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The relationship between working environment and quality of nursing care: an integrative literature review

British Journal of Healthcare Management | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2020. 0043 © 2 02 1 M A H ea lth ca re L td Introduction Many countries are experiencing a severe shortage of nurses in their healthcare workforce (Coster et al, 2018). In hospital settings, this can make the patient-to-nurse ratio high enough to have a negative impact on quality of care and patient outcomes (Boonpracom et al, 2018). A systematic review of 14 studies revealed that poor quality of nursing care can significantly increase the incidence of urinary tract infections, patient falls, pressure ulcers, critical incidents and readmissions (Recio-Saucedo et al, 2018). A low quality of nursing care has also been linked to increased mortality rates (McHugh and Stimpfel, 2012). Quality of care relates to the interactions between healthcare providers and patients, and the ways in which health system resources are transformed into health outcomes. The World Health Organization (2006) defined healthcare quality as the process of making strategic choices in health systems. More recently, the Institute of Medicine (2001) in the USA has unpacked the concept further and suggested that efforts to improve care quality should focus on six aims: effectiveness, efficiency, equity, patient-centredness, safety and timeliness. Meanwhile, the UK NHS defines quality of care as a combination of clinical effectiveness, safety and patient experience (National Quality Board, 2013). Evidently, these definitions vary according to the perspectives and aims of different organisations or disciplines. Research has suggested that a positive and professional work environment can influence quality of nursing care and improve outcomes for both patients and staff (Aiken et al, How to cite this article: Amaliyah E, Tukimin S. The relationship between working environment and quality of nursing care: an integrative literature review. British Journal of Healthcare Management. 2021. https://doi. org/10.12968/bjhc.2020. 0043 The relationship between working environment and quality of nursing care: an integrative literature review
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions by Emerging Market Firms: A Comparative Investigation

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Tax Morale and Pro-Social Behaviour : Evidence from a Palestinian Survey

We conduct the first empirical investigation into the relationship between prosocial behaviour and tax morale in a context under state capacity building like the Palestinian Territories. We consider public spirit and associational activity two major expressions of pro-social behaviour and we estimate their impact on Palestinians’ tax morale (intrinsic motivation to pay taxes). The empirical analysis employs a unique Palestinian public opinion survey conducted in 2007 in West Bank and Gaza Strip. By using a bivariate probit model, we find that tax morale increases with public spirit but it is lower among Palestinians involved in associational activities. Predicted conditional probabilities indicate that public spirit has more impact when the respondent has low confidence in the institutions and in the rule of law. Finally, more public spirit is required for a self-employee in order to deal with tax compliance than for a worker in the public sector, unless the worker in the public sector has lower confidence in the institutions and in the rule of law than the self-employee.
Étude du champ électromagnétique et interprétation de données magnétotelluriques au Vietnam

Ce travail de these est consacre a l’etude de la structure electrique de la croute terrestre dans deux regions du Vietnam, au Nord dans le delta du Fleuve Rouge et au Sud dans la region de la faille de la Riviere Saigon, et en Afrique de l’Ouest, ou les donnees utilisees sont celles acquises durant l’Annee Internationale de l’Electrojet Equatorial (AIEE). La technique utilisee est celle du sondage magnetotellurique. Deux des regions etudiees (le sud du Vietnam et l’Afrique de l’Ouest) sont situees au voisinage de l’equateur magnetique. Du fait de la presence de l’electrojet equatorial, l’hypothese de l’onde plane, sur laquelle est basee la magnetotellurique, n’y est veriﬁee que pour une gamme de periodes limitee. La modelisation de l’induction par un electrojet gaussien nous a permis de caracteriser l’effet de source associe a l’electrojet equatorial, et de determiner pour chacune des zones etudiees les gammes de periodes pour lesquelles cet effet de source est negligeable. Nous avons par ailleurs montre que l’effet de source associe a l’electrojet equatorial depend des principales caracteristiques de la structure electrique du sous-sol, et de la distance entre le centre de l’electrojet equatorial et la position examinee. Dans le delta du ﬂeuve Rouge, le proﬁl magnetotellurique est oriente SO-NE. Long d’environ 32 km, il recoupe les failles majeures du systeme de failles du Fleuve Rouge. Les donnees magnetotelluriques ont ete inversees pour obtenir une coupe transversale de resistivite electrique pour les trois premiers kilometres. Cette coupe de resistivite electrique et une coupe de densite obtenue par modelisation des donnees gravimetriques acquises le long du meme proﬁl, ainsi que des informations deduites de forages effectues au voisinage du proﬁl ont ete utilisees pour proposer une coupe geologique de la region etudiee. Dans la region de la faille de la Riviere Saigon, le proﬁl magnetotellurique, long d’environ 15 km, recoupe le trajet suppose de la faille. La structure electrique des premiers kilometres de la croute a ete determinee par inversion 2-D des donnees pour les gammes de periodes qui ne sont pas affectees par l’electrojet equatorial ( 120 s); ces donnees n’ont donc pas ete utilisees pour determiner la structure electrique de la croute et du manteau superieur. L’inversion 2-D des donnees de nuit, montre la presence d’une structure subverticale, relativement conductrice, qui separe le Craton Ouest-africain tres resistant des terrains situes sous le bassin du ﬂeuve Senegal.
SURFACE at Syracuse University SURFACE at Syracuse University

