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Chemical Exposure Levels in Printing Workers with Cholangiocarcinoma
Authors: Yamada Kenichi , Kumagai Shinji , Nagoya Toshio , Endo Ginji 
Published: July 2014

Chemical Exposure Levels in Printing Workers with Cholangiocarcinoma: Kenichi YAMADA, et al. Occupational Health Research and Development Center, Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association—ObjectiveThis study aimed to identify chemicals used by printing workers with cholangiocarcinoma, as well as the levels of exposure to the chemicals.MethodsInformation necessary to identify chemicals used by printing workers with cholangiocarcinoma and to estimate chemical exposure concentrations was obtained from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. Working environment concentrations of the chemicals in the printing rooms were estimated using a well‐mixed model, and exposure concentrations during the ink removal operation were estimated using a near‐field and far‐field model. Shift timeweighted averages (TWA) of exposure concentrations were also calculated.ResultsTwo workers from each of three small printing plants examined suffered from cholangiocarcinoma, and all six of these workers had been exposed to 1,2‐dichloropropane (1,2‐DCP) for 10−16 years. The estimated working environment concentrations of 1,2‐DCP in the printing rooms were 17−180 ppm and estimated exposure concentrations during the ink removal operation were 150−620 ppm. Shift TWA values were estimated to be 62−240 ppm. Four of the six workers had also been exposed to dichloromethane (DCM) at estimated working environment concentrations of 0−98 ppm and estimated exposure concentrations during the ink removal operation of 0−560 ppm. Shift TWA values were estimated to be 0−180 ppm. Other chlorinated organic solvents (1,1,1trichloroethane, 1,1‐dichloro‐1‐fluoroethane) and petroleum solvents (gasoline, naphtha, mineral spirit, mineral oil, kerosene) were also used in the ink removal operation.ConclusionsAll six printing workers with cholangiocarcinoma were exposed to very high levels of 1,2‐DCP for a long term.
Adequacy of Governance Practices in University of Bohol
Authors: Tirol Ammon Denis R. 
Published: July 2014

Governance refers to institutional systems and processes that reflect the principles guiding the overall use of authority and decision-making of the institution through its governing body. Assessment of the practices of this governing body is the foremost measure of quality in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) per the Philippine Commission for Higher Education (CHED) Institutional Quality Assurance Monitoring and Education (IQUAME) framework. This study assessed the adequacy of governance practices in the University of Bohol (UB) in its continual quest for educational leadership being Bohol’s first university. The researcher formulated survey questions adapted from the Governance and Management criteria of the IQUAME Self Evaluation Document (SED). The respondents of the study were the UB administrators that included the Board of Trustees, academic deans/ heads of offices. It involved as well the faculty, staff, and students selected by stratified random sampling. The differences in the means of survey responses for respondent groups were analyzed through weighted means. Results showed the adequacy of the four sub-variables under governance and management: Development planning, Qualifications of administrators, Addressing change, and Documentation of procedures. The overall conclusion is that UB can maintain leadership by building upon its strengths. The assessment addresses the objectives for quality assurance in teaching and learning and is a step towards institutional accreditation.
Employability of University of Bohol, BS Psychology Graduates
Authors: Lopena Gina T. 
Published: July 2014

The employability of graduates is a major success indicator of curriculum effectiveness. The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the employability of BS Psychology graduates of the University of Bohol. This study utilized a descriptive survey and correlated the employability, competencies, and personality attributes of BS Psychology Graduates from the School Year 2003 to 2011. Results of the study showed that graduates were very highly employable having been employed within a period of fewer than 3 months after graduation and currently on the full-time permanent status and a greater number have concentrated in the industrial/organizational field. The extent to which the university has equipped them with employability competencies was rated Above Average. Respondents highly perceived their personality attributes. There was a significant relationship between personality attributes and employability, and between employability competencies and personality attributes. Results of this study implied that graduates who are highly equipped with employability competencies develop high personality attributes resulting in high employability. The outcome of this study is one of the bases for the curricular improvement of the BS Psychology program at the University of Bohol.
Employees’ Defining and Driving Work Engagement in the University of Bohol
Authors: Trabajo Francis Mae C. 
Published: July 2014

Employee engagement in this study is all about employees finding meaning in their work, and commitment to supporting organizational goals. This spurred the conduct of this study which assesses the profile of the tenured employees of the University of Bohol and their level of engagement in terms of defining and driving engagement. This study is using descriptive normative methods that employed quantitative and qualitative methods and data analysis and interpretation using frequencies, percentages, and weighted mean. On defining their work engagement, employees strongly agree or were highly engaged/committed in their work, and on drivers of engagement, they agree or were motivated/driven in their work. Although the study yielded positive results as to defining and driving work engagement on the perception of the tenured nonteaching employees of the institution, there is a need to look into ways to sustain employees’ engagement for the success of its organizational goals.
Spirituality and Self-Actualization
Authors: Pausanos Melinda C. 
Published: July 2014

