Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The rhetoric and reality of nursing in aged care: views from the inside

Background: Aged care services and nursing roles are evolving in response to policy reform and increasing consumer expectations, however the nursing workforce is declining in numbers. Aims: To examine registered nurses’ perceptions and experiences of working in aged care. Methods: Descriptive, exploratory study involving thematic analysis of individual interviews. Results: Key issues related to: professional role strain; workforce challenges; managing expectations, relationships and communication; balancing rights and risk in decision-making; changing models of care and impacts of policy and regulation. Conclusion: Expectations and perceptions of aged care nursing are unclear and conflicted. Nurses face significant challenges in meeting consumer, profession, organisational, and policy expectations amidst workforce instability and resource constraints. Structural barriers and aged care policy environments represent significant threats to sustaining nursing in aged care.
We like to talk about smell: A worldly take on language, sensory experience, and the Internet

Abstract Western languages have been marked by their lack of specialized vocabulary to express odor qualities, and thus it is stated that it is difficult – if not impossible – to talk about smell. To engage the issue of olfactory ineffability, this paper turns to actual instances of textual renderings of smell by paying attention to how the olfactory language of scent enthusiasts is rendered on the Internet. The methods that enthusiasts’ texts inscribe do not rely on specialized vocabulary but constitute a language that is turned toward the world. To articulate this character of olfactory language, the paper illustrates four discursive procedures employed on the Internet: embedding knowledges that are contoured and made available through their uses by the community; borrowing professional vocabulary and adapting it through humor; providing “recipes” for practical actions; and emphasizing the subjective character of scent to provide openings for conversation. The paper traces how olfactory talk becomes available as it is practiced, challenging the opposition between sensory experiences and the semiotic realm that is inscribed in the idea of olfactory ineffability.
Bilateral cataracts and insulin oedema in a child with type 1 diabetes mellitus

We describe a teenage type 1 diabetic girl with painless pedal oedema and bilateral cataracts. She developed oedema after commencement of intensive insulin therapy and achievement of excellent glycaemic control. In addition, she was also found to have bilateral subcapsular cataracts. The oedema subsided spontaneously and she underwent surgical treatment for the cataracts. Insulin oedema is a rare complication of insulin therapy. To our knowledge, co-occurrence of these two complications in a young diabetic patient has not been described before in the English language medical literature.
Energy loss minimisation by optimal design of stationary supercapacitors for light railways

This paper presents a methodology to design the optimal capacitances and locations of stationary supercapacitors for light DC railways based on a single train simulator. The objective function of the optimisation problem takes into account the energy consumption of the substations and the total line energy loss. The problem includes an isoperimetric constraint to maintain to zero the net energy supplied by supercapacitors at the end of each cycle. The suitable fitting weight coefficients employed in the objective functions can be obtained by the Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swam Optimisation. The learning process of the optimisation procedure studies the effect of the energy storage capacity for different positions of supercapacitors along the track. From the optimisation algorithm it has been found that the minimal capacitance for each section is obtained when supercapacitors are located around the middle between two adjacent substations. Finally, the examples of the practical design of the supercapacitors modules have been presented by using commercially available modules.
IJ CS Terrorism and state repression of human rights : A cross-national time-series analysis

This study examines the major factors that predict states’ repressive policies, focusing on the relationship between oppositional terror attacks and state repression of core human rights. We rely on a theoretical framework that brings together actor-oriented explanations and socio-cultural approaches. While the former emphasize purposive rational action, international pressures, and domestic threats, the latter focus on the power of ideas and on processes of policy diffusion and cultural norms. Relying on a longitudinal cross-national analysis of panel data for the years 1981–2005, we find substantial evidence for the effects of both actor-oriented measurements and socio-cultural ones. These findings join a growing body of research that emphasizes the importance of the institutional and cultural determinants of states’ counterterrorist policies.
Behavioural and functional anatomical correlates of deception in humans

