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Interpersonal assertiveness: Inside the balancing act
Authors: Ames Daniel , Lee Alice , Wazlawek Abbie 
Published: June 2017

AbstractWhether in everyday disagreements, bargaining episodes, or high‐stakes disputes, people typically see a spectrum of possible responses to dealing with differences with others, ranging from avoidance and accommodation to competition and aggression. We believe people judge their own and others' behaviors along this dimension, which we call interpersonal assertiveness, reflecting the degree to which someone stands up and speaks out for their own positions when they are faced with someone else who does not want the same outcomes. In this article, we review long‐standing and recent scholarship to characterize the curvilinear consequences of assertiveness (both “too little” and “too much” can be problematic). We consider the sources of accommodating and assertive behavior, such as motivations, expectancies, and failures of self‐regulation. We also examine ways in which people can assert themselves effectively, ranging from making precise offers in negotiations to employing rationales as part of their proposals. We conclude by noting promising directions for future research.
Reimagining gender in psychology: What can critical psychology offer?
Authors: Wigginton Britta 
Published: June 2017

AbstractIn this article, I argue that gender is a complex sociocultural construct, yet how gender is accounted for in psychological research is limited. Specifically, psychologists conflate sex with gender, rely on quantifying gender differences and, by implication, conceptualise gender as merely a participant characteristic. To illustrate, I apply this viewpoint to the topic of gender differences in tobacco use/cessation using on a feminist quality appraisal tool. I show how these three issues promote the narrow study of sex/gender differences, despite problems surrounding this inquiry, and reduce insights into the intersection of gender and behaviour. To offer a way forward for psychology, I describe how a critical psychology perspective attends to the complexities of gender and its influence on behaviour. I showcase diverse ways of attending to gender as a sociocultural construct, inviting psychologists to engage with, and reflect on, their gender analyses.
Impression mismanagement: People as inept self‐presenters
Authors: Steinmetz Janina , Sezer Ovul , Sedikides Constantine 
Published: June 2017

AbstractPeople routinely manage the impressions they make on others, attempting to project a favorable self‐image. The bulk of the literature has portrayed people as savvy self‐presenters who typically succeed at conveying a desired impression. When people fail at making a favorable impression, such as when they come across as braggers, regulatory resource depletion is to blame. Recent research, however, has identified antecedents and strategies that foster systematic impression management failures (independently of regulatory resource depletion), suggesting that self‐presenters are far from savvy. In fact, they commonly mismanage their impressions without recognizing it. We review failed perspective taking and narcissism as two prominent antecedents of impression mismanagement. Further, we argue that failed perspective taking, exacerbated by narcissism, contributes to suboptimal impression management strategies, such as hubris, humblebragging, hypocrisy, and backhanded compliments. We conclude by discussing how self‐presenters might overcome some of the common traps of impression mismanagement.
Resistance, reactance, and misinterpretation: Highlighting the challenge of persuading people with depression to seek help
Authors: Siegel Jason T. , Lienemann Brianna A. , Rosenberg Benjamin D. 
Published: June 2017

AbstractInterventions that increase help‐seeking among people with depression have the potential to save lives. Several efforts have been impressively successful; however, research has also chronicled inconsistent results, with some endeavors indicating boomerang effects. The goal of the current analysis is to synthesize select findings from cognitive theorizing on depression with persuasion scholarship to explain how and why the combination of unfavorable attitudes toward help‐seeking, attitudes that are increasingly resistant to influence, psychological reactance, and cognitive errors can result in challenging responses to messages encouraging help‐seeking among people with depression. In addition, we highlight the importance of utilizing theory‐based approaches to circumvent resistance to persuasion and provide an explanation as to why the provision of immediate help‐seeking mechanisms could be a key aspect of successful intervention efforts. We also stress the importance of formative research and pilot testing, and warn against the potentially harmful error of assessing messages targeting people with depression on those without heightened levels of depressive symptomatology. Ideally, this effort will draw attention to the challenge of persuading people with depression to seek help and also motivate social psychologists to consider the ways they can use their craft to positively influence the health and well‐being of people with depression.
Varieties of Social Investment Policies on Two Sides of the Baltic Sea: Explaining Routes to Endurance
Authors: Toots Anu , Lauri Triin 
Published: June 2017

