Exploring the Impact of an AVRS Curfew Program on Recidivism of Juvenile Probationers in Korea

Community corrections agencies across the world have adopted biometric technologies as a security tool and cost-effective monitoring strategy. This study investigates the effectiveness of the automated voiceprint recognition supervision (AVRS) curfew program for 386 Korean juvenile probationers from the Seoul Probation Office. Although the AVRS curfew program in Korea has been in effect for more than 14 years, effectiveness of the program has not been fully tested. A propensity score analysis was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the AVRS program, controlling for potential covariates of referring juveniles to the program. Contrary to expectations, a logistic regression analysis demonstrated that the innovative curfew program is a statistically significant factor in increasing the odds of recidivism. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for court-ordered juvenile curfew programs.

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Challenging the Link Between Early Childhood Television Exposure and Later Attention Problems: A Multiverse Approach

10.31234/osf.io/5hd4r ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Matthew McBee ◽

Rebecca Brand ◽

Wallace E. Dixon

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Logistic Regression ◽

Propensity Score Analysis ◽

Harmful Effect ◽

Attention Problems ◽

Popular Media ◽

Compelling Evidence ◽

Score Analysis ◽

Television Exposure ◽

Influential Paper

In 2004, Christakis and colleagues published an influential paper claiming that early childhood television exposure causes later attention problems (Christakis, Zimmerman, DiGiuseppe, & McCarty, 2004), which continues to be frequently promoted by the popular media. Using the same NLSY-79 dataset (n = 2,108), we conducted two multiverse analyses to examine whether the finding reported by Christakis et al. was robust to different analytic choices. We evaluated 848 models, including logistic regression as per the original paper, plus linear regression and two forms of propensity score analysis. Only 166 models (19.6%) yielded a statistically significant relationship between early TV exposure and later attention problems, with most of these employing problematic analytic choices. We conclude that these data do not provide compelling evidence of a harmful effect of TV on attention. All material necessary to reproduce our analysis is available online via Github (https://github.com/mcbeem/TVAttention) and as a Docker container (https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/mmcbee/rstudio_tvattention)

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Impact of Rehabilitation Dose on Nutritional Status at Discharge from a Convalescent Rehabilitation Ward in Malnourished Patients with Hip Fracture

Healthcare ◽

10.3390/healthcare9060722 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 722

Author(s):

Yusuke Ito ◽

Hidetaka Wakabayashi ◽

Shinta Nishioka ◽

Shin Nomura ◽

Ryo Momosaki

Keyword(s):

Logistic Regression ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

Hip Fracture ◽

Nutritional Status ◽

Logistic Regression Analysis ◽

Short Form ◽

Mini Nutritional Assessment ◽

Functional Independence ◽

Rehabilitation Ward ◽

The Impact

The object of this study is to determine the impact of the rehabilitation dose on the nutritional status at discharge from a convalescent rehabilitation ward in malnourished patients with hip fracture. This retrospective case-control study involved malnourished patients with hip fracture aged 65 years or older who had been admitted to a convalescent rehabilitation ward and whose data were registered in the Japan Rehabilitation Nutrition Database. The primary outcome was nutritional status at discharge. Patients were classified according to whether nutritional status was improved or not at discharge, according to the Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form® (MNA-SF) score. The association between improved nutritional status and rehabilitation dose was assessed by a logistic regression analysis. Data were available for 145 patients (27 men, 118 women; mean age 85.1 ± 7.9 years). Daily rehabilitation dose was 109.5 (median 94.6–116.2) min and the MNA-SF score at admission was 5 (median 4–6). Nutritional status was improved in 97 patients and not improved in 48. Logistic regression analysis showed the following factors to be independently associated with nutritional status at discharge: Functional Independence Measure score (OR 1.042, 95% CI 1.016–1.068), energy intake (OR 1.002 CI 1.000–1.004), daily rehabilitation dose (OR 1.023, 95% CI 1.002–1.045), and length of hospital stay (OR 1.026, 95% CI 1.003–1.049). The daily rehabilitation dose in malnourished patients with hip fracture may positively impact nutritional status at discharge.

