bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Quality Improvement in Healthcare: Personality Type and Mindfulness as Determinants
Authors: Peck Kim , Pelley John
Published: October 2017

Background:

The emphasis on “quality” in the design of a management system for an organization was originally introduced through the work of W. Edwards Deming [1] who initially developed his QI principles to help the Toyota Motor Company increase their sales by improving the quality of their product. However, he also saw that these ideas could be applied to management of other types of organizations, such as health care organizations.

Review:

When applied to a clinical practice, QI is implemented by evaluation of structured clinical and administrative data [2], producing a “mindfulness” about QI that gives attention to several key principles: (i) focusing on data, (ii) care of patients, (iii) team problem solving, and ( iv) healthcare delivery processes that are similar for both the organization and for individual physician-patient relationship. In all instances, the effectiveness of an entire QI program is compromised if any of these principles is missing or inadequate. Such a deficiency is avoided best through a functional knowledge of personality type that increases communication at all levels. This creates a critically important organizational mindfulness for more effective QI team function and also for a more effective physician-patient encounter. The result is increased quality of outcomes at the individual patient level as well as the organizational level.

Conclusion:

The trend toward inclusion of mindfulness in healthcare develops an improved awareness of how well procedures, medications, and advice are provided.
SLE and Serum Complement: Causative, Concomitant or Coincidental?
Authors: Sandhu Vaneet , Quan Michele
Published: October 2017

Background:

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an incurable autoimmune disorder with complement activation playing a key role in the pathogenesis of immune-mediated tissue injury. While quantifying complement to monitor SLE disease activity has been the standard of care since the 1950s, decreased complement levels are not consistently associated with flares.

Objective:

We seek to clarify the SLE phenotype in which complement deficiency is causative, concomitant, or coincidental.

Methods:

A PUBMED literature review was conducted using key words 'complement,' 'SLE,’ and ‘SLE flares’ in English-only journals from 1972-2017. Relevant clinical studies and review articles were found that examined the measurement of complement levels in SLE, and more specifically, interpretation of low serum complement levels regardless of disease activity.

Conclusion:

Complement activation plays a key role in the pathophysiology of SLE and it is recommended to continue monitoring serum levels of C3 and C4 to assess for disease activity. However, it is important to note that decreased serum complement is not consistently associated with disease flares.

It is clinically important to find novel ways to assess disease activity in SLE. Increased serum levels of cell-bound complement activation products may more accurately reflect disease activity than conventional serum C3 and C4 monitoring.
Total Knee Arthroplasty In Patients With Parkinson's Disease- A Critical Analysis of Available Evidence
Authors: Ashraf Munis , Priyavadhana Sruthi , Sambandam Senthil Nathan , Mounasamy Varatharaj , Sharma Om Prakash
Published: October 2017

Background:

In this era of modern medicine, there is an increase in life expectancy and thereby an ageing population. Among this group one of the most common neurological disorder is Parkinson disease and one of the most common operation done in elderly population is a total joint arthroplasty. But total joint arthroplasty in Parkinson disease is a relatively uncommon entity. There is sparse literature available with regards to total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in Parkinson disease. This review focusses on the necessity, complications and previous experiences on TKA in PD based on the literature available.

Method:

The review was conducted after a series of advanced search in the following medical databases; Pub med, Biomed central, Cochrane and Google scholar for articles related to total knee replacement in patients with Parkinson’s disease. The following keywords were used; Total knee arthroplasty, Parkinson’s disease, Hoehn and Yahr, Flexion Contracture.

Results:

The review indicates that the functional outcome is comparable to that of controls in immediate post-operative phase, one year and three-year phase, but the long term functional outcome seems to deteriorate significantly.

Conclusion:

Total knee arthroplasty can serve as an effective tool in alleviating pain in short term as well as long term periods, whereas the functional outcome seems to deteriorate post operatively on a long-term basis. Nevertheless, TKA in PD is a challenging situation, thereby necessitating a holistic approach with the efforts from various specialists needed at each stage to ensure a successful operation.
Cadaveric Anatomical Study of Sural Nerve: Where is The Safe Area for Endoscopic Gastrocnemius Recession?
Authors: Tan Alvin Chin Kwong , Tang Zhi Hao , Fadil Muhammad Farhan Bin Mohd
Published: October 2017

Purpose:

To ascertain in cadavers where the sural nerve crosses the gastro-soleus complex and where the gastrocnemius tendon merges with the Achilles tendon in relation to the calcaneal tuberosities.

Methods:

Twelve cadaveric lower limbs (6 right and 6 left) were dissected. The distances between the calcaneal tuberosities and the lateral border of the Achilles tendon where the sural nerve crosses from medial to lateral, as well as to the gastrocnemius tendon insertion into the Achilles tendon, were measured.

Results:

The mean and median longitudinal distances from the calcaneal tuberosity to where the sural nerve crosses the lateral border of the Achilles tendon are 9.9cm and 10cm respectively (range 7cm to 14cm). The mean and median longitudinal distances from the calcaneal tuberosity to where the gastrocnemius tendon inserts into the Achilles tendon are 19.9cm and 18.5cm (range 17cm to 25cm) respectively.

