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Gender differences for non-fatal unintentional fall related injuries among older adults

Objectives: To quantify gender differences for non-fatal unintentional fall related injuries among US adults age 65 years and older treated in hospital emergency departments (EDs). Methods: The authors analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of ED visits for January 2001 through December 2001, available through the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP). For each initial ED visit, coders record one principal diagnosis (usually the most severe) and one primary part of the body affected. Results: Based on 22 560 cases, an estimated 1.64 million older adults were treated in EDs for unintentional fall injuries. Of these, approximately 1.16 million, or 70.5%, were women. Fractures, contusions/abrasions, and lacerations accounted for more than three quarters of all injuries. Rates for injury diagnoses were generally higher among women, most notably for fractures which were 2.2 times higher than for men. For all parts of the body, women’s injury rates exceeded those of men. Rate ratios were greatest for injuries of the leg/foot (2.3), arm/hand (2.0), and lower trunk (2.0). The hospitalization rate for women was 1.8 times that for men. Conclusions: Among older adults, non-fatal fall related injuries disproportionately affected women. Much is known about effective fall prevention strategies. We need to refine, promote, and implement these interventions. Additional research is needed to tailor interventions for different populations and to determine gender differences in the underlying causes and/or circumstances of falls. This information is vital for developing and implementing targeted fall prevention strategies.
CITY'S INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL FRAMEWORK: THE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT POINT OF VIEW

It has been widely recognized that urban competitiveness relies on the reasonable management of the intellectual resource. This is not possible without having the proper resource inventory framework in place. The main purpose of this research is to explore the core and structure of city’s intellectual capital by constructing and thoroughly investigating the intellectual capital framework, which could serve as a starting point for the city’s performance measurement. In order to achieve this purpose the following tasks have been completed: (1) the importance of the intellectual resource in the context of urban competitiveness has been analyzed; (2) the city’s intellectual capital concept variety by different authors has been explored; (3) the competitive city-specific characteristics have been investigated; (4) a detailed city’s intellectual capital framework that would facilitate the inventory of this resource has been created; (5) city’s intellectual resource performance measurement guidelines have been defined. A possibility of applying the concept of organizational intellectual capital structure to perform city’s intellectual resource inventory is investigated in this research. City’s intellectual capital framework proposed here differs in a large number of composite components suggested and explained. Variety of internal components defined is useful for municipalities in the city’s intellectual resource identification and, therefore, measuring its performance and making management decisions. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.5755/j01.em. 18.2. 4761
Transpersonal Experiences in Childhood: An Exploratory Empirical Study of Selected Adult Groups

A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states. In two exploratory studies this questionnaire was administered to subjects with high estimated levels of early transpersonal experiences and practising meditators, with respective undergraduate controls. A cognitive skills/precocity model of early transpersonal experience was contrasted with a vulnerability of self model by comparisons of these groups on questionnaire categories, imaginative absorption, neuroticism, and visual-spatial skills, with some support found for both models depending on experience type, age of estimated recall, and adult meditative practice.
Hybrid controller for rotational inverted pendulum systems

In this paper, a controller designed by energy control technique and servo state feedback with minimum-order observer control algorithm to swing up the pendulum of the rotational inverted pendulum system from the natural pendent position to around the upright position and to stabilize the pendulum in upright position is proposed. The proposed control scheme composes of two parts. The first part is the swing-lip control using the energy-based controller and the second part is the stabilizing control using the servo state feedback with minimum-order observer controller. From the implementation of the controller to the rotational inverted pendulum system in laboratory, the pendulum can be swung up within a short period of time with small oscillation of the base angle. Furthermore, without changing the parameters of the proposed controller, the responses of the system when changing the length of the pendulum is also shown to demonstrate the robustness of the proposed control system.
Private Members' Bills and the Personal Vote: Neither Selling nor Shaving

Private members' bills (PMBs) have mostly been studied from a government-opposition perspective as a tool in the hands of minor opposition parties. Using data on PMBs from two legislative periods of the Estonian parliament (1999–2007) and descriptive discriminant analysis (DDA), this article investigates if the personal vote notion explains why some members of parliament engage in sponsorship of PMBs more often than others in a fixed institutional setting with three different mandate types. In addition, the ‘pseudo-legislative’ nature of PMBs is studied by comparing the technical sophistication of the bills and legislative process in parliament between different mandate types. The results support the personal vote concept, but not the label of pseudo-legislation.
Developing a Method to Assessing the Municipal Financial Health

