Effect of Obesity on Arch Index in Young Adults

Background: Excessive increases in weight bearing forces caused by obesity may negatively affect the lower limbs and feet but minimal research has examined the long-term loading effects of obesity on the musculoskeletal system, particularly in reference to the feet. Objectives: The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of obesity on medial longitudinal arch of foot in young adults. Method: 60 subjects, 30 obese & 30 non obese were assessed for height & weight using standard technique. Radiographic images under static condition were used for calculating the arch index. Result: The arch index of obese subjects was significantly lower than the non obese subjects & there is a negative correlation between the BMI & the arch index. Conclusion: These results suggests that obesity lowers the medial longitudinal arch of foot

Inferring Networks of Substitutable and Complementary Products

In a modern recommender system, it is important to understand how products relate to each other. For example, while a user is looking for mobile phones, it might make sense to recommend other phones, but once they buy a phone, we might instead want to recommend batteries, cases, or chargers. These two types of recommendations are referred to as substitutes and complements: substitutes are products that can be purchased instead of each other, while complements are products that can be purchased in addition to each other. Here we develop a method to infer networks of substitutable and complementary products. We formulate this as a supervised link prediction task, where we learn the semantics of substitutes and complements from data associated with products. The primary source of data we use is the text of product reviews, though our method also makes use of features such as ratings, specifications, prices, and brands. Methodologically, we build topic models that are trained to automatically discover topics from text that are successful at predicting and explaining such relationships. Experimentally, we evaluate our system on the Amazon product catalog, a large dataset consisting of 9 million products, 237 million links, and 144 million reviews.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure

Moral Courage: The Essence of Ethical Leadership and Followership

Most discussions on ethical leadership emphasize the importance of personal integrity, visible role modeling, and actual enforcement of ethical behaviors in the workplace. Nonetheless, organizational leaders and followers alike regularly encounter issues and pressure that require not only ethical leadership but also moral courage. Accordingly, this study used a mixed method to examine typical ethical situations encountered by organizational members in the workplace, the extent to which employees can exercise courage, and the factors that impede their moral actions. The results show that the majority of organizational members are unable to translate their moral beliefs and judgment into real moral action in the workplace. Organizations must, therefore, seek ways and means of creating and supporting moral courage

The African Seventh-day Adventist Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Towards Mental Health

The study indicated that only 3.1% of the church members all of the time felt depressed while 38.7% felt depressed none of the time. There is also a positive correlation between mental health and church members\u27 knowledge, practice, and attitude toward optimism

Workplace Conditions and its Influence on the Employees: The Case of East-Central Africa Division of the SDA Church.

Health is fundamental to human wellbeing and work is an integral part of one’s life.  Wrongful manipulation of the work environment introduces hazards that make the environment unsafe and can threating health and wellbeing. The workplace must be conducive for the worker to performs his or her work to ensure safety, optimum health and productivity. It has been established that people are both affected by their work environment and experiences as a result of wrong working policy regulating the work environment. The study combined both qualitative and quantitative methods to critically analyze the conditions prevailing at the workplace of the East-Central Africa Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its impact on the health and wellbeing of the employees. About 74% of the respondent indicated that they work in a flexible working environment, which encourages and enhances health. The organization has working policy favorable to employee health and wellbeing. The study found that 75% of the employees are very happy at their current workplace environment and would like to continue working there, while 5.7% said they are not happy and would not like to continue working in their current workplace and 19.3% remained undecided. The study will help create the needed necessary awareness in the organization that could enhance employees’ health and wellbeing at the workplace.   Key Words: Workplace, Conditions, Health, Wellbeing