Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Long-term Mother and Child Mental Health Effects of a Population-Based Infant Sleep Intervention: Cluster-Randomized, Controlled Trial

OBJECTIVES. Maternal depression is an established risk for adverse child development. Two thirds of clinically significant depressive symptoms occur in mothers reporting an infant sleep problem. We aimed to determine the long-term effects of a behavioral intervention for infant sleep problems on maternal depression and parenting style, as well as on child mental health and sleep, when the children reached 2 years of age. METHODS. We conducted a cluster-randomized trial in well-child centers across 6 government areas of Melbourne, Australia. Participants included 328 mothers reporting an infant sleep problem at 7 months, drawn from a population sample (N = 739) recruited at 4 months. We compared the usual well-child care (n = 154) versus a brief behavior-modification program designed to improve infant sleep (n = 174) delivered by well-child nurses at ages 8 to 10 months and measured maternal depression symptoms (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale); parenting practices (Parent Behavior Checklist); child mental health (Child Behavior Checklist); and maternal report of a sleep problem (yes or no). RESULTS. At 2 years, mothers in the intervention group were less likely than control mothers to report clinical depression symptoms: 15.4% vs 26.4% (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale community cut point) and 4.2% vs 13.2% (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale clinical cut point). Neither parenting style nor child mental health differed markedly between the intervention and control groups. A total of 27.3% of children in the intervention group versus 32.6% of control children had a sleep problem. CONCLUSIONS. The sleep intervention in infancy resulted in sustained positive effects on maternal depression symptoms and found no evidence of longer-term adverse effects on either mothers' parenting practices or children's mental health. This intervention demonstrated the capacity of a functioning primary care system to deliver effective, universally offered secondary prevention.
Dynamic Two-way Relationship between Exporting and Importing: Evidence from Japan

In this paper, we investigate the dynamic nature of trading using Japanese firm-level data. Specifically, we examine state dependence and cross effects in exporting and importing. Our findings are as follows. First, we found significant state dependence and cross effects in exporting and importing. Second, those effects diminish over time. Third, such state dependence and cross effects are found to be market-specific. Furthermore, such market specificity is more significant in small and medium-sized enterprises. Last, past export/import intensity matters in the current trade status.
The role of organized labour in the network system of industrial governance

This dissertation examines the role of organized labour in governing relations in postFordist networked industrial districts within the context of three such sector-districts concentrated in the south-west corner of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It discusses the impact of this role on relational structures and behavioural patterns within these industries and on sector-district performance in the marketplace. It thereby builds upon the scholarly research which followed Piore and Sabel's (1984) popularization of the so-called neoMarshallian Industrial Districts (MIDs) of the Third Italy'. The study begins with a historical review of labour's influence on the evolution of production organization and institutional governance from the initial emergence of production for the market up to the current era. This review both demonstrates the significant influence of labour on the evolution of market oriented production regimes and provides a broader historical perspective for the analysis of the three cases. These casestudies use primary documentation and interview transcripts to expose the historical source and contemporary practice of labour's normative place in production organization and institutional governance in contemporary 'network systems of industrial governance' (Hollingsworth, Schmitter and Streeck 1994). Labour's roles in these three sector-districts are compared with each other and with an idealized network construct, both to further illuminate and explain the variable outcome and to illustrate possible avenues for institutional reform. The insight acquired into labour's role in the network model will contribute not just to a better understanding of the future of industrial relations in this emergent system. It will also contribute to the broader, related study of the nature of sociopolitical organization and institutional governance in the encompassing community. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ii TABLE OF COl^TENTS iii LIST OF TABLES vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT viii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Pediatric gastrointestinal endoscopy: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) Guideline Executive summary

Abstract This Executive summary of the Guideline on pediatric gastrointestinal endoscopy from the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) refers to infants, children, and adolescents aged 0 – 18 years. The areas covered include: indications for diagnostic and therapeutic esophagogastroduodenoscopy and ileocolonoscopy; endoscopy for foreign body ingestion; endoscopic management of corrosive ingestion and stricture/stenosis; upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding; endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, and endoscopic ultrasonography. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and endoscopy specific to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have been dealt with in other Guidelines and are therefore not mentioned in this Guideline. Training and ongoing skill maintenance will be addressed in an imminent sister publication.
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Type 2 Diabetes

