Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Present Situation and Its Related Factors of Quality of Nursing Work Life

Objective To investigate the states of the quality of nursing work life and its relevant factors,so as to provide the theory basis to conduct further intervention researches on the quality of nursing work life.MethodsFrom July to August 2011,807 nurses from a Grade-III Level A general hospital in Beijing were selected by using convenience sampling method to investigate the quality of nursing work life,age,gender and years of working.ResultsThe average score of the quality of nursing work life was 150.57±21.24. The lowest two subscales were work design and work field.The quality of nursing work life negatively correlated with age and years of working but positively with work autonmy(P0.01). Significant differences were detected on the scores of quality of nursing work life in nurses with varied employment nature and different perceptions on quality nursing(P0.01). ConclusionThe quality of work life of nurses is at medium level.It is necessary for nursing managers and educators to take targeted measures to stabilize nursing team according to the different characteristics of nurses and enhance the quality of nursing work life.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM FOR CANCER BASED ON TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE-LUNG CANCER(QLASTCM-LU)

[Objective]To develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of the quality of life assessment system for cancer based on Traditional Chinese Medicine-Lung Cancer(QLASTCM-Lu). [Methods]The structured group methods(nominal group and focus group)and the theory in developing rating scale were employed to establish the general and the specific module,respectively.The full instrument was formed by combination of two modules and psychometric properties(reliability,validity,responsiveness)were evaluated by QOL data measured from 240 patients of lung cancer.Statistical methods used were correlation analysis,factor analysis and paired t test et al.[Results]Test-retest reliability of the overall scale and all domains were from 0.93 to 0.96,and internal consistency α were from 0.86 to 0.93;Correlation and factor analysis demonstrated good construct validity;Known-group comparisons displayed good clinical validity;Criterion-related validity was confirmed given QLQ-LC43 as the criterion;Statistically significant changes were found for each domain and the overall scale with standardized response mean SRM being greater than that of QLQ-LC43. [Conclusion]The QLASTCM-Lu can be used to measure QOL for patients with lung cancer with good validity,reliability and reasonable responsiveness.
ASSESSING THE LIFESTYLE (PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS, SEDENTARY BEHAVIOUR AND EATING HABITS) OF OMANI ADOLESCENT GIRLS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY

2 Structure of the Thesis . 4 Chapter 1: Introduction . 5 1.1 The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region . 6 1.2 Oman and Ibri. 7 1.3 Background and rationale of this study . 8 Chapter 2: Literature Review . 11 2.
Fitting In: How Two New Teachers Perceived and Related to the Dominant Norms at a High School

New teachers are vital for maintaining the U.S. education system as teacher retirements increase; yet, they are becoming difficult to retain. ln fact, a high percentage of new teachers leave their positions after only a few years. Everyone loses school districts, students, and communities when vatuable new teachers do not stay in the teaclring profession for more than a short time. ln this case study, the socialization experiences of two new teachers at a public high school urere explored in order to illustrate how they leamed about their school's norms (as informed by and reflected in values), and how the norms they perceived might have influenced their inclinations to stay with or to teave their positions. The study results offer rich descriptions that readers may be able to relate to their own situations and experiences. lt also contributes to previous research suggesting that one's perception of 'fit' with organizational norms can influence one's decision to stay with or leave the organization.
Atherosclerotic and metabolic effects of hypothyroidism due to chronic thyroiditis

Hypothyroidism is the condition of decreased hormone production to provide the needs of peripheral tissues. Clinical symptoms may vary depending on patient's age, disease duration and thyroid hormone levels. Thyroid hormones are important determinants of basal metabolic rate and thyroid hormone status have a strong effect on different metabolic pathways (protein, carbohydrate, lipid) and atherosclerotic pathogenetic mechanisms. This review focuses on metabolic and atherosclerotic effects of hypothyroidism due to chronic (hashimoto) thyroiditis
Social malleability in cowbirds (Molothrus ater artemisiae): Species and mate recognition in the first 2 years of life.