Following the conceptual framework developed by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, which is based on three broad dimensions of sustainability, flexibility and vulnerability, this paper proposes a method for evaluating the financial health of municipalities. This methodology could be useful for performance assessment in any country and framework. An aggregate indicator has been obtained for each municipality that covers all the aspects analyzed. For this, multivariate statistical techniques of principal component analysis and discriminant analysis are combined. The proposed method overcomes the problem that we detected in the literature related to the weighting of variables, optimizing the measurement of the variability of all indicators that are included in the financial condition. The indicator evaluates and ranks the degree of financial health of each municipality and serves as a tool to study how different factors might have an impact on its financial health. The performance of the indicator has been contrasted with the socioeconomic variables of population size and geographic location. The proposed method has been applied to 5,165 Spanish municipalities.
Transient Global Amnesia after Ablation of Premature Ventricular Beats Arising from the Right Coronary Cusp

A 58-year-old female underwent PVC ablation within the right coronary cusp for symptomatic PVCs and suspected PVC-induced cardiomyopathy. Immediately after the procedure, she started to complain about feelings of impending doom, disorientation to time and place, and amnesia regarding the procedure. No sensory or motor deficits could be elicited. A thromboembolic event was suspected and she was evaluated by a neurologist. CT scan of her brain was negative. She was diagnosed with transient global amnesia and her mentation returned to baseline within 4 hours after the procedure.
Corporate Social Responsibility and International Competition: A Welfare Analysis

This paper examines the welfare implications of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in international markets under imperfect competition. Based on a stylized model of an import-competing duopolistic market, we show the feasibility of moving toward tariff reductions when both domestic and foreign firms launch CSR initiatives in that their payoffs include not only individual profits, but also the benefits of consumers. For the case where the foreign exporter unilaterally adopts the consumer-oriented CSR as a strategy, there is a rent-shifting effect because the foreign firm's payoff increases whereas the domestic firm's profit decreases. In response, the importing country's government raises its tariff on the foreign product. If, instead, the domestic firm adopts the CSR strategy unilaterally, the rent-shifting effect disappears and both the competing firms’ payoffs increase. We further identify the conditions under which the CSR initiatives of the firms constitute the dominant strategy, leading to a Pareto efficient outcome at which the firms’ payoffs, consumer surplus, and social welfare are at their maximum levels.
The public interest standard and deregulation: The impact of the fairness doctrine

For thirty-eight years, the Fairness Doctrine was the linchpin or core of the public interest standard of the 1934 Communications Act, regulating commercial broadcasting in the United States. In 1987, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed the doctrine. The paper here relates a policy analysis of the Fairness Doctrine which was incorporated into the proposed FAIRNESS IN BROADCASTING ACT OF 1989, codifying the doctrine. Key personnel in the broadcasting industry were interviewed to find out their understanding of and attitudes towards “fairness”, compliance, and the overall impact of Fairness Doctrine policies on the clientele. The political and administrative struggle over the Fairness Doctrine continues, amid the current administration's drive to reregulate the cable and commercial broadcasting industries. The passage of the Cable Television Consumer Protection Act of 1992 and recent efforts in the 103rd Congress to revive the Fairness Doctrine, indicate that the era of pure deregulation is.
Laboratory Tests of Equilibrium Predictions with Disequilibrium Data

We examine a common practice used within previous studies of laboratory markets, testing equilibrium models using some data from markets that have not reached an equilibrium. We examine the effect of this practice when it is applied to some laboratory markets where an appreciable number of them eventually satisfied an operational definition of an equilibrium. Our data suggest that, for our markets, significantly different equilibrium test results would be obtained when using all data available in market periods analysed in previous studies rather than using only equilibrium data. For our markets, choices made in disequilibrium are quite different from those in equilibrium.
Present Practice of Thrombosis Prophylaxis of Radical Prostatectomy in a European Country: A Hungarian Multicenter Study

Venous thromboembolism is a possible fatal complication after pelvic surgery. There is a lack of trials assessing the effect of prophylactic measures in urology. The aim of the study was to evaluate the practice of thrombosis prophylaxis in a Central European country. A questionnaire of performed radical prostatectomies, way of thrombosis prophylaxis and number of experienced thrombotic events was posted to all departments of urology in Hungary. With a response rate of 59%, 506 radical prostatectomies were reported. Low molecular weight heparin was administered by 100% of the departments. Graduated support stockings were applied by 37% of the patients. Early mobilization was the most common form of mechanic prophylaxis (57%). Thrombotic events were experienced in 1.4%, 0.2% were fatal. The thrombosis prophylaxis of patients undergoing radical prostatectomy is not unified. Due to the potential mortality of thrombotic complications it should be evaluated and prophylaxis should be recommended in urological guidelines.
Grading in superficial papillary bladder carcinoma, with an emphasis on nuclear orientation.

