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Adhesion Formation and Reproductive Outcome After Myomectomy and Second-Look Laparoscopy

Objectives: To evaluate adhesion formation after myomectomy and the reproductive outcome of infertile women with a large leiomyomatous uterus after myomectomy and second-look laparoscopy. Methods: Twenty-six infertile women with a large leiomyomatous uterus underwent second-look laparoscopy 6 weeks after a myomectomy. At laparoscopy, the degree of adhesions was scored using the American Fertility Society classification of adnexal adhesions, and the adhesions were lysed. The pregnancy rates of these women were evaluated by life table analysis. Results: A myomectomy incision on the posterior wall of the uterus was associated with more adnexal adhesions than that on the fundus or anterior uterine wall (93.7 versus 55.5%; P = .04). The degree of adnexal adhesions was also higher among women who underwent myomectomy with a posterior uterine incision (22.2 ± 2.3 points) than in those with a fundal or anterior uterine incision (2.7 ± 1.2 points) (P < .000001). The cumulative pregnancy rate was 33.4% at 6 months and 66.7% at 12 months after the procedures. Conclusions: Myomectomy incisions on the posterior uterine wall are associated with more and a higher degree of adnexal adhesions than those on the fundus and anterior wall. Conception occurs in the majority of infertile women with a large myomatous uterus who undergo myomectomy and second-look laparoscopy.
Intra-Individual Variability Across Neurocognitive Domains in Chronic Hepatitis C Infection: Elevated Dispersion is Associated With Serostatus and Unemployment Risk

Approximately one-third of persons infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) evidence mild cognitive impairment that is consistent with frontostriatal systems dysfunction, including cognitive dyscontrol, and impacts everyday functioning. The present study examined the effects of HCV on neurocognitive dispersion, or within-person variability in neurocognitive performance across domains, which may be a function of poor sustained cognitive control. High dispersion was also hypothesized to increase risk for unemployment. The study sample included 37 individuals with HCV infection (HCV+) and 45 demographically comparable uninfected comparison participants (HCV−). Dispersion was operationalized as an intra-individual standard deviation (ISD) calculated across the demographically adjusted T-scores of 13 standard neuropsychological tests. Multiple linear regression and logistic regression approaches were used to evaluate associations between dispersion and HCV serostatus and employment status, respectively. HCV serostatus was significantly associated with higher dispersion, independent of mean level of neurocognitive ability, psychiatric factors, and liver disease severity. Within the HCV+ group, higher dispersion was associated with an increased risk of unemployment among individuals with higher overall mean neurocognitive ability. Increased neurocognitive dispersion among HCV+ individuals may indicate vulnerability to cognitive dyscontrol expressed as poor regulation of performance across tasks. Higher dispersion may manifest as functional difficulties in daily life, particularly among neurocognitively normal HCV-infected persons, which speaks to the potential clinical value of considering intra-individual variability when evaluating risk for everyday function problems in this population.
High‐Technology Service Innovation Success: A Decision‐Making Perspective

Successful innovation is crucial for firm survival in high-technology service industries. This article reports on an empirical study, exploring internal innovation success factors—success factors associated with the innovating firm's competencies—by taking a decision-making perspective. The likelihood of innovation success is associated with the systematic reduction of decision-making uncertainty, as a result of organizational information gathering, diffusion, and processing activities. Effects of interfirm differences are investigated in the new service development phase of the innovation process. Cross-sectional data were collected about 251 innovation projects from companies in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Innovation success is found to be related positively and directly to how well informed and knowledgeable decision-makers are. Furthermore, the study provides evidence that a market orientation contributes as an internal success factor: An organizational climate favorable to information sharing powerfully mediates the positive effects of intelligence gathering with respect to customers and technology. The effects of competitor orientation carry a negative sign, and managerial seniority appears not to play a major role in this turbulent business. Managerial and research implications are provided.
Exploring synergetic effects between investments in environmental and quality/lean practices in supply chains

Purpose – This paper seeks to report the empirical results examining potential synergetic effects between investments in environmental and quality/lean practices within the supply chain.Design/methodology/approach – Cross‐country survey data collected by the “Global Manufacturing Research Group” within Europe was utilized to test the hypotheses. Synergetic effects were conceptualized through interaction effects using ordinary least square regression (OLS) analysis.Findings – Results indicate that synergetic effects between traditional practices such as lean and quality and environmental practices are possible. More specifically, the impact of lean and quality practices on operational supply chain performance can be amplified through environmental practices such as ISO 14001, pollution prevention, recycling of materials and waste reduction.Originality/value – Although research on the performance impact of environmental practices within the supply chain context has matured over the past years, there is stil.
Making the World a Better Place: Consumers' Group Identity in the Markets with Competition and Two-Sided Opportunism

