Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Getting to the heart of clinical supervision: a theoretical review of the role of emotions in professional development.

BACKGROUND The importance of supervision is increasingly recognized, yet it remains little understood, impairing research and practice. Specifically, the CBT supervision model provides a relatively "heartless" account of professional development, which may undermine its effectiveness. METHOD A theoretical review of emotions in supervision and learning is provided, to summarize relevant theoretical and empirical literature. The objectives are to clarify the role of emotions in CBT supervision, and to use this understanding to outline an emotionally-attuned model, illustrating its application to two critical aspects of CBT supervision (the development of a learning alliance and enhancing professional competence). CONCLUSION The reviewed literature (theory and research evidence) supports the explicit and systematic incorporation of emotions into CBT supervision. Conceptually, this can be achieved by integrating Lazarus's (1991) general theory of emotion with the CBT model. The illustrations of this augmented model indicate its value in understanding and managing both the "rupture-repair" cycle that can affect the supervisory alliance, and the "deskilling-development" pattern that appears to be necessary for the acquisition of competence. We propose that CBT supervision might usefully be guided by our expanded model, as this affords greater internal consistency and may be more effective educationally.
Consumer Response to Perceived Value and Generic Advertising

This study examines the relationship between generic advertising and perceived value for 100 percent orange juice using data from a survey on consumption, perceived value, advertising awareness, and other key measures. We investigate the relationships between consumption and perceived value and between generic advertising and perceived value and identify features of generic advertising of orange juice that have the greatest influence on consumers. Our analysis indicates that perceived value is strongly associated with increased consumption and is influenced by generic advertising. Generic advertising is most effective when consumers view the content of the ads as genuine and relevant.
Racial and ethnic differentials in overweight and obesity among 3-year-old children.

OBJECTIVES We estimated racial/ethnic differences in overweight and obesity in a national sample of 3-year-olds from urban, low-income families and assessed possible determinants of differences. METHODS Survey, in-home observation, and interview data were collected at birth, 1 year, and 3 years. We used logistic regression analyses and adjusted for a range of covariates in examining overweight and obesity differentials according to race/ethnicity. RESULTS Thirty-five percent of the study children were overweight or obese. Hispanic children were twice as likely as either Black or White children to be overweight or obese. Although we controlled for a wide variety of characteristics, we were unable to explain either White-Hispanic or Black-Hispanic differences in overweight and obesity. However, birthweight, taking a bottle to bed, and mother's weight status were important predictors of children's overweight or obesity at age 3 years. CONCLUSIONS Children's problems with overweight and obesity begin as early as age 3, and Hispanic children and those with obese mothers are especially at risk.
Improving VBAC rates: the combined impact of two management strategies

operative delivery. It is difficult to determine whether some of the deliveries for ‘presumed fetal compromise’ were in fact ‘unnecessary’. All decisions to deliver were taken contemporaneously by the labour ward team based on the clinical scenario as well as fetal heart rate monitoring, fetal blood sampling or both. At our institution all decisions for caesarean delivery are made by a consultant obstetrician. In the absence of a gold standard diagnostic test for fetal compromise, it is difficult to determine which fetuses were truly compromised. Whilst umbilical artery pH at delivery can be informative, it is not in all cases, and may be improved by management undertaken between a decision to deliver and the delivery itself, or worsened by a prolonged/difficult delivery (either instrumental or caesarean). The mode of delivery itself also has potential to impact the neonatal condition at birth. In the absence of a true ‘gold standard’ test for intrapartum fetal compromise, we felt the clinical decision taken by the labour ward team was the most appropriate surrogate. We have performed the additional analysis requested by the reader, combining deliveries performed where the indication was presumed fetal compromise (caesarean and instrumental) and comparing b-hCG and PAPP-A values with those cases where there was no evidence of compromise.
Saline-assisted endoscopic resection of rectal carcinoids: cap aspiration method versus simple snare resection.

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Complete resection of small carcinoid tumors of the rectum is difficult during endoscopic polypectomy, because these tumors are often located in the submucosal layer of the rectal wall. To completely remove these tumors, we have used aspiration lumpectomy. In this study, we evaluated its clinical usefulness in comparison with strip biopsy. PATIENTS AND METHODS We performed strip biopsy (December 1996 through March 2000) or aspiration lumpectomy (April 2000 through February 2003) in a consecutive series of patients with rectal carcinoid tumor. Eight carcinoid tumors in eight patients were resected by strip biopsy, and eight tumors in eight patients were resected by aspiration lumpectomy. RESULTS The rate of complete removal of carcinoid tumors with aspiration lumpectomy (100 %) was significantly higher (P < 0.05) than that with strip biopsy (37.5 %). CONCLUSIONS Endoscopic resection with aspiration lumpectomy is a useful and safe method for resection of small carcinoid tumors of the rectum.
Agricultural Value Chains in Developing Countries A Framework for Analysis

