Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
REFERENCE GROUP PERSPECTIVE ON INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS’ HERD BEHAVIOR: THE EFFECTS OF SELF-ESTEEM AND TRAIT ANXIETY

Although past research suggests that reference groups induce follow-up and imitation behavior, the mechanisms of how and when reference groups become effective drivers of herd behavior remain unclear. Using a sample of individual investors in the Chinese stock market, this study proposes and empirically tests a theoretical framework for understanding the effect of reference group type on herd behavior and the boundary conditions that limit or enhance its effectiveness. The results, based on 306 valid questionnaires, show that herd behavior resulting from peers, friends, and experts exhibits a growth trend. This trend is gradual in individual investors with low self-esteem or high trait anxiety in buying or selling behavior, or when the reference group’s prediction is consistent with the subject’s prediction. Furthermore, trait anxiety acts as a mediator in the multilevel moderating effect of self-esteem on the relationship between reference group type and herd behavior. However, multilevel mediated moderation is not significant when the subject’s prediction is inconsistent with that of the reference group. In addition, the results indicate that evaluations of others reduce or even obscure the respective and joint effects of self-esteem and trait anxiety.
Seven years of vocational education research: a review of material published in the Australian and New Zealand journal of vocational education research

This paper reviews the 86 articles published in the first seven years of publication of the Australian and New Zealand journal of vocational education research (ANZJVER). It clusters articles in the three major categories: learning and teaching, policy context, and improving research. Most articles are concerned with understanding the nature of vocational knowledge and improving its acquisition. These articles are clustered into groups concerned with student characteristics and needs; vocational knowledge; learning and instruction; curriculum decision-making; assessment; training in industry; and off-the-job vocational teachers. Articles concerned with the policy context are clustered into those concerned with competency-based training (CBT) and those concerned with political, organisational and structural change. It is concluded that the research reported in the journal has important implications for policy and practice. Areas where additional research is needed are also discussed.
Socioeconomic status and autism spectrum disorder : caregivers' solutions to overcoming service barriers

This study attempted to remedy the existing research gaps by asking: How does SES of caregivers for children with ASD influence their ideas of service barrier solutions? The purpose of this study was to examine caregivers’ perspectives of service barrier solutions and how SES influences their ideas of solutions. It was hypothesized that high SES caregivers would report experiencing less service barriers than low SES caregivers; therefore, there would be a difference in their ideas of solutions. This study explored sources of information, service barriers, ideas of solutions to barriers, and how solutions may improve caregivers’ abilities to care for their children. The findings concluded that high SES caregivers experience more service barriers than low SES caregivers and suggested more solutions. It is recommended that a social justice framework be used in any future ASD research. Implications for practice highlight the need for further research so clinicians can better assist.
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG PATIENTS WITH COPD, BRONCHIAL ASTHMA AND HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS

The present study was conducted to compare quality of life of patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchial asthma and healthy controls in different domains namely, physical health and mental health components, in addition overall quality of life and general health hence, a sample of 90 patients was used, in which 30 were COPD patients, 30 were bronchial asthma patients and 30 were healthy controls. Data was analyzed by using T-test, Chi-square test, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Bonferroni multiple comparisons. The findings revealed that adult male patients with COPD have poor quality of life as compared to bronchial asthmatics patients and healthy controls. The results were exhaustively discussed in the light of existing findings and other INTRODUCTION: Quality of life is the degree of well-being felt by an individual or group of people. It consists of two components: physical and psychological. The physical aspect includes such things as health, diet, and protection against pain and disease. The psychological aspect includes worry, stress, pleasure and other positive or negative emotional states. WHO defines quality of life as "a state dependent on physical and functional status and the degree of family support, social activity and friendship, personal achievement and philosophy; and financial adequacy and work achievement? " The Center for Disease Control and Prevention defined quality of life as the perception of physical and mental health over time. Quality of life has assumed a special importance in the medical field in the wake of progressive move towards re humanizing high tech medicine. Quality of life is clearly becoming an important part of clinical decision making both in individual patient care and in clinical trials for the purpose of evaluating and deciding among treatment alternative. There are many states of life that are worse than death, and hence it is difficult for many to accept the "Life at any cost" principle. Quality of life measure serve as a common denominator for comparing the overall impact of different health interventions, both at the individual and community needs. Illness and its treatment can have a major impact on many aspects that are highly relevant to the individual quality of life, such as cognitive, emotional and sexual functioning, life satisfaction and the ability to fulfill economic and other social roles. Many quality of life measures have been developed, some of which measure quality of life from a specific perspective and others, which cover a general, wider perspective. While generic measures are broadly applicable across, types and severities of disease, across different medical treatments and across demographic and cultural subgroups, specific measures assess specific diagnostic group of patient population often with the goal of measuring
New scoring system for prediction of ovarian malignancy based on transvaginal color Doppler sonography

