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Religious Dimensions of Contexts of Reception: Comparing Two New England Cities
Authors: Cadge Wendy , Levitt Peggy , Jaworsky Bernadette Nadya , Clevenger Casey 
Published: April 2013

AbstractWe compare how religion is present in Portland, Maine and Danbury, Connecticut and how it influences the ways organizations provide social services to recently arrived immigrants. We find that a range of municipal, civic, and religious organizations shape contexts of reception in each city. In Portland, municipal organizations provide most of the services for the large refugee population. Religious organizations are more central in Danbury, and providers speak more often about religion in their work with the city's economic migrants. Collaboration among organizations is common, although religion sometimes acts as a barrier to collaboration in Portland. We argue that the religious dimensions of cities as contexts of reception are not homogenous and that variation between them is best explained by local factors including history, demographics and organizational ecology.
God Bless Our Children? The Role of Generation, Discrimination and Religious Context for Migrants in Europe
Authors: Van der Bracht Koen , Van de Putte Bart , Verhaeghe Pieter‐Paul 
Published: April 2013

AbstractThis article deals with individual and contextual effects on the religiosity of first and second generation migrants in Europe. Noticing that little attention has been directed towards intergenerational transmission of religion in processes of integration, we argue for an intergenerational perspective on immigrant religiosity. Social integration theory is used to derive the hypothesis that second generation immigrants are less religious than the first generation. Perceived discrimination is introduced in the immigrant‐religion research to account for the stress buffering capacities of religion. On the contextual level we expect a positive effect of native religiosity and religious diversity. Three aspects of religiosity are examined: (1) religious affiliation, (2) inner religiosity and (3) praying. We use four waves (2002–2008) of the European Social Survey (ESS) in a 3‐level random intercept multilevel model with 19,567 individuals, 235 regions and 26 countries. Among others, the most interesting results are that (1) second generation immigrants are less religious than their first generation counterparts, (2) perceived discrimination has a positive effect on immigrant religiosity and the effect is greater for the second generation, (3) native religiosity has a positive effect on immigrant religiosity with a greater effect on the second generation as well and (4) the influence on migrant religiosity is more salient at the regional than at the national level.
Bailouts, Monitoring, and Penalties: An Integrated Framework of Government Policies to Manage the Too‐Big‐to‐Fail Problem
Authors: Gong Ning , Jones Kenneth D. 
Published: April 2013

AbstractThis paper discusses optimal government bailout policy where the costs of systemic failures and moral hazard problems are considered. We find that a three‐tiered bailout policy that includes anex postmonitoring and bailout scheme for financial institutions with large systemic impacts (‘too big to fail’) is optimal. The optimal policy also requires a randomized bailout for medium‐impact institutions (‘Constructive Ambiguity’), and no bailout for institutions that have only minimal systemic consequences (‘too small to save’). However, in a volatile, innovative market environment where individual institutions may know more than the government regulator, monitoring error could contribute to risk taking, leaving the government regulator to always play a ‘catch‐up’ role in revising policy. Moreover, the optimal bailout policy may not be time‐consistent: institutions not deemed ‘too big to fail’ may still have an incentive to take excessive risks and expect to be bailed out in case of insolvency, primarily due to the short‐term orientation of the government. Finally, because an institution's systemic cost affects the probability of a bailout, we show that the boundary of an institution may be extended by the government subsidy.
Long‐term survivor of relapsed stage IV malignant rhabdoid tumor of the kidney
Authors: Kato Motohiro , Koh Katsuyoshi , Oshima Koichi , Oguma Eiji , Uchida Hiroo , Kishimoto Hiroshi , Kikuchi Akira , Hanada Ryoji 
Published: April 2013

