scholarly journals The Group Basis of Partisan Affective Polarization

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 1075-1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Robison ◽  
Rachel L. Moskowitz
Keyword(s):  
Group Basis

scholarly journals Estimating Group Stress Level by Measuring Body Motion

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satomi Tsuji ◽  
Nobuo Sato ◽  
Koji Ara ◽  
Kazuo Yano
Keyword(s):  
Estimation Error ◽  
Practical Method ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
Optimal Result ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Motion Data ◽  
Activity Duration ◽  
Corporate Growth ◽  
Duration Distribution ◽  
Group Basis

Understanding employee stress has become a key issue for top management for corporate growth and risk reduction. So far, annual employee satisfaction surveys (ESs) have been conducted to assess the soundness of an organization. However, since it is difficult to collect questionnaires quantitatively and continuously, there is a need for a practical method that can be used to frequently measure group stress levels with a small burden on employees. We propose such a method and evaluated four combinations of approaches, using activity/rest duration distributions from body motion data and generating estimation models on an individual/group basis. The optimal result was obtained when modeling was made on a group basis by using the activity duration distribution (r = 0.928, p < 0.001, estimation error: 1.36%), making it possible to assess the degree of the stress of employees quantitatively and easily, and this showed the possibility of this method being useful as a management guide for companies.

Effect of docking and shearing on growth and carcass traits of fat-tailed Ossimi sheep

1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. F. M. Marai ◽  
M. S. Nowar ◽  
Layla B. Bahgat ◽  
J. B. Owen
Keyword(s):  
Weight Gain ◽  
Carcass Traits ◽  
Carcass Characteristics ◽  
Live Weight ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Body Measurements ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Chest Girth ◽  
Group Basis ◽  
Daily Gain

SummaryThirty Ossimi lambs were used in an experiment to compare those whose tail was docked shortly after birth with controls. After weaning at 4 months of age the groups were further subdivided and two of the four groups closely shorn according to a 2 × 2 factorial design.Male lambs at 20 kg were subjected to intensive finishing until the age of 50 weeks and nine were then slaughtered to determine carcass characteristics.There was a trend for increased live-weight gain in the docked lambs in the preweaning stage (up to 16 weeks).This trend was also present, although not statistically significant, in the final phase of intensive feeding from 20 kg weight to 50 weeks. Shearing significantly improved daily gain in this final period (P < 0·05). These increases in gain were also apparently associated with improvements in efficiency, as judged on a group basis.Docking and shearing also tended to cause increases in body measurements: height, chest girth and abdomen girth in the case of docking (P < 0·05) and chest girth, chest depth and abdomen girth in the case of shearing (P < 0–05).Carcass characteristics, measured on a relatively small sample, indicated several effects of docking and shearing on carcass traits although most of these were consistent with the expected differences stemming from the higher carcass weights acheived at 50 weeks of age by docked and sheared lambs.

Optimization of selected molecular orbitals in group basis sets

2009 ◽  
Vol 130 (13) ◽  
pp. 134108 ◽  
Author(s):  
György G. Ferenczy ◽  
William H. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Orbitals ◽  
Basis Sets ◽  
Group Basis

The Stockton Geriatric Rating Scale: A Shortened Version with British Normative Data

1977 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Gilleard ◽  
Anne H. Pattie
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Original Version ◽  
Group Basis

SummaryThis paper presents information on a shortened form of the Stockton Geriatric Rating Scale, which is shown to be as effective as the original version in discriminating among the elderly. The results for 400 people in the care of hospital or social services provide provisional normative data for the use of the scale, which should be of value in assessing the behavioural competence of the elderly on an individual and group basis.

Inhibitory effect of soil humic compounds on the proteolytic enzyme pronase

Soil Research ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
JN Ladd ◽  
JHA Butler
Keyword(s):  
Humic Acids ◽  
Maximum Velocity ◽  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Inhibitory Effect ◽  
Enzymic Activity ◽  
Humic Compounds ◽  
Km Value ◽  
Group Basis ◽  
Inhibitory Power ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

Neutralized solutions of soil humic acids inhibit the proteolytic activity of the enzyme pronase when tested against a variety of substrates. Protein hydrolysis was less sensitive than hydrolysis of dipeptide derivatives; 50% inhibition of benzyloxycarbonylglycylleucine hydrolysis was achieved with concentrations of humic acids as low as 1-2 �g/ml or less than 10-5M, on a carboxyl group basis. Humic acids, extracted from soils with different crop histories, showed only slight differences in their effectiveness as inhibitors of pronase activity. Their inhibitory power was comparable with that of other high molecular weight polyanions, e.g. polyacrylic acid and polycondensates derived from p-benzoquinone and catechol. Alginic acid was a relatively poor inhibitor. Preincubation of humic acids for various periods with either pronase or substrate (albumin or benzyloxycarbonylglycylleucine) had little or no effect on the subsequent inhibition of enzymic activity. However, inhibition is decreased by increasing substrate concentrations, following preincubation of humic acids and pronase. Both observations are consistent with a reversible inhibitory mechanism. Kinetic studies demonstrate that humic acids inhibit pronase activity towards albumin and N-benzyloxycarbonyl dipeptides by effectively reducing the affinity of pronase for the substrate, i.e. by increasing the Km value for the reaction. With benzoylarginine amide and benzoylarginine ethyl ester as substrates, the reaction velocity is lowered due to a reduction of the maximum velocity of the system. Both effects may possibly be explained by a conformational change in the enzyme structure due to combination with the humic acid molecules.