Spirituality is considered an important factor in the development of self-actualization among older adults as stated in the theory on Attaining Self-Actualization among Older Adults. This Study validated this assumption of the theory. This, descriptive-correlational study utilized a multi-stage sample of 180 senior citizens in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. A 3 part instrument package was utilized to (1) describe the respondents' demographic profile and obtain measures for their (2) spiritually Well-Being Scale (FACIT-Sp) and (3) self-actualization using a 16-item questionnaire developed by Boyum (2004). A Somer's d analysis indicated that the spirituality of the older adult is significantly correlated with self-actualization (p=.019). This study revealed that older adults with a strong sense of spirituality tend to be more self-actualized.
Starting a Family: The Experience of Parents with Cleft Lip and/or Palate
Authors: Stock Nicola Marie , Rumsey Nichola 
Published: July 2014

Background One of the key challenges facing young adults with cleft lip and/or palate is making decisions about starting a family, because there is an increased likelihood of their own child being diagnosed with cleft lip and/or palate. Should this occur, a second key challenge is how to deal with their child's diagnosis and subsequent treatment. Objective To explore the views, experiences and possible support needs of this unique group of parents in order to inform the services provided by nonspecialist Health Professionals, cleft teams, and genetic counselors. Design Individual telephone interviews eliciting qualitative data. Results Qualitative thematic analysis identified five themes. Accessing accurate information and appropriate support around heritability presented a significant challenge. Parents described feelings of responsibility and distress at their child's diagnosis, as well as a number of factors that had helped or hindered their adjustment. Parents also described ways in which their own experiences had impacted their parenting style and how becoming a parent had changed the way they felt about their own cleft. Conclusions Young adults' understanding of what it means to grow up with cleft lip and/or palate may impact their decision to start a family and their experiences of having children. Possible methods of supporting prospective parents through this potentially difficult stage will be discussed.
Prevalence of Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate in Rural North-Central Guatemala
Authors: Matute Jorge , Lydick Elaine A. , Torres Olga R. , Owen Karen K. , Jacobsen Kathryn H. 
Published: July 2014

Objective To estimate the number of new cases of cleft lip and cleft palate in the department (state) of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, in 2012. Design Cross-sectional survey of midwives from communities identified through a two-stage cluster-sampling process. Midwives were asked how many babies they had delivered in the past year and how many of those newborns had various types of birth defects, as illustrated in pictures. Setting Indigenous Mayan communities in rural north-central Guatemala. Participants Midwives (n = 129) who had delivered babies in the previous year. Main Outcome Measure Reports of babies born with cleft lip and cleft palate. Results A 1-year prevalence rate of 18.9 per 10,000 for cleft lip and 4.7 per 10,000 for cleft palate was estimated for Alta Verapaz. None of the cases of cleft lip also had cleft palate. Conclusion The indigenous communities in north-central Guatemala might have a relatively high cleft lip prevalence rate compared with the global average.
Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome Among Hispanics/Latinos of Diverse Background: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Authors: Heiss Gerardo , Snyder Michelle L. , Teng Yanping , Schneiderman Neil , Llabre Maria M. , Cowie Catherine , Carnethon Mercedes , Kaplan Robert , Giachello Aida , Gallo Linda , Loehr Laura , Avilés-Santa Larissa 
Published: July 2014

OBJECTIVE
Approximately one-third of the adult U.S. population has the metabolic syndrome. Its prevalence is the highest among Hispanic adults, but variation by Hispanic/Latino background is unknown. Our objective was to quantify the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among men and women 18–74 years of age of diverse Hispanic/Latino background.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
Two-stage area probability sample of households in four U.S. locales, yielding 16,319 adults (52% women) who self-identified as Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Central American, or South American. The metabolic syndrome was defined according to the American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 2009 Joint Scientific Statement. The main outcome measures were age-standardized prevalence of the metabolic syndrome per the harmonized American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute definition and its component abnormalities.

