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The role of fear avoidance beliefs in return to work post-injury

BACKGROUND: Fear avoidance beliefs have been demonstrated significant predictors of disability and work status post occupational injury and appear particularly important in explaining the transition from acute to chronic disability. OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship between fear avoidance beliefs, health-related quality of life, and their influence on return to work (RTW) outcomes, including durable RTW, post-occupational injury. METHODS: A total of 1179 questionnaires were posted to clients previously receiving vocational rehabilitation services from the Return to Work Assist program in Queensland, Australia. Participants were asked to indicate their current RTW status in addition to completing questionnaires measuring fear avoidance beliefs and physical and mental aspects of health related quality of life. RESULTS: The statistical analyses included 104 participants. ANOVA indicated the RTW group reported significantly better physical health than the no RTW (NRTW) group. No significant differences were observed between groups on mental health. ANOVA also indicated that participants with RTW outcomes reported significantly lower fear avoidance beliefs than the NRTW group. However, when controlling for physical health, no fear avoidance group differences were observed. Significant correlations were observed between fear avoidance beliefs and measures of physical and mental health. CONCLUSIONS: The findings are suggestive of a reciprocal relationship between fear avoidance beliefs, physical, and mental health in which fear avoidance beliefs hinder recovery from physical injury, contributing to deterioration in mental health. These findings also suggest that collaborative practice between medical practitioners, psychologists, and physiotherapists is likely to be required to improve RTW outcomes for this complex client group. Identifying and addressing fear avoidance beliefs early in the treatment process may decrease the likelihood of long-term disability and work absence.
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15 Motivation: Although many gene set analysis methods have been proposed to explore associations between a phenotype and a group of genes sharing common biological functions or involved in the same biological process, the underlying biological mechanisms of identified gene sets are typically unexplained. AQ2 20 Results: We propose a method called Differential Regulation-based enrichment Analysis for GENe sets (DRAGEN) to identify gene sets in which a significant proportion of genes have their transcriptional regulatory patterns changed in a perturbed phenotype. We conduct comprehensive simulation studies to demonstrate the capability of our 25 method in identifying differentially regulated gene sets. We further apply our method to three human microarray expression datasets, two with hormone treated and control samples and one concerning different cell cycle phases. Results indicate that the capability of DRAGEN in identifying phenotype-associated gene sets is significantly 30 superior to those of four existing methods for analyzing differentially expressed gene sets. We conclude that the proposed differential regulation enrichment analysis method, though exploratory in nature, complements the existing gene set analysis methods and provides a promising new direction for the interpretation of gene expression data.
Private Business Regulation and Public Policy: A Network Approach

This paper explores the interactions between public and private regulators in the case of corporate non-financial reporting. Looking at developments in Europe in particular, I examine the role of organizations like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), and United Nations Global Compact (GC) in laying the groundwork for mandatory corporate non-financial reporting legislation at both the national and EU level. Using a longitudinal data set covering 14 EU Member States over the period 1999-2011, I create a series of affiliation networks consisting of firms and private regulatory organizations and analyze how these networks evolve over time in different national settings. Using basic network measurements, including bipartite network density and clustering, I then assess how the development of private regulatory networks impacts the likelihood of new public policy.
Direct detection of flow 3 D curvature operators discontinuities by

Zetzsche, C. and E. Barth, Direct detection of flow discontinuities by 3D curvature operators, Pattern Recognition Letters 12 (1991) 771-779. We present an approach for the direct detection of flow discontinuities which avoids explicit computation of a dense optic flow field. It is based on regarding the time varying image as a hypersurface in four-dimensional space and on using the Gaussian curvature properties of this hypersurface as a direct indicator for the presence of motion discontinuities. An easy to implement, nonlinear operator is suggested and possible extensions of the basic scheme are discussed.
Differential Effects of Cold Stress on the Antioxidant Response of Mycorrhizal and Non-Mycorrhizal Jatropha curcas (L.) Plants

Our main objective was to analyze the protection provided by Mycorrhiza (Rhizophagus intraradices) to Jatropha curcas plants under cold stress, through the analysis of physiological and oxidative stress parameters. Mycorrhizal (AM) and non-mycorrhizal (nonAM) plants were exposed to cold stress 4±1 oC temperature for 72 h. The control plant grow at 25 ±1 oC. Under cold stress, the stomata conductance decreased both AM and nonAM plants and photosynthetic efficiency only in non AM plants. The CAT activity increased in AM plants independently of stress conditions. GR activity shows a typical rise to cold stress in nonAM plants and decreased in AM ones. With cold stress, the APX activity was reduced in all treatments and SOD activity was not affected in all treatment The MDA content increased in nonAM plants while in AM plants it was unaffected by low temperature. This study reported on the regulation of antioxidant compounds, their relationship to the AM symbiosis and cold stress in Jatropha curcas L.
ORBITALLY-TUNED SR ISOTOPE CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY FOR THE LATE MIDDLE TO LATE MIOCENE

