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THU0022 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Increases Risk of Mortality among Patients with Acute Pancreatitis: Findings from A US National Hospital Registry

Background Acute pancreatitis is a rare presentation among systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. However, the association of SLE and clinical outcomes among acute pancreatitis has not been studied. Objectives To study the effect of SLE and in-hospital mortality among patients hospitalized with acute pancreatitis from a US national database. Methods We used the 2002-2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) databases to evaluate patients who were hospitalized for acute pancreatitis (ICD 9 code 577.0). Discharge weights were used to enable nationwide estimates. Of a total of approximately 80 million hospitalizations in NIS databases, 2.3 million were hospitalized for acute pancreatitis, of which, 14,553 (0.6%) had SLE. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to assess the effect of SLE on in-hospital mortality among these patients. Results Acute pancreatitis patients had a mean age of 53 (±18) years and 49% were women. Race distribution comprised of 50% Caucasians, 13% African-Americans and 10% Hispanics. In-hospital mortality occurred in 1.5% and 1.2% of patients with and without SLE respectively (unadjusted odds ratios, 1.26; 95% confidence intervals, 1.10-1.44; P=0.001). After controlling for patient risk factors, hospital characteristics, SLE patients independently conferred the higher adjusted odds of in-hospital mortality (adjusted odds ratios, 1.86; 95% confidence intervals, 1.62-2.14; P<0.001). Acute pancreatitis patients with SLE had a longer mean length of stay (mean stay, 7 vs 5 days, P<0.001) and a higher mean hospital charges ($33,984 vs. $27,126 P<0.001). Conclusions In this nation-wide study, SLE was rare among acute pancreatitis hospitalizations and was independently associated with in-hospital mortality. SLE in acute pancreatitis was also associated with longer length of hospital stay and an increased hospital cost. Disclosure of Interest : None declared DOI 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-eular.5410
PENGARUH PERSEPSI MANFAAT DAN KEMUDAHAN MENGGUNAKAN APLIKASI GO-JEK TERHADAP SIKAP KONSUMEN

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of perceived benefits and perceptions of the ease of Go-Jek's application of consumer attitudes. This type of research uses explanatory research methods. The sample in this study used an accidental sampling technique with as many as 100 respondents. The scales used are the Linkert scale for the independent variable and the Guttman scale for the dependent variable. Validity test in this study uses a comparison of r count values with r table. The reliability test in this study with the Cronbach Alpha Coefficient and the data analysis technique used in this study is logistic regression. The results of this study can be concluded that perceptions of benefits and perceptions of ease have a partial effect on consumer attitudes. Then the dominant variable affecting consumer attitudes is benefited perceptions.
VA Patients With High Numbers of Opioid Prescriptions: A National Study of Sociodemographic and Diagnostic Characteristics, Health Service, and Psychotropic Medication Use

Background and Objectives:Prescription opioid use is a major public health concern, particularly among military personnel and veterans. This study used administrative data on Veterans Health Administration users to identify characteristics associated with high numbers of opioid prescriptions. Methods:Veterans Health Administration patients (n=5,300,000) who attended ≥1 outpatient visit during fiscal year 2010 were classified into 5 groups: no opioid prescriptions, 1 to 2, 3 to 10, 10 to 19, and >20 opioid prescriptions filled during the year. Bivariate comparisons and logistic regression were used to identify sociodemographic, diagnostic characteristics, health service, and psychotropic medication usage that differentiated the high opioid group (>20) from those who used none. Results:On bivariate analysis, the patients in the high opioid group (1% of sample) were more likely to be diagnosed with metastatic cancer, other medical illnesses, and various forms of pain, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, mood disorders, and anxiety. Psychotropic prescriptions were also associated with high opioid use. Logistic regression showed that drug abuse, depressive disorders, and dual diagnosis were independently associated with high prescription opioid use. Medical outpatient visits but not mental health or emergency room visits, and antidepressant prescriptions but not other psychotropics, were more independently associated with high opioid use. Service during the recent Middle East conflicts was associated with lower risk of high opioid use. Discussion and Conclusions:Drug use disorders, depression, and antidepressant medication prescriptions were independently associated with extensive opioid use. Providers should be attuned to high rates of comorbid drug use and depression and concomitant antidepressants among patients with high opioid prescription use.
Practical guidelines to ameliorate the effects of internal and external deployments on the marriages of soldiers

