Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Defense mechanisms and quality of life in military personnel with burnout syndrome

Background/Aim. Professional military personnel are exposed to a number of stressors during the war as well as in peacetime conditions that can cause some hidden or manifest disorders, especially anxiety and depression, but also the development of a burnout syndrome. The aim of our investigation was to determine the defense mechanisms and subjective assessment of quality of life and anxiety in professional military personnel of the Serbian Armed Forces with the burnout syndrome. Methods. The cross-sectional study included a total of 55 professional military personnel, from 25 to 55 years of age, without current mental problem. In the investigation, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40), World Health Organization Abbreviated Instrument for Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL-BREF) and Beck Anxiety Inventory were used. The statistical analysis included parametric and nonparametric descriptive statistics. Results. Emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were present in 10.9% of subjects and in 12.7% of subjects respectively, in moderate level, while personal accomplishment was present in 21.8% of subjects of high level. Humor was higher in the subjects with a moderate level of burnout on the personal accomplishment (PA) scale and altruism in the subjects with a low level of burnout on the depersonalization (DP) scale as well as acting-out and rationalization on the PA scale in the subjects with a moderate level of burnout. High level of anxiety was present in 14.5% of subjects. Conclusion. Professional military personnel with lower level of burnout were less anxious, use mature defense mechanisms and have a perception of better quality of life. When burnout is diagnosed, psychological interventions requires training through the adoption of mechanisms for overcoming everyday stress, which may affect the reduction of anxiety and the improvement of the quality of life. Professional assistance, including psychotherapy is required in severe cases.
Multidimensional Resilience Decision-Making On A Multistage High-Speed Axial Compressor

The resilience of complex systems such as gas turbines, industrial plants, or critical infrastructure networks is of increasingly higher interest to engineers. Instead of solely concentrating on the robustness of systems and their ability to withstand certain threats, research is more and more focused on their ability to recover from these events as well. Appropriate quantitative measures of resilience can support decision-makers seeking to improve or to design complex systems. In this paper, a previously developed comprehensive and adaptable resilience-based decisionmaking method is extended to handle higher-dimensional problems subject to monetary constraints. The technique applies a grid search algorithm for systemic risk measures to significantly reduce the computational effort. In order to demonstrate its usefulness, the extended decision-making procedure is applied to a functional model of a multistage high-speed axial compressor.
Power, authority and security: the EU’s Russian gas dilemma

ABSTRACT This paper investigates contestation of authority in EU energy policy, with a focus on natural gas. It argues that the main challenge centers on the EU’s goals and means of energy security policy, not the location and scope of authority. The contested choice is between an across-the-board approach to regulation (Regulatory Power)- and a strategy that opens for the use of regulatory tools for geo-political purposes (Market Power). Competing claims of authority and competing views on how the European Commission should wield its regulatory power reflect both geography (North-Western versus (South-Eastern Europe) and the policy paradigm (market versus geo-politics). The Commission’s traditional strategy in energy policy – power-sharing and compromise – only works if there exists a consensus on the ultimate purpose of regulation. However, when the contested issue is whether the Commission should use is regulatory power to pursue market integration or geo-political goals, this presents a genuine policy dilemma.
Polyphenols from propolis and plants in control of allergy and inflammation

The number of individuals that suffer from allergic diseases in developed countries has increased epidemically during the last decade. It is generally agreed that a combination of heredity and environmental factors is responsible for development of allergies. The evolution of these diseases has been far too rapid for genetics to be the sole explanation for their appearance. Of course, diet and the use of hygienic preparations in modern societies could be responsible for „ normal“ development of immune system, which in many cases is responsible for the development of allergies and perhaps inflamation reactions. In a recent "back to nature move", modern man is searching for natural products with medicinal properties, particularly those obtained from plants and bees, that have got opportunity for a possible control control of the generation of allergies and/or inflammations. Propolis has been used in folk medicine for a very long time. Laboratory and clinical research on propolis, phytochemicals and their flavonoids and other antioxidants suggest their use in the prevention and treatment of number of diseases, including allergy.This review summarizes the current knowledge regarding the mechanism(s) involved in generation of senzibilities and/or inflammation potential of polyphenolic/flavonoids components present in propolis on control of allergy diseases and and possible modes of antiallergy action.
Psychometric Properties of an Agriculture Teacher Efficacy Scale for Senior Secondary Schools in Eswatini

