Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Relationship Between Responsibility and Decision-Making Features Among Female Volleyball Coaches in Kerman

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between responsibility and decision-making features among female volleyball coaches in Kerman. The research was correlational. The statistical society of this study included all coaches of volleyball women in Kerman in 2014 including 400 people. According to the Morgan table, 196 people were selected by sampling method. In this research, two standard questionnaires including the Gaff Responsibility Questionnaire (1951) with a validity of 0.86 and reliability of 0.896 and Scott and Bruce (1995) questionnaire with a validity of 0.84 and reliability of 7760 had been used. To analyze the data according to the measurement scales, objectives and research questions, descriptive statistics such as frequency, frequency percent, and column charts were used. To test the hypothesis of the research, the inferential statistics of k-s test were used to normalize the data and Pearson correlation coefficient used to investigate the research hypotheses. The results of the research showed that 8.2% responsibility of female volleyball coaches were low, 14.8% average, 74.5% high and 6.2%, very high. The dominant decision making style was 37.2% rational, 27% intuitive, 13.8% dependent, 11.7% instantaneous and 10.2% avoidant. Other results of the study showed that there was a direct and significant relationship between responsibility and decision making features of female volleyball coaches in Kerman. There was also a direct and meaningful relationship between responsibility and the rational decision of female volleyball coaches in Kerman. There was a reverse and significant relationship between responsibility and dependent, spontaneous and avoidant decision-making of female volleyball coaches in Kerman. However, there was no meaningful relationship between responsibilities with the intuitive decision making of female volleyball coaches in Kerman.
Mental health professionals’ perceptions of voluntarily childless couples.

Mental Health Professionals’ Perceptions of Voluntarily Childless Couples By Felizon C. Vidad, M.A. Studies conducted in previous decades have examined attitudes toward and perceptions of voluntarily childless men and women. Participants in these studies were usually comprised of high school, college, and university students. The results showed that, compared to those who were parents, voluntarily childless men and women were mostly perceived in a less favorable light. This study sought to investigate how voluntarily childless heterosexual couples are currently viewed and whether attitudes toward the voluntarily childless have changed since the earlier research was conducted. Participants in this study consisted of individuals who were practicing in the field of mental health and who might encounter voluntarily childless couples as clients. The collected data was analyzed, and areas of statistical significance were examined. Compared to the previous studies among student participants that indicated either more negative perceptions of the voluntarily childless, or very little or no bias at all, the current study’s findings suggest that mental health professionals have more positive perceptions of individuals who choose to be childfree. Results were utilized to formulate recommendations for further research.
Survey of Students’ Perceptions of Assertive Discipline and Restorative Discipline in American Christian Academy, Ibadan, Nigeria.

This action research study investigated the perceptions of students regarding two discipline methods, Restorative Discipline (RD) and Assertive Discipline (AD), at American Christian Academy, Nigeria. The total number of participants was sixty-six students from grades seven through nine. Participants were divided into two groups: grade seven (experimental group) and grades eight and nine (control group). The experimental group was exposed explicitly to the Restorative Discipline Method for four weeks while the control group continued to be exposed to the Assertive Discipline Method (the norm in the school). At the end of four weeks, both groups were given a questionnaire containing ten questions each for both discipline methods (RD and AD). A comparison of the responses within each group and between the groups was carried out. The results of the study suggested that the difference in perceptions of both groups to RD and AD was not statistically significantly. There was also an indication that a blend of both discipline methods will benefit American Christian Academy. Document Type Thesis Degree Name Master of Education (MEd) Department Graduate Education First Advisor Pat Kornelis
Community health workers in Kajiado County: an evaluation of the community health strategy in rural Kenya

Between 1980 and 2000, mortality rates of children under the age of five and maternal mortality ratios declined across sub-Saharan Africa. During the same period, Kenya’s mortality rates continued to rise until 2005 when the Kenyan Ministry of Health (MOH) introduced the Kenya Essential Package for Health (KEPH) in an effort to reverse its declining health indicators. The KEPH defined six service delivery levels which included the new community level, also known as level one. The Ministry of Health’s plan for delivering services at the community level, known as the Community Health Strategy (CHS), called for the creation of Community Health Workers (CHWs) which the MOH hoped would produce the expected outcomes of the CHS. CHWs would be trained volunteers that were both members of the community they would serve, and selected by their community. Their training would allow them to recognize health problems, provide basic first aid, refer patients with serious problems to health facilities, conduct surveys, maintain records, provide education, and distribute supplies. In 2010, the Division of Community Health Services released an evaluation of the relevance, efficiency, and sustainability of the community health strategy. Their results showed that CHWs could produce many of the CHS’s expected outcomes. In 2013,
Analysis of the potential for coded excitation to improve the detection of tissue and blood motion in medical ultrasound