Conclusion:

It is generally safe to place the posterolateral incision more than 14cm above the calcaneal tuberosity to avoid the sural nerve if surgeons plan to use a posterolateral incision for endoscopic recession. The distance between the calcaneal tuberosity to the gastrocnemius tendon insertion into the Achilles tendon is too highly variable to be used as a landmark for locating the gastrocnemius insertion.
VREDEN RUSSIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TRAUMATOLOGY AND ORTHOPEDICS
Authors: Vorobyоv K. A. , Bozhkova S. A. , Tikhilov R. M. , Cherny A. Zh.
Published: October 2017

Currently, the use of bone allografts for reconstructive orthopedic surgery in clinical practice around the world is becoming a common procedure. Bone allografts are the first substitute material to the autologous bone and the best alternative to any artificial substituting material. The methods used for the preservation, processing and sterilization of bone are changing and evolving with time. The main goals remain the same including exclusion of infections and creation of the material with sustained properties of the normal bone.The present review reflects the essential methods for biological tissue processing, sterilization and preservation with the analysis of the key requirements for manufacturing of safe allogeneic osteoplastic materials with osteoinductive, osteoconductive and osteogenic properties.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TREATMENT OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH TYPES B AND C PYLON FRACTURES
Authors: Khominets V. V. , Kudyashev A. L. , Pechkurov A. L. , Fedotov A. O. , Naniev S. O.
Published: October 2017

Objective — to develop and implement improved approaches to the diagnosis and tactics of surgical treatment in patients with fractures of the distal tibia metaepiphysis.Material and methods. The study included 126 patients with fractures of distal tibia metaepiphysis of «B» and «C» types who underwent internal fixation with plates in 2005–2012. The authors analyzed surgical treatment outcomes within the period from 2.5 to 9 years (average of 5.7–2.3 years) of postoperative follow up. Average age of patients was 23.4±2.1 years. Patients were divided into the main group (64 patients) and the comparison group (62 patients). In the comparison group, traditional approaches to diagnosis and surgical treatment were used, including standard clinical examination and X-rays of the affected ankle in two views and the median access to the distal tibia metaepiphysis. In the main group, a specially elaborated algorithm for selection of optimal surgical tactics was utilized basing on the improved diagnostics program. Clinical and functional data were assessed by Foot and Ankle Outcome Score (FAOS) and SF-36 Health Survey. Roentgenological assessment was done by X-rays and CT scans. Statistical significance of the differences was evaluated by Wald-Wolfowitz and Fisher tests.Results. Improved approaches to the tactics of surgical treatment in patients with pylon fractures of «B» and «C» types allowed to reduce the incidence of unsatisfactory anatomical and functional outcomes from 43.5% to 28.1%. The number of satisfactory and good outcomes increased by 4.7% and 10.7% respectively after application of improved therapeutic and diagnostic approaches.Conclusion. Proposed improved approaches to verification of severe intraarticular fractures of the distal tibia metabiphysis allowed to increase the informative value of the diagnostic procedures and to avoid discrepancies between preand intraoperative assessment of fracture type by classifications of M. Mueller-AS (1989) and X. Tang, P. Tang (2012) as well as to avoid diagnostic errors in detecting the facet impression of the distal tibia metaepiphysis.
Prospectiva del sistema organizacional del sector forestal en Chihuahua, México
Authors: Vázquez-Álvarez Susana , Luján-Álvarez Concepción , Olivas-García Jesús Miguel , González-Hernández Hilda Guadalupe , Luján-Álvarez Humberto
Published: October 2017

El sistema de organización forestal de Chihuahua, México fue estudiado prospectivamente para establecer una estrategia integral que impulse el desarrollo del mismo. La metodología comprendió tres etapas: diagnóstico situacional; análisis estructural prospectivo y planteamiento de la estrategia integral. Para el diagnóstico, los actores se agruparon en seis subsistemas; se procedió a la realización de un censo total, entrevistando a cada uno de ellos, y se obtuvo la caracterización de las variables estratégicas clave de funcionamiento del sistema de organización, identificando fortalezas, oportunidades, debilidades y amenazas y el futuro deseable del sistema. En el análisis estructural prospectivo, se determinó el nivel de influencia directa y dependencia entre las variables, mediante la aplicación del software Matriz de Impactos Cruzados – Multiplicación Aplicada a una Matriz (MicMac). Además, se generó la estrategia integral basada en los resultados del análisis estructural, considerando las variables estratégicas y la visión al 2022. Como resultado, el diagnóstico identificó escasa coordinación y vinculación entre actores del sistema, e insuficiente liderazgo. El análisis estructural identificó las variables con mayor motricidad y dependencia para impulsar el desarrollo del sistema: estructura organizacional, mecanismos de coordinación interinstitucional e integración vertical y horizontal. Finalmente, se establece la estrategia integral que contiene las variables estratégicas más motrices y más dependientes, el futuro deseable y las estrategias para lograr dicho futuro. Se concluye que el sistema de organización forestal tiene escasa coordinación y vinculación entre actores y limitada cultura de asociatividad, lo que hizo necesario establecer la estrategia integral para mayor respuesta a demandas de competitividad nacional e internacional.
Dengue, Chikunguña y Zika en Colombia 2015-2016
Authors: Alvis-Guzmán Nelson , Zakzuk-Sierra Josefina , Vargas-Moranth Rusvelt , Alcocer-Olaciregui Adalgisa , Parra-Padilla Devian
Published: October 2017

