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Care work and diffusion of innovation in Danish elder care Langergaard,

This article explores the interplay between different types of knowledge and rationality in care work through a case study of a nursing home innovation project in a Danish municipality. The aim is to understand the implications for innovation processes and dissemination within the context of elder care. Care work, in some sense, relies on relational and contextual knowledge which may lead to challenges when innovation and best practices are to be diffused across organizations. This is especially true since diffusion often relies on codification of practices and knowledge. Caring rationality is essential to how technologies and methods are practiced in the care situation, and thus also essential for best practices and how they are disseminated. However, other types of codified and explicit rationality are equally important. The article concludes that there are several types of knowledge in play in care work practices and innovation, and it indicates that communities of practice could be key to understanding how to share and learn from best practices across organizations.
Behaviour of Limestone Rock with Opening under Confining Pressures

Many factors may affect the stability of rock mass in terms of strength and deformability. Such factors are the loading conditions, presence of natural weakening features and manmade openings. In the present study, an evaluation of stresses and deformations is carried out through experimental and numerical analyses for plane-strain and plane-stress conditions. The study includes the effect of circular opening on strength, deformation and failure mode of limestone rock under various confining pressures (σ3=0, 1, 2 and 3 MPa). The results show that the opening causes a reduction in strength of rock but the effect of the presence of the opening reduces with the increasing the confining pressure from 1MPa to 3MPa. Samples tested under plane-strain condition give strength higher than those tested under planestress condition. The differences between both cases reduce under high confining pressure 3MPa. Failure pattern showed splitting type failure in an unconfined case (σ3=0) and changes to shear type associated with cracks inclined at 15°-30° in solid sample; while cracks inclined at 45° in sample with opening as the confining pressure increases. The presence of opening resulted in an increase in the deformation of the sample. The deformation of opening increases with increasing confining pressure to 1MPa, thereafter, it reduces. Numerical analysis gives higher results than experimental tests.
EFFECT OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS APPLICATION ON GROWTH YIELD AND QUALITY OF MUNGBEAN (Vigna radiata L.)

Study was conducted to determine the effect of varying levels of nitrogen(0,25 and 50 kqha") and phosphorus (0,50,75 and 100 kqha") on the yield and quality of mungbean (Vigna radiata L.) cultivar NM-98 during the year 2001. Although plant population was not affected significantly but various growth and yield components were significantly affected by varying levels of nitrogen and phosphorus. A fertilizer combination of 25-75 kg NP ha" resulted in maximum seed yield (1112.96 kgha'l). Maximum protein content (25.6%) were obtained from plots fertilized @ 50-75 kg NP ha' followed by protein content of 25.1% obtained from plots fertilized @ 25-75 kg NP na'. Highest net income (Rs. 21374.9) was also obtained by applying Nand P @ 25 and 75 kg NP ha',
The prognostic significance of vascular endothelial growth factor-D expression in colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis

Background: Vascular endothelial growth factor-D (VEGF-D) is a glycoprotein closely associated with lymphangiogenesis and angiogenesis. Although much research has been done on the relationship between VEGF-D and colorectal cancer, there is no agreed upon conclusion at present. We tried to summarize the reliable evidence on the use of the VEGF-D protein to estimate the prognostic and clinicopathological role of VEGF-D overexpression in colorectal cancer. Methods: Searching was performed in electronic databases to collect data without any language limits for original articles up through March 30, 2018. Furthermore, a meta-analysis was undertaken to evaluate the relationship between VEGF-D overexpression and the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer, including disease-free survival (DFS), overall survival (OS), and clinicopathological characteristics. Results: 10 studies were included in the final analysis. 6 studies (n=730 patients) assessed the association between OS and VEGF-D overexpression. Statistics were calculated for OS (HR=0.91; 95% CI=0.33-1.49; P=0.002). Meanwhile, 3 studies (n=404 patients) evaluated the relationship between DFS and VEGF-D overexpression. Statistics were calculated for DFS (HR=1.28; 95% CI=0.95-1.60; P<0.001). When the studies were layered by the clinicopathological characteristics, including tumor stage (n=603; OR=2.19; 95% CI=1.54-3.12; P<0.001), T stage (n=263; OR=2.52; 95% CI=1.344.73; P=0.004); lymph node metastasis (n=655; OR=4.04; 95% CI=2.83-5.75; P<0.001), liver metastasis (n=298; OR=2.99; 95% CI=1.61-5.53; P=0.001), venous involvement (n=354; OR=0.93; 95% CI=0.60-1.45; P=0.758), lymphatic involvement (n=354; OR=1.38; 95% CI=0.81-2.36; P=0.242), and differentiation degree (n=655; OR=0.88; 95% CI=0.58-1.34; P=0.559), they provided important, objective, and extensive prognostic information. Conclusion: This study indicates that patients with VEGF-D overexpression have a shorter OS and DFS, higher levels of tumor stage and T stage, and easier lymph node and liver metastasis.
Awareness, Determinants, and Value of Reputation Risk Management: An Empirical Study in the Banking and Insurance Industry

