Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Employer Support on Employee Management of Chronic Health Conditions at work

Introduction: This study examined the relationship between employer support, self-efficacy and self-management of chronic illness at work. Method: 772 employees reporting musculoskeletal pain (n = 230), arthritis and rheumatism (n = 132), asthma (n = 129), depression and anxiety (n = 121), heart disease (n =80) and diabetes (n = 80) completed a questionnaire distributed across four large organizations. A modified version of the Self-Efficacy to Manage Symptoms Scale and the Self-Management Behaviors Scale. Support from line manager and occupational health were assessed. Results: Structural equation modelling analyses revealed that line managers support was directly related to employees’ self-management of symptoms and medication at work. All three self-efficacy measures (beliefs about the ability to make adjustments, take medication and manage symptoms at work) partially mediated the relationship between line manager support and the use of medication at work. Self-efficacy beliefs in taking medication and making work adjustments also partially mediated the relationship between line manager support and self-management of symptoms at work. In contrast, there were no direct relationship between occupational health support and two self-management behaviors. Self-efficacy beliefs about making adjustments at work fully mediated the relationship between support from occupational health and self-management behaviors. Conclusions: Employer support in developing both symptom-related and work-related self-efficacy for medication adherence and symptom management is important for those working with a chronic illness.
Validation Of A Decision Support ModelTo Predict Concentration After AChemical Spill Into A River

The transport of dangerous materials (road, fluvial, pipeline.) increases the risk of accidental releases into streams. The consequences of these accidents can be very serious, both for the stream’s environment and for people’s lives if the pollution reaches water treatment plants, irrigation water pumping. To limit the consequences of these accidents, it is necessary to use a decision support model that predicts pollutant concentrations in a stream. This work focuses on laboratory model pollution simulations in order to validate the dispersion model that gives a concentration of chemical miscible product versus time or distance from the downstream releasing point. The channel model initial dimensions (34 cm of width, 14 m of length and 16 cm of depth) can be varied with experimental conditions and scaling requirements. The current velocity can vary up to 20 cm/s. The flow characteristics are turbulent and fluvial. These characteristics can be modified to extend the representativeness of the river model to different types of rivers, channels or streams. A specific sampling system is developed to take 144 samples across the section. The mixing length and the dispersion coefficient are evaluated by using a Uranine tracer and samples are analyzed by sphectophotometry UV-Vis. Finally, the dispersion model is validated and modified for one dynamic configuration of the channel model. The predictions are excellent with a correlation coefficient between observed and predicted data equal to unity.
Trends in Breastfeeding Among Infants Enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children — New York, 2002–2015

Breastfeeding is widely accepted as the optimal method of infant feeding (1,2). New York Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) has prioritized the promotion of breastfeeding. To assess breastfeeding trends among New York WIC infants, indicators for measuring breastfeeding practices reported by the New York Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS) during 2002-2015 were examined. The prevalence of breastfeeding initiation increased from 62.0% (2002) to 83.4% (2015), exceeding the Healthy People 2020 (HP2020)* objective of 81.9% in 2014, with improvements among all racial/ethnic groups. The percentage of New York WIC infants who breastfed for ≥6 and ≥12 months increased from 30.2% and 15.0% (2002) to 39.5% and 22.8% (2015), respectively. The prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding for ≥3 and ≥6 months increased from 8.9% and 2.9% (2006) to 14.3% and 8.0% (2015), respectively. Despite improvements in breastfeeding initiation, increasing the duration of breastfeeding and of exclusive breastfeeding among infants enrolled in the New York WIC program remains challenging. Identifying targeted strategies to support continued and exclusive breastfeeding should remain priorities for the New York WIC program.
2007 E-government Diffusion : A Comparison of Adoption Constructs

E-government adoption is the focus of many research studies. However, few studies have compared the adoption factors to identify the most salient predictors of e-government use. This study compares popular adoption constructs to identify the most influential. A survey was administered to elicit citizen perceptions of e-government services. The results of stepwise regression indicate perceived usefulness, trust of the internet, previous use of an e-government service and perceived ease of use all have a significant impact on one’s intention to use an e-government service. The implications for research and practice are discussed below.
Towards the Automatic Classification of Documents in User-generated Classifications

