Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Job Satisfaction and Other Characteristics among Hispanic–American Human Services Workers

FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, human services professionals have been increasingly concerned about morale problems, especially burnout, among human services workers. Despite these concerns and the profession’s increased awareness of the need to investigate job satisfaction, a literature review of the major social work journals revealed that no studies have been published that focus upon the job satisfaction of Hispanics. Some basic questions, to which we have no answers, arise. For example, are Hispanic human services employees as satisfied with their jobs as are other employees? Is their satisfaction influenced by factors similar to those that influence job satisfaction among non-Hispanics, or are the factors different? How do Hispanics fare in the human services? Do they earn as much money as do others, or are they disproportionately represented in lower-paying and lesser-status jobs? If income differences exist, can they be explained by differences in education, job tenure, and so forth, or does onthe-job discrimination against Hispanics exist? The present article attempts to answer these questions.
Electrical reversion of cardiac arrhythmias.

I consider it a great honour to be chosen as Thomas Lewis Lecturer of the British Cardiac Society. The work of Sir Thomas Lewis on the heart beat surely ranks as one of the outstanding achievements in experimental physiology. I can claim a greater kinship to Thomas Lewis than that of merely being a distant admirer, for he can be regarded as the godfather of American cardiology. His students are to be found throughout the American continent where they have been instrumental in laying the foundation for the study of heart disease: White, Levine, Landis, Blumgart, and Bland in Boston; Oppenheim and Master in New York; Stroud in Philadelphia; Frank Wilson in Michigan; Katz in Chicago; Prinzmetal in Los Angeles; Graybiel in Florida-to name but a few. From Thomas Lewis they obtained above all else a scientific approach to medical experimentation. This displaced the then prevalent and shopworn ideas based on the subjectivity and the intuition of the chosen few. The hallmarks of Thomas Lewis's method of work were the application of precisely controlled and exacting methods, the assiduous gathering of evidence, the rigorous censorship of data, and the recognition of the role of animal experiments as a proper domain for inquiry into many complex clinical problems. The yield of his legacy is not a harvest for a single season, and the rich fruit is still being gathered. This very lecture was initiated by his student and my teacher, Doctor Samuel A. Levine. Yet there is a more intimate kinship I wish to expose for your consideration: namely, that the
How Student Entrepreneurs Develop Their Social Network Over Time During the Process of Starting a Company

Recent studies have focused on which networks would help entrepreneurs to become successful and what would be the best mix of strong ties and weak ties to build an organization upon. With this longitudinal research we add insights into the process of network development on an individual level and complement earlier research on this topic. This article explores the development of strong and weak ties in the social network of student entrepreneurs and the role five mechanisms of social networking play in the process of opportunity recognition, resource mobilization and gaining legitimacy, through a longitudinal case study among 17 student start-ups in the period 2009-2013. All student entrepreneurs started their businesses in the last two years of their bachelor education, part of a venture creation program. They were interviewed directly after they had started their businesses, and their activities were monitored while they were developing their businesses and networks over a period of three years. This study adds to the current social network literature by analyzing how student entrepreneurs use social networking while being involved in the entrepreneurial process of starting a business and especially make use of the advantages of being a student, i.e. being part of the network and having access to the resources of the university. Successful student entrepreneurs distinguish themselves of the rest by keeping on adding valuable connections to their network, having no fear in asking for help and profiting of the goodwill in the business world towards student entrepreneurs. This article can be of use for both academics and practitioners.
Synchronicity : Through the Eyes of Science, Myth and the Trickster

Carl Jung coined the term "synchronicity" to describe meaningful coincidences that conventional notions of time and causality cannot explain. Working with the great quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Jung sought to reveal these coincidences as phenomena that involve mind and matter, science and spirit, thus providing rational explanations for parapsychological events like telepathy, precognition, and intuition. Synchronicity examines the work of Jung and Pauli, as well as noted scientists Werner Heisenberg and David Bohm; identifies the phenomena in ancient and modern mythologies, particularly the Greek legend of Hermes the Trickster; and illustrates it with engaging anecdotes from everyday life and literature.
Title The capacity of people with a ‘ mental disability ’ to make a healthcare decision

