Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Social support, discrimination, and Self-Esteem in LGBTQ + high school and Post-Secondary students

Abstract LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus) people, compared to their heterosexual and/or cisgender (non-transgender) counterparts, are more likely to be discriminated against based on their gender or sexual identities. Drawing on data from The OutLook Study in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada this paper examines discrimination and social support among high school and post-secondary students, and how they are related to self-esteem. We found that transgender students in high school reported significantly higher levels of direct transphobia and of victimization compared to transgender post-secondary students. We found indirect homophobia and indirect transphobia had a significant adverse relationship to self-esteem. Further, social support from friends was related to higher self-esteem for cisgender LGBQ students, but not for transgender students. These findings have the potential to inform school-based policies and mental health interventions in support of improved wellbeing for LGBTQ + students.
Association between insufficient level of physical activity and multiple health risk behaviors in adolescents

– Aim: To verify the association between insufficient level of physical activity and multiple health risk behaviors (HRB) in adolescents. Methods: This is an epidemiological study with cross-sectional design carried out in 2016 with 3,617 adolescents aged 14-19 years and enrolled in the public-school system of Sergipe, northeast Brazil. Data were collected using the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS/WHO). The insufficient level of physical activity was defined as not achieving at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity for 5 days a week. The HRB analyzed were smoking, alcohol consumption, low fruit consumption and exposure to sedentary behavior. The analysis of prevalence odds ratio was used to identify the association between insufficient level of physical activity and HRB, as well as unadjusted and adjusted binary logistic regression for the association between socioeconomic and demographic variables. Results: The prevalence of insufficient level of physical activity was 83.3%. There was association between physical inactivity and low fruit consumption and alcohol consumption (p<0.001). Insufficient level of physical activity was also associated with female sex (OR=1.90, 95% CI, 1.56-2.32), family income of up to 2 minimum wages (OR=1.57, 95% CI, 1.17-2.11), maternal schooling less than 8 years (OR=1.55, 95% CI, 1.28-1.86) and exposure to two different HRB at the same time (OR=1.76, 95% CI, 1.27-2.45). Conclusion: The prevalence of insufficient level of physical activity is high and was associated with multiple HRBs in this understudied population. These findings may support interventions focusing on the cluster of risk behaviors in youth.
Virtual Nature Environments Effects on Students’ Stress Level

The Malaysian’s Ministry of Health has revealed that mental health problems among Malaysian students are worsening where from one in 10 individuals in 2011 to one in five in 2016. Studies have shown that viewing photographs and videos of nature scenes can promote significant reductions in physiological stress and virtual environments provided a more dynamic alternative with greater ecological validity, which is, approximating the real-life situation. This paper attempts to test the effects of simulation of virtual nature environment (VNE) towards one of the emotion state that is tension. This study applied self-administered questionnaire survey method named Profile of Mood State (POMS) and these were distributed to 24 selected respondents who were second year Bachelor in Landscape Architecture students at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Questionnaire surveys were used to identify the moods of the students, pre and post the VNE treatment, which were later analyzed using the paired T-Test of Statistical Package for Social Science Version 20 to measure its significant difference of mean score. The results have shown that VNE provided positive differences toward students' stress level in improving their moodfrom negative emotions to positive emotions. In conclusion, this research provided potentials in contributing to the knowledge base of VNE so that it can be implemented in university settings in order to raise the mental health awareness, especially in a Malaysian context.
Pharmacological activities and possible mechanism of effective components in Ophiopogonis radix

Ophiopogonis radix is one of the commonly used Chinese medicines in clinic.In theory of traditional Chinese medicine it has the efficacy of Nourishing the Yin,Promoting Glandular Secretion,Moistening Lung and Relieving Heart.In this article,we reviewed pharmacological activities of the effective components in Ophiogonis radix.This Chinese medicine has many kinds of effective components such as saponins,flavonoids,amino acids and polysaccharides.These components have shown various activities such as anti-myocardial ischemia,anti-thrombogenesis,anti-inflammation,hypoglycemia,antitumor,anti-oxidant,enhancing immunity,protecting against liver and lung injury,and relieving cough activities,etc.These findings promise that Ophiopogonis radix may have broad development prospects.
Book Review: David Peetz and Georgina Murray (eds), Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation: Varieties of Gender Gaps

