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Penney, Christopher R., James G. Combs, Nolan Gaffney, and Jennifer C. Sexton. "A jack-of-all-trades or a master of none: the performance effects of balancing exploration and exploitation within vs across alliance portfolio domains." Journal of Knowledge Management 24, no. 3 (September 6, 2018): 569–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jkm-09-2017-0395.
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Purpose Theory predicts that balancing exploratory and exploitative learning (i.e., ambidexterity) across alliance portfolio domains (e.g. value chain function, governance modes) increases firm performance, whereas balance within domains decreases performance. Prior empirical work, however, only assessed balance/imbalance within and across two domains. The purpose of this study is to determine if theory generalizes beyond specific domain combinations. The authors investigated across multiple domains to determine whether alliance portfolios should be imbalanced toward exploration or exploitation within domains or balanced across domains. The authors also extended prior research by exploring whether the direction of imbalance matters. Current theory only advises managers to accept imbalance without helping with the choice between exploration and exploitation. Design/methodology/approach Hypotheses are tested using fixed-effects generalized least squares (GLS) regression analysis of a large 13-year panel sample of Fortune 500 firms from 1996 to 2008. Findings With respect to the balance between exploration and exploitation within each of the five domains investigated, imbalanced alliance portfolios had higher firm performance. No evidence was found that balance across domains relates to performance. Instead, for four of the five domains, imbalance toward exploration related positively to firm performance. Originality/value An alliance portfolio that allows for exploration in some domains and exploitation in other domains appears more difficult to implement than prior theory suggests. Firms benefit mostly from using the alliance portfolio for exploratory learning.
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Gragnano, Andrea, Silvia Simbula, and Massimo Miglioretti. "Work–Life Balance: Weighing the Importance of Work–Family and Work–Health Balance." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 3 (February 1, 2020): 907. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030907.
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To date, research directed at the work–life balance (WLB) has focused mainly on the work and family domains. However, the current labor force is heterogeneous, and workers may also value other nonworking domains besides the family. The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of other nonworking domains in the WLB with a particular focus on health. Moreover, the importance of the effects of the work–family balance (WFB) and the work–health balance (WHB) on job satisfaction was investigated. Finally, we explored how the effects of the WFB and the WHB on job satisfaction change according to worker characteristics (age, gender, parental status, and work ability). This study involved 318 workers who completed an online questionnaire. The importance of the nonworking domains was compared with a t-test. The effect of the WFB and the WHB on job satisfaction was investigated with multiple and moderated regression analyses. The results show that workers considered health as important as family in the WLB. The WHB explained more of the variance in job satisfaction than the WFB. Age, gender and parental status moderated the effect of the WFB on job satisfaction, and work ability moderated the effect of the WHB on job satisfaction. This study highlights the importance of the health domain in the WLB and stresses that it is crucial to consider the specificity of different groups of workers when considering the WLB.
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Davis, Laura J., Anna M. McGarr, Claudia Espina Bresnahan, Acadia L. Clohesey, Michelle E. Judge, Miran D. McCash, Juhanna T. Roberts, Christopher Villarosa, Toshiki Kobayashi, and Michael S. Orendurff. "Unique Balance Domains for Balance Error Scoring System (BESS) and Y-Balance Tests." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 48 (May 2016): 438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000486318.26227.c3.
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Taylor, Morag E., Annika Toots, Stephen R. Lord, Narelle Payne, and Jacqueline C. T. Close. "Cognitive Domain Associations with Balance Performance in Community-Dwelling Older People with Cognitive Impairment." Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 81, no. 2 (May 18, 2021): 833–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/jad-201325.
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Background: In older people with cognitive impairment (CI), executive function (EF) has been associated with motor performance including balance and gait. The literature examining and supporting a relationship between balance performance and other cognitive domains is limited. Objective: To investigate the relationship between global cognition and cognitive domain function and balance performance in older people with CI. Methods: The iFOCIS randomized controlled trial recruited 309 community-dwelling older people with CI. Baseline assessments completed before randomization were used for analyses including the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-III (ACE-III; global cognition) and its individual cognitive domains (attention; memory; verbal fluency; language; visuospatial ability) and the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB), a measure of EF. A composite balance score was derived from postural sway and leaning balance tests. Results: In linear regression analyses adjusted for covariates, global cognition and each cognitive domain were significantly associated with balance performance. EF (verbal fluency; β= –0.254, p < 0.001, adjusted R2 = 0.387) and visuospatial ability (β= –0.258, p < 0.001, adjusted R2 = 0.391) had the strongest associations with balance performance. In a comprehensively adjusted multivariable model including all of the ACE-III cognitive domains, visuospatial ability and EF (verbal fluency) were independently and significantly associated with balance performance. Conclusion: Poorer global cognition and cognitive domain function were associated with poorer balance performance in this sample of people with CI. Visuospatial ability and EF were independently associated with balance, highlighting potential shared neural networks and the role higher-level cognitive processes and spatial perception/processing play in postural control.
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Milyavskaya, Marina, Isabelle Gingras, Geneviève A. Mageau, Richard Koestner, Hugo Gagnon, Jianqun Fang, and Julie Boiché. "Balance Across Contexts: Importance of Balanced Need Satisfaction Across Various Life Domains." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 35, no. 8 (July 10, 2009): 1031–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167209337036.
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Sun, Ke, Hong Liu, Qixiang Ye, Yue Gao, Jianzhuang Liu, Ling Shao, and Rongrong Ji. "Domain General Face Forgery Detection by Learning to Weight." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 35, no. 3 (May 18, 2021): 2638–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i3.16367.
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In this paper, we propose a domain-general model, termed learning-to-weight (LTW), that guarantees face detection performance across multiple domains, particularly the target domains that are never seen before. However, various face forgery methods cause complex and biased data distributions, making it challenging to detect fake faces in unseen domains. We argue that different faces contribute differently to a detection model trained on multiple domains, making the model likely to fit domain-specific biases. As such, we propose the LTW approach based on the meta-weight learning algorithm, which configures different weights for face images from different domains. The LTW network can balance the model's generalizability across multiple domains. Then, the meta-optimization calibrates the source domain's gradient enabling more discriminative features to be learned. The detection ability of the network is further improved by introducing an intra-class compact loss. Extensive experiments on several commonly used deepfake datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in detecting synthetic faces. Code and supplemental material are available at https://github.com/skJack/LTW.
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Ruffolo, David, Nawin Ngampoopun, Yash R. Bhora, Panisara Thepthong, Peera Pongkitiwanichakul, William H. Matthaeus, and Rohit Chhiber. "Domains of Magnetic Pressure Balance in Parker Solar Probe Observations of the Solar Wind." Astrophysical Journal 923, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 158. http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2ee3.
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Abstract The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft is performing the first in situ exploration of the solar wind within 0.2 au of the Sun. Initial observations confirmed the Alfvénic nature of aligned fluctuations of the magnetic field B and velocity V in solar wind plasma close to the Sun, in domains of nearly constant magnetic field magnitude ∣ B ∣, i.e., approximate magnetic pressure balance. Such domains are interrupted by particularly strong fluctuations, including but not limited to radial field (polarity) reversals, known as switchbacks. It has been proposed that nonlinear Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities form near magnetic boundaries in the nascent solar wind leading to extensive shear-driven dynamics, strong turbulent fluctuations including switchbacks, and mixing layers that involve domains of approximate magnetic pressure balance. In this work we identify and analyze various aspects of such domains using data from the first five PSP solar encounters. The filling fraction of domains, a measure of Alfvénicity, varies from median values of 90% within 0.2 au to 38% outside 0.9 au, with strong fluctuations. We find an inverse association between the mean domain duration and plasma β. We examine whether the mean domain duration is also related to the crossing time of spatial structures frozen into the solar wind flow for extreme cases of the aspect ratio. Our results are inconsistent with long, thin domains aligned along the radial or Parker spiral direction, and compatible with isotropic domains, which is consistent with prior observations of isotropic density fluctuations or flocculae in the solar wind.