Teacher efficacy is an important motivational attribute influencing teacher performance and student learning outcomes. Teacher efficacy is multidimensional yet inconsistencies exist on the nature of construct that best measure teacher efficacy across different subjects and contexts. The purpose of the study was to explore the psychometric properties of the agriculture teacher efficacy scale adapted from the Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale (TSES) of Tschannen-Moran and Hoy (2001). Data were collected from 161 beginning agriculture teachers at senior secondary schools in Eswatini. Item analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using principal component and verimax rotation were used to analyse the data. The findings indicate that the agriculture teacher efficacy scale was reliable (.92) with inter-item correlation value of . 41 to . 67 and items discrimination index of ≥ . 40). EFA revealed that the agriculture teacher efficacy scale had four factors explaining 47.7% of variance among the items which were instructional strategies, student engagement, classroom management, and practical work management. Conclusion was, the scale is valid to assess agriculture teacher efficacy. Recommendation was, further testing the agriculture teacher efficacy scale across school levels in teaching agriculture.
Delay in diagnosis of breast cancer in a developing country: a single centre observational study in a tertiary care hospital in North Kerala, India

Background: Around the world breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. In India, peak incidence is between 45-50 years of age. Early diagnosis improves survival, hence reducing diagnostic delay in breast cancer will have major social and economic implications besides improving the quality of life. This observational study aims to decipher various factors influencing diagnostic delay so that early treatment can be instituted. Methods: We interviewed 212 consecutive patients who attended the twice weekly breast clinic conducted by Department of general surgery and department of radiotherapy, government medical college, Kozhikode between September 2014 and February 2015. All patients with primary breast cancer were included in the study. Exclusion criteria included recurrence, second primaries, history of partial treatment and incomplete records. Finally, we interviewed 202 patients with the help of a pretested semi-structured questionnaire. Results: In present study, the commonest age group was 40-50 years with 62.4% participants presenting with early breast cancer and 37.6% having advanced breast cancer. Most of present study subjects were educated up to high school and unemployed. Awareness about breast cancer was 74.25% but many were ignorant of its symptomatology. Practice of breast self-examination (BSE) was low at 32.1%. Side and quadrant were statistically significant factor. Conclusions: In present study religion, educational status, marital status, breast cancer awareness, practice of BSE and location of tumor were statistically significant factors influencing delay in diagnosis. There was a general lack of knowledge about the importance of self-examination in breast cancer which needs health education and need for active social propaganda in print and electronic media regarding its importance. In future institution of a screening programme will hasten diagnosis and improve survival of breast cancer patients.
COMPARISON EFFECT OF CV 12, ST 36 AND ST 40 EA ON SHORT TERM ENERGY BALANCE REGULATION IN HIGH FAT DIET RAT

The aim of this study was to determine the comparative effects of EA (EA) on the CV12, ST36 and ST40 to weight gain prevention over the short-term regulation of energy balance. The study was conducted with a completely randomized design. Rats were divided into five groups: negative control group (no treatment, n=5), positive control (sham EA/back, n=5), EA CV 12 (n=6), EA ST 36 (n=6) and EA ST 40 (n=7). Rats were exposed to high-fat diet for two weeks and EA was simultaneously performed once daily, five days a week for two weeks with 2 Hz, for 10 minutes with continuous wave. Body weight, BMI, front limb circumference and rear were measured during study. Levels of blood glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL and HDL were measured at the end of the study; which reflects the short-term regulation of energy homeostasis. For weight loss, EA CV12, ST36 and ST40 group have lost weight significantly compared to the negative and positive control group. The ST40 group has a significant decrease than ST36 and CV12. The most significant decrease in BMI found in the ST40 group. EA did not affect blood glucose levels, but modulated blood lipid profile. In ST 40 group there was a significant decrease in cholesterol, LDL and triglycerides. EA at point ST 40 is potential in preventing increased body weight and BMI in rats exposed to high-fat diet compared to the CV 12 and ST 36. ST 40 is a point with a potential of lowering LDL and triglycerides serum so that it can play a role in the short term regulation of energy homeostasis but also in the prevention of dyslipidemia.
SCARLET-NAS: Bridging the Gap between Stability and Scalability in Weight-sharing Neural Architecture Search