Brain activity in humans telling lies has yet to be elucidated. We developed an objective approach to its investigation, utilizing a computer-based interrogation and fMRI. Interrogatory questions probed recent episodic memory in 30 volunteers studied outside and 10 volunteers studied inside the MR scanner. In a counter-balanced design subjects answered specified questions both truthfully and with lies. Lying was associated with longer response times (p < 0.001) and greater activity in bilateral ventrolateral prefrontal cortices (p < 0.05, corrected). These findings were replicated using an alternative protocol. Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex may be engaged in generating lies or withholding the truth.
The Wideband Slope of Interference Channels: The Infinite Bandwidth Case

It is well known that minimum received energy per bit Eb N0 ̨̨̨ min in the interference channel is −1.59dB as if there were no interference. Thus, the best way to mitigate interference is to operate the interference channel in the low power regime, that is in the limit of infinite bandwidth. However, when the bandwidth is large, but finite, Eb N0 ̨̨̨ min alone does not characterize performance. Verdu introduced the wideband slope S0 to characterize the performance in this regime. We show that a wideband slope of S0 S 0,no interference = 1 2 is achievable. This result is similar to recent results on degrees of freedom in the high SNR regime, and we use a type of interference alignment using delays to obtain the result. We also show that in many cases the wideband slope is upper bounded by S0 S 0,no interference ≤ 1 2 for large number of users K. Index Terms Interference channels, wideband slope, interference alignment.
Are You Following Me ? The Effects of Shareholder Investment Horizon on Analyst Herding Behavior

The results of this study are consistent with the interpretation that the incidence of private information, measured by the presence of short-term institutional owners, explains analyst herding behavior. Specifically, we find the percentage of short-term institutional owners is positively related to herding behavior. We also find early, bolder and relatively more accurate forecasts are associated with short-term institutional owners. Both results are consistent with reputational herding theory. Lastly, we provide evidence of a positive relationship between the length of institutional investment horizon and analysts’ likelihood of forecast revision following management issued guidance providing further support for the link between institutional investment horizon and analyst behavior.
Bitter experiences of elderly parents of children with intellectual disabilities: A phenomenological study

Background: It is predicted that over the next 30 years, there will be a significant increase in the number of elderly parents who care for their children with intellectual disability. This paper is part of a larger qualitative study which investigated the unpleasant experiences of these parents. Materials and Methods: A phenomenological approach was adopted and data were collected through unstructured in-depth interviews with elderly parents of children with intellectual disability. The data were analyzed using Colaizzi's seven-step method. Results: “Bitterness” is one of the four emergent themes extracted in this study which has five theme clusters: inappropriate behavior toward the child in the society, the society's failure to support the child with intellectual disability, sorrows experienced by parents, the child's problems, and barriers in the care of the child with intellectual disability. One significant barrier in the last theme cluster is limitations due to aging. Conclusions: The findings of this study suggest that the elderly parents of children with intellectual disability experience many sorrows and unpleasant feelings, but they mostly consider the social factors as the cause of problems and not the presence of the child. The results also indicate that older parents cannot look after the child as before in their old age; so, future well-designed studies are required for identification of the process of supporting them.
Further evidence for linkage of bipolar disorder to chromosomes 6 and 17 in a new independent pedigree series

Greenwood TA, Nievergelt CM, Sadovnick AD, Remick RA, Keck PE Jr, McElroy SL, Shekhtman T, McKinney R, Kelsoe JR. Further evidence for linkage of bipolar disorder to chromosomes 6 and 17 in a new independent pedigree series. Bipolar Disord 2012: 14: 71–79. © 2012 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2012 John Wiley & Sons A/S.
Quality Evaluation of Some Fresh and Imported Frozen Seafood