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Kim, UiJong, and ChangGoo Heo. "The Influence of Worker’s Work-Life Balance on Family, Organization and Individual." Korean Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 33, no. 3 (August 31, 2020): 267–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.24230/kjiop.v33i3.267-296.
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This study divided work-life balance into multidimensional balance(work-family, work-growth, work-leisure) and analyzed the effects of multidimensional work-life balances on family domain (family relation, family burnout), organizational domain (innovative work behavior, job efficacy reduction), and personal domain (psychological well-being, job strain) criterions. The main results and meanings of this study are as follows: First, it is more valid to interpret the balance of work-life as multidimensional factor structure (home, growth, leisure) than to interpret one-dimensionally. Second, the explanation of three factors (home, growth, and leisure) compared to one factor of work-life balance showed incremental explanation in variables such as family exhaustion, job efficacy reduction, psychological well-being, and innovative work behavior. In particular, work-growth balance among the three factors explained more than 15% of innovative work activities than one factor. Third, the discriminatory relationship between various life domains and multidimensional balance was observed in the relationship between home domain and work-family balance, organizational domain and work-growth balance, but did not appear in the relationship between individual domain and work-leisure balance. The results of this study are significant in that it provides basic data suggesting that multidimensional support is needed for work-life balance by showing that workers' work-life balance can be divided into various dimensions and that work-life balance has unique influence on each dimension. Finally, the limitations of this study and suggestions for future research are discussed that it is necessary to conduct a study on the moderating effect of individual differences in the relationship between work-life balance and various areas of life, and a study on the mediating effect including the determinants of work-life balance.
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COLOMBO, Rinaldo M., and Elena ROSSI. "Rigorous estimates on balance laws in bounded domains." Acta Mathematica Scientia 35, no. 4 (July 2015): 906–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0252-9602(15)30028-x.
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Nath, Swaprava, and Tuomas Sandholm. "Efficiency and budget balance in general quasi-linear domains." Games and Economic Behavior 113 (January 2019): 673–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2018.11.010.
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Shikhare, Rachana, Umesh U, G. Radha Krishna Murthy, and Bonthu Kotaiah. "Impact of Work Life Balance (WLB) on Job Switching Behavior: An Empirical Study." ECS Transactions 107, no. 1 (April 24, 2022): 18663–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/10701.18663ecst.
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To date, researchers who have done work life balance (WLB) have mainly focused on work and the family domain. However, the present-day workforce is heterogenous in nature and the workers might even value the other domains of non-working apart from family. These researchers mainly aim at investigating the significance of the other domains of non-working in work life balance with a special focus on the health of workers. Besides the meaning of the effect of balance between serious and fun activities and work well-being balance on representative fulfillment was evaluated. Likewise, these examinations investigate the impact of balance between serious and fun activities and work well-being balance on change in the degree of representative fulfillment according to the qualities of the laborers, including parental status, age, work capacity, and sex. The consequences of studies show that the specialists believe well-being to be a significant factor in the space of balance between fun and serious activities. Work well-being balance clarifies a greater amount of change in representative fulfillment when contrasted with balance between fun and serious activities. A sample of 311 respondents was surveyed to find the factors related to work life balance and their impact on job switching behavior. After applying factor analysis, a statistical tool, and analyzing the data, the study concludes that work health balance, job satisfaction, work environment, relation with management and co-workers, and work and personal life balance are the different factors related to work life balance that shows significant impact on job switching behavior.
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Rando, Cynthia, and Jennifer Fogarty. "Better Business by DesignTM: Introduction to the SOPHIC Conceptual Model." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 61, no. 1 (September 2017): 1096–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541931213601878.
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The SOPHIC Conceptual Model (SCM) introduces a unique approach to human centered design through the role of a Trade Space Negotiator (TSN) and a focus on convergence of three distinct domains: Business Strategy, Human Factors and Engineering. Each domain has significant contributions and a unique perspective that needs to be considered to find the optimum balance for the organization to deliver successful products or services. The function of the TSN is to find this balance between the seemingly competing domains for the organization. The SCM and TSN work together to prevent and resolve conflict by identifying discordance between the domains and converge on an integrated solution resulting in innovative outcomes. When the business is optimized through the SOPHIC Conceptual Model it delivers a successful user interaction, addresses tangible needs, and delivers a positive experience resulting in cost effective processes and innovative outcomes leading to Better Business by DesignTM.
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Prakash, Vineetha. "Work-life Balance: Perceptions of the Non-work Domain." IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review 7, no. 2 (May 23, 2018): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2277975218769505.
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Work-life balance research suffers from a lack of consistency in defining the scope of non-work (life outside work). Considering the evolving life preferences of modern workforce, work-life balance researchers should have a broader view of life which expands beyond work-family, and includes other non-work domains of life. This study is an attempt to establish that for today’s employees, work-life balance means balancing work not only with family life; but also with other non-work domains. Several non-work domains were identified from previous literature and a survey was conducted to identify the different non-work aspects important for respondents to have work-life balance. Based on results from 214 Indians working in various Indian cities and abroad, it was established that in the context of work-life balance, non-work includes not just family, but a combination of life domains, which varies from person-to-person. Although family remained the topmost priority, other non-work aspects were also chosen by varying proportions of respondents. Non-work preferences and related experiences of employees varied based on gender, marital status and child-care responsibilities. Satisfaction with organization’s work-life balance facilities differed when employees chose family, from when they chose other non-work domains. Findings indicate that various non-work preferences of employees should be considered during work-life balance research, and while designing work-life balance practices. This would help to address the non-work demands of different types of employees, and hence give more acceptance to such initiatives.
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Foscolo, Valentina, Luigi de Gennaro, Alessandra Murri, Luca Speranzon, Francesco Signorelli, Nicola Quaranta, and Raffaella Messina. "Postoperative Impact of Pontocerebellar Angle Surgery on the Quality of Life in Patients with Vestibular Schwannoma." Audiology Research 12, no. 6 (November 17, 2022): 635–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/audiolres12060061.
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Background: Vestibular Schwannomas are benign tumors arising from the VIII CN. Surgical treatment is indicated in case of tumors larger than 2.5 cm in the cerebellopontine angle or in the case of cranial nerve dysfunction. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the QoL by means of the PANQOL questionnaire in a group of surgically treated patients mainly affected by large and giant VS Methods: All patients underwent preoperative and postoperative otoneurological evaluation and gadolinium enhanced MRI and they completed, independently, the PANQOL questionnaire at last follow up. Results: 70% of patients presented with large Koos III or IV VS Each domain of PANQOL showed a strong correlation with the total PANQOL score. In relation to the postoperative facial nerve function, patients with poorer function showed significantly lower score in the facial dysfunction and pain, patients with postoperative balance problems showed a significantly lower PANQOL score for domains of balance and pain. Conclusions: This study showed that postoperative QoL of patients was acceptable even if there were some domains that were more affected, such as hearing and balance domains; therefore, the lowest scores suggest the need for vestibular rehabilitation programs and strategies that improve postoperative hearing.
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Dyer, Suzette, Yiran Xu, and Paresha Sinha. "Migration: A means to create work–life balance?" Journal of Management & Organization 24, no. 2 (January 18, 2017): 279–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2016.70.
