Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Maternal co-occurring obsessive-compulsive symptoms mediate the links between the maternal eating disorder and her restrictive feeding practices

Feeding and eating difficulties are documented among the offspring of mothers with eating disorders. Understanding the perspective of mothers with eating disorders is likely essential to develop parentbased early prevention programs for children of these mothers. In the present study, twenty-nine mothers who were diagnosed with an eating disorder prior to becoming mothers and who currently had toddler age children participated in a semi-structured interview examining maternal functioning and child feeding. The maternal perceptions that emerged from the interviews were sorted into central themes and subcategories using interpretive phenomenological analysis. Data indicate that mothers with eating disorders express preoccupation with their child's eating, shape and weight, and many dilemmas about child feeding. They also reported rarity of family meals and their toddlers' preliminary awareness of maternal symptoms. Maternal concerns regarding child nutrition, feeding and weight were reported as more intense in regards to daughters. These maternal perceptions illuminate the maternal psychological processes that underlie the feeding and eating problems of the children of mothers with lifetime eating disorders. Findings should be addressed in the evaluation, treatment, and research of adult and childhood eating disorders. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Adaptation and psychometric properties of the PACIC short form.

OBJECTIVES The Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) is a widely used instrument to evaluate the quality and patient-centeredness of chronic illness care based on the Chronic Care Model (CCM). It is a validated and reliable instrument which consists of 20 items. Additionally, a short form with 11 items was developed. The aim of this study was to translate this short form into German and examine the psychometric properties among patients with a chronic illness in Germany. STUDY DESIGN Observational study design. METHODS We performed a translation and cultural adaptation of the PACIC short form into German. The German version was externally validated with the 20-item PACIC. Cronbach a, descriptive statistics, and principal component analysis were used to assess psychometric properties. RESULTS In total, 264 primary care patients completed the PACIC short form. The PACIC short form showed good convergent construct validity to the 20-item PACIC (Spearman rank correlation 0.82, P < .001) and high internal consistency (Cronbach a 0.87). Principal component analysis underlined the 1-dimensional structure of the instrument. No correlation between the mean overall score of the PACIC short form and the number of chronic conditions (r = 0.068; P = .273) was found. CONCLUSIONS The PACIC short form showed good to very good psychometric properties and reliable measures regarding patient assessment of receiving care congruent with the CCM. It is a less burdensome instrument which can be used for further research of patients with more than 1 chronic condition.
Plasmid fingerprinting and virulence gene detection among indigenous strains of Salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis.

BACKGROUND Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis is an important frequently reported zoonotic pathogen and a common cause of human gastroenteritis worldwide. The highly conserved Sero-specific plasmids (SSPs) and Salmonella plasmid virulence (Spy) genes have been shown to mediate extra-intestinal colonization and systemic infection. The objective of current study was to document the presence of SSPs and SpvB/SpvC genes prevailing in the indigenous population of serovar Enteritidis. METHODS A total of 48 epidemiologically unrelated strains of Salmonella enteritidis were included in the study. Preparation of plasmids DNA suitable for endonuclease digestion and separation of respective fragments by agarose gel electrophoresis followed previously described protocols. The plasmids of Escherichia coli V517, 1-kbp ladder, and lamda DNA HindIII fragments served as DNA size standards. Transfer of DNA fragments from agarose gels to nitrocellulose membranes was achieved by capillary blot procedure. An ECL labeled 3.6 kbp HindIII fragment of plasmid PRQ 51 was used as probe for SpvB/SpvC gene detection. RESULTS Plasmid DNA fingerprinting revealed the presence of two different profiles of approximately 55 kbp and 90 kbp and were identified as virulence plasmids by DNA hybridization. The SpvB/SpvC genes were located on HindIII fragments of 3.6 kbp in each of the two types of virulence plasmids. CONCLUSION The study confirms the presence of SSPs and SpvB/SpvC genes in indigenous strains of S. enteritidis isolated from Northern Punjab area of Pakistan and substantiate the previous data on such findings from other parts of the world.
Grading the States Infrastructure Management Performances: The Government Performance Projects Process and Results

This paper describes how the Government Performance Project (GPP) was initiated in 1997 to evaluate state governments’ performance in managing money, people, infrastructure and information and to inform state governments’ future management decisions. The paper focuses on infrastructure management and aims to provide an overview of the methodology and findings of the GPP 2005.
Influence of male or female headship on the keeping and care of small ruminants: the case of the transitional zone of Ghana