Objetivo: Describir el comportamiento epidemiológico de tres de las más importantes arbovirosis (Zika, Dengue y Chikunguña) en Colombia 2015 - 2016. Materiales y métodos: Estudio descriptivo, análisis de tendencias, utilizando los datos reportados en los boletines epidemiológicos del Instituto Nacional de Salud. Resultados: En 2016 Se reportaron en el país 103.822 casos de Dengue (49.9%♀), 19.556 de Chikunguña (63.3%♀) y 106.559 de Zika (66.4%♀). La población más afectada fue la de 25 a 39 años, pero se observaron diferencias significativas en los promedios de edad de las tres afecciones (p<0.05). La mayoría de reportes de Zika en 2016 se hicieron a partir de diagnósticos clínicos. Conclusiones: Se requiere la implementación de mecanismos que permitan un mayor conocimiento de la etiología y comportamiento clínico de las enfermedades por parte de los actores en salud.
Identificación molecular de hemoparásitos transmitidos por garrapatas en equinos del Noroeste de Colombia
Authors: Agudelo-Ruíz Yeison , Acevedo-Gutiérrez Leidy , Montoya-Sanchéz Andrés , Paternina T Luis , Rodas G Juan
Published: October 2017

Objetivo. Detectar e identificar agentes de la familia Anaplasmataceae y piroplasmas en equinos colombianos que llegan a la planta de beneficio La Rinconada ubicada en el municipio de Rionegro, Antioquia. Materiales y métodos. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo de corte transversal durante parte del 2015 a equinos seleccionados por conveniencia. Se recopiló información tal como especie, sexo, edad y localidad de procedencia. Se obtuvieron muestras de sangre para extracción de ADN, y se amplificó un fragmento de 360pb del gen 16S ribosomal de Anaplasmataceae y un fragmento de 450 pb del gen 18S ribosomal de piroplasmas para detección de hemoparásitos. Amplicones de PCR fueron sometidos a secuenciación para identificación de los hemoparásitos a través de análisis genético. Resultados. Se analizaron 135 equinos provenientes de los departamentos de Antioquia, Córdoba y Sucre. Un 78% eran caballos, un 16% eran asnos y un 6% eran mulas. El 100% de los animales fueron negativos para agentes de la familia Anaplasmataceae y un 13% fueron positivos para piroplasmas. Se identificó por secuenciación la circulación de Theileria equi en la zona norte de Colombia. Conclusión. Se presenta la primera evidencia molecular de al menos tres genotipos de T. equi infectando equinos del norte del país.
Identificación de bacterias de la familia Anaplasmataceae en un albergue canino del municipio de Caldas, Antioquia
Authors: Posada-Zapata John , Cabrera J Azucena , González–Alvarez Dubán , Rodas G Juan , Monsalve B Santiago , Londoño B Andrés
Published: October 2017

Objetivo. Fue detectar la circulación de microorganismos de la familia Anaplasmataceae en un alberge canino del municipio de Caldas. Materiales y métodos. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo en 46 perros (Canis lupus familiaris) para evaluar por técnicas moleculares o por inmunodiagnóstico la presencia de Ehrlichia spp. y Anaplasma spp., en un albergue canino del município de Caldas. Se hizo extracción de ADN en muestras de sangre entera con EDTA y se utilizaron cebadores contra los genes dsb y groEl, para detectar secuencias de Ehrlichia y Anaplasma respectivamente y análisis filogenéticos de las secuencias obtenidas. Por otro lado se usó el SNAP 4DX® para el serodiagnóstico. Resultados. En las pruebas moleculares se obtuvieron cinco muestras positivas para Ehrlichia y tres para Anamaplasma. En las pruebas serológicas, tres individuos fueron positivos para Ehrlichia spp., tres para Anaplasma spp. y negativos para los demás ensayos medidos por el SNAP (Dirofilaria immitis y Borrelia burgdorferi). Conclusiones. Se demostró la circulación de Ehrlichia canis y Anaplasma platys en un albergue del municipio de Caldas, Antioquia.
Flebotomíneos (Diptera: Psychodidae) colectados en área rural de San Bernardo del Viento (Córdoba Colombia)
Authors: Toro-Cantillo Angie , Atencia-Pineda María , Hoyos Lopez Richard
Published: October 2017

Objetivo. Evaluar la presencia de flebotomíneos en un área rural de interés eco-epidemiológico perteneciente al municipio de San Bernardo del Viento (Córdoba, Colombia). Materiales y métodos. Los insectos identificados fueron colectados mediante trampas CDC y aspirador manual en arboles cercanos en el periodo de Mayo - Agosto (2015). Los especímenes fueron conservados secos y luego fragmentados para aclaración de estructuras e identificación mediante claves morfológicas. Resultados. Tres especies de flebotomíneos fueron identificadas: Lutzomyia gomezi (Nitzulescu 1931), Lutzomyia rangeliana (Ortiz 1952) y Lutzomyia cayennensis (Floch & Abonnenc 1941). Conclusiones. La presencia de L. gomezi, principal vector de leishmaniasis cutánea en Colombia, constituye un factor de riesgo para habitantes rurales de la zona.
Efecto del uso de fluazurón para control de Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus en bovinos
Authors: Benavides O Efraín , Jiménez C Pablo , Betancur H Oscar , Vélez C Gabriel , Polanco P Natalia , Morales P Jorge
Published: October 2017