AbstractThe prognosis for metastatic malignant rhabdoid tumor (MRT) is poor, and metastatic (stage IV) MRT was resistant to conventional treatment, with less than 20% of cure rate. Moreover, there have been no reports of patients who have survived relapsed stage IV MRT. Here we report a long‐term survivor of relapsed MRT with lung metastasis at diagnosis. He was diagnosed as MRT of the kidney at 5‐month‐old. After resection of the renal tumor, he was treated with ICE (ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide), total abdominal irradiation 10.8Gy and high‐dose chemotherapy using thiotepa and melphalan. Six months after initial treatment, a relapse in the lung was detected, and he received chemotherapy including doxorubicin/pirarubicin for 78 weeks. He is alive at five years of follow up, without any evidence of disease. Our report suggests the important role of anthracycline in treatment of MRT.
Continuous regional arterial infusion effective for children with acute necrotizing pancreatitis even under neutropenia
Authors: Fukushima Hiroko , Fukushima Takashi , Suzuki Ryoko , Enokizono Takashi , Matsunaga Maki , Nakao Tomohei , Koike Kazutoshi , Mori Kensaku , Matsueda Kiyoshi , Sumazaki Ryo 
Published: April 2013

AbstractSevere acute pancreatitis is one of the critical conditions that may develop in children with cancer. The leading cause of death due to acute pancreatitis is infectious pancreatitis or circulation collapse. Therefore, patients who develop acute pancreatitis while undergoing chemotherapy or after hematopoietic transplantation are at risk for a life‐threatening and fatal course. We treated 140 patients with malignancy from April 2002 to March 2009 at our hospital and encountered 3 patients under neutropenia who developed severe acute pancreatitis. Two of them were successfully treated with continuous regional arterial infusion of a protease inhibitor and antibiotic even under agranulocytosis. Another patient was treated with conventional therapy with intravenous antibiotics plus a protease inhibitor and total or partial parenteral nutrition. Even though the two patients treated with continuous regional arterial infusion presented much more severe conditions, their symptoms resolved earlier. In conclusion, acute pancreatitis is one of the severe complications of childhood malignancy. Even under agranulocytosis, continuous regional arterial infusion of a protease inhibitor and antibiotic was well tolerated and effective among our cases and might reduce early death due to pancreatitis.
Successful use of BiPAP in infants with congenital myotonic dystrophy
Authors: Chau Shuk‐Kuen , Lee So‐Lun 
Published: April 2013

AbstractReported herein are two cases of severe phenotype of congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM) with presentation of respiratory insufficiency at birth. The infants were successfully managed with bi‐level positive airway pressure (BiPAP) via nasal mask. The use of BiPAP in infants with CDM has not been reported before. The rationale for using BiPAP is discussed. BiPAP may be more effective than continuous positive airway pressure in managing respiratory insufficiency, especially in infants with the more severe phenotype of CDM.
Mask face: Bilateral simultaneous facial palsy in an 11‐year‐old boy
Authors: Güngör Serdal , Güngör Raif Sabiha , Arslan Müjgan 
Published: April 2013

AbstractBilateral facial paralysis is an uncommon clinical entity especially in the pediatric age group and occurs frequently as a manifestation of systemic disease. The most important causes are trauma, infectious diseases, neurological diseases, metabolic, neoplastic, autoimmune diseases and idiopathic disease (Bell's palsy). We report a case of an 11‐year‐old boy presenting with bilateral simultaneous peripheral facial paralysis. All possible infectious causes were excluded and the patient was diagnosed as having Bell's palsy (idiopathic). The most important approach in these cases is to rule out a life‐threatening disease.
Principle of Proportionality as Principle of Economic Efficiency
Authors: Portuese Aurelien 
Published: April 2013