The paper presents a framework for developing country value chain analysis made up of three components. The first consists of identifying major constraints for value chain upgrading: market access restrictions, weak infrastructures, lacking resources and institutional voids. In the second component three elements of a value chain are defined: value addition, horizontal and vertical chain-network structure and value chain governance mechanisms. Finally, upgrading options are defined in the area of value addition, including the search for markets, the value chain- network structure and the governance form of the chain. Part of this component is the identification of the most suitable partnerships for upgrading the value chain. The three components of the framework are derived from major theoretical streams on inter-company relationships and from the literature on developing country value chains. The framework is applied in a case example of a developing country value chain.
Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest

While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah-grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire activity with a ca 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (up to 4000 mm annual precipitation) temperate rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Drought and warmer temperatures in the year prior were positively associated with fire events though there was little coherence of climate indices on the years of fires. At the decadal scale, fires were more likely to occur after positive El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation phases and exhibited 30-year periods of synchrony with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Fire frequency was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from former Indigenous habitation sites and fires ceased following cultural disorganization caused by disease and other European impacts in the late nineteenth century. Indigenous people were likely to have been the primary ignition source in this and many coastal temperate rainforest settings. These data are directly relevant to contemporary forest management and discredit the myth of coastal temperate rainforests as pristine landscapes.
An empirical investigation into customers' attitude towards usage of cell phone banking in Gauteng, South Africa

The need to reduce operational costs and meet the increasing expectations of customers while remaining competitive has forced banks to deploy information technologies into the provision of banking services. The adoption rate of some of these electronic banking services is, however, not as good as initially hoped for. This study expanded the Technology Acceptance Model by including trust, subjective norm and demographic variables to understand the factors that influence retail banking customers' attitude towards cell phone banking services. Data was collected from retail banking customers in Gauteng, South Africa, using a self filling structured questionnaire. A total of 394 usable responses were received. Result of the analysis show that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, trust and subjective norm are all significantly related to attitude towards cell phone banking. Trust was, however, found to have the strongest predictive power on customers' attitude towards cell phone banking than all the other variables. Furthermore, attitude was found to contribute significantly to customers' intention to start using/continue using cell phone banking services. These findings have wider implications on efforts aimed at encouraging more customers to make use of cell phone banking and these have been highlighted in the paper.
An Investigation into the Role of Market Beta in Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Romanian Stock Market

In this paper, we apply the FM methodology to the cross-section of Romanian-listed common stocks and investigate the explanatory power of market beta on the cross-section of commons stock returns from Bucharest Stock Exchange. Various assumptions are empirically tested, such us linearity, market efficiency, the “no systematic effect of non-beta risk” hypothesis or the positive expected risk-return trade-off hypothesis. We find that the Romanian stock market shows the same properties as the other emerging markets in terms of efficiency and significance of the linear riskreturn models. Our analysis included weekly returns from January 2002 until May 2010 and the portfolio formation, estimation and testing was performed in a rolling manner using 51 observations (one year) for each stage of the analysis. Keywords—Bucharest Stock Exchange, Fama-Macbeth methodology, systematic risk, non-linear risk-return dependence.
Simulation of the Categorization-Elaboration Model of Diversity and Work-Group Performance

The relationship between the diversity of work-groups and their performance continues to be a key concern in the study of organizational behavior. Several models have been proposed to explain this relationship, generally concentrating on the interplay between two main factors: diversity as a source of varied knowledge and viewpoints that a group can draw upon to increase its performance, and diversity as a source of dissention in groups, causing group fracturing and bias, leading to decreases in performance. Recently a model called the categorization-elaboration model (CEM) (van Knippenburg, et. al. 2004) was proposed which integrates existing research in diversity and group performance into a unified framework. We perform an agent-based simulation of the CEM where groups are modeled as coalitions of rational agents which draw from distinct experience pools and which collectively try and solve a simple forecasting problem. We simulate how the performance of the coalition varies with the diversity of the agents' background experiences, and find that the resulting performance/diversity relationship is curvilinear in nature (specifically, inversely u-shaped), as predicted anecdotally in the van Knippenburg work. Additionally, we find a point of unstable equilibrium in the performance/diversity curve at the no-diversity point, such that at the no-diversity point, small increases in diversity have little or no effect on performance. We point out a connection between the existence of this feature, which would seem to highlight the importance of external diversity-encouraging efforts such as affirmative action-type initiatives and early economic work which suggests that market-based forces should be sufficient to ensure high levels of diversity in organizations.
Essays on the theory of the firm : interactions between capital, product and labour markets