Maintenance of normal blood glucose levels depends on a complex interplay between the insulin responsiveness of skeletal muscle and liver and glucose-stimulated insulin secretion by pancreatic β cells. Defects in the former are responsible for insulin resistance, and defects in the latter are responsible for progression to hyperglycemia. Emerging evidence supports the potentially unifying hypothesis that both of these prominent features of type 2 diabetes are caused by mitochondrial dysfunction.
Reciprocal Relationship between Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells and T Cells

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are a heterogeneous group of myeloid cells that play a major role in the regulation of immune responses in many pathological conditions. These cells have a common myeloid origin, relatively immature state, common genetic and biochemical profiles, and, most importantly, the ability to inhibit immune responses. Although initial studies of MDSCs were almost exclusively performed in tumor-bearing mice or cancer patients, in recent years, it became clear that MDSCs play a critical role in the regulation of different types of inflammation that are not directly associated with cancer. In this review we discuss the nature of the complex relationship between MDSCs and the different populations of CD4+ T cells.
Genetics and Regulation of Chitobiose Utilization inBorrelia burgdorferi

ABSTRACT Borrelia burgdorferi spends a significant proportion of its life cycle within an ixodid tick, which has a cuticle containing chitin, a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc). TheB. burgdorferi celA, celB, andcelC genes encode products homologous to transporters for cellobiose and chitobiose (the dimer subunit of chitin) in other bacteria, which could be useful for bacterial nutrient acquisition during growth within ticks. We found that chitobiose efficiently substituted for GlcNAc during bacterial growth in culture medium. We inactivated the celB gene, which encodes the putative membrane-spanning component of the transporter, and compared growth of the mutant in various media to that of its isogenic parent. The mutant was no longer able to utilize chitobiose, while neither the mutant nor the wild type can utilize cellobiose. We propose renaming the three genes chbA,chbB, and chbC, since they probably encode a chitobiose transporter. We also found that thechbC gene was regulated in response to growth temperature and during growth in medium lacking GlcNAc.
Comparing core stability and traditional trunk exercise on chronic low back pain patients using three functional lumbopelvic stability tests

Abstract It is a matter of controversy whether core stability exercise is preferred to other types of exercise for chronic low back pain. Lumbopelvic stability is an important element in low back pain. No study was found using lumbopelvic stability tests in comparing core stability and other exercises. The single leg squat, dip test, and runner pose test appear to be suitable as tests for lumbopelvic stability. The aim of this study was to compare “core stability” and “traditional trunk exercise” using these tests and also the Oswestry disability questionnaire and pain intensity. Twenty-nine non-specific chronic low back pain subjects were alternately allocated in one of the two exercise groups. For both groups, a 16-sessions exercise program was provided. Before and after training: (1) video was recorded while subjects performed the tests; (2) Oswestry disability questionnaire was completed; and (3) pain intensity was measured by visual analogue scale. The test videos were scored by three physiotherapists. Statistical analysis revealed a significant improvement in stability test scores (p = 0.020 and p = 0.041) and reduction in disability (p < 0.001) and pain (p < 0.001) within each group. No significant difference was seen between two groups in the three outcomes p = 0.41, p = 0.14, and p = 0.72. Insignificant differences between the two groups may indicate either non-specificity of CSE to increase lumbopelvic stability or equal effectiveness of TTE and CSE on improving LPS. The non-significant differences may also be attributable to the lack of sensitivity of our tests to assess stability change in two groups after training given the relatively small sample size.
Open-Ending Czech Closed-End Funds: Evidence from Transitional Market

