Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Musculoskeletal Symptoms in Nurses in the Early Implementation Phase of California's Safe Patient Handling Legislation.

Musculoskeletal injuries and symptoms are prevalent in nurses and are largely associated with strenuous patient handling. In 2011, California enacted legislation that required acute-care hospitals to implement safe patient handling (SPH) policies and programs. To assess the early phase of this legislation, we conducted an epidemiological assessment of organizational SPH practices, musculoskeletal symptoms, and perceptions in a random sample of 396 registered nurses. Among those who worked in hospitals and had patient handling duties (n = 220), the 12 month prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal symptoms was 69% (lower back 54%, neck 41%, shoulders 34%, and hands/wrists 26%). Twenty-two percent of the nurses reported that their hospitals had a "no-lift" policy, 37% reported that their hospitals had lift teams, and 61% reported the availability of mechanical lift equipment such as floor or ceiling lifts. Nurses whose facilities employed lift teams were significantly less likely to report low back pain (OR = 0.54, 95% CI [0.30-0.97]). Nurses whose units had ceiling lifts were significantly less likely to report shoulder pain than nurses with no access to lifts (OR = 0.32, 95% CI [0.10-0.98]). Roughly 60% of respondents were aware of the SPH law, and 33% reported changes in their hospital's patient handling policies or programs since the law went into effect. Hospital SPH practices reported by the nurses in our sample were generally sub-optimal, but our findings suggest positive effects of elements required by SPH legislation. These data will serve as the baseline for future evaluation of the impact of this law in California.
Lumbrical and interossei recording in severe carpal tunnel syndrome

Patients with severe carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) may occasionally have absent median motor and sensory responses; in these cases, it is not possible to accurately localize the median mononeuropathy to the wrist using standard electrodiagnostic tests. We prospectively investigated the use of comparing the median motor latency to the second lumbrical and the ulnar motor latency to the interossei muscles in 28 patient hands with severe CTS and absent median motor and sensory responses. We found a prolonged latency difference in 92.8%. Along with its use in mild CTS, study of the lumbrical‐interossei latency difference is helpful in patients with severe CTS with absent median motor and sensory responses. © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Muscle Nerve 25: 102–105, 2002
Internet Work/Play Balance

Productivity gain can be achieved through utilitarian use of the Internet. Networked organizations foster intraand interorganizational communications, which amplify team collaborations, information sharing, and relationship building. The Internet also provides linkage to external global information sources, allowing organizations to analyze market trends, predict competitors’ movements, and search for competitive advantages. However, Internet usage in the workplace is also a double-edged sword that can bring liabilities to modern workplaces. Employees can utilize their Internet connectivity and e-mail accounts for a variety of purposes. Publicized cases of Internet abuse in the workplace (i.e., pornography, employee harassment, information leakage, software piracy, etc.) have generated different ethical and legal concerns for many organizations. To prevent such occurrences, practitioners utilize several strategies to deter Internet abuses (e.g., training of proper Internet usage, communicating Internet usage policy, install-
Bibliographic and Web citations: What is the difference?

Web citations have been proposed as comparable to, even replacements for, bibliographic citations, notably in assessing the academic impact of work in promotion and tenure decisions. We compared bibliographic and Web citations to articles in 46 journals in library and information science. For most journals (57%), Web citations correlated significantly with both bibliographic citations listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and the ISI's Journal Impact Factor. Many of the Web citations represented intellectual impact, coming from other papers posted on the Web (30%) or from class readings lists (12%). Web citation counts were typically higher than bibliographic citation counts for the same article. Journals with more Web citations tended to have Web sites that provided tables of contents on the Web, while less cited journals did not have such publicity. The number of Web citations to journal articles increased from 1992 to 1997.
Restoration approach of 3D ultrasound images using complex wavelet-based Laplacian-TV mixture prior

3D ultrasound imaging has advantages over other medical imaging modalities, as it does not involve invasive measurements, reduces study time and operator dependency and can display volume information in real time. It is a valuable way of examining many of the body’s internal organs; however the visibility of details of the organs are usually degraded by speckle noise and blurring during the image acquisition process. A number of image restoration methods have been used to reduce the effects of blurring and noise. Most of the restoration methods involve the use of a prior model as a regularisation term to solve an ill-posed inverse problem. In this paper, we present a wavelet-based restoration method for 3D ultrasound image restoration where a Laplacian scale mixture model combined with a total variation constraint is used as a regularisation prior. Our results show that the restored 3D ultrasound volumes produced by this approach have improved quality over those restored using other recently proposed approaches.
Information Contents in Japanese OTC Drug Advertising from Elaboration Likelihood Model Perspective: Content Analysis of TV Commercials and OTC Drug Websites