The use of an electronically controlled sow feeder to supply a compound feed as a balancer to sows grazing fodder beet

1986 ◽  
Vol 1986 ◽  
pp. 121-121
Author(s):  
J Chambers ◽  
B Hardy ◽  
O Pugh
Keyword(s):  
Food Intake ◽  
Wide Area ◽  
Fodder Beet ◽  
Dynamic Group ◽  
Electric Fencing ◽  
Group Basis ◽  
Computer Controlled ◽  
Pelleted Food ◽  
Similar Stage

Sows kept outdoors are traditionally fed a compound diet, in the form of a-large biscuit, which is spread on the ground over a wide area to try to minimise bullying. They can be kept in several separate groups, divided by electric fencing, each group containing sows at a similar stage of pregnancy. The use of a computer controlled feeder would allow the sows to be kept as one dynamic group and allow food intake to be controlled on an individual or group basis. Also, normal pelleted food can be used in such a machine. Bulky feeds are playing an increasing role in the diet of outdoor sows, and it was decided to investigate the use of an electronically controlled feeder to supply a compound feed to balance grazed fodder beet.

scholarly journals CMV Serostatus of Donor-Recipient Pairs Influences the Risk of CMV Infection/Reactivation in HSCT Patients

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Jaskula ◽  
Jolanta Bochenska ◽  
Edyta Kocwin ◽  
Agnieszka Tarnowska ◽  
Andrzej Lange
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Similar Rate ◽  
Cmv Infection ◽  
Unrelated Donors ◽  
Group Basis ◽  
Cmv Reactivation

CMV donor/recipient serostatus was analyzed in 200 patients allografted in our institution from unrelated (122 patients) donors and 78 sibling donors in the years 2002–2011 in relation to posttransplant complications. On a group basis independently of the CMV serostatus of donor-recipient pairs sibling transplantations and those from unrelated donors that matched 10/10 at allele level had a similar rate of CMV reactivation (17/78 versus 19/71, P=ns). The rate of CMV reactivation/infection was higher in patients grafted from donors accepted at the lower level of matching than 10/10 (18/38 versus 36/149, P=0.008). The incidence of aGvHD followed frequencies of CMV reactivation in the tested groups, being 40/156 and 25/44 in patients grafted from sibling or unrelated donors that 10/10 matched and in those grafted from donors taht HLA mismatched, respectively (P=0.001). Regarding the rate of reactivation in both groups seropositive patients receiving a transplant from seronegative donors had more frequently CMV reactivation as compared to those with another donor-recipient matching CMV serostatus constellation (22/43 versus 32/143, P=0<0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that seropositivity of recipients with concomitant seronegativity of donors plays an independent role in the CMV reactivation/infection (OR=2.669, P=0.037; OR=5.322, P=0.078; OR=23.034, P=0.023 for optimally matched and mismatched patients and the whole group of patients, resp.).

scholarly journals Comparison Between Individually and Group-Based Insulin Pump Initiation by Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ridderstråle
Keyword(s):  
Insulin Pump ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Insulin Pump Therapy ◽  
Individual Treatment ◽  
Cost Curve ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Pump Therapy ◽  
Medical Quality ◽  
Group Basis ◽  
The Cost

Background: Depending on available resources, competencies, and pedagogic preference, initiation of insulin pump therapy can be performed on either an individual or a group basis. Here we compared the two models with respect to resources used. Methods: Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) was used to compare initiating insulin pump treatment in groups (GT) to individual treatment (IT). Activities and cost drivers were identified, timed, or estimated at location. Medical quality and patient satisfaction were assumed to be noninferior and were not measured. Results: GT was about 30% less time-consuming and 17% less cost driving per patient and activity compared to IT. As a batch driver (16 patients in one group) GT produced an upward jigsaw-shaped accumulative cost curve compared to the incremental increase incurred by IT. Taking the alternate cost for those not attending into account, and realizing the cost of opportunity gained, suggested that GT was cost neutral already when 5 of 16 patients attended, and that a second group could be initiated at no additional cost as the attendance rate reached 15:1. Conclusions: We found TDABC to be effective in comparing treatment alternatives, improving cost control and decision making. Everything else being equal, if the setup is available, our data suggest that initiating insulin pump treatment in groups is far more cost effective than on an individual basis and that TDABC may be used to find the balance point.

scholarly journals Secondary organic aerosol production from modern diesel engine emissions

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 17665-17704 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Samy ◽  
B. Zielinska
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Organic Aerosol ◽  
Dicarboxylic Acids ◽  
Transformation Products ◽  
Organic Aerosol ◽  
Engine Emissions ◽  
No3 Radical ◽  
Group Basis ◽  
Chamber Studies ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) production was observed at significant levels in a series of modern diesel exhaust (DE) aging experiments conducted at the European Outdoor Photoreactor/Simulation Chamber (EUPHORE). The greatest production occurred in DE with toluene addition experiments (>40%), followed by DE with HCHO (for OH radical generation) experiments. A small amount of SOA (3%) was observed for DE in dark with N2O5 (for NO3 radical production) experiments. The analysis for a limited number (54) of polar organic compounds (POC) was conducted to assess the composition of modern DE and the formation of photochemical transformation products. Distinct POC formation in light versus dark experiments suggests the role of OH initiated reactions in these chamber atmospheres. A trend of increasing concentrations of dicarboxylic acids in light versus dark experiments was observed when evaluated on a compound group basis. The four toluene addition experiments in this study were performed at different [tol]o/[NOx]o ratios and displayed an average SOA% yield (in relation to toluene) of 5.3±1.6%, which is compared to past chamber studies that evaluated the impact of [tol]o/[NOx]o on SOA production in more simplified mixtures.

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