OBJECTIVE To develop a computerized analysis method that could reflect not only cellular anaplasia but also the orientation (PV) of neoplastic elements and could allow the separation of low (grade G 1 and G 2a) and high (G 2b) grades of superficial papillary bladder tumors (SPBTs). STUDY DESIGN Cellular anaplasia is based on classic morphometric parameters, such as mean and standard deviation of area, perimeter, roundness and aspect ratio (length/width ratio) of 50 papillary bladder tumors (16 G 1, 10 G 2a and 24 G 2b according to Pauwels). Orientation of the major axis of each nucleus with respect to the true basal membrane was calculated using the SD of valve distribution. RESULTS No statistically significant differences were found between cases showing contiguous grades (G 1 versus G 2a or G 2a versus G 2b). PV, SD of the area and SD of the perimeter were the parameters that could significantly distinguish between G 1 and G 2b and between G 1 plus G 2a and G 2b (P < .05). When comparing G 1 with G 2a plus G 2b, only PV and SD of the area were statistically significant. CONCLUSION Quantification of the irregularities in the orientation of nuclei with respect to the basal membrane may improve morphometric classification of low grade SPBTs.
Neuropsychological status of children with Tourette's syndrome with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

To determine the frequency of learning disabilities (LD) and describe the neuropsychological profile of children with Tourette's syndrome (TS) with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), we analyzed psychosocial, psychoeducational, and neuropsychological data from 65 children between the ages of 6 and 14 years selected from a larger study of LD.Three groups were formed: TS only, TS plus ADHD, and TS plus/minus ADHD. The third group was composed of children whose ADHD status was not as strongly confirmed by the three different instruments used for ADHD diagnosis. From other (non-TS) research projects in the Center, a comparison group of 27 unaffected siblings who had no diagnosis of ADHD was formed. All children were unmedicated at the time of assessment and had the full set of data available for analysis. LDs were present in 23% of the total TS sample, but LD was not present in the TS-only group. All TS groups had scores at or below 1 SD from the mean on measures of choice reaction time, but the TS-only group was significantly poorer on a measure of executive function (letter word fluency). We discuss the implication of the finding in the TS-only group in terms of a slowing of linguistic productivity. NEUROLOGY 1996;46: 958-965
Activation of polyphosphoinositide metabolism as a signal‐transducing system coupled to excitatory amino acid receptors in astroglial cells

Excitatory amino acids (EAA) are known to induce an increase in the breakdown of polyphosphoinositides (PI) in brain slices and in dispersed cultures of neurons. We have now used astroglia cultured from newborn rat cerebra to demonstrate that glutamate provokes, in [3H]inositol‐labeled cells, an accumulation of inositol phosphates in a time‐ and concentration‐dependent manner. The ED50 value for glutamate was 40 μM. Quisqualate, ibotenate, and kainate were also active, with their relative potencies in the order of quisqualate > ibotenate >> kainate. No effect was detected with N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate and quinolinic acid in the absence of Mg2+. The nonselective glutamate receptor antagonist γ‐D‐glutamylglycine fully inhibited glutamate agonist‐induced PI breakdown. A brief pretreatment of the astroglial cells with phorbol esters negated these effects of EAA receptor agonists, suggesting a feedback role for protein kinase C in phospholipase C action. Glutamate also elevated cytosolic free Ca2+ in Fura‐2‐loaded astroglial cells, as assessed by digital fluorescence imaging microscopy. Since a close metabolic partnership is known to exist between neurons and glia, these findings may have important functional consequences for neural cells in vivo.
Did the Recent Financial Crisis Impact Integration between the Real Estate and Stock Markets

We examine linkages between the real estate market and the stock market before and after the delisting of Lehman Brothers to determine if the recent financial crisis had an effect on the degree of integration between them. Using Granger causality tests, vector autoregression (VAR) models, and state space models, we find that real estate returns subsequently influence stock market returns, a unique result when compared to past financial crises, but consistent with recent findings of increased systematic risk in real estate investment trusts (REITs). We also find that some estimated transaction-based geographic/property type indices were less integrated with the stock market, which indicates that pure property indices may provide better portfolio diversification in the event of a real estate-related stock market downturn. These tests were made possible through the employment of a new daily transaction-based commercial real estate return series.
Confronting child abuse: Research for effective program design.