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AbstractIn this article, we examine the postmigration work–life balance or conflict experiences of 15 Chinese-born mothers living in New Zealand. Our analysis contributes theoretically to the work–life balance and migration literatures. It does so by revealing that balance and conflict is influenced by the interrelationship between the socio-cultural, work, and family domains; and that this interrelationship has both a complex and nuanced influence on postmigration balance and conflict. Thus, balance or conflict was influenced by the interrelationship between the participants’ unique experiences within the three domains, including experiencing satisfaction in all three domains and through complex processes of negative spillover, compensation, renegotiation and removal. The postmigration experiences highlight the need for a comprehensive and concerted approach by government, tertiary education institutions, and human resource managers to develop responsive policy initiatives that support migrants to settle into all aspects of their lives.
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Bhattarai, N., K. Mallick, and M. Jain. "SENSITIVITY OF FOUR CONTEXTUAL REMOTE SENSING BASED SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE MODELS TO SPATIAL DOMAIN." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-3/W6 (July 26, 2019): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w6-3-2019.
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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> It remains unclear how the selection of a spatial domain affects the accuracy of evapotranspiration (ET) estimates from contextual remote sensing based surface energy balance (SEB) models, particularly at large spatial scales. We thus tested the effect of spatial domain on four widely implemented contextual remote sensing based SEB models: Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL), Mapping ET with Internalized Calibration (METRIC), Simplified Surface Energy Balance Index (S-SEBI), and Triangular ET models. We applied these models on 44 near cloud-free Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) thermal images across all of India from 2004 to 2006. Four spatial domains were considered: all of India, agro-ecological regions, 300&thinsp;km&thinsp;&times;&thinsp;300&thinsp;km grids, and 600&thinsp;km&thinsp;&times;&thinsp;600&thinsp;km grids and we compared hourly ET estimates from the models against observed ET data at four Bowen Ratio sites in India. Model performance varied across all models and spatial domains. ET values of neighboring pixels across spatial domains formed sharp edges along the boundaries of agro-ecological regions, 300&thinsp;km&thinsp;&times;&thinsp;300&thinsp;km grids, and 600&thinsp;km&thinsp;&times;&thinsp;600&thinsp;km grids suggesting that all ET models are highly sensitive to the selection of spatial domain. No single spatial domain was found to be optimal for all models and hence potential uncertainties associated with the selection of spatial domain should be taken into consideration when implementing these models at regional scales. The results from this study provide guidance for future regional-scale implementation of ET models and potential approaches to overcome these challenges.</p>
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LERCHE, I., M. POHL, and R. SCHLICKEISER. "Turbulent adiabatic shock waves and diffusive particle acceleration." Journal of Plasma Physics 64, no. 4 (October 2000): 459–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022377800008801.
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We investigate the properties of turbulent adiabatic shock waves resulting from the self-consistent inclusion of finite Alfvén-wave pressure in the shock balance equations. We demonstrate (i) the absence of a switch-on shock; (ii) the existence of two separated domains where the Mach number is greater than unity that have gas compression, and an associated domain where the gas compression ratio is less than unity (i.e. a rarefaction domain); (iii) the difference between the scattering-centre compression ratio and the gas compression ratio for all upstream wave cross-helicity values except for the isolated case of zero helicity; (iv) the presence of anomalous domains where the cosmic-ray particle spectral index can be negative. All of these results are brought about by including the upstream and downstream turbulent wave energies in the shock balance structure. Without the waves, none of the effects persists.
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Birmpas, Georgios, Evangelos Markakis, and Guido Schäfer. "Cost Sharing over Combinatorial Domains." ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation 10, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3505586.
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We study the problem of designing cost-sharing mechanisms for combinatorial domains. Suppose that multiple items or services are available to be shared among a set of interested agents. The outcome of a mechanism in this setting consists of an assignment, determining for each item the set of players who are granted service, together with respective payments. Although there are several works studying specialized versions of such problems, there has been almost no progress for general combinatorial cost-sharing domains until recently [ 9 ]. Still, many questions about the interplay between strategyproofness, cost recovery, and economic efficiency remain unanswered. The main goal of our work is to further understand this interplay in terms of budget balance and social cost approximation. Towards this, we provide a refinement of cross-monotonicity (which we term trace-monotonicity ) that is applicable to iterative mechanisms. The trace here refers to the order in which players become finalized. On top of this, we also provide two parameterizations (complementary to a certain extent) of cost functions, which capture the behavior of their average cost-shares. Based on our trace-monotonicity property, we design an Iterative Ascending Cost-Sharing Mechanism, which is applicable to the combinatorial cost-sharing setting with symmetric submodular valuations. Using our first cost function parameterization, we identify conditions under which our mechanism is weakly group-strategyproof, \( O(1) \) -budget-balanced, and \( O(H_n) \) -approximate with respect to the social cost. Furthermore, we show that our mechanism is budget-balanced and \( H_n \) -approximate if both the valuations and the cost functions are symmetric submodular; given existing impossibility results, this is best possible. Finally, we consider general valuation functions and exploit our second parameterization to derive a more fine-grained analysis of the Sequential Mechanism introduced by Moulin. This mechanism is budget balanced by construction, but in general, only guarantees a poor social cost approximation of \( n \) . We identify conditions under which the mechanism achieves improved social cost approximation guarantees. In particular, we derive improved mechanisms for fundamental cost-sharing problems, including Vertex Cover and Set Cover.
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Vo, Nam D., Minsung Hong, and Jason J. Jung. "Implicit Stochastic Gradient Descent Method for Cross-Domain Recommendation System." Sensors 20, no. 9 (April 29, 2020): 2510. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092510.
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The previous recommendation system applied the matrix factorization collaborative filtering (MFCF) technique to only single domains. Due to data sparsity, this approach has a limitation in overcoming the cold-start problem. Thus, in this study, we focus on discovering latent features from domains to understand the relationships between domains (called domain coherence). This approach uses potential knowledge of the source domain to improve the quality of the target domain recommendation. In this paper, we consider applying MFCF to multiple domains. Mainly, by adopting the implicit stochastic gradient descent algorithm to optimize the objective function for prediction, multiple matrices from different domains are consolidated inside the cross-domain recommendation system (CDRS). Additionally, we design a conceptual framework for CDRS, which applies to different industrial scenarios for recommenders across domains. Moreover, an experiment is devised to validate the proposed method. By using a real-world dataset gathered from Amazon Food and MovieLens, experimental results show that the proposed method improves 15.2% and 19.7% in terms of computation time and MSE over other methods on a utility matrix. Notably, a much lower convergence value of the loss function has been obtained from the experiment. Furthermore, a critical analysis of the obtained results shows that there is a dynamic balance between prediction accuracy and computational complexity.
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Abu Rabia, Salim. "The effect of degrees of bilingualism on metacognitive linguistic skills." International Journal of Bilingualism 23, no. 5 (June 15, 2018): 1064–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006918781060.
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Purpose and research question: The present study investigated whether there was any significant difference between balanced bilinguals, dominant bilinguals, limited bilinguals and monolinguals in the application of metacognitive linguistic skills while doing a reading comprehension task in the additional (English) language. Namely, how do different degrees of bilingualism affect metacognitive linguistic skills? Methodology: The present study examined three domains of metacognitive reading process (planning, monitoring and evaluating), as well as the overall use of metacognitive reading strategies. Four groups of participants (30 seventh grade students in each group) completed a Metacognitive Reading Strategies Questionnaire, aimed at measuring their metacognitive awareness in each domain after fulfilling a reading comprehension task in English. Data analysis: A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used in order to test the differences within groups and between groups. Findings and conclusions: Level of metacognitive reading awareness was affected by the degree of bilingualism. There was a positive influence of balanced (reading and writing skills in the second language) and imbalanced (oral skills in the second language) degrees of bilingualism on metacognitive linguistic abilities. A balanced degree of bilingualism exerted the greatest influence on most of the metacognitive reading domains (planning, monitoring and the total use of metacognitive strategies). Significance: A significant advantage of balanced bilinguals over all other groups was revealed. Level of metacognitive reading awareness was affected by the degree of bilingualism. Thus, bilingual education should be taken seriously due to its positive effect on all aspects of thinking and learning. Results provided additional support to the notion that bilingualism had a positive impact on the metacognitive linguistic skills. Moreover, the balance between the languages appeared to be a significant variable. Thus, balanced bilinguals, who possessed the highest competence in the second language, showed the best performance in the domains of planning, monitoring and overall use of metacognitive reading strategies. Limited bilinguals, on the contrary, demonstrated the lowest scores in the mentioned domains. The findings also revealed the absence of any considerable difference between the groups in the domain of evaluating.
