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Collective Competence and Social Capital : a Proposal of a Model for Collaborative Network Analysis

The present paper addresses the issue of collective competence and social capital analysis for collabor tive networks. The objective of the project is to unders tand how collaborative networks can be influenced considering the perspective of social capital and c ore competences. In this model we defend the emphasis o n endogenous resources, once the technology is, in a general way, accessible to most of the companies an d, therefore will not be a long term competitive advan tage. The model shows that collaborative networks will be more competitive and successful if they invest in t o core elements that are: organizational culture and peopl e. Therefore, the model contributes for the researches in socio-organizational filed and provides a tool to e valuate collaborative networks.
Self-Organization based Network Architecture and Control Technologies for New Generation Networks

—An emerging new generation network is requested to accommodate an enormous numbers of nodes with high diversity and a wide variety of trafﬁc and applications. To achieve higher scalability, adaptability, and robustness than ever before, in this paper we present new network architecture composed of self-organizing entities. The architecture consists of the physical network layer, service overlay network layer, and common network layer mediating them. All network entities, i.e., nodes and networks, behave in a self-organizing manner, where the global behavior emerges through their operation on local information and direct and/or indirect mutual interaction intra-and inter-layers. We show several results to demonstrate how self-organizing network control behaves based on our architecture.
Sagittal translation of the tibia during stair walking in normal volunteers. Reproducibility of an electrogoniometric method

Knee flexion and sagittal tibial translation were measured during stair ascent and descent as well as during maximal isokinetic concentric muscle work with an electrogoniometer chain in ten volunteers without previous knee injury. The tests were repeated 16 times for each knee on different occasions by two examiners. The standard deviation for repeated measurements was ± 1.3 mm and the 95% confidence interval for the difference between repeated measurements was ± 0.9 mm. The test-retest correlations were above 0.80 for the whole group of subjects. There were no significant differences between the right and left knee, different sessions or examiners. There was a wide range in the amount of translation between different individuals from 2.7 to 10.2 mm. The translations during stair walking were 30-50% smaller than during isokinetic muscle work and the coefficient of variation was therefore higher. There was no difference in translations between stair ascent and stair descent but the amount of translation was larger for cycles ending with both feet carrying body weight than for single support cycles. It is suggested that higher contact forces in the knee diminishes the amount of sagittal translation. This finding indicates that closed kinetic chain exercises may be preferable to minimize translatory forces in the rehabilitation after reconstruction of the cruciate ligaments.
Speech Prosody : Issues , Approaches and Implications

In the development of unlimited Mandarin Chinese TTS, two fundamental problems have been the greatest barriers to progress and the most difficult to solve: (1.) how to predict prosody from text, and (2.) how to achieve more natural speech output. These impediments are not simply technology-related problems at the application end, nor are they uniquely Chinese, but rather reflect a major gap in our understanding of speech prosody. In other words, it is our conceptualization of the characteristics of speech flow that has been lacking. This inadequacy of understanding is at least twofold: one aspect being the overall organization of the prosody of connected speech, another being speech prosody in terms of its relationship to speech planning. The present paper discusses the source of these problems, some possible solutions and some promising directions for future research. We propose that prosody research on speech flow in Mandarin must include the following in the scope of its investigation: (1.) the characteristics of connected speech that constitute the prosodic properties of speech flow, i.e., units, boundaries, F0 contour patterns, tempo and intensity, (2.) a wider scope with respect to the type of speech data collected, i.e., paragraphs instead of isolated or unrelated sentences, (3.) consideration of prosody in relation to speech planning at levels other than that of the individual phrase, i.e., information at lexical, syntactic and higher levels, and (4.) development of a framework for the overall organization of prosody in speech flow, i.e., one that incorporates and accounts for the above-mentioned features. In addition, this paper will propose a base form of F0 contour patterns for Mandarin speech prosody and a framework for the temporal organization within those patterns.
Incorporating economic evidence into cancer care: searching for the missing link

Since the early 1980s it has been identified that even though economic evaluation is considered useful by economist it is not widely used by health care decision-makers. One of the ways to close the gap is to involve decision-makers in the process. This project was set up to gain a better understanding of the information needs for resource allocation in the field of cancer care. The results of this project are intended to aid the development and use of the NSW Cancer Institute? s Standard Cancer Treatments (CI-SCAT) website in future years. This initiative is part of the NSW 2004-2006 Cancer to ensure that clinical practice is evidence-based and research driven. The CI-SCAT Reference Group develops and approves clinical protocols to provide clinicians with chemotherapy cancer protocols, including the evidence, cost, and drug dose calculation. Members of CI-SCAT Reference Groups were surveyed in their capacity as clinicians and decision-makers in the Australian Health Care System. The survey asked about participants? knowledge, use and views of economic evaluation in decision making. It also sought information about their knowledge and views on how resource allocation decisions were made within your local area/hospital and whether participants would value greater access to various types of economic information. This paper will explore what decision-makers at a state/local level value in terms of economic evidence.
Effect Of Therapeutic Lithium Carbonate Doses On Rat Brain Content Of Mood Regulating Neurotransmitters

