Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of Distance Education via Short Message Service of Mobile Phone on Metabolic Control of Type II Diabetic Patients

Article History Received: June 26, 2013 Accepted: Decembar 26, 2013 ePublished: January 5, 2014 Correspondence Address: NO. 21, Unit 2, Rastakhiz Blvd, West seventh street, Goohardasht, Karaj, Iran. Phone: +982634450614 Fax: +982634450614 mandana.godarzi@yahoo.com *Educational Science Department, Literature & Human Science Faculty, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran 1Educational Science Department, Literature & Human Science Faculty, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran [1] Down to the fundamentals of telehealth and home . [2] Innovation in practice: mobile phone technology . [3] Introduction to the Special Section on M-Health: Beyond Seamless Mobility and Global . [4] The power of mobile money [5] Text messaging as a Tool for behavior change in disease . [6] Effect of nurseinitiated telephone followup on selfefficacy among patients with . [7] Education and phone follow-up in postmenoposal woman . [8] Effect of nutrition education on blood glucose levels and macronutrient intake . [9] Preventing Complication Of Diabetes [10] Press information diabetes epidemic . [11] Changing the face of standard nursing practice through tele health . [12] Mobile Phone Text Messageing Telephone Follow Up In Iranian . [13] A short message service by cellular phone in type2 diabetic . [14] Effect of a counseling program on knowledge, attitude and . [15] The Effect of nutrition education on knowledge . [16] The effect of walking educational program on knowledge, attitude, . [17] The Effect of telephone follow-up by nurses on blood glucose and lipid control in . [18] Effectiveness of an educational intervention on metabolic control in diabetic patients referred to . [19] Evaluation of effectiveness of community based . [20] Metabolic control of adults with type 2 diabetes . [21] A structured educational program improves metabolic control in patients . [22] effectiveness of outpatient diabetes education on . [23] How well do patients’ assessment of their diabetes . [24] lifestyle intervention in people with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus . Aims This study was aimed at evaluating the impacts of using SMS on improving metabolic control of patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM) in Iran. Methods This study is a randomized controlled trial. A total of 81 type II diabetes patients were randomly assigned into two groups of experimental (n=43) and control (n=38). Educational SMS was sent to the mobile phones of experimental group only. The data were collected through a demographic, physiologic and metabolic characteristics list. The data were collected at the baseline of the study and after 3 months of intervention and were analyzed by SPSS 17 software, using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results The experimental group, compared with the control group, improved significantly in HbA1C (p=0.024), LDL (p=0.019) and cholesterol (p=0.002). Conclusion Intervention using SMS via mobile phone is effective in the management of type II diabetes mellitus (DM). A B S T R A C T A R T I C L E I N F O
How Stakeholder Pressure Influence Corporate Sustainability, and Financial Performance in Manufacturing Industries of Pakistan: The Mediatory Role of Sustainable Supply Chain Management

It is of great importance to gain a better understanding of the impact of external stakeholder groups on an organization’s supply chain management strategies and practices. The greater challenge is to know how the two constructs affects organization’s sustainability and performance. This study aims to investigate the relationship between stakeholder pressure (SP), sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), corporate sustainability performance (CSP) & financial performance (FP). For this we proposed a theoretical framework, modifying Wolf (2014) model, to incorporate the mediating role of sustainable SCM. Stakeholder pressure is captured by environment issues, and social supply chain issues. Sustainable SCM was measured by waste reduction (WR), green purchasing (GP) and social supply chain standards (SSCS). Empirical validity was established by conducting a survey using close ended questionnaire. Data was collected from 310 employees and analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structured equation modeling. Findings shows that environmental issues have significant effect on CSP, FP & SSCM, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) except green purchasing (GP) has significant effect on CSP, FP hence green purchasing has insignificant results. Social supply chain issues have not a significant effect on CSP, FP and waste reduction (WR). There is a mediating effect of SSCM on environmental issues leads to CSP & FP, but not on supply chain issues. This study will add to the existing knowledge of sustainability in by different firms of a developing country like Pakistan. This will also help in understanding that how stakeholder’s pressure effects the reputation of organizations in result firms mount their strategies and tactics, and can better understand that what measures they should take for environmental and social standards by focusing on employee safety, suppliers’ engagement, and safety programs.
Low Energy Channel Sensing