AbstractThe principle of proportionality is at the cornerstone of EU law, and precisely of the case‐law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).In the law and economics literature, the general principles of law are commonly opposed to legal rules in terms of efficiency. On the one hand, the legal formalistic approach consists of apprehending the law as principled, whereby principles of law do not and should not encompass an efficiency rationale and should be self‐sufficient. On the other hand, the legal nihilism denying the existence or relevance of the general principles of law favours legal rules that are said to incorporate an efficiency rationale. I intend to analyse the efficiency rationale of probably the most important general principles of EU law—the proportionality principle.In this paper, I shall assert that not only does the EU proportionality principle encapsulate an efficiency rationale, but most importantly, it has been interpreted by the ECJ as such—hence, I propose the representation of the principle of proportionality as a principle of economic efficiency.After having introduced the principle of proportionality (1), I shall decipher the proportionality principle both from a law and economics perspective, and from a comparative perspective (2). Then, I shall delve into the jurisprudence of the ECJ so that the judicial reasoning of the Court as this reasoning proves the relevance of the proposed representation (3). Finally, I conclude in light of the findings of this paper (4).
Weaving new meanings: evaluating children's written responses to a story telling resource package
Authors: Brady Josephine , Millard Elaine 
Published: April 2013

AbstractThis paper documents an evaluation of children's written responses to a story telling package used in an intervention project set up by the National Association for the Teaching of English as part of the larger Inspire Rotherham literacy campaign. The brief was to provide a group of primary teachers with innovative and inspirational approaches to raise the aspiration of Key Stage 2 children (age range 7‐9) and to improve their skills in story writing. The schools, who were self‐ selecting, were given a DVD of a professional story teller narrating tales appropriate to the age group, used alongside drama and role play workshops which helped the teachers engage children in aspects of narrative. The children were asked to retell one of their own favourite stories in writing before hearing the DVD stories and then to repeat this activity at the end of the 6‐week project. They were asked to include both pictures and writing. Their texts were analysed to provide both quantitative and textual data. Children were shown to have adopted many features of the language of the oral narratives they had heard in the second task improving both the structure and imagery of the stories they produced.
Simulation Studies of the Phase Stability of the Ruddlesden–Popper Phases
Authors: Ramadan Amr H. H. , Allan Neil L. , De Souza Roger A. 
Published: April 2013

Atomistic simulation techniques are used to examine the stability of Ruddlesden–Popper (R–P) phases Sr(n = 1, 2, 3, 4 and ∞). Various sets of empirical pair potentials are employed to determine the formation energies of the R–P phases. Formation energies are also calculated with Density Functional Theory (DFT). The tendency of a given R–P phase to dissociate into a lower order R–P phase plus SrTiO3 perovskite is found to increase with increasing n. The results obtained are compared with experiment and previous computational studies. The stability of intergrowth phases with respect to the pure R–P compounds is examined. In all cases the intergrowths are calculated to be thermodynamically less stable than the pure R–P phase, but the differences are in some cases negligible. Finally, the energy for SrO partial Schottky disorder in strontium titanate is computed taking the formation of R–P phases into account.
Patient perceptions of buccal gingival recessions and requests for treatment
Authors: Nieri Michele , Pini Prato Giovan Paolo , Giani Monica , Magnani Nada , Pagliaro Umberto , Roberto Rotundo 
Published: April 2013

AbstractAimsThe aims of this study were to verify patients’ perception of buccal recessions and their requests for treatment.MethodsThe patients filled out a questionnaire dealing with demographic variables and perception of buccal gingival recessions. A calibrated examiner checked for recessions and recorded the clinical variables. Then, the patients were asked to explain what they believed to be the causes of the recessions and whether they were interested in obtaining treatment of their lesions. Descriptive statistics and multilevel logistic models were used.ResultsOf 120 enrolled patients, 96 presented 783 gingival recessions, of which 565 were unperceived. Of 218 perceived recessions, 160 were asymptomatic, 36 showed dental hypersensitivity, 13 aesthetics, 9 aesthetic + hypersensitivity issues. Only 11 patients requested treatment for their 57 recessions. Younger individuals (p = 0.0077), deeper recessions (p < 0.0001), incisors and canines (p < 0.0001) and non‐carious cervical lesions (p = 0.0441) were significantly associated with patient perception of own recessions. Younger subjects (p = 0.0118), deeper recessions (p = 0.0387) and incisors (p = 0.0232) were significantly associated with patient request of treatment.Four hundred and sixty‐eight recessions (60%) were not ascribed to exact causes by the patients.ConclusionThis study shows that perception of gingival recessions and the patients’ requests for treatment should be evaluated carefully before proceeding with decision making.
Overtreatment of Presumed Urinary Tract Infection in Older Women Presenting to the Emergency Department
Authors: Gordon Lesley B. , Waxman Michael J. , Ragsdale Luna , Mermel Leonard A. 
Published: April 2013