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LOTT, J. Shaun, Sarah J. CODDINGTON-LAWSON, Paul H. TEESDALE-SPITTLE, and Fiona J. MCDONALD. "A single WW domain is the predominant mediator of the interaction between the human ubiquitin-protein ligase Nedd4 and the human epithelial sodium channel." Biochemical Journal 361, no. 3 (January 25, 2002): 481–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bj3610481.
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The activity of the epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC) is required for the maintenance of salt and water balance in the body. Channel activity is regulated by the ubiquitin-protein ligase Nedd4 ['neuronal precursor cell-expressed developmentally down-regulated (gene 4)'] that interacts with the channel via its WW domains. Mutations in channel subunits that disrupt this interaction cause Liddle's syndrome, a severe inherited form of hypertension. In previous studies we showed that WW domains 2, 3 and 4 of human Nedd4 bound to the human ENaC (hENaC) subunits, whereas WW domain 1 did not. Here we extend this observation to determine the binding affinities of the human Nedd4 WW domains for hENaC C-terminal peptides. We show that WW domains 2, 3 and 4 bind with differing affinities to Na+ channel subunit peptides. WW domain 3 has the highest affinity and we predict that WW domain 3 contributes most of the binding because a construct containing the three WW domains bound no better than WW domain 3 alone. Further, a single amino acid change (Arg165 → Thr) in WW domain 1 enables binding to the α subunit of the channel to occur, with an affinity comparable with that of WW domain 4. Differential binding propensities between the various WW domains and Na+ channel subunit peptides are explained on the basis of quantitative structural modelling of the complexes and their isolated components.
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Yang, Guanglei, Haifeng Xia, Mingli Ding, and Zhengming Ding. "Bi-Directional Generation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 34, no. 04 (April 3, 2020): 6615–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i04.6137.
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Unsupervised domain adaptation facilitates the unlabeled target domain relying on well-established source domain information. The conventional methods forcefully reducing the domain discrepancy in the latent space will result in the destruction of intrinsic data structure. To balance the mitigation of domain gap and the preservation of the inherent structure, we propose a Bi-Directional Generation domain adaptation model with consistent classifiers interpolating two intermediate domains to bridge source and target domains. Specifically, two cross-domain generators are employed to synthesize one domain conditioned on the other. The performance of our proposed method can be further enhanced by the consistent classifiers and the cross-domain alignment constraints. We also design two classifiers which are jointly optimized to maximize the consistency on target sample prediction. Extensive experiments verify that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art on standard cross domain visual benchmarks.
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Gröpel, Peter, and Julius Kuhl. "Having time for life activities." Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie 14, no. 2 (April 2006): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1026/0943-8149.14.2.54.
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Abstract. Balance in life is an important predictor of well-being and health. This pilot research investigates the relationship between self-regulation and life balance, that is, the appropriate proportion of time spent across major life domains. In Study 1, time management was investigated as a self-regulatory competence. In contrast to expectations, time management showed only an indirect relationship to life balance through the perceived control over time. In Study 2, self-motivation, self-relaxation, and self-determination were studied as additional components of self-regulation. As expected, self-determination predicted life balance. Self-motivation and self-relaxation were linked to self-determination and showed an indirect relationship to life balance. In line with theoretical expectations, persons skilled in self-motivation and self-relaxation scored higher on self-determination, which, in turn, facilitated balance among life domains.
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Fuadi, Salis Irvan, Robingun Suyud El Syam, and Ngatoillah Linaja. "KONSEP KESEIMBANGAN RANAH PENDIDIKAN DALAM KITAB TA’LIM MUTA’ALLIM." Tafáqquh: Jurnal Penelitian Dan Kajian Keislaman 10, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 239–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.52431/tafaqquh.v10i2.1073.
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Abstract: Educational style that tends to be formalistic and only concerned with academic achievement, it is necessary to balance the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains. With a research literature approach, it is found that the concept of education in the book of ta'lim muta'allim is actually a building of the concept of character education, which in the book covers at least three aspects, including character education to Allah, to fellow creatures and to oneself. This concept is in line with the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains, where all three must be carried out in a balanced manner.
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Marnik, Elisabeth A., Miguel V. Almeida, P. Giselle Cipriani, George Chung, Edoardo Caspani, Emil Karaulanov, Hin Hark Gan, et al. "The Caenorhabditis elegans TDRD5/7-like protein, LOTR-1, interacts with the helicase ZNFX-1 to balance epigenetic signals in the germline." PLOS Genetics 18, no. 6 (June 3, 2022): e1010245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010245.
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LOTUS and Tudor domain containing proteins have critical roles in the germline. Proteins that contain these domains, such as Tejas/Tapas in Drosophila, help localize the Vasa helicase to the germ granules and facilitate piRNA-mediated transposon silencing. The homologous proteins in mammals, TDRD5 and TDRD7, are required during spermiogenesis. Until now, proteins containing both LOTUS and Tudor domains in Caenorhabditis elegans have remained elusive. Here we describe LOTR-1 (D1081.7), which derives its name from its LOTUS and Tudor domains. Interestingly, LOTR-1 docks next to P granules to colocalize with the broadly conserved Z-granule helicase, ZNFX-1. The Tudor domain of LOTR-1 is required for its Z-granule retention. Like znfx-1 mutants, lotr-1 mutants lose small RNAs from the 3’ ends of WAGO and mutator targets, reminiscent of the loss of piRNAs from the 3’ ends of piRNA precursor transcripts in mouse Tdrd5 mutants. Our work shows that LOTR-1 acts with ZNFX-1 to bring small RNA amplifying mechanisms towards the 3’ ends of its RNA templates.
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Wolff, Hans-Georg, and Sowon Kim. "The costs of networking in nonwork domains: a resource-based perspective." Career Development International 25, no. 5 (June 17, 2020): 501–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cdi-09-2019-0213.
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PurposeWhile studies have established that networking is an investment in an individual's career that pays off, recent research has begun to examine the potential costs of networking. This study suggests that prior research is limited in scope, as it remains focused on the work domain. Drawing upon the work home resources model (Ten Brummelhuis and Bakker, 2012), the authors broaden this perspective and develop a framework of negative consequences in nonwork domains. The paper proposes that networking generates costs in nonwork domains, because it requires the investment of finite energy resources in the work domain, and people lack these resources in other domains.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses structural equation modeling of multisource data from N = 306 individuals and their partners to examine how networking affects two distinct nonwork outcomes: work–family conflict and work–life balance.FindingsAnalyses support the general framework: networking is related to time- and strain-based work–family conflict, and work time mediates the relationship between networking and these forms of conflict. Moreover, networking exhibits an inverted U-shaped relationship with work–life balance, indicating that excessive networking as well as a lack of networking decrease work–life balance.Originality/valueThis study adds to the emergent literature on the negative consequences of networking. The findings suggest that employees and organizations should adopt a broader and more balanced perspective on networking: one that takes the well-known benefits – but also potential costs in work and nonwork domains – into account.
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Shaffer, Margaret A., David A. Harrison, K. Matthew Gilley, and Dora M. Luk. "Struggling for balance amid turbulence on international assignments: work–family conflict, support and commitment." Journal of Management 27, no. 1 (February 2001): 99–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014920630102700106.