The study was undertaken in the Ejura-Sekyedumasi District of Ghana to investigate how household headship characteristics and labour availability relate with the household’s decision to keep and spend time on small ruminants. Key informants were interviewed prior to a census of all the 407 households in two villages, to collect demographic, crop, and livestock data, which was used in bivariate and logistic regression analyses. A subsequent time use study involved a stratified sample of 24 households, and the t- test was used to compare households. In general, female-headed households (FHH) were of lower socio-economic status, and had fewer adult household members and less livestock, compared to male-headed households (MHH). The final logistic regression model had a 77.1% success rate in predicting households keeping small ruminants, with socio-economic status and sex of the household head, presence of poultry and the number of active adults as significant predictors. Characteristics of FHH that kept small ruminants were not significantly different from their male counterparts, but the former spent less time feeding their animals. The odds of keeping small ruminants were ultimately 2.1 times higher for male-headed households. The low socio-economic status of most FHH with less labour availability is a disincentive for small ruminant rearing
Two‐photon fluorescence surface wave microscopy

This paper demonstrates the principle of two‐photon surface wave microscopy with a view to applications on biological samples. We describe a modified scanning optical microscope, which uses specially prepared coverslips. These coverslips are designed to support the propagation of surface waves capable of large field enhancements. We also discuss the beam conditioning necessary to ensure efficient use of the available illumination. Two‐photon surface wave fluorescent excitation is demonstrated on fluorescent nanospheres, demonstrating a point spread function width of ≈220 nm at an illumination wavelength of 925 nm. The potential of non‐linear surface wave excitation for both fluorescence and harmonic imaging microscopy is discussed.
Constructing Business-to-Business Marketing Models that Overcome the Limitations in Variable-Based and Case-Based Research Paradigms

ABSTRACT Purpose: This article describes the principal limitations frequently observable in variable-based and case-based research in business-to-business (B-to-B) marketing. Focus: The limitations relate to B-to-B theory construction, data collection, and data analysis and interpretation. The principal limitations in variable-based research include the reliance on regression (net effects) models in theory construction and the pervasive failure to test resulting empirical regression models for predictive validity. The principal limitations of case-based research are the frequent absence of rigorous theory formulation either pre- or postdata collection and failures to test propositions for predictive validity. Recommendations: The article directs attention to iconic studies that break free in part from these and additional limitations. The article offers useful steps on how to break free completely from the principal limitations. Managerial implications: B-to-B executives should insist that researchers include asymmetric algorithm models in reports that include symmetric (regression analysis) and analysis of variance findings.
Competing on Action: Business Models and the Competitiveness of Emerging Market Enterprises

How do emerging market enterprises become competitive actors in a global environment still largely dominated by established firms from advanced economies? Debate on this question is fueled by an apparent paradox: Even though EMEs are increasingly becoming global contenders, their underlying basis of competitive advantage is not so obvious at first glance. Traditional international business and strategic management research typically focus on industry, resource and institution-based explanations of firm competitiveness. We introduce the perspective of international competition based on actions articulated by and executed through firms’ business models. We attribute EMEs’ successful expansion to their business models, which leverage their particular conditions and history and manifest themselves in greater agility. We then apply our argument to four case illustrations and discuss the implications for the basis of competitive advantage.
Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support

From the Publisher: In Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support, Second Edition, a team of the world's leading experts presents a start-to-finish, state-of-the-art guide to designing and implementing data warehouses. You'll find up-to-the-minute solutions-oriented recommendations for the entire data warehouse development lifecycle, including best practices for requirements gathering and identifying business objectives; critical success factors - why and how they affect the success of your project; planning, scoping, and managing your data warehouse project; and managing metadata for a production data warehouse.
Replicated Testing of the Nursing Technology Model

The purpose of this study was to replicate the testing of a model to explain complexity of nursing care in the ambulatory care setting. The Nursing Technology Model (Verran 6− Shaw, 1986) has as its theoretical base a sociological perspective of organizational analysis in which technology is viewed as the antecedent to organizational structure. The model includes materials technology as the nature of the ambulatory care client and knowledge technology as the principal type of activities pertinent to nursing care delivery. The characteristics of these technology types were organized into causal paths to explain complexity of care. Two ambulatory care sites were sampled to obtain a client sample of 610 rating sets. Results were essentially similar to earlier research with R2s for complexity indexes at the same level of . 34. Only one regression equation evidenced instability in regression coefficients and the R2. Analysis of findings indicated that other variables, such as some aspects of structure, may need to be further specified in the model in order to increase its explanatory power.
Experimental verification of conventional phase advancement method for surface permanent magnet motor with fractional-slot concentrated windings

The ability of permanent magnet synchronous motors to operate over a wide constant power speed ratio depends on the motor winding inductance [1]. Previous work has shown that PM motors with "sufficiently high" inductance, if operated with conventional phase advancement [4] method, can widen the CPSR significantly [3]. Compared to traditional vector control, this method is computationally very simple and does not involve any transformations. Only speed and rotor angle feedback is needed to produce the required power. It does not require any motor current or voltage feedback. Surface PM machines with distributed windings have lower phase winding inductance. Recently a method has been developed to use fractional slot concentrated windings to significantly increase the surface PM machine inductance [5]. The increased inductance method is compatible with a voltage source inverter (VSI) controlled by the sinusoidal pulse width modulation (PWM). This paper presents the analysis of the CPA controller for high inductance PM machines for traction drive application.
A Reflective Middleware Architecture for Adaptive Mobile Computing Applications