—Channel sensing is a fundamental task of modern radio receivers and consists of probing the channel from time to time to check whether or not it is active—say, because of an incoming message. When communication is sparse with small amounts of information sent once in a long while, channel sensing becomes a relatively signiﬁcant source of energy consumption. How to reliably detect messages while minimizing the receiver energy consumption? This paper addresses this problem through a simple reconﬁgurable scheme, referred to as AdaSense, which exploits the dependency between the receiver noise ﬁgure (that is the receiver added noise) and the receiver power consumption; a higher power typically translates into less noisy channel observations. AdaSense begins in a low power low reliability mode and makes a ﬁrst tentative decision based on a few channel observations. If a message is declared, it switches to a high power high reliability mode to conﬁrm the decision, else it sleeps for the entire duration of the second phase. When compared to prominent detection schemes such as the BMAC protocol, AdaSense provides relative energy gains that grow unbounded in the small probability of false-alarm regime, as communication gets sparser. In the non-asymptotic regime energy gains are 30% to 75% for a variety of practical communication scenarios typically found in the context of wake-up receivers.
Desalination for preservation of murals by electromigration and regulated climate

The presence of salts is a threat against the preservation of cultural heritage, e.g. murals. The volume change from dissolved salt (ions) to precipitated salts results in crystallization pressure. This crystallization pressure can result in deterioration when the crystallization occurs underneath the surface, resulting in deterioration of the overlying material. The crystallization occurs most often in the evaporation zone, close to the surface, e.g. between the brick masonry and the lime layer with paintings. In the present investigation it was aimed to improve the electromigration (ion transport in an applied electric field) desalination efficiency of a wall section with murals by regulation of the surrounding climate. The idea was to obtain a relative humidity (RH) above the polluting salts deliquesce point (NaCl ~ 76%) to ensure the presence of dissolved salt (ions). A humidifier was used to create high relative humidity and the actual RH was followed with a hygrograph. After two weeks of treatment with an applied electric DC field and regulated climate, the average chloride content for all brick and mortar samples was decreased from 0.6 wt% to 0.1 wt% and for all the brick samples from 0.53 wt% to 0.06wt% on average. The present experiment clearly showed the necessity of a relative humidity around the polluting salts deliquesce point in order to dissolute the salts before they can be transported in an applied electric DC field. Significant desalination was obtained in all the positions within the same range as seen in previous experiments with capillary saturated single bricks.
X-ray analysis and computer modeling of the structure of 'relaxor' ferroelectrics Pb3MgNb2O9 and Pb2ScTaO6 in the paraelectric state

A structural study of Pb3MgNb2O9 and ordered Pb2ScTaO6 single crystals is made by X-ray diffraction at high temperatures. Displacements of the Pb atom from the special site are clearly observed. Disordered atomic positions are uniformly distributed over a sphere with radius 0.2–0.3 A and with center at the special position. These atomic displacements are probably caused by local fields due to random statistical distribution of the (Mg, Nb) atoms in Pb3MgNb2O9 and, partially, the (Sc, Ta) atoms in Pb2ScTaO6. Computer modeling, based on the total-energy-minimization method, gives satisfactory agreement with experimental results.
Different is Better: Does Difference in Age and Ethnicity of the Directors Matter for Corporate Performance in Malaysia?

The prior diversity-related literature is mostly dominated by the boardroom gender diversity of the top or large companies of the developed countries. Consequently, this study investigates the impact of the rarely investigated boardroom diversity-related dimensions like directors’ age and ethnicity on the financial performance of 360 randomly selected non-financial listed companies from a developing country Malaysia from 2010 to 2014. The findings revealed that ethnic equality (the presence of directors from all the three major ethnicities of the country) on the board has a significant positive relationship with ROA and share price. However, directors’ age has a significant positive association with share price but it has an insignificant effect on ROA. The findings of this study provide important insights for the regulators, policymakers, and all other key stakeholders of the developing countries, especially Malaysia, where the corporate boards are mostly dominated by men of middle age from Chinese ethnicity.
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Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii that is prevalent in humans and animals. This study was aimed to determine the seroprevalence of T. gondii infection among hemato-oncology patients and its association with sociodemographic and behavioural characteristics. This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) involving 56 blood samples from hemato-oncology patients. Anti-T. gondii IgG and IgM antibodies and IgG avidity were determined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). The association of T. gondii exposure, sociodemographic, and behavioural characteristics were assessed by a questionnaire and face-to-face interviews. Twenty-eight (50%) patients were seropositive for T. gondii antibodies, where 27 (48.21%) patients were IgG+/IgMand one patient (1.79%) was IgG+/IgM+ with high avidity index, indicating infection of more than 20 weeks. A univariate analysis showed that age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, educational level, employment status, stem cell transplant, blood transfusion, close contact with cats, water supply, and consumption of undercooked meat were not significantly associated with Toxoplasma seropositivity (p > 0.05). Our study has demonstrated, for the first time, the serological evidence of T. gondii exposure among hemato-oncology patients in Hospital USM. Our findings indicated that latent toxoplasmosis was relatively prevalence among our patients. Therefore, serological screening tests should be considered for immunocompromised patients as well as the implementation of health education programmes to encourage a healthy lifestyle and the consumption of healthy food among them.
Deformation and Dehulling of Sponge Gourd (Luffa aegyptiaca) Seeds