Doppler ultrasound imaging modalities arguably represent one of the most co mplex task performed (usually in real time) by ultrasound scanners. At the heart of thes e techniques lies the ability to detect and estimate soft tissues or blood motion within the human body. As th ey have become an invaluable tool in a wide range of clinical applications, these echniques have fostered an intensive effort of research in the field of signal proces sing for more than thirty years, with a push towards more accurate velocity or displacement estimation. Coded excitation has recently received a growing interest in the medical ultrasound commu nity. The use of these techniques, originally developed in the radar field, makes it possible to ncrease the depth of penetration in B-mode imaging, while complying with safety standards. These standards impose strict limits on the peak acoustic intensity which can be transmitted into the body . Similar solutions were proposed in the early developments of Doppler flow-meter s to improve the resolution / sensitivity trade-off from which typical pulsed Doppler syste ms suffer. This work discusses the potential improvements in resolution, sensitivity and a ccuracy achievable in the context of modern Doppler ultrasound imaging modalities (taken in its br oadest sense, that is, all the techniques involving the estimation of displacements, or v elocities). A theoretical framework is provided for discussing this potential improvements , along with simulations for a more quantitative assessment. Colour Flow Imaging (CFI) modalities re taken as the main reference technique for discussion, due to their historical impor tance, and their relevance in many clinical applications. The potential achievable improvement in accuracy is studied in the context of modern velocity estimation strategies, which can be bro adly classified into narrowband estimators (such as the “Kasai” estimator still widely used in CF I) and time shift based wideband strategies (normalised crosscorrelation estimator us ed, for instance, in applications like strain or strain rate estimation, elastography, etc.). Finally, simu lat ons and theoretical results are compared to experimental data obtained with a simple cus tom-designed experimental set-up, using a single-element transducer. Declaration of originality I hereby declare that the research recorded in this thesis and the thesis its lf wa composed and originated entirely by myself in the Department of Medical Physics at The University of Edinburgh.
A Comparison of Offence History and Post-ReleaseOutcomes for Sexual Offenders Against Children inNew Zealand Who Attended or Did Not Attend theKia Marama Special Treatment Unit

6 Chapter 1: Introduction . 8 Sex offenders against children: a distinct population . 10 Risk assessment for sex offenders . 12 The principles of risk assessment for correctional treatment . 12 Risk factors for sexual offending . 13 Risk assessment tools: First-generation through fourth-generation . 14 Risk assessment of sex offenders . 16 Treatment for sex offenders . 19 History and development of sex offender treatment . 20 Results from treatment programmes: promising or disappointing? 23 Issues with assessing treatment efficacy . 28 Follow-up time . 31 Operational definitions . 31 Social desirability. 31 Treatment drop-outs . 32 Base rates of sexual offending . 33 Recorded vs. actual rates of offending . 34 Pleas-bargaining: violent and general offending . 34 Treatment selection . 35 Individual responses to treatment . 37 Kia Marama Special Treatment Unit . 38 Current Research . 42 Rationale for the current research . 42 Chapter 2: Method . 44 Offender Samples. 44 Procedure . 45 Automated Sexual Recidivism Scale (ASRS) . 46 Chapter 3: Results. 51 Goal 1: Describe the control group and treatment group in terms of offender characteristics and test for any differences between the two groups. 51 Goal 2: Describe recidivism results sexual, violent and general for the treated group and the untreated group; in addition to examining the relationships between offence history variables and recidivism. 57 Goal 3: Develop a predictive model for recidivism (sexual, violent and general) and test for group differences after the different levels of the predictive variables are controlled for. 68 Sexual Recidivism . 68 Violent Recidivism . 69 General Recidivism . 70 Chapter 4: Summary, Discussion and Conclusions . 73 Summary of the study . 73 Discussion of our findings . 74 Goal 1: Describe the untreated group and treated group in terms of offender characteristics and test for any differences between the two groups. 74 Goal 2: Describe recidivism results sexual, violent and general for the untreated group and the treated group; as well as examining the relationships between offence history variables and recidivism. 75
Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound: Techniques and Differential Diagnoses

1. Skeletal system: general 2. Joints 3. Appendicular skeleton 4. Head and neck 5. Spine 6. Lower respiratory tract 7. Cardiovascular system 8. Other thoracic structures - pleural cavity, mediastinum, thoracic oesophagus, thoracic wall 9. Other abdominal structures - abdominal wall, peritoneal and retroperitoneal cavities, parenchymal organs 10. Gastrointestinal tract 11. Urogenital tract 12. Soft tissues Appendices: Radiographic faults Ultrasound terminology and artefacts Geographic distributions of diseases
The pharmacodynamics of antifungal agents against Aspergillus

