Long-term outcomes of transobturator tension-free vaginal tapes as secondary continence procedures

Acknowledgements We thank Dr. Karmakar (Research Fellow— University of Aberdeen) for sending out the questionnaires and collating the responses. We thank Lindsey Grant for performing the independent data entry cross-check. A special gratitude goes to all the participants whose excellent cooperation over the years made this study successful. Funding The initial phase of this study (up to 3-year follow-up) was funded by the Henry Smith Charity. Dr. Karmakar was funded by IUGA Clinical Fellowship Grant 2014.Peer reviewedPostprin

Sentence Alignment using MR and GA

In this paper, two new approaches to align English-Arabic sentences in bilingual parallel corpora based on mathematical regression (MR) and genetic algorithm (GA) classifiers are presented. A feature vector is extracted from the text pair under consideration. This vector contains text features such as length, punctuation score, and cognate score values. A set of manually prepared training data was assigned to train the mathematical regression and genetic algorithm models. Another set of data was used for testing. The results of (MR) and (GA) outperform the results of length based approach. Moreover these new approaches are valid for any languages pair and are quite flexible since the feature vector may contain more, less or different features, such as a lexical matching feature and Hanzi characters in Japanese-Chinese texts, than the ones used in the current research

Evaluation of Water Resources in Wadi El Natrun, Western Desert, Egypt

Groundwater of the Pliocene aquifer in Wadi El Natrun area represents the primary source of reliable water for drinking and agriculture uses. This research focuses on the study of the different sources of water in the study area and determines the origin and quality of this waterand also is interested in studying hydrogeochemical processes that affect them and the movement of water through the analysis and determine the activity of different elements, and also to changes in hypothetical salts with the direction of water flow in three sectors of the region and the statement of the most important geochemical processes that occur. Finally it is evaluated the suitability of the water for different purposes. The results show that, there is a zonation of chemical composition; this zonation is characterized by a change of cation species from dominantly Ca and Mg near the east to Na-dominated waters in the west. Mirroring this, anions change from HCO3 type to Cl and SO4 type.The ions displays two grades of metasomatism along flow path, first the stage of mineralization(HCO3>Cl>So4) at the east then the advanced stage of mineralization (Cl>SO4 >HCO3) at the west. According to the(W.H.O.2005), 45 % of tested groundwater samples are permissible for drinking. Most groundwater samples of the Pliocene according to SAR andRSC are suitable for irrigation purposes under normal condition, but all surface water samples (lakes) are saline water,so it is not valid for drinking or irrigation purposes

Primary and repeat surgical treatment for female pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence in parous women in the UK : a register linkage study

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VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE PRACTICES IN EMERGING CAPITAL MARKETS: THE CASE OF EGYPT

Corporate governance is a crucial issue that is being addressed widely by regulators, and capital market participants around the world. Disclosure is identified as one of the challenges facing the implementation of corporate governance especially in developing countries. The current study aims to contribute to corporate governance and disclosure literature by oroviding empirical evidence of the relationship between corporate governance, ownership structure and the voluntary disclosure in an emerging capital market, namely Egypt. The study assesses the extent of total voluntary disclosure and its categories in the annual reports of the most active non financial companies m the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange over four years that witnessed a remarkable initiatives to enhance transparency and corporate governance. It employs a wider theoretical framework based mainly on the political ach and benefits from institutional theory. Using a sample of 182 annual reports of the most active Egyptian listed companies, the findings indicate that while the extent of voluntary disclosure is low, there was a gradual increase in the extent of total voluntary disclosure and its categories over the examined period. However, there is no significant difference between the voluntary disclosure over the four years. This suggests that companies manage their voluntary disclosure policy which is not a random practice but subject to certain influences. The reRression results indicate the board characteristics; board size and board composition; do affect the extent of voluntary disclosure. Interestingly, the findings indicate that the existence of family members on the board has a positive association with the extent of total voluntary disclosure. This suggests that family led companies may have a litigation and reputation cost concern.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

A Valid and Reliable Egyptian Instrument for Identifying Barriers Influencing Managing and Improving Quality in Nursing Service

Background: when aiming to improve quality of care in nursing service, it is essential to recognize and understand the barriers that may hinder the success of TQM programs before and during implementation. Objective: to develop a valid and reliable Egyptian instrument for identifying barriers influencing managing and improving quality in Egyptian nursing service from  Egyptian nurses’ perspective views.Methods: Across sectional descriptive questionnaire. The study comprises 530 nurses out a total of 729 nurses. The response rate was 75.4%. The validity and reliability tests were performed. Results: Egyptian instrument measure 42 barriers and covering 8 major obstacles. Internal consistency reliability was acceptable.  The instrument has content validity and construct validity based on factor analysis with varimax rotation component matrix.Conclusion: The instrument is being used in Egyptian health care organizations for identifying barriers that may hinder managing and improving quality in nursing service. Keywords: Egyptian, instrument, barriers, managing, improving, qualit

THE IMPACT OF NURSING SAFETY CLIMATE ON REPORTING PATIENT SAFETY EVENTS IN SOME EGYPTIAN NURSING UNITS

Background: Although, the reporting of events has been the first priority and has received most attention in health care, many events are underreported for some reasons. So, implementing appropriate safety climate is necessary for managing reporting of events. Objectives: The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of nursing safety climate on reporting patient safety events Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive correlational design amongst 314 nurses was used in this study. Also, two adopted and three developed instruments were used. Results: Valid and reliable instruments were used to assess nursing safety climate and barriers to report events. Underreporting of events among nurses was related to some barriers. There was a significant negative correlation between reporting climate barrier and nurses’ attitude towards the models of reporting events. Also, there was a significant positive correlation between reporting process dimension and barriers towards nurses’ attitudes to reporting events. Conclusion: Two developed instruments could only be generalized in Egyptian nursing units. Reporting rates and attitudes can be greatly enhanced by overcoming the barriers to reporting events and improving nursing safety climate

Digital Facilities: A Bim Capturing Reality Framework And Integration With Building Management System

Qatar University (QU) had been sharing the vision of the country in developing various technological aspects and approaches in order to achieve global standard qualities and accomplishments. In this research, from the construction management perspective, referring to QU digitalization initiative objectives and considering global market processes, computerized capturing framework of campus existing building will be executed, discussed and analyzed in-depth, through Building Information Modeling (BIM). Current worldwide capturing techniques, such as as-built drawings, laser scanning and UAV will be implemented and illustrated along with their cost, time and quality analysis. The study will also discuss the novel approach of integrating BIM Model with present Building Management System (BMS) of QU; and its contribution towards Facility Management (FM). This integrative activity between BMS real-time values readings and BIM data representation will add-value to Facility Management (FM) workflow efficiency and performance of the university or any other applicable party with the same environment. Concluding the best practice of reality digital capturing towards a successful integration prior to achieving study objectives, with diverse recommendations, discussions and future work