Objetivo. Demostrar el efecto poblacional sobre la garrapata del uso de fluazurón en ganado en pastoreo. Materiales y métodos. Estudio de caso realizado en Fusagasugá (Cundinamarca, Colombia); se conformaron tres grupos de 25 novillas cada uno, G1= dos aplicaciones de Fluazurón separadas 60 días, G2= fluazurón sólo el día 0 del estudio y G3= tratado por aspersión con Clorpirifos. Se hizo periódicamente recuento de teleoginas en cinco bovinos de cada grupo y se determinó el grado de contaminación de praderas con larvas de garrapata, mediante rastreo. Resultados. Los niveles de infestación entre los grupos no fueron homogéneos, y los potreros también demostraron diversos niveles de infestación larvaria. El compuesto fue útil para proteger a los animales de la infestación por garrapatas por más de ocho semanas. Dada la temperatura del suelo en la región, el período adulto larva se cumple entre 50 y 65 días. Conclusión. El efecto del tratamiento del ganado con fluazurón sobre la contaminación larvaria de las praderas, sólo se reflejará casi dos meses después del tratamiento. El diseño de esquemas estratégicos debe considerar este componente, de la temperatura del suelo.
Infecciones por arenavirus
Authors: Mattar V Salim , Guzmán T Camilo , Calderón R Alfonso , González Tous Marco
Published: October 2017

Los síndromes infecciosos asociados a arenavirus en América del sur son cuatro: síndrome febril de origen viral; fiebres hemorrágicas con o sin compromiso neurológico; meningitis asépticas y meningo-encefalitis. Entre los Arenavirus del nuevo mundo, está el complejo Tacaribe donde se encuentran los virus: Junín (Argentina), Guanarito (Venezuela), Machupo (Bolivia) y Sabiá (Brasil), que se caracterizan por causar fiebres hemorrágicas. En Colombia fue aislado el arenavirus Pichindé en 1965, del roedor Oryzomys albigularis, en el valle de Pichindé (Valle del Cauca). Este arenavirus produce una infección persistente en su hospedero y no es patógeno para el hombre. Hay evidencias de la circulación del virus Guanarito en roedores de Córdoba, pero no existen casos diagnosticados en humanos; en Sincelejo (Colombia) se detectó el genoma del virus coriomeningitis linfocítica en cerebros de roedores Mus musculus. El diagnóstico se basa en el conocimiento de la epidemiología local y la sospecha de un paciente con un cuadro febril en zonas endémicas, donde se han excluido infecciones como: malaria, dengue y leptospirosis, sepsis de origen bacteriano y rickectsiosis. El aislamiento viral en periodo febril es el gold standart, pero implica el contacto con el virus que es altamente infectante, lo que representa un problema de salud pública. Se ha usado la serología para el diagnóstico, pero no hay pruebas comerciales y sólo grupos de investigación y grandes laboratorios de salud pública poseen estas pruebas. La mayor parte de los pacientes presentan un cuadro de gravedad moderada, que necesita una adecuada hidratación, antipiréticos y antiinflamatorios. Todos los pacientes con signos de severos deben tener un manejo agresivo. El uso de medicamentos no ha demostrado una disminución de la mortalidad, pero si una reducción significativa de la viremia.
EFFECT OF YOGIC EXERCISES PROGRAM ON POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH OF SCHOOL BOYS SUFFERING FROM POSTURAL DEFORMITIES
Authors: Dhokrat Bharati G.
Published: October 2017

The present study was conducted to find out the effect of specific yogic exercise program of short duration on positive mental health of school boys suffering from postural deformities. This study was conducted on 58 school boys studying in B.M.C. School Kurlasuffering from various postural deformities. Junior Positive mental health inventory prepared by Agashe and Helode (2009) was used as psychological instrument in the present study. The result reveals statistically significant beneficial effect of three months yoga program on positive mental health of school boys suffering from various postural deformities. It was concluded that yoga may be used as alternative therapy to enhance positive mental health of school boys suffering from postural deformities.
CLEAN INDIA - GREEN INDIA: A MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Dash Jayanta Kumar , Barik Ratnaprava
Published: October 2017

Clean India and Green India are the two sides of one coin, i.e., sustainable development in India. Clean India or Swatch Bharat Aviyan (SBA) was the dream of the father of the nation. Mahatma Gandhi was mindful of the poor position of Indian rural people at that time and he dreamt of a cleaner India, where he emphasized on cleanliness and sanitation as an intact function of surviving. In June 2014, the then President of India Pranab Mukherjee in his address to Parliament said, “For ensuring hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation a “Swachh Bharat Mission” will be established. This will be our tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary to be celebrated in the year 2019”. Recently, the Narendra Modi Government is trying to establish the “Swachh Bharat Mission”. Green India mission is a National Mission under eight Missions of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), recognizes that climate change phenomena will seriously affect and alter the distribution, type and quality of natural biological resources of the country and the associated livelihoods of the people. Lying close to the models of sustainable Development, this paper is an attempt to magnify the Green and Clean India as a model of Sustainable Development.
A STUDY OF POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH IN SCHOOL GIRLS WITH POSTURAL DEFORMITIES : WITH REFERENCE TO YOGA INTERVENTION PROGRAM
Authors: Dhokrat Bharati G.
Published: October 2017