Reputation risk has become increasingly important, especially in the financial services industry where trust plays a crucial role. The aim of this paper is to provide a holistic view on the practice of reputation risk management based on a sample of US and European banks and insurers. This is done by focusing on three central aspects: First, we investigate how the awareness and management of reputation risk as reflected in annual reports has developed over the last ten years by adopting a text mining approach. Second and third, having identified firms with an implemented reputation risk management, we empirically study determinants and firm characteristics as well as its value-relevance, which to the best of our knowledge has not been done so far. Our results show that the awareness of reputation risk has increased and that it also gained in importance relative to other risks. Moreover, we find that less leveraged and more profitable firms are significantly more likely to implement a reputation risk management. This also holds for firms that belong to the banking industry, are situated in Europe, have a higher awareness for their reputation and face fewer risks. Finally, we obtain first indications that reputation risk management can increase firm value.
(Big)Data in a Virtualized World: Volume, Velocity, and Variety in Enterprise Datacenters

Virtualization is the ubiquitous way to provide computation and storage services to datacenter end-users. Guaranteeing sufficient data storage and efficient data access is central to all datacenter operations, yet little is known of the effects of virtualization on storage workloads. In this study, we collect and analyze field data from production datacenters that operate within the private cloud paradigm, during a period of three years. The datacenters of our study consist of 8,000 physical boxes, containing over 12 PB? Is 12 still correct with the data till Dec 2013? of actively used storage, and host over 90,000 VMs. Storage data are analyzed the perspectives of “volume”, “velocity”, and “variety” of storage demands on virtual machines and of their dependency on other resources. In addition to the growth rate and churn rate of allocated and used storage volume, the trace data illustrate the impact of virtualization and consolidation on the velocity of IO reads and writes, including IO deduplication ratios and peak load analysis of co-located VMs. We focus on a variety of applications which are roughly classified as app, web, database, file, mail, and print, and correlate their storage and IO demands with CPU, memory, and network usage. This study provides critical storage workload characterization by showing usage trends and how application types create storage traffic in large datacenters.
Selection of Sensors for Efficient Transmitter Localization

We address the problem of localizing an (illegal) transmitter using a distributed set of sensors. Our focus is on developing techniques that perform the transmitter localization in an efficient manner, wherein the efficiency is defined in terms of the number of sensors used to localize. Localization of illegal transmitters is an important problem which arises in many important applications, e.g., in patrolling of shared spectrum systems for any unauthorized users. Localization of transmitters is generally done based on observations from a deployed set of sensors with limited resources, thus it is imperative to design techniques that minimize the sensors' energy resources.In this paper, we design greedy approximation algorithms for the optimization problem of selecting a given number of sensors in order to maximize an appropriately defined objective function of localization accuracy. The obvious greedy algorithm delivers a constant-factor approximation only for the special case of two hypotheses (potential locations). For the general case of multiple hypotheses, we design a greedy algorithm based on an appropriate auxiliary objective function—and show that it delivers a provably approximate solution for the general case. We develop techniques to significantly reduce the time complexity of the designed algorithms, by incorporating certain observations and reasonable assumptions. We evaluate our techniques over multiple simulation platforms, including an indoor as well as an outdoor testbed, and demonstrate the effectiveness of our designed techniques—our techniques easily outperform prior and other approaches by up to 50-60% in large-scale simulations.
Commentary on “Breast Biopsy and Distress: Feasibility of Testing a Reiki Intervention”

Nurses have been integrating energetic healing modalities in their practice for decades. Although public interest and demand for such healing have grown exponentially, the research available to support the use of these modalities is limited. In particular, research on Reiki, the ancient energetic art of healing, is sparse and clinical trials are few. A pilot study by Potter (2007) is, therefore, a welcome step toward further examining the wide range of human health conditions that Reiki is suggested to positively influence. The purpose of Potter’s timely study was to determine the feasibility of testing Reiki, with an aim of implementing and evaluating the research protocol. The participants (N = 32) in this pilot study were women who were scheduled for outpatient breast biopsy. The Reiki intervention they received as per protocol was tested for efficacy in promoting relaxation and reducing their distress. At first reading, the results of the study were puzzling: It could not be concluded that Reiki relieves distress in this population. Results of other research studies, including several in this study report’s literature review, suggest that Reiki energy produces positive results (Crawford, Leaver, & Mahoney, 2006; Wardell, & Engebretson, 2001). Closer examination of the pilot study design and protocol, however, revealed several areas that might have contributed to these results. Following are reflections and comments for future consideration and for support of the researcher.
TESTOSTERONE LEVELS AS A FUNCTION OF AGE AND ORIGIN IN CYNOMOLGUS MONKEYS (Macaca fascicularis) TAN