In a longitudinal study, the authors housed wild-caught juvenile male cowbirds (Molothrus ater artemisiae) with female cowbirds or canaries (Serinus canaria) from August until May. The males were then exposed to 3 social contexts. Males housed with canaries directed more vocalizations to canaries than to female cowbirds. Males housed with female cowbirds vocalized most to other males. The data revealed plasticity at a rudimentary level of reproductive behavior, selective responding to members of one's own species. Song potency, as assayed by playback, did not predict vocal use. To test adult malleability, the authors studied the males for a 2nd year. Half were housed with conspecific females and experienced males and half with only females. The manipUlation eradicated any signs of the males' 1st-year experiences. The data suggest malleability in species and mate recognition in cowbirds. Considerable evidence indicates that male cowbirds' vo­ cal repertoires are socially malleable. The timing and extent of exposure to adult male models affects the content of two vocal signals, the song and the flight whistle (Dufty, 1985; King & West, 1990; King, West, & Eastzer, 1980; O'Loghlen & Rothstein, 1993). Moreover, in some parts of the species' range, female cowbirds, which do not sing, can shape the content of the males' vocal repertoires through visual responses (West & King, 1988). In this report, we pose a broader question about male cowbirds' vocal capac­ ities: How does a juvenile male's access to social stimula­ tion affect his ability to use vocal signals effectively during the breeding season? To this end, we housed young males either with conspecific females or with canaries during their 1st year and then measured patterns of vocal behavior in the context of mate assortment during the breeding season. We followed this experiment with a second one in which we looked for evidence of plasticity in vocal and courtship skills in the same males' 2nd year. Although abundant evidence exists on the role of learning in songbirds' acquisition of vocal signals, few such studies include assessments of how males actually use their vocal­ izations in species-typical circumstances. Studies of blue
Bronchoscopy in Patients With Asthma

Asthma is a complex inflammatory disease of the airways involving multiple different cell types and inflammatory mediators affecting over 22 million people in the United States. Induction of bronchospasm or worsening asthma may dissuade pulmonologists from performing diagnostic bronchoscopy on patients with asthma. However, patients with bronchial hyperreactivity, like other populations with or without underlying lung disease, may warrant bronchoscopic evaluation at some point. We explore the myth that the presence of bronchial hyperreactivity should deter pulmonologists from performing diagnostic bronchoscopy in patients with asthma.
What type of online sales promotion do airline users prefer? Analysis of the moderating role of users’ online experience level

The aim of the present research is to assess which type of online promotional incentive (monetary or non-monetary) is the most effective at achieving purchase intention for airline tickets, depending on the user’s level of Internet experience (characterized as novice, moderate, or expert user). A Univariate General Linear Model is conducted, using data obtained from an experimental design with two levels: monetary online sales promotion and non-monetary online sales promotion. The findings indicate that in the case of acquiring an airline ticket online, monetary incentives are more appealing to novice Web users, while non-monetary incentives are preferred by expert users. The present study breaks new ground in that it examines, in the travel sector, the effectiveness of online sales promotions at prompting the individual to purchase online, in a comparative analysis based on online sales incentive type (monetary vs. non-monetary). The work contributes to the literature on the online travel sector by analyzing how the user’s level of Web experience affects the effectiveness of each type of online sales promotion.
Working fathers’ available time for childcare in Spain (Resumen)

This dissertation explores the available time that working fathers in Spain have for their children from different empirical approaches. The theoretical starting point is the time availability perspective: time is an invaluable resource for parents, as childcare is, among other characteristics, time consuming. Then, I draw from Barbara Risman’s three-level theory of gender as a social structure to frame the Spanish working time regime within the gender but also the economic structure: long working days are embedded in the macro, interactional and individual levels of these structures. The first empirical chapter assesses the relationship between gender, parental status, occupation and available time in Spain, and proposes and analyses a classification of working schedules from a work-life balance perspective. The second empirical chapter analyses to what extent the time availability hypothesis contributes to explaining how working fathers and mothers in Spain share routine childcare within heterosexual couples, along with other relevant possible explanations (status, relative resources, need to be involved). The third and fourth empirical chapters explore the structural obstacles that fathers may face in the Spanish labour market if they seek to have more available time to care, using, in one of the cases, an experimental design (a vignette study). This dissertation contributes with evidence on the ‘persistent conflict between leadership and child care involvement’ (Gasser, 2015) and against the ‘myth’ that fathers’ involvement in childcare comes hand in hand with socioeconomic status. Those fathers who are more involved are not necessarily professionals or those with college education, but those who have more available time at particular moments during the day, especially if the mother is not available at that moments. 1 This dissertation has been written within the research project IMPLICA (‘Working time, paternity and childhood. How can business policies promote father involvement in care and maintain gender equality? ’, CSO2014-58754-P), led by Teresa Jurado-Guerrero, which had associated the grant BES-2015-07427 for the hiring of doctoral candidates, both funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
The characteristics of elementary teachers perceived and identified as curricular leaders