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The Impact of Texas HIPPY on School Readiness and Academic Achievement: Optimal Full Propensity Score Analysis Approach

Early Childhood Education Journal ◽

10.1007/s10643-021-01226-w ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Noor Amal Abdulaziz

Keyword(s):

Academic Achievement ◽

Propensity Score ◽

School Readiness ◽

Propensity Score Analysis ◽

Analysis Approach ◽

Score Analysis ◽

The Impact

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Rural Barriers to Surgical Care for Children With Sleep-Disordered Breathing

Otolaryngology ◽

10.1177/0194599821993383 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 019459982199338

Author(s):

Flora Yan ◽

Dylan A. Levy ◽

Chun-Che Wen ◽

Cathy L. Melvin ◽

Marvella E. Ford ◽

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Keyword(s):

Logistic Regression ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

Sleep Disordered Breathing ◽

Healthy Children ◽

Loss To Follow Up ◽

Cox Regression Analysis ◽

Obstructive Sleep ◽

The Impact ◽

Disordered Breathing

Objective To assess the impact of rural-urban residence on children with obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) who were candidates for tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy (TA). Study Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting Tertiary children’s hospital. Methods A cohort of otherwise healthy children aged 2 to 18 years with a diagnosis of obstructive SDB between April 2016 and December 2018 who were recommended TA were included. Rural-urban designation was defined by ZIP code approximation of rural-urban commuting area codes. The main outcome was association of rurality with time to TA and loss to follow-up using Cox and logistic regression analyses. Results In total, 213 patients were included (mean age 6 ± 2.9 years, 117 [55%] male, 69 [32%] rural dwelling). Rural-dwelling children were more often insured by Medicaid than private insurance ( P < .001) and had a median driving distance of 74.8 vs 16.8 miles ( P < .001) compared to urban-dwelling patients. The majority (94.9%) eventually underwent recommended TA once evaluated by an otolaryngologist. Multivariable logistic regression analysis did not reveal any significant predictors for loss to follow-up in receiving TA. Cox regression analysis that adjusted for age, sex, insurance, and race showed that rural-dwelling patients had a 30% reduction in receipt of TA over time as compared to urban-dwelling patients (hazard ratio, 0.7; 95% CI, 0.50-0.99). Conclusion Rural-dwelling patients experienced longer wait times and driving distance to TA. This study suggests that rurality should be considered a potential barrier to surgical intervention and highlights the need to further investigate geographic access as an important determinant of care in pediatric SDB.

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Burden of motorcyclists without helmets in a state without a universal helmet law: a propensity score analysis

Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open ◽

10.1136/tsaco-2020-000583 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. e000583

Author(s):

Michael D Jones ◽

Joel G Eastes ◽

Damjan Veljanoski ◽

Kristina M Chapple ◽

James N Bogert ◽

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Keyword(s):

Propensity Score ◽

Propensity Score Analysis ◽

Alcohol Intoxication ◽

Civil Liberties ◽

Hospital Charges ◽

Trauma Patients ◽

Level Of Evidence ◽

Helmet Use ◽

Score Analysis ◽

The Impact

BackgroundAlthough helmets are associated with reduction in mortality from motorcycle collisions, many states have failed to adopt universal helmet laws for motorcyclists, in part on the grounds that prior research is limited by study design (historical controls) and confounding variables. The goal of this study was to evaluate the association of helmet use in motorcycle collisions with hospital charges and mortality in trauma patients with propensity score analysis in a state without a universal helmet law.MethodsMotorcycle collision data from the Arizona State Trauma Registry from 2014 to 2017 were propensity score matched by regressing helmet use on patient age, sex, race/ethnicity, alcohol intoxication, illicit drug use, and comorbidities. Linear and logistic regression models were used to evaluate the impact of helmet use.ResultsOur sample consisted of 6849 cases, of which 3699 (54.0%) were helmeted and 3150 (46.0%) without helmets. The cohort was 88.1% male with an average age of 40.9±16.0 years. Helmeted patients were less likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit (20.3% vs. 23.7%, OR 0.82 (0.72–0.93)) and ventilated (7.8% vs. 12.0%, OR 0.62 (0.52–0.75)). Propensity-matched analyses consisted of 2541 pairs and demonstrated helmet use to be associated with an 8% decrease in hospital charges (B −0.075 (0.034)) and a 56% decrease in mortality (OR 0.44 (0.31–0.58)).DiscussionIn a state without mandated helmet use for all motorcyclists, the burden of the unhelmeted rider is significant with respect to lives lost and healthcare charges incurred. Although the helmet law debate with respect to civil liberties is complex and unsettled, it appears clear that helmet use is strongly associated with both survival and less economic encumbrance on the state.Level of evidenceLevel III, prognostic and epidemiological.