This thesis examines some strategic interactions between financial, labour and industrial contracts signed by the manager of a firm with different stakeholders. It investigates the strategic effects of contractual or institutional arrangements when the firm faces commitment problems. The general introduction briefly surveys the relevant literatures on the methodology, modern theories of the firm, commitment problems and interactions between markets through the firm. The second chapter focusses on interactions between labour markets and the market for corporate control. It argues that the possibility of takeovers may affect the economic consequences of union power in wage negotiations: while union power increases wage flexibility and the firm's capacity to invest in the absence of takeovers, it decreases them when takeovers are allowed. Various takeover defence mechanisms are compared. The third chapter analyzes the impact of competition among downstream firms on a supplier's investment and on her incentive to vertically integrate. Tougher competition decreases the downstream industry profit, but improves the supplier's negotiation position. In particular, the supplier is better off encouraging competition when the downstream firms have high bargaining power. We analyze the interactions between downstream competition and vertical integration. The fourth chapter (joint with Dr. Antoine Faure-Grimaud, LSE) analyzes the financing decisions of a monopolist facing a buyer whose valuation is private information. It develops the idea that a high level of (renegotiable) debt, by increasing the scope for liquidation, may induce the high valuation buyer to buy early at a high price and thus increase the monopolist's expected profit. The benefit from the strategic use of debt increases with the durability of the good.
Green Process for Impregnation of Silver Nanoparticles into Microcrystalline Cellulose and Their Antimicrobial Bionanocomposite Films

A novel greener method to impregnate silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) into microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) by curry leaf (Murraya koenigii) extract mediated biological process is presented. The active reduction of silver ions by curry leaf extract was explored for the in situ impregnation AgNPs into MCC. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses of MCC coated with AgNPs showed the formation of silver particle sizes in the range of 10-25 nm and have a spherical shape. Further the, EDS analysis of MCC/Ag nanocomposite confirms the formation of Ag structure on microcrystalline cellulose. Solvent casting of poly(lactic-acid) was used to produce composite films containing silver impregnated MCC aiming for antimicrobial applications.
Unanticipated Consequences of Imprisonment on Families of Prison Inmates of Kumasi Central Prison of Ghana

Prisons in Ghana, like most prisons the world over, are established to keep offenders from society and to try and reform them so that they will become useful citizens. Prisons are considered as crime fighting-devices which govern penal policy. However, there are many social, psychological and financial costs of imprisonment on the spouse and children of the prisoner. For instance, how do the remaining spouses and children cope with the social, psychological and financial problems resulting from incarceration? What social support systems exist in Ghana for the benefit of the families of the incarcerated? These questions and a few others formed the bases for which 25 families of prisoners in the Kumasi Central Prisons were purposively sampled and interviewed to examine the unintended consequences of imprisonment on the families of the incarcerated. The results of the study indicated that the incarceration of family members led to social stigma of the spouses and children, reduction in family fortunes, emotional and psychological trauma, infidelity and family breakdown. Consequently, the spouses and their children resorted to prayers from churches and pastors to cope with the situation, quitting their residences, relocating to cheaper and affordable accommodation and reducing their expenditure and i®luxuryi¯ in order to survive, owing to unavailability of social support systems except temporary financial assistance from friends, close relatives and religious organizations. The study made some recommendations.
The shell region of the nucleus ovoidalis: A subdivision of the avian auditory thalamus

The connectivity of a region surrounding the established thalamic auditory nuclei, n. ovoidalis (Ov) and n. semilunaris parovoidalis (SPO), was explored in the ring dove by using the anterograde tracers, Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin (PHAL) and biocytin, and the retrograde tracer, fluorogold. The Ov‐SPO surround received a projection from a cell group along the interface of the auditory midbrain and the n. intercollicularis, as revealed with PHAL and biocytin, and was composed of neurons exhibiting a common morphology. These features and the presence of overlapping projections from different portions of the Ov‐SPO surround suggest that this region comprises a functionally discrete area, which we term the Ov shell. Single unit recording within the shell established the existence of acoustically responsive units.
Global Sourcing by Mne'S: Impact on Domestic Firms