The anti-depressant value of lithium on rat brain tissue was studied at different treatment periods to explore its impact on brain neurotransmitters related to mood disorders (dopamine and histamine) ,precursors with further highlighting on minerals implicated in their synthesis (magnesium and calcium). We examined a therapeutic dose (75 mg/kg/d) on four groups of rats, 6/each, grouped according to duration into, control group; given saline (group 1), acute study group; given single dose, left for 2 hours (group 2), sub-acute study group; given a dose each 3 days for 2 weeks (group 3) and a chronic study group; given a dose each 3 days for a month (group 4). Brain content of dopamine and histamine was significantly decreased on acute treatment, but increased for dopamine and decreased for histamine after 2 weeks while it flipped for each of them after one month of administration. Gama aminobutyrate (GABA), glycine and histidine were significantly decreased after each period of treatment while phenyl alanine was significantly decreased only after a month of treatment. These changes occurred with increased magnesium and decreased calcium brain content on both acute and sub-acute treatment. Brain content of both of them was decreased on chronic treatment. These actions reveal that lithium has a remarkable effect on brain neuronal function which probably postulates an interesting impact of lithium treatment in shifting amino acids and needed minerals in direction of improving the mood, through neurotransmission homeostasis. List of abbreviations: 5HT: serotonin; AA: arachidonic acid; Ach: acetylcholine; AD: Alzheimer disease; BD: bipolar disorder; BDNF: brain-derived neurotrophic factor; cAMP: cyclic adenosine monophosphate; Cdk5: cyclin-dependent kinase 5; ER: endoplasmic reticulum; GABA: gamma-Aminobutyric acid; GSK3: Glycogen synthase kinase 3; HDAC: Histone deacetylase; IL-1β: Interleukin 1 beta; IL-6: Interleukin 6; IP3: inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate; NMDA: N-methyl-D-aspartic acid; PAI-1: plasminogen activatorinhibitor-1; PD: Parkinson's disease; SNc: substantianigra pars compacta; TBARS: Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances; TNF-α: Tumor necrosis factor alpha.
Effect of an empowerment program on management of care related self-efficacy of epileptic child's mother

Background & Objectives: Epileptic child's mothers are faced with care problems such as low levels of management of self-efficacy care. These mothers have not received the same empowerment program yet. Aim of this study was to determine the effect of an epileptic child's care giving empowerment program on management of self-efficacy care in epileptic child's mothers. Materials and Methods: This clinical trial study was conducted on 100 mothers of epileptic children who hospitalized in neurology department of Ghaem Hospital in 2013. Eligible mothers were selected via convenience sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control group. At first, management of self-efficacy care was evaluated using standard care giving self-efficacy scale in both experimental and control groups. In experimental group empowerment care was performed and the control group received no intervention. Forty-five days after the last session of program implementation, management of self-efficacy care was evaluated in both experimental and control groups again. Data were analyzed using
Tilburg University How Effective are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions ? Looking Beyond Unemployment

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis we use a rich set of Swiss register data which allow us to distinguish between ex ante effects, the effects of warnings and the effects of enforcement of benefit sanctions. Adopting a multivariate mixed proportional hazard approach to address selectivity, we find that both warnings and enforcement increase the job finding rate and the exit rate out of the labor force. Warnings do not affect subsequent employment stability but do reduce post-unemployment earnings. Actual benefit reductions lower the quality of post-unemployment jobs both in terms of job duration as well as in terms of earnings. The net effect of a benefit sanction on post-unemployment income is negative. Over a period of two years after leaving unemployment workers who got a benefit sanction imposed face a net income loss equivalent to 30 days of full pay due to the ex post effect. In addition to that, stricter monitoring may reduce net earnings by up to 4 days of pay for every unemployed worker due to the ex ante effect. JEL Classification: J64, J65, J68
HUBUNGAN ANTARA KONDISI FISIK RUMAH DENGAN KEJADIAN TUBERKULOSIS PARU DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS KEDUNGMUNDU KOTA SEMARANG

