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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF FACULTY MEMBERS IN KURDISTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Abstract:Background and Aim:Organizational commitment and professional ethics are two of the most important issues in highereducation. The commitment to these issues is very challenging for the faculty members. The aim ofthis study was to investigate the relationship between professional ethics and organizationalcommitment of faculty members.Materials and Methods:This was a descriptive-correlative study. The sample consisted of 150 faculty members of KurdistanUniversity of Medical Sciences, they were randomly selected. The data selection tools were threequestionnaires including demographic work ethics and organizational commitment questionnaires.Data was analyzed by Pearson correlation and single-sample t test using SPSS (V. 16). Results:The mean score of professional ethics was 6.06 ± 1.05 and the mean score of organizationalcommitment was 4.26 ± 1.10 which were above average of 4. The scores of professional ethics andorganizational commitment dimensions were also higher than average. There was a significantrelationship between professional ethics and organizational commitment and their dimensions (P<0.05, r=0. 12). Conclusion:According to the findings, more attention to ethical standards and promotion of them among facultymembers is necessary. This is the responsibility of the managers of higher education institutions.Keywords:Professional Ethics; Ethics, Institutional; Faculty
RAPID PREDICTION OF BIOMECHANICAL

10 Groupe de recherche sur le systeme nerveux central (GRSNC) 11 Departement de Neuroscience, Universite de Montreal 12 Montreal (QC), CANADA 13 14 Cognition and Action Laboratory 15 Institute of Neuroscience, Universite Catholique de Louvain 16 1200 Brussels, BELGIUM 17 18 UPMC, Univ Paris 06, UMR 7222, ISIR 19 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, FRANCE 20 21 CRNS, UMR 7222, ISIR 22 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, FRANCE 23 24 25 *present address: Institut des Systemes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), Universite Pierre et 26 Marie Curie, Paris, France 27 28
A A A AUXILIAR: A ENFERMAGEM R

A mudanca de administracao no municipio de Sao Paulo em 1989 inovou a gestao dos servicos de saude, objetivandoa implementacao do Sistema Unico de Saude (SUS) e tendo como uma estrategia fundamental a qualificacao dos trabalhadores.Este artigo objetiva analisar a incorporacao dos principios do SUS aos cursos de formacao de auxiliares de enfermagem.Partindo dos conceitos que nutriram a Reforma Sanitaria e a construcao dos principios do SUS, o caminho metodologicoempreendido utilizou entrevistas com os coordenadores do programa. A analise permitiu reconhecer que a politica e aspraticas da gestao municipal estavam comprometidas com o SUS; priorizou-se a qualificacao dos trabalhadores da saude quenao haviam tido oportunidade; adotou-se uma pedagogia voltada a "transformacao" dos agentes; os coordenadores motivaram-se a desenvolver a qualificacao, reconhecendo o processo como uma ferramenta de implementacao do SUS; os coordenadoresdo nivel regional apreenderam a dimensao tecnica do processo, isolada da politica.DESCRITORES: SUS (BR), educacao em enfermagem, recursos humanos de enfermagem, politica de saude, capacitacao emservico
Efficient Variable-Coefficient Finite-Volume Stokes Solvers

We investigate several robust preconditioners for solving the saddle-point linear systems that arise from spatial discretization of unsteady and steady variable-coefficient Stokes equations on a uniform staggered grid. Building on the success of using the classical projection method as a preconditioner for the coupled velocity-pressure system [B. E. Griffith, J. Comp. Phys., 228 (2009), pp. 75657595], as well as established techniques for steady and unsteady Stokes flow in the finite-element literature, we construct preconditioners that employ independent generalized Helmholtz and Poisson solvers for the velocity and pressure subproblems. We demonstrate that only a single cycle of a standard geometric multigrid algorithm serves as an effective inexact solver for each of these subproblems. Contrary to traditional wisdom, we find that the Stokes problem can be solved nearly as efficiently as the independent pressure and velocity subproblems, making the overall cost of solving the Stokes system comparable to the cost of classical projection or fractional step methods for incompressible flow, even for steady flow and in the presence of large density and viscosity contrasts. Two of the five preconditioners considered here are found to be robust to GMRES restarts and to increasing problem size, making them suitable for large-scale problems. Our work opens many possibilities for constructing novel unsplit temporal integrators for finite-volume spatial discretizations of the equations of low Mach and incompressible flow dynamics.
POLYTYPE DIVERSITY OF THE HYDROTALCITE-LIKE MINERALS II. D E T E R M I N A T I O N OF THE POLYTYPES OF E

