Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Improving Practice Through Understanding Nurse Manager ’ s Self-Perceived Behaviors of Transformational Leadership

Nurse managers are pivotal to the success of today’s complex adaptive healthcare organizations. As front-line leaders, nurse managers advocate for patients and families in an exceptionally complex system, and play a primary role in ensuring staff engagement, patient safety, and quality care. Unfortunately, nurse managers are often not adequately prepared for this critical role, and rarely understand the practice of transformational leadership which has been shown as the most effective style for the environment in which they work. This Doctor of Nursing Practice project was undertaken to understand and describe the self-perceived frequency of transformational leadership behaviors and attributes in nurse managers who work in a complex adaptive system. A convenience sample of nurse managers completed the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire providing quantitative data regarding the self-perceived behaviors across three leadership styles and three outcomes of leadership. The nurse manager respondents perceived their practice to be more consistent with transformational leadership than with passiveavoidant or transactional leadership. In addition, the data highlighted strengths and areas for improvement in relation to transformational leadership. The project resulted in evidence based recommendations the organization can implement to advance the practice of nurse managers towards transformational leadership. While leadership development is often a personal journey the organization has an important role in cultivating transformational leadership by offering purposeful and deliberate opportunities for nurse managers to learn and advance in their practice. Nurse managers who practice as transformational leaders are positioned to improve the outcomes of healthcare organizations.
Extraction of Constitutive Relation Tensor Parameters of SRR Structures using Transmission Line Theory

In this paper, the transmission line theory is utilized to characterize the metamaterials comprising of microscopic elements of a periodic array, specifically, the traditional split-ring resonators (SRRs), as an example. The bianisotropic property of the metamaterials is characterized in a new way different from the existing wave methods. As evident from both simulations and experiments, the SRR array structure is found to be quite lossy even though it is made of very good conductor or even perfect conductor as in simulation. With the present characterization, we are able to explain physically very well on how or why the energy gets lost in this structure. Finally, the theoretical result is compared with numerical simulation data obtained based on quasi-static Lorentz theory to further verify our analysis.
Critique of Floating‐Dome Technique for Estimating Reaeration Rates

Analysis of the floating-dome reaeration measurement technique by comparing dome oxygen-exchange rates and actual free-exchange rates indicates that the technique results in erroneous values. Significant temperature changes in the dome, which are common and do not represent the atmosphere-water interfacial region, introduce calculation errors not compensated for in the methodology. Additionally, the dome protects the water surface and reduces the contribution of wind-induced turbulence, a significant factor in reaeration. Based on these facts, it appears the dome technique is not an accurate or useful method for reaeration measurements.
Effects of Flowering and Foliage Plants in Hospital Rooms on Patients Recovering from Abdominal Surgery

ADDITIONAL INDEX WORDS. appendectomy surgical recovery, horticultural therapy, hospital plant environments, human issues in horticulture, people-plant interaction SUMMARY. Using various medical and psychological measurements, this study performed a randomized clinical trial with surgical patients to evaluate if plants in hospital rooms have therapeutic influences. Ninety patients recovering from an appendectomy were randomly assigned to hospital rooms with or without plants. Patients in the plant treatment room viewed eight species of foliage and flowering plants during their postoperative recovery periods. Data collected for each patient included length of hospitalization, analgesics used for postoperative pain control, vital signs, ratings of pain intensity, pain distress, anxiety, and fatigue, the StateTrait Anxiety Inventory Form Y-1, the Environmental Assessment Scale, and the Patient’s Room Satisfaction Questionnaire. Patients in hospital rooms with plants and flowers had significantly fewer intakes of postoperative analgesics, more positive physiological responses evidenced by lower systolic blood pressure and heart rate, lower ratings of pain,anxiety, and fatigue, and more positive feelings and higher satisfaction about their rooms when compared with patients in the control group. Findings of this research suggested that plants in a hospital environment could be noninvasive, inexpensive, and an effective complementary medicine for patients recovering from abdominal surgery.
Do postlarval amphidromous fishes transport marine‐derived nutrients and pollutants to Caribbean streams?

Amphidromous fishes occur in lotic ecosystems throughout the tropics, and they dominate stream fish assemblage biomass and abundance in multiple ecological contexts, especially on oceanic tropical islands (Engman & Ramírez, 2012; Kwak, Engman, Fischer, & Lilyestrom, 2016; McDowall, 2004, 2007; Thuesen et al., 2011). Juvenile and adult amphidromous fishes typically grow and spawn in freshwater streams and rivers. After hatching larvae drift to marine or estuarine environments where they undergo a pelagic larval phase, then transition to postlarvae prior to recruitment (i.e., movement into a river mouth). Some amphidromous species undergo synchronous, pulsed massrecruitment events, which represent a large influx of biomass to the river over a relatively short period of time (Engman, Kwak, & Fischer, 2017; Jenkins, Jupiter, Qauqau, & Atherton, 2010). In fact, abundances are so high during massrecruitment events that postlarvae are harvested for human consumption in globally distributed artisanal fisheries (Bell, 1999; Kwak et al., 2016). Following recruitment to rivers, the postlarvae of taxa such as sicydiine gobies rapidly migrate to upstream adult habitats, including highelevation and loworder streams (Cooney & Kwak, 2013; Fitzsimons, Parham, & Nishimoto, 2002; Keith, 2003). Accepted: 31 January 2018
Manuscript title: Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination, and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults Running head: Hallucination-proneness and intrusions