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Using human capital theory, we develop hypotheses about the impact of perceived organizational support and two forms of work–family conflict on the psychological withdrawal of expatriates. We also consider the exacerbating effects of commitment to either domain. To test these hypotheses, we collected multisource data from 324 expatriates in 46 countries. Results indicate that perceived organizational support and the interplay between work and family domains have direct and unique influences on expatriates’ intentions to quit.
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Horak, Fay B., Martina Mancini, Patricia Carlson-Kuhta, John G. Nutt, and Arash Salarian. "Balance and Gait Represent Independent Domains of Mobility in Parkinson Disease." Physical Therapy 96, no. 9 (September 1, 2016): 1364–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2522/ptj.20150580.
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Abstract Background The Instrumented Stand and Walk (ISAW) test, which includes 30 seconds of stance, step initiation, gait, and turning, results in many objective balance and gait metrics from body-worn inertial sensors. However, it is not clear which metrics provide independent information about mobility. Objective It was hypothesized that balance and gait represent several independent domains of mobility and that not all domains would be abnormal in individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) or would change with levodopa therapy. Design This was a cross-sectional study. Methods A factor analysis approach was used to identify independent measures of mobility extracted from the ISAW in 100 participants with PD and 21 control participants. First, a covariance analysis showed that postural sway measures were independent of gait measures. Then, the factor analysis revealed 6 independent factors (mobility domains: sway area, sway frequency, arm swing asymmetry, trunk motion during gait, gait speed, and cadence) that accounted for 87% of the variance of performance across participants. Results Sway area, gait speed, and trunk motion differed between the PD group in the off-levodopa state and the control group, but sway frequency (but not sway area) differed between the PD group in the off-levodopa state and the control group. Four of the 6 factors changed significantly with levodopa (off to on): sway area, sway frequency, trunk motion during gait, and cadence. When participants were on levodopa, the sway area increased compared with off levodopa, becoming more abnormal, whereas the other 3 significant metrics moved toward, but did not reach, the healthy control values. Limitations Exploratory factor analysis was limited to the PD population. Conclusions The different sensitivity various balance and gait domains to PD and to levodopa also support neural control of at least 6 independent mobility domains, each of which warrants clinical assessment for impairments in mobility.
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Hasegawa, Naoya, Vrutangkumar V. Shah, Patricia Carlson-Kuhta, John G. Nutt, Fay B. Horak, and Martina Mancini. "How to Select Balance Measures Sensitive to Parkinson’s Disease from Body-Worn Inertial Sensors—Separating the Trees from the Forest." Sensors 19, no. 15 (July 28, 2019): 3320. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19153320.
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This study aimed to determine the most sensitive objective measures of balance dysfunction that differ between people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and healthy controls. One-hundred and forty-four people with PD and 79 age-matched healthy controls wore eight inertial sensors while performing tasks to measure five domains of balance: standing posture (Sway), anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs), automatic postural responses (APRs), dynamic posture (Gait) and limits of stability (LOS). To reduce the initial 93 measures, we selected uncorrelated measures that were most sensitive to PD. After applying a threshold on the Standardized Mean Difference between PD and healthy controls, 44 measures remained; and after reducing highly correlated measures, 24 measures remained. The four most sensitive measures were from APAs and Gait domains. The random forest with 10-fold cross-validation on the remaining measures (n = 24) showed an accuracy to separate PD from healthy controls of 82.4%—identical to result for all measures. Measures from the most sensitive domains, APAs and Gait, were significantly correlated with the severity of disease and with patient-related outcomes. This method greatly reduced the objective measures of balance to the most sensitive for PD, while still capturing four of the five domains of balance.
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Johnson, C., K. Klingels, E. Verbecque, P. Meyns, and A. Hallemans. "Feasibility of fNIRS in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder." European Psychiatry 65, S1 (June 2022): S53—S54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.179.
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Introduction Balance deficits are heterogeneous among children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). Balance performance depends on different balance domains, each associated with specific underlying neurological systems. In DCD, any of these domains can be affected, but the control mechanisms are poorly understood. The mirror neuron system (MNS) seems to play a key-role in DCD-related deficits. To understand the role of MNS as a control mechanism underlying the balance deficits, simultaneous registration of cortical MNS activity while performing balance tasks is imperative. Therefore, a protocol for combining real-time registration of cortical MNS activity during functional balance tasks in children with DCD, CP and TD is introduced. Methods: Children with DCD, CP and TD (n=108) aged 5-10yr perform preselected tasks of the Kids-BESTest, representing specific balance domains (mixed design): leaning with eyes closed (stability limits/verticality), single-leg-stance, alternate stair touching (anticipatory balance), in-place response, compensatory stepping backward (reactive balance) and walking over obstacles (gait stability). Simultaneously, functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) monitors cortical activity involving the MNS: premotor, inferior and superior parietal cortex and supplementary motor area. An 8-8-optode bundle, making 22 channels, targets this region of interest. Outcome measures are: (de)oxygenated hemoglobin concentration changes per task per channel. Results: In this ongoing research, the protocol was already feasible in 19 children (7.52±1.19). Conclusion: Simultaneous registration of cortical MNS activity (fNIRS) and Kids-BESTest scores will help increase the understanding of the control mechanisms underlying the heterogeneous balance problems in DCD. Consequently, first steps are made to confirm whether DCD shows deviant or delayed development. Disclosure No significant relationships.
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Lee, Rubao, Minghong Zhou, Chi Li, Shenggang Hu, Jianping Teng, Dongyang Li, and Xiaodong Zhang. "The art of balance." Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 14, no. 12 (July 2021): 2999–3013. http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/3476311.3476378.
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GPU-accelerated database systems have been studied for more than 10 years, ranging from prototyping development to industry products serving in multiple domains of data applications. Existing GPU database research solutions are often focused on specific aspects in parallel algorithms and system implementations for specific features, while industry product development generally concentrates on delivering a whole system by considering its holistic performance and cost. Aiming to fill this gap between academic research and industry development, we present a comprehensive industry product study on a complete CPU/GPU HTAP system, called RateupDB. We firmly believe "the art of balance" addresses major issues in the development of RateupDB. Specifically, we consider balancing multiple factors in the software development cycle, such as the trade-off between OLAP and OLTP, the trade-off between system performance and development productivity, and balanced choices of algorithms in the product. We also present RateupDB's complete TPC-H test performance to demonstrate its significant advantages over other existing GPU DBMS products.
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Crooker, Karen J., Faye L. Smith, and Filiz Tabak. "Creating Work-Life Balance: A Model of Pluralism across Life Domains." Human Resource Development Review 1, no. 4 (December 2002): 387–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534484302238434.
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Peterson, Daniel S., Charles Van Liew, Samuel Stuart, Patricia Carlson-Kuhta, Fay B. Horak, and Martina Mancini. "Relating Parkinson freezing and balance domains: A structural equation modeling approach." Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 79 (October 2020): 73–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2020.08.027.
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Jacobs, Jesse V., James T. Boyd, Penelope Hogarth, and Fay B. Horak. "Domains and correlates of clinical balance impairment associated with Huntington's disease." Gait & Posture 41, no. 3 (March 2015): 867–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2015.02.018.
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Ben-Yehuda, Dina, Boaz Nachmias, Yaqoub Ashhab, Itay Lazar, and Rebeca Perlman. "Sub-Cellular Localization Determines the Delicate Balance between the Anti and Proapoptotic Activity of Livin." Blood 104, no. 11 (November 16, 2004): 1531. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v104.11.1531.1531.