This study was done to evaluate the quality parameters of fresh and imported frozen seafood (fillets and shrimp). A total of 120 seafood samples, fillets and shrimp (fresh and imported frozen) 30 each, collected from fish markets at Giza Governorate were sensory, bacteriological, chemical investigated. Panelists rejected 5.0 (16.6%) and 0.0 (0.0%) of fresh fillets and shrimp samples, while the number raised up to 12.0 (40.0%) and 15.0 (50.0%) of frozen fillets and shrimp samples respectively. Fresh seafood had a significant lower (p<0.05) pH values in compared to frozen products. There were observed significant difference (p<0.05) in the TBA and TVB-N values between the fresh and frozen seafood samples. All fresh and frozen seafood samples were judge as safe food from microbiological point of view. The total proteolytic, lipolytic, psychrotrophic and pseudomonas/aeromonas counts for all examined seafood samples were lie within the standard permissible limits. L. monocytogenes could not be detected from fresh or frozen fillets. Few freqyency of L. monocytogenes found in fresh and imported frozen shrimp. As well as V. parahaemolyticus and Y. enterocolitica were recovered from examined fresh and frozen seafood samples. The public health significance of the isolated organisms was also discussed. The quality of fresh fillets and shrimp were better than that of imported frozen one.
Curvature of ellipsoids and other surfaces

From differential geometry one obtains an expression for the curvature in any direction at a point on a surface. The general theory is outlined. The theory is then specialised for surfaces that are represented parametrically as height over a transverse plane. The general ellipsoid is treated in detail as a special case. A quadratic equation gives the principal directions at the point and, hence, the principal curvatures associated with them. Equations are obtained for ellipsoids in general that are generalisations of Bennett's equations for sagittal and tangential curvature of ellipsoids of revolution. Equations are also presented for the locations of umbilic points on the ellipsoid.
Genomewide Expression Profile Analysis of the Candida glabrata Pdr1 Regulon

ABSTRACT The ABC transporters Candida glabrata Cdr1 (CgCdr1), CgPdh1, and CgSnq2 are known to mediate azole resistance in the pathogenic fungus C. glabrata. Activating mutations in CgPDR1, a zinc cluster transcription factor, result in constitutive upregulation of these ABC transporter genes but to various degrees. We examined the genomewide gene expression profiles of two matched azole-susceptible and -resistant C. glabrata clinical isolate pairs. Of the differentially expressed genes identified in the gene expression profiles for these two matched pairs, there were 28 genes commonly upregulated with CgCDR1 in both isolate sets including YOR1, LCB5, RTA1, POG1, HFD1, and several members of the FLO gene family of flocculation genes. We then sequenced CgPDR1 from each susceptible and resistant isolate and found two novel activating mutations that conferred increased resistance when they were expressed in a common background strain in which CgPDR1 had been disrupted. Microarray analysis comparing these reengineered strains to their respective parent strains identified a set of commonly differentially expressed genes, including CgCDR1, YOR1, and YIM1, as well as genes uniquely regulated by specific mutations. Our results demonstrate that while CgPdr1 activates a broad repertoire of genes, specific activating mutations result in the activation of discrete subsets of this repertoire.
Clinical Evaluation of the Walk-Away Specimen Processor and ESwab for Recovery of Streptococcus agalactiae Isolates in Prenatal Screening Specimens

ABSTRACT Rectal/vaginal specimens (n = 97) were collected in parallel using ESwab and Liquid Stuart (LS) rayon fiber wrapped swab collection devices. Each collection device was used to directly inoculate culture medium and LIM broth. Medium inoculation by ESwab was conducted using the Walk-Away specimen processor (WASP). Medium inoculation by the LS device was conducted manually. The sensitivities of ESwab and LS upon direct plating were 93.8% and 87.5%, respectively, and increased to 96.9% and 90.6%, respectively, following broth enrichment.
The evolving relationship of technology and nursing practice: Negotiating the provision of care in a high tech environment

