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Participation in Existential Groups Led by Norwegian Healthcare Chaplains—Relations to Psychological Distress, Crisis of Meaning and Meaningfulness

ABSTRACT Spirituality groups led by healthcare chaplains have been found to aid patients’ recovery processes in US psychiatric units. In Norway, existential groups (EGs) led by healthcare chaplains and co-led by healthcare staff members are offered at psychiatric units; these groups share commonalities with spirituality groups, group psychotherapy, existential therapy and clinical pastoral care, facilitating patients’ reflections regarding existential, spiritual and religious issues. The study aimed to examine associations between patients’ participation and topics discussed in the EGs and their experiences of psychological distress, crisis of meaning and meaningfulness. A cross-sectional design was applied among 157 patients attending EGs led by healthcare chaplains across Norway. Multivariate regression analyses assessed the strength of possible associations, adjusted for relevant demographical variables. Significant association was found between lengthier EG participation and lower levels of psychological distress, while discussion topics concerning religious and spiritual issues were significantly associated with the experience of meaningfulness.
Event‐triggered robust state estimation for wireless sensor networks

Robust state estimation problem subject to a communication constraint is investigated in this paper for a class of wireless sensor networks constituted by multiple remote sensor nodes and a fusion node. An analytical robust fusion estimator using local event‐triggered transmission strategies is derived aiming to reduce energy consumption of the sensor nodes and refrain from network traffic congestion. Some conditions are presented guaranteeing the uniformly bounded estimation errors of the robust state estimator. Several numerical simulations are presented to show the validity of the proposed method.
Understanding land use and land cover change in Inner Mongolia using remote sensing time series

Monitoring land use and land cover change (LULCC) support better interpretation about how land surfaces are impacted by human decisions. The overall aim of this thesis is to gain a better understanding about LULCC in Inner Mongolia using remote sensing under consideration of China’s land use policies. With the largest scale land restoration programs in the world, China aims to reduce human pressure on lands and promote sustainable land use. As a hot-spot of environmental change, Inner Mongolia received the heaviest investment from the central government for land restoration. Yet the effectiveness and consequences of China’s land use policies in Inner Mongolia remain unclear. Remote sensing is an effective tool for monitoring land use and land cover change across broad scales, yet data limitations and a lack of available change detection methods hampers the capacity of researchers to apply remote sensing techniques for LULCC monitoring. To reliably map LULCC in Inner Mongolia, the opportunities and limitations of using coarse resolution imagery time series for monitoring long-term land changes was first examined. Second, an approach detecting annual changes between multiple land categories was developed and applied in Inner Mongolia. Results indicate that China’s land use policies effectively preserved and recovered forest ecosystems in Inner Mongolia after the year 2000. The decreasing trends of deforestation and forest gain are obvious in the regions that implement China’s land use policies, which reflect the positive influence of the policy. Cropland retirement was mostly found in ecologically fragile areas where climate and topographic conditions are unsuitable for cultivation, suggesting that China’s land use policies support local farmers who use their vulnerable lands in a more adaptive way. Strong political influences were reflected by the drastic change in forest re-generation and cropland retirement in 2004, when the land restoration program was largely reduced due to worries about food security. This thesis reveals how political factors and other underlying social-economic drivers impact a country's land surface, and highlights the values of using coarse resolution imagery and time series analysis for LULCC monitoring across large areas.
Lean Manufacturing and Operational Performance: An in-depth Case Study of an Apparel Manufacturing Company in Sri Lanka

Objective – The present study aims to explore how a firm implements lean management practices by utilizing firm-specific resources and their influence on the operational performance of an apparel manufacturing company. Design/methodology – The paper uses a single case, in-depth study approach based on a Sri Lankan apparel manufacturing company. Data is collected using interviews, observations, and documentary evidence. Results – The research study found that lean manufacturing considerably impacts on enhancing the firm’s operational performance through improved quality, reduced cost, improved safety, increased speed, and improved morale. The case data suggested around twenty-five lean practices suitable to be implemented by a selected apparel manufacturing company and gain a competitive advantage in the contemporary market. Through the analysis, it was found that the contribution of organizational resources and technology resources of a firm are essential to sustain the gained competitive advantage through lean manufacturing, confirmed by the assessment of the criteria of value, rare, inimitability and non-substitutability. Research limitations/implications
Histopathologic frequency of