The goal of this prospective study was to develop a new scoring system using transvaginal color and pulsed Doppler characterization of ovarian lesions. Transvaginal color Doppler sonography was performed on 812 women, among whom 174 adnexal masses were found and analyzed. Ovarian lesions were assessed by means of morphological and color Doppler scoring systems. Tumors were characterized ultrasonically as benign or suspected of being malignant. Scoring system results were correlated with histopathological findings. Among our study group, 38 malignant and 136 benign ovarian tumors were found and verified. The color Doppler scoring system was very useful in distinguishing benign from malignant masses, with a sensitivity of 97.3% and a specificity of 100%, compared with the morphological scoring system's sensitivity of 92.1% and specificity of 94.8%. We also evaluated a combination of both scoring systems. We believe that new color Doppler scoring system maximizes the ability to discriminate between benign and malignant entities.
Does grammatical aspect influence event conceptualization? The description of translational events in a second language / ¿Influye el aspecto gramatical en la conceptualización del evento? La descripción de eventos de translación en la segunda lengua

Abstract It has been proposed that there is a relationship between grammatical aspect and event conceptualization. In addition, it has been proposed that grammaticized concepts that do not have obvious counterparts in the world, like aspect, would be more resistant to restructuring when acquiring a second language. Russian and Catalan both have grammatical aspect, though their habitual uses do not completely overlap. In two studies, we analysed the oral narrative production in Catalan of advanced L2 speakers of Catalan whose L1 is Russian and of native Catalan speakers. In study one, we analysed the aspectual framing of the narrative, while in study two, the participants described 48 short video clips depicting different types of translational movement. Although Russian L1 speakers have acquired the means to express aspectual nuances in Catalan, they consistently differed from Catalan native speakers.
Burden in Family Caregivers of Cancer Patients: The Association with Depression, Religiosity and Religious Coping

Introduction: Cancer caregiving is challenging and often associated with significant burden in family caregivers. Yet, the healthcare providers often overlook the needs of the caregivers. Local data on cancer caregiving is still lacking. In line with the increasing cancer cases worldwide, there is a need to examine factors influencing the caregiver burden, and to find ways to improve the quality of life of the caregivers. Objectives: The study aimed to determine the caregiver burden rate among the local family caregivers of cancer patients, and to examine the associations between the caregiver burden and their sociodemographic factors, clinical factors, levels of depression, religiosity, and religious coping patterns. Methods: 127 family caregivers of cancer patients in a government tertiary hospital in Sarawak, Malaysia were recruited cross-sectionally using non-random sampling method. The associations between the variables were examined through bivariate analyses (Chi-Square test), followed by multivariate analysis to determine the factor(s) that were significantly associated with the caregiver burden. Results: The caregiver burden rate among local cancer caregivers was 55.6%. Two factors remained significant after adjusted in multivariate analysis. Caregivers who were the offspring of cancer patients experienced significantly fewer burden than non-offspring caregivers (OR 0.41, CI 0.18 – 0.94, p = 0.035). Also, the caregiver depression was significantly associated with the caregiver burden (OR 4.26, CI 1.87 – 9.72, p = 0.001). There were no significant associations found between the religiosity and religious coping with the caregiver burden on multivariate level. Conclusion: Caregiver burden is common among family caregivers of cancer patients. Caregivers who are the children or grandchildren of cancer patients are less likely to experience caregiver burden, whereas caregivers who have probable depression are more likely to experience caregiver burden. Future studies should assess the effects of specific intervention strategies in helping these caregivers.
Comparison of Undergraduate Nursing Student Satisfaction in Flipped Class (FC), Active Lecture Class (ALC) and Traditional Lecture Class (TLC)

Background: In recent years, different educational approaches have been broadly applied to nursing courses. However, a comparison between these approaches and assessing the students’ satisfaction has not been conducted. Aim: This study was designed to compare FC and ALC with the TLC model in teaching Medical-surgical courses to undergraduate nursing students and to assess the student response when they are asked to compare their experiences in FC, ALC, and TLC. Results: The mean age of the study participants was 22.19 ± 2.40. In terms of marital status, the differences between satisfied and unsatisfied students were significant in TLC (p=0.059). A larger number of married students preferred TLC over ALC/FC and the difference between married and unmarried was significant (p=0.036). Regarding residential status, the differences between satisfied and unsatisfied students were significant in TLC (p=0.034). A larger number of rural residents preferred FC over ALC/TLC and the difference between rural and urban residents was significant (p=0.036). In terms of previous GPA scores, the difference between the students preferring FC over ALC/TLC was significant (p=0.008), where a larger number of students preferred FC over other teaching methods. Conclusion: The student satisfaction in FLC, TLC, and ALC varies based on their social/residential statuses as well as their study habits and out of class self-study hours.
Occupational stress and its outcomes: the role of work-social support in the hospitality industry