Background. Based on the developing clinical and legal literature, and using the framework adopted in draft legislation, capacity to make a valid decision about a clinically required blood test was investigated in three groups of people with a ‘mental disability ’ (i.e. mental illness (chronic schizophrenia), ‘ learning disability ’ (‘mental retardation’, or intellectual or developmental disability), or, dementia) and a fourth, comparison group. Methods. The three ‘mental disability ’ groups (N ̄ 20 in the ‘ learning disability ’ group, N ̄ 21 in each of the other two groups) were recruited through the relevant local clinical services ; and through a phlebotomy clinic for the ‘general population’ comparison group (N ̄ 20). The decision-making task was progressively simplified by presenting the relevant information as separate elements and modifying the assessment of capacity so that responding became gradually less dependent on expressive verbal ability. Results. Compared with the ‘general population’ group, capacity to make the particular decision was significantly more impaired in the ‘ learning disability ’ and ‘dementia’ groups. Importantly, however, it was not more impaired among the ‘mental illness ’ group. All the groups benefited as the decision-making task was simplified, but at different stages. In each of the ‘mental disability ’ groups, one participant benefited only when responding did not require any expensive verbal ability. Conclusions. Consistent with current views, capacity reflected an interaction between the decisionmaker and the demands of the decision-making task. The findings have implications for the way in which decisions about health care interventions are sought from people with a ‘mental disability ’. The methodology may be extended to assess capacity to make other legally-significant decisions.
Investment determinants at the firm-level: The case of Portuguese industrial SMEs

The objective of this paper is to empirically determine the investment determinants at the firm level. Many empirical papers studied the investment determinants from a macroeconomic point of view but the analysis of the main investment determinants from an internal point of view has been less studied. This paper fills that gap, particularly for the case of Portugal, focusing on industrial SMEs. Using a panel data methodology and considering an unbalanced sample of 2456 Portuguese manufacturing SMEs for the period 2011-2015 our results indicate that SMEs with higher profitability, debt and liquidity and of smaller size tend to present higher levels of investment. This exploratory paper gives a contribution to clarify which are the main internal determinants of firms’ investment, which is an important issue not only for managers but for all the stakeholders, particularly the policymakers.
Cutaneous adverse drug reactions in the elderly

Purpose of reviewPopulation ageing is a worldwide phenomenon. The presence of multiple comorbidities, polypharmacy, age-related changes in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, as well as skin changes in the elderly contribute to a unique diagnostic and management problem. This article reviews the epidemiology of cutaneous adverse drug reactions in the elderly and elaborates on a few specific types of reactions which are more relevant to the elderly. Recent findingsChronic dermatoses, for example, eczema, have been reported to be associated with the use of long-term medications such as calcium channel blockers and hydrochlorothiazide. Elderly patients receiving treatment for cancers may develop chemotherapy-related cutaneous side effects, including those associated with newer ‘targeted’ molecular therapies. Elderly patients who develop severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions, such as Stevens–Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis, have worse prognosis in terms of mortality. SummaryPersons of advanced age often have multiple comorbidities and are on multiple medications. This can result in higher probability of an elderly person developing drug eruptions. It is important for the clinician to be aware of the range of drug-related eruptions and their implications.
Recent Advances: Adjuvant Therapy for Older Women With Breast Cancer

The U.S. population is now healthier and more long-lived than ever, and the average life expectancy for a woman born today is about 80 years. An elderly woman's life expectancy, which is related to comorbidity and functional status, is particularly important when determining the appropriate choice of adjuvant chemotherapy and endocrine therapy. In addition, the disease stage and the tumor's biologic characteristics (grade and hormone/human epidermal growth factor [HER]-2 receptor status) must be considered when formulating a treatment plan for 3 clinically distinctive breast cancer subgroups: (1) hormone receptor negative (HR−) and HER-2 negative (“triple-negative” tumors, about 15% of older patients); (2) hormone receptor positive (HR+) and HER-2 negative (the largest group comprising about 70% of older patients); and (3) HER-2 positive irrespective of HR status (about 15% of older patients). The functional status of an older woman can be estimated by a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA). A traditional CGA is time consuming, but testing of shorter, validated CGA instruments is ongoing. Monitoring toxicity in the elderly is especially important because even low-grade toxicity can have a significant effect on function. Eligible older women should be considered for state-of-the-art treatment, including clinical trials to determine the optimal adjuvant regimens for this patient population and how the therapies affect the woman's functioning and quality of life.
Physiological and pathological impact of exosomes of adipose tissue

Exosomes are nanovesicles that have emerged as a new intercellular communication system for transporting proteins and RNAs; recent studies have shown that they play a role in many physiological and pathological processes such as immune regulation, cell differentiation, infection and cancer. By transferring proteins, mRNAs and microRNAs, exosomes act as information vehicles that alter the behavior of recipient cells. Compared to direct cell‐cell contact or secreted factors, exosomes can affect recipient cells in more efficient ways. In whole adipose tissues, it has been shown that exosomes exist in supernatants of adipocytes and adipose stromal cells (ADSCs). Adipocyte exosomes are linked to lipid metabolism and obesity‐related insulin resistance and exosomes secreted by ADSCs are involved in angiogenesis, immunomodulation and tumor development. This review introduces characteristics of exosomes in adipose tissue, summarizes their functions in different physiological and pathological processes and provides the further insight into potential application of exosomes to disease diagnosis and treatment.
Serum level of sCD163, a soluble receptor for hemoglobin, is influenced by cardiac surgery