This work presents the compressive strength properties of sponge gourd (Luffa aegyptica) seeds to facilitate the design or adaptation of an appropriate dehuller. The sizes and shape indices of the seed and kernel, and the clearance of the kernel from the seed coat were determined. The seed samples were subjected to uni-axial quasi-static compression tests at 1.0 mm min−1 along the minor and the major axes. The fracture resistance, stiffness modulus, modulus of elasticity, toughness, and maximum elastic deformation of the seed were obtained from the force-deformation curve. The geometric mean diameters varied from 4.0 to 4.5 mm for the seed and 1.6 to 3.9 mm for the embedded kernel; while their corresponding sphericities were 0.64 and 0.62, respectively. The compressive strength of the seed varied with loading orientation. The seed exhibited larger deformation but lower stiffness along the major axis than the minor axis. The force required for rupturing the hull were 95 N along the major axis and 81 N along the minor axis; while the corresponding energy required were 95 and 40 mJ.
CORONARY SYNDROME IN ELDERLY – THE DIFFERENCE COMPARED WITH YOUNG IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT OF A TERTIARY HOSPITAL IN WESTERN

Introduction: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS), one of the commonest causes of intensive care unit (ICU) admission, casts a large burden of cost on the health care system, along with a huge mortality in the elderly population. Objectives: This study determined the difference in presentation, complication, management and outcome in elderly patients with acute coronary syndrome, as compared to the young patients. Material And Methods: Records of all patients who were diagnosed to have acute coronary syndrome, admitted to the ICU in the Manipal Teaching Hospital in the month of March 2006 to June 2007, was entered in a designated Proforma. Demographic details, clinical findings, treatment and complications were recorded. A total of 153 patients were analyzed and elderly patients (≥ 65 yrs) were compared with young patients (< 65yrs) using SPSS-10.0 software. Results: Elderly patients constituted 51% (78) of the study population, among which 46.2% (36) were females. 7.7% (6) elderly patients presented with atypical symptoms, among which syncope was the commonest. Young patients were more likely to be hypertensive as compared to the elderly patients (70.7% vs. 39.7%; p<0.001). The median time of presentation to the hospital after chest pain was comparable in the two groups: 16 hours overall, but in cases of STEMI, elderly patients were brought to the hospital comparatively late, with a median time of 15 hours (IQ 5.5 – 72 as compared to young individuals in which median time was 7.25 hours (IQ 2.87 – 39 hours), which was statistically significant (p=0.000). Non ST elevated myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and ST elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) were similar in distribution among the elderly and young patients. Complication was seen predominantly among the elderly, with 62.8 %( 49) Vs38.7% (29); p =0.03. Overall, heart failure was the commonest complication (28.2%), followed closely by arrhythmias (26.9%). Cardiogenic shock complicating STEMI resulted in high patient mortality in both the age groups. Thrombolysed patients were similar in distribution in both groups. But the success rate of thrombolysis was lower in elderly patients (50%) as compared to young patients (76.9%). Beta blockers were less commonly used in the elderly47.4% (34) than in young patients61.3% (46). A combination of aspirin and clopidogrel was also less commonly used in the elderly patients {60.3% (47) Vs 76% (57); p=0.03}. Mortality was higher in the elderly patients (24.4% Vs 10.7%; p =0.03) Conclusion: Elderly patients are more prone to complications, have less success rate for thrombolysis and have a higher mortality rate as compared to young patients of ACS.
Transport of Vitamin B 12 in tonB Mutants of Escherichia coli

It is known that the tonB mutation in Escherichia coli is responsible for a defect in the transport of iron chelates. These are transported by systems that involve outer membrane components. We found that tonB mutants were also deficient in the secondary, energy-dependent phase of vitamin B12 transport, although the mutants have normal levels ofB12 receptors on their cell surface. In addition, tonB mutants derived from vitamin B12 auxotrophs required elevated levels of B12 for normal growth. Maltose uptake, mediated by another transport system involving an outer membrane component, was unaffected by the tonB mutation.
Electron energy dependence of the energy and angular distributions of O− from dissociative ion pair formation in O2

The energy and angular distributions of O− produced from O2 by dissociative ion pair formation have been measured at selected incident electron energies from threshold to 100 eV. The kinetic energy distributions show well‐defined maxima near 2.0 and 3.3 eV with appearance potentials, respectively, at 20.0 and 23.0 eV. The angular distributions are peaked in the forward and backward directions relative to electron beam and exhibit nondipolar structure. The shape of the distributions depends on electron energy, becoming more isotropic with increasing energy. An attempt has been made to explain the behavior of the angular distributions in terms of a superposition of final states using a multipole expansion of the differential cross section which includes the effects of higher‐order partial waves.
Role of Peer-Group in Selective Exposure About Pornography through Internet Among Teenagers of Modern Islamic Boarding School in Tangerang City

