Objective Mothers with a history of infertility may experience parenting difficulties and challenges. This study was conducted to investigate the role of residential early parenting services in increasing parenting confidence in mothers with a history of infertility. MaterialsAndMethods This was a retrospective chart review study using the quantitative data from the clients attending the Karita...

Cross-company defect prediction (CCDP) is a practical way that trains a prediction model by exploiting one or multiple projects of a source company and then applies the model to target company. Unfortunately, larger irrelevant crosscompany (CC) data usually makes it difficult to build a prediction model with high performance. On the other hand, the CC data has the highly imbalanced nature betwe...

objective: mothers with a history of infertility may experience parenting difficulties and challenges. this study was conducted to investigate the role of residential early parenting services in increasing parenting confidence in mothers with a history of infertility. materials and methods: this was a retrospective chart review study using the quantitative data from the clients attending the ka...

Leadership style as a key factor affects subordinates job satisfaction, which in turn is essential for success of each organization. These factors are pivotal for organizational effectiveness. The main purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between heads of departments‟ leadership styles and lecturers‟ job satisfaction at Malaysian Research Universities (RUs). It was conducted...

Background: In adult inpatients with acute kidney injury (AKI), clinicians routinely order a renal ultrasound (RUS). It is unclear how often this test provides clinically useful information. Specific Aims: We aimed to develop a simple decision rule that will identify those patients with AKI who are at low risk of hydronephrosis (HN) on RUS, or HN requiring an intervention (HNRI; defined as neph...

The preference of the starfish Acanthasterplanci (Linnaeus, 1758) for 3 species of corals which survive A. planci outbreaks (Diploastrea heliopora, Porites rus, and Coscinaraea colurnna), and the effects of organic and aqueous extracts of these corals on A. planci feeding, were investigated experimentally in the laboratory. We hypothesized that extracts of these corals deter feeding by A. planc...

The method of resonant ultrasonic spectroscopy (RUS) was evaluated for bovine bone and compared with the traditional wave transmission ultrasound method. In RUS, the resonance structure of a cubic or rectangular specimen is scanned. For some low-damping materials, a single measurement yields sufficient resonant frequencies to determine all of the anisotropic elastic constants. Bone has a high v...

To characterize the influence of decision makers’ psychological factors on the group decision process, this paper develops a new class of aggregation operators based on reference-dependent utility functions (RUs) in multi-attribute group decision analysis. We consider two types of RUs: S-shaped, representing decision makers who are risk-seeking for relative losses, and non-S-shaped, representin...

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is proposing to amend its regulation concerning the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program. This proposed rule will promulgate regulations for a new loan program that will provide both loans and grants for distance learning and telemedicine projects benefiting rural areas. The regulation is necessary to implement a new loan program mandated by the Fed...