Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Magnitude, clinical and sociodemographic correlate of depression in diabetic patients, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

BACKGROUND Depression is a major factor in causing hospital admissions and deaths in persons with diabetes mellitus. So far there is no study available on depression among Ethiopian diabetic patients. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the magnitude of clinical depression in diabetic patients and its association with the various clinical and sociodemographic factors related to diabetes mellitus. METHODS 313 diabetic patients were selected from diabetic clinics of Black Lion & St. Paul hospitals, using systematic randomized sampling technique and assessed for over a period of three months, October - December 2009. Presence and severity of depression was evaluated using clinical interviews and a structured questionnaire, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. RESULTS Of the total 313 patients, females account for 58.8% (n = 184), patients having type I diabetes 37.2% (n = 116) and type 2 diabetes 62.8% (n = 197). The average duration of illness with diabetes among male patients is found to be 8.2 +/- 6 years and 10.3 +/- 8 years for female patients. The mean duration of diabetes is 9.4 +/- 7.2 years. The magnitude of depression was 61% (n = 188) with mild, moderate, severe depression occurring in 40.9%, 14.7% and 4.5% of patients respectively. In this study depression diagnosed in 52.6% (n = 61) of type 1 DM and 64.8% (n = 127) of type 2 DM, 63% (n = 116) of females and 55.8% (n = 72) males. Occurrence of depression was more in patients with diabetic complications 68.2% (n = 107) and among patients in 36-54 years age group 66.7% (n = 80) compared to the rest age groups. The diagnosis of depression was also more prevalent in those with educational status below secondary level 63.9% (n = 152), (X2 = 5.868, P = 0.0075), among those with duration of DM greater than 5 yrs, 64.2% (n = 140) (X2 = 58.52, p < 0.023). CONCLUSION Depression is an important psychiatric co morbidity in diabetic patients. The magnitude of depression in our study is significantly higher than reports from other countries. Raising awareness about co morbid emotional disorders in such chronic illnesses and availing effective treatment for depression with the basic diabetic care at these clinics may improve glycemia and diabetic related complications.
Excessive Weight Gain Is Associated with an Increased Risk for Pouch Failure in Patients with Restorative Proctocolectomy

Background: The aim was to evaluate the impact of weight gain on pouch outcomes after ileostomy closure. Methods: Consecutive inflammatory bowel disease patients with ileal pouches followed up at our subspecialty Pouch Center from 2002 to 2011 were studied. The association of excessive weight gain (defined as a 15% increase the index weight) with pouch outcomes were evaluated using univariate and multivariate analyses. Results: A total of 846 patients met inclusion criteria, with 470 (55.6%) being men. The mean age at the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease and at pouch surgery was 27.2 ± 11.9 years and 37.8 ± 12.8 years, respectively. Patients with weight gain more likely had mechanical or surgical complications of the pouch (18.4% versus 12.3%, P = 0.049), Crohn's disease of the pouch (30.6% versus 18.5%, P = 0.001), Pouch Center visits (2.0 [1.0–4.0] versus 2.0 [1.0–3.0], P = 0.008), and postoperative pouch-related hospitalization (21.1% versus 10.6%, P < 0.001). After a median follow-up of 9.0 (interquartile range = 4.0–14.0) years, 68 patients (8.0%) developed pouch failure. In the multivariate analysis, excessive weight gain was an independent risk factor for pouch failure with a hazard ratio of 1.69 (95% confidence interval = 1.01–2.84, P = 0.048) after adjusting for preoperative or postoperative use of anti-tumor necrosis factor biologics, postoperative use of immunosuppressants, Crohn's disease of the pouch, mechanical or surgical complications of the pouch, and postoperative pouch-associated hospitalization. Conclusions: Excessive weight gain after closure of the ileostomy is associated with worse pouch outcomes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Appropriate weight control may help improve pouch retention.
Closing of the anterior fontanelle.