This is an ambitious collection that addresses gender inequality in labour markets by evaluating variations in ‘gender gaps’, a phrase referring to different expressions of inequality at work. In this book, the gender gaps considered frequently concern pay, but also cover gender gaps around career progression, exposure to harassment and workplace norms (the social expectations that guide behaviour at work). Divided into three parts: the collection first outlines various ‘influences on gender gaps’ (p. 14); the second part then explores how these apply to various blueand white-collar occupations; and the final part discusses ‘the persistence of gender gaps’ (p. 235) – that is, why, despite progress, there are still disparities in gender equality between occupations. The book provides an insightful theoretical contribution, which will be valuable to those with sociological interests in work, policy, welfare and how these relate to gender inequalities. The analyses in this book, of factors that influence gender gaps, draw upon various existing theories of gender and work, including labour segmentation theory, Connell’s (1987) theory of gender regimes, Walby’s (2009) theory of intersecting inequalities and Acker’s (2006) theory of inequality regimes, which are all key contributions to understanding gender workplace discrimination. The collection builds upon these theories by demonstrating how different influences, such as class, education, the work–family interface, strength and level of union representation, combine to produce different sizes and varieties of gender gaps. While acknowledging these complexities, the collection primarily attributes gender gaps to workplace norms and to what Peetz and Murray call ‘regulation distance’, a term signifying the degree to which an occupation is influenced by state and union policies. Occupations with low regulation distance (e.g. public librarianship) are tightly regulated, which leads to relatively low gender gaps in pay. Conversely, those with high regulation distance, such as private financial management, are more loosely regulated, leading to higher gender gaps in pay. It is also noted in the first part of the collection that the size and variety of gender gaps within occupations are strongly affected 876826WES0010.1177/0950017019876826Work, Employment and SocietyBook Review book-review2019
Isolating the Auditory Attentional Blink among Sighted and Blind Persons

Attending to one stimulus may affect the processing of subsequent stimuli. Rapid serial visual presentation is a useful method for investigating the cognitive consequences of attending to visual stimuli. It entails the rapid (6 to 20 items-per-second) sequential computer presentation on each trial of 15 to 25 items, such as letters or digits. Participants must detect or identify one or more targets in the sequence that are distinguished by a feature, such as color. When participants attend an initial target, called Tl, their ability to perceivea subsequent target, called T2, is impaired if the intertarget interval is between 100and 450 milliseconds (ms) and Tl is masked by an immediately succeedingitem (Raymond, Shapiro, & Arnell, 1992). This is the attentional blink. In the past decade, researchers have investigated potential auditory and cross-modal auditory-visual blinks. Such investigations speak not only to the generality of the attentional blink, but to the properties of modalityspecific attentional modules (that is, attentional processes specific to a particular sensory system), on the one hand, and a general, supramodal attentional system on the other. Determining the existence of an auditory blink has proved controversial. Whereas
AS EXPORTAÇÕES DA REGIÃO SUL DO BRASIL: UMA ANÁLISE DO SETOR AGROPECUÁRIO

Este artigo tem o objetivo analisar os fluxos de comércio dos principais produtos do setor agropecuário (soja, fumo e carnes) exportados pela Região Sul do Brasil, a seus principais mercados de destino (Argentina, China, Estados Unidos e União Europeia), através de um modelo gravitacional, por estimação de dados em painel, com a abordagem de mínimos quadrados ordinários (MQO–Pooled), no período de 2000 a 2012. A estimação do modelo gravitacional apresentou resultados que seguem as estimativas dos trabalhos seminais da literatura econômica. No mesmo se demonstra que, no período analisado, os fluxos do setor agropecuário da Região Sul sofrem influência negativa da distância entre os países e, por outro lado, positivamente em relação à massa populacional e a taxa de câmbio real sobre os fluxos comerciais entre os países considerados.
Work Ability and Return to Work Following a Traffic Injury

Purpose: Work ability is an important construct to measure for employees, employers, policy makers, researchers and healthcare professionals because of the high economic and social costs associated with work absenteeism. The main objectives of this study were to describe the measurement of work ability and conceptually map the variables used to measure work ability. Materials and Methods: We searched the scientific literature in MEDLINE from 2010 to 2015. We described the measurement of work ability and mapped conceptualizations of work ability to: 1) a three-tier framework (individual, organizational, societal-level factors); and 2) the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework. Results: We screened 1,305 citation titles and abstracts; 124 papers met the eligibility criteria. Most studies were from Europe (84%) and used cross-sectional designs (58%). The Work Ability Index was used by most papers (108/124) to measure work ability and 267 variables were investigated as directly associated with work ability. We grouped and conceptually mapped these variables to individual and organizational-levels with one identified societal-level factor. Most variables (222/267) mapped to the four main components of the ICF. Conclusions: This review confirms that work ability is a complex construct but few studies have captured this complexity in their measurement of work ability.
The differences of the blood routine indexes in patients with fatty liver and non-fatty liver

