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Effect of Participation in Relay Sports on the Quality of Work Life and Job Performance of Relief Workers with the Mediating Role of Professional Ethics: A Case Study of Hogam Competitions in Mazandaran Province, Iran

INTRODUCTION: Today, the importance of paying attention to human resources for the growth and development of relief organizations, such as the Red Crescent, emergency services, and fire stations, has been considered a key priority at the decisions and activities of the managers of these organizations. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of participation in relay sports on the quality of work life and job performance of relief forces with the mediating role of professional ethics in Mazandaran Province, Iran. METHODS: The present applied study was conducted based on a descriptive-survey approach. The statistical population of the study consisted of all relief forces, including firefighters, Red Crescent rescuers, and emergency service staff, (with unknown sample size) who participated in the Hogam relay sport. The research sample included 168 members of the above-mentioned forces who participated in an event related to the Hogam sport in Mazandaran Province, 2018. The samples were selected using the non-random convenience sampling method; regarding this, all participants in the mentioned event were entered into the research. The required data were collected using questionnaires, namely the Walton Quality of Work Life Questionnaire, Paterson Job Performance Questionnaire, Sports Questionnaire (developed by Taji et al., 2010), and Standard Professional Ethics Questionnaire (designed by Kadozir, 2002). FINDINGS: The results showed that participation in Hogam sport had a significant effect on job performance and quality of work life of relief workers with the mediating role of professional ethics. Therefore, it can be said that addressing this sport, which has its specific nature compared to other sports, can have a significant impact on the quality of work life and job performance of employees, which will be doubled by the observance of professional ethics. CONCLUSION: It can be concluded that the managers of these organizations can take steps to implicitly and explicitly institutionalize professional ethics by addressing ethical complaints of employees and implementing programs of strengthening ethics in employees to improve the quality of employees' work life.
Unintended Consequences of Immigration Enforcement: Household Services and High-Educated Mothers’ Work

Immigration enforcement has intensified in the U.S., however, there is little evidence on its effect on U.S.-born individuals’ labor outcomes. Exploiting the staggered rollout of a large, federal enforcement policy–Secure Communities (SC)–across local areas, we estimate a difference-in-differences model with time and location fixed effects. We find that SC reduced the labor supply of collegeeducated U.S.-born mothers with young children. If SC exposure occurred when children are below age 3, the negative effects on labor supply persist over time. We further show increased cost of outsourcing household production, due to reduced undocumented immigrants’ labor supply, is an important mechanism. ∗We are grateful to Patricia Cortes, Delia Furtado, Gaurav Khanna, Brian Kovak, Emily Lawler, Michelle Marcus, Terra McKinnish, Kathleen McGarry, Anita Mukherjee, Emily Nix, Pia Orrenius, Analisa Packham, Sandra Rozo, Sarada, Na’ama Shenhav, Jenna Stearns, Sebastian Tello-Trillo, Jose Tessada, Alisa Tazhitdinova, and seminar participants at the University of Colorado Denver, Hawaii Applied Micro Oneday Conference, First Annual Colombian Economics Conference, Census Bureau, University of Houston, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, University of Essex, ICESI, University of Connecticut, Texas A&M University, University of North Carolina Greensboro, University of Sao Paulo, the Brookings Institute, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration and the UCSD Center for Comparative Immigration Studies Emerging Immigration Scholar Workshop, Institute of Behavioral Science and the CU Population Center, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Southern Economic Association, CSWEP sessions at the Western Economic Association, and the Population Association of America. We are also grateful to Reid Taylor, Tyler Collinson, Evan Generoli and Gabrielle Toborg for excellent research assistance. We obtained the TRAC data from Syracuse University as TRAC Fellows. Chloe East was supported by funding from the Office of Research Services at the University of Colorado Denver. As always, all errors are our own. Previous versions of this work were circulated under the titles: “The Effect of Increasing Immigration Enforcement on the Labor Supply of High-Skilled Citizen Women” and “Unintended Consequences of Immigration Enforcement: Household Services and High-Skilled Women’s Work” †University of Colorado Denver and IZA Institute of Labor Economics, email: chloe.east@ucdenver.edu ‡University of Colorado Denver, email: andrea.velasquez@ucdenver.edu
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend current discussion on the drivers of innovative work behavior (IWB) by exploring how individual perceived diversities (visible dissimilarity and cognitive group diversity) and climates (team/clan and innovative/entrepreneurial) impact IWB. Design/methodology/approach – Data had been collected from a cross-national study of working professionals (n 5 584) from five different cultural contexts. Findings – Findings of this study indicated that cognitive group diversity mediated the negative relationship between visible dissimilarity and IWB. Further, both innovative/entrepreneurial and team/clan climates moderated the relationship between visible dissimilarity and cognitive group diversity. Such a moderation effect reduced the negative effect that visible dissimilarity had on IWB. Research limitations/implications – A cross-sectional single-source data set. Practical implications – From a managerial perspective, climates (team/clan and innovative/ entrepreneurial) are central for IWB in the diverse (visible and cognitive) working environment. Thus, organizations should pay attention to create a climate (team/clan or/and innovative/entrepreneurial) that reduces the negative impact of perceived diversity in the working environment while supporting IWB. Originality/value –This study is the first of its kind that is based on social categorization theory, empirically examining how different types of diversity (visible dissimilarity and cognitive group diversity) simultaneously reduce individuals’ IWB. Furthermore, this paper provides insights that climates (team/clan and innovative/ entrepreneurial) are crucial for IWB in the diverse working environment.
Temporal Patterns of COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Pathology: An Autopsy Study