The age at which the anterior fontanelle closed in 1677 infants varied between 4 and 26 months, with 90% between 7 and 19 months. In the first year, 41.6% closed, of which 2.7% occurred by 6 months and 13.5% by 9 months. Compared to data in older textbooks, this suggests a trend towards earlier closure of the fontanelle.
Bone mass and vitamin D deficiency in adults with advanced cystic fibrosis lung disease.

Osteoporosis and fractures are increasingly recognized in children and adults with cystic fibrosis. To investigate the prevalence and pathogenesis of osteoporosis and low bone mass in adults with advanced pulmonary disease due to cystic fibrosis, we examined the relationships between bone mineral density (BMD), anthropomorphic variables, pulmonary status, glucocorticoid therapy, and vitamin D concentrations. BMD of the lumbar spine, hip, and proximal radius was measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry in 30 white adults (16 women), age 30 +/- 2 yr (mean +/- SEM). Compared with a normal control population, the patients had significantly reduced BMD at the lumbar spine (17 +/- 3%), total hip and femoral neck (24 +/- 3% and 20 +/- 4%, respectively). The radius was significantly less demineralized (4 +/- 2%; p <= 0.003) than the other sites. Moreover, only 21% of patients with cystic fibrosis had normal BMD (T score > -1.0) at the lumbar spine, 23% at the hip sites, and 39% at the radius. Age, weight, and body mass index (BMI) were most strongly correlated with bone mass, whereas glucocorticoid therapy and pulmonary function were not predictive. Despite oral vitamin D (400 to 800 IU daily), the mean serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) concentration was at the low end of the normal range (16 +/- 2 ng/ml; normal 10 to 52 ng/ml); 8 of 20 patients (40%) had frankly low (<= 10 ng/ml) levels. BMD was significantly lower in patients with low 25-OHD concentrations at the lumbar spine (0.774 +/- 0.02 versus 0.913 +/- 0.04 g/cm2; p = 0.01) and total hip (0.648 +/- 0.04 versus 0.811 +/- 0.04 g/cm2; p = 0.01). Vertebral fractures were present in 19% of subjects and 41% had a confirmed history of previous fracture. In summary, osteoporosis, low bone mass, and fractures are common in adults with advanced cystic fibrosis lung disease. Despite oral supplements, vitamin D deficiency is also common and is associated with more severe demineralization at the lumbar spine and hip. We conclude that the widespread practice of oral supplementation with 400 to 800 units of vitamin D is ineffective in maintaining normal vitamin D stores in many patients with cystic fibrosis. To ensure adequacy of vitamin D stores, measurement of serum 25-OHD should be included in the routine management of patients with cystic fibrosis.
Trends of financing higher education in Lithuania

Today Lithuania and other countries are rapidly moving towards the system of mass higher education. However, a high-quality mass system of higher education cannot be entirely financed by tax payers because tax funding tends to be regressive. The average tax payer funds a service from which only a fraction of the population directly benefits. Higher education system requires public financing to be supplemented on a significant scale from private resources. The author suggests increase financing of Lithuanian higher education by using private resources, i.e. by increasing tuition fees which would reduce the regression of financing the system of higher education. The system where graduates pay a larger share of their study costs would be both fair and economically efficient. Government must give a loan to fund increased tuition fees for studies and the costs-of-living. Currently used mortgage-type loans in Lithuania should be changed into income-contingent loans in which loan repayments would be a fixed proportion of graduate’s annual income. Expanding higher education based on income-contingent, graduate’s contributions are the most direct way to achieve equity in access to higher education.
Cultural Intelligence: Its Measurement and Effects on Cultural Judgment and Decision Making, Cultural Adaptation and Task Performance

We enhance the theoretical precision of cultural intelligence (CQ: capability to function effectively in culturally diverse settings) by developing and testing a model that posits differential relationships between the four CQ, dimensions (metacognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioural) and three intercultural effectiveness outcomes (cultural judgment and decision making, cultural adaptation and task performance in culturally diverse settings). Before testing the model, we describe development and cross-validation (N = 1,360) of the multidimensional cultural intelligence scale (CQS) across samples, time and country. We then describe three substantive studies (N = 794) in field and educational development settings across two national contexts, the USA and Singapore. The results demonstrate a consistent pattern of relationships where metacognitive CQ and cognitive CQ predicted cultural judgment and decision making; motivational CQ and behavioural CQ predicted cultural adaptation; and metacognitive CQ and behavioural CQ predicted task performance. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of our model and findings.
Productivity premia for many modes of internationalization.