Consumer boycotts often provide a disciplinary mechanism against firms deviating from established social norms. Such actions tend to be organized by people through reference groups with a social mission. The intensity of the group identity is, however, private information. Therefore, the membership is the subject of opportunistic free riding. Moreover, opportunism reinforces opportunism in the market transactions as both a deviating and a non-deviating firm can also take the advantage. Despite such limitations on the maintenance of the code of the high ethical conduct, the paper shows that the joint impact competition and the group effect support the profits of firms with a high ethical code. Paradoxically, a strong group identity effect among the consumers may advance the low ethical code as high-cost competitors are not survived. As the monitoring by the consumer groups is focused on large firms these are - against the received wisdom – more likely to adopt the code of the high ethical conduct than the small firms. Pareto-efficient bargaining with the buyers’ alliance may not turn out to be an attractive strategy for a firm.
The Role of Network Facilitators in Fostering Trust within Strategic Alliances: A Longitudinal Case Study

Abstract The paper describes how the role of network facilitator played by a third party institution may substantially contribute to the development of trust among SMEs involved in a strategic alliance. In our work, empirical evidence is presented by a longitudinal analysis of a case history. The case study focuses on eight international-oriented SMEs located in an industrial district in Northern Italy that built up a formal network called ‘I-Style Partners’. Two rounds of in-depth interviews were carried out with firm leaders and facilitator's managers involved in the strategic alliance over a three-year period. This paper contribute to theory generation suggesting a three-stage process model in which a network facilitator may enhance interorganizational trust by constituting in turn a substitute of alliance members’ perceptions of ability, integrity and benevolence.
What about a (really) minimalist theory of language acquisition?

Abstract The Minimalist Program introduced a new concept of language and added new content to the innateness position concerning our linguistic capacity. It also redefined the metatheoretical role of the theory of acquisition within generative grammar. This article explores at length all these issues and offers a critical survey of the disconcerting situation dominating today's relationship between syntacticians and acquisitionists.
Financial Integration in Europe: Should the United Kingdom Banking Market Formally Integrate?

The segmentation of European banking markets illustrates the strength and influence of both the United Kingdom and the European Monetary Union markets and describes in part the phases of European banking financial integration. Initially indications of market efficiency at the weak-form level for each segmented market in prices and price first differences are provided. Then unlagged banking price first differences for each segment are regressed against those for the United Kingdom and the European Monetary Union markets using weighted least squares regressions. Indications of systematic and unsystematic risks in each pairwise system are thereby provided. Vector autoregressive, cointegration, causality and impulse response techniques for optimally lagged price first differences provide evidence of cointegration between the segmented European, the United Kingdom and the European Monetary Union markets. It is also evident that exogeneity in each pairwise model lies largely with the European Monetary Union. This in itself represents a strong argument for continuing European financial integration. The United Kingdom is demonstrated to be a powerful banking market. The European Monetary Union banking market would benefit from United Kingdom membership.
Clinical tests of musculoskeletal dysfunction in the diagnosis of cervicogenic headache

Persistent intermittent headache is a common disorder and is often accompanied by neck aching or stiffness, which could infer a cervical contribution to headache. However, the incidence of cervicogenic headache is estimated to be 14–18% of all chronic headaches, highlighting the need for clear criterion of cervical musculoskeletal impairment to identify cervicogenic headache sufferers who may benefit from treatments such as manual therapy. This study examined the presence of cervical musculoskeletal impairment in 77 subjects, 27 with cervicogenic headache, 25 with migraine with aura and 25 control subjects. Assessments included a photographic measure of posture, range of movement, cervical manual examination, pressure pain thresholds, muscle length, performance in the cranio-cervical flexion test and cervical kinaesthetic sense. The results indicated that when compared to the migraine with aura and control groups who scored similarly in the tests, the cervicogenic headache group had less range of cervical flexion/extension (P 1⁄4 0:048) and significantly higher incidences of painful upper cervical joint dysfunction assessed by manual examination (all Po0:05) and muscle tightness (Po0:05). Sternocleidomastoid normalized EMG values were higher in the latter three stages of the cranio-cervical flexion test although they failed to reach significance. There were no between group differences for other measures. A discriminant analysis revealed that manual examination could discriminate the cervicogenic headache group from the other subjects (migraine with aura and control subjects combined) with an 80% sensitivity. r 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FLAP: An End-to-End Event Log Analysis Platform for System Management

