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The role of the family in child and adolescent posttraumatic stress following attendance at an emergency department.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the role of family factors in posttraumatic stress symptomatology (PTSS) in children and adolescents who have attended an emergency department following assaults or motor vehicle accident. METHODS Children and their parents completed self-report questionnaires and semistructured interviews relating to their psychopathology and cognitive styles at 2-4 weeks and 6 months after trauma. RESULTS Parental depression was correlated with child PTSS at each assessment point. Less consistent findings were observed for family functioning. Parental endorsement of worry was a correlate of child PTSS at each assessment and a mediator between parental depression and child PTSS. CONCLUSIONS A role for family factors, in particular parental depression and parental endorsement of worry, in the development of child PTSS is supported. Weaknesses of the study are discussed, and suggestions for future research are given.
Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto

The definitive work on business strategy for sustainability by the most authoritative voice in the conversation. More than ever before, consumers, employees, and investors share a common purpose and a passion for companies that do well by doing good. So any strategy without sustainability at its core is just plain irresponsible - bad for business, bad for shareholders, bad for the environment. These challenges represent unprecedented opportunities for big brands - such as Clorox, Dell, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, Nike, and Wal-Mart - that are implementing integral, rather than tangential, strategies for sustainability. What these companies are doing illuminates the book's practical framework for change, which involves engaging employees, using transparency as a business tool, and reaping the rewards of a networked organizational structure. Leave your quaint notions of corporate social responsibility and environmentalism behind. Werbach is starting a whole new dialogue around sustainability of enterprise and life as we know it in organizations and individuals. Sustainability is now a true competitive strategic advantage, and building it into the core of your business is the only means to ensure that your company - and your world - will survive.
Organised Violence and the Stress of Exile

Background The prevalence and course of mental disorders among Vietnamese refugees were studied, using a model including variables from different research traditions. Method A consecutive community cohort of 145 Vietnamese boat refugees aged 15 and above were personally interviewed on their arrival in Norway and three years later. Results Three years later, there was, unexpectedly, no decline in self-rated psychological distress (SCL-90-R), almost one in four suffered from psychiatric disorder and the prevalence of depression was 17.7% (Present State Examination). Female gender, extreme traumatic stress in Vietnam, negative life events in Norway, lack of a close confidant and chronic family separation were identified as predictors of psychopathology. Conclusions The effects of war and persecution were long-lasting, and compounded by adversity factors in exile. A uniform course of improvement in mental health after resettlement cannot be expected in all contexts. The affected refugees need systematic rehabilitation.
House Price Appreciation Among Elderly Home Owners in Australia

This paper investigates whether the houses of elderly home owners appreciate at the same rate as the average house price appreciation rate in the market. For most elderly home owners, their well-being is strongly underpinned by their home ownership status, the value of their homes generally representing their most significant asset in old age. The viability of financial instruments such as reverse mortgages where elderly home owners effectively borrow against their housing equity also depend strongly on house prices appreciating enough to offset the outstanding loan balance at the end of the reverse mortgage tenure. This study employs the use of a panel dataset, the 2001-07 HILDA Survey, in order to examine the appreciation rates of the houses of elderly home owners compared to younger home owners. Ordinary least squares regression models are employed to estimate the impact of home owner's age on house price appreciation rates. The findings indicate that a home owner aged 65 or over suffers from a 5 percentage point discount in house price appreciation rate compared to younger home owners over the average sample observation period of 5.5 years. The annual appreciation rate is lowered by 0.13 (0.16) percentage points for each additional year a home owner is aged 65-74 (75 or over). The findings of this paper have important implications for the viability of housing asset-based instruments as retirement funding strategies in old age.
Culprit Vessel–Only Versus Multivessel Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Cardiogenic Shock Complicating ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Collaborative Meta-Analysis