Rumah yang tidak memenuhi syarat kesehatan merupakan faktor risiko penyakit tuberkulosis paru. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara kondisi fisik rumah dengan kejadian Tuberkulosis paru (TB paru) di wilayah kerja Puskesmas Kedungmundu Kota Semarang. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode observasional dengan rancangan penelitian kasus kontrol. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah penderita TB paru dan bukan penderita TB paru (penderita gastritis) yang berjumlah 52 orang. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan purposive sampling. Dari hasil penelitian didapatkan bahwa ada hubungan yang signifikan antara jenis lantai (p value = 0,025 dan OR = 4,792), jenis dinding (p value = 0,035 dan OR = 5,333), intensitas pencahayaan (p value = 0,023 dan OR = 3,889), kelembaban (p value = 0,032 dan OR = 4,033) dengan kejadian TB paru. Tidak ada hubungan antara kepadatan hunian ruang tidur (p value = 0,163), luas ventilasi (p value = 0,569), dan suhu (p value = 0,337) dengan kejadian TB paru. Disarankan pada pihak-pihak terkait untuk berpartisipasi dalam mengurangi kejadian TB paru di wilayah kerja Puskesmas Kedungmundu Kota Semarang.
Prescription Drug Coverage and Elderly Medicare Spending

The introduction of Medicare Part D has generated interest in the cost of providing drug coverage to the elderly. Of paramount importance -- often unaccounted for in budget estimates -- are the salutary effects that increased prescription drug use might have on other Medicare spending. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to estimate how prescription drug benefits affect Medicare spending. We compare spending and service use for Medigap enrollees with and without drug coverage. Because of concerns about selection, we use variation in supply-side regulations of the individual insurance market -- including guaranteed issue and community rating -- as instruments for prescription drug coverage. We employ a discrete factor model to control for individual-level heterogeneity that might induce bias in the effects of drug coverage. Medigap prescription drug coverage increases drug spending by $170 or 22%, and reduces Medicare Part A spending by $350 or 13% (in 2000 dollars). Medigap prescription drug coverage reduces Medicare Part B spending, but the estimates are not statistically significant. Overall, a $1 increase in prescription drug spending is associated with a $2.06 reduction in Medicare spending. Furthermore, the substitution effect decreases as income rises, and thus provides support for the low-income assistance program of Medicare Part D.
A Caring Leadership Model for Nursing’s Future

This article describes the McDowell-Williams Caring Leadership Model that brings together the caring theory of Watson (2008) and the leadership theory of Kouzes and Posner (2007). This model provides institutional guidance for continuing the effective shared governance by the nurses at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC), as well as strategies for leaders to use with staff as they make their workplace the best place to work and the best place to receive care.
Hypothyroidism and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Hypothyroidism is relatively a common disease worldwide. Overall prevalence in adults in the United States is 4.6%. (Golden et al., 2009) It can present as mild/subclinical form or overt hypothyroidism with a prevalence of 4.3% and 0.3% of adult populations, respectively. (Golden et al., 2009) Thyroid hormone deficiency has been linked to increased risk of cardiovascular morbidities and mortalities. (McQuade et al., 2011, Resta et al., 2004) Respiratory system like other body systems and organs is affected by hypothyroidism. The spectrum of diseases involvement can range from mild dyspnea to more severe and lifethreatening respiratory failure. Several pathophysiological mechanisms are responsible for the compromise in the respiratory system including reduction in central respiratory drive, respiratory muscle weakness and sleep-related breathing disorders (SBD). (Duranti et al., 1993, Saaresranta and Polo, 2002, Curnock et al., 1999) Hypothyroidism is characterized by mucopolysaccharides accumulation in the dermis, hypopharynx, tongue and other tissues. (Skatrud et al., 1981, Orr et al., 1981) In its most severe form (myxedema), patients typically present with hypothermia, hypercapnia, hypotension and bradycardia. Both hypothyroidism and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) share common signs and symptoms. Increased fatigue and sleepiness, decreased cognitive function, decreased libido, obesity and depressed mood are common findings in both disorders. (Grunstein et al., 1993, Misiolek M and 2007, Chan et al., 2010) Periorbital edema and pedal edema are other common findings in patients with either disorder. Nevertheless, snoring which is a hallmark of OSA is also reported in hypothyroid cases. (Misiolek M and 2007, Georgalas, 2011) The overlap between the two disorders may create a problem for the treating physician in differentiating both disorders and may result in a misdiagnosis or under-recognition of one of the disorders. Therefore, it is essential to consider both diseases in high risk patients and initiate the proper therapeutic plan accordingly. This chapter discusses how hypothyroidism interferes with respiratory physiology and then discusses the relationship between hypothyroidism and sleep disordered breathing.
Assessment of Critical Risks and Influence on the Success of Construction Projects

DOI: 10.21276/sb.2018. 4.3. 3 Abstract: Risks plays significant part in the construction projects success. Risk identification and assessment failure may result to inefficiency in the procedures of managing risks, in which may critically have an impact on the projects‘ resources. A proper risk management is hardly applied in construction projects as a result of the lack of contractors‘ awareness of critical risks. The purpose of this paper is to base its focus on the examination of risk factors in construction projects.
Certified athletic trainers' knowledge of MRSA and common disinfectants