This study attempts to replicate estimation results from Gábor Békés and Balázs Muraközy, Measuring productivity premia with many modes of internationalization, published in Economics Letters (2016). In this paper the authors use comparable firm-level data for seven European countries based on the EFIGE dataset to estimate the productivity premia of firms with various modes of internationalization by several empirical methods to demonstrate how results differ due to the method applied. While the EFIGE data are available free of charge from the web one core variable used by Békés and Muroközy is not, because total factor productivity (tfp) as computed by the authors is based on data from a commercial data base and, therefore, is available for users with a license to this database only. The freely available EFIGE data, however, come with another tfp-variable that can be used instead. In this replication study I use the EFIGE data with this publicly available tfp-variable to replicate (parts of) the estimations of Békés and Muraközy (2016) to see whether their results hold with the widely used public use version of the EFIGE data, too. It turns out that the big picture that emerges from using both productivity measures tends to be very similar. The use of the public use version of the EFIGE data for empirical investigations that deal with productivity, therefore, seems to be feasible. JEL Classification: F14
Banking with a chatbot: a battle between convenience and security

Soon, you will be able to check your bank balance or transfer money through Facebook Messenger and Twitter as banks experiment with chatbots. Companies like Ikea have used customer service chatbots for close to a decade. But their use in financial services represents a new tension - do we want convenience or a feeling of security from our banks?
The limits and possibilities of employee engagement

The Warwick Papers in Industrial Relations series publishes the work of members of the Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU) and people associated with it. Papers may be of topical interest or require presentation outside of the normal conventions of a journal article. A formal editorial process ensures that standards of quality and objectivity are maintained. member of the Business School's Advisory Board, and a source of valued counsel to IRRU in its work. His outstanding contribution to the practice of industrial relations commenced when he joined the EEF in 1938. He went on to become the Federation's Director of Industrial Relations. Sir Pat was appointed as Chair of Acas. He stepped down six years later with Acas' reputation for impartial and constructive advice enhanced, in the face of an often turbulent industrial relations landscape. In this 2012 lecture John Purcell addresses a theme which is the focus of a Government-instigated task force, aimed at harnessing the potential of employee engagement to raise organisational performance and, at the same time, enhance employee well-being. He asks if there is anything new in the concept of engagement, and whether it holds the prospect of reclaiming a central role for employment relations in successful management behaviour. His answer is a conditional 'yes', but that significant limitations needs to be overcome for the full benefits for both organisations and employees to be realised. Building trust, perceptions of fairness and of organisational justice are, Purcell contends, key prerequisites. Representative-based employee consultation arrangements can make a substantial contribution to doing this. A few days ago I was asked to meet two senior managers at Royal Mail to talk about approaches to building and sustaining a partnership with the CWU. This took me back to the early 1990s when Sir Pat Lowry and I worked together to help Royal Mail find ways to build better relationships with the union and with staff in sorting and delivery offices. It was a great privilege to work with Pat and learn from him about listening before talking, and helping people find their own solutions, even when he had planted the idea. He would never take credit for that. I had met him a few times before: he always remembered me and somehow seemed to know what I had been working on and showed interest in it. Ever since I was a student at LSE in 1968 I had admired him: his …
In vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Gatifloxacin Compared with Other Quinolones against Clinical Isolates from Cancer Patients