Background: Voriconazole is a first line agent for the treatment for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. There are increasing reports of Aspergillus fumigatus isolates with reduced susceptibility to voriconazole. I investigated the pharmacodynamics of voriconazole against drug susceptible and drug resistant strains of Aspergillus fumigatus through the development of a novel dynamic in vitro model of the human alveolus. I then investigated whether combination therapy with voriconazole and anidulafungin would be beneficial in the treatment of infection with these isolates.Methods: An in vitro dynamic model of IPA was developed that enabled simulation of human-like voriconazole pharmacokinetics. Galactomannan was used as a biomarker. The pharmacodynamics of voriconazole against wild-type and three resistant strains of A. fumigatus were defined. The results were bridged to humans to provide decision support for setting breakpoints for voriconazole using Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and European Committee of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) methodology. The interaction of voriconazole and anidulafungin in an in vitro static model was described using the Greco model.Results: Isolates with higher MICs required higher area under the concentration time curve (AUCs) to achieve suppression of galactomannan. An AUC:MIC using CLSI and EUCAST methodology that achieved suppression of galactomannan was 55 and 32.1, respectively. A trough concentration:MIC using CLSI and EUCAST methodology that achieved suppression of galactomannan was 1.68 and 1, respectively. Potential CLSI breakpoints for voriconazole are: susceptible ? 0.5 mg/L; resistant > 1 mg/L. Potential EUCAST breakpoints for voriconazole are: susceptible ? 1 mg/L; resistant > 2 mg/L. Galactomannan concentrations were only marginally reduced by anidulafungin monotherapy in the static model. An additive effect between voriconazole and anidulafungin was apparent.Conclusions: Voriconazole resistance mechanisms can be overcome with higher drug exposures, but this may require concentrations likely to cause toxicity in humans. The addition of anidulafungin does not markedly alter the exposure-response relationship of voriconazole. A rise in serum galactomannan during combination therapy with voriconazole and anidulafungin should be interpreted as treatment failure and not attributed to a paradoxical reaction related to echinocandin treatment. The dynamic in vitro model is a useful tool to address many remaining questions related to treatment of invasive fungal infection.
Influenza Vaccination in Community Dwelling Elderly Persons

textabstractAn influenza epidemic was first described in 1173, although there are reports of influenza as early as 412 BC. Recurrent epidemics and incidental pandemics caused by influenza virus are documented since the last 400 years. These were based upon clinical observation and epidemiology. Although a virus was suspected to be the cause of influenza infections, it was not until 1933 that influenza viruses were first isolated during an influenza epidemic in London. Only recently the virus causing the 1914-1918 pandemic (“Spanish flu”) was isolated from conserved lung tissue of an American soldier. The first influenza vaccine was licensed in 1945.
Towards proactive care for potentially frail older people in general practice : Development, feasibility, and effectiveness of the [G]OLD preventive home visitation programme

Ensuring that the elderly can live independently at home for as long as possible is central to Dutch healthcare policy. This is pursued by [G]OUD, Gezond Oud in Limburg (Healthy Ageing in Limburg). By making preventative home visits to people over the age of 75, general practitioners can identify vulnerability at an early stage and arrange for the right support in terms of healthcare and wellbeing. This dissertation describes the development, the practical feasibility, and the effectiveness of [G]OUD. Despite the enthusiastic response from GP practices and elderly people, this approach has yet to make a demonstrable impact on quality of life or on the self-reliance of elderly people. This can be attributed to, among other things, the high level of care in the Netherlands and the fact that most of the research participants were relatively healthy. As a result, the study did not assess the intended target group: vulnerable elderly people. More attention is needed in order to better align and coordinate elderly care.
Prognostic significance of estradiol and progesterone receptor activities in human breast cancer

In 75 patients with advanced breast cancer, sequential biopsies were analyzed for estrogen receptor (ER). In 50 of these patients progesterone receptor (PgR) was also measured. Al l pairs of biop­ sies met the fol lowing c r i t e r i a : ( i ) interval between the two b i ­ opsies: at least 6 weeks ; ( i i ) biopsies performed at least б weeks after stopping endocrine therapy; and ( i i i ) concordant his­ tology. Discordance in ER was found in 14 of 75 patients (18.7%); PgR was discordant in 14 of 50 patients (28.0%). No s i g n i f i c a n t differences were found between concordant and discordant groups of patients in age at f i r s t diagnosis, menopausal s t a t e , diameter of the primary tumor, time interval between the two biopsies and i n ­ tervening therapy. The i n i t i a l ER level in patients whose ER changed from posit ive to negative was s i g n i f i c a n t l y lower than in patients whose ER remained posi t ive. PgR levels exhibited a r ise only when ER rose at the same time. Sequential assays have i n ­ creased the prognostic significance of ER and as a consequence the estimated survival time for patients whose tumors were ER-negative in both biopsies was s i g n i f i c a n t l y shorter than for patients whose tumors were ER-negative in only one of the two biopsies. We found no prognostic signif icance for PgR in either single measurements or repeated biopsies. Eur J Cancer Clin Oncol 20,1011-1018,1984
Now She Is Martha then She Is Mary”: the Influence of Beguinages on Attitudes Toward Women