ABSTRACT Based on the Elaboration Likelihood Model, the current study investigates information types that are cross-promoted in Japanese pharmaceutical advertising. The results from a quantitative content analysis of OTC drug brands' TV commercials broadcasted in Japan between 2014 and 2015 and their corresponding product websites (n = 150) show that Japanese OTC drug promotions feature more informational cues in the latter; cues such as price, safety, quality, components, and guarantees/warranties are particularly prominent. Furthermore, product websites tend to focus more on rational appeals, whereas TV commercials emphasize emotional appeals. No difference is found between these media types regarding celebrity and noncelebrity endorser usage.
A Fully Automatic Calibration Algorithm for a Camera Odometry System

This paper focuses on the calibration of a mobile robot system with odometry and a monocular camera. Most current approaches are based on either batch optimization or Bayesian filter, which require a good initial guess to obtain the optimal calibration results. In this paper, a two-step calibration algorithm is proposed for a fully automatic calibration of the camera-odometry system, consisting of: 1) a non-iterative auto initialization step for spatial extrinsic calibration based on the landmark measurements and 2) a joint optimization step to estimate both the spatio-temporal extrinsic parameters and the odometric parameters. By exploiting the planar constraints of landmark measurements, our auto initialization method can achieve better accuracy compared with the current solutions. Experiments are conducted based on both the simulation data sets and also the real world data sets collected from an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) system, which validate our algorithm compared with a VO-based non-iterative method.
Sales promotion as a determining factor in the competitive position of the company

Increased competition, globalization, numerous changes in the field of engineering and technology are just some of the changes that accompany modern business conditions. Modern consumers are increasingly demanding. Individuals vary greatly within groups and cultures to which they belong, but also among themselves based on the characteristics that distinguish them. People engaged in marketing have to constantly monitor and measure consumer attitudes so that their needs and desires are fully met. This paper summarizes the sales promotion activities carried out by retail chains. The aim of the activities of sales promotion is to create and maintain long-term relationships with customers and competitive advantage on the market. The research topic is the impact of sales promotion activities on the behavior and attitudes of consumers when choosing a product. The aim of the research is to examine the effects achieved by sales improvement to consumers through the implementation of the competitive positions of the companies. For the purpose of the research the method used was survey research.
PEER REVIEW Family Business Analysis of Furniture Company in South Malang

Abstract: Recently, a study about family business is developing very rapidly. This article is written to give various thinking of family business development from the prevailing family business development. This article gives different variety in family business development since the company discussed in the present study is owned by original “Javanese ethnic” in South Malang, East Java, Indonesia. The present study uses qualitative descriptive method by doing interview and direct observation. The finding in the present study is about business management and business regeneration, as follows; (1) selection of the family business location, prioritize values of togetherness with family members and other relatives, and consider the profit and potency of the company to be developed, (2) business competition, choose “nriman” means, voluntary and has a very strong determination to become the number one company in the area, (3) technology utilization. It depends on the competence of the human resources. The higher the competence of human resources, the higher technology used is also higher, (4) concept of debt. According to CV. Andi, debt is something we need to avoid. CV Naim assumes that a businessman should have a debt, (5) business regeneration, prioritize passion of their c hildren to work rather than the sustainability of their business. Keywords: Family Business, Business Management, Business Regeneration. I.
Evaluation of Gastric Ulcerogenic and Healing Impairment Effects of Bisphosphonates: Adverse Gastric Reactions of Bisphosphonate

Bisphosphonates (BPPs) were developed as antiresorptive drugs capable of treating diseases related to bone remodeling; however, they have untoward effects including ulceration in the upper gastrointestinal tract and worsen the healing‐impairment action of nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs, prescribed in patients with arthritis or osteoporosis. We produced ulcers in the antrum by administering BPPs to fasted rats, followed by refeeding, and confirmed their healing‐impairment action on pre‐existing gastric ulcers; the ulcerogenic effect is due to direct mucosal irritation and decrease in the mucosal anti‐oxidative system, while the latter effect is due to dysregulation of growth factor expression, such as vascular endothelial growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor, and angiogenesis in the ulcerated mucosa. In this article, we describe these two animal models for investigating BPP‐related adverse reactions, including methods for the induction of antral ulcers and healing impairment of gastric ulcers, as well as measurement of pathogenic functional and biochemical changes. Curr. Protoc. Toxicol. 53:21.10. 1‐21.10. 29. © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Lignes de partage des eaux discrètes : théorie et application à la segmentation d'images cardiaques. (Discrete watersheds: theory and applications to cardiac image segmentation)