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What determines the economic links among organic farmers? Empirical evidence from Argentina

Farming and consumers' decisions are affected by markets globalizations, products differentiation, agricultural industrialization at the retail level and new organizational forms. The linkages among farmers emerge as a viable strategy to compete in this new context. Producers must develop skills to maintain market positioning and access to high value added niches. In Argentina, organic production has been an alternative for farmers to increase revenues, since the nineties, due to the major demand of developed countries and the price premiums. The objective of the paper is to investigate the extent to which Argentinian organic producers operate in an associated way and which the determinants of these linkages are. A count model regression is used to estimate the links among producers. The extent to which producers choose to operate in an associated way is mainly determined by the number of marketing channels used by the farmers, processing activities carried out, public support received, the scale of the farm and the kind of goods produced. This study may contribute to understand farmers' decisions about association. The issue is particularly relevant to policy makers in developing countries where associations are promoted due to the emerging role of the social capital in the rural development policies design.
On the relationship between hypsodonty and feeding ecology in ungulate mammals, and its utility in palaeoecology

High‐crowned (hypsodont) teeth are widely found among both extant and extinct mammalian herbivores. Extant grazing ungulates (hoofed mammals) have hypsodont teeth (a derived condition), and so extinct hypsodont forms have usually been presumed to have been grazers. Thus, hypsodonty among ungulates has, over the past 150 years, formed the basis of widespread palaeoecological interpretations, and has figured prominently in the evolutionary study of the spread of grasslands in the mid Cenozoic. However, perceived inconsistencies between levels of hypsodonty and dental wear patterns in both extant and extinct ungulates have caused some workers to reject hypsodonty as a useful predictive tool in palaeobiology, a view that we consider both misguided and premature.
Vargas and Brazilian Economic Development, 1930–1945: A Reappraisal of his Attitude Toward Industrialization and Planning

A struggle for industrialization is one of the major themes of the recent history of not only Brazil, but virtually the whole of Latin America. The historical evolution of that struggle finds a common denominator in the structural similarities of the national economies of the region. Assessment of Brazil's experience in the post-1929 period should therefore yield insights into the problems that Latin America as a whole faced during the international upheaval spawned by the financial collapse of 1929. Such an appraisal may also provide empirical assistance for the elaboration of future comparative studies. The specific analytical focus of this article is the attitude of Getúlio Vargas' government toward industrialization and planning, a theme whose re-evaluation serves, furthermore, to do justice to the enigmatic and reluctant revolutionary who governed Brazil during critical years and depression and war.
MicroRNA‐199b Modulates Vascular Cell Fate During iPS Cell Differentiation by Targeting the Notch Ligand Jagged1 and Enhancing VEGF Signaling

Aims: Recent ability to derive endothelial cells (ECs) from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells holds a great therapeutic potential for personalized medicine and stem cell therapy. We aimed that better understanding of the complex molecular signals that are evoked during iPS cell differentiation toward ECs may allow specific targeting of their activities to enhance cell differentiation and promote tissue regeneration. Methods and Results: In this study, we have generated mouse iPS cells from fibroblasts using established protocol. When iPS cells were cultivated on type IV mouse collagen‐coated dishes in differentiation medium, cell differentiation toward vascular lineages were observed. To study the molecular mechanisms of iPS cell differentiation, we found that miR‐199b is involved in EC differentiation. A step‐wise increase in expression of miR‐199 was detected during EC differentiation. Notably, miR‐199b targeted the Notch ligand JAG1, resulting in vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) transcriptional activation and secretion through the transcription factor STAT3. Upon shRNA‐mediated knockdown of the Notch ligand JAG1, the regulatory effect of miR‐199b was ablated and there was robust induction of STAT3 and VEGF during EC differentiation. Knockdown of JAG1 also inhibited miR‐199b‐mediated inhibition of iPS cell differentiation toward smooth muscle markers. Using the in vitro tube formation assay and implanted Matrigel plugs, in vivo, miR‐199b also regulated VEGF expression and angiogenesis. Conclusions: This study indicates a novel role for miR‐199b as a regulator of the phenotypic switch during vascular cell differentiation derived from iPS cells by regulating critical signaling angiogenic responses. Stem Cells 2015;33:1405–1418
The proletarianisation of academic labour

This article looks at industrial relations changes, conflict and control in higher education, particularly among university academics. It suggests a tendency towards proletarianisation, and a focus on the academic labour process is useful in explaining growing conflict. An apparent HRM agenda and (reluctantly) increasing managerialism are forms, not causes, of change which is driven by funding pressures similar to those affecting other HE systems.