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Abstract Inhibitor of Apoptosis proteins (IAP) comprise a family of intracellular proteins that play an essential role in the regulation of apoptosis. IAP family members are defined by one or more repeats of a highly conserved anti-apoptotic domain termed the baculovirus IAP repeat (BIR), located at the amino-terminus. In addition, some IAPs contain a conserved domain termed RING finger at the carboxy-terminus. In a previous study, we identified an IAP family member termed Livin, which contains a single BIR domain and a carobxy-terminal RING finger motif. Livin inhibits apoptosis induced by a variety of stimuli. We further demonstrated that following apoptotic stimuli, Livin is cleaved by effector caspases 3 and 7, to produce a truncated form with paradoxical proapoptotic activity. In our current study, we reveal that while the full-length Livin shows a cytoplasmic distribution, the truncated form is readily detected in the nucleus. Using mutation analysis, we identified two domains outside the BIR sequence that are strongly engaged in determining the subcellular localization as well as the proapoptotic activity of Livin. These two domains are the N-terminus post-cleavage exposed area and the C-terminus RING domain. Remarkably, a single substitution of the first exposed amino acid Glycine, is sufficient to significantly diminish nuclear localization as well as the proapoptotic activity, thus linking the nuclear accumulation of the cleavage fragment with the proapoptotic activity. We demonstrate that the cytoplasmic localization of Livin is mediated through the RING domain, as a mutation that disables Livin from forming the zinc finger results in both a cytoplasmic and nuclear localization. Moreover, RING-mutated Livin subunit also loses its proapoptotic activity. Thus we suggest a model in which the exposed N-terminal region counteracts the cytoplasmic localization signal of the RING domain, promoting nuclear localization of the truncated form. The change in sub-cellular localization allows the RING domain to mediate the proapoptotic effect. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of such a regulatory mechanism in IAP family members.
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Wikstrom, Erik A., Cole Mueller, and Mary Spencer Cain. "Lack of Consensus on Return-to-Sport Criteria Following Lateral Ankle Sprain: A Systematic Review of Expert Opinions." Journal of Sport Rehabilitation 29, no. 2 (February 1, 2020): 231–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsr.2019-0038.
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Context:Lateral ankle sprains (LAS) have one of the highest recurrence rates of all musculoskeletal injuries. An emphasis on rapid return to sport (RTS) following LAS likely increases reinjury risk. Unfortunately, no set of objective RTS criteria exist for LAS, forcing practitioners to rely on their own opinion of when a patient is ready to RTS.Purpose:To determine if there was consensus among published expert opinions that could help inform an initial set of RTS criteria for LAS that could be investigated in future research.Evidence Acquisition:PubMed, CINHL, and SPORTDiscus databases were searched from inception until October 2018 using a combination of keywords. Studies were included if they listed specific RTS criteria for LAS. No assessment of methodological quality was conducted because all included papers were expert opinion papers (level 5 evidence). Extracted data included the recommended domains (eg, range of motion, balance, sport-specific movement, etc) to be assessed, specific assessments for each listed domain, and thresholds (eg, 80% of the uninjured limb) to be used to determine RTS. Consensus and partial agreement were defined, a priori, as ≥75% and 50% to 75% agreement, respectively.Evidence Synthesis:Eight domains were identified within 11 included studies. Consensus was reached regarding the need to assess sport-specific movement (n = 9, 90.9%). Partial agreement was reached for the need to assess static balance (n = 7, 63.6%). The domains of pain and swelling, patient reported outcomes, range of motion, and strength were also partially agreed on (n = 6, 54.5%). No agreement was reached on specific assessments of cutoff thresholds.Conclusions:Given consensus and partial agreement results, RTS decisions following LAS should be based on sport-specific movement, static balance, patient reported outcomes, range of motion, and strength. Future research needs to determine assessments and cutoff thresholds within these domains to minimize recurrent LAS risk.
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Mitra, Atul, Michael Harris Bond, Qing Lu, Russell P. Guay, and Jason D. Shaw. "Work and nonwork engagements between life domains: Effects on subjective health and life satisfaction of employees across 53 nations varying in economic competitiveness." International Journal of Cross Cultural Management 21, no. 2 (August 2021): 331–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14705958211034052.
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Using the framework of role balance theory, the authors take a cross-national view of an employee’s engagement in the work and nonwork domains of life. Employing the World Values Survey (WVS) with a sample of 21,270 married employees from 53 nations, we find cross-national variations in the relationship of employees’ degree of work and nonwork domain engagements with their subjective health and satisfaction with life. To explore the impact of the national focus on motivation for economic productivity and innovation, we used a country’s global competitiveness index (GCI), predicting that a nation’s GCI would moderate the relationship of an employee’s work and nonwork domain engagements with both subjective health and life satisfaction. Overall, the results suggest that work–nonwork balance leads to better subjective health and higher life satisfaction only for married employees living in nations high in GCI; for married employees living in countries low in GCI, higher subjective health and life satisfaction resulted for those more highly engaged in nonwork life domains. Theoretical and methodological contributions are discussed, along with implications for future research on national culture concerning work and its impact on employed persons.
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Anjum, Muhammad Rizwan, Hadi Hassan Khan, and Nagina Gul. "Impact of Work-Life Balance on Performance of Police in Baluchistan with Moderating Effect of Occupational Stress." Global Social Sciences Review VI, no. IV (December 30, 2021): 184–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(vi-iv).18.
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Work-life balance has an impact on individual performance,and work life balance is affected by a number of factors.Performance is affected by a number of factors which are divided into physical and psychological domains. Physical domains as workplace facilities,salary, or other tangible benefits to employees are often taken care of in organizations. However, the psychological aspect, which includes the family/social life of the employee, are intangible in most of organizations.Occupational stress is hampering the work-life balance of employees, as is evident in the literature; however, its exact dimensions on public sector employees in Pakistan are yet not researched. For this purpose, Police organizations will be studied to know the impact of work-life balance on the performance of police in Baluchistan with a moderating effect of occupational stress.
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El-Nakla, Samir. "Case-Based Expert System to Support Electronics Design in Mechatronic System." Applied Mechanics and Materials 229-231 (November 2012): 2793–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.229-231.2793.
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Many current systems rely for their performance on achieving a balance between electronics, software and mechanical systems and the transfer of functionality between those domains. The design of such mechatronic systems therefore relies on the ability of the individual domain specialists to transfer knowledge about their domain within the overall design process. Enhancing the ability of non-specialists to understand the relationships between the various system elements and to communicate with the domain specialists will serve to enhance and support the design process. The paper therefore considers a tool based around the use of case-based expert system which is intended to provide such support by allowing a non-specialist to access information from a range of domains in a way which is easy to use and understand and which will establish and define the links between the various areas of technology.
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Kirby, Brett S., David A. Clark, Eric M. Bradley, and Brad W. Wilkins. "The balance of muscle oxygen supply and demand reveals critical metabolic rate and predicts time to exhaustion." Journal of Applied Physiology 130, no. 6 (June 1, 2021): 1915–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00058.2021.
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Dynamic muscle O2 saturation discriminates boundaries between exercise intensity domains, exposes a critical metabolic rate as the highest rate of steady state O2 supply and demand, describes time series depletion and repletion for work above critical power, and predicts time to exhaustion during severe domain whole body exercise. These results highlight the matching of O2 supply and demand as a primary determinant for sustainable exercise intensities from those that are unsustainable and lead to exhaustion.
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Tangen, Gro Gujord, Knut Engedal, Astrid Bergland, Tron Anders Moger, and Anne Marit Mengshoel. "Relationships Between Balance and Cognition in Patients With Subjective Cognitive Impairment, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer Disease." Physical Therapy 94, no. 8 (August 1, 2014): 1123–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2522/ptj.20130298.
