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Influence of Emotional Intelligence on Organizational Performance Among Insurance Companies in Kenya

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of emotional intelligence on organizational performance among insurance companies in Kenya. Design/methodology/approach: Positivism research philosophy was adopted for the study. Descriptive and explanatory cross-sectional research designs were used. The target population consisted of all the 55 registered insurance companies in Kenya as at 28th February 2017 and a sample size of 208 participants drawn from lower, middle and top level. Primary data was collected using collected using semi-structured questionnaires containing both open and closed-ended questions while secondary data was obtained using a secondary data collection sheet. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics and inferential analysis. Findings: There is a weak positive correlation between self-awareness and organization performance. Self-management, social awareness, and organization performance were moderately correlated while interpersonal relationship management was strongly correlated with organization performance. Emotional intelligence has a significant influence on organizational performance among insurance companies in Kenya. Specifically, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and interpersonal relationship management have a significant impact on organizational performance among insurance companies in Kenya. Research limitations/implications: Study was limited in scope since it focused on the Kenyan insurance firms and thus the findings might not be generalized to other sectors such as banking and agricultural sectors. The management of insurance companies should ensure that they cultivate, create and maintain good rapport with stakeholders, seek to understand each stakeholder requirements, observe healthy competition with competitors, encourage amicable conflict resolution where grievances arise and enhance effective communication within and outside the organization. Insurance companies should ensure that there are programs that are specially designed to offer training and enhancement of self-awareness to help the management staff and employees to be emotionally stable and make optimal decisions. Originality/value: The results of this research will add knowledge in the available literature on emotional intelligence and how it impacts on the performance of organizations by showing that emotional intelligence plays a significant role in personal career development and motivating people to act and control their actions and emotions.
Tuturan Melarang dalam Komik Yotsubato Karya Kiyohiko Azuma

The research entitled “Speech Acts of Prohibition in Comic Yotsubato by Kiyohiko Azuma” is aimed to identify various form of speech acts of prohibition and the factors behind the use of the said speech acts in the comic Yotsubato by Kiyohiko Azuma. This research applied the theory of speech acts by Wijana (1996) and level of politeness factors according to Mizutani and Mizutani (1987). The method of collecting data used in the research is attentive observation method, which is done by observing the speech in the comic. Afterwards, the obtained data is noted by applying note-taking technique. The data analysis is done by using pragmatic identity method. Later on, in the data presentation, informal method is used. The result of the analysis indicates that in the comic Yotsubato, found 9 data that categorized as direct speech acts of prohibition and 7 data that categorized as indirect speech acts of prohibition. Then, there are 4 factors behind the use of the speech acts of prohibition in the comic Yatsubato, namely 1) familiarity factors; 2) age; 3) social distance; and 4) gender.
The new poplar hybrids’ growth in the Central Black Earth region of Russia

The description of the following ten poplar hybrids bred in All-Russian Research Institute of Forest Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology (originator is A P Tsarev): white poplar hybrid ‘Veduga’, black poplar hybrids ‘Vertical’ and ‘Prolog’ and intersectional poplar hybrids ‘Strojn’, ‘Arctur’, ‘Arta’, ‘Versija’, ‘Peredel’, ‘Saturija’ and ‘Erida’ have been testing in the Shekhman’ experience site in the forest-steppe zone of Tambov region is presented. The rootage of 1-year-old hybrids and further its survival during 33 years of research are shown. It is noted that the dry year 2010 significantly affected the survival of plants, which resulted in its reduction in subsequent years in the whole site by almost half. The hybrids ‘Versija’, ‘Peredel’, ‘Saturija’ and ‘Erida’ have been more drought-resistant, the survival of which by the year 2015 did not fall below 70 %. The promising hybrids for massive, protective and greenery plantings of the region have been allocated. The best hybrids on growth energy and productivity in the region: ‘Veduga’, ‘Erida’, ‘Peredel’ and ‘Versija’, which in 25 years had average height of 20.4-23.8 m, diameter – 26.2-29.8 cm and volume of the trunk – 0.5-0.7 m3. At the age of 33 their indicators were 23-25 m, 28-32 cm and 0.55-0.8 m3 respectively.
Individual differences in social reward and threat expectancies linked to grey matter volumes in key regions of the social brain