TAN LI WERN. Cognitive Profile and Testosterone Levels as a Function of Age and Origin in Cynomolgus Monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). Counselled and guided by DONDIN SAJUTHI and HUDA SHALALUDIN DARUSMAN. Macaca fascicularis which is also known as long-tailed macaque and cynomolgus monkey is commonly used as a laboratory animal to test medication and hormones because of the similar physiology and anatomy of the monkey with human beings. The objective of this research is to know the correlation between the influence of age and origin as a factor towards the levels of testosterone. The concentrations of the testosterone was taken from 40 cynomolgus monkeys with different age groups and different origins and analyzed using ELISA test. There are 3 age groups which are young, middle-aged and senior cynomologus monkeys. The origin of the monkeys was divided into two, island-bred and cage-bred. This could be influenced by external factors such as husbandry in the facility, nutrition and further analyzation was done using Univariate ANOVA with SPSS software. The results showed that there was a significance between the concentrations of testosterone with the middle-aged macaques with the age range of 10-19 years. The monkeys with different origins showed no significant difference. The graph comparison of cage-bred monkeys showed a similar trendline to the graph of the means of testosterone and age. This could be influenced by the proper nutrition, less competition and excellent husbandry.
Labelling Schubert intersections in the Grassmanian

Points in the intersection of Schubert varieties are counted by various combinatorial objects, for example standard tableaux. This paper consider the problem of producing a natural labelling of intersection points by these combinatorial objects. When the Schubert varieties are being taken with respect to flags osculating at real points, several different methods have appeared implicitly in the literature (specifically in work of Mukhin-Tarasov-Varchenko, Speyer and Marcus). In this paper we show these various methods produce the same labelling and we describe it in an elementary way.
Managing Open-source Microservices Projects

This study intends to understand the project management practices and collaboration principles of participants who contribute to developing open-source microservices projects. Through the lens of Conways Law within this study, we empirically analyze the participation roles of developers with a high number of commits across three projects in GitHub, an open-source software developing platform and repository. We generalize this case study research and hypothesize how the segregation of duties among participants, as well as commits number and distribution, depends on the size of a repository network and the presence of a hub. The paper concludes with suggestions on further investigation of this topic using large-scale research.
Improved diagnosis of mesothelioma by a combination of soluble mesothelin-related peptide and CYFRA 21-1

Abstract Background: Soluble mesothelin-related peptide (sMRP) has shown great potential for malignant mesothelioma detection. However, data on comparison with other cancer and benign diseases as well as with other established lung cancer biomarkers are rare. Methods: In this study, SMRP was investigated in sera from 1506 individuals including 147 healthy donors, 285 patients with diverse benign diseases and 1074 patients with mesothelioma (n=39) and various malignant tumors (lung, gastrointestinal, gynecological, urological). For differential diagnosis of lung diseases, carcinoembryonic antigen, cytokeratin 19-fragments (CYFRA 21-1), neuron-specific enolase and squamous cell cancer antigen were determined additionally. Results: Ninety-fifth percentiles of sMRP serum levels in healthy persons were 1.2 nM, in patients with benign diseases between 2.0 and 3.8 nM and in cancer patients between 1.5 and 44.3 nM. Highest values were observed in mesothelioma (median 2.3 nM; 95th percentile 44.3 nM). When differential diagnostic capacity of cancer detection vs. the relevant benign control group was tested, sMRP showed best results for mesothelioma and ovarian cancer with a sensitivity of 45% and 37%, respectively, at 95% specificity. At 100% specificity vs. normal controls, sensitivity for mesothelioma detection was found to be 59% for sMRP, 73% for CYFRA 21-1 and 88% for the combination of both. At 95% specificity vs. all other lung diseases, sensitivity for mesothelioma was 48% for sMRP, 15% for CYFRA 21-1 and 46% for the combination of both. Conclusions: In summary, SMRP is a valuable serum biomarker that is specific at high concentrations for the detection of malignant mesothelioma. For screening purposes, the combination with CYFRA 21-1 improves the sensitivity at high specificity.
Genetic Analysis And Maternal Effects In Berseem Clover