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Background Balance impairments are common in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), but which aspects of balance are affected, at which stage of cognitive impairment, and their associations with cognitive domains remain unexplored. Objectives The aims of this study were: (1) to explore differences in balance abilities among patients with subjective cognitive impairment (SCI) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI), mild AD, and moderate AD and (2) to examine the relationship between the various aspects of balance and cognitive domains. Design This was a cross-sectional study. Methods Home-dwelling patients with SCI or MCI (n=33), mild AD (n=99), and moderate AD (n=38) participated in this study. The Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest), comprising 6 subscales—“Biomechanical Constraints,” “Stability Limits/Verticality,” “Anticipatory Postural Adjustments,” “Postural Responses,” “Sensory Orientation,” and “Stability in Gait”—was used to assess balance. Cognitive domains were assessed using the following measures: Mini-Mental Status Examination, Word-List Learning Test from the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD), Verbal Fluency Test, Clock Drawing Test, and Trail Making Test, parts A and B (TMT-A and TMT-B, respectively). Two-way between-group analyses of variance, adjusted for age, were used to analyze differences among the groups. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to explore the associations between balance and cognition. Results Differences were found between the groups on all BESTest subscales; the moderate AD group had the worst scores. The TMT-B (measuring executive function) was associated with all of the BESTest subscales after controlling for demographic factors. Limitations The cross-sectional design hampered interpretation of the development of balance impairments. Conclusions The study findings indicate that all aspects of balance control deteriorate with increasing severity of cognitive impairment and that executive function plays an important role in balance control. Physical therapists should pay attention to these findings both in clinical practice and in future research.
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Taylor, Morag, Stephen Lord, Annika Toots, and Close Jacqueline. "33 Cognitive Domain Associations with Balance Performance in Community – Dwelling Older People with Cognitive Impairment." Age and Ageing 48, Supplement_4 (December 2019): iv9—iv12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afz164.33.
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Abstract Aims Investigate the relationship between global cognition and cognitive domain function and balance performance in a large sample of older people with cognitive impairment. Methods Three hundred and nine community-dwelling older people (mean age=82 years; 47% female) with cognitive impairment were recruited for the iFOCIS fall prevention randomised controlled trial. Baseline assessments completed before randomisation were used for analyses and included the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-III (ACE-III; global cognitive function) and its individual cognitive domains (attention; memory; verbal fluency; language; visuospatial ability) and executive function, further examined using the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB). Balance performance was derived by averaging postural sway on floor and foam, maximal balance range (reverse z-score) and co-ordinated stability z-scores. With balance performance as the dependent variable, global cognition and each cognitive domain were entered into multivariate linear regression models. Results Mean (± standard deviation) ACE-III and FAB scores were 62.8±19.2 and 11.4±4.6 respectively. In linear regression analyses adjusted for covariates, global cognitive function and each cognitive domain were significantly associated with balance performance. Executive function (verbal fluency; β=-.248, p<0.001, adjusted R2=0.376) and visuospatial ability (β=-.250, p<0.001, adjusted R2=0.381) had the strongest and memory the weakest (β=-.119, p=0.018, adjusted R2=0.334) association with balance. Visuospatial ability remained significantly associated with balance performance when adjusted for attention, memory, language, verbal fluency and the FAB. Executive function (verbal fluency) remained significantly associated with balance when adjusted for attention, memory, language and visuospatial ability. Conversely, attention, memory, and language did not withstand adjustment for visuospatial ability or executive function. Conclusions Poorer global cognition and performance in each cognitive domain were associated with poorer balance performance in this large sample of community-dwelling older people with cognitive impairment. Visuospatial ability and executive function were independently associated with balance, highlighting the role higher-level cognitive processes and spatial perception and processing play in postural control.
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Izzah, Alfira Nailatul, Irwanto Irwanto, Andriati Andriati, and Prastiya Indra Gunawan. "Assessment Quality of Life in Children with Cerebral Palsy, Ages 2–18 Years." Jurnal Berkala Epidemiologi 9, no. 2 (May 25, 2021): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jbe.v9i22021.166-174.
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Background: Cerebral palsy is non-progressive disorder that can cause limited movement and lead to postural deformity in children, which can affects all the psychosocial aspects and, thus, impacts children’s’ quality of life as well. Assessment of quality of life is important to evaluate suitable intervention measures for children with cerebral palsy. Purpose: This study aims to investigate the domains and determine the quality of life in children with cerebral palsy between ages 2 and 18. Methods: This was a descriptive study that employed a cross-sectional design approach. Primary data was obtained through a questionnaire. This study used the pediatric quality of life inventory (PedsQL)TM 3.0 cerebral palsy module. The study was conducted from November 2019 to February 2020. The data was collected at the Department of Medical Rehabilitation at the Dr. Soetomo Hospital, Peduli CP Foundation, and the Happy CP Community. This study involved 52 subjects, aged 2–18 years. Results: Almost all of the subjects (76.90%) had an impaired or poor quality of life. From the seven existing domains, only one domain received a good score: the domain of movement and balance. Conclusion: Based on the PedsQLTM 3.0 cerebral palsy module, parents reported that the quality of life in children (ages 2–18 years) having cerebral palsy was still low. Only the movement and balance domain got a good score.
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Bae, Youkyung. "Nasalization Amplitude-Timing Characteristics of Speakers With and Without Cleft Palate." Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 55, no. 1 (December 14, 2017): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1055665617718826.
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Objectives: To examine the amplitude-temporal relationships of acoustic nasalization in speakers with a range of nasality and to determine the extent to which each domain independently predicts the speaker’s perceived oral-nasal balance. Design: Rate-controlled speech samples, consisting of /izinizi/, /azanaza/, and /uzunuzu/, were recorded from 18 participants (14 with repaired cleft palate and 4 without cleft palate) using the Nasometer. The mean nasalance of the entire mid-vowel–nasal consonant–vowel (mid-VNV) sequence (amplitude-domain) and the duration of the nasalized segment of the mid-VNV sequence (temporal-domain) were obtained based on nasalance contours. Results: Strong linear and vowel-dependent relationships were observed between the 2 domains of nasalization (adjusted R2 = 71.5%). Both the amplitude- and temporal-domain measures were found to reliably predict the speaker’s perceived oral-nasal balance, with better overall model fit and higher classification accuracy rates observed in /izinizi/ and /uzunuzu/ than in /azanaza/. Despite poor specificity, the temporal-domain measure of /azanaza/ was found to have a strong correlation with the participants’ Zoo passage nasalance scores ( rs = .897, p < .01), suggesting its potential utility as a severity indicator of perceived nasality. Conclusions: With the use of relatively simple speech tasks and measurements representing the amplitude and temporal domains of nasalization, the present study provided practical guidelines for using the Nasometer in assessing patients with oral-nasal resonance imbalance. Findings suggest that both domain measures of nasalization should be examined across different vowel contexts, given that each domain may provide clinically relevant, yet different, information.
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Muia, Joshua, Jian Zhu, Suellen C. Greco, Karen Vanhoorelbeke, Garima Gupta, Lisa A. Westfield, and J. Evan Sadler. "Phylogenetic and functional analysis of ADAMTS13 identifies highly conserved domains essential for allosteric regulation." Blood 133, no. 17 (April 25, 2019): 1899–908. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-11-886275.