Prospection (mentally simulating future events) generates emotionally charged mental images that guide social decision-making. Positive and negative social expectancies – imagining new social interactions to be rewarding vs. threatening – are core components of social approach and avoidance motivation, respectively. Stable individual differences in such positive and negative future-related cognitions may be underpinned by distinct neuroanatomical substrates. Here, we asked 100 healthy adults to vividly imagine themselves in a novel self-relevant social scenario that was ambiguous with regards to possible social acceptance or rejection. During this task we measured their expectancies for social reward (e.g. anticipated feelings of social connection) or threat (e.g. anticipated feelings of rejection). On a separate day they underwent structural MRI; voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used to explore the relation between their social reward and threat expectancies and regional grey matter volumes (rGMV). Increased rGMV in key regions involved in prospection, subjective valuation and emotion regulation (including ventromedial prefrontal cortex), correlated with both higher social reward and lower social threat expectancies. In contrast, social threat expectancies were uniquely linked with rGMV of regions involved in social attention (posterior superior temporal sulcus) and interoception (somatosensory cortex). These findings provide novel insight into the neurobiology of future-oriented cognitive-affective processes critical to adaptive social functioning.
Single Stage Transanal Endorectal Pull-through Operation for Hirschsprung’s Disease in Neonate: A Single Center Experience

Purpose: The single stage transanal pull-through (SSPT) for Hirschsprung’sdisease is becoming the most popular procedure. This single center study compared the result of single stage operation with two-stage operation for Hirschsprung’s disease in neonates. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed medical records of all patients who were diagnosed as Hirschsprung’s disease and underwent SSPT or two-stage operation operation in Asan Medical Center between January 2003 and July 2014. Results: There were 17 SSPT and 28 two-stage operation. The mean age of SSPT group was 14.2±7.1 days, and the mean age of two-stage operation group was 15.4±8.6 days for stomy formation, and 188.6±36.3 days for Duhamel operation. The operation time of SSPT was shorter than Duhamel operation (145.0±37.0 minutes vs. 193.0±36.0 minutes, p<0.001). The mean follow-up period of SSPT and two-stage operation was 35.5±34.9 months (range, 2-132 months) and 56.6±35.5 months (range, 1-121 months), respectively. Defecation problem rate such as fecal soiling or fecal impaction showed no significant difference between the two groups (p=0.719). Two SSPT patients required botulinum toxin injection due to rectal stenosis. Three patients of SSPT group underwent re-do endorectal pull-through due to remnant aganglionic or hypoganglionic bowel. Conclusion: The SSPT showed shorter hospital days. However, few patients experienced rectal stenosis, but were manageable with botulinum toxin injection. The SSPT requires experienced-pathologist, as well as surgeon, because intra-operation pathology reading is critical for appropriate SSPT. SSPT is a feasible and reasonable option to treat Hirschsprung’s disease.
PREDICTORS OF PERCEIVED DIET SELF-EFFICACY IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE

Background: In patients with heart failure (HF), symptoms and healthcare expenditures are often caused by sodium retention from low-sodium diet nonadherence. Perceptions of self-efficacy for a specific behavior influence behavior initiation and persistence over time; however, predictors of perceptions of HF diet self-efficacy have not been studied. To optimize patient education activities and improve diet adherence, the predictors that strengthen perceptions of diet self-efficacy must be sought. Specific Aim: To determine if HF illness threats (medical accuracy of illness beliefs, level of objective cues of HF severity, and depression) predict perceptions of diet self-efficacy while controlling for demographic, social, economic and disease specific variables. Methods: This predictive and inferential study uses a one group, randomized sample (stratified by physician type). After IRB approval and inclusion/exclusion criteria are met, 192 patients will be randomly invited to participate, via mailed letter. Participants will provide written informed consent. Participants will complete four valid and reliable surveys that quantify medical accuracy of HF illness beliefs, functional status, depression and perceptions of low-sodium diet self-efficacy. Objective cues of HF severity, demographic and medical history information will be obtained through completion of 2 surveys and chart /billing system information. Data Analysis: Descriptive statistics will illustrate demographic and medical history characteristics. Correlational analysis, simple linear regression and multiple regression will determine if study variables are predictors of diet self-efficacy and the influence of moderator variables. Potential Significance: This study will provide valuable data that may guide development of a HF education intervention to improve diet adherence. This knowledge might ultimately impact HF morbidity (quality of life and hospitalization) and cost of care. SAMPLE: Patients will meet the following inclusion criteria: (a) history of chronic systolic, moderate to severe HF, defined as an ejection fraction of 40% or less, (b) hospitalization or ambulatory visit for any reason in the 4 months preceding study initiation, (c) age 18-90, (d) speaks and understands English, and (e) able to give informed consent, read and complete surveys. Participants will be excluded from enrollment if any of the following criteria apply: (a) cognitive impairment, mental illness or anxiety disorder (history of delirium, psychosis, Alzheimer’s
Antibacterial effects of ER: YAG-PIPS, ER, CR: YSGG laser and conventional irrigation on enterococcus faecalis and candida albicans