There is a huge amount of information scattered on the World Wide Web. As the information flow occurs at a high speed in the WWW, there is a need to organize it in the right manner so that a user can access it very easily. Previously the organization of information was generally done manually, by matching the document contents to some pre-defined categories. There are two approaches for this text-based categorization: manual and automatic. In the manual approach, a human expert performs the classification task, and in the second case supervised classifiers are used to automatically classify resources. In a supervised classification, manual interaction is required to create some training data before the automatic classification task takes place. In our new approach, we intend to propose automatic classification of documents through semantic keywords and building the formulas generation by these keywords. Thus we can reduce this human participation by combining the knowledge of a given classification and the knowledge extracted from the data. The main focus of this PhD thesis, supervised by Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, is the automatic classification of documents into user-generated classifications. The key benefits foreseen from this automatic document classification is not only related to search engines, but also to many other fields like, document organization, text filtering, semantic index managing.
Description And Evaluation of a Full Tensor Interpolation Method

Full tensor gravity gradiometers acquire multiple gradient components that are inherently related to one another. One way in which this redundancy of information can be exploited is enhanced interpolation. That is, the estimation of the field between observation points is made more accurate by the presence of many simultaneously measured components. A method of full tensor interpolation based on the relationships between the gradient components in Fourier domain will be presented and its effectiveness demonstrated in both qualitative and quantitative manner. Such an interpolation method can be evaluated qualitatively by gridding the field arising from a random array of buried source objects as is would be acquired at a given line spacing. The resulting map is then compared to one generated from the same source field using a conventional gridding and only the vertical component of the gravity gradient. For the line spacing chosen, all of the source masses could be located using full tensor interpolation whereas none of them could be resolved using conventional gridding. Resolution can be measured quantitatively by use of a source detection algorithm. This objectively determines whether two nearby sources can be resolved as being separate entities. A Monte Carlo technique was used to measure resolution success as a function of line spacing. For the source model chosen full tensor interpolation was able to match the resolution performance of conventional gridding even if the line spacing is greater by a factor of 1.55.
The Development of Theory of Mind in Early Childhood

Subject Social cognition is at the heart of children’s ability to get along with other people and to see things from their point of view. The basis of this crucial ability lies in the development of theory of mind. “Theory of mind” refers to our understanding of people as mental beings, each with his or her own mental states – such as thoughts, wants, motives and feelings. We use theory of mind to explain our own behaviour to others, by telling them what we think and want, and we interpret other people’s talk and behaviour by considering their thoughts and wants.
A survey of skeletal elements in the orbit of Pseudosuchia and the origin of the crocodylian palpebral

ABSTRACT Ossified skeletal elements within the orbit, such as scleral ossicles, palpebrals, supraorbitals and sesamoids, are widespread across Reptilia, including extant members of Crocodylia, Aves, Squamata and Chelonia. Extant crocodylians lack scleral ossicles, but have a unique palpebral that has recently been shown, through developmental studies, to be an osteoderm in the upper eyelid. Here, we examine the diversity and disparity of the crocodylian palpebral in extant members of Crocodylia and, through the fossil record, trace the origin and evolutionary history of the element throughout Pseudosuchia (all archosaurs more closely related to crocodylians than avians). We show that the crocodylian palpebral originated outside of Crocodylomorpha in early pseudosuchian groups (e.g. Aetosauria, Loricata) and that scleral ossicles are lost in nearly all groups of pseudosuchians, but appear in poposauroids, at least one early crocodylomorph, and some partially or fully marine Crocodyliformes (e.g. thalattosuchians). The morphology and number of palpebrals differs across Crocodyliformes; the presence of two palpebrals is plesiomorphic, but this is reduced to one by Crocodylia. We further recommend the restriction of the term palpebral to the structure in crocodylians and their homologues, but not to the structure in ornithischian dinosaurs.
The Relationship Between Suspended Sediment Concentration and Remotely Sensed Spectral Radiance: A Review

Information on the concentration of suspended sediments in coastal waters is necessary for the understanding and management of the coastal environment. Traditionally, suspended sediment concentration (SSC) has been measured by time-consuming and costly boat surveys which allow the accurate measurement of SSC for single points in space and time. Remote sensing from airborne and spaceborne sensors has proved to be a useful adjunct to such surveys as it provides an instantaneous and synoptic view of sediments that would otherwise be unavailable. The key to the success of remote sensing in such a role is the strong positive relationship that exists between SSC and remotely sensed spectral radiance (L(x)). This review provides an introduction to this SSC/L(x) relationship; exploring its physical basis, its robustness under a range of environmental conditions and its utility as a tool for estimation. It is concluded that future research on this relationship should concentrate upon the suppression of environmental influences and the optimum sampling of SSC.
Physical and genetic map of the Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 chromosome