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Abstract The metalloprotease ADAMTS13 (a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type 1 repeats member 13) prevents microvascular thrombosis by cleaving von Willebrand factor (VWF) within platelet-rich thrombi, and cleavage depends on allosteric activation of ADAMTS13 by the substrate VWF. Human ADAMTS13 has a short propeptide, metalloprotease (M), disintegrin-like (D), thrombospondin-1 (T), Cys-rich (C), and spacer (S) domains (proximal domains), followed by 7 T and 2 CUB (complement components C1r and C1s, sea urchin protein Uegf, and bone morphogenetic protein-1) domains (distal domains). Distal domains inhibit the catalytic proximal domains; binding of distal T8-CUB domains to the VWF D4 domain relieves autoinhibition and promotes cleavage of the nearby VWF A2 domain. However, the role of specific ADAMTS13 distal domains in this allosteric mechanism is not established. Assays of plasma ADAMTS13 from 20 placental mammals, birds, and amphibians show that allosteric regulation is broadly conserved, and phylogenetic analysis of 264 vertebrates shows the long propeptide, T3, T4, T6, and T6a domains have been deleted several times in placental mammals, birds, and fish. Notably, pigeon ADAMTS13 has only 3 distal T domains but was activated normally by human VWF D4 and cleaved VWF multimers, preferentially under fluid shear stress. Human ADAMTS13 constructed to resemble pigeon ADAMTS13 retained normal allosteric regulation and shear-dependent cleavage of VWF. Thus, the T3-T6 domains of human ADAMTS13 are dispensable. Conversely, deletion of T7 or T8 abolished allosteric activation. For most species, some sequence changes in the VWF substrate can markedly increase the rate of cleavage, suggesting that ADAMTS13 and VWF have not evolved to be optimal enzyme-substrate pairs. These properties may reflect evolutionary pressure to balance the risk for VWF-dependent bleeding and thrombosis.
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Li, Guoyan, Yajuan Ren, and Yi Liu. "A Cross-Domain Service Function Chain Deployment Scheme Based on Bargaining Game." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2021 (January 22, 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6669917.
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Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) technologies provide support for service function chain (SFC) deployment. As the scale of a network expands, SDN domains are maintained and managed by their respective network operators. When deploying an SFC in multiple domains, to protect the privacy of each domain is challenging. We propose a cross-domain SFC deployment scheme based on a bargaining game. We establish an effective cross-domain service chain system model and combine resource consumption cost and load balance to translate SFC deployment to an optimization problem. A bargaining game model is established so as to reasonably optimize these contradictory parameters. We solve the model by an improved imperialist competition algorithm and obtain the optimal node mapping relationship. Experimental results show that our method performs better than the current one in terms of network load balancing and mapping overhead and has better scalability.
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Fakhrurrazi Mohammed Zabidi, Ahmad, Mahfuzah Mohammed Zabidi, Norbaiti Tukiman, Nur Najwa Hanani Abd. Rahman, Akmaliza Abdullah, and Ezad Azraai Jamsari. "THE CONCEPTS OF LATAIF QURANIYYAH AND AL-SUHBAH AS RECENT INNOVATION IN REFLECTIVE TEACHING." International Journal of Advanced Research 9, no. 08 (August 31, 2021): 1005–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/13353.
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Learning methods in this Industrial Revolution 4.0 era extensively uses computers. This leads to effective abandonment of teacher-student relationship, namely al-Suhbah (Human bonding through social interaction). Excessive concern for syllabus completion and achievement in final exams focus on the cognitive domain of students, but neglect their psychomotor and affective domains. Reflective Teaching is very important in the aspect of students affective domain. Thus, this study highlights the combination of Lataif Quraniyyah (Quranic Subtleties) and al-Suhbah (Human Bonding) concepts as the main thrust for emphasizing the affective domain in order to balance it with the cognitive and psychomotor domains. This teaching innovation was implemented for students taking the course PPPN3103 al-Quran Education, for Semester 1 Session 2019/2020, and surprisingly proved effective in producing very positive results and impact on achieving the objectives or course learning outcomes outlined in Reflective Teaching.
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Yang, Kyunguk. "Digital Contents Creators’ Work-Life Balance and Boundary Work: Grounded Theoretical Analysis of Webtoonists’ Experience." Korean Academy of Organization and Management 46, no. 4 (November 30, 2022): 167–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.36459/jom.2022.46.4.167.
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This study tried to explore platform workers’ challenges in achieving work-life balance. While past studies have focused on typical employees, little attention has been paid to how irregular workers including platform workers experience work-life balance. This paper analyzed interview data created by 9 webtoonists using grounded theory. This study found that the distinctive characteristics of platform labor such as readers’ evaluation system and job insecurity cause work-life conflict. The readers’ evaluation system embedded in the webtoon websites leads webtoonists to extend their working hours and strengthen labor intensity. In addition, webtoonists tend to perform heavy tasks to relieve employment anxiety. This study also investigated how platform workers devise strategies to restore work-life balance using boundary theory. Webtoonists are not passive actors who accept the imbalance between work and life. Instead, they attempt to restore the balance between the two areas by establishing the boundaries of work and life. Recent studies have pointed out that people can distinguish between work and life domains or integrate the two areas. This study found that most webtonnists preferred the segregation of work and life domains. They performed job crafting, and spatial and temporal boundary management to segregate the work-life domains. Finally, this study proposes the policies that support platform workers’ successful boundary work.
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Faesen, Alex C., Mark P. A. Luna-Vargas, and Titia K. Sixma. "The role of UBL domains in ubiquitin-specific proteases." Biochemical Society Transactions 40, no. 3 (May 22, 2012): 539–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bst20120004.
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Ubiquitin conjugation and deconjugation provides a powerful signalling system to change the fate of its target enzymes. Ubiquitination levels are organized through a balance between ubiquitinating E1, E2 and E3 enzymes and deubiquitination by DUBs (deubiquitinating enzymes). These enzymes are tightly regulated to control their activity. In the present article, we discuss the different ways in which DUBs of the USP (ubiquitin-specific protease) family are regulated by internal domains with a UBL (ubiquitin-like) fold. The UBL domain in USP14 is important for its localization at the proteasome, which enhances catalysis. In contrast, a UBL domain in USP4 binds to the catalytic domain and competes with ubiquitin binding. In this process, the UBL domain mimics ubiquitin and partially inhibits catalysis. In USP7, there are five consecutive UBL domains, of which the last two affect catalytic activity. Surprisingly, they do not act like ubiquitin and activate catalysis rather than inhibiting it. These C-terminal UBL domains promote a conformational change that allows ubiquitin binding and organizes the catalytic centre. Thus it seems that UBL domains have different functions in different USPs. Other proteins can modulate the roles of UBL domains in USP4 and USP7. On one hand, the inhibition of USP4 can be relieved when the UBL is sequestered by another USP. On the other, the activation of USP7 is increased, when the UBL-activated state is stabilized by allosteric binding of GMP synthetase. Altogether, UBL domains appear to be able to regulate catalytic activity in USPs, but they can use widely different mechanisms of action, in which they may, as in USP4, or may not, as in USP7, use the direct resemblance to ubiquitin.
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Isaal, Imelda V., Jonalyn E. Factolarin, Angelie L. Otom, and Gerty S. Umbay. "The Influence of Job Performance, Job Stress to Work-Life Balance among COVID-19 Frontliners." IJEBD (International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Development) 5, no. 4 (July 31, 2022): 667–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.29138/ijebd.v5i4.1884.
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Purpose: The main objective of this study is to determine if there are domains of job performance and job stress that significantly influence work-life balance among COVID-19 Frontliners in Tagum City.
Design/methodology/approach: This study used quantitative non-experimental research design utilizing correlational technique with a total sample size of 200 COVID-19 Frontliners selected through random sampling, data were collected through adopted survey questionnaire. The statistical tools used for data treatment in this study were mean, pearson-r and regression analysis.
Findings: The result showed a very high level of job performance, moderate level of job stress, and high level of work-life balance among COVID-19 Frontliners. Also, there is a significant relationship between job performance and work-life balance, and between job stress and work-life balance.
Practical implications: The domains of job performance and job stress that significantly predict work-life balance are task performance, having managerial responsibilities, and feeling poorly managed and resourced.
Originality/value: This paper is an original work.
Paper type: Research paper