Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
NDT_A_214268 2917..2925

M Ottonello 1 E Fiabane 1 C Pistarini P Spigno E Torselli 3 1Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, ICS Maugeri Spa SB, Genoa, Italy; 2Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, ICS Maugeri SPA SB, Pavia, Italy; 3Miller Institute for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, Genoa, Italy Purpose: Understanding how difficulties in emotion regulation can be related to metacognitive beliefs during early abstinence, identifying which factors are associated with craving and relapse risk may be useful in residential rehabilitation treatment of alcohol addiction. Methods: Sixty-five patients underwent a 28-day rehabilitation program for alcohol addiction. They underwent a brief semi-structured interview at admission and completed a battery of five self-report questionnaires between days 7 and 10 of alcohol abstinence (T0) and 3 days prior to discharge (T1). Results: After rehabilitation program, all symptoms of psychological distress decreased. We found a significant improvement in all emotional, cognitive and metacognitive scales except for “Cognitive harm” (NAM), “Awareness” (DERS) and a small effect size (low statistical power) for “Emotional clarity” (DERS). Compared to those still abstinent at 1 month from discharge, we found more difficulties in “Emotional clarity” in those who had an early relapse. Difficulties in “Emotional clarity” were observed also in patients with a high level of craving at discharge. Conclusion: Significant differences were observed between the groups “abstinence vs nonabstinence” at 1 month from discharge concerning difficulties in emotion regulation. In particular, we found difficulty in the awareness and understanding of emotion, precisely to identify correctly the emotions. The “Emotional Clarity” seems to be the emotional difficulty that characterized also the group with a high level of craving at discharge and the individuals with early relapse, suggesting the importance of this function as a preliminary factor in emotion regulation.
Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission at primary health care level in Moshi urban Tanzania: uptake challenges and transmission rate

BACKGROUND:Tanzania has extended prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) services to primary health care clinics (PHC). Information on challenges and rates of MTCTC of HIV at this level is limited. The study aimed to describe theuptake of PMTCT interventions and MTCT rates at 18 months post-delivery. METHODS:Pregnant women,in their 3 rd trimester (N=2654),attending 2 primary health facilities in Moshi were recruited. They were interviewed, tested and women-infant pairs were followed-up for 18 months postdelivery, at which point the exposed children were tested for HIV. RESULTS:Of the 2654 women, 99% accepted testing, 93% returned for their HIV-test results and 7% (184) were HIV-positive. Of the 184 HIV-positive women, 93% (171/184) came for test-results, 71% (130/184) took antiretroviral prophylaxis (sdNVP) in labor and 59% (103/175) infants received ARV (sdNVP) prophylaxis. HIV-testing at 18 months was conducted for 68% of the exposed infants. The rate of MTCT of HIV was 15.8%. CONCLUSION: Nearly 40% of infants do not receive ARV prophylaxis and there is high rate of loss to follow-up after delivery, which needs urgent improvements.The high transmission rate support testing of exposedchildren earlier due to high number of deaths among children < 18 months and missed opportunity to offer early ART care.
Measuring the Written Performance Quality in terms of (CAF) Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency Constructs

One of the concerns in language testing is measuring the extent to which the same constructs occur over certain time, across different groups of test takers in an EFL situation. The present study aims to analyse written performance of a number of English language learners over a year in a thick description to provide in-depth empirical data focusing on performance of test takers in terms of CAF. Previously, the majority of language learners’ written performance was evaluated based on some scales without taking into account the qualitative performance from the SLA perspective. Therefore, the present study tries to bridge the gap between testing and SLA. As far as the first research question, which is the relative contributions of each of the features, complexity, accuracy and fluency is concerned, the researchers found a noticeable negative correlation between the complexity, accuracy and fluency of learner performance. Concerning the development of participants in writing skill as the second research question, students did not reach the benchmarks of Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) levels. Moreover, it was observed that forms may not develop linearly among these three dimensions, and a learner’s improvement in repeating a task does not guarantee that he/she will get the most from a target-language perspective unless it raises his/her awareness.
Comparison of Two Methods of Training (Face-to-Face and Electronic) on Depression, Anxiety and Stress in Breast Cancer Patients