The aim of the present study was to analyse the effect of three months yoga program on positive mental health of school girls diagnosed with postural deformity. To conduct the study 2000 school children from various schools in Mumbai were screened with the help of kypholordometry to determine the presence of postural kyphosis. Out of the surveyed subjects, 72 school girls between age of six to twelve years were found to be suffering from postural kyphosis. Out of these 60 school girls were selected and took part in the present study. Selected Kriyas, Asanas and Pranayam respectively forms the basis of three months yogic program. Junior Positive mental health inventory prepared by Agashe and Helode (2009) was used as psychological instrument in the present study.Results reveal significant impact of yoga program on positive mental health of school girls carrying postural deformity in the form of kyphosis. It was concluded that positive mental health among school girls carrying kyphotic deformity can be enhanced with a well chalked out yoga program of short duration.
REVAMPING TEACHER EDUCATION THROUGH ICT INFUSION
Authors: Kumar Lalit , Batra Kavita
Published: October 2017

ICT revolution has influenced almost every aspect of public life including education. Educational systems around the world are under increasing pressure to use the new Information and Communication Technology to teach students the knowledge and skills they need in the 21st century. Teacher education curricula in developing countries need a revamp to incorporate IT/ICT for effective technology infusion into classrooms. Teachers in India need to be prepared for imparting the new age education, and hence teacher education program in India should integrate ICT component in such a way that teachers are enabled to face the new demands in the profession. ICT Recommendations are made for effective technology infusion in developing countries in spite of prevalent handicaps. It implies a shift in the teachers’ role from being the sole source of knowledge and instruction to being a facilitator of students’ learning that is acquired from many sources.
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE TO VICTIM COMPENSATION FOR NUCLEAR CIVIL INCIDENT
Authors: Sidhu Ramandeep Singh , Chauhan Deepak Kumar
Published: October 2017

Starting from the construction of first nuclear power plant, there have been constant concern regarding the possible effects of a nuclear accident and who would be liable to pay compensation to the victims in such a serious situation.
THE ANXIETY DISORDER IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
Authors: Rathod Jagdish
Published: October 2017

Stress situations such as study tight deadlines or important social obligations. Of fen makes nervous or fearful. In high school students they facing educational and social problems. This period is already growth and development period at this time so many body changes occurs in the students body. Individuals with anxiety disorder experience excessive anxiety. Fear as worry, causing them either to anode situations. The result of survey on the basis of anxiety disorder in high school students. Is very high in ahmednagar tarakpur in some area. They need special treatments for educational development.
Relative Validity and Reproducibility of a New 44-Item Diet and Food Frequency Questionnaire Among Adults: Online Assessment (Preprint)
Authors: Affret Aurélie , El Fatouhi Douae , Dow Courtney , Correia Emmanuelle , Boutron-Ruault Marie-Christine , Fagherazzi Guy
Published: October 2017

BACKGROUND

Dietary questionnaires currently available which can assess the habitual diet are timely, costly, or not adapted well to the modern diet; thus, there is a need for a shorter food frequency e-Questionnaire (FFeQ) adapted to Western diets, in order to properly estimate energy and macronutrient intakes or rank individuals according to food and nutrient intakes.

OBJECTIVE

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relative validity and reproducibility of a 30-minute and 44-item FFeQ in a sample of adults obtained from the general population.

METHODS

A sample of French adults was recruited through social media and an advertising campaign. A total of 223 volunteers completed the FFeQ twice at one-year intervals and were included in the reproducibility study. During that interval, 92 participants completed three-to-six 24-hour recalls and were included in the validity study. Nutrient and dietary intakes were computed for all validity and reproducibility participants. The level of agreement between the two methods was evaluated for nutrient and food group intakes using classification into quintiles of daily intake, correlation coefficients and Bland-Altman plots.

RESULTS

For relative validity, correlation coefficients ranged from 0.09 to 0.88 (unadjusted correlation coefficients, median: 0.48) and 0.02 to 0.68 (deattenuated and energy adjusted correlation coefficients, median: 0.50) for food group and nutrient intakes, respectively. The median proportion of subjects classified into the same or adjacent quintile was 73% and 66% for food and nutrient intakes, respectively. Bland-Altman plots showed good agreement across the range of intakes. Regarding reproducibility, intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.33 to 0.72 (median: 0.60) and 0.55 to 0.73 (median: 0.64), for food and nutrient intakes, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS

The FFeQ showed acceptable validity and reproducibility in a sample of adults based on their food and nutrient intakes. The FFeQ is a promising and low-cost tool that can be used in large-scale online epidemiological studies or clinical routines and could be integrated into evidence-based smartphone apps for assessing diet components.
ANALISIS KINERJA KEUANGAN PEMERINTAH PROVINSI KALIMANTAN TIMUR TAHUN ANGGARAN 2009 – 2012
Authors: Arief Arfandi
Published: October 2017

