Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Expanding worldview: Australian nursing students’ experience of cultural immersion in India

Abstract Increasing cultural diversity and a sense of global community has necessitated the introduction of cultural competence in the education of health care providers. Some institutions have utilised cultural immersion programmes to address this need of cultural competence. Studies have not yet described what this experience is for Australian nursing students. The purpose of this study is to describe the immersion experience of a group of senior Australian nursing students who participated in a 5-week cultural immersion programme in India.
The E 3-ubiquitin ligase MID 1 catalyzes ubiquitination and cleavage of

This research was originally published in Journal of Biological Chemistry. Schweiger, S. and Dorn, S. and Fuchs, M. and Koehler, A. and Matthes, F. and Mueller, E.C. and Wanker, E. and Schneider, R. and Krauss, S. The E3-ubiquitin ligase MID1 catalyzes ubiquitination and cleavage of Fu. J Biol Chem. 2014; 289: 31805-31817. © 2014 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
Immediate effects of two attention strategies on trunk control on patients after stroke. A randomized controlled pilot trial

Objective: To compare the immediate effects of an external focus to enhance lateral body weight shift after stroke. Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: Inpatient rehabilitation hospital. Subjects: Twenty patients after stroke (11 males; mean (SD) age 72.2 (7.4) years; duration of illness 56 (14) days; there were 9 (45%) left-sided strokes) with impaired sitting balance were randomly allocated into two groups either external focus (n = 10) or internal focus (n = 10). Intervention: Patients in the external focus group, while sitting, were instructed to shift as much weight as they could sidewards to an external point next to their hip. Patients in the internal focus group were instructed to shift as much weight as they could sidewards to their hip. Main outcome measures: Immediate lateral body weight shift as well as anterior–posterior deviation was measured in centimetres with a sensor mat. Results: Patients in the external focus group achieved greater lateral body weight shift than those in the internal focus group (mean shift (SD) 8.7 (2.6) cm vs. 4.5 (3.3) cm, respectively; P = 0.006). However, there were no significant differences in anterior–posterior deviation (mean shift (SD) 2.3 (1.3) cm vs. 1.2 (1.2) cm, respectively; P = 0.08). Conclusion: Using an external focus may lead immediately to an enhanced lateral body weight shift while sitting, without increasing anterior–posterior deviation.
A robust face tracking using stereo camera

The mean shift algorithm has achieved considerable success in object tracking due to its simplicity and robustness. It finds local minima of a similarity measure between the color histograms or kernel density estimates of the target and candidate image. The most typically used similarity measures are the Bhattacharyya coefficient. There are assumptions which limited lighting condition due to color is very sensitive about illuminations. And the algorithm has weakness about inference of another object. In this paper we propose method that combined advantage of color distribution and depth. As apply robust error norm, problems are conquer. The method is useful for face tracking under the dynamic illumination. Also it voids an interference of another object.
Evidence for an ancient adaptive episode of convergent molecular evolution

Documented cases of convergent molecular evolution due to selection are fairly unusual, and examples to date have involved only a few amino acid positions. However, because convergence mimics shared ancestry and is not accommodated by current phylogenetic methods, it can strongly mislead phylogenetic inference when it does occur. Here, we present a case of extensive convergent molecular evolution between snake and agamid lizard mitochondrial genomes that overcomes an otherwise strong phylogenetic signal. Evidence from morphology, nuclear genes, and most sites in the mitochondrial genome support one phylogenetic tree, but a subset of mostly amino acid-altering substitutions (primarily at the first and second codon positions) across multiple mitochondrial genes strongly supports a radically different phylogeny. The relevant sites generally evolved slowly but converged between ancient lineages of snakes and agamids. We estimate that ≈44 of 113 predicted convergent changes distributed across all 13 mitochondrial protein-coding genes are expected to have arisen from nonneutral causes—a remarkably large number. Combined with strong previous evidence for adaptive evolution in snake mitochondrial proteins, it is likely that much of this convergent evolution was driven by adaptation. These results indicate that nonneutral convergent molecular evolution in mitochondria can occur at a scale and intensity far beyond what has been documented previously, and they highlight the vulnerability of standard phylogenetic methods to the presence of nonneutral convergent sequence evolution.
Risk disclosure practice in Saudi non-financial listed companies

How to cite this paper: Alzead R. , & Hussainey, K. (2017). Risk disclosure practice in Saudi non-financial listed companies. Corporate Ownership & Control, 14(4-1), 262-275. doi:10.22495/cocv14i4c1art8 How to access this paper online: http://dx.doi. org/10.22495/cocv14i4c1a
LDApp: A JavaScript Linked Data stack