Introduction The novel coronavirus variant - severe acute respiratory distress syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes clinically (novel coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19) have placed medical science into a frenzy due to the significant morbidity and mortality, as well as the myriad of clinical complications developing as a direct result of infection. The most notable and one of the most severe changes in COVID-19 develops in the lungs. Materials and methods All cases of real-time polymerase chain reaction (rtPCR)-proved COVID-19 subjected to autopsy were withdrawn from the central histopathology archive of a single tertiary medical institution - St. Marina University Hospital - Varna, Varna, Bulgaria. Pulmonary gross and histopathology changes observed on light microscopy with hematoxylin and eosin as well with other histochemical and immunohistochemical stains were compared with the time from patient-reported symptom onset to expiration, to compare the extent and type of changes based on disease duration. Results A total of 27 autopsy cases fit the established criteria. All cases clinically manifested with severe COVID-19. From the selected 27 cases, n=14 were male and n=13 were female. The mean age in the cohort was 67.44 years (range 18-91 years), with the mean age for males being 68.29 (range 38-80 years) and the mean age for females being 66.54 (range 18-91 years). Gross changes in patients who expired in the first 10 days after disease onset showed a significantly increased mean weight - 1050g, compared to a relatively lower weight in patients expiring more than 10 days after symptom onset - 940g. Histopathology changes were identified as intermittent (developing independent from symptom onset and persisting) - diffuse alveolar damage with hyaline membranes - acute respiratory distress syndrome, endothelitis with vascular degeneration and fibrin thrombi; early (developing within the first week, but persisting) - type II pneumocyte hyperplasia, alveolar cell multinucleation and scant interstitial mononuclear inflammation; intermediate (developing within the late first and second weeks) - Clara cell hyperplasia and late (developing after the second week of symptom onset) - respiratory tract and alveolar squamous cell metaplasia and fibrosis. Conclusion COVID-19-associated pulmonary pathology, both gross and histopathology, show a time-related dynamic with persistent early and a myriad of later developing dynamic changes in patients with severe disease. These changes underline both the severity of the condition, as well as the mechanisms and the probability of long-lasting severe complications in patients with post-COVID syndrome.
The Distributional Consequences of Incomplete Regulation

