Effects of the Unpleasant Symptom-Relief Program on Preterm Labor Stress, Anxiety, Physical Discomfort, and Situational Discomfort among Hospitalized High-Risk Pregnant Women: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial

Purpose: This study aimed to develop and evaluate the effects of the Unpleasant Symptom-Relief Program to mitigate preterm labor stress, anxiety, physical discomfort, and situational discomfort in hospitalized high-risk pregnant women.Methods: This study used a nonequivalent control group nonsynchronized design and analyzed 23 participants from the experimental group and 23 from the control group. The participants from both the groups were matched and diagnosed with preterm labor, incompetent internal os of the cervix, preterm premature rupture of membrane, placenta previa, or gestational diabetes mellitus. The effects of the Unpleasant Symptom-Relief Program were measured using tools such as preterm labor stress, anxiety, physical discomfort, and situational discomfort. The data were analyzed with IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 21.0 using descriptive statistics, t-test, chi-square test, paired t-test, and repeated measures analysis of variance.Results: The Unpleasant Symptom-Relief Program was effective in reducing preterm labor stress (F= 8.24, p=0.001), anxiety (F=17.80, p≤0.001), and situational discomfort (F=5.95, p=0.004). However, it was not effective in reducing the physical discomfort (F=1.20, p=0.311). Post hoc analysis between time points revealed effective reduction in the preterm labor stress and anxiety in both the groups immediately after the end of the program and at 7 days after the program. Situational discomfort was reduced at 7 days after the end of the program in both the groups.Conclusion: The Unpleasant Symptom-Relief Program can be applied in practice by nurses. It can contribute to alleviating the symptoms and discomfort of high-risk pregnant women.

EMPOWERMENT OF FISHERMEN COMMUNITY JOINT BUSINESS GROUP (KUB) - A 2018 CASE STUDY ON FISHING BOAT RELIEF IN KUSAN HILIR DISTRICT, SOUTH BORNEO, INDONESIA

Tanah Bumbu Regency is a district in South Kalimantan Province where most of the population live in coastal areas. In general, coastal communities depend on the utilization and management of fishery resources, such as fishermen, fish cultivators, fish processors and fish traders. This shows that residents in Tanah Bumbu Regency, especially those located right on the coast such as Kusan Hilir sub-district, must rely on the economy and development in the marine sector, especially those who work as fishermen. The purpose of this research is to find out how the empowerment of the community and fishermen groups in the fishing boat relief program, as well as knowing the supporting factors and obstacles to the implementation of the fishing boat relief program so that in its development KUB (Joint Business Group) can increase the income of its group members in Kusan Hilir District, Tanah Bumbu Regency. This research method is carried out with a descriptive evaluative approach which is intended to evaluate the empowerment of fishing boat relief using KUB. The results showed that the large fishery potential of Tanah Bumbu Regency made the fisheries sub-sector a strategic value in the regional and inter-regency economic map. All sub-districts in Tanah Bumbu Regency have a minimum of one fishery potential (marine waters, public waters and cultivation). Marine cultivation has the most dominant influence, this shows that if marine cultivation production is increased it will increase people's income, especially with the intermediary of the Joint Business Group (KUB). Empowerment of coastal fishing families with KUB programs, such as boat relief, rice relief, direct cash relief, with the aim that fishermen develop their businesses and become better individuals. From these roles the assistant is able to provide guidance and direction to the members of the KUB Mekar Buana and Buih Pesisir, Kusan Hilir village, which results in increased empowerment of coastal communities in Kusan Hilir District, Tanah Bumbu Regency. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0796/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Impact of Government Bailout on Banks’ Cost of Equity: Additional Evidence from the Financial Bailout of 2008–2009

The Capital Purchase Program (CPP) was the first and most significant program under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) during 2008–2009 financial crisis. This study evaluates the effect of the CPP during this period on the cost of equity of 170 publicly listed banks in the United States that received funding. To control for the potential effects of endogeneity on our results, we use a propensity score matched sample of non-CPP banks. Using this approach, we document robust evidence that the liquidity provided by the government bailout reduced the cost of equity for recipient banks, especially for those banks that repaid their bailout funds in full. This decrease in the cost of equity is particularly significant for banks with high market-to-book ratios, low concentrations of institutional ownership, and those banks with at least one large blockholder. Our findings have important implications for the assessment of government bailout programs and the future regulation of financial institutions.

Book Reviews

Anjan V. Thakor of Washington University in St. Louis reviews “TARP and Other Bank Bailouts and Bail-Ins around the World: Connecting Wall Street, Main Street, and the Financial System,” by Allen N. Berger and Raluca A. Roman. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Analyzes theoretical and empirical research evidence on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the United States and other bank bailouts and bail-ins in the US and around the world, assessing the important costs and benefits of these programs in order to suggest potential policy implications for the future.”

After the Great War : International Law in Austria's First Republic, 1918–mid 1920 s

This article studies the role of international law in the Austrian republic after the First World War – a time of hope and concerns for the international legal order. Although the war was perceived as backlash for international law, its scholarship expanded in Austria until the mid-1920 s. The Austrian international lawyers strived to integrate themselves in the broader transnational academic community. Their contribution to this field developed out of the constitutional debates of the Habsburg Empire. However, the Austrian jurists also omitted to treat certain international issues in their scholarship, such as the relief program by the League of Nations for Austria’s economy in crisis.

The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008–2009 US financial crisis

In 2008, as the financial crisis unfolded in the United States, the banking industry elevated its lobbying and campaign spending activities. By the end of 2008, and during 2009, the biggest political spenders, on average, received the largest bailout packages. Is that relationship causal? In this paper, I examine the effect of political connections on the allocation of funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to the US financial services industry during the 2008–2009 financial crisis. I find that TARP recipients that lobbied the government, donated to political campaigns, or whose top executives had direct connections to politics received better bailout deals. I estimate regression discontinuity design and instrumental variable models to uncover how election outcomes for politicians in close races affected the distribution of bailout funds for connected firms. The results do not imply that some banks were deliberately favored over others, just that favored banks benefited because of their proximity to the right people in power. If being politically connected matters in general, in times of crisis it matters even more.

The Virtues of Economic Rescue Legislation: Distributive Justice, Civil Law, and the Troubled Asset Relief Program

This study constitutes an ethical analysis through the lens of distributive justice in the case of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which was enacted in the midst of the Great Recession of 2007–2009. It begins by engaging with the visions of justice constructed by John Rawls and Robert Nozick, using their insights to locate the injustices of TARP according to their moral imaginations. However, this study argues that Rawls’ and Nozick’s theories of justice primarily envision the nature of law as being restrictive of vice, not as instructors of virtue. Thus, it resources the legal philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas to demonstrate how the positive pedagogy of law can enable a more just construction of economic rescue legislation, one that not only prevents future repetitions of economic vices and injustice, but is also formative for a society that prizes economic justice and virtues. In doing so, the study proposes two criteria for a more just consideration of economic rescue legislation that embraces law’s positive pedagogy.