Almtraet. --Polytype diversity of hydrotalcite-like minerals is mainly a function of the nature of the interlayer anion. Among the varieties with COlanions, only twoand three-layer polylypes having the same structure as manasseite and hydrotalcite have been confirmed. Stichtite and reevesite, which have been previously identified as six-layer polytypes, are in fact three-layer polytypes. Among SO4 ~ varieties, one-layer and three-layer polytypes have been identified, but the one-layer types are only present in more hydrated minerals with larger interlayer spacings. The three-layer varieties are of three different polytypes, with both Pand O-types ofinterlayers. Both rhombohedral and hexagonal varieties exist. Interlayer type may change during hydration-dehydration or anion exchange. Thus, in contrast with the COs2--bearing minerals, a complete description of the polytype of the SO42--bearing minerals cannot be made by simply indicating the number of the brucite-like layers in the unit cell. The two-layer unit cell seen in refined crystal structures of some minerals with SO42interlayers is not due to a doubled periodicity of alternation of brucite-like layers but to periodicity of interlayer anions, or layer cations. Key Words--Hydrotalcite-like group, Polytype, X-ray diffraction criteria.
Error Bounds for Random Matrix Approximation Schemes

Randomized matrix sparsification has proven to be a fruitful technique for producing faster algorithms in applications ranging from graph partitioning to semidefinite programming. In the decade or so of research into this technique, the focus has been—with few exceptions—on ensuring the quality of approximation in the spectral and Frobenius norms. For certain graph algorithms, however, the ∞→1 norm may be a more natural measure of performance. This paper addresses the problem of approximating a real matrix A by a sparse random matrix X with respect to several norms. It provides the first results on approximation error in the ∞→1 and ∞→2 norms, and it uses a result of Lata la to study approximation error in the spectral norm. These bounds hold for a reasonable family of random sparsification schemes, those which ensure that the entries of X are independent and average to the corresponding entries of A. Optimality of the ∞→1 and ∞→2 error estimates is established. Concentration results for the three norms hold when the entries of X are uniformly bounded. The spectral error bound is used to predict the performance of several sparsification and quantization schemes that have appeared in the literature; the results are competitive with the performance guarantees given by earlier scheme-specific analyses.
Absolute Whitehead torsion

1 . A/. We apply this invariant to symmetric Poincare complexes and identify it in terms of more traditional invariants. In the companion paper (joint with Ian Hambleton and Andrew Ranicki) this new invariant is applied to obtain the multiplicativity of the signature of fibre bundles mod 4. 57Q10
CHARGE TRAPPING PROPERTIES OF ALTERNATIVE HIGH-K DIELECTRICS IN MOS DEVICES By

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First I would greatly thank my advisor Dr. Daniel M. Fleetwood for his continuous support in the Ph.D. program. He was always there to listen, to encourage and to provide intensive professional guidance. He showed me different ways to approach the research problem and taught me how to express my ideas and communicate effectively. To complete my Ph.D. would not have been possible without his generous help both in scientific research and life. It has always been my great pleasure knowing him and working under his guidance for my Doctoral degree. His broad and profound knowledge, earnest research attitude and optimistic lifestyle will be engraved on my mind. I also thank Dr. Ronald Schrimpf and Dr. Sokrates Pantelides with whom I discussed technical details and they also helped me to think through my problems from a different prospective. Dr. Robert Weller has confidence in me and provides insightful comments on my thesis. I thank him for that. Thanks also to Dr. Bridget Rogers for serving on my committee and asking me good questions. I am also grateful to Leonidas Tsetseris for his theoretical calculations and James A. Felix for helping me set up the experiments and sharing the calculation program; I also would like to thank Evgeni Gusev for supporting this project by providing samples and simulative discussions. Thanks also to Andrew Sternberg for experimental assistance and troubleshooting in the lab. I am grateful to my fellow graduate students in the Vanderbilt Radiation Effects and Reliability Group, who made the lab a wonderful workplace and home in the past 4 years. ii Special thanks go to my cutest son Wayhan Z. Jiang for his beautiful smiles everyday and my husband Hairong Jiang for his continuous support and love, and my parents and parents-in-law, for their unselfish support during all the years of my study.
Flexible Beschäftigungsform ‚Zeitarbeit‘ auf dem Prüfstand