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply conservation of resource (COR) theory and the buffering hypothesis of social support to explore occupational stress and its negative outcomes such as job engagement and turnover intentions for front-line hospitality industry employees in the People’s Republic of China. Design/methodology/approach Primary data were collected in two waves from 318 front-line employees in a chain of restaurants located in the eastern region of the People’s Republic of China. Findings Integrating COR theory and the buffering hypothesis of social support, job satisfaction is found to be a mediating mechanism in the relationships between occupational stress and job engagement and occupational stress and employee turnover intentions for front-line hospitality industry workers. Moreover, the authors found the boundary condition role of work-social support. The relationships between stress and its negative outcomes are weak for the employees receiving high social support at work. Originality/value This study calls for researchers’ attention towards the issues of occupational stress focussing on the implications of work-social support for front-line hospitality industry employees.
On Ignoring the Random Effects Assumption in Multilevel Models: Review, Critique, and Recommendations

Entities such as individuals, teams, or organizations can vary systematically from one another. Researchers typically model such data using multilevel models, assuming that the random effects are uncorrelated with the regressors. Violating this testable assumption, which is often ignored, creates an endogeneity problem thus preventing causal interpretations. Focusing on two-level models, we explain how researchers can avoid this problem by including cluster means of the Level 1 explanatory variables as controls; we explain this point conceptually and with a large-scale simulation. We further show why the common practice of centering the predictor variables is mostly unnecessary. Moreover, to examine the state of the science, we reviewed 204 randomly drawn articles from macro and micro organizational science and applied psychology journals, finding that only 106 articles—with a slightly higher proportion from macro-oriented fields—properly deal with the random effects assumption. Alarmingly, most models also failed on the usual exogeneity requirement of the regressors, leaving only 25 mostly macro-level articles that potentially reported trustworthy multilevel estimates. We offer a set of practical recommendations for researchers to model multilevel data appropriately.
Progress of Nursing Students' Motivation Regulation Profiles and Affiliations with Engagement, Burnout and Academic Performance.

This longitudinal study explored the development of Finnish undergraduate nursing students’ motivation regulation profiles during two years in traditional and blended learning environments. Also, the association between the profiles and experienced study engagement, burnout and academic performance was investigated. The data were collected with a survey and included motivation regulation, study engagement, and burnout scales that were combined with students’ entrance examination scores, study credits, and grade point averages. Regardless of the learning environment, a majority (62.3%) of the students showed a sustainable, highly developed motivation regulation profile over time. They reported strong study engagement, higher academic performance, and reduced susceptibility to cynicism when compared to the students with less-developed motivation regulation profiles. However, individual reciprocal transitions between motivation regulation profiles over time were found with a group of students. As such, motivation regulation is changeable and influenced by situational components in learning. This aspect should be emphasized in developing professional higher education and teaching.
The influence of amlodipine and azelnidipine on serum levels of hs-CRP and TIMP-1 of hypertensive patients

Objective To investigate the effects of amlodipine and azelnidipine on the change of serum levels of inflammatory factors hs-CRP and TIMP-1 in hypertensive patients.Methods 55 hypertensive patients were randomly divided into two groups for amlodipine and azelnidipine treatment.After two-week drug clearance,the patients were treated with amlodipine (5～10 mg/d) or azelnidipine (8～16 mg/d) for 8 weeks.The blood pressure and levels of inflammatory factors hs-CRP and TIMP-1 were monitored before and after treatment,respectively.The data of different treatment groups were compared.Results Treatment with amlodipine and azelnidipine could cause the significant decrease of systolic blood pressure.Levels of hs-CRP in amlodipine group were (4.48±4.64) mg/L and (1.49±1.62) mg/L before and after treatment respectively,while those were (3.44±1.58) mg/L and (1.19±0.95) mg/L in azelnidipine group.Levels of TIMP-1 in amlodipine group were (78.31±46.21) ng/ml and (55.12±31.17) ng/ml before and after treatment respectively,while those were (73.89±27.69) ng/ml and (45.69±16.87) ng/ml in azelnidipine group.Conclusions Eight-week treatment for hypertensive patients with amlodipine and azelnidipine can significantly decrease the blood pressure and the levels of inflammatory factors hs-CRP and TIMP-1. It suggests that the two drugs could improve the inflammatory damage of hypertensive patients.
The Big Three Perfectionism Scale–Short Form (BTPS-SF): Development of a Brief Self-Report Measure of Multidimensional Perfectionism