A physical and genetic map of the Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 chromosome was constructed. The macrorestriction map for CeuI, EagI, and SstII was created by ordering the 38 restriction sites by one- and two-dimensional pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and by using an original strategy based on the CeuI enzyme and indirect end labelling by hybridization on both sides of the CeuI sites with rrs (16S RNA) and 3' rrl (23S RNA) probes. The circular chromosome was estimated to be 4.15 Mb in size, and the average resolution of the physical map is 110 kb. The chromosome contains 11 rrn loci, which are localized on 44% of the chromosome in a divergent transcriptional orientation regarding the presumed location of the replication origin. In addition to these 11 rrn operons, a total of 40 identified genes were mapped by hybridization experiments with genes from C. acetobutylicum and from various other clostridia as probes. The genetic map of C. acetobutylicum was compared to that of the three other endospore-forming bacteria characterized so far: Bacillus subtilis, Clostridium beijerinckii, and Clostridium perfringens. Parodoxically, the chromosomal backbone of C. acetobutylicum showed more similarity to that of B. subtilis than to those of the clostridia.
IMPACTOS DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO EN PLAGAS Y ENFERMEDADES DE LAS PLANTAS EN BRASIL* IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PLANT DISEASES AND PESTS IN BRAZIL

Assessment of the impacts of climate change on pest infestations and disease epidemics in crops is needed as a basis for revising management practices and addressing ways to improve understanding and management of pest and plant diseases under climate change. As the projected climate conditions will probably vary greatly in the future from region to region of the Earth, studies must be conducted under each ecoregion considering its specific environmental conditions. We present a review focusing on impacts of climate change on rising atmospheric CO2 concentration, on rising UV-B radiation, and on geographical distribution of plant diseases and pests of studies conducted in Brazil.
Landslide hazard rating matrix and database: vol 1 of 2

16. Abstract The Office of Geotechnical Engineering (OGE) of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) recognizes the need to develop a strategy to provide timely preventive maintenance to avoid onset of large or catastrophic slope failures. Furthermore, with limited financial resources, the OGE is forced to make rational decisions on the priority of various landslide (slope failure) maintenance and remediation needs. To address these issues, this research project was undertaken with the following objectives: (a) Develop a field validated landslide geological hazard rating matrix, (b) Develop field reconnaissance forms in paper format and electronic format (window plus ArcPad), (c) Develop and deploy a web enabled, GIS based landslide database, and (d) Develop a user's manual and training materials for the landslide geological hazard database. Based on synthesis of literature review of existing practices, ODOT in-house expert opinions, and knowledge of prevalent Ohio geological formations in landslide prone areas, the principal investigator developed the ODOT specific landslide hazard rating system, together with the field site reconnaissance form. A pilot database containing 39 landslide sites was compiled and statistically analyzed to ascertain the reasonableness of the hazard rating outcome. A web accessible landslide database in a GIS platform was developed, pilot tested, and deployed. In addition, a user's manual was developed to assist training of the future users of the system. The benefits from full implementation of the landslide database and landslide hazard rating matrix include: (a) elimination of excessive paper work, (b) near real-time monitoring and data management, (c) centralized information, (d) uniform data collection and reporting, (e) enhanced data sharing. Furthermore, the Ohio Department of Transportation can reap the benefits of cost saving due to early stage detection of landslide and taking pro-active remediation measures. Disclaimer Statement: The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors who are responsible for the facts and accuracy of the data presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the Ohio Department of Transportation or the Federal Highway Administration. This report does not constitute a standard, specification or regulation.
Learning from Incomplete Data

Real-world learning tasks often involve high-dimensional data sets with complex patterns of missing features. In this paper we review the problem of learning from incomplete data from two statistical perspectives---the likelihood-based and the Bayesian. The goal is two-fold: to place current neural network approaches to missing data within a statistical framework, and to describe a set of algorithms, derived from the likelihood-based framework, that handle clustering, classification, and function approximation <from incomplete data in a principled and efficient manner. These algorithms are based on mixture modeling and make two distinct appeals to the Expectation-Maximization (EM) principle (Dempster, Laird, and Rubin 1977)---both for the estimation of mixture components and for coping with the missing data.
APPEARANCE-BASED CLASSIFICATION AND RECOGNITION USING SPECTRAL HISTOGRAM REPRESENTATIONS AND HIERARCHICAL LEARNING FOR OCA

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43-2012 BusInEss TaxEs anD ThE ElECToral CyClE