CERTIFIED ATHLETIC TRAINERS' KNOWLEDGE OF MRS A AND COMMON DISINFECTANTS Elizabeth Gilmore The purpose of this study was to assess certified athletic trainers' (ATs) knowledge of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRS A), knowledge of common disinfectants, and current practices. A randomized web-based survey was conducted with ATs. Participants included 163 ATs (81 men and 70 women) from NCAA Divisions I-III institutions and high schools. Participants had 1-33 years of athletic training experience with a mean of 11.23 ±8.10 years. Frequencies, ANOVA, and Chi-square tests were used to assess current practices and opinions and to assess relationships between factors. Ninety-two percent of participants felt MRS A was a national problem, and 57% of participants perceived MRSA a problem in their practice setting. The majority of participants had treated general infections (88%), staphylococcus infections (57%), and MRSA infections (57%). Gender was associated with treating all 3 infections (chi-square, p<0.05). Non-curriculum education was associated with non-consideration of environmental issues as risk factors and use of isopropyl alcohol for disinfection (chisquare, p <0.05). Ten percent of Participants felt contaminated whirlpools were not a source of MRSA infection. Participants incorrectly identified Povidone Iodine Whirlpool concentrate as effective (42%) and some were unsure if 409 (44%), Cavicide (39%) and Viraguard (44%) were effective. ATs need to be aware of all MRSA risk factors, so that they can provide correct information to their athletes and patients. ATs also need to maintain current knowledge about disinfectants and MRSA prevention.
Study of semiconductor heterostructures with embedded quantum dots: micropillars and photodetectors

Neste trabalho estudamos alguns processos opticos em sistemas semicondutores, em especial, heteroestruturas de dois tipos que contem pontos quânticos: fotodetectores de infravermelho e pilares de microcavidades. Os pontos quânticos tem a funcao de fornecer eletrons e/ou quasi-particulas como excitons e bi-excitons, fundamentais para a operacao de dispositivos baseados em pilares de microcavidades e fotodetectores. A importância dos detectores de infravermelho e enorme, com uma imensa variedade de aplicacoes, e a relevância das microcavidades tem crescido devido as suas promissoras aplicacoes tecnologicas. Apresentamos aqui o estudo teorico e experimental destas duas heterostruturas em casos especificos de nosso interesse. Para investigar o acoplamento entre os modos fotonicos e a emissao de pontos quânticos inseridos em pilares de microcavidades, foi implementado um codigo baseado no software livre CAMFR [Peter Bienstmann. Cavity modelling framework, http://camfr.sourceforge. net], que permitenos modelar dispositivos fotonicos como VCSELs e microcavidades. Mostramos que a partir da analise da intensidade de excitacao dos varios modos dos pilares, e possivel inferir sobre a polarizacao dos pontos quânticos neles inseridos. Para auxiliar na interpretacao da resposta de fotodetectores de infravermelho baseados em pontos quânticos semicondutores, foi desenvolvido um codigo na linguagem de programacao C, o qual e baseado na diagonalizacao numerica da equacao de Schrodinger na aproximacao de massa efetiva, obtendo assim a estrutura de niveis de energia e funcoes de onda do sistema. As magnitudes de oscilador sao calculadas para quantificar quais sao as transicoes opticas mais provaveis, e entender alguns fenomenos interessantes que aparecem no estudo dos detectores de infravermelho. Concluimos que o espalhamento Auger e um processo determinante na resposta desses dispositivos.
Forest Connectivity, Host Assemblage Characteristics of Local and Neighboring Counties, and Temperature Jointly Shape the Spatial Expansion of Lyme Disease in United States

Understanding risk factors for the spread of infectious diseases over time and across the landscape is critical for managing disease risk. While habitat connectivity and characteristics of local and neighboring animal (i.e., host) assemblages are known to influence the spread of diseases, the interactions among these factors remain poorly understood. In this study, we conducted a county-level analysis to test the effects of forest connectivity, together with the suitability of local assemblage (measured by the similarity of local host assemblage with neighboring assemblages) and the infection intensity of neighboring counties on the spatial expansion of Lyme disease in the United States. Our results suggested that both the similarity of local host assemblage and the infection intensity of neighboring counties were positively correlated with the probability of disease spread. Moreover, we found that increasing forest connectivity could facilitate the positive effect of neighbor infection intensity. In contrast, the effect size of the host assemblage similarity decreased with increasing connectivity, suggesting that host assemblage similarity was less effective in well-connected habitats. Our results thus indicate that habitat connectivity can indirectly influence disease spread by mediating the effects of other risk factors.