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Evaluation of Conditions during Weaned Pig Transport

Transport of weaned pigs poses special challenges because of their size and thermal needs as well as the extended distances and transport times. The resultant economic impact can be substantial. Compared to transport of market pigs, weaned pigs generally encounter much farther travel distances with different adapting abilities to the environmental conditions. The objectives of this study were: 1) to characterize the environmental conditions within a typical transport trailer for weaned piglets to determine if current management practices and trailer design provides an acceptable environment as evidenced by mortality rates and environmental parameters, and 2) to analyze airflow patterns of the tranport trailer using a scale model in a wind tunnel. Data from 78 usable transport trips were collected for air temperature in each trailer compartment, ambient temperature,distance traveled, time traveled, stocking density, and mortality by compartment. The 78 trips had an average distance of 778 km (range of 264 to 1016 km), travel time of 8.51 h (range of 3.4 to 12.3 h), and mortality rate of 0.031% (range of 0 to 1.11%). There was no significant difference in mortality by compartment (p>0.05). The results indicate that if pigs are transported at a higher stocking density, the compartment temperatures would be similar during cold weather (e.g., 2°C). Under mild weather condition (e.g., 16°C), significant differences could exist in compartment temperature between part of the upper deck (Upper 1) and the lower deck (Lower 4) (p 0.05). In addition to the weather influence, in-trailer environment is affected by the side openings which may be adjusted by the driver.
The Long-Term Impact of Promotions on Consumer Stockpiling Behavior

Although brands have increased their promotional spending substantially in many categories over the past decade, panel-based research into consumer stockpiling behavior typically has assumed that consumers’ decisions regarding whether and how much to purchase have remained invariant to this increase. The authors develop a varying parameter model of purchase incidence and purchase quantity to ascertain whether this increase in promotions has affected households’ stockpiling decisions in the long term. The authors estimate the model on the basis of more than eight years of panel data for a frequently purchased, nonfood, consumer packaged-goods product. The results suggest that consumers’ stockpiling behavior has changed over the years. The increased long-term exposure of households to promotions has reduced their likelihood of making category purchases on subsequent shopping trips. However, when households do decide to buy, they tend to buy more of a good. Such behavior is indicative of an increasing tendency to “lie in wait” for especially good promotions. This change appears to have some deleterious ramifications for category profitability.
Cardiopoietic Stem Cell Therapy in Heart Failure

Cardiopoietic Stem Cell Therapy in Heart Failure TheC-CURE (Cardiopoietic stemCell therapy in heart failURE) Multicenter Randomized TrialWith Lineage-Specified Biologics Jozef Bartunek, MD, PHD,* Atta Behfar, MD, PHD,y Dariouch Dolatabadi, MD,z Marc Vanderheyden, MD,* Miodrag Ostojic, MD, PHD,x Jo Dens, MD, PHD,k Badih El Nakadi, MD,z Marko Banovic, MD,x Branko Beleslin, MD, PHD,x Mathias Vrolix, MD, PHD,k Victor Legrand, MD, PHD,{ Christian Vrints, MD, PHD,# Jean Louis Vanoverschelde, MD, PHD,** Ruben Crespo-Diaz, PHD,y Christian Homsy, MD,yy Michal Tendera, MD, PHD,zz Scott Waldman, MD, PHD,xx William Wijns, MD, PHD,* Andre Terzic, MD, PHDy Aalst, Charleroi, Genk, Liège, Edegem, Brussels, and Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium; Rochester, Minnesota; Belgrade, Serbia; Katowice, Poland; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Comparative Effectiveness of Isometric , Isotonic , Isokinetic Exercises on Strength And Functional Performance of Quadriceps Muscle in Normal Subject

