Deviating glucose results in an international dual-center study. A root cause investigation     

Janne Cadamuro  Peter Bergsten  Katharina Mrwald  Anders Forslund  Marie Dahlbom  Jonas Bergquist  Iris Ciba  Susanne M. Brunner  Jeanne Jabbour  Daniel Weghuber 《Biochemia medica : ?asopis Hrvatskoga dru?tva medicinskih biokemi?ara / HDMB》2022,32(1)

During a dual-center study on obese and normal weight children and adolescents, focusing on glucose metabolism, we observed a marked difference in glucose results (N = 16,840) between the two sites, Salzburg, Austria and Uppsala, Sweden (P < 0.001). After excluding differences in patient characteristics between the two populations as cause of this finding, we investigated other preanalytic influences. Finally, only the tubes used for blood collection at the two sites were left to evaluate. While the Vacuette FC-Mix tube (Greiner Bio-One, Kremsmünster, Austria) was used in Uppsala, in Salzburg blood collections were performed with a lithium heparin tube (LH-Monovette, Sarstedt, Germany). To prove our hypothesis, we collected two blood samples in either of these tubes from 51 children (Salzburg N = 27, Uppsala N = 24) and compared the measured glucose results. Indeed, we found the suspected bias and calculated a correction formula, which significantly diminished the differences of glucose results between the two sites (P = 0.023). Our finding is in line with those of other studies and although this issue should be widely known, we feel that it is widely neglected, especially when comparing glucose concentrations across Europe, using large databases without any information on preanalytic sample handling.  相似文献   

Examiner errors on the WRAT-R     

Daniel Peterson  Helen S. Steger  John R. Slate  Craig H. Jones  Cora Coulter 《Psychology in the schools》1991,28(3):205-208

A random sample of 55 WRAT-R protocols, completed by nine practitioners for a metropolitan school district in the South, was analyzed for examiner errors. All nine practitioners made errors, which occurred on 95% of the protocols and averaged 3.0 errors per protocol. The most frequent errors included failures to obtain a correct ceiling or basal, and failures to record examinees' responses. Correction of the examiner errors resulted in changes in 11 standard scores, and 3 additional changes in grade equivalent scores. These results indicate that WRAT-R administration and scoring are not as objective as assumed by the test developers, and that examiner errors on this test can adversely affect diagnostic decisions.  相似文献   

Poe Evermore: The Legacy in Film,Music and Television David Huckvale Jefferson,NC: McFarland, 2014.          下载免费PDF全文

Daniel P. Murphy 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2016,39(2):260-261

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Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America Erica Hannickel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.          下载免费PDF全文

Daniel J. Fuller 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2016,39(2):250-251

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Putting Measurement First: Understanding ‘Grit’ in Educational Policy and Practice          下载免费PDF全文

Daniel Peterson 《Journal of Philosophy of Education》2015,49(4):571-589

Non‐cognitive dispositions have recently become psychological constructs of interest in the education, economics, philosophy, sociology, and psychology literature. In this article, I draw the distinction between property‐first and measurement‐first approaches to understanding the meaning of a particular non‐cognitive disposition theoretical term, ‘grit’, as well as the relationship between this term and its corresponding measurement procedure. I argue that, depending on which approach one takes, one is confronted with different norms for judging the success of any disposition‐measurement procedure pair, meaning that the difference in philosophical approaches may have practical import. I argue that the measurement‐first approach is the one educators and educational policy‐makers ought to adopt towards grit as it is less likely to lead to over‐valuing grit in situations where a gritty disposition may be harmful, better respects scientific virtues and values, and provides a clearer understanding of grit than the property‐first approach.  相似文献   

Young Adults’ Trait Affection Given and Received as Functions of Hofstede’s Dimensions of Cultures and National Origin     

Daniel H. Mansson  František Marko  Katarína Bachratá  Zuzana Danišková  Jaroslava Gajdošíková Zeleiová  Vladimír Janiš 《Journal of Intercultural Communication Research》2016,45(5):404-418

Based on the work conducted by trait psychologists, this cross-cultural investigation sought to examine young adults’ trait affection given and trait affection received in the U.S., Russia, and Slovakia as functions of (a) Hofstede’s four primary dimensions of national cultures (i.e. masculinity–femininity, individualism–collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and power distance), and (b) national origin. Undergraduate students (N = 558) from the U.S. (n = 214), Russia (n = 169), and Slovakia (n = 210) completed a questionnaire in their native languages. The results of regression analyses and analyses of variances supported the notion that the four dimensions of national cultures influence people’s trait-like attributes and therefore also result in significant differences among the three countries examined in this investigation.  相似文献   

Brain simulation and personhood: a concern with the Human Brain Project     

Daniel Lim 《Ethics and Information Technology》2014,16(2):77-89

The Human Brain Project (HBP) is a massive interdisciplinary project involving hundreds of researchers across more than eighty institutions that seeks to leverage cutting edge information and communication technologies to create a multi-level brain simulation platform (BSP). My worry is that some brain models running on the BSP will be persons. If this is right then not only will the in silico experiments the HBP envisions being carried on the BSP be unethical the mere termination of certain brain models running on the BSP will be unethical. To assess the possible personhood of certain brain simulations I consider John Searle’s critique of strong AI. In arguing that Searle’s critique fails I conclude that the HBP must tread carefully and devise strict rules on how research using the BSP ought to proceed.  相似文献   

Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation Marc Mappen. New Brunswick,NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013.     

Daniel P. Murphy 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2014,37(2):242-243

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Are the creative industries meritocratic? An analysis of the 2014 British Labour Force Survey     

Dave O’Brien  Daniel Laurison  Andrew Miles  Sam Friedman 《Cultural Trends》2016,25(2):116-131

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There is currently widespread concern that Britain’s cultural and creative industries (CCIs) are increasingly dominated by the privileged. This stands in stark contrast to dominant policy narratives of the CCIs as meritocratic. Until now this debate has been clouded by a relative paucity of data on class origins. This paper draws on new social origin data from the 2014 Labour Force Survey to provide the first large-scale, representative study of the class composition of Britain’s creative workforce. The analysis demonstrates that CCIs show significant variation in their individual “openness”, although there is a general under-representation of those from working-class origins across the sector. This under-representation is especially pronounced in publishing and music, in contrast to, for example, craft. Moreover, even when those from working-class backgrounds enter certain CCIs, they face a “class origin pay gap” compared to those from privileged backgrounds. The paper discusses how class inequalities, as well as those related to gender and ethnicity, between individual CCIs point to occupational subcultures that resist aggregation into the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s broader category of CCIs. The paper concludes by suggesting the importance of disaggregating CCIs and rethinking the definition and boundaries of CCIs as a meaningful category.  相似文献   

The Comeback of Beautiful Music     

Daniel Asia 《Academic Questions》2016,29(4):478-482

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