Abstract Nurses proudly espouse that they provide ‘care’ in highly technological environments that focus on ‘cure’. How care is achieved in such environments continues to be debated. There is evidence that care is dominated by the management of technology. The literature identifies that the nature of care provision by nurses is largely dependant on nurses’ experience with complex technologies. More specifically, nurses familiar with the technology integral to the care environment are more likely to ‘engage’ with the patient in their care. There is evidence that nurses do provide patient-centred care in a technologically dominant world. The nature of such care is invariably dependant on the specific context of the user and the technology. This means nurses require highly developed capabilities to ‘situate’ themselves within these specific contexts to focus on the particular needs of the patient. Experienced nurses are able to articulate and demonstrate opportunities whereby they situate themselves with patients to learn about them and their needs. It is important that this knowledge and practice pertinent to this domain is articulated to assist in the development of capabilities for nurses to ‘care’ for patients’ direct or indirect expressed needs in a highly technological environment.
Türkiye’de Psikolojik Danışmanlık ve Rehberlik Öğrencilerinin Etik İnanışları

Bu calismanin amaci, psikolojik danismanlik ve rehberlik (PDR) programina yeni baslayan ogrenciler ile programi bitirmek uzere olan ogrencilerin etik inanislarini, Turk PDR etik kodlari cercevesinde karsilastirmaktir. Arastirmaya PDR ogrenim goren 251 ogrenci katilmis ve veriler Gibson ve Pope'nun (1993) etik inanislari ve uygulamasi anketi kullanilarak toplanmistir. Uygulanan anketin gecerlilik testi sonuclarina gore Cronbach’s alpha degeri . 89 bulunmustur. Veriler Ki-Kare ve Cramer’s V testleri ile incelenerek sonuclar tartisilmistir. Yapilan bu inceleme sonucunda iki grubun kararlari arasinda ikili iliskiler, cok kulturlu danisma, yetkinlik, gizlilik, intihar onleme, ucretler ve reklamlar ile test yonetimi konularinda istatistiksel olarak anlamli farkliliklar bulunmustur. Katilimcilarin sadece %48'i, Turk PDR etik kodlarini etik bilgisi icin birincil kaynak olarak kabul etmistir. Turkiye’de, PDR alanindaki etik standartlarinin yukseltilmesi icin gorus ve oneriler de paylasilmistir.
Sources of Change in the Life-Cycle Decisions of American Men and Women: 1962-2014

We study life-cycle decisions of five cohorts of American men and women born from the 1930s to the 1970s in a unified econometric framework applied to CPS data. The men and women in our model make individual decisions when single, joint decisions when married, and interact in a marriage market. Our model succeeds in explaining differences across cohorts in several key endogenous variables (i.e., education, work, marriage/divorce and fertility). We explain these changes using shifts in five exogenous factors: parental education, the distribution of potential partners, divorce laws, the wage/job offer distribution, and birth control technology. A major change between the 1935 and 1975 cohorts is that the female “marriage wage premium” rose from -10% to +7%. We find that changes in the selection of women into marriage explain 75% of this change. Married women of recent cohorts have much higher observed and unobserved skills compared both to unmarried women and the married women of past cohorts.
Childhood cancer predisposition syndromes—A concise review and recommendations by the Cancer Predisposition Working Group of the Society for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology

Heritable predisposition is an important cause of cancer in children and adolescents. Although a large number of cancer predisposition genes and their associated syndromes and malignancies have already been described, it appears likely that there are more pediatric cancer patients in whom heritable cancer predisposition syndromes have yet to be recognized. In a consensus meeting in the beginning of 2016, we convened experts in Human Genetics and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology to review the available data, to categorize the large amount of information, and to develop recommendations regarding when a cancer predisposition syndrome should be suspected in a young oncology patient. This review summarizes the current knowledge of cancer predisposition syndromes in pediatric oncology and provides essential information on clinical situations in which a childhood cancer predisposition syndrome should be suspected.
Implementation of a dose calculator for vancomycin to achieve target trough levels of 15-20 microg/mL in persons undergoing hemodialysis.