Introduction: Strength is defined as maximum voluntary force exerted in a single muscular effort. Isometric, isotonic, isokinetic all produce significant and substantial gains in muscle strength. Further, no single system or product has been found to be superior to any other when the studies have been well-controlled. Aim of the study is to get a better understanding of 3 types of strength testing and training of quadriceps in normal subjects and to compare the effectiveness of isometric, isokinetic, isotonic strength of quadriceps in normal subjects. Materials And Methods: A total of 30 normal subjects were recruited randomly from physiotherapy department of SVNIRTAR according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Subjects were randomly assigned into 3 groups; 10 subjects were taken into each group; isometric, isotonic and isokinetic training groups which received isometric, isotonic and isokinetic strength training of quadriceps muscle of left side respectively for 4 weeks. All participants were undergone pre and post test assessments of all types of strengths of left quadriceps ie isometric, isotonic and isokinetic with isokinetic device and functional performance testing for left lower limb by triple hop distance test (THDT). The study design was a three group, pre-test post-test structured, experimental study design. Results: The overall result of the study showed that in all the 3 interventions (isotonic training, isokinetic training and isometric training), quadriceps strength was improved significantly with time. When isokinetically tested, most improvement was seen in isokinetic training group. And among isotonic and isometric training group, isotonic training group showed significantly more improvement. Also only isotonic training group showed significant improvement in functional performance with time from pre to post readings after 4 weeks of training. Conclusion: Isokinetic testing can establish the significant improvement in strength gains in all three training groups whereas isometric and isotonic testing can show improvement in their own type. Thus, isokinetic testing is the best way of strength testing. Among all three training modes, Isokinetic strength training can improve the strength maximally, so it is the best way of training as well. Isotonic strength training is the best way of increasing functional performance (THDT).
An Epidemiological Study of Suicide Attempts and to Determine the Correlation between Attempted Suicide Causes and Demographic Characteristics of People in Kermanshah Province during a Year

Introduction: Suicide is a hidden problem, avoidable and tragic in the public health community. Suicide is due to consequences of social, economic and psychological damages imposed by the community. The suicide rate in Kermanshah province is very high and alarming. This study was carried out with the aim to evaluate the personal characteristics and risk factors of suicide attempts. Materials and Methods: The population of this descriptive and analytical study was people who committed suicide in 2014 and have been transferred to hospitals in Kermanshah and this study examined people who had acknowledged individually or =through companions, their wish to suicide. To collect information the Check list consisting of information regarding suicide and social effective factors in suicide, was used. Findings: A total of 2,501 people who had committed suicide were studied. Most suicide attempts in both genders were seen in the category less than 20 years and a total of 74.4 percent of people who commit suicided were below 30 years. In all age groups more women than men had committed suicide. Statistics on suicide in married women was twice that of single women. More unmarried men than married men had attempted suicide. In most of them, the most common cause was conflict with parents and conflict with their wife and so it was due to psychological problems. Relationships causing suicides, by individual characteristics of suicide attempters, was significant. Discussion and Conclusion: Identifying some factors for predicting the risk of suicide from looking at epidemiological studies on people who have attempted suicide can be a good practice for prevention by social planners, and health officers.
Mixing sequences in Hilbert spaces

A general setup is provided for theorems of the Blum-Hanson type. Notions of strongly and weakly mixing sequences of elements in a Hilbert space are defined, and equivalent characterizations are derived. It turns out that many known generalizations of the Blum-Hanson theorem are special cases of an abstract version which is also suitable for the nonlinear situation. Introduction. In [4] the notions of ergodicity, weak mixing, and strong mixing were defined and studied for sequences of measure preserving transformations of probability spaces. These notions generalize the classical ones (where a transformation T is identified with the sequence (T') 0). It turns out that many results, which are well known for sequences of powers of a single transformation remain valid in the sequential setup. For example, a sequence (T1) is strongly mixing iff 1 NP NE Tnkf N+ f ldx, f 'E LP, N k=1 I N -bo 00 for every increasing sequence (nk) [4, Theorem 3.1]. This generalizes a characterization of strongly mixing transformations given by Blum and Hanson [5]. Also, (Tn) is weakly mixing iff the aforementioned convergence holds for every sequence (nk) of positive lower density [4, Theorem 4.1]. This forms a generalization of a result of Jones [7]. In [1,6,8], results of the Blum-Hanson type were obtained for contractions of Hilbert spaces. In view of [4] the question arises whether these results admit generalizations to sequences of contractions. In this paper we settle this question in the affirmative and show that, indeed, much more is true. Namely, one can satisfactorily define the notions of strong and weak mixing for arbitrary sequences in Hilbert spaces; many res,ults concerning mixing properties of measure preserving transformations or contractions of Hilbert spaces are special cases of more general (yet simple enough) properties of mixing sequences of elements in Hilbert spaces. The above notions can also be studied for more general spaces. However, this is a more delicate problem already for LP-spaces, and will be left almost untouched here. We refer to [2,3, 9] for results in more general spaces. 1 deals with strongly mixing sequences. The results of this section are used in ? 2 to obtain simplified proofs of generalized versions of some of the results of [1, 5, 10]. In ? 3 we study weakly mixing sequences. We would like to thank L. Sucheston for helpful discussions related to this topic. Received by the editors August 29, 1985. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 47A35; Secondary 28D99, 46C99. 01986 American Mathematical Society 0002-9939/86 $1.00 + $. 25 per page
Economic and Clinical Net Benefits from the Use of Samarium Sm-153 Lexidronam Injection in the Treatment of Bone Metastases