Background— The optimal revascularization strategy in patients with multivessel disease presenting with cardiogenic shock complicating ST-segment–elevation myocardial infarction remains unknown. Methods and Results— Databases were searched from 1999 to October 2016. Studies comparing immediate/single-stage multivessel percutaneous coronary intervention (MV-PCI) versus culprit vessel–only PCI (CO-PCI) in patients with multivessel disease, ST-segment–elevation myocardial infarction, and cardiogenic shock were included. Primary end point was short-term (in-hospital or 30 days) mortality. Secondary end points included long-term mortality, cardiovascular death, reinfarction, and repeat revascularization. Safety end points were in-hospital stroke, renal failure, and major bleeding. The meta-analysis included 11 nonrandomized studies and 5850 patients (1157 MV-PCI and 4693 CO-PCI). There was no significant difference in short-term mortality with MV-PCI versus CO-PCI (odds ratio [OR], 1.08; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.81–1.43; P=0.61). Similarly, there were no significant differences in long-term mortality (OR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.54–1.30; P=0.43), cardiovascular death (OR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.42–1.23; P=0.23), reinfarction (OR, 1.65; 95% CI, 0.84–3.26; P=0.15), or repeat revascularization (OR, 1.13; 95% CI, 0.76–1.69; P=0.54) between the 2 groups. There was a nonsignificant trend toward higher in-hospital stroke (OR, 1.64; 95% CI, 0.98–2.72; P=0.06) and renal failure (OR, 1.30; 95% CI, 0.98–1.72; P=0.06), with no difference in major bleeding (OR, 1.47; 95% CI, 0.39–5.63; P=0.57) with MV-PCI when compared with CO-PCI. Conclusions— This meta-analysis of nonrandomized studies suggests that in patients with cardiogenic shock complicating ST-segment–elevation myocardial infarction, there may be no significant benefit with single-stage MV-PCI compared with CO-PCI. Given the limitations of observational data, randomized trials are needed to determine the role of MV-PCI in this setting.
Arbetsgivarstrategier i Sverige under 100 år

The chapter on Swedish employers' associations contains a calculation on collective bargaining coverage in 1995. Despite the absence of state extension mechanisms collective agreements in 1995 covered as much as 90 per cent of all private sector employees (p. 211). Including the public sector the rate was 94 per cent. The same year the density of employers' organisations was 77 per cent, i.e. 77 per cent of all private sector employees were employed by enterprises affiliated to employers' associations. The chapter also discusses a number of strategic choices made by Swedish employers during the examined 100 years period. Among these are the shifts to centralized collective bargaining in the 1950s, the efforts to decentralize bargaining from the 1980s, followed by successively strenghtened internal coordination of collective bargaining within SAF (Swedish Employers' Confederation). The intensified efforts to influence public opinion is also paid a great deal of attention. (Less)
Evaluation of Quantity Discounts for Buyer’s Stocking Risk

Quantity discounts provide a practical foundation for supply chain inventory policies, improving the supplier’s profit and reducing the buyer’s inventory cost simultaneously. Traditional quantitydiscount research, which deals with inventory coordination between a buyer and a supplier, is extended to a stationary stochastic environment. This research shows that the magnitude of the optimal discounts scheduled by the deterministic quantity discount models may not be large enough to cover the buyer’s additional inventory stocking risks under uncertain conditions. As a result, the buyer’s total inventory cost may often increase rather than decrease. In contrast, the proposed model allows the supplier to identify the discount level, which shares the buyer’s amplified risk associated with temporary overstocking and ensures that both buyer and supplier benefit economically. The performance of the proposed model was tested in the continuous review environments via numerical experiments. The experimental results support the proposed method as a feasible alternative in coordinating inventory decisions under stochastic demand.
DETECTING MICROBLOGGING COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES USED BY ONLINE RETAILERS

The increasing popularity of the Social Web drives the transition of E-commerce to transactions mediated by social web services. This evolution is coined as Social Commerce. Due to its popularity, Twitter microblogging is an important channel for online retailers to communicate with customers. In order to determine the current state of adoption of Twitter, this paper introduces and evaluates a method for assigning an observed account with an E-commerce specific communication strategy.
Structural insights into neuronal K+ channel–calmodulin complexes