To discover powerful yet compact models is an important goal of neural architecture search. Previous two-stage one-shot approaches are limited by search space with a fixed depth. It seems handy to include an additional skip connection in the search space to make depths variable. However, it creates a large range of perturbation during super-net training and it has difficulty giving a confident ranking for subnetworks. In this paper, we discover that skip connections bring about significant feature inconsistency compared with other operations, which potentially degrades the supernet performance. Based on this observation, we tackle the problem by imposing an equivariant learnable stabilizer to homogenize such disparities (see Fig. 1). Experiments show that our proposed stabilizer helps to improve the supernet’s convergence as well as ranking performance. With an evolutionary search backend that incorporates the stabilized supernet as an evaluator, we derive a family of state-of-the-art architectures, the SCARLET1 series of several depths, especially SCARLET-A obtains 76.9% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet.
Trauma TIPS: an internet-based intervention to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder in injured trauma patients

in the prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder (pTsd) after severe traumatic injury, easily applicable, accessible, cost-efficient early interventions are needed that use well-established techniques for decreasing acute psychological stress reactions. Whereas most studies delivered cognitive behavioral techniques face-to-face or as a curative treatment, we incorporated them into a brief internet-based early intervention program to reduce acute psychological distress and prevent long-term symptoms of pTsd in trauma victims. by means of interactive elements, visual and auditory materials, the intervention contains psychoeducation, modeling, in vivo exposure, stress management and social support. in this article, we describe the design of the program and the outcomes of an initial feasibility study among trauma patients (n = 5) and healthy controls (n = 5). The participants reviewed the program as useful and clear. neither patients nor controls experienced adverse psychological reactions after completing the intervention. The results show that the intervention is well-received and feasible for implementation in severely injured trauma survivors.
Interaction effect of entrepreneurial orientation and stakeholder orientation on the business performance of firms in the steel fabrication industry in Thailand

The purpose of this paper is to explore the interaction effect of entrepreneurial orientation and stakeholder orientation on the business performance of small and medium enterprises. In particular, four components of stakeholder orientation including customer orientation, competitor orientation, employee orientation and shareholder orientation were considered as the moderating factors to analyze the interaction effect between each of these stakeholder groups and the entrepreneurial orientation on firms’ performance. This research used resources-based views of firms and stakeholder theory as an integrated theoretical framework to explain the interaction effect of entrepreneurial orientation and stakeholder orientation on firms’ performance. ,Survey data were collected from 370 small and medium firms in the steel fabrication industry in Thailand using probability sampling. Partial least-squares structural equation modeling was used for model estimation. ,The results significantly supported a positive contribution of entrepreneurial orientation to firms’ performance. The moderating effect analysis additionally found that the contribution of entrepreneurial orientation to firms’ performance was positively moderated by customer orientation but negatively moderated by shareholder orientation. ,This research extended prior studies on entrepreneurial orientation by using resource-based views of firms and stakeholder theory as an integrated theoretical framework to explain the interaction effect of entrepreneurial orientation and stakeholder orientation on firms’ performance.
An iterated local search for the biomedical sample transportation problem with multiple and interdependent pickups

Abstract This article addresses a new version of the biomedical sample transportation problem, as a vehicle routing problem with precedence constraints arising in the context of healthcare logistics, and proposes an iterated local search algorithm to solve it. This new version is more realistic and complex since it considers the collection centres’ opening hours and the moment at which they are visited as decision variables, granting additional flexibility to elaborate more efficient routes. Indeed, this problem is harder to model and to solve than its previous version because the constraint on the short samples’ lifetime leads to interdependency between successive pickups at each collection center. A metaheuristic is thus proposed to solve real-life instances. Numerical experiments confirm (1) the value of simultaneously planning routes, opening hours, and visit hours (which is new in the literature) and (2) the efficiency of the proposed algorithm to solve this problem.
Investigation of the Impact of Sports, Exercise and Recreation (ser)Participation on Psychosocial Outcomes in a Population of Veterans withDisabilities Using the Sports Outcome Research Tool and ComprehensiveUniform Survey (Sportacus). A Longitudinal Study

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of participation in sports, exercise and recreation (SER) on self-esteem, depression, posttraumatic growth and quality of life (QOL) in veterans with disabilities longitudinally at four time points. Design: A convenience sample of 163 individuals (91 sports-participants and 72 non-participants) matched on disability type with a variety of disabilities took part in this longitudinal study. Variables of interest were: SER participation vs. non-participation, years of SER participation since onset of disability (less than one year, one to five years, five to ten years, and more than ten years), the type of activity they engaged in (individual activities or a combination of team and individual activities) and time (pre-event, immediately post-event, one month post-event, and three months post-event). Main outcome measures were self-esteem, depression, posttraumatic growth and QOL. Results: SER participants had significantly higher self-esteem, posttraumatic growth and QOL, and significantly lower depression scores than non-participants. There were also significant differences found between the independent variables of: time, number of years participating in SER since onset of disability and type of activity engaged in and various outcome measures studied. Conclusions: The results of this study support that participation in SER has positive effects on self-esteem, depression, posttraumatic growth, and QOL.
Cultural and Emotional Intelligence: It’s Role in the Cross-Cultural Adjustment of Filipino Expatriates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