This article critically looks at the challenges that are incumbent in the deployment of married soldiers who work for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). The SANDF previously deployed soldiers outside the borders of South Africa for a period of 6 months or less. But currently, the SANDF has a deployment period of 12 months. This period is twice that of the earlier period, which means that soldiers and their families have to spend 12 months apart from one another. This has an adverse effect on the marriages of soldiers and makes the SANDF appear as an uncaring institute because its military operations tend to impact family lives. Using a qualitative research approach, this article explores the emic experiences of married soldiers who were deployed, and concludes by suggesting some pastoral guidelines that may prove useful for a multi-professional team handling the issues of deployment.
The effect of Workforce Diversity on Employee Performance in Higher Education Sector

Every organization needs to adopt workforce diversity due to which diverse work team every member has different skills, abilities and capabilities to improve organizational performance The objectives of this study are to investigate the relationship and effect between demographic variables especially Age, gender and education background diversity and dependent variable Employee performance among the employees of Higher education sector in Swabi district, KP Pakistan. The data has been collected on cross sectional through questionnaires and simple random sampling technique has been used. The population of this study is 440 faculty members of Higher Education Sector Districts, Swabi KP. Furthermore, the data has analyzed through different statistical technique by using SPSS software . The findings of the study shows that there is positive relationship between independent variables (Age, gender, education background and ethnic diversity) and dependent variable (Employee performance). In last, the study shows the recommendations for further researches and implementation for the individual, organization and policy makers.
Factors Associated with Iranian Couple's Communication Patterns: A Scoping Review

Background and purpose: Couples' communication patterns is of great importance in resolving marital conflicts. These patterns include mutual constructive communication, mutual avoidance communication, and demand-withdrawal communication. The present study aimed at investigating the factors associated with Iranian couples' communication patterns. Materials and methods: A scoping review was performed at five stages; 1-designing the research question 2searching and extracting research studies 3selecting relevant studies 4organizing and summarizing the information, 5. reporting the results. Results: In this scoping review, 18 articles were selected from 130 studies. The factors affecting couples' communication patterns were classified into four categories: 1spiritual well-being and spirituality, 2marital and sexual satisfaction, 3marital compatibility, and 4love styles. Conclusion: Some factors, including spiritual well-being and spirituality, marital satisfaction and sexual satisfaction, marital compatibility, and love styles were found to affect couples' communication patterns. Seemingly providing ways to enhance couples' communication patterns towards a mutual constructive pattern is necessary to prevent marital problems and conflicts, and experiencing effective and efficient relationships.
Affection Deprivation in Marital Relationships: An Actor-partner Interdependence Mediation Analysis

The current study sought to assess the dyadic effects of affection deprivation in marital relationships. We used the tenets of affection exchange theory to examine the actor and partner effects between affectionate communication, affection deprivation, and mental and relational outcomes. Moreover, we tested whether affection deprivation mediated the association between affectionate communication and outcome variables. In terms of actor effects, affectionate communication was associated with husbands’ depression, wives’ loneliness, and both husbands’ and wives’ marital quality and emotional intimacy. Affection deprivation was associated with all outcome variables for husbands and wives, except for wives’ emotional intimacy. We observed significant partner effects between affectionate communication and affection deprivation for both husbands and wives, as well as between wives’ affectionate communication and husbands’ emotional intimacy. Affection deprivation mediated some of the actor and partner effects between affectionate communication and outcome variables. Implications, connections to theory, and directions for future research are discussed.
Influence of Motivation on teachers’ involvement in Co-curricular activities in Public Secondary schools in Matungulu Sub County, Machakos County - Kenya