UNLABELLED (See the article by Brown et al, on pages 164-166.) BACKGROUND Vancomycin is a key antibiotic for the treatment of Gram-positive bacterial infections in patients undergoing dialysis. Vancomycin has a narrow therapeutic range. Overdosing imposes a risk of nephro- and ototoxicity, wherease underdosing predisposes to treatment failure and the emergence of drug resistance. Trough levels of 15-20 μg/mL have been identified as the optimal target trough levels. METHODS A multivariate model called the vancomycin dose calculator (VDC) was prospectively developed and validated to permit accurate vancomycin dosing in persons undergoing hemodialysis. RESULTS The model identified 3 simple parameters that were responsible for 94.6% of the variance observed: predialysis vancomycin trough level, dry body weight, and period to the next dialysis session. Maintenance dosing was accurate in 77.9% of patients, whereas major over- and underdosing were avoided in the remaining patients. The mean measured trough level of 16.5 μg/mL was 5.6% lower than the mean predicted trough level of 17.5 μg/mL. With regard to loading doses, a fixed loading dose of 20 mg/kg led to subtherapeutic trough levels in one-half of patients. CONCLUSIONS The VDC permits accurate vancomycin maintenance dosing based on predialysis trough level, dry body weight, and period to the next dialysis session in the majority of patients undergoing hemodialysis. Higher loading doses that accounted for the period to the next dialysis may be more appropriate than fixed loading doses used in this study.
Signaling by estrogens

By regulating activities and expression levels of key signaling molecules, estrogens control mechanisms that are responsible for crucial cellular functions. Ligand binding to estrogen receptor (ER) leads to conformational changes that regulate the receptor activity, its interaction with other proteins and DNA. In the cytoplasm, receptor interactions with kinases and scaffolding molecules regulate cell signaling cascades (extranuclear/nongenomic action). In the nucleus, estrogens control a repertoire of coregulators and other auxiliary proteins that are associated with ER, which in turn determines the nature of regulated genes and level of their expression (genomic action). The combination of genomic and nongenomic actions of estrogens ultimately confers the cell‐type and tissue‐type selectivity. Recent studies have revealed some important new insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying ER action, which may help to explain the functional basis of existing selective ER modulators (SERMs) and provide evidence into how ER might be selectively targeted to achieve specific therapeutic goals. In this review, we will summarize some new molecular details that relate to estrogen signaling. We will also discuss some new strategies that may potentially lead to the development of functionally selective ER modulators that can separate between the beneficial, prodifferentiative effects in bone, the cardiovascular system and the CNS as well as the “detrimental,” proliferative effects in reproductive tissues and organs. J. Cell. Physiol. 213:610–617. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF JOB ROTATION ON PERFORMANCE BY CONSIDERING SKILL VARIATION AND JOB SATISFACTION OF BANK EMPLOYEES

Original scientific paper Nowadays, optimal performance of organizations requires human resource development policies. Since human resources are considered as the most valuable factor of production, the most important capital and a major source of competitive advantage and essential competencies of organizations, the most effective means to achieve competitive advantage in the current environment is to improve efficiency of employees. Job rotation is the most important approach of job design as well as human capital development policies which has the potential to improve job satisfaction and increase capabilities in employees. Thus, present study attempts to study the effects of job rotation patterns on the performance of employees in Keshavarzi Banks of Gilan considering the skill diversity and job satisfaction and providing effective guidelines to enable managers to lead the organization toward a better future by desired policies. Statistical population consists of 218 employees from 30 branches of Keshavarzi Bank in three south, centre, east and west districts. The sample size was 137 estimated by Cochran formula. Hence, LISREL software was used to test the relationship between job rotation and performance by mediating the role of skill variation and job satisfaction by modelling structure equations. The results show that job performance is not directly influenced by job rotation. Job rotation positively influences job performance mediated by job satisfaction and skill variation.