This paper describes the process of open-ending of investment trusts and closed-end funds in the Czech Republic. The investment trusts were created in 1991 and 1992 during the Czech privatisation process as the only means of collective investing. In the mid-1990s the Czech market place was largely illiquid and the discounts of investments trusts (the difference between the market price and the funds' net asset value - NAV) were high. Some foreign as well as Czech institutional investors pushed for the open-ending of the funds to cash the discounts and, in the process, to make the market more liquid and more transparent. Using the event study methodology, and daily data from July 1997 to April 2000, this paper analyses the price reactions, which occurred in this period. A price reaction was expected in two instances: during the period when the necessary legislation was prepared in the parliament, and later, during the period of public announcements regarding the open-ending of each individual investment fund. Our results find that abnormal returns can be observed during the period of legislative and institutional changes but not in the period of actual announcements of open-ending of these funds. We suggest that this has relevance to the question of Czech Market Efficiency. These results, however, should be interpreted with caution due to the small sample of funds studied in the second event and due to the fact that during the period under investigation there were other environmental factors interfering with our subject of interest.
Are Chinese stock markets mature and open? Evidence from mature stock markets

The maturity and openness of Chinese stock markets can be measured by price impact of other mature stock markets on them. The article uses wavelet analysis to eliminate noise in stock price signal and analyzes to what degree Shanghai stock market is affected by volatility of stock markets of Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York and London by using Structural Vector Auto Regression (SVAR), impulse response analysis and variance decomposition. The results show that Chinese stock markets are becoming more and more mature and open, which are integrated into the global stock market gradually, which can be known from the response of Shanghai Composite Index, shocked by the other indices. Among all the mature stock indices in the paper, influence of Dow Jones Industrial Average on Shanghai Composite Index is most significant, followed by FTSE100 Index.
The Use of Patient Sitters to Reduce Falls : Best Practices

Using patient sitters to directly observe patients at high risk for falls is a practice suggested as part of several evidence-based falls prevention guidelines. However, the clinical and cost-effectiveness of sitter programs has been questioned. Analysis of data from 75 hospitals participating in the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania Hospital Engagement Network Falls Reduction and Prevention Collaboration revealed a statistically significant correlation (p < 0.05) between low rates of falls with harm and the use of sitter programs. A statistically significant correlation (p < 0.05) was also identified between low rates of falls with harm and three specific sitter program design elements: defining criteria for sitter qualifications, providing a training program for sitters, and establishing a pool of sitters. Analysis of falls reported to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority by hospitals from across the commonwealth in which sitters were identified as being present at the time of the fall suggests that the use of sitters may be associated with a higher percentage of assisted falls and a lower rate of falls with harm. A review of the literature exploring the use of sitters as part of falls prevention programs, along with suggested strategies for sitter program design, is presented. A tool is provided to help hospitals make the business case for implementing and maintaining a sitter program. (Pa Patient Saf Advis 2014 Mar;11[1]:8-14.) Corresponding Author Michelle Feil * The analyses upon which this publication is based were in part funded and performed under contract number HHSM-500-2012-00022C, entitled “Hospital Engagement Contractor for Partnership for Patients Initiative. ” Scan this code with your mobile device’s QR reader to access the Authority's toolkit on this topic.
A Study of Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Qualitative Characteristic Towards the Intention to Use Internet Financial Reporting in Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of perceived usefulness and perceived qualitative characteristics of Internet Financial Reporting (IFR) from a user's perspective. This study uses the public investor from online forum in Malaysia. The perceived usefulness and perceived qualitative characteristics are used to examine the intention to use IFR. The results of this study indicate perceived usefulness and within perceived qualitative characteristics, only comparability is significant to the intention to use IFR. The researcher extends prior research by conducting a research regarding Technology Acceptance Mo (TAM) and IFR.
Deep dip teardown of tubeless insulin pump

This paper introduces a deep level teardown process of a personal medical device - the OmniPod wireless tubeless insulin pump. This starts with mechanical teardown exposing the engineering solutions used inside the device. Then the electronic part of the device is analysed followed by components identification. Finally, the firmware extraction is performed allowing further analysis of the firmware inside the device as well as real-time debugging. This paper also evaluates the security of the main controller IC of the device. It reveals some weaknesses in the device design process which lead to the possibility of the successful teardown. Should the hardware security of the controller inside the device was well thought through, the teardown process would be far more complicated. This paper demonstrates what the typical teardown process of a personal medical device involves. This knowledge could help in improving the hardware security of sensitive devices.
Linking Thin Flux Tube MHD Models to Apparent Stellar Surface Activity