LDApp is designed as a very modular JavaScript Linked Data stack. A requirement for the modular design was an API to handle the graph data. RDF-Interfaces was the only JavaScript API standard, but lacks store handling and easy management of multiple parsers and serializers. The existing RDF-Interfaces API was extended to cover these use cases. To complete the framework, a JSON-LD integration is desirable to use JavaScript native language features to deal with graph data. New modules for public interfaces, authentication, authorization, persistence and JSON-LD handling have been written to use this API.
Comparative proteomics of human endothelial cell caveolae and rafts using two‐dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry

The human endothelial cell plasma membrane harbors two subdomains of similar lipid composition, caveolae and rafts, both crucially involved in various essential cellular processes like transcytosis, signal transduction and cholesterol homeostasis. Caveolin‐enriched membranes, isolated by either cationic silica or buoyant density methods, were explored by comparing large series of two‐dimensional (2‐D) maps and subsequent identification of over 100 protein spots by matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) peptide mass fingerprinting. Improved representation and identification of membrane proteins and valuable information on various post‐translational modifications was achieved by the presented optimized procedures for solubilization, destaining and database searching/computing. Whereas the cationic silica purification yielded predominantly known endoplasmic reticulum residents, the cold‐detergent method yielded a large number of known caveolae residents, including caveolin‐1. Thus, a large part of this subproteome was established, including known (trans‐)membrane, signal transduction and glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI)‐anchored proteins. Several predicted proteins from the human genome were isolated for the first time from biological samples, including SGRP58, SLP‐2, C8ORF2, and XRP‐2. These findings and various optimized procedures can serve as a reference to study the differential composition of endothelial cell caveolae and rafts, known to be involved in pathologies like cancer and cardiovascular disease.
The effects of job resourcefulness and customer orientation on performance outcomes: evidence from Nigeria

This study develops and tests a conceptual model that investigates customer orientation as a full mediator of the effect of job resourcefulness on performance outcomes. Data were obtained from a sample of full-time frontline employees in the four- and five-star hotels in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. These relationships were tested with path analysis in LISREL 8.30. As hypothesized, job resourcefulness is positively linked to employees’ customer orientation. Consistent with the study predictions, customer orientation enhances employees’ external representation and service delivery behaviors. However, the results indicate that customer orientation does not significantly affect employees’ internal influence behaviors. The results further reveal that customer orientation fully mediates the impact of job resourcefulness on employees’ external representation and service delivery behaviors. In other words, job resourcefulness influences such performance outcomes via customer orientation. Managements of the hotels would benefit from the use of effective recruitment and selection techniques to be able to hire employees who can work under resource- depleted conditions. In addition, managements of the hotels could arrange training programs to teach their employees customer-oriented behaviors. By doing so, employees could improve their acting skills over time and consistently demonstrate customer-oriented behaviors. In future studies using longitudinal data would be a potential remedy for minimizing problems associated with the cross-sectional data. In future studies collecting data from multiple sources would also minimize problems emerging from self-report data. In closing, this study partially fills in the void in the services marketing literature by testing the aforementioned relationships using data gathered from frontline hotel employees in a developing sub-Saharan African country.
Assessment of soil moisture using Landsat ETM+ temperature/vegetation index in semiarid environment

The surface moisture is one of the most important parameters in modeling water-plant coupled land surface processes and land-air coupled climatic systems. The use of remotely sensed data is potentially of great interest in such a context. Several methods have been proposed to estimate soil moisture conditions, but the limitations of these methods are obvious. In this study, we developed a method to detect soil moisture condition using surface temperature (Ts) and vegetation index (NDVI) derived from Landsat ETM+ data. We then applied this method to the semiarid area and mapped out the spatial distribution of soil moisture. We further compared the soil moisture distribution with the spatial distribution of desertification and found that desertification in semiarid area exerts a great effect on soil moisture conditions
Towards a Hard Systems Approach to IT Adoption in Organizations

The success of IT adoption in organizations not only depends on technical issues but also on social issues. Many researchers have called for balancing technical and social issues during IT adoption in organizations. This paper explores users‘ perceptions on hard systems approaches during IT adoption in organizations. The paper is based on two case studies. However the study results indicate that although hard systems thinking approaches have been successful in addressing problems of efficiency and effectiveness, have challenges when faced with complex problem situations of modern organizations. The study therefore, recommends the complementarity of different systems approaches to address complex problems in organizations.
Innovative approaches for optimized performance in time-modulated linear arrays