Mobile computing applications are required to operate in environments in which the availability for resources and services may change significantly during system operation. As a result, mobile computing applications need to be capable of adapting to these changes to offer the best possible level of service to their users. However, traditional middleware is limited in its capability of adapting to the environment changes and different users requirements. Computational Reflection paradigm has been used in the design and implementation of adaptive middleware architectures. In this paper, we propose an adaptive middleware architecture based on reflection, which can be used to develop adaptive mobile applications. The reflection-based architecture is compared to a component-based architecture from a quantitative perspective. The results suggest that middleware based on Computational Reflection can be used to build mobile adaptive applications that require only a very small overhead in terms of running time as well as memory space.
Does Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis Involve More Than Cognitive Neurosciences

Isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) is a poorly understood phenomenon that has attracted increased attention in recent years both in the medical com- munity (Dahlitz & Parkes, 1993; Hishikawa & Shimizu, 1995) and in psy- chological research (Fukuda et al., 1987, 1991; Fukuda, 1993; Takeuchi et al., 1994; Wing et al., 1994 ). Although the occurrence of ISP is relatively common, recurrent ISP (RISP) is a rarer variant of sleep paralysis character- ized by frequent episodes or a complex of sequential episodes whose total du- ration may exceed 1 hour, and particularly by the range and sense of per- ceived reality of the subjective phenomena experienced during episodes. Although such phenomena are usually categorized as hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations, there is at present no integrated model that ade- quately explains the ensemble of physiological, neurological, cognitive, and psychological components of RISP. As researchers who experience RISP, in this paper we attempt to synthesize information on RISP gathered from vari- ous sources and to conjecture possible connections between RISP and other as yet poorly understood phenomena at different levels: at a neurophysiolog- ical level, with anxiety disorders (Suarez, 1991; Paradis et al., 1997 ), the Pe- riodic Paralyses (Stedwell et al., 1992 ), and with Sudden Unexplained Noc- turnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS) (Nimmanit et al., 1991; Randall, 1992; Adler, 1995 ); at a neurocognitive level, with lucid dreaming (LaBerge, 1985); and finally, at a level that examines the possibility of the manifesta- tion of paranormal phenomena during RISP episodes, with Out-of-Body Ex- periences (OBE) (Tart,1968; Osis, 1981) and with Near-Death-Experiences (NDE) (Moody, 1976; Ring, 1979). Finally, we performed a statistical analy- sis on RISP by use of a sample of 250 direct or indirect respondents to a mes- sage posted initially by one of the authors on the sleep web site of the Uni- versity of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). 1 Preliminary results indicate that over 90% of respondents experience intense fear during their RISP episodes, about 50% have invoked a paranormal or supernatural explanation, and that a typical RISP episode may be described as consisting of three main phases. We conclude with a brief description of possible strategies to cope with RISP.
The impact of unstable housing on emergency department use in a cohort of HIV-positive people in a Canadian setting

The social–structural challenges experienced by people living with HIV (PHA) have been shown to contribute to increased use of the emergency department (ED). This study identified factors associated with frequent and nonurgent ED use within a cohort of people accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a Canadian setting. Interviewer-administered surveys collected socio-demographic information; clinical variables were obtained through linkages with the provincial drug treatment registry; and ED admission data were abstracted from the Department of Emergency Medicine database. Multivariate logistic regression was used to compute odds of frequent and nonurgent ED use. Unstable housing was independently associated with ED use (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] =1.94, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.24–3.04]), having three or more ED visits within 6 months of the interview date [AOR: 2.03 (95% CI: 1.07–3.83)] and being triaged as nonurgent (AOR = 2.71, 95% CI: 1.19–6.17). Frequent and nonurgent use of the ED in this setting is associated with conditions requiring interventions at the social–structural level. Supportive housing may contribute to decreased health-care costs and improved health outcomes amongst marginalized PHA.
Analysis of Controversial Debates in Online Fora - A Showcase Analysis of the CCSVI Discussion in the DMSG Layperson Forum