Calmodulin (CaM) is a ubiquitous intracellular calcium sensor that directly binds to and modulates a wide variety of ion channels. Despite the large repository of high-resolution structures of CaM bound to peptide fragments derived from ion channels, there is no structural information about CaM bound to a fully folded ion channel at the plasma membrane. To determine the location of CaM docked to a functioning KCNQ K+ channel, we developed an intracellular tethered blocker approach to measure distances between CaM residues and the ion-conducting pathway. Combining these distance restraints with structural bioinformatics, we generated an archetypal quaternary structural model of an ion channel–CaM complex in the open state. These models place CaM close to the cytoplasmic gate, where it is well positioned to modulate channel function.
Integral Line-of-Sight Guidance and Control of Underactuated Marine Vehicles: Theory, Simulations, and Experiments

This paper presents an extensive analysis of the integral line-of-sight (ILOS) guidance method for path-following tasks of underactuated marine vehicles, operating on and below the sea surface. It is shown that due to the embedded integral action, the guidance law makes the vessels follow straight lines by compensating for the drift effect of environmental disturbances, such as currents, wind, and waves. The ILOS guidance is first applied to a 2-D model of surface vessels that includes the underactauted sway dynamics of the vehicle as well as disturbances in the form of constant irrotational ocean currents and constant dynamic, attitude dependent, and forces. The actuated dynamics are not considered at this point. A Lyapunov closed-loop analysis yields explicit bounds on the guidance law gains to guarantee uniform global asymptotic stability (UGAS) and uniform local exponential stability (ULES). The complete kinematic and dynamic closed-loop system of the 3-D ILOS guidance law is analyzed in the following and hence extending the analysis to underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for the 3-D straight-line path-following applications in the presence of constant irrotational ocean currents. The actuated surge, pitch, and yaw dynamics are included in the analysis where the closed-loop system forms a cascade, and the properties of UGAS and ULES are shown. The 3-D ILOS control system is a generalization of the 2-D ILOS guidance. Finally, results from simulations and experiments are presented to validate and illustrate the theoretical results, where the 2-D ILOS guidance is applied to the cooperative autonomous robotics towing system vehicle and light AUV.
Rotor resistance adaptation for vector controlled induction motors considering deviations of the main inductance caused by the quadrature current

The vector control scheme for induction motors using the rotor flux reference frame is well known. To provide proper torque production, knowledge of the rotor time constant is essential. Many adaptation schemes have been presented using different paradigms. In this paper a scheme for rotor time constant adaptation is applied, which uses the difference between the measured and the calculated reactive power to calculate a correcting factor for the rotor time constant. Measurements have shown that the main inductance which is crucial to the calculation of the reactive power depends both on the magnetizing current and on the quadrature current. The adaptation scheme is therefore modified to consider this effect, improving the accuracy of torque production.
Improving Safety Performance Through 5S Program

Employees in the construction industry suffer from poor health and safety performance. Beyond the human suffering, this implies a vast economical problem. Among the most common accident causes in construction are slips, trips and falls (on same level) which often relate to poor order and tidiness. This study describes a 5S program that was launched in a Finnish construction company. The aim of the program was to improve order and tidiness and consequently safety performance. The program consisted of the following phases: awareness campaign, management training, launch of three eLearning training modules, workshops at every site during one week, management site safety visits and follow up inspections. The workshops engaged approximately 2770 employees at 190 jobsites during one week. 94% of staff employees that participated in the workshops considered the workshops beneficial. Actions to improve order and tidiness were achieved through personal engagement and pledges. Safety performance improvement turned out promising. Weekly safety inspection indices rose by 3.4 percentage points. Number of accidents associated with slips and trips reduced. The suggested model enables personnel engagement into order and tidiness improvement. Safety performance follow-up after three months, however, reveal fading effect. Thus a recommendation is made that regular engagement activities on housekeeping improvement need to be incorporated into the construction process.
Use of Unsaturated Fatty Acids in the Eczemas of Childhood