Many systems, such as distributed operating systems, complex networks, and high throughput web-based applications, are continuously generating large volume of event logs. These logs contain useful information to help system administrators to understand the system running status and to pinpoint the system failures. Generally, due to the scale and complexity of modern systems, the generated logs are beyond the analytic power of human beings. Therefore, it is imperative to develop a comprehensive log analysis system to support effective system management. Although a number of log mining techniques have been proposed to address specific log analysis use cases, few research and industrial efforts have been paid on providing integrated systems with an end-to-end solution to facilitate the log analysis routines. In this paper, we design and implement an integrated system, called FIU Log Analysis Platform (a.k.a. FLAP), that aims to facilitate the data analytics for system event logs. FLAP provides an end-to-end solution that utilizes advanced data mining techniques to assist log analysts to conveniently, timely, and accurately conduct event log knowledge discovery, system status investigation, and system failure diagnosis. Specifically, in FLAP, state-of-the-art template learning techniques are used to extract useful information from unstructured raw logs; advanced data transformation techniques are proposed and leveraged for event transformation and storage; effective event pattern mining, event summarization, event querying, and failure prediction techniques are designed and integrated for log analytics; and user-friendly interfaces are utilized to present the informative analysis results intuitively and vividly. Since 2016, FLAP has been used by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd for internal event log analysis, and has provided effective support in its system operation and workflow optimization.
Unlocking the potential of time-driven activity-based costing for small logistics companies

This paper reports on the development of a time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) model in a small-sized road transport and logistics company. Activity-based costing (ABC) leads to increased accuracy benefiting decision-making, but the costs of implementation can be high. TDABC tries to overcome some of the disadvantages of ABC and seems particularly useful for the road transport and logistics sector. We find that small firms can benefit from TDABC because of the use of simplified parameters. However, the lack of quantitative data on cost drivers remains a problem. To enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of TDABC, a thorough redesign of the company's recording system is recommended.
Laboratory model to evaluate the role of aerosols in the transport of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus

The aim of this study was to develop a model to evaluate the aerosol transmission of porcine reproductive and respiratory disease virus (PRRSV). PRRSV (MN 30-100 strain, total dose 3 x 106 virus particles) was aerosolised and transported up to 150 m and a portable air sampler was used to collect air samples at 1, 30, 60, 90, 120 and 150 m (five replicates at each distance) and the air samples were tested by TaqMan PCR and virus isolation. The infectivity of the aerosolised PRRSV was tested by exposing six PRRSV-naive pigs for three hours to aerosolised virus that had been transported 150 m. PRRSV RNA was detected in all five replicate air samples collected at 1, 30, 60 and 90 m, in four of the five collected at 120 m, and in three of the five collected at 150 m. Infectious PRRSV was detected by virus isolation at 1 and 30 m (all five replicates), 60, 90 and 120 m (three of the five) and 150 m (two of the five). There was a 50 per cent reduction in the log concentration of PRRSV RNA every 33 m. Three of the six pigs exposed to PRRSV-positive aerosols became infected, and PRRSV RNA was detected in air samples and on swab samples collected from the interior of the chambers that housed the infected pigs while they were being exposed.
Personal Values, Beliefs, and Ecological Risk Perception

A mail survey on ecological risk perception was administered in the summer of 2002 to a randomized sample of the lay public and to selected risk professionals at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). The ranking of 24 ecological risk items, from global climate change to commercial fishing, reveals that the lay public is more concerned about low‐probability, high‐consequence risks whereas the risk professionals are more concerned about risks that pose long‐term, ecosystem‐level impacts. To test the explanatory power of the value‐belief‐norm (VBN) theory for risk perception, respondents were questioned about their personal values, spiritual beliefs, and worldviews. The most consistent predictors of the risk rankings are belief in the new ecological paradigm (NEP) and Schwartz's altruism. The NEP and Schwartz's altruism explain from 19% to 46% of the variance in the risk rankings. Religious beliefs account for less than 6% of the variance and do not show a consistent pattern in predicting risk perception although religious fundamentalists are generally less concerned about the risk items. While not exerting as strong an impact, social‐structural variables do have some influence on risk perception. Ethnicities show no effect on the risk scales but the more educated and financially well‐off are less concerned about the risk items. Political leanings have no direct influence on risk rankings, but indirectly affect rankings through the NEP. These results reveal that the VBN theory is a plausible explanation for the differences measured in the respondents' perception of ecological risk.
Relationship of anger trait and anger expression to c-reactive protein in post-menopausal women