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NLRP3 is a Novel Prognostic Biomarker and Correlates With Immune Infiltrates in Lung Adenocarcinoma and Skin Cutaneous Melanoma

10.21203/rs.3.rs-880002/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Chenxi Yuan ◽

Qingwei Wang ◽

Xueting Dai ◽

Yipeng Song ◽

Jinming Yu

Keyword(s):

Logistic Regression ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

Lung Adenocarcinoma ◽

Immune Cells ◽

Cutaneous Melanoma ◽

Cox Regression ◽

Cox Regression Analysis ◽

Potential Biomarker ◽

The Impact ◽

Nlrp3 Expression

Abstract Background: Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and skin cutaneous melanoma (SKCM) are common tumors around the world. However, the prognosis in advanced patients is poor. Because NLRP3 was not extensively studied in cancers, so that we aimed to identify the impact of NLRP3 on LUAD and SKCM through bioinformatics analyses. Methods: TCGA and TIMER database were utilized in this study. We compared the expression of NLRP3 in different cancers and evaluated its influence on survival of LUAD and SKCM patients. The correlations between clinical information and NLRP3 expression were analyzed using logistic regression. Clinicopathologic characteristics associated with overall survival in were analyzed by Cox regression. In addition, we explored the correlation between NLRP3 and immune infiltrates. GSEA and co-expressed gene with NLRP3 were also done in this study. Results: NLRP3 expressed disparately in tumor tissues and normal tissues. Cox regression analysis indicated that up-regulated NLRP3 was an independent prognostic factor for good prognosis in LUAD and SKCM. Logistic regression analysis showed increased NLRP3 expression was significantly correlated with favorable clinicopathologic parameters such as no lymph node invasion and no distant metastasis. Specifically, a positive correlation between increased NLRP3 expression and immune infiltrating level of various immune cells was observed. Conclusion: Together with all these findings, increased NLRP3 expression correlates with favorable prognosis and increased proportion of immune cells in LUAD and SKCM. These conclusions indicate that NLRP3 can serve as a potential biomarker for evaluating prognosis and immune infiltration level.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE TRANSITION TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Management of Development of Complex Systems ◽

10.32347/2412-9933.2021.45.21-26 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 21-26

Author(s):

Sergey Bushuyev ◽

Denis Bushuiev ◽

Victoria Bushuieva ◽

Olena Verenych

Keyword(s):

Project Management ◽

Best Practices ◽

Organizational Development ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Life Cycles ◽

Development Projects ◽

Waste Products ◽

The World ◽

The Impact

The problem of creating effective models, methods and tools for strategic management of projects and programs for the development of organizations in the transition to a circular economy. Global trends in the development of organizations prove that the world is transforming with acceleration. The life cycle of knowledge and technologies for managing complex projects and programs is significantly reduced. The technical and technological complexity of organizational development projects increases due to innovations. These trends create significant challenges in the development of project management systems and programs for the formation of a circular economy in Ukraine. This is especially true of projects and programs in conditions of uncertainty about the impact of COVID 19 and anticipation of a global crisis after a pandemic. Today, the application of proven best practices (benchmarking) is no longer a way forward. Forming a vision, goals and strategy for the implementation of organizational development projects in advance makes our actions rigid, not flexible. When creating a project or program begins with focusing on what is valuable to our customers and the country, it is enough for us to use best practices. But the complexity and innovative orientation of development projects of organizations in the transition to a circular economy creates a number of challenges. One of the answers to these challenges is cost-effective work on project management and development programs, taking into account the trends of transition to a circular economy. Project management teams learn to distinguish between what is valuable and what doesn't matter, this is the path that management methodologies have taken for decades. A number of projects have taken the first steps in implementing the necessary cost-effective / flexible transition that supports sustainability and adaptability to turbulent environmental changes. In the conditions of modern destructive economic relations in the world community the problem of a choice of strategy of projects as drivers of development of the organizations is vital. One of the key approaches to the development of the EU is the transition to a circular economy with maximum utilization of both waste products and projects, and the disposal of project products after the end of product life cycles.