With the rise of globalization, labor migration is estimated to increase in the future as developed countries will experience shortages in skills of certain age brackets of the working population, thus, requiring more migrant labor in order to address this gap. Filipinos represent a considerable number of expatriates around the world. By 2018, there were 2.3 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW), and 24.3 % (558,900) of them worked in Saudi Arabia. These expatriates pursue economic opportunities in the Kingdom due to better job prospects and higher earning potential despite the cross-cultural adjustment challenges. This study aims to explore the influence of Cultural and Emotional intelligence in the cross-cultural adjustment of Filipino expatriates in Saudi Arabia. A survey was conducted on 483 male OFWs, both descriptive and correlational research methods were used to test the hypotheses. Correlation results showed the significant positive associations with moderately strong correlations between cultural intelligence (CQ) and the cross-cultural adjustment of Filipino expatriates in Saudi Arabia. Behavioral and motivational CQ could significantly predict the cross-cultural adjustment of Filipino expatriates. Emotional intelligence (EQ) and the expatriate Filipino’s cross-cultural adjustment in Saudi Arabia showed significant association, with Appraisal and Recognition of Emotion in Others as its strongest predictor. The Filipino expatriates’ status, first time or seasoned, significantly moderated the association between EQ factors and their cross-cultural adjustment degree. This study suggests that high CQ and EQ levels along with previous experience with the host country could serve well as important considerations in international careers. This paper contributes a new perspective to the literature on Filipino expatriate management and cross-cultural adjustment.
Examining Partnerships Between Suburban Principals and Superintendents

School districts, and their individual schools, are guided by the leadership of superintendent-principal pairs. While superintendents and principals have a working relationship, not all these working relationships can be described as a partnership. Little is known about how partnerships between superintendents and principals are developed, maintained, and repaired and how established partnerships impact organizational effectiveness. Specific to suburban districts, the recent increased level of accountability for student achievement, under the Every Student Succeeds Act, is amplified due to the decrease in threshold numbers for accountability subgroups. The purpose of the study was to examine principal-superintendent partnerships in suburban districts using the four components of West and Derrington’s (2009) framework for leadership teaming. In addition, the study examined how principalsuperintendent partnerships contribute to accountability and organizational effectiveness. The study used a qualitative research design to study the experiences of six principal-superintendent pairs. Data were collected using semi-structured dyadic interviews. Three major findings emerged from the study. First, the principal-superintendent partnership flexed the hierarchical boundaries that exist in K-12 education. Second, the development of principal-superintendent partners is an effective leadership strategy towards increasing organizational effectiveness. Third, as part of a principal-superintendent partnership, principals have the opportunity to become more innovative as leaders. This study provides recommendations for research, superintendents, principals, professional organizations, and higher educational institutions. Document Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Education (EdD) Department Executive Leadership First Supervisor Marie Cianca Second Supervisor Linda McGinley Subject Categories Education This dissertation is available at Fisher Digital Publications: https://fisherpub.sjfc. edu/education_etd/409 Examining Partnerships Between Suburban Principals and Superintendents
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND SODIUM CHLORIDE CONCENTRATION ON GROWTH OF Staphylococcus aureus MUTANTS

The study included the identification of Staphylococcus aureus (wild type and mutant) isolates. All these isolates were identified as coagulase and catalase positive and able to ferment mannitol. Strain number 24 was chosen & undergone mutation with NTG to isolate temperature sensitive osmotically fragile (TOF) mutants. TOF mutants were successfully isolated by exposing the cell suspension to 200 Mg/ml of NTG for 75 minutes. The results of characterization of TOF mutants, showed that these mutants were identical to their mother strain morphologically and biochemically. The result of this mutation is to make the lysozyme able to lyse the cell wall of the TOF mutants in pattern similar to lysostaphin . Antibiotic sensitivity pattern was demonstrated for all the isolates and multiple resistance of some isolates were detected. The obtained results showed that the two mutant isolates were resistant to Methicillin, Benzathin, Penicillin, Cloxacillin Sodium and Lincomycin, wherease these isolates were sensitive to Amoxicillin, Cefotaxine Sodium, Cephalexin Sodium and Tetracyclin but intermediate in resistance to Clindamycin. The effect of different temperature showed that the growth of the mother strain (strain No.24) increased with the increase of temperature.The mutant strains (3M,10M) are not stable in the different temperature and their growth is very low at 40C. The effect of different NaCl concentration showed that the growth of the mother strain (strain No.24) and the 2 mutant strain (3M,10M) would increase with the increase of the NaCl concentration but decrease at NaCl concentration = 1.5 M .