Non-coding RNA 886 Predicts HPV Status and Survival in Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients

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Personality and job satisfaction among Chinese health practitioners: The mediating role of professional quality of life

This study aims to explore mediating effects of professional quality of life on the relationship between big-five personality traits and job satisfaction in a Chinese healthcare setting. A total of 1620 Chinese healthcare professionals were recruited to participate in a randomised cross-sectional survey. The results suggest that professional quality of life transmitted the effect of personality to job satisfaction. Specifically, compassion satisfaction and burnout mediated the positive effect of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness upon job satisfaction; as well as mediated negative effects of neuroticism upon job satisfaction. Secondary traumatic stress mediated the positive effect of extraversion upon job satisfaction. The paper also discusses the cultural factors contributing to the mediating effects and implications offered by the study at the macro, messo, and micro levels

Decentralized Stochastic Multi-Player Multi-Armed Walking Bandits

Multi-player multi-armed bandit is an increasingly relevant decision-making problem, motivated by applications to cognitive radio systems. Most research for this problem focuses exclusively on the settings that players have \textit{full access} to all arms and receive no reward when pulling the same arm. Hence all players solve the same bandit problem with the goal of maximizing their cumulative reward. However, these settings neglect several important factors in many real-world applications, where players have \textit{limited access} to \textit{a dynamic local subset of arms} (i.e., an arm could sometimes be ``walking'' and not accessible to the player). To this end, this paper proposes a \textit{multi-player multi-armed walking bandits} model, aiming to address aforementioned modeling issues. The goal now is to maximize the reward, however, players can only pull arms from the local subset and only collect a full reward if no other players pull the same arm. We adopt Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) to deal with the exploration-exploitation tradeoff and employ distributed optimization techniques to properly handle collisions. By carefully integrating these two techniques, we propose a decentralized algorithm with near-optimal guarantee on the regret, and can be easily implemented to obtain competitive empirical performance.Comment: AAAI 202

Professional quality of life as potential mediators of the association between anxiety and depression among Chinese health-care clinicians

Objective: Building upon the tripartite model of anxiety and depression, the current study aims to examine mechanisms of comorbidity between anxiety and depression using the ProQOL (including the constructs of burnout, secondary traumatic stress and compassion satisfaction) in a sample of Chinese healthcare clinicians. Method: A randomised cross-sectional survey was distributed to 1620 participants who were recruited from eight state-owned hospitals in a city in southern China between January and May 2017. A total of 1562 questionnaires were returned (a response rate of 96.4%). After the cases with more than 10% missing variables and multivariate outliers being removed, 1,423 valid cases remained. Multiple mediator models were used for mediation analysis that was conducted using the PROCESS v3.1 macro for SPSS. Results: The indirect effects of anxiety upon depression through burnout (a1=.601 [95%CI: .552, .650], p < .001; b1 = .137 [95%CI: .101, .174], p < .001) and compassion satisfaction (a3= -.297 [95%CI: -.352, -.241], p < .001; b3 = -.069 [95%CI: -.100, -.039], p < .001) were significant, while there was no evidence that anxiety influenced depression by changing secondary traumatic stress. The indirect effects of depression upon anxiety through secondary traumatic stress (a2=.535 [95%CI: .483, .588], p < .001); b2 = .154 [95%CI: .120, .188], p < .001) was both positive and significant, while there was no evidence that depression influenced anxiety by changing burnout and compassion satisfaction. Conclusions: In the current sample, burnout and compassion satisfaction mediated the effect of anxiety upon depression and secondary traumatic stress mediated the effect of depression upon anxiety. The findings of the current study offer support to the tripartite model