Abstract Zeitarbeit hat sich in Deutschland zur am schnellsten expandierenden Beschäftigungsform entwickelt. Als spezifische Variante atypischer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse ist Zeitarbeit in empirischen Untersuchungen bisher jedoch nur selten analysiert worden. In Anbetracht der Zuwachsrate ist diese Nichtberücksichtigung unverständlich. Die Flexibilisierung von Beschäftigungsformen hat zu einer Verlagerung des „unternehmerischen Risikos“ auf den Arbeitnehmer geführt. Die Beschäftigten sind gezwungen, ihre Arbeitskraft immer wieder anzubieten, wodurch sie auf marktfähige Qualifikationen und Kompetenzen angewiesen sind. Die vorliegende Untersuchung fragt nach Voraussetzungen bzw. Bedingungen, welche Zeitarbeit für Qualifizierung und berufliche Kompetenzentwicklung, aber auch für den Erhalt von Gesundheit bereitstellt. Erste empirische Ergebnisse einer vergleichenden Querschnittuntersuchung von Zeitarbeitnehmern und dauerhaft beschäftigten Facharbeitern in der Fertigungsbranche werden zur Diskussion gestellt.
Causes and Prevention of Violence in Prisons

Prisons are not normal environments. They are, as Bottoms (1999) observed, not only ‘total institutions’ in the sense that they encompass inmates’ lives to an extent qualitatively greater than other social institutions (Goffman, 1961), they are physical places (mostly surrounded by high walls) with a specific history and ethos that are designed to be places of punishment. Prisons bring troubled human beings, often with a long history of violence as victim or offender, into confined spaces against their wills. These scarred individuals are brought into close contact with staff whom they greatly outnumber but who must on a daily basis maintain a peaceful and orderly routine. The wonder is there is not more violence in prisons.
USING COLOR TO DEFINE SPECIES BOUNDARIES: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS IN THE ORCHARD ORIOLE COMPLEX SUPPORTS THE RECOGNITION OF TWO SPECIES

Abstract Abstract. The recent divergence of Orchard (Icterus spurius spurius) and Fuertes's Orioles (I. s. fuertesi) makes them an ideal system for investigating species boundaries. Orchard and Fuertes's Orioles differ in several respects. They have distinct breeding ranges—Fuertes's Orioles breed in eastern coastal Mexico, whereas Orchard Orioles breed throughout eastern and central North America—and differ in plumage coloration, with adult male Orchard Orioles appearing “chestnut” and Fuertes's Orioles “ochre. ” However, no detailed quantitative color analyses have been conducted. To characterize these differences we quantitatively measured plumage color using reflectance spectrometry. The colored plumages of adult male Orchard and Fuertes's Orioles have unique spectral characteristics, with no color overlap between them. Combined with life history differences and previous molecular studies, these findings support the classification of Orchard and Fuertes's Orioles as separate species. Additionally, this study demonstrates the utility of quantitative color measurement as a tool for examining species boundaries.
A recursive proof of Aldous' spectral gap conjecture