Objective To investigate the differences of the blood routine indexes in patients with fatty liver and non-fatty liver.Methods Objects include adults who participated in physical examination in Shenyang between March,2008 and Dec,2008.For those with fatty liver and non-fatty liver found by ultrasonography,we mainly focus on the relationship between the fatty liver and blood routine indexes besides the use of the consultation questionnaire,physical examination and biochemistry,. The data was analyzed with spss16.0. Results Of the 8842 subjects,the incidence of fatty liver is 37.39% (3306) with alcoholic fatty liver 15%(1326)and non-alcoholic fatty liver22.39% (1980) respectively.Compared with the non-fatty liver group,WBC (white blood cell count),EO% (eosinophil ratio),RBC (red blood cell count),HGB (hemoglobin concentration),HCT (hematocrit determination),MCH (mean corpuscular Hb concentration),MCHC (mean corpuscular Hb concentration),RDW (red blood cell distribution width ),PDW(platelet distribution width)were markedly increased (P0.01) in the fatty liver group;LYM% (lymphocyte ratio),MONO% (the ratio of mononuclear cells),MCV(mean corpuscular volume),P-LCR (the ratio of large platelets),MPV (mean platelet volume)were significantly increased (P0.05);while PLT(platelet count)was significantly reduced (P0.05);Compared with the non-alcoholic fatty liver group,RBC,HGB,HCT,MCV,MCHC were significantly increased (P0.01);LYM% was significantly reduced (P0.05);MCH,MONO% was significantly increased (P0.05) in the alcoholic fatty liver group.Conclusion Compared with the non-fatty liver group,the total number and differential count (except the percentage of neutrophils)of leukocytes in patients with fatty liver were significantly higher with a similar trend for erythroid cells (except MCHC),while the platelet count was significantly reduced.Moreover,a significant increase in erythroid cells (especially in MCV)was observed in alcoholic fatty liver group compared to the non-alcoholic fatty liver group,while no significant differences were obtained in the leukon and platelets system except a decrease in LYM%. These fully explained the significant importance of blood routine test as well as differential count for the etiological and clinical diagnosis of fatty liver.
Salvia Miltiorrhiza Polyphenols Acid Salt and Danhong Injection in Treatment of Elderly Unstable Angina Pectoris

Objective:To study the curative effect of salvia miltiorrhiza polyphenols acid salt and Danhong injection in the treatment of elderly unstable angina pectoris.Methods:We selected 92 cases of elderly patients with unstable angina pectoris in our hospital from March 2011 to July 2011.According to the treatment,they were divided into group A(Danhong injection)and group B(salvia miltiorrhiza polyphenols acid salt) to observe the therapeutic effect of two groups of patients,electrocardiogram(ECG) and serum cytokine changes.Results:The therapeutic effect of group B,electrocardiogram(ECG) and serum cytokines were significantly better than that of group A and the difference was statistically significant(P0.05). Conclusion:Using salvia miltiorrhiza polyphenols acid salt treatment of elderly unstable angina pectoris has remarkable effect,which can effectively improve the clinical symptoms and is worthy of popularization and application.
Confronting Rape: The Feminist Anti-Rape Movement and the State

This work documents two decades of anti-rape activism in the USA. From grass-roots efforts to the institutionalization of state-funded rape crisis centres, the movement has changed public thinking about sexual assault significantly. Activists in rape crisis centres across the US created a feminist success story, although not always as they would choose. The text explores how the State has reshaped rape crisis work by supporting the therapeutic aspects of the anti-rape movement's agenda, and pushing feminist rape centres toward conventional frameworks of social service provision, while submerging the feminist political agenda of transforming gender relations and preventing rape. Through a comparative history of six organizations in Los Angeles, Nancy Matthews explores the complexities within a movement that included radicals, moderates, women of colour, lesbians - all working with varying frameworks. Originally critical of the State's handling of rape and distrustful of co-operation, most rape crisis centres eventually came to rely on state funding for organizational survival.
The Relationship between Servant Leadership & Organizational Learning and Nurses’ Work Engagement

Background and Objective: One of the most important motivating factors of nurses is the improvement of their work engagement. Since the job engagement can be affected by various factors including the leadership style of nurse managers and organizational learning, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between servant leadership and organizational learning and work engagement of nurses in Ardabil University of Medical Sciences. Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 273 of 914 nurses working in the hospitals affiliated to Ardabil University of Medical Sciences. The sample size (N= 273) determined via Krejcie and Morgan table were asked to fill out the three questionnaires of Servant leadership style (by Gholipour et al), organizational learning (by Chiva et al) and job engagement (by Salanova and Schaufeli). The data was analyzed by SPSS-21, using descriptive statistics (data frequency tables, mean, and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (stepwise multiple regression method and Pearson correlation). Results: The results showd that there was a positive and significant relationship between servant leadership, organizational learning, and job engagement (p≤0.01). Furthermore, servant leadership and organizational learning can predict job engagement. Conclusion: The improvement of organizational learning and servant leadership can enhance the nurses’ job engagement.
ANTECEDENTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR AMONG PUBLIC / CIVIL EMPLOYEES: A SCOPING REVIEW