This article presents an empirical evaluation of text classification methods in literary domain. This study compared the performance of two popular algorithms, naı¨ve Bayes and support vector machines (SVMs) in two literary text classification tasks: the eroticism classification of Dickinson’s poems and the sentimentalism classification of chapters in early American novels. The algorithms were also combined with three text pre-processing tools, namely stemming, stopword removal, and statistical feature selection, to study the impact of these tools on the classifiers’ performance in the literary setting. Existing studies outside the literary domain indicated that SVMs are generally better than naı¨ve Bayes classifiers. However, in this study SVMs were not all winners. Both algorithms achieved high accuracy in sentimental chapter classification, but the naı¨ve Bayes classifier outperformed the SVM classifier in erotic poem classification. Self-feature selection helped both algorithms improve their performance in both tasks. However, the two algorithms selected relevant features in different frequency ranges, and therefore captured different characteristics of the target classes. The evaluation results in this study also suggest that arbitrary featurereduction steps such as stemming and stopword removal should be taken very carefully. Some stopwords were highly discriminative features for Dickinson’s erotic poem classification. In sentimental chapter classification, stemming undermined subsequent feature selection by aggressively conflating and neutralizing discriminative features.
le Long-term balancing selection on chromosomal variants associated with crypsis in a stick insect

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A new sparse symmetric indefinite solver using a posteriori threshold pivoting

The factorization of sparse symmetric indeﬁnite systems is particularly challenging since pivoting is required to maintain stability of the factorization. Pivoting techniques generally oﬀer limited parallelism and are associated with signiﬁcant data movement hindering the scalability of these methods. Variants of the Threshold Partial Pivoting (TPP) algorithm for example have been often used because of its numerical robustness but standard implementations exhibit poor parallel performance. On the other hand, some methods trade stability for performance on parallel architectures such as the Supernode Bunch-Kaufman (SBK) used in the PARDISO solver. In this case, however, the factors obtained might not be used to accurately compute the solution of the system. For this reason we have designed a task-based LDL T factorization algorithm based on a new pivoting strategy called A Posteriori Threshold Pivoting (APTP) that is much more suitable for modern multicore architectures and has the same numerical robustness as the TPP strategy. We implemented our algorithm in a new version of the SPRAL Sparse Symmetric Indeﬁnite Direct Solver (SSIDS) which initially supported GPU-only factorization. We have used OpenMP 4 task features to implement a multifrontal algorithm with dense factorizations using the novel APTP, and we show that it performs favourably compared to the state-of-the-art solvers HSL MA86 , HSL MA97 and PARDISO both in terms of performance on a multicore machine and in terms of numerical robustness. Finally we show that this new solver is able to make use of GPU devices for accelerating the factorization on heterogeneous architectures.
Design of routing-constrained low power scan chains

Scan-based architectures, though widely used in modern designs, are expensive in power consumption. Recently, we proposed a technique based on clustering and reordering of scan cells that allows to design low power scan chains according to Y. Bonhomme et al. (2003). The main feature of this technique is that power consumption during scan testing is minimized while constraints on scan routing are satisfied. In this paper, we propose a new version of this technique. The clustering process has been modified to allow a better distribution of scan cells in each cluster and hence lead to more important power reductions. Results are provided at the end of the paper to highlight this point and show that scan design constraints (length of scan connections, congestion problems) are still satisfied.
Association of Mouse Dlg 4 ( PSD-95 ) Gene Deletion and Human DLG 4 Gene Variation With Phenotypes Relevant to Autism Spectrum Disorders and Williams ' Syndrome