The purpose of this investigation is to determine the regional financial performance in East Kalimantan. The initial step in this research was determining the variables used, namely: investment and economic growth. Afterward, collecting the data in the form of secondary data (time series) from 2009-2012 files in order to analyze the regional financial performance and the records from 2000-2012 to analyze the influence of investment and growth. Ultimately, the data was examined using multiple regression analysis. The result showed that the regional financial performance of East Kalimantan occupied the level of “good” in terms of independence, effectiveness, and harmony. Not much different, in terms of growth and proportions, their performance was still at the level of "good". Unfortunately, their effort in improving efficiency was still unsuccessful so that they were included in "poor" category. Further analysis showed that investment had positive and significant impact on the regional financial independence of East Kalimantan while economy growth factor did not affect anything.
EFEKTIFITAS GAYA KEPEMIMPINAN DALAM MEMANAJEMEN RODA PEMERINTAHAN MASYARAKAT DESA TORJUNAN KABUPATEN SAMPANG
Authors: Ajisaputra Arnanda
Published: October 2017

The research objective was to clarify the effectiveness of leadership style of Torjunan  headman in terms of bureaucratic leadership that leads to its function as part of the Indonesian government institutions at the village level, and in terms of Situational Leadership leading to its function as the leader and protector of society. The instruments used in data collection were interviews, observation, and documentation; which further examined using three methods of data analysis namely; Miles analysis, which covered: data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion; Reddin analysis consisting of synchronization, data input, as well as the calculation of the average; and Hersey and Blanchard analysis comprising: synchronization, data input and drawing conclusions based on the accumulative column. The results showed: 1) Torjunan headman was seem less flexible in terms of managing the issues related to government affairs, especially regarding the bureaucratization of Robatal sub-district; 2) based on Blanchard Situational Leadership II model, Torjunan headman style were classified into G4 category, which means that Torjunan headman would be able to work more effective if he delegated the decision-making, as well execution, to society
MODEL PENGUATAN USAHA MELALUI KONSEP CREATIVE CAPITAL PADA USAHA KECIL MENENGAH (UKM) OLAHAN APEL DI KECAMATAN PUJON KABUPATEN MALANG
Authors: Asfiah Nurul
Published: October 2017

This research is using survey methods and data collection techniques were used questionnaires and interviews. The tools analysis used is a SWOT analysis.  IFAS analysis was used to determine the internal and external factors were analyzed using EFAS before. In processed apples SME obtained weights of 2 bigger than the disadvantages, with a weight of 1.28. The strength factors of the SME are corporate culture, key staff, access to natural resources, and operational efficiency. Weaknesses condition of SME, obtained with a weight of 1.28. The disadvantages were in  form of organizational structure, corporate image, operational capacity, financial resources, exclusive contracts, market share, and product patents. The results described by EFAS analysis  that the chances of SMEs processed apple with a weight of 1.62, while the weights for the threats faced by SMEs of 1.09, which indicates that the weight of greater opportunities than the threats received by SMEs processed apples.
FAKTOR-FAKTOR BROADEN BUILD YANG MEMPENGARUHI KINERJA KELEMBAGAAN PADA LEMBAGA SEKURITAS DI MALANG
Authors: Rahadjeng Erna Retna
Published: October 2017

This study aims to identify the performing of an agency applying nuturing institutional capital markets through built Broaden approach to improve the performance of securities institution. This phenomenological study was conducted on securities agency in Malang. The data has been collected by using participant observation, in-depth interviews, and questionnaires. The data was anlyzed by using content analysis. Based on the result, the researcher concluded that the variables (x1) Emotional Resiliency; (x2) Cognitive Resiliency; (x3) social resiliency; and Financial Resiliency (x4) have jointly significant influence on the performance of securities agency. Similarly, each variable partially has an influence on financial performance. The dominant variable influencing the performance of securities agency is cognitive resiliency variable that has the highest value of regression coefficient. Therefore, the hypothesis stated about there is an influence of emotional resiliency; cognitive resiliency; social resiliency; and financial resiliency variables towards the performance of the securities agency in Malang is accepted.
ANALISA AKUNTABILITAS DAN TRANSPARANSI TENTANG IMPLEMENTASI KEBIJAKAN PENGELOLAAN BOS
Authors: Hariswati Nurul
Published: October 2017

This  research  was  conducted  with  the  aim  to  analyse  the  implementation  of  the accountability  and  transparency   financial  management  which  the  source  stemming  from government. The approach used is a case study of  indepth interview  from  financial  manager,  head master, and stakeholders. The results of this research show that first appeared as constraints and not regulated and obligations  of  private  schools  in  terms  of  taxation.  Second,  the  scale  of  priority  importance of accountability between the financial manager and head  master has different values so as conflicts of interest.  Third, the implementation of transparency development from the publication  such as via the website, call center, facebook. The fourth, the Government has n ot set a standard policy  to  use of the grant allocations.
PENGARUH SERVANT LEADERSHIP STYLE TERHADAP LOYALITAS KARYAWAN MELALUI PERAN MEDIASI KEPUASAN KARYAWAN (Study Pada Karyawan PT. Bank Syariah Mandiri Malang)
Authors: Ritaudin Ahmad
Published: October 2017