The objectives of this study were to estimate the genetic parameters, the six parameters, heritability, heterosis, loss of vigros and study the role of maternal effects in berseem isolated distances. Mean analysis was used to estimate the magnitude of genetic variance component, the epistatic interaction and mode of inheritance in berseem clover populations. Three crosses and their reciprocals were conducted in field and greenhouse at the Agricultural Research Station at Giza during three winter seasons. Seven generations and their reciprocals were formulated by manual hybridization and subjected to generation mean analysis plant, for detecting the gene effects responsible for inheritance of the plant height, number of tillers, fresh and dry weight across parents and hybrid generations. Significant differences were detected among generations viz, P1, P2, F1, F2, F3, BC1 (P1xF1) and BC2 (P2xF1) for most of the studied traits in the three crosses and their reciprocals. The contributions of epitasis to the additive, dominance and interaction genetic variances were specified. Duplicate epistasis (that cause lower heteroses value) was prevailing for all the studied traits in the three crosses and their reciprocals. Epistasis made substantial contributions to each of these variance components. Low values of (hn) in crosses of Miskawi male parent x Fahl female parent were observed for all traits except Giza-6 x Fahl in plant height mean (0.57). ((hb) was highly significant for multi-cut berseem cultivars as female parent in crosses with Fahl for Hatour with respect to plant height and fresh weight (0.90 and 0.84, respectively) and for Giza-6 with respect to average number of tillers (0.84). All crosses (Miskawi as female x Fahl as male) showed highly significant (HBp). Also reciprocals recorded the same performance for heterosis across all traits except for (Giza-6 and Hatour) with respect to plant height and for Giza-6 fresh weight. Total fresh and dry yield recorded highly depression of Giza as female parent x Fahl (68.98 and 69.18%, respectively), while Hatour as female parent x Fahl had the best performance without losses in vigor's (-10.34 and -9.36%), respectively. The (CVG) values were close to (CVP) values, suggesting low effects of environments and high genetic expression for all the studied traits. Maternal genetic effects influenced traits throughout fresh and dry yield, including high significant direct and maternal additive genetic correlations within and between traits through cross generations. The force of maternal effects in berseem cultivars sustains the harmonious structure of population gene pool within each cultivar, enabling us to reduce isolation distance of foundation and breeder seed propagation. [Zeinab M. Abd El-Naby; Wafaa, W. M. Shafie and M. A. El-Nahrawy. Genetic Analysis and Maternal Effects In Berseem Clover. Life Sci. J 2014; 11 (5s): 407-418] (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 82
University of Birmingham Automatic speaker, age-group and gender identification from children's speech

A speech signal contains important paralinguistic information, such as the identity, age, gender, language, accent, and the emotional state of the speaker. Automatic recognition of these types of information in adults’ speech has received considerable attention, however there has been little work on children’s speech. This paper focuses on speaker, gender, and age-group recognition from children’s speech. The performances of several classiﬁcation methods are compared, including Gaussian Mixture Model - Universal Background Model (GMM-UBM), GMM - Support Vector Machine (GMM-SVM) and i-vector based approaches. For speaker recognition, error rate decreases as age increases, as one might expect. However for gender and age-group recognition the eﬀect of age is more complex due mainly to consequences of the onset of puberty. Finally, the utility of diﬀerent frequency bands for speaker, age-group and gender recognition from children’s speech is assessed
Degree Project Level : Bachelor ’ s degree The Big Crunch A Mapping of the Swedish Party System from 1991 to 2010

Previous research claims that there has been a narrowing of distance between the Swedish political parties. Typically, such research into political distance has primarily focused on studying voters rather than the political parties themselves. In this article, the author conducts a longitudinal analysis of Comparative Manifesto Project data to determine if, and to what extent, the political parties have converged ideologically on a Left-Right continuum in the period 1991-2010. After first unraveling the concept of political distance, the author moves on to explain why the ideological dispersion of political parties is an important and consequential characteristic within party systems. Furthermore, the author argues that the Left-Right ideological scale continues to be a highly useful model with which to conceptualize and study this characteristic. The author then discusses the methodological approach and explains why quantitative manifesto data, often overlooked in favor of voter interview data, is deemed a valid and reliable material for measuring the ideological positions of political parties. The findings are that there indeed have been over all tendencies of ideological convergence between the blocs and that, in terms of how political parties are dispersed on a LeftRight ideological continuum, by 2010, the Swedish party system (the Sweden Democrats excluded) had become much less polarized than it had been in 1991.