social Trust Levels Among Employed Individuals

This study applies the job strain model (JDC-S) to social trust to analyse how workplace characteristics influence social trust formation patterns. By defining the ‘workplace’ as consisting of (a) workload, (b) control and (c) social support, the JDC-S model predicts job demands to inversely relate to social trust, whereas job control and social support to positively affect trust among the employed. We utilise the sample of 60,250 respondents from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to operationalise the three components and link them to social trust scores. Our analysis provides strong empirical evidence that the three factors are not only associated with trust among employed individuals, but that their impact is also contingent on the respondents’ sex and age.
SISTEM REKOMENDASI PENERIMAAN MAHASISWA BARU MENGGUNAKAN NAIVE BAYES CLASSIFIER DI INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN INDONESIA

The quality of a university in creating qualified graduates is determined by the prospective students who enter the college. One of the things that can determine the quality is how the selection process of candidates for good student acceptance. However, the selection process of admissions in every college of course is different. Often the input of prospective students who enter the university is not in accordance with the expected so that the impact of graduate results. Therefore it is necessary for a system that can support the decision in the selection of new student candidates in order to get a good student input. This research builds a Recommendation System that will assist in the selection process of universities for the selection team of new student candidates. This recommendation system uses the naïve Bayes classifier method where the test scores of incoming selection of students who have been accepted will be used as training data and then classified based on the value of ipk that has been obtained. The value of the ipk will be a benchmark for the formation of classes - classes that are recommendations to the selection team. The classes that are formed are classes whose ipk value is at the accepted point and the class whose ipk value is not accepted. Then given a new student data, if the prospective student enters the safe class then it will be recommended to be accepted but otherwise it will be recommended to be rejected
Feasibility of Early Meal Detection Based on Abdominal Sound

In classical approaches for an artificial pancreas, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is the only measured variable used for insulin dosing and additional control functions. The CGM values are subject to time delays and slow dynamics between blood and the sensing location. These time lags compromise the controller’s performance in maintaining (near to) normal glucose levels. Meal information could enhance the control outcome. However, meal announcement by the user is not reliable, and it takes 30 min to 40 min from meal onset until a meal is detected by methods based on CGM. In this pilot study, the use of bowel sounds for meal detection was investigated. In particular, we focused on whether bowel sounds change qualitatively during or shortly after meal ingestion. After fasting for at least 4 h, 11 healthy volunteers ingested a lunch meal at their usual time. Abdominal sound was recorded by a condenser microphone that was attached to the right upper quadrant of the abdomen by medical tape. Features that describe the power distribution over the frequency spectrum were extracted and used for classification by support vector machines. These classifiers were trained in a leave-one-out cross-validation scheme. Meals could be detected on average 10 min (std: 4.4 min) after they had started. Half of these were detected without false alarms. This shows that abdominal sound monitoring could provide an early meal detection. Further studies should investigate this possibility on a larger population in more general settings.
Head Start Classroom Features and Language and Literacy Growth among Children with Diverse Language Backgrounds

ABSTRACT Research Findings: Using a nationally representative sample of Head Start recipients, this study compared Head Start classroom contexts and English language and literacy skill trajectories for Spanish-speaking dual-language learners (DLLs) and English speakers from preschool through kindergarten. It also examined whether Head Start classroom characteristics were differentially associated with skill development across groups, both concurrently in Head Start and longitudinally in kindergarten. Results indicated that classroom characteristics tended to be similarly associated with skills across language subgroups. Regardless of language status, children whose classrooms were instructionally supportive and not overly managed tended to have higher language and/or literacy skills in Head Start. Children whose Head Start classrooms had higher Emotional Support and were not overly managed had higher kindergarten language skills. Child-initiated activities were associated with higher language skills, whereas teacher-directed activities were related to higher literacy skills. DLLs benefited more from Emotional Support and child-initiated activities in some skills. Practice or Policy: If replicated, findings have practical implications for Head Start professional development and classroom practices. Specifically, teacher professional development might focus more intensively on improving Emotional and Instructional Support, and teachers and program administrators might consider allocating more time to child-initiated and teacher-directed activities to build specific skills.
Variation of the brachial plexus roots in the interscalene groove: relevance in interscalene blocks