Introduction: Depression and anxiety are psychological problems after mastectomy surgery. Patient education and giving information has important role in nursing care in reducing anxiety and depression. Given that education to patient is done in different style, this study was conducted with purpose of Comparison of two methods of training (face-to-face and electronic) on depression, anxiety and stress in breast cancer patients in the center of cancer research in 1393. Methods: This research was performed in a clinical trial on 90 patients dividing into three groups of 30 members, chosen at random and matched by age, marital status employment status and type of surgery. The patients receiving Face-to-Face and Electronic Education Methods were put in the experimental group and other patients were put in the control group only receiving routine Treatments. A data collection tool was specific questionnaire of depression, anxiety, stress DASS42 and demographic questionnaire. Then data were analyzed with SPSS v, 16 and the collected data were analyzed by descriptive, repeated measurement test and chi-square, ANOVA, Posthoc test LSD. Results: The score mean of depression, anxiety and stress in the experimental groups were significantly different before and after treatment (p<0.05). The score mean of depression, anxiety and stress in control group had no significant deference before and after treatment. Conclusion: The result of the study showed that undergoing heart surgery patients, experienced anxiety and depression that can negative effect on patient and disease process. Despite of difference between pre and postoperative scores in three groups, in experimental groups this difference was highly significant and by comparison between the experimental groups and control group after intervention was found differences. So nurses can use of two Educational methods because of the simplicity, efficiency, cost-effectiveness in patient education.
Standardization of Accounting InformationThrough Ipsas and Public Finance Accountability: a Perspective from Taita-Taveta County, Kenya

Absract: The need for the development of unified accounting standards has been the primary driver of international public sector accounting standards for public sector financial reporting. A common set of international accounting standards can reduce the information processing and auditing costs to market participants. A dispassionate view of the facts presented in the Auditor General for the Financial Year ended on June 30, 2014 show that Kenya’s public finance management and accounting processes are still highly manual and inaccurate, calling to question the efficacy of the adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs) in the public sector accounting. Specifically, in counties like Taita Taveta County, the level of qualified reports has remained high despite the adoption of IPSASs in the last two years. Though the quality of financial reporting has been cited as a factor to the low level of accountability in the County, standardization of financial reports has not been mentioned. Therefore, the main objective of the study was to determine the effects of standardization of accounting information through IPSAS in enhancing public finance accountability in Kenya focusing on Taita-Taveta County. Descriptive survey research design was used targeting accounts management and staff drawn from 4 sub county treasury offices, the County Treasury Head Quarters and the County Assembly in the entire county. A sample size of 79 respondents obtained through simple random sampling was used. Structured questionnaire were used for data collection. Data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistical methods with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS). The results revealed that standardization of accounting information through IPSAS considerably affected public finance accountability in the County and, moreover, compared to other standards, IPSAS was more effective and informative. Therefore, it was recommended that, the performance of the IPSAS systems needs to be consistently monitored so as to ensure high standards of financial accounting information reporting are maintained so as to enhance public finance accountability in the County.
Decision Aids in the United States: the Patient Response

Background: In the United States and elsewhere, a growing chorus of voices is calling for the routine use of patient decision aids (DAs) and shared decision making (SDM) in day-to-day care. A frequently cited barrier to this approach is the belief that many patients will not be able to understand key clinical information and/or prefer to delegate decision making to providers. These beliefs, often held by providers, are thought to be particularly applicable to elderly and less educated patients. Objectives: To test the perception that older and less educated patients will not value or benefit from DAs. Research design: Self-administered questionnaires completed by patients after viewing DAs. Subjects: 3001 patients in six primary care practice sites facing one of sixteen common medical decisions. Measures: Amount of DA viewed, knowledge about medical tests or treatments, DA rating, and importance of receiving DAs from providers. Results: Across age and education level, higher self-reported exposure to the DAs was associated with higher knowledge scores. Those over 65 and those who had not attended college had knowledge gains at least has high as those in other groups. There were no statistically significant differences by age or education in patient assessment of the importance of using DAs. Conclusions: Patients in primary care settings in the U.S. learn from DAs, rate them highly, and believe that providers should make them available in ways that are mainly independent of patient age or formal education.
THE ROLE OF THE NURSES IN HEALTH PROMOTION FROM THE VIEW POINT OF PATIENTS AT KINGABDULLAH HOSPITAL IN IRBID

This study aimed to know the viewpoint of patients at King Abdullah Hospital on the role of nurses in health promotion in general, and also aimed to investigate the effect of gender, age, area of residence, and academic level on the point of view of patients. The study sample consisted of 120 patients 63 males and 57 females at King Abdullah Hospital. Means and standard deviations and t-test were used to analyze the results. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences in the views of the patients on the role of nurses in health promotion in general, also showed a statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α ≥ 0,05) in their views attributed to the age, as there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α ≥ 0,05) in their views attributed to gender, and results also showed the existence of clear statistically significant differences in the views of the patients on the role of nurses in health promotion due to the Academic level and area of residence variables.
Comparative biology of pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) on different hosts