When 12th-century young women in Belgium decided to live together and care for themselves in communities without male intervention, they triggered a change in attitudes toward women. They led a religious life of contemplation and prayer while earning a living as labourers or teachers. Contrary to nuns, they never took formal vows nor lived cloistered. This paper follows the legacy of these “feminist” forerunners, called beguines, during the 19th century and shows the long-lasting effects they had on gender-related outcomes, in particular, gender equality, even in places where they had disappeared a long time ago. Using novel data featuring the precise location of each beguine community in Belgium combined with 19th century census data, we show that wage and literacy differentials between men and women reduced in municipalities exposed to the presence of a beguinage in the past. Using changes in the political organisation through which some villages became more attractive to beguines, we establish that the variation in gender literacy and wages is indeed related to the presence of beguinages. Our results are in line with the extensive empirical evidence documenting the persistence of gender norms and institutions.
Reported use of family centred behaviours amongst service providers working in children's disability services in Ireland

BACKGROUND: ‘Family Centred Care’ (FCC) is a best practice approach for children’s disability services and is supported by local and national policy in Ireland. To date, no studies have been published that have investigated its implementation in community-based, children’s disability services in Ireland. This study aimed to determine to what extent service providers working in children’s disability services in one region of the Health Service Executive in Ireland believe they use FCC practices and to explore the factors influencing the use of this approach. METHODS: A modified version of the Measures of Processes of Care for Services Providers (MPOC-SP) questionnaire was provided to 69 service providers representing a range of disciplines. Mean scores for the MPOC-SP domains were analysed and compared to results of 6 additional questions. RESULTS: 72% staff returned questionnaires (n = 49) with 69% reporting that FCC practices are important. Staff report that they practice behaviours in the domain ‘treating people respectfully’ the most often and behaviours in the domain ‘providing general information’ the least often. Higher mean scores per domain were observed in staff within the School Aged Disability Teams, from individuals who had received FCC training and from clinical psychologists. A weak positive correlation was found between the use of FCC practices and the length of time individuals have been working in a children’s disability service. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that a gap exists between the extent to which staff working in children’s disability services report the perceived importance of FCC practices and the extent to which they report they implement it, and the extent to which they report it. This study also suggests that children’s disability services would benefit from improving the provision of general information to service users and by providing FCC training to all service providers.
Etiology and clinical management of adult meningitis in Indonesia

This thesis consists of 8 chapters and addresses the etiology, diagnosis, outcome and treatment of adult meningitis in Indonesia. The studies were conducted in Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, the referral hospital for West Java province, Indonesia between December 2006 and August 2012. In a cohort of adult patients presenting with meningitis, we found that the vast majority of patients present with subacute meningitis, with high HIV prevalence. The most common diagnosis was TB meningitis, and cryptococcal meningitis was found in one-third of HIV patients. Bacterial meningitis was rare. The outcome was bad, approximately half of patients died during follow up, with HIV infection being the strongest risk factor for death. Bacteriological confirmation of TB cases was found in 50% of cases. In-house real-time PCR (rt-PCR) targeting insertion sequence IS6110 had a higher sensitivity than microscopy and culture. In the search of other possible cause, we found that CSF PCR for Toxoplasma gondii was positive in one third of the HIV-infected population tested. In the field of treatment, we examined if intensified antibiotic treatment containing a higher dose rifampicin intravenously and/or moxifloxacin may improve outcome. Intensified treatment regimens result in higher exposure in blood and CSF, did not result in increased toxicity, and high dose rifampicin was associated with a significant mortality reduction. In the field of prevention, we investigated the prevalence and clinical significance of cryptococcal antigenemia in a cohort of HIV outpatient clinic. We found that 7.1% of ART-naive patients with low CD4 count had a positive cryptococcal antigen. This cryptococcal antigenemia at baseline was strongly associated with the development of cryptococcal meningitis, early dropout, and early death. General lack of awareness of meningitis signs and symptoms was found both in laypeople and health providers. Measures to deal with this situation need to be formulated.