Faktor-Faktor yang Berkontribusi terhadap Perilaku Politik dan Hasil Kerja Karyawan pada Perusahaan Sektor Perbankan

This study aims to identify the influence of individual factors and organizationalfactors to political behavior and the work outcomes of employees in the banking sector in fivemajor cities in Java (Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta and Surabaya). The study alsoidentifies the influence of political behavior directly to the work outcomes. This study adoptsthe theory of Stephen P. Robbins that summarizes the 6 indicators of individual factors, 9indicators of organization factors, 9 indicators of political behavior, and 12 indicators of thework outcomes. Data collection was conducted by distributing questionnaires via e-mail.Respondents who had captured a number of 180, spread across five cities which are Jakarta(100 respondents), Bandung (20 respondents), Semarang (20 respondents), Yogyakarta (20respondents), and Surabaya (20 respondents). The relationship between variables in this studywere analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). This study showed regression weightof individual factors to political behavior with regression coefficient of 0,230; organizationalfactors to political behavior with regression coefficient of 0,251; individual factors to thework outcomes with regression coefficient of 0,204; organizational factors to the work outcomeswith regression coefficient of 0,173; political behavior to the work outcomes with regressioncoefficient of 0,295. From these results known to have significant positive influence variablesof individual and organization factors to political behavior and work outcomes. Politicalbehavior is also evident in a direct and significant positive effect to work outcomes

Evaluation of the accuracy of visual glucose estimates by healthcare providers and patients at Kalafong Hospital, City of Tshwane, South Africa

Background: A patient-centred approach with self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has emerged as the preferred approach in monitoring and managing blood glucose. The success of SMBG in diabetes treatment and management relies heavily on the accurate and reproducible measurement of blood glucose values. Aim: To evaluate whether patients and healthcare professionals can accurately estimate blood glucose using photometric strips, by visually matching them to colorimetric charts. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was used with participants enrolled from patients and healthcare providers attending and working at the Diabetes Clinic of Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital (KPTH). A convenience sample of 144 patients and 10 healthcare professionals was enrolled. Results: Limits of agreement of patient and healthcare professional visual estimates were 11.1 to 10.4 mmol/l and 6.7 to 5.7 mmol/l, respectively. The mean difference for estimates by healthcare professionals was 0.8 mmol/l (95% CI 1.30–0.31 mmol/ l) while patient estimates had a mean difference of 0.4 mmol/l (95% CI 1.2−0.5 mmol/l). Conclusions: The study noted that visual colour matching was inexact and generally would overestimate blood glucose. Healthcare  professionals gave visual estimates that were more accurate in comparison with patients

Evaluation of the accuracy of visual glucose estimates by healthcare providers and patients at Kalafong Hospital, City of Tshwane, South Africa

BACKGROUND : A patient-centred approach with self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has emerged as the preferred approach in monitoring and managing blood glucose. The success of SMBG in diabetes treatment and management relies heavily on the accurate and reproducible measurement of blood glucose values. AIM : To evaluate whether patients and healthcare professionals can accurately estimate blood glucose using photometric strips, by visually matching them to colorimetric charts. METHODS : A cross-sectional study design was used with participants enrolled from patients and healthcare providers attending and working at the Diabetes Clinic of Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital (KPTH). A convenience sample of 144 patients and 10 healthcare professionals was enrolled. RESULTS : Limits of agreement of patient and healthcare professional visual estimates were 11.1 to 10.4 mmol/l and 6.7 to 5.7 mmol/l, respectively. The mean difference for estimates by healthcare professionals was 0.8 mmol/l (95% CI 1.30–0.31 mmol/ l) while patient estimates had a mean difference of 0.4 mmol/l (95% CI 1.2−0.5 mmol/l). CONCLUSIONS : The study noted that visual colour matching was inexact and generally would overestimate blood glucose. Healthcare professionals gave visual estimates that were more accurate in comparison with patients.http://www.jemdsa.co.zaindex.php/JEMDSAam2020Internal Medicin