AbstractBy 2016, European countries have more or less recovered from the 2008 recession. However, the strategies for coping with the crisis have varied, and one of the main concerns is to which extent the social investment paradigm has survived. In this article, we first map the dynamics of social investment expenditures in 2004–12 in six low‐ and high‐spending welfare states in the Baltic Sea region – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark and Sweden – and define countries which have managed to sustain the social investment ratio after recession. Second, by employing fuzzy‐set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, we explore the configurational routes of ideational and structural factors within various macroeconomic contexts associated with the endurance of social investment. The analysis revealed that two out of the six countries – Denmark and Lithuania – managed to increase or preserve the share of investment expenditures in their total welfare budgets. Stable economic growth and low government debt turned out to be necessary conditions regardless of the generosity of the welfare state. However, while in Baltic countries a strong economy has to be in conjunction with ideational contributors (such as a government coalition of liberals and social democrats, and strict employment protection), the Nordic route includes a strong economy in conjunction with a high share of service economy.
Labour Market Integration and Equality for Disabled People: A Comparative Analysis of Nordic and Baltic Countries
Authors: Kuznetsova Yuliya , Yalcin Betul , Priestley Mark 
Published: June 2017

AbstractThis article considers the employment situation of disabled people, and disability policies, in three Nordic and three Baltic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). The analysis is framed by a changing paradigm for disability policy‐making, from compensation towards human rights and in a context of multi‐level governance involving the EU and UN as significant policy actors. The analysis draws on policy analysis and European social survey data to compare outcomes for disabled people in each country and in binary comparison between Nordic and Baltic countries. This enables interactions between individual and regional block factors to be modelled. We conclude that national policies make a difference, that non‐discrimination policies are not enough and that a focused mix of regulatory and redistributive measures is needed. The findings highlight better employment and social protection outcomes for disabled people in the Nordic countries, but point to policy challenges in both blocks. National processes of (de)commodification and stratification affect disabled people differently and this may disrupt our assumptions about welfare state comparisons.
Youth‐oriented Active Labour Market Policies: Explaining Policy Effort in the Nordic and the Baltic States
Authors: Tosun Jale , Unt Marge , Wadensjö Eskil 
Published: June 2017

AbstractThe starting point of this study is the seemingly striking similarity in the number of youth‐oriented labour market policies adopted by the Nordic and the Baltic EU member states in 2013–14 despite markedly different welfare regimes. The similarities remain when concentrating on active labour market policies (ALMPs) and extending the observation period to 2007–15, but the application of a more refined coding scheme suggests that there are also notable cross‐country differences. Estonia, Finland and Sweden are found to exhibit a relatively similar approach to youth‐oriented ALMPs, while Denmark, Latvia and Lithuania are more distinct cases. The similarities in the policy effort can be explained by similar problem pressure, EU‐guided policy learning and the provision of EU funding. Lastly, the policy approaches of the Nordic states indicate a path‐dependency. Thus, while the youth‐oriented policy effort may appear to be quite similar, important differences remain.
Work and Care Opportunities under Different Parental Leave Systems: Gender and Class Inequalities in Northern Europe
Authors: Javornik Jana , Kurowska Anna 
Published: June 2017