Objectives: To determine the histopathologic frequency of feline hepatobiliary diseases in the UK and to identify breed, age and gender predispositions to developing individual diseases. Methods: Histopathology results from 1452 feline liver biopsies were assessed. A control population of microchipped cats was used for breed comparison. Data was retrospectively categorised into hepatobiliary diseases according to World Small Animal Veterinary Association standards. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated to determine breed predispositions to the ten most frequent diseases. Gender and age distributions were also evaluated. Results: The most frequent diseases based on histopathology were neutrophilic cholangitis (20.5%), reactive hepatitis (20.4%), reversible hepatocellular injury (8.4%), lymphocytic cholangitis (6.8%), biliary cysts (5.7%), acute hepatitis (5.6%), haematopoietic neoplasia (5.6%), hepatocellular neoplasia (4.9%), congenital portosystemic shunt (3.8%) and cholangiocellular neoplasia (3.1%). Some previously unreported breed and age predispositions were identified. Clinical significance: This is the first study to document the histopathologic frequency of hepatobiliary diseases in a large cohort of cats in the UK, as well as novel breed and age predispositions. These data may help to increase the index of suspicion of a particular disease in the absence of a biopsy-confirmed diagnosis.
Modeling expression ranks for noise-tolerant differential expression analysis of scRNA-seq data

Systematic delineation of complex biological systems is an ever-challenging and resource-intensive process. Single-cell transcriptomics allows us to study cell-to-cell variability in complex tissues at an unprecedented resolution. Accurate modeling of gene expression plays a critical role in the statistical determination of tissue-specific gene expression patterns. In the past few years, considerable efforts have been made to identify appropriate parametric models for single-cell expression data. The zero-inflated version of Poisson/negative binomial and log-normal distributions have emerged as the most popular alternatives owing to their ability to accommodate high dropout rates, as commonly observed in single-cell data. Although the majority of the parametric approaches directly model expression estimates, we explore the potential of modeling expression ranks, as robust surrogates for transcript abundance. Here we examined the performance of the discrete generalized beta distribution (DGBD) on real data and devised a Wald-type test for comparing gene expression across two phenotypically divergent groups of single cells. We performed a comprehensive assessment of the proposed method to understand its advantages compared with some of the existing best-practice approaches. We concluded that besides striking a reasonable balance between Type I and Type II errors, ROSeq, the proposed differential expression test, is exceptionally robust to expression noise and scales rapidly with increasing sample size. For wider dissemination and adoption of the method, we created an R package called ROSeq and made it available on the Bioconductor platform.
Epigenome-wide DNA methylation profiling of healthy COVID-19 recoverees reveals a 1 unique signature in circulating immune cells 2

45 Background: Epigenetic alterations upon microbial challenge have been described as both a 46 defence strategy and a result of pathogenic manipulation. While most COVID-19 studies 47 focus on inflammatory and immune-mediated responses, little is known about epigenetic 48 modifications in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. 49 Methods: Epigenome-wide DNA methylation patterns from COVID-19 convalescents were 50 compared to uninfected controls from before and after the pandemic. Peripheral blood 51 mononuclear cell (PBMC) DNA was extracted from uninfected controls, COVID-19 52 convalescents and symptom-free individuals with SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell-responses, as 53 well as from PBMCs stimulated in vitro with SARS-CoV-2. Subsequently, the Illumina 54 MethylationEPIC 850K array was performed, and statistical/bioinformatic analyses comprised 55 differential DNA methylation, pathway over-representation and module identification 56 analyses. 57 Results: Differential DNA methylation patterns distinguished COVID-19 convalescents from 58 uninfected controls, with similar results in an experimental SARS-CoV-2 infection model. A 59 SARS-CoV-2-induced module was identified in vivo , comprising 66 genes of which six 60 ( TP53 , INS , HSPA4 , SP1 , ESR1 and FAS ) were present in corresponding in vitro analyses. 61 Over-representation analyses revealed involvement in Wnt, muscarinic acetylcholine receptor 62 signalling and gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor pathways. Furthermore, numerous 63 differentially methylated and network genes from both settings interacted with the SARS-64
Corporate Governance and the Systemic Risk

We provide new evidence that the systemic risk of large banks is higher when external and internal corporate governance mechanisms complement each other. Using a sample of large European banks from 2000 to 2016, we examine the relationship between various internal and external corporate governance mechanisms and the level of systemic risk. Speciﬁcally, we analyze how monitoring by institutional investors complements or substitutes various board-level governance mechanisms in determining the systemic risk of a bank. Our empirical ﬁndings show that external (institutional ownership) and internal (board level) governance mechanisms complement each other to determine the level of systemic risk of a sample of domestic systemically important banks. Our results are robust to alternative systemic risk measures and additional controls. We conclude that banks have strategic ﬂexibility in terms of conﬁguring their corporate governance structures to attain similar levels of systemic risk.
Ethylene Evolution from Apple Shoots and Spur Buds1