ObjectivesTo determine how often older women presenting to an emergency department (ED) are diagnosed with a urinary tract infection (UTI) without a positive urine culture and to investigate whether collecting urine by catheterization instead of clean catch improves the accuracy of the urinalysis (UA).DesignRetrospective chart review.SettingAcademic‐affiliated ED in Providence, Rhode Island.ParticipantsOne hundred fifty‐three women aged 70 and older with diagnosis of UTI in the ED between December 1, 2008, and March 1, 2010.MeasurementsChief complaint, review of systems, results of UA and culture, urine procurement (clean catch, straight catheter, or newly inserted Foley catheter), antibiotic administered or prescribed, and diagnosis. A confirmed UTI was defined as a positive urine culture, with microbial growth of 10,000 colony‐forming units (CFU)/ mL or more for clean‐catch specimens and 100 CFU/mL or more for newly inserted catheter specimens; an ED diagnosis of UTI was defined as the designation by an ED physician.ResultsOf 153 individuals with an ED‐diagnosed UTI, only 87 (57%) had confirmed UTI according to culture. Of the remaining 66 with negative cultures, 63 (95%) were administered or prescribed antibiotics in the ED. The method of urine procurement affected the ability of a UA to predict the culture result (P = .02), with catheterization yielding a lower proportion of false‐positive UA (31%) than clean catch (48%).ConclusionNearly half of older women diagnosed with a UTI in an ED setting did not have confirmatory findings on urine culture and were therefore inappropriately treated. Catheterization improved the accuracy of UA when assessing older women for possible UTI.
White Matter Hyperintensities, Exercise, and Improvement in Gait Speed: Does Type of Gait Rehabilitation Matter?
Authors: Nadkarni Neelesh K. , Studenski Stephanie A. , Perera Subashan , Rosano Caterina , Aizenstein Howard J. , Brach Jennifer S. , Van Swearingen Jessie M. 
Published: April 2013

ObjectivesTo examine whether white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in tracts in older adults with mobility impairment are linked to outcomes of gait rehabilitation interventions.DesignTwelve‐week randomized controlled single‐blind trial.SettingUniversity‐based mobility research laboratory.ParticipantsAmbulatory adults aged 65 and older with mobility impairment.InterventionA conventional gait intervention focusing on walking, endurance, balance, and strength (WEBS, n = 21) and a task‐oriented intervention focused on timing and coordination of gait (TC, n = 23).MeasurementsSelf‐paced gait speed was measured over an instrumented walkway before and after the intervention, and WMH and brain volumes were quantified on preintervention brain MRI using an automated segmentation process. A white matter tract atlas was overlaid on the segmented images to measure tract WMH volumes, and WMH volumes were normalized to total brain volume. Aggregate WMH volumes in all white matter tracts and individual WMH volumes in specific longitudinal tracts (superior longitudinal fasciculus, inferior longitudinal fasciculus, and fronto‐occipital fasciculus) and the cingulum were measured.ResultsGait speed gains in the TC group were of the same magnitude, independent of WMH volume measures in all except the cingulum, but in the WEBS group, gain in gait speed was smaller with greater overall tract WMH volumes (P < .001) and with greater WMH volume in the three longitudinal tracts (P < .001 to .02).ConclusionGains in gait speed with two types of gait rehabilitation are associated with individual differences in WMHs. Task‐oriented therapy that targets timing and coordination of gait may particularly benefit older adults with WMHs in brain tracts that influence gait and cognition.
Specific‐pathogen‐free status is associated with lower infant mortality rate in rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) colonies at the California National Primate Research Center
Authors: Tanaka Takayuki , Lerche Nicholas W. , Farver Thomas B. , Ardeshir Amir , Kass Philip H. 
Published: April 2013