Education should ensure development of an all-round person. Co-curricular activities are very important and essential part of education. The activities prepare learners to be holistic. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of motivation on teachers’ involvement in co-curricular activities in public secondary school in Matungulu sub-county, Machakos county, Kenya. The study employed descriptive survey design and targeted 34 public secondary schools and the corresponding principals and 380 teachers in Matungulu sub-county. Data was collected using questionnaires and observation checklists. Quantitative data was coded and analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean, percentages and frequencies with the help of SPSS. The data was presented in form of charts and frequency tables. Qualitative data was presented as per the study objective. The study revealed that motivation of teachers involved in co-curricular activities was very essential. The study recommended that there was need for principals to institute mechanisms of motivating teachers through provision of co-curricular facilities. The recommendations for further study were that the study can be replicated in public primary schools in Matungulu subcounty since this was done in secondary schools
“Growing Up in a World Like This”: Interpretations and Performances of Intersectional Parenthood in Telltale’s The Walking Dead.

BELL, KRISTINA WILMA FRANCES. “Growing Up in a World Like This”: InterpretaFons and Performances of IntersecFonal Parenthood in Telltale’s The Walking Dead. (Under the direcFon of Dr. Nicholas Taylor & Dr. Sarah Stein). This dissertaFon is a mulF-layered and mulFmodal qualitaFve exploraFon of how players interpret and co-construct performances of parenthood, gender, and race within and through Telltale’s The Walking Dead (TWD) (2012), a graphic adventure game with a compelling choice-based narraFve and nonstereotypical characters that transform in response to difficult, o[en ethically ambiguous player choices. This examinaFon, which is rooted in intersecFonal feminist game studies and science, and technology studies (STS), looks at the influence of TWD’s diverse, non-stereotypical characters and moral decisionmaking with an increasingly widening scope. I uFlized three different methods, each its own chapter, preceded by an introductory chapter and followed by a conclusion. My first chapter is an introducFon to the study. My second chapter is an interacFve autoethnography built in Twine that explores how I interpreted and played the game as a new mother, with consideraFon to the various gatekeepers that limit/permit my technological use and mastery. My third chapter is a microethnography that seeks to understand how two very different players transform or resist the game’s messages and themes. My fourth chapter is a qualitaFve interpreFve content analysis that explores the extent to which the game’s themes circulate in the broader online communiFes that play and discuss the game. Finally, my fi[h chapter provides a conclusion where implicaFons and limitaFons are discussed. In all, this project works towards a holisFc understanding of the influence of an award-winning, narraFve-driven game about parenFng in a world of emoFonal and moral crisis. © Copyright 2018 by KrisFna W.F. Bell
Prevelance of Leiomyoma in South Eastern Tertiary Hospital of Nigeria From 2005-2012.

Aim & Objectives: This is to determine the age range thatare vulnerable to this lesion with view of evaluating possible cause of infertility. Materials & Methods: A cross sectional study of post-surgical uterine samples, histologically reported leiomyoma totaling 557 from 2005-2012 were collected from the departmental result records. The whole samples were seen to be females and analysis done per each year using SPSS(statistical package for the social sciences) version 16. Results: The most prevalent age range of occurrence throughout the study was-age range of 30-40 years and this is closely followed by 40-50 years. These ranges fall into the fertility years of most African women hence the search for effective treatment and cause of infertility. Conclusion: We were able to actualize that at early ages and late-post menopausal the number of lesion appears to be minimal. Keywords: leiomyoma,Histology,infertility
Management Consulting: Towards an Integrative Framework of Knowledge, Identity, and Power