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) throughout literature provides evidence in increasing organizational welfares as well as its employees’ welfares. It is important to understand the reasons behind the occurrence of OCB in order to increase the likelihood of employees to engage in OCB. Moreover, it is important for public/ civil employees to engage in OCB as they provide services to meet societal needs and demands. The present article set out to analyze the existing literature on the OCB’s antecedents among public/ civil employees in Asian contexts. Guided by the scoping review method, a review of the SCOPUS, ProQuest and MyJurnal databases identified 20 related studies. Further review of these studies resulted in categorizing the antecedents in three settings - law enforcement and military settings, nurses and public health settings and lastly office-based settings. The antecedents were discussed based on the four main domains - employee characteristics, task characteristics, organizational conditions, and leadership behavior. The review also suggests to investigate further and integrated with other variables which moderating or mediating the relationships between the antecedents and OCB.
Treating 46 Cases of Occult Blood Loss of Primary Osteoarthritis after the Single Knee Joint Replacement with Tranexamic Acid Injection

Objective:To observe the curative effect of the treatment of occult blood loss of primary osteoarthritis after the knee surface replacement for the first time with tranexamic acid injection.Methods:92 cases undergoing primary single knee replacement were randomly and equally divided into a treatment group and a control group.The treatment group were given an intra-articular injection of tranexamic acid injection(600 mg·6 mL-1) before wound healing and the control group were given a joint cavity injection of sodium chloride injection(6 mL) with 0.9% of the quality score.Drainage tube was detained routinely after operation and closed for 3 hours;opened the drainage tube then to detect the HCT,circumference and diameter of the affected limb,and the dominant amount of blood loss.Calculated the total blood loss and occult blood loss,comparing their results.Both lower limbs were examined by ultrasonography after 7 days' operation.Results:In the treatment group,the total blood loss and the change of circumference and diameter of the affected limb had no significant difference before and after treatment(P 0.05);the total blood loss and the occult blood loss were both less than those of the control group(P 0.05);there were no thrombosis for all the patients.Conclusion:Timely and effective dose of tranexamic acid injection could obviously reduce the occult blood loss of knee joint replacement for the first time and reduce the amount of blood transfusion and transfusion rate,having no obvious effects on the formation of deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity after operation.
The Changing Use of Pneumococcal Vaccine in Developed Countries

A 14-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine was registered for use in 1977, and the current 23-valent vaccine was registered in 1983. During the past two decades , ep idemiological and clinical studies have documented the continuing morbidity and mortality of pneumococcal infections in persons who live in developed countries (1,2). Retrospective studies have convincingly shown that pneumococcal vaccination is clinically effective in preventing invasive pneumococcal disease among the elderly (3,4). Some prospective clinical trials have suggested that vaccination also prevents pneumococcal pneumonia in these individuals (5,6). Other prospective studies (7,8) have been inconclusive because of methodological shortcomings ( 1,4). Health economic studies suggest that vaccination to prevent pneumococcal pneumonia in older persons would be cost effective (9-12), and one recent report indicates that, by preventing pneumococcal bacteremia alone, vaccination may even be cost saving ( 13). Furthermore, comparative studies suggest that pneumococcal vaccination may be the most cost effective health intervention available for persons in this age group (14,15). Much of the information that has been published in recent years confirms what was previously known about the burden of pneumococcal infections, and the clinical and cost effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination. A compelling rationale for using pneumococcal vaccine to prevent invasive disease has existed for some time (2,4). Unfortunately, the vaccine has been little used. It could be argued that no vaccine introduced during the past fifty years has been so widely ignored in so many countries for such a long period of time. This article reviews the use of pneumococcal vaccine in eight developed countries and Canada during the period from 1981 to 1997. Pneumococcal vaccine use is compared with that of influenza vaccine. Vaccination recommendations and
Retrospect and Prospect on Some Theoretic Issues in Aerobic Exercise

Through using the method of literature and logical analysis, this paper made comprehensive summarization on definition of concept of aerobic exercise at home and abroad as well as the influence on physical health. Aerobic exercise plays an important part in maintaining the concentration of blood glucose, preventing cardiovascular disease and obesity, promoting the immunity and mental health; postponing the process of senescence. At the same time, some suggestions for future research on aerobic exercise are put forwarded.