AbstractBackgroundSpecific‐pathogen‐free (SPF) rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta, are a valuable resource in biomedical research, and demographic analysis plays a significant role in colony management.MethodsData collection included SPF levels, gender, birth year, season of birth, birth location, rearing condition, maternal pregnancy history, and maternal age. Infant mortality in SPF rhesus macaques was compared with that in non‐SPF rhesus macaques at the California National Primate Research Center over a six‐year period, using Cox proportional regression analysis.ResultsIn infants born to multiparous dams, the SPF infants had a significantly lower rate of mortality than non‐SPF infants. There was no statistically significant difference in infant mortality between different SPF levels.ConclusionsElimination of selected endemic viruses from breeding populations of rhesus macaques for the purpose of SPF colony development is associated with a significant reduction in the infant mortality rate.
Successful Aging Among Assisted Living Community Older Adults
Authors: Kozar‐Westman Maryalice , Troutman‐Jordan Meredith , Nies Mary A. 
Published: April 2013

AbstractPurposeThis study investigated the suitability of using the Successful Aging Inventory (SAI) in an effort to describe successful aging among older adults currently living in assisted living communities (ALCs) and to further assess some of the characteristics of successful aging in this group.DesignThis study used a cross‐sectional descriptive quantitative research design. Recruitment garnered 200 participants 65 years of age or older from eight ALCs in North Carolina.MethodsScreening was done using the Mini‐Cog; instrumentation was composed of the SAI, Purpose in Life Test, Life Satisfaction Inventory‐A, and Centers for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.FindingsAmong the differences were those influenced by gender, with females tending to score higher on successful aging (p < .004).ConclusionsThis research demonstrated that successful aging does exist in ALC residents.Clinical RelevanceThe size of the older adult population will proliferate dramatically during the next two decades. Many of these individuals will find themselves living in ALCs; therefore, it is important to continue to strive to understand what successful aging looks like in these individuals in order to adopt meaningful practices and interventions aimed at eliciting successful aging responses in those living in these communities.
The acculturation process: Antecedents, strategies, and outcomes
Authors: Samnani Al‐Karim , Boekhorst Janet A. , Harrison Jennifer A. 
Published: April 2013

With an increasingly integrated global economy, the need to understand how national work contexts impact newcomers is critical. In particular, it is important to understand individuals' possible responses to interaction within multicultural work contexts. Blending theoretical perspectives on social identity, cross‐cultural diversity, and identity formation/change, this paper explores the complex role played by dispositional and situational factors on acculturation strategies and, in turn, labour market outcomes. To guide this exploration, a theoretical model depicting the acculturation process is developed and presented. We posit that the relationship between cultural identity salience and acculturation strategy will be moderated by two key factors: desire for economic rewards and relational pressures. We further propose that acculturation strategy will influence the social networks and organizations that newcomers join, while these latter choices can help predict their income, employability, and advancement. We advance a number of testable propositions to stimulate future research and conclude with a discussion of the theoretical and practical contributions.Practitioner Points

Recruitment processes should attract job applications from individuals with varying levels of cultural identity salience through wide‐reaching job marketing campaigns.

Workgroup composition should reflect a diverse range of complementary skills.

Performance management and reward systems should reward employees for idea‐sharing and achieving team goals.

HRM strategy should seek to gain a competitive advantage through fostering diverse skills.