The purpose of this study was to how servant leadership style, employee performance and employee loyalty. To determine the effect of servant leadership style on employee loyalty, servant leadership style on employee satisfaction, employee satisfaction to employee loyalty, as well as the mediating role of employee satisfaction in PT. Bank Syariah Mandiri Malang. The samples in this research using random sampling with quota sampling technique gained 60 respondents employees at PT. Bank Syariah Mandiri Malang. Model structure equation modeling (SEM) type PLS (partial least Square), come to the conclusion: servant leadership style significant positive effect on employee loyalty; servant leadership style positive effect on employee satisfaction; Employee satisfaction is not significant positive effect on employee loyalty; and employee satisfaction does not mediate between servant leadership style on employee loyalty.Keywords: Employee Loyalty, Employee satisfaction, Servant Leadership Style, The Role of Mediation
PENGARUH KARAKTERISTIK INDIVIDU, BUDAYA ORGANISASI, DAN KOMITMEN ORGANISASI TERHADAP KINERJA KARYAWAN DENGAN MOTIVASI SEBAGAI VARIABEL MODERASI (STUDI PADA KARYAWAN INSTALASI RAWAT JALAN RSUD DR. SAIFUL ANWAR MALANG)
Authors: Susanti Susi
Published: October 2017

This study aimed to examine the effect of the relationship of individual characteristics, organizational culture, and organizational commitment to employee performance and motivation as a moderating variable in the study of plant employees outpatient Hospital Dr. Saiful Anwar Malang. Poor This research is explanatory. Samples in this study used a sample of 113 respondents 84 employees who work on installation of outpatient Hospital Dr. Results of analysis Partial Least Square (PLS) This study shows that the individual character relationships, organizational culture, different organizational commitment remains significant positive effect on employee performance, motivation to strengthen the relationship between individual characteristics, organizational culture, and organizational commitment to employee performance.Keywords: individual characteristics, organizational culture, organizational commitment, motivation, employee performance.
The National People's Congress Oversight Power and the Role of the CCP
Authors: Chien-Min Chao
Published: October 2017

The urbanization and the structural and institutional changes that have taken

place in China in the past two decades have resulted in the collapse of the old

system and the germination of a tremendous number of irregularities. To redress

the malfeasance brought about by the new decentralization of economic resources,

the People's Congresses (PCs) are taking the lead in another round of incremental

political reforms. The combination of specialization and centralization of

leadership has led to an augmentation of legislative oversight. Measures

developed by the legislative institutions, such as pingyi (evaluation) and zhifa

jiancha (inspection of implementation of laws), have enlivened a lethargic local

political scene and given rise to the committee autonomy. These political reforms

have transformed local politics forever, forcing the central government to follow

suit. The urgent need for institutional mechanisms to counter the vices associated

with socialist market reform has prompted the Party to turn its attention to the

People's Congresses. Consequently, a Leninist party-state system has been

transformed into a new system in which the Party is allied simultaneously with

the executive and the legislative branches. A preliminary and limited balance of

power is now emerging in which the Party is not totally immune. The newly

accrued legislative powers have not only redefined the tenets of Party leadership,

but also rewritten its relations with the executive branch. Although the PCs are

still often barred from vital decision-making, new devices such as pingyi and zhifa

jiancha are forcing some local officials to have second thoughts before straying

too far from legal boundaries.
The Political Management of Mayors in Post-Deng China
Authors: Landry Pierre F.
Published: October 2017

This article examines how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) maintains political

control over municipal elites in post-Deng China. First, it analyses the career paths

of mayors for all prefecture-level municipalities between 1990 and 2000. It then

shows how the dual processes of economic decentralization and the

decentralization of the personnel management system has not led to a decline of

the CCP's capacity to enforce key organizational norms. An ordered probit model

of cadre promotion suggests that the economic performance of cities has little

substantive impact on promotion or removal from office. However, strict

enforcement of cadre retirement regulations has the effect of shortening the tenure

of mayors, which facilitates the promotion of a greater share of secondary officials

than was possible before the reforms of the personnel system, but weakens the

link between good governance and political rewards.
Horizons of Business Anthropology in a World of Flexible Accumulation
Authors: Batteau Allen W. , Psenka Carolyn E.
Published: October 2017

Classically, anthropology supplied a cultural critique, by contrasting the Noble Savage to contemporary institutions and exposing the effects of structures of authority. This understanding of humanity was expanded a hundred years ago by Boas’s embrace of cultural and linguistic variety within a common humanity. Similarly, the classical role for business anthropology and other forms of applied anthropology has been to identify areas in contemporary enterprises and institutions where improvements could be made. Today anthropologists’ engagement with the contemporary world of business in a régime of flexible accumulation is expanding our understanding of the human project, interrogating the régimes of value and extension whose scale is global and whose scope penetrates to the deepest levels of consciousness. Using contemporary ethnographic insights from the authors and other anthropologists, this article suggests an enlarged understanding of and direction for business anthropology at the frontier of anthropology that uses classic anthropological approaches to investigate the sites where new human possibilities are being assembled and created.
Close Encounters: Anthropologists in the Corporate Arena
Authors: Cefkin Melissa
Published: October 2017