Samariu m Sm-153 Lexid ronam Inject ion (Samariu m-153) is used to treat bone pain that results when cancer spreads to the bone. It has been on the market since 1997 but still is not funded by any one of the 10 p rovincial cancer care authorities in Canada. The only cost-effectiveness study using randomized control trial data of Samariu m-153 for pain relief in patients with bone metastases clearly demonstrated that Samariu m-153 was a dominant therapy. At the time of writ ing, the product cost of Samariu m-153 for one patient treatment was $4,500. At that price, in 2012, the total product cost for all of the projected 755 patient treatments in Canada would be $3,397,500. For an investment of $3,397,500 in Samariu m-153, system savings of $7,758,905 could be realized for a return on investment (ROI) of 228%. Overall treat ment cost-savings would have accrued while Samariu m-153 p rovided suffering cancer patients with equal or better care and clinical outcomes, as measured by pain relief and quality of life.
What Determines Public Education Expenditures in a Transition Economy

Recent studies suggest that the allocation of expenditures in education matters for growth. Public education spending in many transition economies, however, is often inefficient and inequitable with education outlays misallocated across sectors. This highlights the need for an assessment of the nature of education expenditures in these countries. This paper attempts to fill the gap in the literature by estimating the determinants of education expenditures in the Russian Federation. Results from panel data analysis show that revenue and the student-population ratio have a positive impact on education expenditures while the effect of population density is negative. Three regional variables also show significant impact. The income and price elasticity of education expenditures are estimated to be 0.56 and ‐0.47, respectively and is comparable to studies from other countries. The results presented here raise questions about how fiscal institutions and the structure of the political process in Russia may affect the degree of resource allocation in the educational sector during the transition process.
IGMENT EPITHELIUM-DERIVED FACTOR INDUCES PRO-SURVIVAL ENES THROUGH CYCLIC AMP-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING ROTEIN AND NUCLEAR FACTOR KAPPA B ACTIVATION IN RAT ULTURED CEREBELLAR GRANULE CELLS: IMPLICATION FOR ITS EUROPROTECTIVE EFFECT

bstract—Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) protects mmature cerebellar granule cell neurons (CGCs) against apotosis induced by K and serum deprivation. However, the recise mechanism of this protection remains unknown. We ecently reported that the transcription factor nuclear factor appa B (NFB) is activated in PEDF-treated CGCs. Although it s well known that NFB blocks apoptotic cell death through he induction of pro-survival factors, the effects of PEDF on the xpression of these factors are not fully understood. In this tudy, we employed the use of reverse transcriptase–polymerse chain reaction to analyze the gene expression of certain ro-survival genes and found that genes such as c-IAP1, cAP2, FLIPs, A1/Bfl-1 and Mn-SOD were induced in PEDFreated neurons. On the other hand, no induction was observed f the pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members Bax and Bid at any ime from 3 to 24 h following PEDF addition. Furthermore, phoshorylation of cyclic AMP-responsive element binding protein CREB) and increment of nuclear cyclic AMP-response element CRE)-like DNA binding were observed in PEDF-treated CGCs. he anti-apoptotic effect of PEDF was blocked by overexpresion of dominant negative CREB or a mutated form of I B . hese results suggested that induction of both CREand NFB-dependent genes is required for the observed neuroprotecive effects of PEDF on CGCs. © 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd n behalf of IBRO.
ELICITING RISK ATTITUDES FROM ROUTE CHOICES OVER SIMULATED DRIVING CHOICES

Transportation planners and engineers alike have identified that drivers’ risk attitudes have a significant effect on their route and departure time choices. The authors utilize methods from experimental economics to elicit risk attitudes through controlled incentivized experiments in driving simulators with actual monetary consequences. This last feature of the design can eliminate hypothetical biases observed in other studies that utilize purely hypothetical questions. They identify risk attitudes by defining simulated route choices as lotteries that may pay some money for sure or different monetary rewards with some uncertainty. They also use structural estimation to estimate risk attitudes in the sample and allow for both Expected Utility theory and Rank-Dependent Utility theory. The econometric approach applies the “contextual utility” correction by Wilcox (2011) to control for “size effects” that have been identified in the estimation of value of time and reliability. The experimental design allows the authors to compare risk attitudes across two different regions in the US and study the demographic determinants of risk aversion. Both under Expected Utility and Rank-Dependent Utility, risk attitudes are heterogeneous in the sample and largely explained by subjects’ age and accumulated wealth during the experiment. Finally, the authors find no evidence of a structural difference between the two traffic regions used in this study.