AbstractThis article analyses public parental leave in eight northern European countries, and assesses its opportunity potential to facilitate equal parental involvement and employment, focusing on gender and income opportunity gaps. It draws on Sen's capability and Weber's ideal‐types approach to analyze policies across countries. It offers the ideal parental leave architecture, one which minimizes the policy‐generated gender and class inequality in parents’ opportunities to share parenting and keep their jobs, thus providing real opportunities for different groups of individuals to achieve valued functionings as parents. Five policy indicators are created using benchmarking and graphical analysis. Two sources of opportunity inequality are considered: the leave system as the opportunity and constraint structure, and the socio‐economic contexts as the conversion factors. The article produces a comprehensive overview of national leave policies, visually presenting leave policy across countries. Considering policy capability ramifications beyond gender challenges a family policy‐cluster idea and the Nordic‐Baltic divide. It demonstrates that leave systems in northern Europe are far from homogenous; they diverge in the degree to which they create real opportunities for parents and children as well as in key policy dimensions through which these opportunities are created.
Responsibility for Child and Elderly Care: Who Should Cover the Costs? A Comparison of Baltic and Nordic Countries
Authors: García‐Faroldi Livia , de Miguel‐Luken Verónica , Ayuso Luis 
Published: June 2017

AbstractBaltic and Nordic countries share historical and political connections as well as geographical proximity. Nevertheless, when their welfare regimes are compared, Baltic countries can be included in a post‐communist model that differs from the social‐democratic model of Nordic countries in many respects. This article focuses on one of these aspects, the opinion expressed towards the financial responsibility for the care of children and the elderly. In particular, childcare policies have been used to explain the development of a dual earner/dual career model in Nordic countries. Nevertheless, full‐time employment of women is widespread in Baltic countries too, although family policies and attitudes strongly differ from Nordic ones. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme (2012), we compare public attitudes towards who should cover the costs of caring in five Nordic countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark) and two Baltic ones (Latvia and Lithuania). We find remarkable differences between both groups of nations: citizens from Baltic countries consider the role of the family more important than their counterparts in Nordic countries. Results show Latvians holding the most familistic views in terms of covering costs, and Swedish people the least. Individual socio‐demographic variables are less important than national contexts in explaining these attitudes. We find important variations among the social‐democratic countries and, surprisingly, in the case of childcare, Sweden shows higher differences to Denmark than to Latvia and Lithuania. This finding suggests that the social‐democratic bloc in this respect is more heterogeneous than what is generally thought.
Back to Basics – Literacy Proficiency, Immigration and Labour Market Outcomes in Sweden
Authors: Bussi Margherita , Pareliussen Jon 
Published: June 2017

AbstractWe explore how education, literacy skills and migrant origin affect employment and over‐qualification mismatch, using a simple model of human capital, standard regression methods and data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). Sweden is an interesting case, as a compressed wage distribution makes thresholds to enter the labour market high for those with low education and low skills. Skill and education levels are high among the native‐born. At the same time, the high influx of humanitarian and family reunion migrants, who are on average less educated and less skilled than natives, increases the supply of low‐skilled labour. We find that substantial employment penalties all but disappear when controlling for migrants’ lower literacy proficiency. In contrast, the high incidence of over‐qualification mismatch among immigrants is little sensitive to literacy proficiency and demographic profiles. However, having participated in education and training activities in Sweden improves matching considerably, in particular if such activities are manifested in formal qualifications.
Persistent hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) associated with passive acquisition of anti‐D in maternal breast milk
Authors: Li Marissa , Blaustein John C. 
Published: June 2017

BACKGROUNDAnti‐D is a well‐documented, significant cause of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN), but its presence in breast milk is not routinely described. Theoretically, breast milk containing anti‐D could have the potential to exacerbate HDFN if ingested by the affected infant.STUDY DESIGN AND METHODSThis is a case report of a 28‐week premature male neonate with hydrops fetalis born to a 32‐year‐old woman (gravidity 3/parity 3) with anti‐D and anti‐G. The male neonate experienced prolonged HDFN due to passive acquisition of anti‐D in the mother's breast milk.RESULTSThe mother's breast milk reacted strongly (4+) with the D‐positive cells in the antibody screen test. Discontinuation of breast milk feeding and addition of total parenteral nutrition led to the cessation of clinically significant HDFN.CONCLUSIONAlthough anti‐D is a significant cause of HDFN through placental transfer of antibody, exacerbation of the condition through breast milk antibodies is rarely described. The current case highlights the possibility of this occurring. Discontinuation of maternal breast milk feedings should be considered in infants with HDFN who do not respond to standard treatment.
Influence of plerixafor on the mobilization of CD34+ cell subpopulations and lymphocyte subtypes
Authors: Worel Nina , Frank Nelli , Frech Christian , Fritsch Gerhard 
Published: June 2017