The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of elementary teachers who were perceived and identified as being influential in curricular change by peers, principals, and district administrators. The study described characteristics which appeared to be shared by 16 elementary teachers selected from 20 elementary schools in one major school district in a Midwestern state. Subjects were identified from responses by peers, building administrators, and district administrators to the Instructional Leadership Survey prepared by the researcher. Twenty teachers, identified as influential by all three of the surveyed groups, were considered teacher leaders in this study. Sixteen of the 20 agreed to participate in the research project. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews, demographic data records, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The semi-structured interviews addressed each teacher’s educational philosophy, professional role orientation, problem-solving orientation, attribution theory, risk orientation, and relationships. Interview data were analyzed using commonly accepted procedures for content analysis. A modified version of the analytic induction approach to collecting and analyzing the Interview data was used (Bogdan & Biklen, 1982). The MBTI data produced a group profile to complement and cross-verify the interview analysis. The findings of the study were verified by surveys of the subjects, a principal, and a district administrator. m Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. The analysis of the data appeared to indicate that the subjects shared five general characteristics: a propensity toward change and the change process; membership in an informal communication network of educators; a belief system centered on a child-centered curriculum, the attribution of success to effort, and a demonstrated commitment to personal professional growth; interpersonal relationships characterized as positive and receptive to individual differences; and a lifestyle in which teaching was a style of living. The MBTI identified ENT/FJ as the composite personality type for the sample. The study provided information which may facilitate the systematic consideration of factors related to identification, training, placement, and roles of teacher leaders when planning for change in schools. The findings of this study may assist teachers, administrators, and curriculum coordinators in optimizing teacher involvement in curricular and instructional change. m Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
After the Great Recession

The severity of the Great Recession and the subsequent stagnation caught many economists by surprise. But a group of Keynesian scholars warned for some years that strong forces were leading the US toward a deep, persistent downturn. This book collects essays about these events from prominent macroeconomists who developed a perspective that predicted the broad outline and many specific aspects of the crisis. From this point of view, the recovery of employment and revival of strong growth requires more than short-term monetary easing and temporary fiscal stimulus. Economists and policy makers need to explore how the process of demand formation failed after 2007 and where demand will come from going forward. Successive chapters address the sources and dynamics of demand, the distribution and growth of wages, the structure of finance and challenges from globalization, and inform recommendations for monetary and fiscal policies to achieve a more efficient and equitable society.
Participation and dropout in organised youth sport: The role of implicit beliefs and key social figures

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Clinical Features of Primary Lung Cancer According to Age

1983年より1998年までに当科に入院した原発性肺癌755例, 762病変を年齢によって40歳以下, 41～50歳, 51～60歳, 61～70歳, 71～80歳, 81歳以上の6群に分i類し, 各グループの臨床的特徴について検討した. 組織型では若年齢であるほど腺癌の比率が高く, 高年齢になるほど扁平上皮癌の比率が増加していた. この傾向は男性, 喫煙者群において明らかであったが, 女性, 非喫煙群では年齢とは無関係に腺癌の比率が高かった. 発見動機iでは40歳以下において有症状受診例が約76%と高く, 81歳以上では他疾患治療中の症例が多く見られた (p<0.0001). 自覚症状は, 50歳以下で疼痛 (p=0.0022) と脳神経症状 (p=0.0004) が多く認められた. 臨床病期の検討では, 40歳以下では有意にStageIVの比率が高かった (p=0.0003). 遠隔転移臓器では, 81歳以上では脳転移が少なかった (p=0.0008). 治療方法は81歳以上では80歳以下の症例と比較し羊術例が少なく (p<0.0001), 対症療法が多かった (p=0.0003).
School-based intervention programs for dropouts

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide an extensive review of the literature and research related to the dropout problem in the United States. It discusses some of the intervention programs in school settings that have been evaluated to date. The role of school psychologists in planning and implementing the components that make those intervention programs successful are highlighted. Chapter two describes the nature and extent of the dropout problem, and how the lack of a uniform definition and good data aggravates this problem. Causes of dropping out and its consequences to the individuals and the society at large are presented in chapter three. As the causes are discussed, characteristics of dropo4ts that the schools could note as indicators of who will or will not drop out are also presented. Some of the dropout intervention programs that have been found effective are reviewed in chapter four of this paper. Chapter five concludes this paper with a discussion of the components that would make school-based dropout intervention programs successful and the relevance of that to school psychologists. This open access graduate research paper is available at UNI ScholarWorks: https://scholarworks.uni. edu/grp/948 SCHOOL-BASED INTERVENTION PROGRAMS FOR DROPOUTS An Abstract of a Research Paper Submitted In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirement for the Degree Master of Arts in Education Mmamiki G. Kamanakao University of Northern Iowa April, 2000
PREDICTORS OF INTERNAL STATE TALK AMONG PARENTS OF TODDLERS