reached maturity and begun to degenerate. Between the fourth and sixth weeks the mesonephros, mesonephric duct, ureteric bud, and metanephros are undergoing active developments. The future of the kidney depends upon: (1) the successful caudal migration of the mesonephric duct; (2) the sprouting of the ureteric bud ; (3) the formation of the metanephros; and (4) a combination of these three processes. The "critical period" of renal formation is between the fourth and sixth weeks of intrauterine life, and it is during this period that one would expect noxious environmental influences to be most effective.
Survey of fumonisin production by Fusarium species

Fumonisins B1 (FB1) and B2 (FB2), two structurally related mycotoxins with cancer-promoting activity, were recently isolated from corn cultures of Fusarium moniliforme MRC 826. These toxins have been reported to be produced also by isolates of F. proliferatum. Contamination of foods and feeds by F. moniliforme has been associated with human esophageal cancer risk, and FB1 has been shown to be the causative agent of the neurotoxic disease leukoencephalomalacia in horses. Because of the toxicological importance of the fumonisins, the potential to produce FB1 and FB2 was determined in a study of 40 toxic Fusarium isolates representing 27 taxa in 9 of the 12 sections of Fusarium, as well as two recently described species not yet classified into sections. With the exception of one isolate of F. nygamai, fumonisin production was restricted to isolates of F. moniliforme and F. proliferatum, in the section Liseola. The F. nygamai isolate produced 605 micrograms of FB1 g-1 and 530 micrograms of FB2 g-1, and the identity of the toxins was confirmed by capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. This is the first report of the production of the fumonisins by F. nygamai.
Early Graft Function After Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Predicts Rejection But Not Outcomes

Poor early graft function (EGF) after deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT) has been intensely studied. Much less is known about poor EGF after living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT). Data were collected on 469 LDKTs performed between 1/1/97 and 12/31/01 to determine risk factors for and outcomes associated with poor EGF, defined as either delayed or slow graft function (DGF or SGF). The incidence of DGF and SGF were 4.7% and 10.7%, respectively. Diabetic etiology (OR 2.22; p = 0.021) and warm ischemia time (WIT) (OR 1.05 per min increment; p = 0.0025) emerged as independently associated with poor EGF. Neither functional graft survival nor 1‐year graft function differed among the EGF groups. However, DGF and SGF strongly predisposed to acute rejection (AR), which compromised functional graft survival (p = 0.0007) and 1‐year graft function. Therefore, we conclude that diabetic etiology of renal disease and WIT are the dominant risk factors for poor EGF after LDKT. Poor EGF did not directly compromise functional graft survival but strongly predisposed to AR. We suggest that immunosuppression should be intensified in the poor EGF setting to maximize LDKT longevity, as AR does impair functional graft survival.
Customer Perceived Practice of CSR on Improving Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty

The main purpose of this research is to examine the impact of perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices or initiatives on customer satisfaction and loyalty. A conceptual framework comprises of 4 elements (economic, legal, ethical and philanthropy) developed by Carroll (1991) is used to examine the CSR practices and its impact on customer satisfaction and loyalty. A multivariate likert-scale questionnaire (scale from 1-6) has been developed with one additional dimension (customer satisfaction) and its impact on loyalty. A sample of 152 respondents has been used to collect the data using convenience sampling method. Regression and correlation analysis is conducted using SPSS 20 on both modified and full version of data-set to conform the results of analysis is consistent and accurate. Regression beta coefficient and correlation coefficients were generated to test the hypotheses and to establish the causal effects of economic, ethical, legal, philanthropy on customer satisfaction and loyalty. The results shows that there is a significant and positive impact of CSR dimensions of economic, ethical, and philanthropy on both customer satisfaction and loyalty. The result shows a negative relationship between legal CSR dimensions and customer satisfaction and loyalty. This result is confirmed by correlation analysis as well, which is run on both full version and modified version of data-set generated after exploratory factory analysis. Also this research found that there is significant and strong positive relationship between improved customer satisfaction and loyalty. This study concluded that increasing perceived CSR practices such as economic, ethical and philanthropy CSR will improve both customer satisfaction and loyalty. Therefore manager at corporate sector should take initiatives to increase perceived CSR practices to improve customer satisfaction in order to retain and build loyalty of customer. Further research could be undertaken on different context or by increasing the sample size to test the legal dimension of CSR to confirm previous research finding.
Fast-food intake and perceived and objective measures of the local fast-food environment in adolescents