In this paper, an innovative approach for the reduction of the sideband level in time-modulated linear array has been presented. First, the proposed strategy has been mathematically justified showing that the SBL can be lowered by modifying the switch-on instants. Accordingly, a PSO has been used to minimize a suitable cost function quantifying the mismatch between the actual pattern features and the desired ones. Preliminary results have show that such a technique effectively works and it turns out to be a suitable methodological approach to the optimization of the performances of time-modulated arrays.
Comparison between low and high read bias in FB-RAM on UTBOX FDSOI devices

This paper investigates the drain read bias impact on the FB-BRAM performance of Ultra Thin Buried Oxide (UTBOX) Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FDSOI) devices. Both simulations and experimental results are used. Two read regimes are clearly observed. In the read regime at higher drain voltage, impact ionization is occurring and this result in a higher sense margin and a lower retention time compared to the low drain voltage read regime.
Life Course Perspectives on the Epidemiology of Depression

Life course epidemiology seeks to understand how determinants of health and disease interact across the span of a human life, and has made significant contributions to understanding etiological mechanisms in many chronic diseases, including schizophrenia. The life course approach is ideal for understanding depression: causation in depression appears to be multifactorial, including interactions between genes and stressful events, or between early life trauma and later stress in life; timing of onset and remission of depression varies widely, indicating differing trajectories of symptoms over long periods of time, with possible differing causes and differing outcomes; and early life events and development appear to be important risk factors for depression, including exposure to acute and chronic stress in the first years of life. To better understand etiology and outcome of depression, future research must move beyond basic epidemiologic techniques that link specific exposures to specific outcomes and embrace life course principles and methods. Time-sensitive modelling techniques that are able to incorporate multiple interacting factors across long periods of time, such as structural equation models, will be critical in understanding the complexity of causal and influencing factors from early development to the end stages of life. Using these models to identify key pathways that influence trajectories of depression across the life course will help guide prevention and intervention.
Depression and parkinsonism in older Europeans: results from the EURODEP concerted action

The prevalence rate of depression among patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) has been estimated at 25%, although prevalence figures range between 7–76%. Relatively few studies on PD and depression are based on random samples in the general population. Some depressive symptoms can also be understood as symptoms of parkinsonism, and the current study aims to describe which ‘overlap’ symptoms can be identified in a community sample.
Self-Aligned Coplanar a-IGZO TFTs and Application to High-Speed Circuits

We report a self-aligned coplanar amorphous indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (a-IGZO) thin-film transistor (TFT) using an a-IGZO/SiO2 stack layer. From the channel-length dependence of the total resistance for the TFTs, the channel and parasitic resistances were found to be 8.4 kΩ/μm and 9.7 kΩ/sq, respectively. The fabricated a-IGZO TFT exhibits field-effect mobility of 23.3 cm2/V ·s, threshold voltage of 3.6 V, and gate voltage swing of 203 mV/dec. A 23-stage ring oscillator made of the self-aligned TFTs exhibits a propagation delay time of 17 ns/stage at a supply voltage of 22 V.
Use, misuse and non-use of health care assistants: understanding the work of health care assistants in a hospital setting.

AIM(S) This study is concerned with understanding the work of non-registered nurses (health care assistants) in a UK hospital setting. BACKGROUND There are increasing numbers of health care assistants employed by the National Health Service in the UK to support registered nurses providing nursing care. However, little is known about the make-up of the health care assistant workforce and the changing nature of their role. This study addresses some of these gaps in the research-based literature. METHODS A single case study design using mixed methods (survey, interviews, participant observations, focus groups and documents) was used to generate an in-depth account of health care assistants' work in one organization. The study is built upon what health care assistants say they do, compared with what they actually do in practice. It explores how and whether the work of health care assistants is adequately supervised, tensions between the work of health care assistants and registered nurses and the subsequent effects on teamwork and patient care. FINDINGS There are policy expectations associated with the work of health care assistants. However, this study reveals significant deviations from these goals. The workplace arena and the negotiations between health care assistants and registered nurses that take place within it, actively shape the health care assistants' work. Findings suggest dynamic patterns of use, misuse and non-use of the health care assistants as a resource to patient care. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE The changing roles of registered nurses have direct implications for the roles of health care assistants: as registered nurses take on extra duties and responsibilities they are conceding some of their role to health care assistants. This has implications for nurse managers. The competence of health care assistants to carry out nursing work needs to be reassessed and there also needs to be ongoing monitoring and supervision of their work to maximize, and further develop, their contribution to patient care and to ensure quality standards. Managers also need to be aware of the importance of workplace negotiations in the interpretation of formal policies and the subsequent shaping of health care assistants' work at the level of service delivery.
Health Status and Quality of Life in Epileptic Children and Adolescents