Internal state language (ISL) appears to be an important component of developing socioemotional competence (Dunn, Brown, & Beardsall, 1991; Saarni, 1999). However, most ISL research has focused on children from middle class, educated, advantaged homes. The present study focused on (a) parental ISL before children have acquired these terms and (b) in a sample of 105 economically-strained families. Specifically, two sets of predictors of mothers’ and fathers’ ISL were examined: (1) child characteristics, namely gender, language status (vocabulary production and comprehension), and temperament (negative emotionality, and surgency) and (2) parent characteristics, namely education status and parenting quality (sensitivity and positive affect). ISL data were drawn from 20 minutes of naturalistic home observations when the children were 18 months old. The results indicated that mothers spoke more than fathers, and the percentage of speech that referred to internal states was significantly greater for mothers than for fathers. However, further analyses indicated that the percentage of internal state terms used across different categories (desire, emotion, perception, or cognition term) and forms (question, contrastive, explanation, or prediction) of ISL did not differ as a function of parental gender. Hierarchical regressions, conducted separately for each parent, modeled child and parent characteristics to predict parental ISL. For mothers, only parenting quality predicted ISL, even after other predictors were considered. For fathers, with the same model, only child characteristics predicted ISL. Findings are discussed in terms of future directions for this type of work.
Carefree conferences? Academics with caring responsibilities performing mobile academic subjectivities

ABSTRACT This article explores how academics with caring responsibilities negotiate the mobility imperative, with specific reference to attending conferences. We argue that, in the neoliberal and ‘careless’ context of higher education, negotiating conflicting identities of academic and carer are fraught with tensions for carers as they try to reconcile the mobility imperative with their caring responsibilities. We acknowledge and also challenge the naturalised relationship between care and femininity, and use a feminist poststructuralist approach to analyse the competing discourses surrounding academic and care work. We draw on two distinct, but related, research projects with predominantly UK-based participants. Moreau’s project (‘Carers and Careers’, 2015–2017) explored how academic carers negotiate academic cultures which tend to render care work invisible, using interviews with academic carers and policy staff. Henderson’s project (‘In Two Places at Once’, 2017–2018) focused on the impact of caring responsibilities on academics’ conference participation, using diary-interview method.
Deterring Online Music and Movie Piracy in Adults

ii Acknowledgements . iii List of Figures . iv Introduction . 1 A. Prior Legislative Efforts to Address Online Piracy . 2 B. Deterrence Theory and Online Piracy . 3 C. Rationalization and Neutralization . 3 D. Guilt and Shame . 4 Methods . 5 A. Participants . 5 B. Materials . 6 C. Procedure . 8 Results . 9 A. Analytic Strategy . 9 B. Anticipated Likelihood of Engaging in Online Piracy as a Function of Message Type . 9 C. Correlations between Anticipated Likelihood of Engaging in Piracy and Beliefs and Feelings . 11 D. Effect of Message Type on Beliefs and Feelings . 11 Discussion . 13 Limitations and Future Research . 14 Conclusion . 15 References . 17
(Dis)Respect in the Classroom: A Gendered Perspective of Academia

The purpose of this study was to examine gendered practices and the experiences of women instructors within academia. Women face different challenges than men in the classroom, and many times, they are challenged by their students. In order to complete this study, I conducted narrative interviews with women faculty ranging from Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), contractual instructors, as well as tenured and untenured professors at a Midwest university. I was able to interview eight women faculty members of varying positions. After completing the interviews and analyzing the data from each instructor, three prominent themes emerged. These themes are: (1) public and private challenges to women instructor’s authority, (2) offering justifications for bad student behavior, and (3) a need for nurturing and role modeling good behavior for students. It was clear from all participants that formal and informal mentorship programs should be utilized within academia. Instructors suggested that it would be beneficial to not only incoming faculty members, but to everyone who teaches in the classroom to have a mentor who could help when challenging situations arise. (Dis)Respect in the Classroom 4