Incomplete environmental regulation can shift production from regulated to unregulated sectors, affecting the spatial distribution of pollution and who bears its burden. Thus, even command and control policies that reduce pollution from every regulated facility can have potentially adverse distributional implications. I study this phenomenon in the context of Mexican sugarcane processing. Firms responded to requirements to install air pollution controls in mills by increasing agricultural fires in sugarcane fields by 14%. As a result, PM2.5 concentrations rose by 7% for the predominantly poor communities nearby, with significant adverse neonatal health outcomes. These findings highlight an often undiscussed implication of incomplete pollution regulation: its distributional consequences. *Arizona State University, Danae.Hernandez-Cortes@asu.edu. I appreciate the detailed feedback and support from Kyle Meng, Kelsey Jack, and Christopher Costello. I also want to thank Noé Aguilar Rivera for sharing his data and CONADESUCA officials, José Fernández Betanzos and Pedro Aquino Mercado, for all their support accessing the data. This project has benefited from comments by Amy Ando, Mark Buntaine, Peter Christensen, Tatyana Deryugina, Olivier Deschenes, Joel Ferguson, Matthew Fitzgerald, Don Fullerton, Robert Heilmayr, Juliana Helo, Bryan Leonard, Andrew Plantinga, Paulina Oliva, Chris Severen, Glenn Sheriff, Eric Verhoogen, and members of the UCSB Environmental and EnvDev Reading Groups.
Proton Beam Abundance Variations and Their Relation to Alpha Particle Properties

Less abundant but still dynamically important solar wind components are the proton beam and alpha particles, which usually contribute similarly to the total ion momentum. The main characteristics of alpha particles are determined by the solar wind source region, but the origin of the proton beam and its properties are still not fully explained. We use the plasma data measured in situ on the path from 0.3 to 1 au (Helios 1 and 2) and focus on the proton beam development with an increasing radial distance as well as on the connection between the proton beam and alpha particle properties. We found that the proton beam relative abundance increases with increasing distance from the Sun in the collisionally young streams. Among the mechanisms suggested for beam creation, we have identified the wave–particle interactions with obliquely propagating Alfvén modes being consistent with observations. As the solar wind streams get collisionally older, the proton beam decay gradually dominates and the beam abundance is reduced. In search for responsible mechanisms, we found that the content of alpha particles is correlated with the proton beam abundance, and this effect is more pronounced in the fast solar wind streams during the solar maximum. We suggest that Coulomb collisions are the main agent leading to merging of the proton beam and core. We are also showing that the variations of the proton beam abundance are correlated with a decrease of the alpha particle velocity in order to maintain the total momentum balance in the solar wind frame.
Precipitation Water Vapour Variation in the East Java Region from Data CORS Using GIPSY

The Global Navigation Satellite System is being developed as an atmospheric remote sensing system through the calculation of Zenith Total Delay. The development of the Continous Operating Reference Station encourages research investigations into Zenith Tropospheric Delay with continuous data and good spatial resolution. This research studies the characteristics of spatial and temporal variations of the Zenith Wet Delay in East Jawa. The case study in East Jawa Province uses 16 Continous Operating Reference Stations. As a comparison, meteorological data from the Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, and Geofisika stations are used.The Zenith Total Delay and Zenith Wet Delay values from the Continous Operating Reference Station data are calculated using GIPSY 6.4 Software. The Zenith Wet Delay values are gridded using the kriging method with the size of the grids being 0,25 x 0,25. The ZWD value comparison from the Continous Operating Reference Station and meteorology data has a strong correlation with a coefficient value of 0,712. The mean of Zenith Wet Delay’s trend is increasing by about 0,712 mm/yr. The characteristics of the spatial and temporal variations of the ZWD value are influenced by the monsoon of Asia-Australian, which causes dry and rainy seasons, global phenomena such as El Nino and La Nina, rainfall, local meteorological conditions such as temperature and humidity, weather, and the topography of the stations.
Early assessment of the clinical severity of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in South Africa