RESULTS
The metabolic syndrome was present in 36% of women and 34% of men. Differences in the age-standardized prevalence were seen by age, sex, and Hispanic/Latino background. The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among those 18–44, 45–64, and 65–74 years of age was 23%, 50%, and 62%, respectively, among women; and 25%, 43%, and 55%, respectively, among men. Among women, the metabolic syndrome prevalence ranged from 27% in South Americans to 41% in Puerto Ricans. Among men, prevalences ranged from 27% in South Americans to 35% in Cubans. In those with the metabolic syndrome, abdominal obesity was present in 96% of the women compared with 73% of the men; more men (73%) than women (62%) had hyperglycemia.

CONCLUSIONS
The burden of cardiometabolic abnormalities is high in Hispanic/Latinos but varies by age, sex, and Hispanic/Latino background. Hispanics/Latinos are thus at increased, but modifiable, predicted lifetime risk of diabetes and its cardiovascular sequelae.
Prevalence of Diabetes Among Hispanics/Latinos From Diverse Backgrounds: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
Authors: Schneiderman Neil , Llabre Maria , Cowie Catherine C. , Barnhart Janice , Carnethon Mercedes , Gallo Linda C. , Giachello Aida L. , Heiss Gerardo , Kaplan Robert C. , LaVange Lisa M. , Teng Yanping , Villa-Caballero Leonel , Avilés-Santa M. Larissa 
Published: July 2014

OBJECTIVE
We examine differences in prevalence of diabetes and rates of awareness and control among adults from diverse Hispanic/Latino backgrounds in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
The HCHS/SOL, a prospective, multicenter, population-based study, enrolled from four U.S. metropolitan areas from 2008 to 2011 16,415 18–74-year-old people of Hispanic/Latino descent. Diabetes was defined by either fasting plasma glucose, impaired glucose tolerance 2 h after a glucose load, glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C), or documented use of hypoglycemic agents (scanned medications).

RESULTS
Diabetes prevalence varied from 10.2% in South Americans and 13.4% in Cubans to 17.7% in Central Americans, 18.0% in Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, and 18.3% in Mexicans (P &lt; 0.0001). Prevalence related positively to age (P &lt; 0.0001), BMI (P &lt; 0.0001), and years living in the U.S. (P = 0.0010) but was negatively related to education (P = 0.0005) and household income (P = 0.0043). Rate of diabetes awareness was 58.7%, adequate glycemic control (A1C &lt;7%, 53 mmol/mol) was 48.0%, and having health insurance among those with diabetes was 52.4%.

CONCLUSIONS
Present findings indicate a high prevalence of diabetes but considerable diversity as a function of Hispanic background. The low rates of diabetes awareness, diabetes control, and health insurance in conjunction with the negative associations between diabetes prevalence and both household income and education among Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S. have important implications for public health policies.
Effect of MHD and Injection through one side of a long vertical channel embedded in porous medium with transpiration cooling
Authors: Govardhan K. , Kaladhar K. , Nagaraju G. , Balaswamy B. 
Published: July 2014

AbstractThis paper examines the effect of MHD, and injection through one side of a long vertical channel embedded in porous medium with transpiration cooling. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations have been transformed by similarity transformation into a set of ordinary differential equations, which are solved numerically by Adam-moultan Predictor-Corrector method with Newton-Raphson Method for missing initial conditions. Proflles of dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration are shown graphically for different parameters entering into the analysis. Also the effects of the pertinent parameters on the heat transfer rates are tabulated. An analysis of the results obtained shows that the flow field is influenced appreciably by emerging parameters of the present study.
Patch Notes: Playing the Selves in Gamespace
Authors: Filewod Alan 
Published: July 2014

Abstract:Digital gaming is a theatricalized activity in the wider spheres of performance studies research. When we play games we trace out our personal experiences through digital participation, narrative simulation, enactment, and spectatorship. Traditionally thought of as dimensionally collapsed puppet play that assumes a direct relationship between player and avatar, player experiences in gaming have been transformed by social networks featuring online play. In MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games), gaming becomes an embodied practice that projects corporeality into digital space. This is the expanding “atopian” realm of what Mackenzie Wark calls “gamespace,” which supersedes Guy Debord’s “spectacle” as the cultural logic of our time. Written from a gamer perspective, this article explores how the recent dominance of MMORPGS has shifted understandings of role-play in gaming. It critiques the models of player types proposed by John Bartle and Nick Yee for their inability to consider the multi-dimensionality of distributed selves in gamespace.
Voice of the Patriots: An Interview with Canadian Video Game Performer David Hayter
Authors: Love Jamie 
Published: July 2014