The unequal situation of large global firms with extensive networks and smaller domestic firms has created a dual structure in many industries. In this paper we examine the competitive position of domestic single-plant firms under growing rivalry of global companies that source abroad and flexibly coordinate production activities within a multinational network. Growing rivalry is modelled as a decrease in sourcing costs for multinational firms. We separate a direct and an indirect effect – i.e. competitive strategic effect- of a lower sourcing cost on the production decision of multinational and domestic firms. We show how cost characteristics of domestic firms determine the impact of these effects. We theoretically find that, ceteris paribus, output flexible firms will be most vulnerable and exit first from the market. Product differentiation is found to reduce the strategic effect of global sourcing by MNE’s on the competitive position of domestic firms.
Association of the CT gene (CA) polymorphism with BMD in osteoporotic mexican women

Calcitonin (CT) plays a role in the pathogenesis of osteoporosis and genetic variations in or adjacent to the CT gene may be associated with loss of bone mineral density (BMD). The correlation between a dinucleotide (cytosine–adenine) repeat polymorphism at the CT locus and BMD was examined in 70 osteoporotic women, 70 non‐osteoporotic women and 500 subjects from the Mexican population. The allele A and genotype AA frequencies were significantly higher in osteoporotic women than in non‐osteoporotic women (60% vs 32%; p < 0.0001 and 41% vs 14%; p = 0.0007, respectively). Genotype AA was associated with the presence of osteoporosis [odds ratio 2.58; 95% confidence interval (CI); 1.62–4.12]. Likewise, the loss of lumbar BMD and T scores were related to the presence of allele A: subjects with a single A allele displayed lower values for lumbar BMD and T score (84.02% and −1.51, respectively) than those who do not present any A allele (89.61% and −0.88, respectively). Individuals with two alleles A showed the lowest lumbar BMD and T‐score values (73.77% and −2.51, respectively). Analysis of potential confounder demonstrated that aging has a significant effect on osteoporosis development (odds ratio 1.1; 95% CI; 1.1052–1.152).
Shareholderism: Board Members' Values and the Shareholder-Stakeholder Dilemma

This study investigates how personal values may affect strategic decisions of board members in dilemmas involving shareholders and other stakeholders. In a survey of the entire population of directors and CEOs in all public corporations in one country, we use vignettes that are based on seminal court cases to identify a general factor of shareholderism (vs. stakeholderism). Directors and CEOs exhibit greater shareholderism the more they endorse entrepreneurial values - namely, higher achievement, power, and self-direction values and lower universalism, benevolence, and conformity values. Employee representative directors exhibit more stakeholderist stances, but in most cases side with shareholders. Finally, directors in more profitable firms exhibit stronger shareholderism.
Psychosocial Adaptation in Children and Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis

The psychiatric morbidity in a group of 36 patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) was compared with that in a healthy matched control group. Psychiatric diagnoses, based on the ICD scheme of classification, were much more common in the CF group. Social background factors were related only poorly to psychosocial adaptation. There were moderate correlations between impaired pulmonary function and increased psychopathology; stronger correlations were found with variables related to mental health of the parents and family life. It is suggested that many children with CF require psychological help, a need that may increase as the disease progresses.
Why Do Directors Change Their Ownership During IPO Lockup Arrangements?

We test a number of hypotheses to assess changes in director ownership during lockup periods. We find that these transactions are additional signalling devices. Our results also imply that they are contractual arrangements between directors and underwriters, as directors increase their holdings after significant price decline, in line with the price support hypothesis, but they decrease their ownership after price run-up, consistent with the early lockup releases hypothesis. Stock prices decline when directors decrease their holdings, like the seasoned firms. Interestingly, stock prices decline significantly after ownership increases. The overall effect of director purchases is different as compared to seasoned firms, and it reduces the heavy decline in share prices for those IPOs. Our results could imply that the valuation uncertainty of IPOs makes the precision of directors’ information content weak and their profitability low.
Improvement of recalcitrant psoriasis vulgaris after tonsillectomy

To study the effect of tonsillectomy as a possible part of the treatment of infection-released, relapsing and recalcitrant (to topical therapy and courses of penicillin) psoriasis vulgaris in children and adolescents and to test a possible correlation between tonsillitis and exacerbations of psoriasis vulgaris, a retrospective study (charts and questionnaires) of the course of psoriasis after tonsillectomy was undertaken in 74 patients with such psoriasis. Each patient served as his own control. At tonsillectomy the average age of patients and the duration of psoriasis were 14-2 years and 4-5 years, respectively, while the average follow-up period was 4-5 years. The clearing of psoriasis vulgaris was stastically significant, p less than 0-01, as 1/3 of the patients obtained clearing of psoriasis throughout the entire follow-up period, while an additional 1/3 noticed considerable improvement of their psoriasis. After having tried both topical therapy of various sorts and courses of penicillin, tonsillectomy might be taken into consideration in relapsing, recalcitrant psoriasis vulgaris in children and adolescents.