We present a Sr chemostratigraphic reference section for the late middle to late Miocene (14–5 Ma) from Ocean Drilling Program site 926 on the Ceara Rise. This site combines a precise, orbitally tuned timescale with a high sedimentation rate (15 m/m.y.), continuous deposition, and excellent biostratigraphic control. The Sr isotope curve is based on measurements of cleaned, planktonic foraminifera at 100–200 kyr sample intervals and it illustrates periods of rapid change in 87Sr/86Sr alternating with periods of little change. Chemostratigraphically-defined ages for these intervals can be determined within +/−0.8 m.y. and +/−1.6 m.y. respectively. There is excellent correlation with the published curve for site 588 [Hodell and Woodruff, 1994]; however the curve for site 747 [Oslick et al., 1994] exhibits less structure, which may be due to small errors in age estimates related to slow sedimentation rates, high-latitude fauna and an interval of complicated magnetics. Late Miocene data compare favorably with data from site 758 [Farrell et al., 1995].
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Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who “export”jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature non-atomistic firms, we evaluate the implications of such policies in an oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of domestic sources (the substitution effect), the loss in international competitiveness has a negative volume effect (the output effect), which pulls in the other direction. First, we identify the conditions that determine the relative strengths of these effects, which inform us about the conditions under which such a tax achieves its stated objective. Next, we consider the international policy interdependence that arises when a competing nation also engages in such a policy. An interesting finding is that even if a unilateral tax by the US raises its employment, this may turn around in a Nash policy equilibrium, where the competing nation abandons free trade and also engages in unilateral outsourcing policies. Finally, we extend the basic model to look at the effects of credit shortage and product differentiation. Interesting findings are that both a credit crisis (as in recent years) and increased product differentiation tend to worsen the employment effects of the outsourcing tax. The qualitative nature of our findings is similar between Cournot and Bertrand competition, suggesting that our results are robust to the mode of strategic behavior. JEL Codes: F13
Thidiazuron-induced Regeneration in Root Segments of White Poplar (P. alba L.)

TSVETKOV I. , J-F. HAUSMAN and L. JOUVE, 2007. Thidiazuron-induced regeneration in root segments of white poplar (P. alba L.). Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 13: 623626 Root segments isolated from stably proliferating in vitro clone of white poplar (P. alba L.) were cultivated on modified MS medium supplemented with different thidiazuron concentrations. The thidiazuron concentration significantly affected the regenerative capacity of the explants. The lower doses firmly stimulated the regenerative ability of the root segments, while the stronger ones demonstrated inhibitive organogenic effect. The highest number of regenerated shoots was formed on medium supplemented with 0.56 µM thidiazuron, but longest shoots were produced at 0.02 µM thidiazuron.
HBV infection can not only lead to a spectrum of liver diseases , including chronic hepatitis B , liver cirrhosis , liver failure and liver cancer

T cell receptor beta variable (TCRBV) repertoire could imply the composition and function status of T cells in subjects with HBV infection. The gene melting spectral pattern (GMSP) can be used to determine the profile of TCRBV gene family. The molecular profile of TCRBV in peripheral lymphocytes from asymptomatic HBV carriers (AsC) remains ill-defined. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were separated and sorted, and the profiles of TCRBV complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) in CD4+, CD8+ T subsets and PBMCs were assayed using GMSP. The number of skewed TCRBV in the PBMCs was significantly lower than that in the CD4+ or CD8+ T subsets, and the number of monoclonal TCRBV families in the CD8+ T subset was significantly higher than that in CD4+ T subset. Compared to healthy donors, TCRBV11, BV13.1, BV20 and BV24 were used more frequently than other TCRBV members in PBMCs from AsC subjects. Furthermore, the relatively conserved CDR3 motifs were detected in these TCRBVs. The results indicate that the T cell response in AsC subjects involves several TCRBVs, and that the CD8+ T subset maybe more relevant to pathogenesis of AsC. Moreover, the four relative conserved TCRBVs maybe a target for personalized treatments for persistent HBV infection.
Theory of Urban Household Automobile-Ownership Decisions