An effective and simple system for studying ethylene evolution from apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) shoots was devised and used to follow seasonal patterns of ethylene evolution, as well as changes in ethylene evolution following ethephon and shoot bending treatments. Field studies using intact two year wood of spur and non-spur strains of ‘Delicious’ and ‘McIntosh’ showed similarly high levels of ethylene early in the season which subsequently declined. The large differences in ethylene evolution between sampling dates may have been caused by climatic differences at the time of sampling. No differences in ethylene evolution were detected among strains or cultivars although differences in flowering were observed in the following season.
Utilization of Crude Glycerin in Ruminant Diets

: The intensive use of grains as feed in ruminant production systems raises concerns about future food security. The replacement of food raw materials used in animal nutrition with industrial by-products and other waste biomass that are not suitable for human consumption is viewed as the most important potential strategy that can decrease food-feed competition and increase the profitability of animal production. Crude glycerin (CG) is a byproduct of the biodiesel industry and has been used as an alternative to grains in ruminant diets in recent years. Glycerol, which is the main component of CG, rapidly participates in energy metabolism by undergoing fermentation to propionate and butyrate in the rumen. Depending on the biodiesel production method, the effect of CG, which is obtained at varying levels of purity, on ruminants may vary according to the amount of glycerol, and other impurities in it and the amount of CG added to the diet. Due to this variability, inconsistent results are obtained regarding the efficiency of CG usage in ruminants. Based on the literature, it was concluded that CG could be used in ruminant diets at levels of 10-15% of dry matter after taking into account the levels of impurities without adversely affecting the performance.
Liquid swine manure as a phosphorus source for corn-soybean rotation

Manure phosphorus management is a concern in many areas where livestock production has concentrated. This study compared the effects of liquid swine (&« acrq/a domejAczw) manure and P fertilizer application on soil test P (STP) using three routine P tests Bray-1 P (BP), Olsen (OP), and Mehlich-3 (M3P) and two environmental tests water extraction (WP) and Fe-oxide filter paper (FeP) test under crop production conditions. Sixteen field trials were conducted across Iowa on soils that tested low (8-15 mg P kg"') to very high (>30 mg P kg"') as measured by BP. Manure application rates varied from 17 to 99 kg P ha"' and fertilizer rates varied from 0 to 30 kg P ha '. Treatment effects on STP were evaluated during two consecutive years. Soil samples were collected before initial treatment application and after harvesting each crop. Manure or fertilizer P increased STP in many sites, and soil tests did not differ consistently in detecting an STP increase due to manure and fertilizer P. Relationships between soil P extracted by the tests were similar for unmanured, manured, or fertilized soils, and correlation coefficients were >0.87 (correlations were lowest for WP). Differences between both P sources in increasing STP were not evident when similar rates of P were compared. Routine and environmental P tests did not differ in assessing available P from liquid swine manure or fertilized soils.
The impact of surgical experience on outcomes in total joint arthroplasties

Introduction: Outcomes of primary total hip and knee arthroplasties performed by consultant surgeons were compared with those performed by orthopaedic trainees. Furthermore, outcomes of these procedures performed by senior trainees were compared with those performed by juniortrainees. Methods: Data from the St. Vincent’s Melbourne Arthroplasty Outcomes Registry and the surgical log kept by trainees was reviewed to investigate if an association exists between surgical experience and clinical outcomes following primary total hip and knee arthroplasties.Multivariate logistic regression analyses were undertaken to produce odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals to assess these relationships. Results: Arthroplasties performed by trainees were not significantly different from those performed by consultant surgeonsin regards to medical, surgical and wound complications. Trainee-performed primary total hip arthroplasties were associated with a 30% increase in the risk of requiring a transfusion compared with consultant-cases. Primary total knee arthroplasties performed by junior trainees were associated with a 50% increase in the risk of developing a wound complication compared with those performed by senior trainees. Conclusions: Overall, senior orthopaedic trainees working independently and junior orthopaedic trainees under supervision as the primary surgeon have the ability to achieve a level of clinical outcomes similar to a consultant surgeon. Junior trainees with supervision have the ability to achieve a level of clinical outcomes similar to senior trainees. These findings can be used to further improve orthopaedic training to reduce adverse events during supervised surgery.
Impact of Review, Reviewer and Hotel Characteristics on Ewom Helpfulness: An Empirical Study

Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) has been gaining popularity pertaining to its numerous benefits and ability to be applied in various fields. It helps consumers in making informed decisions and aids service providers in delivering an enhanced service or product. Despite all these benefits, dealing with the huge amounts of eWOM is a consistent problem. eWOM helpfulness comes handy in order to address this issue. In this study, we utilize 16699 hotels related eWOM written by 1099 reviewers which are collected from TripAdvisor.com. Our main objective is to analyze which factors impact eWOM helpfulness and how. For this purpose, eight unique variables belonging to three different categories are selected (eWOM length, eWOM subjectivity, eWOM polarity, eWOM readability, eWOM recency, hotel rating, reviewer badge and reviewer helpfulness) and are analyzed using econometric modelling. Our findings show that hotel rating as well as reviewer badge and helpfulness enjoy a positive significant relationship with eWOM helpfulness. It also suggests that eWOM
The evolution of the Urgonian platform in the Western Swiss Jura realm and its interactions with palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic change along the Northern Tethyan Margin (Hauterivian – earliest Aptian)