Background:The scavenger receptor for complexes hemoglobin-haptoglobin (CD163), which is expressed on monocytes/ macrophages, is shed to the body fluids in a soluble form (sCD163). Objectives: To evaluate the dynamics of sCD163 in the blood of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Patients and Methods: Sixty-one adult patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) were enrolled in the study. They were assigned to undergo CABG using either cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), “on-pump”, (22 patients), modified CPB, mini “on-pump”, (17 patients) or without CPB, “off-pump”, (22 patients) surgery. Serum levels of sCD163 in venous blood samples taken before and after surgery, and during an early postoperative period, were evaluated by Macro 163TM diagnostic kit (IQ Products, Groningen, NL). Results: Compared to the preoperative levels (“on-pump”; 344 ng/mL, “off-pump”; 314.5 ng/mL, mini-invasive “on-pump”; 336.5 ng/mL) serum levels were elevated at the finish of surgery, reaching maximum at the 1st postoperative day (“onpump”; 658 ng/mL; p<0.05, “off-pump”; 810.5 ng/mL; p<0.01; mini-invasive “on-pump”; 663 ng/mL; non-significant). No significant differences regarding the serum levels of sCD163 between different surgical approaches were found. Conclusion: Serum level of sCD163 scavenger molecule for hemoglobin is elevated at the end of surgery and at the 1st postoperative day, being little influenced by cardiopulmonary bypass.
Corporate governance and its contribution to risk and crisis management in small companies

Small companies are regarded by policymakers and society alike as being important sources of wealth creation, employment generation and innovation. Yet, many small companies fail to grow or simply grow to then fail. One potential way of explaining the high rate of failure is through the absence of meaningful appropriate, and relevant corporate governance. The few studies undertaken on corporate governance in small companies and its constituent sub-sets of risk and crisis management typically focus on one of those elements rather than, as this study does, adopting a more holistic and combined perspective. This thesis aims to contribute to knowledge through an exploration of the way in which corporate governance can assist in improving the management of risk and crises in small business. To explore this phenomenon, four small companies feature in a multiple case study using a qualitative and inductive approach with an exploratory questionnaire and interview-based research as the principal sources of data. According to owner-managers’ and directors of small companies, corporate governance is acknowledged as a matter of importance but is, in practice, of peripheral concern with operational imperatives dictating the conversation. External influences and compliance requirements are drivers of fuzzy governance procedures although concerning risk, previous incidents are found to be an influencing factor related to policy, processes and practices. However, the key determinant relating to the functioning of corporate governance, risk and crisis management is that of the attitudes, values and beliefs of the owner- manager. The findings suggest that the appreciation of corporate governance, risk and crisis management is weak and that the actors involved tend to have disparate levels of understanding of both the issues involved and the consequent implications of failure at policy level for both themselves and the company.
Factors affecting extent of rural livelihood diversification in selected areas of Bangladesh

The study was carried out to investigate the patterns and extent of livelihood diversification in rural Bangladesh. It also identified the major factors affecting extent of livelihood diversification. The study drew a random sample of 500 rural farm households in Bangladesh through a multi-stage sampling technique. The primary data were collected using semi-structured questionnaires, and analyzed using descriptive statistics and statistical techniques. The results showed that remittance contributed the highest to the household income followed by petty business and rice farming. The estimated values of Simpson Index of Diversification (SID) showed that majority of the rural households had “medium” and “high” level diversified livelihood activities. Tobit regression analysis found that gender of the household head, household size and amount of credit had positive and significant effects; and number of migrant household member, dependency ratio, household assets, education of the household head and amount of savings had negative but significant effects on the extent of livelihood diversification. The small and medium landholding households were more likely to diversify their livelihoods compared to the functionally landless and large landholding households. The study recommended that non-farm employment opportunities should be expanded to combat poor households' vulnerability to shocks and income fluctuations. Functionally landless households should be given more attention to increase and diversify their incomes.SAARC J. Agri. , 16(1): 7-21 (2018)
Social signal extraction from egocentric photo-streams