Challenges and future directions for data management in the geosciences

Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2019. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100(5), (2019): 909-912, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0319.1.The open availability and wide accessibility of digital scientific resources, such as articles and datasets, is becoming the norm for twenty-first-century science. Geoscience researchers are now being asked by funding agencies and scientific publishers to archive and cite data to support open access but often struggle to understand, interpret, and fulfill these requirements. To fulfill the promise of new open data initiatives, 1) scientific resources (e.g., data and software) must be collected and documented properly; 2) repository services, including preservation and storage capabilities, must be maintained, supported, and improved over time; and 3) governance institutions must be established. These issues were discussed in the Geoscience Digital Data Resource and Repository Service (GeoDaRRS) workshop,1 held in August 2018, at NCAR. The workshop brought together more than 60 geoscience researchers, technology experts, scientific publishers, funders, and data repository personnel to discuss data management challenges and opportunities within the geosciences. This included exploring whether new services are needed to complement existing data facilities, particularly in the areas of 1) data management planning support resources and 2) repository services for geoscience researchers who have data that do not fit in any existing repository. More details on the workshop agenda and recommendations are available in the final workshop report (Mayernik et al. 2018).The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided the funding support for this workshop. We also thank Cecilia Banner and Elizabeth Faircloth of NCAR for administrative and logistical support.2020-06-0

Alcohol, Hospital Discharge, and Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Default from Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment in Rural South Africa: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Background: Default from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment remains a major barrier to cure and epidemic control. We sought to identify patient risk factors for default from MDR-TB treatment and high-risk time periods for default in relation to hospitalization and transition to outpatient care. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed a cohort of 225 patients who initiated MDR-TB treatment between 2007 through 2010 at a rural TB hospital in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Results: Fifty percent of patients were cured or completed treatment, 27% defaulted, 14% died, 4% failed treatment, and 5% transferred out. Recent alcohol use was common (63% of patients). In multivariable proportional hazards regression, older age (hazard ratio [HR]= 0.97 [95% confidence interval 0.94-0.99] per year of greater age), formal housing (HR=0.38 [0.19-0.78]), and steady employment (HR=0.41 [0.19-0.90]) were associated with decreased risk of default, while recent alcohol use (HR=2.1 [1.1-4.0]), recent drug use (HR=2.0 [1.0-3.6]), and Coloured (mixed ancestry) ethnicity (HR=2.3 [1.1-5.0]) were associated with increased risk of default (P<0.05). Defaults occurred throughout the first 18 months of the two-year treatment course but were especially frequent among alcohol users after discharge from the initial four-to-five-month in-hospital phase of treatment, with the highest default rates occurring among alcohol users within two months of discharge. Default rates during the first two months after discharge were also elevated for patients who received care from mobile clinics. Conclusions: Among patients who were not cured or did not complete MDR-TB treatment, the majority defaulted from treatment. Younger, economically-unstable patients and alcohol and drug users were particularly at risk. For alcohol users as well as mobile-clinic patients, the early outpatient treatment phase is a high-risk period for default that could be targeted in efforts to increase treatment completion rates

Mosaic fungal individuals have the potential to evolve within a single generation

Although cells of mushroom-producing fungi typically contain paired haploid nuclei (n + n), most Armillaria gallica vegetative cells are uninucleate. As vegetative nuclei are produced by fusions of paired haploid nuclei, they are thought to be diploid (2n). Here we report finding haploid vegetative nuclei in A. gallica at multiple sites in southeastern Massachusetts, USA. Sequencing multiple clones of a single-copy gene isolated from single hyphal filaments revealed nuclear heterogeneity both among and within hyphae. Cytoplasmic bridges connected hyphae in field-collected and cultured samples, and we propose nuclear migration through bridges maintains this nuclear heterogeneity. Growth studies demonstrate among- and within-hypha phenotypic variation for growth in response to gallic acid, a plant-produced antifungal compound. The existence of both genetic and phenotypic variation within vegetative hyphae suggests that fungal individuals have the potential to evolve within a single generation in response to environmental variation over time and space

Variation in Structure and Process of Care in Traumatic Brain Injury: Provider Profiles of European Neurotrauma Centers Participating in the CENTER-TBI Study.