This paper reviews the past 28 years of scholarship on management consulting to synthesize the field and establish more broadly its contribution to management research. Through a systematic review of 219 articles, we identify three core conceptual themes – knowledge, identity, and power – that have dominated the literature to date. Through a thematic inductive analysis of a subsection of articles, we then investigate how these themes have been defined, used, and linked. This allows us to uncover and problematize the relationships between these themes. In making explicit underlying theoretical assumptions and relationships between knowledge, identity, and power, we induce a unique framework that can guide and support future studies, instigate metaparadigmatic dialogue, and thus help consolidate the field.
CONCEPTUALIZATION OF BODY IMAGE AND EATING DISORDERS AMONG SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF BODY IMAGE AND EATING DISORDERS AMONG SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION By: Neha J. Goel, B.A. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University, 2019 Committee Chair: Suzanne E. Mazzeo, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology Though it is known that eating disorders (EDs) affect individuals of all racial/ethnic backgrounds (Cheng, Perko, Fuller-Marashi, Gau, & Stice, 2019), people of color tend to be overlooked in the ED literature. South Asian Americans, a specific subset of individuals traditionally categorized within the larger umbrella group of “Asians,” have been notoriously neglected in both the broader mental health literature, and in the ED literature (Inman, Devdas, Spektor, & Pendse, 2014; Iyer & Haslam, 2003, 2006). Currently, very little information exists on the etiology and presentation of EDs amongst South Asian communities. Even less is known about culturally-specific barriers to treatment-seeking for this population. To begin to address these issues, this study used focus group methodology with South Asian American women to identify salient themes. Thematic analysis revealed several key themes for body image and EDs, as well as perceived barriers and facilitators of ED treatment-seeking behavior for this group. Notably, South Asian American women are subjected to multiple appearance ideals, experience unique cultural stressors related to living in the United States, and perceive relatively high expectations and pressures from multiple social domains, including parents and community members. Both generalized and social stigma about mental health, parents’ mental health
A distributed architecture of L1 attrition

Hicks and Domínguez’ (2020) keynote paper (henceforth, H&D) proposes a new model for L1 grammatical attrition called Attrition via Acquisition. An important point of departure is the following paradox: Given that the mechanisms of the Faculty of Language are such that they principally allow for L1 morphosyntax to be modified or lost, why is such modification or loss apparently heavily constrained and seldom attested? (see also Tsimpli, 2017: 759). H&D expand upon a model for L1 acquisition by Lidz and Gagliardi (2015) and consider how this model can be expanded to also account for the possibility of morphosyntactic attrition. Key ingredients in this model include (1) the distinction between input and intake, (2) a processing component called the inference engine which consists of the learning mechanisms (including any principles of Universal Grammar) that are used to make inferences about the underlying grammar, and (3) a particular theory of grammar based on feature assemblies as opposed to parameters. The goals of the present article are laudable as they contribute to better integrating multilingual data into formal grammatical models (see Benmamoun et al., 2013; Lohndal, 2013; Polinsky and Scontras, 2020). That enables us to better model the Faculty of Language in an ecologically valid way, as it moves beyond the monolingual focus that often has characterized formal approaches (for more on this, see Lohndal et al., 2019). In addition, H&D’s Attrition via Acquisition model also contribute to our understanding of the plasticity of grammar seen through the scarcity of L1 attrition. H&D adopt what they label a ‘broadly Minimalist model whereby the computational component of the grammar, narrow syntax, builds structure and establishes syntactic relationships by manipulating the morphosyntactic features bundled onto lexical items’ (H&D, 2020: 145). They argue that the formal model needs to be able to do the following: (1) make specific claims about the structure of the native L1 grammatical
Investigating Vowel Duration as a Perceptual Cue to Voicing in the English of Native Spanish Speakers