We present a new strontium isotope data set obtained from well-preserved rhynchonellid shells collected in a selection of sections in the Urgonian formations cropping out in the western Swiss Jura in order to precise its age. We calibrate these results with a new 87Sr/86Sr data set obtained from belemnites from the Vocontian Trough, which are precisely dated by ammonite stratigraphy (Early Hauterivian to Late Barremian). Our data allow to discriminate between the Hauterivian and Barremian and to attribute a Barremian age to the Urgonian formations. This age correlation is backed up by a comparison of changes in phosphorus contents (in ppm) and phosphorus mass accumulation rates (PMAR) measured in the Urgonian formations and in (hemi-) pelagic sections from the northern Tethyan realm, respectively. Sediments of Late Hauterivian age are characterized by relatively high PMAR, whereas sediments of Late Barremian age show low PMAR. On the northern Tethyan margin, this difference in PMAR is interpreted as the manifestation of a change in trophic levels, with Hauterivian sediments being characterized by mesotrophic, heterozoan platform ecosystems, whereas in the Late Barremian a shift toward oligotrophic conditions may have favoured the installation of photozoan benthic ecosystems, which include corals and rudists, and with this the widespread development of the Urgonian carbonate platform, as recorded in the sedimentary archive of the Western Swiss Jura.
WORKING PAPERS Judgment can spur long-memory

We arrive at this conclusion by using a new family of models—the Long-Memory Judgmental Protocol (LMJP)—where robust ﬁltering and fractionally integrated autoregressions are combined in an environment characterized by several players—namely, Forecast Producer, Forecast User and Reality. Our simulated and empirical evidence reveals that (i) knowledge of the LM parameter matters for the p-values of tests for spurious long memory; (ii) secondly that the role of LM in belief formation is ambiguous
CONTINUITY OF K-THEORY : AN EXAMPLE IN EQUAL CHARACTERISTICS

If k is a perfect field of characteristic p > 0, we show that the Quillen K-groups Ki(k[[t]]) are uniquely p-divisible for i = 2, 3. In fact, the Milnor K-groups KM n (k((t))) are uniquely p-divisible for all n > 1. This implies that K(A)→ holim←− nK(A/m) is 4-connected after profinite completion for A a complete discrete valuation ring with perfect residue field. Let A be a complete discrete valuation ring with maximal ideal m. Let K(A) = holim ←− n K(A/m) We say that K-theory is continuous (at A) if it commutes with the (inverse) limit, in the sense that K(A)̂→ Ktop(A)̂ is an equivalence, where X → X̂denotes profinite completion. This question of continuity has acquired new relevance since the fibers of K(A/mn)̂→ K(A/m)̂ are now better understood, and have been shown by McCarthy [Mc] to agree with the corresponding fibers in topological cyclic homology. Hence we are in a position where we sometimes can calculate K(A). One situation where we have an affirmative answer is the theorem of Suslin and Panin [Su], [P], which says that if A is a Henselian discrete valuation ring with maximal ideal m, then K(A)̂̀ → holim ←− n K(A/mn)̂̀ is an equivalence for all primes ` different from the characteristic of (the field of fractions of) A. So, if A is of characteristic zero, then K-theory is continuous at A. This theorem was used critically in Bökstedt and Madsen’s calculation [BM] of the K-theory of the p-adic integers in order to get the correspondence with topological cyclic homology (here the situation was a bit special, as a similar statement holds for TC). Received by the editors October 17, 1996. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 11S70; Secondary 13J05, 19D45, 19D50.
Compliments in Indonesian Cultures: A Literature Review

Complimenting can be considered an important communicative event. The use of compliments can be inﬂuential in enhancing the quality of interactions especially from social perspectives. This study aims to review several researches about compliments in Indonesian cultures to ﬁnd out aspects of compliments covered in the studies. Furthermore, this research is intended to investigate which cultures in Indonesia have been covered in the compliment studies. It is found that the study about compliments has been very popular among Indonesian scholars. The researchers have covered several issues, including compliment strategies, compliment responses, and the inﬂuence of gender and social status on compliments. Nevertheless, only a few studies refer speciﬁcally to certain ethnics in Indonesia. Further investigations are needed to obtain a more systematic description about compliments in Indonesian language, including a detailed description of syntactic patterns. This is considered signiﬁcant in building more detailed theories about Indonesian language. Finally, the fact that Indonesia consists of many cultures brings a demand for researchers to conduct studies about compliments in various ethnics in Indonesia.