Owing to the predominance of gram-positive pathogens in neutropenic cancer patients, newer generation quinolones with an expanded gram-positive spectrum and enhanced potency, may have a role to play for prophylaxis and/or empiric therapy in such patients. The in vitro activity of gatifloxacin was compared with that of ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin and trovafloxacin against 848 recent clinical isolates from cancer patients. Against gram-positive organisms, gatifloxacin was the most active agent tested inhibiting all Aerococcus, Listeria monocytogens, Micrococcus, Stomatococcus mucilaginous, Bacillus, and Rhodococcus equi strains at ≤2 mg/l, its designated susceptibility breakpoint. It was also very active against methicillin-susceptible staphylococci and Streptococcus spp. (including penicillin nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae and viridans streptococci). It had moderate activity against methicillin-resistant staphylococci and Enterococcus faecalis, inhibiting 68–80% of these strains at ≤2 mg/l. Gatifloxacin also had good activity against the Enterobacteriaceae (although ciprofloxacin was more potent) inhibiting >95% of isolates at ≤1 mg/l. Nonfermentative gram-negative organisms were less susceptible to all 4 agents. Gatifloxacin was very active against Acinetobacter lwoffi (MIC100 0.12 mg/l) and had moderate activity against Acinetobacter baumanii, Chryseobacterium spp. , Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other Pseudomonas species. Alcaligenes xylosoxidans strains were relatively resistant to all 4 agents.
A Statistical Approach to the Inspection Checklist Formal Synthesis and Improvement

Proposes a statistical approach to the formal synthesis and improvement of inspection checklists. The approach is based on defect causal analysis and defect modeling. The defect model is developed using IBM's Orthogonal Defect Classification. A case study describes the steps required and a tool for the implementation. The advantages and disadvantages of both empirical and statistical methods are discussed and compared. It is suggested that a statistical approach should be used in conjunction with the empirical approach. The main advantage of the proposed technique is that it allows us to tune a checklist according to the most recent project experience and to identify optimal checklist items even when a source document does not exist.
Study on low profile wideband antenna

A low profile Ultra-wideband omnidirectional antenna is proposed in this paper. The new designed antenna is with good performance over 225MHz to 400MHz. The structure of the proposed antenna consists of a column with four annular semi-elliptic elements (C-FASE), top loaded by a circular “hat” which is shorted to the square ground plane with four symmetrical stub. The notch filtering is realized by inserting a metallic column to two orthogonal annular elliptic slices with different resonant frequencies which couple together to form a wider frequency bandwidth. The height of the new antenna is 0. 05λ0, where λ0 is the wavelength of the low frequency.
Inhibition of cell division in hupA hupB mutant bacteria lacking HU protein

Escherichia coli hupA hypB double mutants that lack HU protein have severe cellular defects in cell division, DNA folding, and DNA partitioning. Here we show that the sfiA11 mutation, which alters the SfiA cell division inhibitor, reduces filamentation and production of anucleate cells in AB1157 hupA hupB strains. However, lexA3(Ind-) and sfiB(ftsZ)114 mutations, which normally counteract the effect of the SfiA inhibitor, could not restore a normal morphology to hupA hupB mutant bacteria. The LexA repressor, which controls the expression of the sfiA gene, was present in hupA hupB mutant bacteria in concentrations half of those of the parent bacteria, but this decrease was independent of the specific cleavage of the LexA repressor by activated RecA protein. One possibility to account for the filamentous morphology of hupA hupB mutant bacteria is that the lack of HU protein alters the expression of specific genes, such as lexA and fts cell division genes.
Shrouded Prices and Firm Reputation: Evidence from the U.S. Hotel Industry

Firms in many industries engage in price obfuscation—tactics that intentionally make prices more difficult for consumers to discern. Although existing research has focused on the short-term financial gains that motivate firms to obfuscate, reputational concerns may at least partially counteract these incentives if consumers punish deceptive firms via loss of loyalty in future transactions and/or publicly observable negative feedback. This paper addresses the latter possibility, exploring the impact of mandatory shrouded surcharges on firm reputation in the U.S. hotel industry. Using data collected from two major online travel sites, I exploit differences in surcharge disclosure across booking channels to identify the causal effect of hidden “resort fees” on traveler ratings. I find that hidden fees decrease ratings by roughly 0.15 points (on a rating scale ranging from 1 to 5). The magnitude of this effect varies based on firm characteristics, and this variation is consistent with observed heterogeneity in resort fee adoption patterns: when the expected punishment is more severe, firms are substantially less likely to adopt shrouded surcharges. Results shed light on the extent to which reputational mechanisms may act as a check against price obfuscation and other similar practices intended to exploit boundedly rational consumers. This paper was accepted by Eric Anderson, marketing.
Are children's psychological self-concepts predictive of their self reported activity preferences and leisure participation?