Abstract Objective We examined associations between fast-food intake and perceived and objective fast-food outlet exposure. Design Information from the Health Behaviours in School-aged Children Study was linked to fast-food outlets in seventy-five school neighbourhoods. We used multivariate multilevel logistic regression analyses to examine associations between at least weekly fast-food intake and perceived and objective fast-food outlet measures. Subjects Data represent 4642 adolescents (aged 11–15 years) in Denmark. Results Boys reporting two or more fast-food outlets had 34 % higher odds consuming fast food at least weekly. We detected higher odds of at least weekly fast-food intake among 15-year-old 9th graders (ORall=1·74; 95 % CI 1·40, 2·18; ORboys=2·20; 95 % CI 1·66, 2·91; ORgirls=1·41; 95 % CI 1·03, 1·92), Danish speakers (ORall=2·32; 95 % CI 1·68, 3·19; ORboys=2·58; 95 % CI 1·69, 3·93; ORgirls=2·37; 95 % CI 1·46, 3·84) and those travelling 15 min or less to school (ORall=1·21; 95 % CI 1·00, 1·46; ORgirls=1·44; 95 % CI 1·08, 1·93) compared with 11-year-old 5th graders, non-Danish speakers and those with longer travel times. Boys from middle- (OR=1·28; 95 % CI 1·00, 1·65) and girls from low-income families (OR=1·46; 95 % CI 1·05, 2·04) had higher odds of at least weekly fast-food intake compared with those from high-income backgrounds. Girls attending schools with canteens (OR=1·47; 95 % CI 1·00, 2·15) had higher odds of at least weekly fast-food intake than girls at schools without canteens. Conclusions The present study demonstrates that perceived food outlets may impact fast-food intake in boys while proximity impacts intake in girls. Public health planning could target food environments that emphasize a better understanding of how adolescents use local resources.
Accounting Quality and Debt Concentration

We examine the relation between accounting quality and debt concentration in corporate capital structures (i.e., firms' tendency to rely predominantly on only a few types of debt). Motivated by theoretical and empirical research that supports a strong link between debt concentration and creditors' coordination costs and the importance of accounting quality in reducing these costs, we hypothesize that firms with higher accounting quality have less concentrated debt structures. Measuring accounting quality with a comprehensive index based on the occurrence of material internal control weaknesses, accounting restatements, SEC AAERs, and firms' reliance on small auditors, we find that higher accounting quality is indeed associated with less concentrated debt structures. This relation is stronger for firms with higher default risk, as the probability that creditors need to coordinate is higher, and for firms with lower liquidation values, as creditor coordination to avoid liquidation is more important. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text. JEL Classifications: M4; G32; G33.
Event-triggered control of two-dimensional discrete-time systems in Roesser model

This paper deals with the event-triggered control for two-dimensional discrete-time systems described in Roessor model. Firstly, a kind of horizontal/vertical independent event generating mechanism will be proposed according to the property of Roessor model based 2D systems. Then, criteria for checking the stability of closed-loop 2D system with event-triggered control scheme was derived. Furthermore, LMI-optimization based controller and event-generator co-design method was developed for stabilization and guaranteed cost control problems. Finally, simulation results of an numerical example were included for illustration.