Aldous’ spectral gap conjecture asserts that on any graph the random walk process and the random transposition (or interchange) process have the same spectral gap. We prove the conjecture using a recursive strategy. The approach is a natural extension of the method already used to prove the validity of the conjecture on trees. The novelty is an idea based on electric network reduction which reduces the problem to the proof of an explicit inequality for a random transposition operator involving both positive and negative rates. The proof of the latter inequality uses suitable coset decompositions of the associated matrices on permutations. 1. Aldous’ conjecture Aldous’ conjecture concerns the spectral gap, a quantity that plays an important role in the analysis of the convergence to equilibrium of reversible Markov chains. We begin by reviewing some well known facts about Markov chains and their spectral gaps. For details we refer to [2]. 1.1. Finite state, continuous time Markov chains. Let us consider a continuous time Markov chain Z = (Zt)t > 0 with finite state space S and transition rates (qi,j : i 6= j ∈ S) such that qi,j > 0. We will always assume that the Markov chain is irreducible and satisfies qi,j = qj,i for all i 6= j. Such a Markov chain is reversible with respect to the uniform distribution ν on S, which is the unique stationary distribution of the chain. The infinitesimal generator L of the Markov chain is defined by Lg(i) = ∑ j∈S qi,j(g(j) − g(i)) , where g : S → R and i ∈ S. The matrix corresponding to the linear operator L is the transition matrix Q = (qi,j)i,j, where qi,i := − ∑ j 6=i qi,j, and the Date: June 26, 2009. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 60K35; 60J27; 05C50.
-1451 - Finding the Business Value after Successful Erp Implementation: Making the Case for Gross Margin

We make the case that ERP-related profitability improvements first manifest themselves in gross margin. Using regression discontinuity analysis, we compared “SAP Successes” with their matched competitors before and after their SAP implementation periods and found that the gross margin of SAP successes improved significantly but not their operating margin. These results proved robust across two different matching strategies, and the regression equations explained nearly all of the variance in gross margin. The strength of these results is likely due to the ideal position gross margin occupies along a firm’s value chain where productivity and profitability intersect.
PLASMA MELATONIN LEVELS

1. At a constant temperature of 24 °C there was a diel fluctuation in plasma melatonin concentration; highest levels occurring in the scotophase of a reversed daily light-cycle. Parietalectomy did not appear to affect melatonin titres under these conditions. 2. When lizards were subjected to a photoperiod together with a thermoperiod (31 °C in the photophase, 24 °C in the scotophase), nocturnal plasma melatonin levels were almost twice as high as those in animals subjected to a photoperiod at constant temperature. 3. Capping the lateral eyes of T. rugosus under these conditions did not alter the phase or amplitude of the rhythm in plasma melatonin content. However, removal of the parietal eye abolished the rhythm, owing mainly to reduced levels during the mid-scotophase and elevated levels during the midphotophase. 4. It is concluded that plasma melatonin levels are regulated extraretinally, and that the parietal eye may help to mediate environmental input to centres secreting melatonin. It is suggested that the parietal eye may mediate thermal as well as photic information.
Compactness of the solution operator for a linear evolution equation with distributed measures

The main goal of the present paper is to define the solution operator (ξ,g) → u associated to the evolution equation du = (Au)dt + dg, u(0) = ξ, where A generates a C 0 -semigroup in a Banach space X, ξ ∈ X, g ∈ BV([a,b]; X), and to study its main properties, such as regularity, compactness, and continuity. Some necessary and/or sufficient conditions for the compactness of the solution operator extending some earlier results due to the author and to BARAS, HASSAN, VERON, as well as some applications to the existence of certain generalized solutions to a semilinear equation involving distributed, or even spatial, measures, are also included. Two concrete examples of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations subjected to impulsive dynamic conditions on the boundary illustrate the effectiveness of the abstract results.
Antigen-presenting Cell-expressed Specificity of T Cell Antigen Recognition Identification of a Site of Interaction and Its Relationship to Ir Genes Ettore Appella