BACKGROUND/AIM Participation in leisure and play activities is recognised as an important outcome in occupational therapy for children. To investigate whether children's psychological self-concept are predictive of their activity preferences and leisure participation. METHOD A group of 38 healthy children aged 10-14 years from Victoria, Australia completed the Piers-Harris Self Concept Scale (Piers Harris-2) and the Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment/Preferences for Activities of Children (CAPE/PAC). Correlation and regression analyses were completed to investigate the predictive relationships between the Pier Harris-2 and the CAPE/PAC. RESULTS The Piers Harris-2 Intellectual and School Status subscale was found to be predictive of children's Overall Enjoyment of Participation as measured on the CAPE, explaining 21.9% of the total variance (β = 0.566, P < 0.01). The Piers Harris-2 Freedom from Anxiety subscale made a unique contribution to children's preferences for skill-based activities as measured by the PAC, explaining 18.9% of the total variance (β = -.435, P < 0.01). Children's gender accounted for 22.7% of the total variance of the PAC Physical Activities subscale (β = -.476, P ≤ 0.01) and 14.6% of the PAC Preferences for Skill-Based Activities subscale (β = 0.382, P ≤ 0.05) while age made unique contributions to the PAC Social Activities subscale (β = -0.418, P ≤ 0.01) explaining 17.5% of its total variance. CONCLUSION This study provides evidence that children's psychological self-concept, age and gender are predictive of components of children's activity preferences and leisure participation. In particular, participation enjoyment is influenced by their perceived self-esteem and how well they do at school. Further investigation of this topic is recommended.
Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Job Satisfaction at Globus India Ltd

The Impact of the affective component of Emotional Intelligence on Job Satisfaction becomes very interesting especially when we are talking about the frontline employees who are the visible face of the organization. The frontline retail staff are the first point of contact for the customers. They can be considered to be doing emotional labor as they are dealing in and out with the whims and fancies of a continuous stream of customers. In this context it would be interesting to study whether a high Emotional Intelligence leads to job satisfaction for the employee or not? The person -Job fit has to be considered so that the frontline staff can convert the footfalls in the retail outlet to actual sales. No study has been conducted in this area so this research paper endeavors to find out this missing link.This is a causal study. The questionnaire consists of 26 items in the Likert Scale. A survey was conducted at the 7 Globus retail stores in Mumbai viz: Bandra, Kalaghoda, Thane, Ghatkopar, Vashi-City Centre, Vashi -Inorbit Mall and Dahisar. The entire population of employees in the level of Store Managers and Department Managers and sales executives were taken for the purpose of the study.
Consumer-Generated Reviews on Social Media and Brand Relationship Outcomes in the Fast-Food Chain Industry

ABSTRACT A number of studies agree on the fact that social media users tend to trust more the contents created by other users than those generated by companies’ marketing departments or advertising agencies. However, little is known regarding whether social media can actually enhance brand trust and other brand relationship outcomes that are deemed critical to the hospitality marketing literature. This paper seeks to offer some important insight on this issue by examining the impact of consumer-generated reviews on social media on four main pillars of the relationship marketing paradigm, i.e., satisfaction, trust, commitment, and loyalty. The inter-relationship between brand outcomes is also examined. The findings suggest that consumer-generated reviews on social media exert a direct impact on affective brand commitment and an indirect impact on brand loyalty. However, their influence on brand satisfaction and trust appears to be insignificant. The inter-relationship between brand relationship outcomes is also corroborated.