The nature of controversial debates in online fora is often hard to grasp due to the informal discussion style and the sheer number of contributions. Yet, important insights are buried in these openly accessible resources. We want to analyze a showcase of such a debate quantitatively in order to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics. The showcase stems from the medical field. It is about the controversial hypothesis of Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) as a cause for Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The debate is observed in a forum provided by the Deutsche Multiple Sklerose Gesellschaft (Engl.: German MS Society) (DMSG) and targeted at laypersons. Our aim is to understand the roles of the forum users and their preferred references to sources of information better. In order to do so, we develop an Information Retrieval algorithm first, that is based on structural forum data, and is able to distinguish posts discussing CCSVI from irrelevant posts. We optimize the parameters of the algorithm by means of an Evolutionary Algorithm. We asses the referenced domains, then classify and visualize them. We identify references to scientific publications. We assign roles to users based on two distinct feature sets: One is the references posted and the other is a carefully selected feature set describing general user behavior. These roles are assigned by means of a kernelized version of the popular K-Means clustering algorithm. We also analyze the presence of homophily and determine the influence of users based on graphs known from the field of Social Network Analysis. Combining the results of these analyses, we can formulate a broad description of user behavior and relationships, community characteristics, and reference influence.
The Impact of Stroke on Unpaid Caregivers: Results from the Auckland Regional Community Stroke Study, 2002–2003

Background: Few studies have assessed the longitudinal impact of providing unpaid care for stroke survivors. We aimed to describe the positive and negative impact of providing unpaid care and to identify independent predictors of poor carer outcome. Methods: The Auckland Regional Community Stroke study was a prospective population-based stroke incidence study conducted in Auckland, New Zealand, over a 12-month period in 2002–2003. Stroke survivors and their unpaid carers were assessed at 6 and 18 months after stroke onset using the Short Form 36 questionnaire and the Bakas Caregiving Outcomes Scale. Results: Data were available from 167 stroke survivor–carer pairs at 6 months and 62 pairs at 18 months. Unpaid carers reported lower health-related quality of life at 6 months after stroke than their age- and sex-matched counterparts in the New Zealand population. The impact of providing care was predominantly negative; however, approximately one third of the carers had improved relationships with the stroke survivor. No reliable predictors of carer burden were identified. Conclusions: This study re-emphasises the heavy burden of stroke on unpaid carers but was unable to identify factors that predicted carers at the greatest risk of experiencing a poor outcome. Effective strategies are needed to reduce the burden of providing unpaid care.
EXHAUSTIVE EXERCISE IN THE SEA LAMPREY (PETROMYZON MARINUS): RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANAEROBIC METABOLISM AND INTRACELLULAR ACID-BASE BALANCE

We measured intracellular acid-base balance and indicators of carbohydrate and high-energy phosphate metabolism as lampreys recovered from exhaustive exercise. A combined respiratory and metabolic acidosis was observed in the locomotory muscle following ‘burst’ exercise. Muscle pH decreased from approximately 7.2 to 6.7, whereas intracellular PCO2 rose from approximately 0.6 to 1.6 kPa. Unlike the situation in similarly stressed teleost fish such as rainbow trout, the respiratory acidosis in muscle persisted for several hours. This apparent CO2 retention in lamprey muscle may be the result of a restricted ability of the circulatory system to transport CO2 due to reduced erythrocyte anion exchange, or it could represent a restricted ability of the muscle itself to clear the intracellular pool of CO2 due to reduced carbonic anhydrase activity. Maximal lactate dehydrogenase activity of lamprey muscle exhibited a marked dependence on pH, increasing in activity by 30 % as pH decreased from 7.2 to 6.7 (reflecting the ‘resting’ to ‘post- exercise’ pH change observed in vivo). Following exhaustive exercise, the acid-base balance of the muscle is influenced by both proton- consuming (e.g. AMP deamination, glycogen replenishment) and proton-producing (e.g. rephosphorylation of creatine) metabolic processes. The net effect is that, although intracellular pH is maximally depressed, energy stores such as phosphocreatine and glycogen are partially restored within 1 h of exhaustive exercise, placing the animal in good stead for further locomotory work.
Management: Leadership in Action

I. MANAGING THE DYNAMICS OF A CHANGING WORLD. 1. What Management Is and What Managers Do. 2. The Evolution of Management. 3. The Managerial Environments. 4. Managing in the Global Environment. 5. Ethics and Social Responsibility. II. MANAGING STRATEGIES AND PROCESSES. 6. Decision Making and Creative Problem Solving. 7. Strategic and Operational Planning. 8. Organization Design, Authority, and Power. 9. Managing Human Resources and Diversity. III. LEADING AND DEVELOPING PEOPLE IN ORGANIZATIONS. 10. Communicating for Results. 11. Motivating Employees. 12. Leadership in Action. 13. Managing Change, Organization Development, Conflict, and Stress. 14. Team Development and Empowerment Strategies. IV. CONTROL AND INFORMATION, SMALL-BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, AND YOUR FUTURE IN MANAGEMENT. 15. Understanding the Control Function and Managing Information. 16. Entrepreneurship and Small-Business Management. 17. Your Future in Management.