Ia region gene products have long been postulated to be antigen-binding (recognition) molecules (1); in particular, one set of hypotheses suggests that they are participants along with a T cell product in the antigen-binding complex (2, 3). It has recently been observed that certain T cell clones will react to antigen in association with two different major histocompatibility complex (MHC) 1 haplotypes, but in doing so these clones display different antigen specificities (4, 5). Such results have been interpreted as support for the above hypothesis. In the present work we have subjected the postulate to a further test by attempting to identify the site on a peptide antigen that interacts with the Ia molecule (i.e. controls the specificity changes that accompany the changes of MHC type) and the presumably different site that interacts with the T cell (i.e. contributes to immune memory). In our initial studies, the nominal antigens were peptides consisting of residues 81-104 or 81-103 of the cytochrome c from pigeon or moth, respectively. B10.A mice immunized with low doses of either the pigeon 81-104 or moth 81-103 responded to both moth and pigeon fragments. However, B10.A(5R) mice immunized with low doses of pigeon fragment showed no response at all. When B10.A(5R) mice were immunized with large doses of moth fragment a strong response was seen, but this immune response showed no cross-reactivity with the pigeon peptide. IL2-secreting T cell hybridomas from a moth-primed B10.A(5R) or a pigeon-primed B10.A mouse were prepared and tested with antigen-presenting cells (APC) of these two strains. It was found that the T cell hybridomas from either strain responded to antigen associated with either B 10.A or B10.A(5R) APC but to no others (5). Surprisingly, the specificity pattern was determined not by the MHC genes of the T cell hybridoma but by those of the
Covariance Structure Modeling of Academic Performance on Mathematics Students in South-Western Nigerian Polytechnics

Mathematics is a very important subject. It is the language of science and technology and so it is a force to reckon with in the development of any nation. Several studies on factors that affect mathematics achievement have been conducted. However, studies on factors that affect mathematics achievement among Polytechnics students in Nigeria seem to be rare. This study identified the variables that tend to affect academic performance among mathematics students and developed covariance structure model for examining the relationships between the variables. This was with a view to providing an appropriate frame work for predicting academic performance. Study participants were 240 students selected by convenience sampling from six Polytechnics (three State-owned and three Federal-owned) in the South-Western Nigeria. A self-report questionnaire was administered on participants to collect information on demographic factors, self concept, training environment and circumstances used to determine the academic performance of students. Data collected was analyzed using percentages and covariance structure model technique. It explained self-concept, training environment and circumstances affect academic performance, with a good model fit. The model supposes that the perceived attributes of self concept, training environment and circumstances in polytechnics predict the academic performance. The result showed that self-concept, training environment and circumstances has influences on students’ academic performance in Nigerian polytechnic.
Gli SGLT2 inibitori nella pratica clinica

Con l’avvento degli inibitori SGLT2 (trasportatori sodio-glucosio tipo 2) è incrementata la possibilità terapeutica a disposizione del diabetologo, la letteratura e l’esperienza clinica è a favore di un razionale impiego degli SGLT2. Rimane, quindi, importante identificare il paziente che può ottenere i massimi benefici con questa classe di farmaci. Dagli studi di preregistrazione questi farmaci possono essere impiegati sia in monoterapia associati a dieta ed esercizio fisico, ma anche a metformina e sulfaniluree, a inibitori del DPP-4 (dipeptidil peptidasi 4) e agonisti del recettore del GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) e all’insulina. I limiti riguardano la rimborsabilità. Nella pratica clinica, gli inibitori SGLT2 riducono l’emoglobina glicosilata (indipendentemente da età, durata della malattia e livelli di glicata di partenza), permettono un significativo calo ponderale, riducono la pressione arteriosa e riducono i livelli di uricemia. A livello renale, svolgono azione nefroprotettiva, ma la loro efficacia si riduce al ridursi della funzionalità renale. Pertanto, è necessario porre una maggiore attenzione nei confronti dei pazienti fragili con insufficienza renale severa. Sulla base dell’esperienza clinica sono ben tollerati se si mantiene un’adeguata idratazione. Si possono però riscontrare delle infezioni delle vie urinarie o micosi genitale, specie nelle prime settimane di trattamento, e raramente si riscontrano ipoglicemie con l’uso di questi farmaci (nello specifico le ipoglicemie si presentono esclusivamente se associati a sulfaniluree o insulina). Recentemente le agenzie regolatorie EMA (Agenzia Europea dei Medicinali), FDA (Food and Drug Administration), AIFA (Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco) hanno comunicato un aumentato rischio di chetoacidosi normoglicemica, di osteoporosi e di aumentato rischio di amputazione con l’uso di questi farmaci, ma fenotipizzando e selezionando bene i pazienti, tutti questi rari eventi avversi possono essere esigui, gestiti e governati. In conclusione, gli SGLT2 hanno un profilo di sicurezza positivo, con ridotta incidenza di eventi avversi gravi e con una potenziale riduzione del rischio cardiovascolare.