The study of biology of pink bollworm was carried out in the Climate Change Laboratory, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur during 2017-18 in BOD incubator under controlled conditions of temperature, 27±2°C and relative humidity of 65±5 per cent wherein the larvae were reared on Bt cotton bolls and okra fruits. Considerable variation in larval period of Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) feeding on different host plants was recorded. The shorter larval period of 23.50± 1.45 days was recorded when the larvae were fed okra fruits, whereas the longer larval period of 26.10±0.66 days was observed on Bt cotton. Generally, female lived longer than males in the present study on both the hosts. The females that were fed on okra laid maximum number of eggs (125.95 eggs/female) as compared to those on Bt cotton (103.8 eggs/female). The total life cycle of P. gossypiella from egg to death of adult varied on two hosts, which was significantly longer on Bt cotton (46.82 days) than on okra (40.58 days).
Transcriptome Analysis of Hypertrophic Heart Tissues from Murine Transverse Aortic Constriction and Human Aortic Stenosis Reveals Key Genes and Transcription Factors Involved in Cardiac Remodeling Induced by Mechanical Stress

Background Mechanical stress-induced cardiac remodeling that results in heart failure is characterized by transcriptional reprogramming of gene expression. However, a systematic study of genomic changes involved in this process has not been performed to date. To investigate the genomic changes and underlying mechanism of cardiac remodeling, we collected and analyzed DNA microarray data for murine transverse aortic constriction (TAC) and human aortic stenosis (AS) from the Gene Expression Omnibus database and the European Bioinformatics Institute. Methods and Results The differential expression genes (DEGs) across the datasets were merged. The Venn diagrams showed that the number of intersections for early and late cardiac remodeling was 74 and 16, respectively. Gene ontology and protein–protein interaction network analysis showed that metabolic changes, cell differentiation and growth, cell cycling, and collagen fibril organization accounted for a great portion of the DEGs in the TAC model, while in AS patients' immune system signaling and cytokine signaling displayed the most significant changes. The intersections between the TAC model and AS patients were few. Nevertheless, the DEGs of the two species shared some common regulatory transcription factors (TFs), including SP1, CEBPB, PPARG, and NFKB1, when the heart was challenged by applied mechanical stress. Conclusions This study unravels the complex transcriptome profiles of the heart tissues and highlighting the candidate genes involved in cardiac remodeling induced by mechanical stress may usher in a new era of precision diagnostics and treatment in patients with cardiac remodeling.
PEA YIELD QUALITY AND NUTRIENT UPTAKE AS AFFECTED BY USING SOME NATURAL MATERIALS

A pot experiments was conducted at Dekrnis city, Dakahlia Governorate during the winter season of (2013/ 2014); to investigate the effect of some natural materials as a fertilizer and its effects on crops quality, yield and nutrients uptake of pea (Pisum sativum) variety of "master B". Nine treatments were arranged in a complete randomized blocks, which were the simple possible combinations among four treatments of some natural materials and two rates of application as follows (phosphate rock (100 and 200 kg.fed -1 ), mineral sulfur ore (100 and 200 kg.fed -1 ), potassium rock (100 and 200 kg.fed -1 ) and feldspar (100 and 200 kg.fed -1 ). Each treatment was replicated three times. Thus the total number of replicates were twenty seven included 3 replicates of control for the season. The obtained results could be summarized as follows:  The mean values of yield (g.plant -1 ), weight of 100 seeds (g), N, P, K % and its uptakes (mg.plant -1 ) after 45 and 75 days from planting, N, P and K% and its uptake (mg.plant -1) by seeds of pea after harvest and seed quality as reducing sugar%, non-reducing sugar%, total sugar %, V.C (mg.100g -1 ) and protein % after harvesting were significantly increased with using these natural materials. After harvesting, the plants gave the highest values with adding sulfur ore.  The highest values of the mentioned parameters were obtained from 200 kg.fed -1 compared to the 100 kg.fed -1 and it had significant effect.  Under any level of fertilization with some natural materials, pea plants were superior with increasing the values of all aforementioned traits than those obtained from the untreated plants. The highest values of yield (g.plant -1 ), weight of 100 seeds (g), N, P, K % and its uptakes (mg.plant -1 ) after 45 and 75 days from planting, N, P and K% and its uptake (mg.plant -1 ) by seeds of pea after harvest and seed quality as reducing sugar%, non-reducing sugar%, total sugar %, V.C (mg.100g -1 ) and protein % after harvesting were connected with treatments receiving 200 kg.fed -1 sulfur ore.
A Genome-wide Survey, Model Selection, Phylogenetic Analysis and Protein-protein Interactional Network Profile of the Metazoan PRKAG Genes from 22 Vertebrate Genomes

AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a cellular energy sensor which regulates organizational energy and phosphorylates diverse enzymes, playing key roles in determining different metabolic phenotypes and the energy metabolism equilibrium. This genome-wide survey identified and analyzed 266 unique AMPK gamma subunit (PRKAG) gene sequences from the recently updated genomes of human and 21 animals. After the model selection of phylogenetic analysis parameters, all the 266 protein sequences of these identified human and animal PRKAG genes were used to compute ML (Maximum Likelihood) phylogenetic tree under the evolutionary WAG+G and the protein-protein interactional network analysis using the STRING database. Subsequently, the phylogenetic analysis verified and found all these PRKAG gene sub-families from the amphibian, fish, avian, and mammal genomes formed large monotonous phylogenetic clusters except for three frog PRKAG sequences. Particularly, all the primate PRKAG genes formed the super-class of their sole phylogenetic clusters. Furthermore, the mapped network profile analysis revealed that these PRKAG genes were functionally assembled and/or enriched in the energy metabolism, immune responsive and/or inflammatory and myosin or myosin heavy chain interacting proteins related signaling pathways. In addition, most of these proteins are interrelated and formed a tight protein interactional network of energy metabolism. In conclusion, the observed data and information of protein-protein interaction will contribute to understanding and analyzing the possible protein functions and interacted pathways of animal PRKAG genes and/or other AMPK subunit genes. The metazoan PRKAG gene sequences and identified dataset may be beneficial for related developmental and physiological research topics. These findings may also be potentially applied to explore and resolve the critical issues of disease-induced loss that many medical researchers are taking into research. © 2019 Friends Science Publishers
THE MARKETING BEHAVIOUR OF PUBLIC SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS: WHAT CAN RELATIONSHIP MARKETING CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRACTICE?

As government and voluntary and community organizations (VCOs) increasingly work in partnership to make public policy and to design and deliver public services, new challenges are raised for the practice of marketing within public service organizations (PSOs)1 and for assessing its fitness for purpose within the ‘new regulatory state’ (Jayasuriya 2004). This task is complicated however by the considerable ambiguity surrounding the role of marketing within PSOs. Based on UK experience, this paper seeks to develop clear conceptual foundations to guide the practice of this functional discipline within such organizations. It will argue that in the UK the marketing function has been embraced by practitioners, albeit with considerable reluctance, as an inevitable corollary to the public sector reform agenda of the past thirty years, with its dominant notions of consumerism and the ‘marketisation’ of public services, and rather than as a desirable management discipline in its own right (Walsh 1994, Burton 1999)2. In doing so it has neglected the opportunities offered by alternative conceptualizations of marketing that take institutions and networks, rather than consumers, as the central unit of analysis. This association of marketing with consumerism and marketisation in public management has also lead many critics to conclude that it ought to be confined to operational service delivery issues alone (Walsh 1995). Such a view is at odds, though, with the current dominant models of the plural state and contemporary governance theory that eschew such a clear distinction between policy making and its implementation (Stewart 1996, Jayasuriya 2004).
The Impact of Target Financial Trends on Bidder Announcement Return: Empirical Evidence from the Norwegian M&A Market

We study the relationship between bidder announcement return and prior target financial development in the Norwegian takeover market. Based on a sample of 120 acquisitions of primarily private targets, we find that changes in financial ratios relative to the sample standard deviation provide more explanatory power than absolute ratio levels. Our results indicate that target size and trends in asset turnover have a statistically significant influence on the announcement return. On the one hand, the market is positively related to target size, yet it has a negative development in asset turnover on the other hand. We further find that the impact of the dynamic accounting characteristics is time-dependent, meaning that the importance of these variables changes over time. The trend measure of leverage is significant in the period between 2006-2016, indicating that this variable contributes to explain the announcement return in this particular period. The trend measures of liquidity and net profit margin are, however, not statistically significant in any of the short-term windows. Reviewing our results, we summarize that the shareholders of the bidding firm are most optimistic about the announcement when the target firm is large in size and with a decreasing asset turnover. In addition, increasing leverage levels seemed to be important in earlier years, whereas trends in liquidity and net profit margin seem to be irrelevant when explaining movements in announcement return regardless of the time frame.
Integrated Weed Management in Blackgram (Vigna mungo L.)

Field investigation was carried out for two consecutive years (2001 and 2002) to develop an eco-friendly integrated weed management technology for blackgram (Vigna mungo L.) grown under rainfed eco-system of Central Uttar Pradesh. Results revealed that low dose of pendimethalin (0.5 kg ha−1) followed by one hand weeding done at 60 days after sowing demonstrated intended weed control (67.80% WCE), enhanced higher grain yield (379 kg ha−1 or 119.49%) and fetched net monetary return (Rs.3611 ha−1) due to weed control.