The Big Three Perfectionism Scale (BTPS) is a 45-item self-report measure of perfectionism with three overarching factors: rigid, self-critical, and narcissistic perfectionism. Our objective was to create a brief version of the BTPS, the Big Three Perfectionism Scale–Short Form (BTPS-SF). Sixteen items were selected, and confirmatory factor analysis using a large sample of Canadian university students (N = 607) revealed the BTPS-SF had acceptable model fit. Moreover, the BTPS-SF displayed strong test–retest reliability. The relationships of the BTPS-SF factors with depression, anxiety, stress, emotional intelligence, personality, resiliency, and elements of subjective well-being also suggested adequate criterion validity. Overall, results suggest the BTPS-SF represents an efficient, easily administered, and novel means of assessing multidimensional perfectionism.
EFFECTS OF RATIONAL SELF ANALYSIS AND COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING COUNSELLING TECHNIQUES ON BULLYING BEHAVIOUR AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LOKOJA, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA

This study examined the Effects of Rational Self Analysis (RSA) and Cognitive Restructuring (CR) Counselling Techniques on Bullying Behaviour among Secondary School Students in Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria. It has six stated objectives to carry out the study upon which six research questions, hypotheses and basic assumptions were respectively or correspondingly formulated. The research design used for this study was quasi experimental design using pre-test post-test. 164 secondary school students formed the population out of which 20 are quasi experimental groups that constituted the sample size of the study using purposive, simple and stratified sampling techniques. Data for the study were collected using tudents‟ Bullying Behaviour Scale (SBBS). The study had two treatment groups namely: Rational Self Analysis and Cognitive Restructuring counselling techniques. The participants were assigned into these two groups and exposed to treatment. Validity and reliability of the Students‟ Bullying Behaviour Scale was established with r = 0.85 which was considered reliable for the study. The results of the study showed that there was significant effect of rational self analysis counselling technique on physical bullying behaviour among secondary school students with (p = 0.000). There was significant effect of cognitive restructuring counselling technique on physical bullying behaviour among secondary school students with (p = 0.000); amongst others. Based on the findings of the study, the following recommendations were made: Since there was significant effect of RSA counselling technique on physical bullying behaviour of secondary school students, professional guidance counsellors, psychologists and other care providers in the secondary schools should utilised rational self analysis counselling technique in treating and reducing physical bullying behaviour among secondary school students. Since there was significant effect of CR counselling technique on physical bullying behaviour of secondary school students, professional guidance counsellors, psychologists and other care providers operating within and outside the secondary school environment should used cognitive restructuring counselling technique in treating and reducing physical bullying behaviour among secondary school students.
Envy: An Adversarial Review and Comparison of Two Competing Views

The nature of envy has recently been the subject of a heated debate. Some researchers see envy as a complex, yet unitary construct that despite being hostile in nature can lead to both hostile and nonhostile reactions. Others offer a dual approach to envy, in which envy’s outcomes reflect two types of envy: benign envy, involving upward motivation, and malicious envy, involving hostility against superior others. We compare these competing conceptualizations of envy in an adversarial (yet collaborative) review. Our goal is to aid the consumers of envy research in navigating the intricacies of this debate. We identify agreements and disagreements and describe implications for theory, methodology, and measurement, as well as challenges and opportunities for future work.
Aspirin-Induced Asthma: What We Know Now

In some asthma patients nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) induce bronchospasm. NSAID-induced reactions appear to be caused by the inhibition of cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1); this in turn activates the lipoxygenase pathway, which eventually increases the release of cysteinyl leukotrienes (cys-LTs). We know now that patients with NSAID-induced asthma (1) have an alteration in the regulation of the cyclooxygenase pathway that results in a low production of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2); the low production of PGE2 may be due to a down-regulation of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), which is thought to be the enzyme involved in the secretion of PGE2 under conditions of inflammation; (2) have an increased expression of leukotriene C4 synthase in bronchial inflammatory cells, particularly eosinophils; (3) tolerate selective COX-2 inhibitors (rofecoxib and celecoxib); and (4) can be desensitized to aspirin by regular administration of acetylsalicylic acid, and this desensitization is accompanied by down-regulation of the cys-LT1 receptor.