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The Impact of Extraversion and Sensation Seeking on Tourist Role

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2015.43.1.75 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 75-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Cheng-Yu Li ◽

Shiao-Yuan Lu ◽

Bi-Kun Tsai ◽

Keh-Yuan Yu

Keyword(s):

Logistic Regression ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

Logistic Regression Analysis ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Large Scale ◽

Personality Variables ◽

Tourism Marketing ◽

Large Scale Survey ◽

And Behaviors ◽

The Impact

In recent years, personality variables, such as extraversion and sensation seeking, have been used to investigate tourist preferences and behaviors. For this study, we classified tourist roles into three types: the familiarized mass tourist, the organized mass tourist, and the independent tourist. We investigated the impact of extraversion and sensation seeking on tourist roles in a large-scale survey of Taiwanese citizens (N = 1,249) aged 20 years and older. Using logistic regression analysis, the results indicated that sensation seeking was a significant predictor of tourist role, but extraversion was not. Compared to familiarized mass tourists, people who are sensation-seeking are more likely to become independent tourists rather than organized mass tourists. We provide suggestions for tourism marketing.

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Abstract TP21: Is Presence of Diabetes Mellitus a Key Prognostic Factor among Patients Receiving Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke?

Stroke ◽

10.1161/str.48.suppl_1.tp21 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 48 (suppl_1) ◽

Author(s):

Seong-Joon Lee ◽

Yang-Ha Hwang ◽

Ji Man Hong ◽

Jin Wook Choi ◽

Dong-Hun Kang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Diabetes Mellitus ◽

Logistic Regression ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

Ischemic Stroke ◽

Acute Ischemic Stroke ◽

Logistic Regression Analysis ◽

Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis ◽

Univariate Analysis ◽

Intravenous Thrombolysis ◽

The Impact

Introduction: Given the recent positive endovascular therapy trials for acute ischemic stroke (AIS), this therapeutic strategy is now being increasingly incorporated into routine clinical practice. Identifying prognostic factors among AIS patients receiving endovascular revascularization treatments (ERT) in the real world could be important for clinicians and patients. While the impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) on IV thrombolytic outcomes after AIS has been extensively investigated, there is a paucity of data assessing effects of DM on ERT outcomes after AIS. We evaluated the impact of comorbid DM on ERT for AIS. Methods: From Jan 2011 to Feb 2016, patients with AIS who underwent ERT for cervicocephalic occlusions were consecutively enrolled into the Acute Stroke due to Intracranial Atherosclerotic occlusion and Neurointervention - Korean Retrospective (ASIAN KR) registry from 3 hospitals. Patients were excluded if onset to puncture time over 8 hours, in-hospital stroke, or unavailable 3-month mRS. DM was diagnosed if a patient had the history, or hemoglobin A1c on admission was over 6.5. Univariate analysis was performed to compare the characteristics between DM and non-DM population. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to validate the effect of comorbid DM on 3 month outcomes. Results: Of 721 patients, 667 (93%) were finally included, with 233 DM patients and 434 non-DM patients. In the univariate analysis, comorbidity with hypertension (71.2% vs. 58.3%, p=0.001) and dyslipidemia (36.7% vs. 26.7%, p=0.012) were more frequent in the DM population. Periprocedural factors such as target vessels, intravenous thrombolysis, and final reperfusion grades did not differ. Good outcomes with mRS 0-2 were less frequent in the DM population (43.3% vs. 53.7%, p=0.011). In the logistic regression analysis adjusting age, male sex, initial NIHSS, premorbid mRS, hypertension history, atrial fibrillation, intravenous thrombolysis, onset to puncture time and successful reperfusion, DM was an independent predictor of poor outcomes (mRS 3-6; 1.933, 1.274-2.933, p=0.002). Conclusion: In patients receiving ERT for AIS due to cervicocephalic artery occlusions, the presence of DM as a comorbidity confers greater odds of a poor functional outcome.

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