This paper proposes a system for automatic social pattern characterization using a wearable photo-camera. The proposed pipeline consists of three major steps. First, detection of people with whom the camera wearer interacts and, second, categorization of the detected social interactions into formal and informal. These two steps act at event-level where each potential social event is modeled as a multi-dimensional time-series, whose dimensions correspond to a set of relevant features for each task, and a LSTM network is employed for time-series classification. In the last step, recurrences of the same person across the whole set of social interactions are clustered to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the diversity and frequency of the social relations of the user. Experiments over a dataset acquired by a user wearing a photo-camera during a month show promising results on the task of social pattern characterization from egocentric photo-streams.
Rôle de l'attention spatiale dans l'identification des mots et des lettres

L'objectif de cette these est d'etudier le role de l'attention spatiale dans le traitement des lettres et des mots ecrits et plus specifiquement d'examiner l'implication des mecanismes attentionnels spatiaux dans l'etude des processus de traitement bas-niveau des mots et des lettres. Pour ce faire, nous avons combine le paradigme d'amorcage masque avec celui d'indicage exogene. Nos resultats ont montre avec les stimuli lettres une modulation attentionnelle significative des effets de repetition qui n'a ete observee qu'en presence d'un indice valide et avec des amorces reliees a la cible. Une demonstration supplementaire de ce resultat a ete obtenue a partir d'une etude comportementale manipulant l'inhibition de retour mais aussi a partir d'une etude electrophysiologique qui a revele une composante P3 significative des potentiels evoques modulee par la presence d'indices valides a l'emplacement des amorces reliees. Nous avons eu recours a une manipulation de l'excentricite avec l'emplacement des amorces reliees. Nous avons eu recours a une manipulation de l'excentricite avec les stimuli mots, pour une condition ou l'amorce et la cible apparaissent au meme endroit et pour une autre condition ou la cible est toujours centrale et l'amorce a une position variable. Les resultats ont montre pour les deux conditions un avantage de l'hemi-champ visuel droit et des effets robustes d'amorcage limites essentiellement aux positions les plus foveales dans la condition ou la cible est toujours centrale. La presence de tels effets d'hemi-champ a des etapes precoces du traitement des mots constitut un resultat original. Ces resultats suggerent que les effets d'amorcage peuvent au mois partiellement dependre de la localisation des amorces. Le fait de repliquer ces memes effets avec les lettres vient confirmer l'interet d'une telle conclusion. Plus important encore est le fait que tous nos resultas ont ete observes en l'absence de mouvements oculaires et de tout acces conscient des participants aux amorces. L'ensemble de ces resultats a ete interprete dans le cadre de l'approche de codage en bigrammes pour le traitment orthographique et une nouvelle version, incluant l'attention comme facteur modulateur des effets d'amorcage masque avec repetition, a ete suggeree.
functional traits in a neotropical forest

Q:1; 2; 3 phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant Q:4; 5; 6 functional traits in a neotropical forest Steven W. Kembel, Timothy K. O’Connor, Holly K. Arnold, Stephen P. Hubbell, S. Joseph Wright, and Jessica L. Green Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec a ̀ Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Q:7 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama 0843-03092, Panama; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Therapeutic Use of Botulinum Toxins: Background and History

Abstract: The seven botulinum neurotoxin serotypes share less than 50% sequence homology and are immunologically distinct. The neurotoxins inhibit release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from the axon terminals of motor neurons, preganglionic sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons, and postganglionic parasympathetic nerves by a multi‐step mechanism that differs slightly, but significantly, for each serotype. The inhibition is long lasting but temporary. The resulting muscle paralysis has provided the basis for therapeutic use of botulinum toxin types A and B in a variety of focal dystonias. The safety of the botulinum toxins, when administered focally, has permitted their widespread use in a number of other painful conditions.
Do work-life balance practices mediate in the relationship between female participation and financial performance?

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the participation of women in companies with financial performance. However, this relationship does not arise directly. The authors argue that the participation of women in the company’s staff has a positive effect on the creation of work-life balance (WLB) practices, due to women have traditionally assumed family responsibilities, and subsequently these practices positively affect financial performance. WLB practices are a tool to balance employees’ professional and personal goals. Design/methodology/approach This study aims to determine whether WLB practices mediate in the relationship between female participation in the workforce and financial performance on large companies listed in the Spanish Stock Exchange Index during the period from 2008 to 2013. Findings The main finding is that female participation in the workforce positively affects to the availability of WLB practices, but WLB practices are not a mediator to increase financial performance. Originality/value The study is a new contribution for academics and practitioners, since the WLB has a role of moderating variable; and the positive joint effect of female participation and WLB practices is tested over the company’s outcomes, instead of over the individual employee behaviour like in previous literature. In addition, this effect is studied in a country with economic recession where corporate WLB practices have increased in the last decade.