Automobile-ownership behavior is modeled as a function of socioeconomic factors and the availability and levels of service of public transportation systems. Decision makers are assumed to maximize their individual and household utilities within budget and time constraints. The benefits of increased mobility are weighed against the loss in other consumption attributable to ownership of 1 or more automobiles. Variables specific to residential and activity-center locations include the attractiveness of destinations served by public transit, the attractiveness of those not served by public transit, and respective travel times by automobile and transit. Estimation equations are developed through the introduction of functional forms for utility components and random utility terms representing variances in perception and taste and omitted factors. Multinomial logit models are used to define the probability of homogeneous groups of households choosing to own a specific number of automobiles. Calibrations are performed by using data from home-interview surveys and network simulations in the Detroit metropolitan area. Results are encouraging. All coefficients representing partial equilibrium market parameters are signed correctly and are significantly different from 0 where expected, and goodness-of-fit measures indicate acceptable model descriptive power.
Asymmetric Monetary Policy in the Czech Republic

This paper analyses the hypothesis of whether asymmetric monetary policy could have contributed to the undershooting of the inflation targets of the Czech National Bank in the years 1998–2007. To this end, a non-linear Taylor Rule is estimated. The results indicate that from 1998 to about 2002, the Czech National Bank responded more aggressively to forecasts of inflation exceeding the target than to those below the target. There is, however, no evidence for asymmetric monetary policy in estimates of the monetary policy rule derived from more recent data. This suggests that symmetric handling of the inflation targets prevailed in the past several years.
Nonlinear Black-Box Models of Digital Integrated Circuits via System Identification

This Thesis concerns the development of numerical macromodels of digi- tal Integrated Circuits input/output buffers. Such models are of paramount importance for the system-level simulation required for the assessment of Sig- nal Integrity and Electromagnetic Compatibility effects in high-performance electronic equipments via system-level simulations. In order to obtain accurate and efficient macromodels, we concentrate on the black-box modeling approach, exploiting system identification methods. The present study contributes to the systematic discussion of the IC mod- eling process, in order to obtain macromodels that can overcome strengths and limitations of the methodologies presented so far. The performances of different parametric representations, as Sigmoidal Basis Functions (SBF) ex- pansions, Echo State Networks (ESN) and Local Linear State-Space (LLSS) models are investigated. All representations have proven capabilities for the modeling of unknown nonlinear dynamic systems and are good candidates too be used for the modeling problem at hand. For each model representation, the most suitable estimation algorithm is considered and a systematic analy- sis is performed to highlight advantages and limitations. For this analysis, the modeling process is applied to a synthetic nonlinear device representative of IC ports, and designed to generate stiff responses. The tests carried out show that LLSS models provide the best overall performance for the modeling of digital devices, even with strong nonlinear dynamics. LLSS models can be estimated by means of an efficient algorithm providing a unique solution. Local stability of models is preconditioned and verified a posteriori. The effectiveness of the modeling process based on LLSS representations is verified by applying the proposed technique to the modeling of real devices involved in a realistic data communication link (an RF-to-Digital interface used in mobile phones). The obtained macromodels have been successfully used to predict both the functional signals and the power supply and ground fluctuations. Besides, they turn out to be very efficient, providing a signifi- cant simulation speed-up for the complete data link
The integration of geography information system (GIS) and global navigation satelite system-real time kinematic (GNSS-RTK) for land use monitoring

Limited open space area requires accurate monitoring to maintain changes in land use that is not suitable with city spatial planning. The difference between spatial planning and existing land Use should be minimized. Currently, land Use monitoring using Global Positioning System (GPS) and processed by Geography Information System (GIS) but the result has a deviation from the existing land Use. Within GNSS-RTK as a new approach will correct the result of GPS become more precise map of land Use. This research will test a GNSSRTK that is applied to the land Use belongs to the campus of Universitas Indonesia. The land use will be divided as built up area and open space. The method used is quantitative experimental integrated with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The results are, 1) the difference of land Use area with GPS and GNSS-RTK, 2) GNSS-RTK can get more accurate data than GPS. Base on the result, the conclusion is through GNSS-RTK and GIS, land use monitoring can be more effective because the highly precision of land area.
Children's Perspectives on Public Playgrounds in Two Swedish Communities

Abstract:This paper describes children's perspectives on local public playgrounds and discusses the effect of the surrounding landscape on playground use by comparing two Swedish communities: one in the forest and one on open, arable land. The researcher interviewed 141 children aged 6–11 from the two communities. They appreciated playgrounds for being fun and for offering many activities, but also described them as problematic, inadequate, or boring. The children often mentioned social dimensions of playground play, and viewed playgrounds as insufficient as the only places for children's outdoor play. In the forest community, the children appreciated having forested areas close to playgrounds. Access to natural places for play seemed to make playground design less important and less problematic for children.
Introduction 1 . 1 A bit of antenatal care history and overview