Background The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant of concern (VOC) almost completely replaced other variants in South Africa during November 2021, and was associated with a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases. We aimed to assess clinical severity of individuals infected with Omicron, using S Gene Target Failure (SGTF) on the Thermo Fisher Scientific TaqPath COVID-19 PCR test as a proxy. Methods We performed data linkages for (i) SARS-CoV-2 laboratory tests, (ii) COVID-19 case data, (iii) genome data, and (iv) the DATCOV national hospital surveillance system for the whole of South Africa. For cases identified using Thermo Fisher TaqPath COVID-19 PCR, infections were designated as SGTF or non-SGTF. Disease severity was assessed using multivariable logistic regression models comparing SGTF-infected individuals diagnosed between 1 October to 30 November to (i) non-SGTF in the same period, and (ii) Delta infections diagnosed between April and November 2021. Results From 1 October through 6 December 2021, 161,328 COVID-19 cases were reported nationally; 38,282 were tested using TaqPath PCR and 29,721 SGTF infections were identified. The proportion of SGTF infections increased from 3% in early October (week 39) to 98% in early December (week 48). On multivariable analysis, after controlling for factors associated with hospitalisation, individuals with SGTF infection had lower odds of being admitted to hospital compared to non-SGTF infections (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 0.2, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.1-0.3). Among hospitalised individuals, after controlling for factors associated with severe disease, the odds of severe disease did not differ between SGTF-infected individuals compared to non-SGTF individuals diagnosed during the same time period (aOR 0.7, 95% CI 0.3-1.4). Compared to earlier Delta infections, after controlling for factors associated with severe disease, SGTF-infected individuals had a lower odds of severe disease (aOR 0.3, 95% CI 0.2-0.6). Conclusion Early analyses suggest a reduced risk of hospitalisation among SGTF-infected individuals when compared to non-SGTF infected individuals in the same time period, and a reduced risk of severe disease when compared to earlier Delta-infected individuals. Some of this reducton is likely a result of high population immunity.
Observational Analysis of the Hand and Wrist: A Pilot Study

Abstract A system for quantitative analysis of risk factors associated with cumulative trauma disorders of the hand and wrist was developed and tested in a pilot study. To use the system, analysts observed the worker and counted the total number of hand exertions per work cycle and the number of exertions associated with specific risk factors such as high force or adverse postures. Pilot study analyses were performed both at the job site and from videotapes of the jobs. Analyses of hand posture performed at the job site provided more accurate data than did analyses performed from videotapes. Compared to analysis methods that utilize frame-by-frame review of videotape or film, the proposed system required considerably less time. Agreement among analysts was strong. The system may be used for quantitative descriptions of ergonomic risk factors on hand-intensive jobs, pre- and postintervention comparisons of engineering and administrative controls, and exposure classification in epidemiologic studies of work.
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FORCED CONVECTIVE FLOWS OVER A PAIR OF SIDE-BY-SIDE HEATED CIRCULAR CYLINDERS

This study examines the forced convective incompressible flow over a pair of side-by-side equal-sized circular cylinders confined in a rectangular channel in order to examine the influence of spacing on the heat transfer characteristics and the hydrodynamic force coefficients. Air with Prandtl number of 0.702 flows through the inlet at free stream temperature and velocity of T∞ (=25C) and U∞(= 4.139m/s) respectively over the cylinders. The cylinder walls are at temperature Tw, where Tw>T∞. The numerical study is carried out by solving continuity, momentum and energy equations using finite-element based software (COMSOL Multiphysics) at ReD = 2.35 x 10 and S/D = 1.1, 1.3, 2.0, 2.4, 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0. The results show that the drag and lift coefficients as well as the wake interactions depend strongly on spacing ratio. Biased flip-flop and anti-phase synchronised patterns were observed for the lift coefficients at S/D =2 and 3 respectively. At small spacing ratios S/D ≤ 2, there is strong wake interaction between the cylinders whereas for S/D > 4, vortex structure interaction between the cylinders vanishes. Mean Nusselt numbers on the front, top, rear and bottom parts of the two cylinders are found to decrease as the S/D ratio increases. For all S/D, there are more isotherm contours on the front part than any other portions of the cylinders. This implies that the greatest heat transfer occurs on the front parts of the cylinders, and thereby flow interference on side-by-side structures is minimised at S/D > 2.
The Effect of Good Corporate Governance on the Performance of Village Crediting Institutions (LPD) Using Awig-Awig Village Protection as Moderation Variables (Empirical Study on LPD in Mengwi District, Badung Regency)