ID: 700 Relationship of Anger Trait and Anger Expression to C-Reactive Protein in Post-Menopausal Women Author Information: Authors List: Presenting Author: Rosalyn Gross Presenting Author: Rosalyn Gross Address: 24945 Bay Cedar Drive Bonita Springs, FL 34134 USA Ph: 239-590-7521 Fax: 239-590-7474 Email: rgross@fgcu.edu Institution: University of South FLorida Abstract InformationInformation Presentation Preference: SNRS Student Poster Presentation Abstract Categories: Interest Group: Biobehavioral Thematic Areas: Women's Health Introduction: One third of women over the age of forty will develop coronary heart disease(CHD) in their lifetime. The role of chronic and excessive inflammation and risk factors, such as smoking and high cholesterol, are now well-established factors contributing to CHD pathology. A knowlege gap exists in that little is known about the mechanisms by which strong emotions, like anger, may be associated with these pro-inflammatory processes that contribute to CHD morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to determine if there were differences in serum levels of the proinflammatory biomarker, C-reactive protein (CRP) in women who scored high on anger characteristics compared to those with low anger characteristics. Method(s): A quantitative, cross-sectional between-groups design was used to examine differences in CRP levels between high and low anger trait groups obtained from a convenience sample of 79 healthy, 45-65 year-old community-dwelling women in southwest Florida. Forty-two women met inclusion/exclusion criteria and qualified for the high (n=17) or low (n=25) groups using Spielberger's Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2. Independent t-tests and bivariate correlations were used to analyze anger scores and CRP ELISA measurements between groups and across anger scales. Results: Mean levels of CRP were not found to be different between the high and low trait or expression groups. However, CRP levels were found to be significantly moderate and negatively (r = -.34, p = .029) related to anger-in (anger control through supression). Use of a convenience sample and small sample size limits interpretation of results. Use of self report measures and self-selection bias also may have influenced findings. Discussion: Certain anger expression styles may contribute to pro-inflammatory responses leading to CHD. As women age and the prevalence of CHD increases, modfying anger expression styles through active anger coping activities (relaxation, anger management) may provide women with positive ways to cope with angry emotions. Research Completed : Yes Abstract History: -This material has been presented or accepted for presentation in whole or in part at this or another scientific meeting. -Details: SNRS 2008 as a research proposal; not presented due to medical emergency Financial Disclosure: Have a financial arrangement or affiliation with commercial companies whose products may be mentioned in this material?
Learning to Solve a Business Problem: ‘Hands-on’ Can Get Results

Small business training can facilitate business growth. The authors show that a ‘hands-on’ approach can have a direct impact on a business owner's current situation. They consider this in relation to the problem of being unable to find the right staff, demonstrating that a programme such as the one they describe enables learning and addresses the lack of time and resources faced by many small business owner-managers. Such programmes also accommodate the style, pace and circumstances of the individual learner. This has a number of implications for the delivery of training to small business owner-managers.
Roles of interfirm information systems in supply chain management

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate how and for what purposes companies use interfirm information systems (IS) in supply chain management (SCM). Further, the drivers for the different uses of interfirm IS are investigated.Design/methodology/approach – Two a priori constructs – the roles of interfirm IS in SCM and the drivers for interfirm IS use in SCM – are derived from the prior research. The case study approach is applied to analyze empirical data collected from 16 Finnish companies in order to assess the validity of the constructs.Findings – The findings suggest that the proposed three categories – transaction processing, supply chain planning and collaboration, and order tracking and delivery coordination – represent well the different types of interfirm IS uses in SCM. Further, the findings suggest that the drivers behind these different categories of interfirm IS use differ.Practical implications – The different purposes for which interfirm IS can be used in the management of supp.
New media and tobacco control

Objective This paper reviews how the tobacco industry is promoting its products online and examines possible regulation models to limit exposure to this form of marketing. Opportunities to use new media to advance tobacco control are also discussed and future research possibilities are proposed. Data sources Published articles and grey literature reports were identified through searches of the electronic databases, PUBMED and Google Scholar using a combination of the following search terms: tobacco or smoking and new media, online media, social media, internet media, Web 2.0, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Results A possible obstacle to fully realising the benefits of regulating tobacco marketing activities and effectively communicating tobacco control messages is the rapid evolution of the media landscape. New media also offer the tobacco industry a powerful and efficient channel for rapidly countering the denormalising strategies and policies of tobacco control. Evidence of tobacco promotion through online media is emerging, with YouTube being the most researched social media site in the tobacco control field. Conclusions The explosive rise in Internet use and the shift to these new media being driven by consumer generated content through social platforms may mean that fresh approaches to regulating tobacco industry marketing are needed.