Even though antenatal care is universally regarded as important, determinants of demand for antenatal care have not been widely studied. Evidence concerning which and how socioeconomic conditions influence whether a pregnant woman attends or not at least one antenatal consultation or how these factors affect the absences to antenatal consultations is very limited. In order to generate this evidence, a two-stage analysis was performed with data from the Demographic and Health Survey carried out by Profamilia in Colombia during 2005. The first stage was run as a logit model showing the marginal effects on the probability of attending the first visit and an ordinary least squares model was performed for the second stage. It was found that mothers living in the pacific region as well as young mothers seem to have a lower probability of attending the first visit but these factors are not related to the number of absences to antenatal consultation once the first visit has been achieved. The effect of health insurance was surprising because of the differing effects that the health insurers showed. Some familiar and personal conditions such as willingness to have the last children and number of previous children, demonstrated to be important in the determination of demand. The effect of mother’s educational attainment was proved as important whereas the father’s educational achievement was not. This paper provides some elements for policy making in order to increase the demand inducement of antenatal care, as well as stimulating research on demand for specific issues on health.
Algebra is a Dream? Is It a Game?

The purpose of this research is to reveal the perceptions of secondary school mathematics teacher candidates about algebraic thinking through metaphors. The study was conducted with the participation of 160 students on a volunteer basis who study in the department of mathematics teaching in a public university in 2015-2016 education year. In the study, the sentence “algebraic thinking is like ……. , because ……. ” was required to be completed in order to reveal mental structures the students had about algebraic thinking. As a result of the research, it was determined that prospective teachers could produce metaphors related to features such as algebraic thinking and algebra learning. There was categorized such as representation quantities with letters, generalized arithmetic, to analyze the variables in a context, variable, algebraic thinking as patterns, equality and equation. The most used metaphor is in the category of “To analyze the variables in a context”. Metaphors help to associate concepts with everyday life. It is therefore advisable to use it in the field of education in order to ensure that the learning is permanent. Keywords: Metaphors, algebraic thinking, secondary school mathematics teacher candidates
Study of Genotypic and Phenotypic Correlation among 20 Accessions of Nigerian Cowpea

Morphological techniques were used to evaluate the diversity in 20 cowpea accessions collected from some parts of Nigeria for two years (2007 and 2008) at Ibadan, South Western Nigeria. Correlation analysis was employed to show the relationships among the traits. Similarly, genotypic and phenotypic variances, genotypic coefficients of variation, heritability and expected genetic advance were estimated for the twelve traits in cowpea for each season. This study shows that for cowpea yield improvement, number of main branches, pod numbers, pods per plant, pods per peduncle and seeds per pod should be part of the selection criteria.
rolling manoeuvres by lunge-feeding blue whales Underwater acrobatics by the world ' s largest predator : 360 °

Supplementary data ml http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing. org/content/suppl/2012/11/22/rsbl.2012. 0986.DC1. ht "Data Supplement" References http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing. org/content/9/1/20120986.full. html#ref-list-1 This article cites 20 articles, 9 of which can be accessed free Subject collections (588 articles) ecology  (560 articles) behaviour  Articles on similar topics can be found in the following collections
A UNIFIED ENERGY-RESERVOIR MODEL CONTAINING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM 56 Ni ?> AND NEUTRON STARS AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR LUMINOUS TYPE Ic SUPERNOVAE

Most type Ic core-collapse supernovae produce 56Ni and neutron stars (NSs) or black holes. The dipole radiation of nascent NSs has usually been neglected in explaining supernovae (SNe) with peak absolute magnitudes M peak ? > in any band ≳ − 19.5 ? > mag, while the 56Ni can be neglected in fitting most type Ic superluminous supernovae whose M peak ? > in any band is ≲ − 21 ? > mag, since the luminosity from a magnetar (highly magnetized NS) can outshine that from a moderate amount of 56Ni. For luminous SNe Ic with − 21 ≲ M peak ≲ − 19.5 ? > mag, however, both contributions from 56Ni and NSs cannot be neglected without serious modeling since they are not SLSNe and the 56Ni mass could be up to ∼ 0.5 M ⊙ ? > . In this paper we propose a unified model that contains contributions from both 56Ni and a nascent NS. We select three luminous SNe Ic-broad-lined, SN 2010ay, SN 2006nx, and SN 14475, and show that, if these SNe are powered by 56Ni, the ratio of M Ni ? > to M ej ? > is unrealistic. Alternatively, we invoke the magnetar model and the hybrid (56Ni + NS) model and find that they can fit the observations, indicating that our models are valid and necessary for luminous SNe Ic. Owing to the lack of late-time photometric data, we cannot break the parameter degeneracy and thus distinguish among the model parameters, but we can expect that future multi-epoch observations of luminous SNe can provide stringent constraints on 56Ni yields and the parameters of putative magnetars.