The corporate encounter invites casting an anthropological gaze on the objects and practices of corporate worlds. This article delineates three perspectives of the anthropologist on this encounter: (1) with the things corporations make (products and services), (2) with the way they make them (acts of production), and (3) with organizational imperatives (corporate forms). This examination draws specifically on the work of those who operate from within the corporate arena by referencing papers from Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC). Corporate actors, in turn, seek more nuanced views on human experience and aim to exploit the “people” and “practices” dimensions of their existence and have turned to anthropologists in the process. A brief exploration of the hopes and disjuncture that help shape the encounter from the point of view of anthropologists’ interlocutors inside the corporation rounds out this examination of the anthropologists’ corporate encounter.
The Ethical Epistemes of Anthropology and Economics
Authors: Batteau Allen W. , Trainor Bradley J.
Published: October 2017

This article examines the separate epistemologies of anthropology and neoclassical economics, suggesting that both epistemologies are tied to and represent ethical stances. After discussing the differences between morality and ethics, it suggests that the epistemologies of both disciplines are rooted in colonial encounters. Although numerous states and empires had previously encountered populations on their peripheries, the European colonial encounter of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century was uniquely on an industrial scale, creating new epistemological and ethical problems, out of which both economics and anthropology emerged. The global episteme and ethical stance of anthropology in its engagement with diversity now has as its frontier an engagement with powerful institutions in the business world.
Writing Advertising: the Production of Relationships in Historical Review
Authors: Malefyt Timothy De Waal
Published: October 2017

This article examines a range of writings on advertising. It shows that advertising has been written about as instrumental to an emerging capitalistic market, touted as a flamboyant lifestyle in autobiographical tales of charismatic advertising leaders, depicted as a coercive tool of manipulation for creating false desires in consumers, and analyzed for its complex social and political relations among its internal divisions and suppliers. I argue that the many ways advertising is written about reveal an ever-changing structural alignment within advertising itself, in what Pierre Bourdieu (1993) calls a field of strategic relations and possibles. In this, advertising, as well as the writing about advertising, is shown from a shifting ‘production of relations’ relative to economic, political, social and self-intended issues. The article concludes with possible future directions that writings on advertising will take.
The Anthropology of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia: From Culture to Institution?
Authors: Verver Michiel , Dahles Heidi
Published: October 2017

This article outlines the contours of the scholarly debate on ‘Chinese capitalism’ in Southeast Asia. This multidisciplinary domain is business- and entrepreneurship-oriented, and concerns the ethnic Chinese who have migrated from Southern China to Southeast Asia and have come to play a dominant role in the region’s economies over the centuries. The debate revolves around the competing assumptions that ethnic Chinese business success in Southeast Asia relies either on ethnic affiliation and shared cultural values, or on strategic deployment of resources, power relations and institutional co-optation. We distinguish four perspectives on ‘Chinese capitalism’, and argue that the concept of culture holds the debate hostage in the divide between essentialism and anti-essentialism. The promise of an ‘anthropology of Chinese capitalism’ resides in matters of perspective, therefore, rather than in the theoretical concept of culture itself. We advocate a liaison amoureuse between business anthropology and institutional theory.
The Anthropology of Business Ethics: Worth Thinking about!
Authors: Gallenga Ghislaine
Published: October 2017

This article deals with epistemological thoughts about business ethics. My intention is to consider business ethics as a research subject in anthropology and not to judge the relevance of the morality or ethics: in other words, the integration of activities in a “common good” category. The article examines the philosophical ground of this notion and explores whether business ethics is related to this philosophical background. While, from an anthropological point of view, it is better to draw a value judgment from the notion of “business ethics” (applicability, truthfulness, intentionality, and so on), the argument presented here is that it is better to consider “business ethics” as a category of work management at the meeting point between theory and practice, and to observe in situ how this notion is used, articulated and circulated in the daily life of a workplace.
Fine Chocolate, Resistance, and Political Morality in the Marketplace
Authors: McCabe Maryann
Published: October 2017

This article takes the case of fine chocolate to explore resistance in the consumer practice of buying branded products labeled fair trade. Ethnographic research conducted in the US, Europe and Japan at two different points in time indicates that moral satisfaction now joins sensual enjoyment in consumer appreciation of fine chocolate. The article examines social processes shaping fine chocolate into a morally compelling one based on use of fair labor in producing cocoa beans. Looking at the cocoa commodity chain reveals how the marketplace is a locus for challenging status quo. Fine chocolate was transformed from deterritorialized product perceived to come from chocolatiers in West European countries like Belgium and France to reterritorialized product connected to cocoa bean growers in tropical regions of the world. I argue that resistance is not equated with free will located within the individual as an autonomous actor but constitutes a form of agency distributed in an assemblage. Consumers are enmeshed in assemblages that have force or momentum. Examining movements in the fine chocolate assemblage (including chocolate lovers and their senses, chocolate products, producers along the commodity chain, and institutional discourse from media, government and industry) identifies a trajectory of change and correspondence between ethical concern and sensual enjoyment.