An abstract of the thesis of Becky Jean George for the Master of Arts in TESOL presented July 2, 1996. Title: Investigating Vowel Duration as a Perceptual Cue to Voicing in the English of Native Spanish Speakers. Researchers in the cognitive sciences, and in particular those in acoustic phonetics, investigate the acoustic properties in the speech signal that enable listeners to perceive particular speech sounds. Temporal cues have been found to convey information about the linguistic content of an utterance. One acoustic characteristic that is particularly well documented in American English is the difference in vowel duration preceding voiced and voiceless consonants, which has been found to play a role in the perception of the voicing of postvocalic word-final consonants. Research on vowel duration and its role in the perception of the voicing distinction of the following consonant has primarily involved data from native English speakers. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the vowel durations preceding word-final voiced and voiceless stops in the English production of four native Spanish speakers. This study sought to determine if differences in vowel duration are exhibited preceding voiced and voiceless consonants in the English production of the native Spanish speakers, and to determine if the vowel durations affected the perception of the voicing distinction of the postvocalic stop by four native English speakers. 2 A significant effect of voicing on the vowel durations in the English production of the native Spanish speakers was found. However, the degree of variation in the vowel lengths with respect to voicing was much less than the degree of difference exhibited in native English, and similar to the variation produced in native Spanish. The average mean difference in length with respect to the voicing of the following consonant was 17.8 msec. in the present study. In native English the mean difference between vowels preceding voiced and voiceless consonants ranges from 79 msec. to 92 msec. and in Spanish the average mean difference is 18 msec. Statistical analysis performed to quantify the contribution of vowel duration on the perception of the voicing distinction found only minimal affect. It was concluded that although the cue of vowel duration variation was present in the speech signal of this data, the listeners generally did not utilize it as a cue to the voicing distinction of the following stops. INVESTIGATING VOWEL DURATION AS A PERCEPTUAL CUE TO VOICING IN THE ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPANISH SPEAKERS
The Effect of Multimedia Gosses on L2 Listening Comprehension

The present study examined the effect of multimedia glosses on foreign language listening comprehension. To this end, 94 male students studying at Rasa English Institute in Tehran were selected for the treatment. The participants consisted of three groups, and each group was randomly assigned to one of the following treatment conditions: textual, pictorial, and textual-pictorial glossing. They were given a vocabulary pre-test before the treatment. The purpose of this test was to exclude the words which were already familiar to the participants from the posttests. Meanwhile, a listening comprehension post-test was administered at the end of the treatment period. To investigate the effect of multimedia glosses on listening comprehension, the data obtained from the listening comprehension post-test were analyzed using one-way ANOVA. The result showed that textual-pictorial glosses had a significant effect on listening comprehension. The findings of this study may have implications for language learners, teachers, researchers, and materials developers.
Kreatywność – główne trendy i problemy badawcze

Rozpowszechnienie umiejętności wykonawczych (execution capabilities) i skracanie cyklu życia produktów i technologii wywołały raptowny wzrost zainteresowania innowacjami. W coraz ostrzejszej walce konkurencyjnej generowanie nowych pomysłów stało się strategiczną bronią, której sukces zależy od kreatywności ich twórców. Artykuł ma na celu określenie kierunków badań w obszarze kreatywności w naukach o zarządzaniu. W artykule, jako metodę badawczą, wykorzystano przegląd literatury polskiej i światowej. Podsumowując rezultaty badań można zauważyć, że kreatywność jawi się jako umiejętność, którą cechują zarówno ograniczenia, jak i brak przeszkód dla jej rozwoju. W dalszych badaniach nad kreatywnością nasuwa się więcej pytań niż odpowiedzi. Organizacje stają przed wyzwaniem nie tylko uruchamiania, podtrzymywania i rozwijania kreatywności ludzi i zespołów. Strategicznego znaczenia nabiera konieczność zarządzania kreatywnością. Jednak przede wszystkim wdrażanie przełomowych idei w życie, w świetle badań empirycznych, stanowi największą barierę innowacyjności.