Background: Epilepsy and its treatment have a direct bearing on major aspects of life style. Demographic, social and economic factors affect health status among epileptic children and adolescents. Objective: evaluation of some aspects of health status among epileptic children and adolescents mainly through quality of life scoring. Methods: 150 epileptics with idiopathic epilepsy and 100 age and sex matched controls were included. Social level scoring, IQ, identification of HRQoL score, clinical examination and laboratory tests for drug intoxication level and measuring the serum level of AEDs were done. Results: The mean scores of all domains of QoL were significantly lower in patients compared to controls (p < 0.01). Females, non educated subjects, patients living in rural areas (except in social support), very low social level, patients with generalized fits and polytherapy receiving patients had lower mean QoL scores as compared to their counterpart (p<0.05). Patients on polytherapy had higher toxicity score relative to monotherapy group (p<0.05). Significant correlation was found between QoL domains and IQ score and toxicity scores. Age is correlated with toxicity scores, school behaviour and health perception. Seizure frequency is negatively correlated with QOL domains. Conclusion: Epileptic patients had lower mean scores of all domains of quality of life specially those with frequent fits, those on polytherapy and in patients with generalized fits. (Egypt J Neurol Psychiat Neurosurg. 2010; 47(1): 83-92)
A recurrent mutation in bone morphogenetic proteins-2-inducible kinase gene is associated with developmental dysplasia of the hip

Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a complex disorder of the hip joint affecting 1-5‰ of newborns. While genetic influence on DDH has been long known, DDH has not been ascribed to any specific genetic event. The present study reported on variants contributing to DDH susceptibility in a family with four individuals affected across three generations. Whole-exome sequencing was performed in three affected and two unaffected individuals of a pedigree with DDH. Candidate variants were confirmed by Sanger sequencing and then validated in available family members and 37 sporadic DDH patients. Two novel heterozygous, inframe mutations causing multi-nucleotide substitution polymorphisms (c.1432_1440delCAGCAGCAG corresponding with p.Gln478_480del and c.1440_1441insCAG corresponding with p.Gln480ins) in exon 11 of chromosome 4 in bone morphogenetic proteins-2-inducible kinase (BMP2K) were identified; these were found in members of the pedigree affected by DDH and in the unaffected grandmother of the proband, who was deemed to be the carrier of potential mutations, but not in the unaffected normal control saunt of the proband. These two variants shared the same genomic coordinate but with different types of mutation in BMP2K. BMP2K is known to be associated with bone and cartridge development and heterozygous mutations were found to be present in 4/4 (100%) of the affected family members, 4/15 (26.7%) of the unaffected family members and 0/7 (0%) of the unaffected unrelated family members. Genotyping of 37 unrelated, sporadic DDH patients showed that three cases were positive for the BMP2K c. 1432_1440delCAGCAGCAG variants (8.12%). These findings provided strong evidence for the role of BMP2K variants in causing DDH and demonstrated that the combination of pedigree information and next-generation sequencing is an effective method for identifying pathogenic sites associated with DDH.
Modeling and Testing Strategic Pricing, Product Positioning, and Couponing Behavior By Food Manufacturers and Retailers

This research explores the competition between a food manufacturer and a retailer through the use of pricing, positioning, and couponing behavior. Both cooperative and non-cooperative strategies are examined. The demand side of the market is composed by two representative consumers, one who is relatively insensitive to price, and the other who is relatively sensitive. A series of specific retailer decisions are examined, including the following: offering a private label (store brand) product or not, positioning the private label in terms of quality (vertical) and feature (horizontal) differentiation relative to the manufacturer’s national brand product, and setting the retail prices and offering cents-off coupons for both products. As current literature focuses on the pricing strategies taken by the incumbent manufacturer(s) and retailer(s), their couponing strategies haven’t been formally modeled and clarified. In particular, how their couponing strategies are impacted by the threat of private label and the private label offering hasn’t been addressed before. Besides, given the relationship between private label expansion and couponing activities found in the existing empirical literature, no formal analysis and re-examination of the relationship has been presented. Meanwhile, the issue whether the private label customers are all price-sensitive hasn’t been confirmed, and therefore becomes one of the targets of this research. By considering both non-cooperative