La notion de clivage formalise l'idee d'ensemble frontiere dans un graphe. Fusionner deux regions, comme le requierent certaines methodes de segmentation d'images, pose des diffIcultes. Nous introduisons quatre classes de graphes (de fusion) dans lesquels ces diffIcultes sont progressivement supprimees. Nous montrons que l'une de ces classes est celle pour laquelle tout clivage est mince. Nous introduisons une relation d'adjacence, appelee grille de fusion parfaite, dans laquelle deux regions voisines peuvent etre fusionnees, en preservant toutes les autres regions. La ligne de partage des eaux topologique (LPE) etend la notion de clivage aux graphes dont les sommets sont values et permet de segmenter une image. Nous etendons les proprietes des clivages dans les graphes de fusion aux cas des fonctions et proposons un algorithme de LPE monotone et lineaire dans les grilles de fusion parfaites. Grâce a la notion de graphe d'aretes, les proprietes des LPE dans les grilles de fusion parfaites s'etendent aux graphes a aretes valuees. Nous etudions en profondeur les LPE dans les graphes a aretes valuees. Les LPE peuvent y etre definies en suivant l'idee intuitive de gouttes d'eau s'ecoulant sur un relief topographique. Nous etablissons aussi bien la consistance que l'optimalite de cette definition. De plus, nous proposons deux algorithmes lineaires qui, a notre connaissance, sont les plus efficaces pour le calcul des LPE. En nous reposant sur ces resultats theoriques, nous proposons une methode et developpons un logiciel pour la segmentation du ventricule gauche dans des images cardiaques 3D+t par resonance magnetique. La methode est quantitativement et qualitativement validee par comparaison avec des segmentations manuelles tracees par deux experts cardiologues.
Instantaneous PSD Estimation for Speech Enhancement based on Generalized Principal Components

Power spectral density (PSD) estimates of various microphone signal components are essential to many speech enhancement procedures. As speech is highly non-nonstationary, performance improvements may be gained by maintaining time-variations in PSD estimates. In this paper, we propose an instantaneous PSD estimation approach based on generalized principal components. Similarly to other eigenspace-based PSD estimation approaches, we rely on recursive averaging in order to obtain a microphone signal correlation matrix estimate to be decomposed. However, instead of estimating the PSDs directly from the temporally smooth generalized eigenvalues of this matrix, yielding temporally smooth PSD estimates, we propose to estimate the PSDs from newly defined instantaneous generalized eigenvalues, yielding instantaneous PSD estimates. The instantaneous generalized eigenvalues are defined from the generalized principal components, i.e. a generalized eigenvector-based transform of the microphone signals. We further show that the smooth generalized eigenvalues can be understood as a recursive average of the instantaneous generalized eigenvalues. Simulation results comparing the multi-channel Wiener filter (MWF) with smooth and instantaneous PSD estimates indicate better speech enhancement performance for the latter. A MATLAB implementation is available online.
Design theory, modelling and the application for the Internet of Things service

ABSTRACT The Internet of Things (IoT) makes it possible for us to sense the physical world and locate objects in it using the enabling technologies associated with IoT. Compared with traditional information systems, IoT enabling technologies can help acquire real-time data necessary for managing enterprise business process. An IoT system should have an ability beyond integrating enabling technologies and traditional information systems that are only used to access environmental data. This paper begins with a literature review of IoT-related issues and a discussion of the difference between traditional information service and IoT service. Three principles for IoT service design from the perceptive of service classification, coordination and compatibility are proposed. The paper also proposes a utility model for resource allocation in order to improve IoT service performance, and an application involving a cold chain visibility platform is given to illustrate our research.
Study of The Effectiveness of Human Capital Investment

The purpose of this research is to describe the empirical view and analyze how good influence of effectiveness of human capital investment and its impact to teachers’ performance productivity from variable of academic degree, teaching skill , individual capability, and work motivation. The unit of human capital investment analysis and the respondents of this research are all teachers of SMK at Province Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. This research used path analysis approach to explain and describe the condition of each variable descriptively and to examine the relation of quality between research variables. Respondents of the research studied were that all teachers of SMK at DIY are 7,177 persons and they were taken a sample research by using Isaac & Michael samples consist of 331 teachers from 29 SMK at DIY. The results show (1) there is any positive effect of education level (X1) and individual capability (X3) on human capital investment effectiveness (Y1); and there is no positive influence teaching skill (X2) and work motivation (X4) on human capital investment effectiveness; (2) there is no positive effect of academic degree (X1), teaching skill (X2), individual capability (X3), and work motivation (X4) on performance productivity (Y2); 3) there is any influence of academic degree (X1), teaching skill (X2), individual capability (X3), and work motivation (X4) toward effectiveness of human capital investment (Y1) directly and no influence in indirect; and (4) there is any influence of education level (X1), teaching skill (X2), individual ability (X3), and work motivation (X4) on work performance productivity directly and indirectly. Keywords―academic degree, teaching skill, individual capability, work motivation, hci, performance productivity.
Causal Analyses of Public Debt and Structural Adjustment