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether politicians manipulate the timing of tax rate changes in a strategic way to maximize reelection prospects. To do so, we exploit the German local business tax as a testing ground which is set autonomously by German municipalities. As election dates vary across local councils, the data allows us to disentangle effects related to the timing of elections from common trends. Using a rich panel data-set for German municipalities, we assess the impact of elections on local business tax choices. The findings support the notion of a political cycle in tax setting behavior as the growth rate of the local business tax is significantly reduced in the election year and the year prior to the election, while it jumps up in the year after the election. This pattern turns out to be robust against a number of sensitivity checks.
Steel Structures and Bridges 2012 Periods of vibration of braced frames with outriggers

This paper presents simple equations for the natural lateral and rotational periods of vibration for high-rise steel structures comprising braced frames with outrigger trusses. The structural floor plan can be symmetric or asymmetric combinations of identical bents. Each braced frame is modelled by a cantilever with a bending stiffness and racking shear stiffness. The outriggers are represented by a rotational spring. The stiffness of the outrigger spring is dependent on three specific modes of behaviour: bending and racking shear in the outrigger truss and axial lengthening or shortening of the exterior columns. This yields a simple calculation of the maximum horizontal deflection of the structure. For the rotational frequencies, the bending, racking shear and spring stiffness parameters of the steel structure each are combined to yield a torsional stiffness, a warping stiffness and a warping spring stiffness which allow an assessment of the rotation at the top. The approximate method of analysis relates the natural frequencies of the structure to the top deflection and rotation when the self-weight is taken as a distributed horizontal load. In the calculations a braced frame is represented by a rigid stick model with its overall flexibility assigned to a rotational spring at the base. Results obtained by the simplified method are compared to those from a finite element analysis. The approximate method gives acceptable conservative results for preliminary analysis. © 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and review under responsibility of University of Žilina, FCE, Slovakia.
Construction and validation of versatile broad-host range plasmid pBZ 485

We previously expressed VbhTA constructs for lysate AMPylation assays from the pRSFDuet-1 backbone, a plasmid with two multiple cloning sites that each enable the expression of constructs from a PT7 promoter. Our constructs encoded either the VbhT toxin alone (with an N-terminal hexahistidine (His6-)tag) to be expressed from the first multiple cloning site or had additionally the VbhA antitoxin (with an N-terminal hemagglutinin (HA-)tag) cloned into the second multiple cloning site [1]. However, we continuously failed to express soluble BtrFicT using the same procedure. Accidentally, we constructed a pRSFDuet-1 derivative encoding His6-btrficT in the first multiple cloning site and HA-btrficA in the second multiple cloning site in a way that an additional ATG start codon had been inadvertently placed between the ribosome binding site (RBS) and the ATG start codon of the HA-tag of HA-btrficA, but not in frame (plasmid pAH134b; see illustration below).
Libertarian Paternalism: Taking Econs Seriously

There is an extensive critical literature analyzing the libertarian paternalism (LP) of Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. This paper is critical as well, but does so from a different perspective than most of the existing research. Thaler and Sunstein characterize LP by at least two key features: i) a sharp distinction between Econs (those whose behavior will be unchanged by LP policies) and Humans (who will, at least potentially, change their behavior as a result of LP policies), and ii) defining Econs explicitly as homo economicus: "the textbook picture of human beings offered by economists" (Thaler and Sunstein, 2009, p. 7). This paper will take their definition of Econs seriously and examine the implications for LP-based policies. The bottom line is that if we take Econs seriously, LP nudges end up being not only extremely weak policy tools, but they also fail to accommodate some of the most important insights of behavioral economics.
A Large Defect of the Cheek and Temple.

*St. Louis University Medical School, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri; Department of Dermatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; and Department of Dermatology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri © 2017 by the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, Inc. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN: 1076-0512 · Dermatol Surg 2017;43:S99–S102 · DOI: 10.1097/DSS.0000000000000980
The Significance of Management Information System in Improving Organizational Performance and Effectiveness

The main purpose of this study was to show the role of management information system application in improving the performance of the public universities in Sulaimani city of Iraq. The study's sample consists of (200) of administrative employees from all the public universities in the city. The most important conclusion of the research is that all predicted variables of (System and Information Quality, Customer Satisfaction, User Training, Organizational Leadership, and Organization Services Quality) are significant and toward positive effect on the response variable which is Organization Performance of public universities. Furthermore, the results show that (System and Information Quality) and (Organization Services Quality) have the most and the least effects on the Organization Performance respectively. Likewise, the correlation coefficient between Organization Performance and each of the predicted variables is positive with a moderate level of power, and the most powerful relationship was between (Organization Performance) and (System and Information Quality). In order to more effectively and successfully implement the management information system of the universities and to increase the organization’s and employee’s performance, it is suggested to the universities management to upgrade the existing management information system continuously and have a training program for all administrative staff of the university.