Aim: Root canal treatment aims to disinfect root canal system from microorganisms. The limitations of contemporary disinfectants require investigation of new techniques. The aim of the present study is to compare the antibacterial efficiency of Er,Cr:YSGG [RFT] and Er:YAG [PIPS] lasers on Enterococcus faecalis [E. faecalis] and Candida albicans [C. albicans] to that of NaOCl. Material and Methods: The present study included 140 single rooted human mandibular premolars. After preparing and sterilizing, the samples were divided into two groups. Root canals in group 1 were contaminated with E. faecalis while root canals in group 2 were contaminated with C. albicans. The root canal of each sample except negative control group was inoculated with 105cfu/ml of microorganisms in order to achieve standardization. Following incubation, all samples were randomly divided into 10 subgroups; Group 1A: Er,Cr:YSGG laser group. Group 1B: Er:YAG-PIPS laser. Group 1C: 5% NaOCl. Group 1D: positive control group. Group 1E: negative control group. Group 2A: Er,Cr:YSGG laser group. Group 2B: Er:YAG laser. Group 2C: 5% NaOCl. Group 2D: positive control group. Group 2E: negative control group. After disinfection process, the culture of each sample was tested to determine cfu/ml values for before incubation and after 4 week incubation. Results: : Er:YAG and NaOCl groups lead to significant microorganism reduction [p<0.05]. In Er,Cr:YSGG group, reduction was not significant [p>0.05]. Conclusion: The use of Er:YAG-PIPS laser with NaOCl increased the success rate in the elimination of E.faecalis and C.albicanss.
Procrastination among basic science undergraduate medical students in a Caribbean medical school

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Purpose: The study was conducted to study procrastination behavior among basic science undergraduate medical students using the previously validated procrastination assessment scale students (PASS). Frequency of and reasons for procrastination were compared among different subgroups of respondents. Methods: The study was conducted during the first two weeks of February 2017 using PASS. Gender, nationality and semester of study of the respondents were noted. PASS explores areas of and frequency of procrastination, reasons for procrastination and interest in changing the behavior. The frequency of procrastination, fear of failure, risk aversiveness, laziness and rebellion against control scores were compared among different subgroups using appropriate statistical tests. Results: A total of 107 students (84.9%) participated in the study. The mean frequency of procrastination score was 32.9 (maximum score 60). The score was significantly correlated with the respondents’ gender. With regard to the percentage of students who nearly always or always procrastinated on a task, the percentages with regard to completing assignments, studying for exams, completing reading assignments, academic administrative tasks, attendance tasks and school activities in general were 25.2, 19.7, 25.2, 19.6, 18.7 and 17.7. The mean score for ‘fear of failure’ and ‘aversiveness of task’ as described by Solomon and Rothblum was 2.29 and 2.83. The mean scores for fear of failure, risk taking, and laziness were 26.17, 13.76 and 14.32. The median rebellion against control score was 6. Risk taking score was higher among respondents of other nationalities compared to Americans. Conclusions: Procrastination was regarded as a greater problem with regard to studying for exams and completing reading assignments and preparing for problem-based learning sessions. Only 42% of students were interested in attending a program to overcome procrastination. Similar studies among students during the clinical years are required. A study correlating self-reported procrastination with behavior can be carried out. Procrastination can also be studied in other offshore, Caribbean medical schools.
Effects of Occupation Reminiscence Therapy on the Cognitive Function and Self-Esteem in the Elderly with Dementia

This study was to investigate the effects of occupation reminiscence on cognitive function and self-esteem in the elderly with dementia. The subjects were 10 elderly patients who were diagnosed with dementia. The evaluation was performed using the Mini-Mental State Examination-Korean and Self-Esteem Scale. Occupation reminiscence was conducted once a week for a total of eight sessions. Occupation reminiscence was organized by reviewing activities that were familiar and enjoyable by the subjects before the start of intervention. The data were verified through a paired t test. As a result, the scores of cognitive function and self-esteem were improved after application than before occupation reminiscence treatment, which was statistically significant. It was also observed that the participants actively participated in the activities, promoting social interaction and expressing positive emotions. Occupation reminiscence was found Received(October 24, 2019), Review Result(November 17, 2019) Accepted(December 12, 2019), Published(December 31, 2019) Associate Professor, 54538, Dept. of Occupational Therapy/ Inst. of Health Improvement, Wonkwang Univ., 460 Iksan-daero, Iksan-si, Jeollabuk-do, Korea E-mail: tiffaniey@wku.ac. kr * This paper was supported by Wonkwang University in 2018. Effects of Occupation Reminiscence Therapy on the Cognitive Function and Self-Esteem in the Elderly with Dementia Copyright c 2019 HSST 782 to improve the cognitive function and self-esteem of the elderly with dementia, therefore occupational reminiscence was a positive intervention for the dementia.
Factors Affecting the Risk of Free Flap Failure in Microvascular Surgery