Objective—Research is increasingly linking autism spectrum disorders and other neurodevelopmental disorders to synaptic abnormalities (“synaptopathies”). PSD-95 (postsynaptic density-95, DLG4) orchestrates protein-protein interactions at excitatory synapses and is a major functional bridge interconnecting a neurexin-neuroligin-SHANK pathway implicated in autism spectrum disorders. Method—The authors characterized behavioral, dendritic, and molecular phenotypic abnormalities relevant to autism spectrum disorders in mice with PSD-95 deletion (Dlg4−/−). The data from mice led to the identification of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in human DLG4 and the examination of associations between these variants and neural signatures of Williams’ syndrome in a normal population, using functional and structural neuroimaging. Results—Dlg4−/− showed increased repetitive behaviors, abnormal communication and social behaviors, impaired motor coordination, and increased stress reactivity and anxiety-related responses. Dlg4−/− had subtle dysmorphology of amygdala dendritic spines and altered forebrain expression of various synaptic genes, including Cyln2, which regulates cytoskeletal dynamics and is a candidate gene for Williams’ syndrome. A significant association was observed between Address correspondence and reprint requests to Mr. Feyder, NIAAA, 5625 Fishers Lane, Rm. 2N09, Rockville, MD 20852-9411; michael.feyder@ki.se. All other authors report no competing interests. NIH Public Access
Synthesis and Characterization of New Organosoluble and Thermally Stable Poly(thioether-amide)s Bearing Pyridine Subunit in the Main Chain

We report the synthesis of new polyamides containing 2,6-bis(2-thio-2-(4-carboxyphenyl)-1-oxo)pyridine subunit, under microwave irradiation using Yamasaki phosphorylation method. The solubility, thermal behavior, and viscosity of polyamides were evaluated. The structures of polymers have been characterized using IR and 1H NMR spectroscopy. These polyamides showed good solubility, viscosity, high thermal stability, and glass transition temperatures. Their viscosities and glass transition temperatures are in the range of 0.63–0.88 and 223–295°C, respectively. Thermal stabilities for 10% weight loss (T10) are 137–173°C and for 50% weight loss (T50) are in the range of 483–523°C. The study of surface morphology showed particle and amorphous structures.
ScholarWorks ScholarWorks

Seemingly, Gender, language, and partisanship are intertwined concepts. We believe that the use of gendered language in political settings may often act as a dog whistle. The purpose of this paper is to craft a tool for scholars to test the interconnection between politics, gender, and language – what we refer to as being the gendered language and partisanship nexus. We test our prediction using original word rating data. From our test, we find significant variation across 700 words in ratings as masculine and feminine and discover that words rated as masculine are more likely to be rated as dominant and negatively valenced. We additionally find that Republican men are most likely to rate words as more masculine. Using this dictionary, we find that Republican presidents are more likely to use masculine language than Democratic presidents in their State of the Union addresses and that the Republican Party uses more masculine language than the Democratic Party in their official party platform.
An Empirical Comparison: Two Special Cases of CEV Option Pricing Model and Black-Scholes Model on S&P Canada 60 Index Call Options

Given that the options market is now very large and significant part of the trade of financial instruments, the evaluation of pricing of these derivatives becomes very important for regulators as well as market participants. The value of an option can be estimated by using a variety of quantitative techniques based on the concept of risk neutral pricing. In the famous Black-Scholes pricing formula it is assumed that the underlying stock price returns follow a lognormal distribution. However, empirical studies have shown that this assumption does not perfectly hold. Rubinstein (1994) examines the S&P 500 index option market and finds that Black-Scholes implied volatilities have a “smile” pattern prior to October 1987 market crash and a “sneer” after the crash. Consequently, several kinds of modification of the variances have been tried.
The piRNA cluster torimochi is an expanding transposon in cultured silkworm cells

PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) play a central role in repressing transposable elements in animal germ cells. It is thought that piRNAs are mainly produced from discrete genomic loci named piRNA clusters, which often contain many “dead” transposon remnants from past invasions and have heterochromatic features. In the genome of silkworm ovary-derived cultured cells called BmN4, a well-established model for piRNA research, torimochi was previously annotated as a unique and specialized genomic region that can capture transgenes and produce new piRNAs bearing a trans-silencing activity. However, the sequence identity of torimochi has remained elusive. Here, we carefully characterized torimochi by utilizing the updated silkworm genome sequence and the long-read sequencer MinION. We found that torimochi is in fact a full-length gypsy-like LTR retrotransposon, which is exceptionally active and has massively expanded its copy number in BmN4 cells. Many copies of torimochi in BmN4 cells have features of open chromatin and the ability to produce piRNAs. Therefore, torimochi may represent a young, growing piRNA cluster, which is still “alive” and active in transposition yet capable of trapping other transposable elements to produce de novo piRNAs. (185 words)
AVEC 2012: the continuous audio/visual emotion challenge - an introduction

The second international Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop 2012 (AVEC 2012) is introduced shortly. 34 teams from 12 countries signed up for the Challenge. The SEMAINE database serves for prediction of four-dimensional continuous affect in audio and video. For the eligible participants, final scores for the Fully-Continuous Sub-Challenge ranged between a correlation coefficient between gold standard and prediction of 0.174 and 0.456, and for Word-Level Sub-Challenge between 0.113 and 0.280.
Forecasting and Prequential Validation for Time Varying Meta-Elliptical Distributions with a Study of Commodity Futures Prices