This study aims to obtain empirical evidence of the effect of Good Corporate Governance on the performance of Village Credit Institutions (LPD) with village awig-awig protection as a moderating variable with a pure moderating model. The theory used in this research is agency theory. The population in this study amounted to 38 LPDs in Mengwi District which were registered in the LPLPD of Badung Regency. The research sample was determined using a non-probability sampling method with a saturated sampling technique that means all populations were used as samples. The results in this study concluded that Good Corporate Governance has a positive effect on LPD performance and village awig-awig protection strengthens the effect of GCG on LPD performance.
Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG), a Green Tea Polyphenol, Reduces Coronavirus Replication in a Mouse Model

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a huge number of deaths from 2020 to 2021; however, effective antiviral drugs against SARS-CoV-2 are currently under development. Recent studies have demonstrated that green tea polyphenols, particularly EGCG, inhibit coronavirus enzymes as well as coronavirus replication in vitro. Herein, we examined the inhibitory effect of green tea polyphenols on coronavirus replication in a mouse model. We used epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and green tea polyphenols containing more than 60% catechin (GTP60) and human coronavirus OC43 (HCoV-OC43) as a surrogate for SARS-CoV-2. Scanning electron microscopy analysis results showed that HCoV-OC43 infection resulted in virion particle production in infected cells. EGCG and GTP60 treatment reduced coronavirus protein and virus production in the cells. Finally, EGCG- and GTP60-fed mice exhibited reduced levels of coronavirus RNA in mouse lungs. These results demonstrate that green tea polyphenol treatment is effective in decreasing the level of coronavirus in vivo.
Facies architecture and sequence stratigraphy of Early Cretaceous Lower Bima Member from Yola Sub-basin, Northern Benue Trough, NE Nigeria

Sedimentology, facies architecture, and sequence stratigraphic studies were conducted on the exposed sediments of Lower Bima Member from the Yola Sub-basin with the aim of interpreting the depositional environment within stratigraphic framework. From texture and sedimentary structure, 10 lithofacies were identified and the facies were associated into three as follows: gravelly dominated, the sandy dominated, and the fine-grained dominated facies associations. The three facies associations formed the alluvial-braided river, braided river, and lacustrine facies successions. Analysis of facies has permitted an overall determination of five architectural elements: gravelly-bedded set, tough crossstratified set, planar cross-stratified set, horizontally stratified set, and overbank stratified set. Sequence stratigraphic framework shows alluvial fan (proximal and distal facies) at the base, temporally transiting into lacustrine as the lake level rose, followed by a period perhaps due to rift margin faults reactivation and re-establishment of alluvial fan-braided river and braided river deposits on toward the top. Transition from alluvial-lacustrine and alluvial-fluvial reflects a vertical and lateral facies distribution. ARTICLE INFO
Barium Tetratitanate MIC Technology

Experimental results on BaTi/sub 4/O/sub 9/ microwave integrated circuit (MIC) characteristics, including microstrip dispersion and loss, have shown excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions. Precision measurements of temperature stability were conducted at 14 GHz. The high dielectric constant (epsilon/sub r/ = 37) and its negative temperature coefficient can be used in specialized MIC's for application to advanced microwave subsystems.