Objectives: The interscalene block is utilized for regional anesthesia of the upper limb, targeting the roots and trunks of the brachial plexus in the interscalene groove. The prevalence of variation, which may affect the success of this block, has not been documented in detail with respect to side and sex, nor has a classification system been proposed. Methods: Seventy-nine embalmed bodies were dissected bilaterally. The position of the roots and the subclavian artery relative to the anterior scalene muscle was documented and variations were classified according to prevalence. Differences in the prevalence of variation between left and right sides and between males and females were investigated. Results: The standard position of the nerves and subclavian artery in the interscalene groove (Type 1) was present in 31.6%. Variant positions included the following passing through the belly of the anterior scalene: C5 and C6 roots (Type 2) (46.8%), C5 root (Type 3) (15.2%), C5 and C6 roots as well as the subclavian artery (Type 4) (3.8%), and lastly, C5, C6 and C7 roots (Type 5) (2.5%). Variant anatomy was statistically more prevalent in females on the right side only. Conclusion: Variant locations of the roots and subclavian artery external to the interscalene groove were common, suggesting that ultrasound should be used to visualize variations prior to performing interscalene blocks. A classification type of variant positions has been developed for standardization.
Ethnicity and Punishment: A State-Level Investigation on HispanicRepresentation in School Discipline

Ethnicity and Punishment: A State-Level Investigation on Hispanic Representation in School Discipline Candace Nicole Fowles Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education, BYU Educational Specialist Racial disproportionality in exclusionary discipline measures among public school students has been well-established for African American youth in the United States. The research literature has included limited and inconsistent research findings providing information on the representation patterns among Hispanic students in school discipline. Previous studies on Hispanic representation in school discipline have established a need for data to be analyzed at the state level. Using a large dataset acquired from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) for the 2013-2014 school year, this paper examines if Hispanic students are disproportionally represented in exclusionary discipline measures for the five states with the highest percentage of Hispanics within the population. Using ratio calculations for proportion and risk ratios, we determined risk and describe the extent of disproportionality for in-school suspension, out-of-school suspension, and expulsion among Hispanic students compared to their White, non-Hispanic peers. This paper also examines differences in racial/ethnic disparities by gender. The results of this study indicate that significant disproportionality exists for Hispanic students to some degree for various exclusionary discipline categories in every state analyzed. The analysis also indicated Hispanic females are at a higher risk of receiving suspension compared to White, non-Hispanic females and Hispanic males compared to White, non-Hispanic males. To increase understanding of school disciplinary patterns for Hispanic students, including the results of this investigation, future research should examine office discipline referrals, and analyze discipline data from the district and school levels in order to determine if and to what extent additional school and community factors affect the discipline gap.
Cow Milk versus Plant-Based Milk Substitutes: A Comparison of Product Image and Motivational Structure of Consumption

Cow milk is under increased scrutiny due to its environmental impact and ethical considerations concerning animal welfare. At the same time, a rising share of consumers is switching to plant-based milk substitutes (abbreviated “plant milk”). The objective of this study was (1) to analyze the product image of plant milk and cow milk and (2) to compare the motivational structure behind the consumption of both product categories. For this purpose, a quantitative survey with Austrian consumers was carried out to analyze the product image of plant milk in comparison to cow milk (n = 1001). The product image analysis revealed that the product image of cow milk is still much better than that of plant milk. Amongst others, cow milk is considered to be healthier, more natural, and better for bones. Product image valuation was dependent on the (non-)consumption of plant milk. Plant milk consumers evaluated plant milk significantly better; they considered plant milk to be much better digestible and allergy-free. The qualitative study using means-end-chain analysis, with two sub-samples of interviewees (plant milk consumers, n = 30, and cow milk consumers, n = 30), identified different motives for the consumption of cow milk and plant milk. Motives that were only reported from cow milk consumers are the origin of milk and the support of small-scale dairy production of farmers. Motives of plant milk consumers were much more diverse and included animal welfare and sustainability aspects.