We consider forecasting and prequential (predictive sequential) validation of meta-elliptical distributions with time varying parameters. Using the weak prequential principle of Dawid, we conduct model validation avoiding nuisance parameters problems. Results rely on the structure of meta-elliptical distributions and we allow for discontinuities in the marginals and time varying parameters. We use our approach for the study of a large data set of 16 commodity prices.
Financial Investments and Insurance - Global Trends and the Polish Market

Summary: After the recent financial crisis commencing in 2007, bankruptcy prediction has become a major concern and, as a result, today we have lots of different approaches to the bankruptcy prediction models but all of them full of limitations. Because of this (and not only) neither the Altman models nor other more recent models (partitioning algorithm, survival analysis, expert systems, neural networks, etc.) are recommended for use with financial companies. In order to overcome these limitations in modern Belarusian practice suffering from a lack of developed bankruptcy theory it is not enough to transfer foreign practice automatically to the reality of its national evolving economic conditions. This study attempts to show how a “Slice-Of-Life” approach, based on national circumstances and priorities, can be used to improve the temporal stability of the accuracy of a financial failure models for Belarusian companies.
of Antigen-specific immunotherapy with thyrotropin receptor peptides in Graves' hyperthyroidism

Background: Graves’ disease is one of the most common autoimmune conditions, but treatment remains imperfect. This study explores the ﬁrst-in-human use of antigen-speciﬁc immunotherapy with a combination of two thyrotropin receptor (TSHR) peptides (termed ATX-GD-59) in Graves’ hyperthyroidism. Methods: Twelve participants (11 female) with previously untreated mild to moderate Graves’ hyperthyroidism were enrolled in a Phase I open label trial to receive 10 doses of ATX-GD-59 administered intradermally over an 18-week period. Adverse events, tolerability, changes in serum free thyroid hormones, and TSHR autoantibodies were measured. Results: Ten subjects received all 10 doses of ATX-GD-59, ﬁve (50%) of whom had free triiodothyronine within the reference interval by the 18-week visit. Two further subjects had improved free thyroid hormones by the end of the study (7/10 responders), whereas three subjects showed worsening thyrotoxicosis during the study. Serum TSHR autoantibody concentrations reduced during the study and correlated with changes in free thyroid hormones ( r = 0.85, p = 0.002 for TSHR autoantibody vs. free triiodothyronine). Mild injection-site swelling and pain were the most common adverse events. Conclusions: These preliminary data suggest that ATX-GD-59 is a safe and well-tolerated treatment. The improvement in free thyroid hormones in 70% of subjects receiving the medication suggests potential efﬁcacy as a novel treatment for Graves’ hyperthyroidism.
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor: Its role in gut-homing macrophage generation and colitis, and production by probiotics

The pleiotropic cytokine granulocyte-colony stimulatory factor (G-CSF) is mainly required for the generation of neutrophils, but its role in macrophage generation has also been reported. In addition, G-CSF is effective for the down-regulation of inflammatory cytokines and ameliorating gut disorders, such as colitis. However, the G-CSF function in macrophage generation and gut immunity remains unclear. The first focus of this thesis was to assess the role of G-CSF in macrophage generation and its contribution to gut immunity. G-CSF was found to promote the generation of Gr-1/F4/80 macrophages in macrophage (M)-CSF-treated bone marrow cells, most likely through suppressing cell death. Gr-1 macrophages showed antiinflammatory/regulatory macrophage (M2)-like cytokine and surface marker profiles. G-CSF receptor deficient (G-CSFR) mice harbored less gut macrophages, but had a similar number of neutrophils in the gut. In addition, adoptive transfer of G-CSFtreated bone marrow-derived macrophages (G-BMDM) showed a dominant guthoming phenotype. G-CSFR mice were also more susceptible to dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis than wild-type mice and adoptive transfer of G-BMDM protected these mice from DSS-induced colitis. The second focus of this thesis was to explore the signaling mechanism(s) controlling the preferential G-CSF production over inflammatory cytokines in probiotic bacteria-exposed BMDM. Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 (GR-1) renders several immunomodulatory effects, at least in part, through preferentially inducing G-CSF in macrophages. However, the mechanism(s) by which GR-1 induces preferential G-CSF production in macrophages is still unknown. Among 84 genes tested, G-CSF was the cytokine induced at highest levels in GR-1-treated BMDM, but the induction of inflammatory cytokines, such as TNF-α, was minimal. The signaling pathway of GR-1-preferential G-CSF production was TLR2-, NF-κB-, ERKsand PI3K/Akt-dependent. A secreted protein-like molecule(s) was found to be responsible for GR-1-preferential G-CSF production. Collectively, these results demonstrated the immune regulatory function of G-CSF on macrophages in gut immunity and a potential mechanism of action of certain probiotics.