Understanding how vital peer group can influence teens to seek of sex information, it would be interesting to have a study what is the role of peer group among teens on selective exposure of pornographic information through internet. This research involved students from an Islamic boarding school in Tangerang city as informants. Tangerang was chosen because it is located near Jakarta, the capital city which placed fifth in the list of cities that accesses most the "sex" keyword. Argumentation of researcher to choose Islamic boarding school is to know whether peer group could affect the process of selective exposure on pornographic information among students, instead of tradition of obedience and discipline of Islamic boarding school. The framework of thinking in this research is based on the constructivist paradigm. A qualitative approach was applied in this research. The data collection techniques used in-depth interview method. The result of the study shows that peer group does not play a role in the process of selective exposure on pornographic information in Islamic boarding school instead other factor that affect the student are the normative belief based on parenting system and rules of the Islamic boarding school.
Health and safety hazards identification and risk assessment in the swimming pools using combined HAZID and ALARP

Background: Swimming pools are recreation and sport sites where the lack of safety and health can have severe adverse effect on public health. This study aimed to identify and assess health and safety risks using HAZID and ALARP techniques in the different parts of the swimming pools. Methods: In this applied study, health risks were identified by field observations and environmental health questionnaire consisting swimming pool environmental health checklist, safety of equipment and so on. Then, the risks were categorized and corrective revisions were proposed. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 19. Results: After data analysis, 41 types of safety hazard and 35 types of health risk (potential and existing) were identified. A total of 7 work units and 6 jobs in swimming pools were classified, and 52 types of health risk and 69 types of safety risk were identified, assessed, and classified. After providing corrective measures, according to the ALARP principle, unacceptable risks were eliminated and 64 risk were classified as acceptable. Conclusion: According to the results, most of the health risks were related to the swimming pools area. So that health training course for swimmers and increasing health culture have an important role in controlling health risks. Changing the attitude of swimming pools managers and personnel towards health, safety and environment (HSE) issues also have an important role in controlling health and safety risks.
Situation Perception Mediates the Link Between Narcissism and Relationship Satisfaction: Evidence From a Daily Diary Study in Romantic Couples

Research has shown that diverging romantic relationship outcomes of grandiose narcissism can be explained by differential associations of agentic and antagonistic aspects of narcissism. In this study, we wanted to further investigate the underlying mechanisms by examining how narcissists perceive daily situations with their partners. In an online diary, 171 couples reported on 1941 daily situations experienced together. Analyses revealed that agentic narcissism was positively and antagonistic narcissism was negatively related to daily relationship satisfaction. These effects were differentially linked through distinct situation perceptions: Agentic narcissism was positively linked with relationship satisfaction through perceiving daily situations as, for example, containing more romance, sexuality, and love, while antagonistic narcissism was negatively linked with relationship satisfaction through perceiving, for example, more threat, criticism, and accusation. Results are discussed in light of the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Concept and with respect to person–situation transactions in romantic relationships.
Does Experience Co-creation (XCC) Change Entrepreneurial Intention?

Despite the global emphasis on the relevance and potential impacts of entrepreneurship has dramatically increased as a potent economic force, entrepreneurship education has not signi�icantly changed in two decades. Existing approaches to entrepreneurship education are focus is on teaching ‘about’ entrepreneur and what they do rather than teaching ‘for’ entrepreneurship. Drawing on the synthesis based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) by Ajzen (1991), we introduce Experience Co-creation as a new approach to teach entrepreneurship courses based on the concept of experiential learning. The approach for the program was synthesized and adapted from Experience cocreation (XCC) theory mostly used in tourism literature. This study develops a longitudinal framework of student’s intention after 3 months of teaching entrepreneurship with a different approach. The result demonstrates that the mean value of personal attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control and entrepreneurial intention are improved, and the relationship between perceived behavioral control and entrepreneurial intention improved signi�icantly at the end of the course. The result indicates that students’ intention is greater after the program than before the class started. This study �ills a gap in the entrepreneurship body of knowledge by providing evidence the teaching method moderates the relationship between perceived behavioral control and entrepreneurial intention. This study is an empirical study that uses a SmartPLS3 with data taken from the survey of 220 students in Strategic Entrepreneurship APT-2083 Class L4 & L5 Sem 2 2018 /19. The study suggests that universities can gain the highest entrepreneurial intention by introducing the innovative method in teaching entrepreneurship. Does Experience Co-creation (XCC) Change Entrepreneurial Intention? A Longitudinal Study on the Theory of Planned Behavior in UMK Student Firdaus Basbeth1*, Noorshela Che Nawi2 1Sekolah Tinggi Manajemen IPMI, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia 12750 2Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kelantan, Malaysia 16100