The impact of structural adjustment program on the economic situation in many African countries can not be overemphasised. Over two decades of implementing neo-liberal economic policies by the Bretton Woods institution, it is of great importance to document the lessons learnt. This paper elicits the structural mechanism representing the intended effect of structural adjustment policies and the unintended effects observed from the implementation of the structural adjustment policies. The assumptions and hypotheses implicit in the main structural adjustment policies, as well as the observed unintended effect of the policies are clearly elicited with a causal loop diagram.
Revisiting Comparative Performance of DNS Resolvers in the IPv6 and ECS Era

This paper revisits the issue of the performance of DNS resolution services available to Internet users. While several prior studies addressed this important issue, significant developments, namely, the IPv6 finally getting traction and the adoption of the ECS extension to DNS by major DNS resolution services, warrant a reassessment under these new realities. We find that DNS resolution services differ drastically -- by an order of magnitude in some locations -- in their query response time. We also find established resolvers (Google DNS and OpenDNS) to lag far behind relative newcomers (Cloudflair and Quad9) in terms of DNS latency, and trace the cause to drastically lower cache hit rates, which we further trace to less cache sharing within the resolver platform. In addition, we find that public resolvers have largely closed the gap with ISP resolvers in the quality of CDNs' client-to-edge-server mappings as measured by latency. Finally, in most locations, we observe IPv6 penalty in the latency of client-to-CDN-edge-server mappings produced by the resolvers. Moreover, this penalty, while often significant, still does not rise above typical thresholds employed by the Happy Eyeballs algorithm for preferring IPv4 communication. resolvers. Thus, dual-stacked clients in these locations may experience suboptimal performance.
The influencing factors of commitment and business integration on supply chain management

The main purpose of this study focuses on how to integrate the supply chain management business process. There were a total of 600 questionnaires issued in this study with 134 valid questionnaires being retrieved. The study concludes the following results: the level of idiosyncratic investments to supply chain partners, the degree of dependence between supply chain partners, and the level of product salability of manufacturer would enhance commitment and, consequently, the integration of the SCM business process. The degree of trust, power, continuity, and communication between supply chain partners would enhance commitment and, consequently, the integration of the SCM business process. The level of affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment of supply chain partners would be helpful in the integration of the SCM business process.
Smooth muscle cell phenotypic diversity between dissected and unaffected thoracic aortic media.

AIM Smooth muscle cell (SMC) phenotypic switching in the aortic media may play a critical role in the pathogenesis of thoracic aortic dissection (TAD). However, few investigations are available and most of the observations are based on histological examinations without in vitro evidence. This study, which was performed both in vivo and in vitro, was designed to investigate SMC phenotypic diversity between dissected and unaffected aortic media. METHODS Using optimized explant technique, aortic medial SMCs were obtained from patients with TAD and controls. In vivo and in vitro expression of α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), smooth muscle-myosin heavy chain 2 (SM-MHC-2), smooth muscle-calponin (SM-Calponin), Vimentin, osteopontin (OPN) and non-muscle myosin heavy chain B (SMemb) were evaluated by immunostaining and immunoblotting. SMC proliferation was also analyzed. RESULTS Although the majority of SMCs from the dissected media displayed an elongated, spindle- or triangle-like shape as control SMCs, there were some oval or flat, quadrate cells in the dissection cultures. In contrast with controls, SMCs derived from the dissected media uniformly showed the negative staining for the contractile proteins and the intense staining for the synthetic markers. Similarly, in vitro protein levels of α-SMA, SM-MHC-2, SM-Calponin and Vimentin were significantly decreased to 60.1% (P<0.05), 12.0% (P<0.01), 23.1% (P<0.01) and 32.5% (P<0.01) respectively, whereas those of OPN and SMemb were markedly elevated by5.7- and 10.3-fold respectively (P<0.01 for both). In vivo expression of the phenotypic markers showed the parallel results. Furthermore, SMCs derived from the dissected media exhibited the enhanced proliferation (P<0.05). CONCLUSION We have established a simple and potent method to acquire SMCs from the dissected and unaffected aortic media. Compared to the contractile SMCs in the unaffected media, those in the dissected media manifest phenotypic switching from the contractile to the synthetic type. The primary cultures can be subsequently used as in vitro models and contribute to further elucidating the etiopathogenesis of TAD.