Abstract: This article presents an interview with David Hayter, a Canadian-American screen and voice actor best known for playing the voices of Solid Snake and Big Boss in the Metal Gear Solid video game franchise created by Hideo Kojima and published by Konami. Hayter is also a director and screenwriter responsible for scripts based on popular comic properties such as X-Men and Watchmen.
La maison de retraite comme espace hétérotopique dans les romans canadiens : Exit Lines de Joan Barfoot, Et dansent les hirondelles de Marguerite-A. Primeau et Les vieux ne courent pas les rues de Jean-Pierre Boucher
Authors: Dansereau Estelle 
Published: July 2014

Abstract: The retirement home, a heterotopic space removed from the centre of fast-paced twenty-first century urban life, is increasingly becoming a site of revolt and transformation in Canadian fiction. Constructed principally as feminine spaces, these sites nevertheless offer the possibility of featuring a kaleidoscope of ways to age and create a microcosm where small acts of delirious rebellions may occur. These acts become fodder for writers who nevertheless acknowledge the undeniable challenges linked to aging in our era of agism. Three Canadian novelists have set their novels in just such a space: Joan Barfoot in Exit Lines (2008) offers an irreverent portrait of uprooted seniors intent on defining their “last identity,” Marguerite-A. Primeau in her still unpublished Et dansent les hirondelles renders an equally caustic, soberly ironic look at the secret, segregated world of the retirement homes, and Jean-Pierre Boucher in Les vieux ne courent pas les rues (2001) satirizes the “compassionate care” provided in nursing homes where seniors are segregated and managed but seldom loved. In this paper, I consider, through the lens of Michel Foucault’s concept of “heterotopic spaces” and empirical research on seniors’ habitats, the magical way novelists are able to transform what is often seen as a desperate situation for seniors into readable, engaging, and sometimes subversive narratives.
Être bilingue à Sudbury (Ontario)Étude sur le contact des langues et lareprésentation des identités
Authors: Cañete María Teresa Pisa 
Published: July 2014

Abstract:In this article, we follow the theoretical sociolinguistics procedures used by Milroy, Heller and Mougeon on the choice of language in situations of bilingualism. Fieldwork among five bilingual francophone families in Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury (Ontario) enabled us to know the social factors that influence their choice of language in different situations of everyday life. In addition, these families represent two subgroups of the Franco-Ontarian minority population described by Duquette: on the one hand, an elite that promotes a normative French language and the traditional values of both the French culture and, on the other hand, the bilingual speakers for whom the English language offers attractive economic and cultural resources. Differences among Francophones weaken the vitality of their community, while English is required as a lingua franca, despite the historical struggles to achieve a certain level of education, to get jobs or to access a French sociocultural development in Ontario.
Aging, Access, and the Costs of Health Care: Should Canada Query the QALY?
Authors: Syrett Keith 
Published: July 2014

Abstract: This article explores the legality of age-related allocative decision making in health care in relation to international and domestic standards of human rights law. Drawing on source materials, scenarios, and case law from the UK and New Zealand in addition to Canada, it focuses in particular on the use of the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) metric—the gold standard for evaluation of the cost effectiveness of health technologies—by institutions and processes such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK) and the Common Drug Review (Canada), which play key roles in establishing the scope of health system coverage. The article argues that the QALY offends principles of ethics and human rights because of its tendency toward ageism. Decision making that rests on the application of such a measure can accordingly be regarded as lacking in legitimacy, both morally and legally.
Long-Term Care Service Policies in Three Canadian Provinces: Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario—Examining the National and Subnational Contexts
Authors: Palley Howard A. 
Published: July 2014

Abstract: This article describes how health and related long-term care policies are often “embedded” in situations that are unique to specific countries. The specific contexts of such policies include demographic trends, socio-cultural factors, government organization, and political circumstances. In this article, the author uses a comparative framework examining international trends in long-term care policy with emphasis on how these trends are reflected in Canada’s federal/provincial policies.
Income Inequality and Health Trajectories from Mid-Life to Later Life: Are Canadian and American Differences Widening?
Authors: McDaniel Susan A. , Gazso Amber 
Published: July 2014

Abstract: It is well known that policies and welfare regimes differentially affect the aging process, health trajectories over the life course, and indeed life expectancy. Growing income inequalities are also understood to have health and well-being implications. The focus in this paper is on the effects of growing income inequalities on the health and well-being of those in mid-life as they age in two neighbouring countries, Canada and the United States. The authors rely on a comparative multi-method approach informed by a life course perspective. Placing the trajectories of synthetic cohorts in the two countries in the contexts of contrasting welfare policy regimes, the authors examine the relative effects of growing income inequalities on well-being as people move into their later years. By juxtaposing the effects of long-term policies and growing income inequalities with the life course process of aging, the authors can hypothesize what the health and well-being prospects may be for those who will soon be in their older years in the two countries.