INTRODUCTION: The strength of evidence underpinning care and treatment recommendations in traumatic brain injury (TBI) is low. Comparative effectiveness research (CER) has been proposed as a framework to provide evidence for optimal care for TBI patients. The first step in CER is to map the existing variation. The aim of current study is to quantify variation in general structural and process characteristics among centers participating in the Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in Traumatic Brain Injury (CENTER-TBI) study. METHODS: We designed a set of 11 provider profiling questionnaires with 321 questions about various aspects of TBI care, chosen based on literature and expert opinion. After pilot testing, questionnaires were disseminated to 71 centers from 20 countries participating in the CENTER-TBI study. Reliability of questionnaires was estimated by calculating a concordance rate among 5% duplicate questions. RESULTS: All 71 centers completed the questionnaires. Median concordance rate among duplicate questions was 0.85. The majority of centers were academic hospitals (n = 65, 92%), designated as a level I trauma center (n = 48, 68%) and situated in an urban location (n = 70, 99%). The availability of facilities for neuro-trauma care varied across centers; e.g. 40 (57%) had a dedicated neuro-intensive care unit (ICU), 36 (51%) had an in-hospital rehabilitation unit and the organization of the ICU was closed in 64% (n = 45) of the centers. In addition, we found wide variation in processes of care, such as the ICU admission policy and intracranial pressure monitoring policy among centers. CONCLUSION: Even among high-volume, specialized neurotrauma centers there is substantial variation in structures and processes of TBI care. This variation provides an opportunity to study effectiveness of specific aspects of TBI care and to identify best practices with CER approaches

Characteristics of Adults in the Hepatitis B Research Network in North America Reflect Their Country of Origin and Hepatitis B Virus Genotype

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an important cause of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide; populations that migrate to the US and Canada might be disproportionately affected. The Hepatitis B Research Network (HBRN) is a cooperative network of investigators from the United States and Canada, created to facilitate clinical, therapeutic, and translational research in adults and children with hepatitis B. We describe the structure of the network and baseline characteristics of adults with hepatitis B enrolled in the network

Leksikografiese bewerking van zero-ekwivalensie in isiZulu woordeboeke

One of the main tasks of compilers of bilingual dictionaries is to find suitable transla-tion equivalents for source language lemmas in the target language. It could be expected that to a large degree one should find full equivalence, or at least partial equivalents in the target language and that there might not be many instances where such translation equivalents are not available. Typically common words such as table, chair, man, woman come to mind and they are most likely to have equivalents in the target language. This article focuses on lexical and referential gaps between English and isiZulu, and their treatment in English and isiZulu paper dictionaries. The aim is to determine to what extent suitable translation equivalents are available for English and isiZulu lemmas and what the nature, extent and treatment strategies are in cases where such equivalents are not available. It will be shown that the extent of zero equivalence is much higher for this lan-guage pair than expected in general literature on zero equivalents. In some cases a specific concept is known in the target language but the target language has no word for it but in many instances the concept itself is unknown in the target language which implies that the language will also not have a word for such a concept.Een van die hooftake van samestellers van tweetalige woordeboeke is om geskikte vertaalekwivalente vir brontaal-lemmas in die doeltaal te vind. Daar kan verwag word dat 'n mens in 'n groot mate volle ekwivalensie of ten minste gedeeltelike ekwivalente in die doeltaal sal vind, en dat daar moontlik nie baie gevalle sal wees waar sulke vertaalekwivalente nie beskik-baar is nie. Gewoonlik word eerste gedink aan gewone woorde soos tafel, stoel, man, vrou en is dit waarskynlik dat hulle ekwivalente in die doeltaal sal hê. Hierdie artikel fokus op leksikale en ver-wysingsgapings tussen Engels en isiZulu en hulle bewerking in papierwoordeboeke vir Engels en isiZulu. Die doel is om vas te stel tot watter mate geskikte vertaalekwivalente beskikbaar is vir Engelse en isiZulu lemmas en wat die aard, omvang en behandelingstrategieë is in gevalle waar sulke ekwivalente nie beskikbaar is nie. Daar sal aangetoon word dat die omvang van zero-ekwiva-lensie vir hierdie taalpaar veel groter is as wat in die algemene literatuur verwag word oor zero-ekwivalente vir beide leksikale en verwysingsgapings. In sommige gevalle is 'n spesifieke begrip in die doeltaal bekend, maar die doeltaal het geen woord daarvoor nie, maar in baie gevalle is die begrip self onbekend in die doeltaal, wat impliseer dat die taal ook nie 'n woord vir so 'n begrip sal hê nie.The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR)http://lexikos.journals.ac.zaam2021African Language