BACKGROUNDPeripheral blood stem cells mobilized with granulocyte–colony‐stimulating factor (G‐CSF) with or without chemotherapy are routinely used for autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation. Plerixafor, a chemokine‐receptor inhibitor, increases the amount of circulating CD34+ cells and improves harvest results. However, limited information is available regarding the composition of apheresis products with respect to CD34+ and lymphocyte subtypes collected after various mobilization regimens.STUDY DESIGN AND METHODSWe used a recently established single‐platform multicolor flow‐cytometric analysis including CD45RA and CD133 to define CD34+ subpopulations and lymphocyte subsets in products obtained either after G‐CSF with or without chemotherapy alone (G, n = 40) or with addition of plerixafor (GP, n = 40).RESULTSAbsolute numbers of white blood cells and lymphocyte subtypes were significantly higher after plerixafor, which was not observed for absolute CD34+ counts. However, distinct differences in terms of CD34+ subtypes were observed. The most primitive multipotent progenitors (CD45RA–CD133+CD34+CD38low) predominated significantly after G (median, 49.2%; range, 15.2%‐63%) compared to GP (median, 34.4%; range, 12%‐62%; p < 0.001), whereas more differentiated subsets clearly prevailed after GP.CONCLUSIONIn contrast to the findings of other authors, our study shows a clear shift toward more committed CD34+ subsets after plerixafor in poor mobilizers and elucidates the importance of informative surface markers like CD45RA and CD133 in addition to CD38 to discriminate earlier from more committed CD34+ cells. Further studies are needed to analyze whether these findings have an impact on clinical outcome.
Hematologic RIs for healthy water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) in southern Mexico
Authors: Torres‐Chable Oswaldo M. , Ojeda‐ Robertos Nadia F. , Chay‐Canul Alfonso J. , Peralta‐Torres Jorge A. , Luna‐Palomera Carlos , Brindis‐Vazquez Nahum , Blitvich Bradley J. , Machain‐Williams Carlos , Garcia‐Rejon Julian E. , Baak‐Baak Carlos M. , Dorman Karin S. , Alegria‐Lopez Miguel A. 
Published: June 2017

BackgroundBaseline hematologic data are used by veterinarians and wildlife biologists to perform health assessments on target animal species. Hematologic measurements are influenced by various factors including geography. Baseline hematologic RIs have been established for domestic water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) from various countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, but these data are not readily available for the Western Hemisphere.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to determine hematologic values for domestic water buffaloes from several commercial farms in southern Mexico.MethodsBlood was collected from 126 healthy, postlactating females (3 to 10 years old) from the Murrah breed, and 10 hematologic variables were measured.ResultsMeans, SDs, RIs, medians (MED), median absolute deviations (MAD), and other statistics were calculated for each hematologic variable. The MED (and MAD) for each variable are as follows: RBC count, 7.6 (1.1) × 1012/L; hemoglobin, 116.0 (13.3) g/L; PCV, 41.5 (7.6) %; MCV, 56.8 (7.0) fL; MCH, 14.6 (1.6) pg; MCHC, 250.0 (35.6) g/L; RDW (SD), 29.7 (5.5) fL; RDW (CV), 18.2 (1.4) %; reticulocytes, 0.0 (0.0) %, and WBC count, 12.4 (1.3) × 109/L. These values were compared to those previously reported for water buffaloes from several countries in the Eastern Hemisphere and, on most occasions, they differed significantly.ConclusionsOur data can be used by veterinarians and other personnel involved in buffalo production in Mexico during medical evaluations.
Effect of time and temperature on anticoagulant‐dependent pseudothrombocytopenia in Göttingen minipigs
Authors: Erkens Tim , Van den Sande Liesbeth , Witters Jill , Verbraeken Filip , Looszova Adriana , Feyen Bianca 
Published: June 2017