Abstract Microvascular free flap surgery, has become an important part of reconstructive surgery during the last decades, as it allows closure of various tissue defects and recovery of organs function. Despite surgical progress resulting in high rates of transferred tissue survival, the risk of pedicle vessels thrombosis still remains a significant problem. A total of 108 articles from Pubmed and Science Direct databases published in 2005–2015 were analysed. This review of the literature assessed the influence of patient-dependent risk factors and different perioperative management strategies on development of microvascular free flap thrombosis. Sufficient evidence for risk associated with hypercoagulation, advanced age and certain comorbidities was identified. Presently, rotational thromboelastometry allows early hypercoagulability detection, significantly changing further patient management. Identification of flap thrombosis promoting surgery-related aspects is also essential in preoperative settings. Choice of anaesthesia and postoperative analgesia, administration of different types and amounts of fluids, blood products and vasoactive agents, temperature control are no less important in perioperative anaesthesiological management. More attention should be focused on timely preoperative evaluation of patient-dependent risk factors, which can influence anaesthesiological and surgical tactics during and after microvascular free flap surgery. Perioperative anaesthesiological management strategy continues to be controversial and therefore it should be performed based on thrombotic risk assessment and patient individual needs, thus improving flap survival rates and surgical outcome.
Deep Adversarial Data Augmentation for Extremely Low Data Regimes

Deep learning has revolutionized the performance of classification and object detection, but meanwhile demands sufficient labeled data for training. Given insufficient data, while many techniques have been developed to help combat overfitting, the challenge remains if one tries to train deep networks, especially in the ill-posed extremely low data regimes: only a small set of labeled data are available, and nothing – including unlabeled data – else. Such regimes arise from practical situations where not only data labeling but also data collection itself is expensive. We propose a deep adversarial data augmentation (DADA) technique to address the problem, in which we elaborately formulate data augmentation as a problem of training a class-conditional and supervised generative adversarial network (GAN). Specifically, a new discriminator loss is proposed to fit the goal of data augmentation, through which both real and augmented samples are enforced to contribute to and be consistent in finding the decision boundaries. Tailored training techniques are developed accordingly. To quantitatively validate its effectiveness, we first perform extensive simulations to show that DADA substantially outperforms both traditional data augmentation and a few GAN-based options. We then extend experiments to three real-world small labeled classification datasets where existing data augmentation and/or transfer learning strategies are either less effective or infeasible. We also demonstrate that DADA to can be extended to the detection task. We improve the pedestrian synthesis work by substitute for our discriminator and training scheme. Validation experiment shows that DADA can improve the detection mean average precision (mAP) compared with some traditional data augmentation techniques in object detection. Source code is available at https://github.com/SchafferZhang/DADA.
Ontogenetic consistency in oak defence syndromes

Plant species allocate resources to multiple defensive traits simultaneously, often leading to so‐called defence syndromes (i.e. suites of traits that are co-expressed across several species). While reports of ontogenetic variation in plant defences are commonplace, no study to date has tested for ontogenetic shifts in defence syndromes, and we know little about the ecological and evolutionary drivers of variation in plant defence syndromes across ontogeny. We tested for ontogenetic variation in plant defence syndromes by measuring a suite of defensive and nutritional traits on saplings and adult trees of 29 oak (Quercus, Fagaceae) species distributed across Europe, North America, and Asia. In addition, we investigated if these syndromes exhibited a phylogenetic signal to elucidate the nature of their macro‐evolutionary variation, whether they were associated with levels of herbivore pressure and climatic conditions, and if any such evolutionary and ecological patterns were contingent on ontogeny. Our analyses revealed three distinct oak defence syndromes: the first included species with high defences, the second species with high defences and low nutrient levels, and the third species with high nutrients and thinner leaves. Interestingly, these defence syndromes remained virtually unchanged across the two ontogenetic stages sampled. In addition, our analyses indicated no evidence for a phylogenetic signal in oak syndromes, a result consistent across ontogenetic stages. Finally, with respect to ecological factors, we found no effect of climatic conditions on defences for either ontogenetic stage, whereas defence syndromes were associated with differing levels of herbivory in adults but not saplings suggesting an association between herbivore pressure and syndrome type that is contingent on ontogeny. Synthesis. Together, these findings indicate that defence syndromes remain remarkably consistent across oak ontogenetic stages, are evolutionarily labile, and while they appear unrelated to climate, they do appear to be associated with herbivory levels in an ontogenetic‐dependent manner. Overall, this study builds towards a better understanding of ecological and evolutionary factors underlying multivariate plant defensive phenotypes.