We model thin magnetic flux tubes as they rise from the bottom of a stellar convection zone to the photosphere. On emergence they form active regions, i.e. star spots. This model was very successfully applied to the solar case, where the simulations where in agreement with the butterfly diagram, Joy’s law, and Hale’s law. We propose the use of a similar model to describe stellar activity in the more extreme form found on active stars. A comparison between Doppler-images of wellobserved pre-MS stars and a theoretically derived probability of star-spot formation as a function of latitude is presented.
Executive Control Rights,Capital Expansion and Financial Risk——Evidence From State-owned Listed Companies in China

This paper analyzes the relationship between executives' control rights and firm's capital expansion,and further discusses the influence on firm's financial risk.Executives' power allocation can significantly increase the capital expansion behavior of SOEs.Specifically,executives' control rights have a remarkably positive correlation with over - investment and diversification expansion,and the degree of correlation is greater when the firm has sufficient cash flow.Further results based on Simultaneous Equations Model show that diversification expansion strategy implemented by executives holding larger control rights will increase firm's possibility of falling into financial distress.
Frontiers in Crowdsourced Data Integration

Summary There is an ever-increasing amount and variety of open web data available that is insufﬁciently examined or not considered at all in decision making processes. This is because of the lack of end-user friendly tools that help to reuse this public data and to create knowledge out of it. Therefore, we propose a schema-optional data repository that provides the ﬂexibility necessary to store and gradually integrate heterogeneous web data. Based on this repository, we propose a semi-automatic schema enrichment approach that efﬁciently augments the data in a “pay-as-you-go” fashion. Due to the inherently appearing ambiguities we further propose a crowd-based veriﬁcation component that is able to resolve such conﬂicts in a scalable manner.
Organizational structure features supporting knowledge management processes

Purpose – The idea that knowledge management can be a potential source of competitive advantage has gained strength in the last few years. However, a number of business actions are needed to generate an appropriate environment and infrastructure for knowledge creation, transfer and application. Among these actions there stands out the design of an organizational structure, the link of which with knowledge management is the main concern here. More specifically, the present paper has as its aim to identify the characteristics of organizational structure that facilitate the development of knowledge management processes.Design/methodology/approach – The research strategy used to achieve this aim is the multiple case study method, which has been applied to six Spanish firms of recognized international prestige characterized by their excellence and proactivity in matters of knowledge.Findings – In general terms, the results show that these companies adopt flexible, increasingly flat organizational forms with fe.
The Role of Government Institutions for Smart Specialisation and Regional Development

Research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3) are trying to introduce a new vision of innovation policy in European regions. However, the success of RIS3 policy measures is closely dependent on the capacity of regional government institutions to act as coordinators or facilitators of the interventions. The way in which institutional mechanisms govern innovation processes and provide incentives for the interaction between regional actors remains a largely unexplored area of scientific research. This policy note discusses the importance of sound institutional frameworks for the effectiveness of smart specialisation, presenting an econometric study that investigates the link between government institutions and innovation. The empirical results confirm the key role played by governance structures for technological advances at the regional level, suggesting that the greatest gains in innovative capacity from institutional reforms would be obtained in peripheral territories where the initial level of government quality is lower. This analysis has important implications for the identification of the necessary pre-requisites for successful RIS3 strategies in EU regions.
Tumor–platelet interaction in solid tumors

Elevated platelet counts in patients diagnosed with malignant tumors were first described more than 100 years ago. Today it is well known that in many types of solid tumors, thrombocytosis at the time of diagnosis is associated with shorter survival. From this well‐documented clinical correlation between platelet count and prognosis of solid tumors, the following questions arise: (i) Are the increased platelet counts the reason for shortened survival as platelet‐secreted cytokines might boost tumor growth and angiogenesis? (ii) Do platelets affect tumor metastasis thereby shortening survival time? or (iii) Are increased platelet counts simply an epiphenomenon of tumor growth with larger tumors resulting in higher platelet counts and shorter survival times? We address these three questions within our review of the current literature to provide a comprehensive overview of the current concepts in tumor–platelet interaction.