BackgroundA marked decrease in thrombocyte count was observed between subsequent measurements of the sameEDTAblood sample in several minipigs, but little information was available explaining this finding.ObjectivesThe objective was to evaluate the impact of several preanalytic variables on thrombocyte counts in minipigs, in order to improve understanding of the in vitro thrombocyte decrease observed.Materials and MethodsHematology blood samples from male and female Göttingen minipigs were collected usingEDTAor citrate as an anticoagulant. Samples were stored under different conditions (room temperature, 4°C, or 37–38°C) and were analyzed approximately 0.5 to one h, 3.5–4 h, 7–7.5 h, and 28–29 h after collection.ResultsInEDTAblood samples from male minipigs stored at room temperature, there was a progressive thrombocyte decrease over time up to −71% after 29 h, caused by in vitro aggregation. In females, no consistent change was seen up to 7.5 h, but there was a decrease up to −47% after 29 h. Thrombocyte count was most stable during storage at 4°C. No consistent marked decrease in thrombocyte counts was seen for citrated blood at room temperature, although such a decrease was present in a few individual animals.ConclusionsStudy results provide evidence for an anticoagulant‐dependent pseudothrombocytopenia in minipigs progressing over time and depending on the storage temperature of the blood sample. It is therefore recommended to perform thrombocyte counts as soon as possible after blood collection, and in case of low counts, investigate for the presence of artifactual platelet clumping.
The cost of transfusing a unit of red blood cells: a costing model for Canadian hospital use
Authors: Lagerquist O. , Poseluzny D. , Werstiuk G. , Slomp J. , Maier M. , Nahirniak S. , Clarke G. 
Published: June 2017

BackgroundNo direct and thorough accounting of costs related to packed red blood cells (PRBCs) has occurred in recent Canadian history. Our study sought to determine the cost accrued for a unit of PRBC within a Canadian hospital related to the inventory management, storage, testing, issuing and administration of the product.MethodsAn eight‐step costing model was developed to capture associated costs from the time of receipt at the hospital to the time of transfusion to a patient. Personnel, consumables and capital equipment costs within each step of the model were assessed using activity‐based accounting methods and German cost accounting principles.ResultsBased on 10,475 units, total in‐hospital cost per unit of PRBC was $243·10. Personnel, consumables and capital costs contributed 77·54%, 19·86% and 2·60% to this cost, respectively.ConclusionThis study's in‐hospital costs of $243·10 summed with the $423·00 acquisition costs per unit PRBC from the blood supplier place the complete societal costs of one unit PRBCs at $666·10. This value is comparable, but lower than the majority of studies in the United States and Europe examining the societal costs of PRBCs.
Night‐time tillage revisited: the delayed soil desiccation process in night‐time tilled plots may promote unexpected weed germination
Authors: Juroszek P , Neuhoff D , Köpke U 
Published: June 2017

SummaryNight‐time tillage and sowing (photocontrol of weeds, soil cultivation in darkness) can reduce the germination and subsequent density of light‐sensitive weeds by excluding the short light flash during soil disturbance. In most experiments conducted from 1990 to 2004 worldwide, total weed density was reduced in night‐time tilled plots as expected. However, in a few field experiments, total weed density was significantly increased in night‐time compared with daytime tilled plots. We hypothesise that the desiccation process of the upper soil layer (roughly about 0–30 mm), from where most small seeded weeds emerge, may have been delayed in night‐time compared with daytime tilled plots, with significant effects on early seed germination processes. Daytime tillage was usually performed around noon, to capture high light intensities during soil tillage. However, around noon soil desiccation can be much higher than during the night. A few hours of relatively higher water availability for seeds in the upper soil layer during the night, before the next morning when soil desiccation usually increases again, may have favoured seed germination and subsequent weed emergence compared with daytime tillage, finally resulting in higher weed density in night‐time tilled plots. On the other hand, crop germination and emergence may also be higher under such conditions.