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Sustaining evidence-based practices after initial training and support has ended is necessary to ensure lasting improvements in youth mental health services. This study examined factors impacting community clinicians' decisions to sustain a transdiagnostic youth intervention following participation in a study. The aim of the study was to identify potentially mutable factors impacting sustainability to inform future implementation efforts. Thirteen clinicians (85% women, 92% Caucasian, M age = 35.6) completed interviews after participating in an open trial of an evidence-based intervention for depression, anxiety, and conduct disorders. Interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis methods. All (100%) clinicians reported current use of the intervention. Four themes emerged related to sustainability. Clinicians (100%) reported that making modifications, alignment with prior training, and relative advantage influenced their current intervention use. Clinicians (100%) reported that knowledge transfer from treatment developers was vital to sustainability. They (92%) noted a number of logistical, inner-organizational, and client-level barriers to sustainability. Lastly, clinicians (92%) identified factors related to scaling up the intervention. A variety of personal, organizational, logistical, and client variables influence the sustainment of new interventions, and could be leveraged in future implementation efforts.This paper jointly estimates the relationship between stock share and expectations and risk preferences. The survey allows individual-level, quantitative estimates of risk tolerance and of the perceived mean and variance of stock returns. read more These estimates have economically and statistically significant association for the distribution of stock shares with relative magnitudes in proportion with the predictions of theories. Incorporating survey measurement error in the estimation model increases the estimated associations twofold, but they are still substantially attenuated being only about 5 percent of what benchmark finance theories predict. Because of the careful attention in the estimation to measurement error, the attenuation likely arises from economic behavior rather than errors in variables.The purpose of this project was to assess the feasibility of an in-person session + mobile messaging intervention approach to reduce heavy drinking and condomless anal intercourse among heavy drinking men who have sex with men at high risk for HIV. Participant (n = 8) engagement rates, retention and satisfaction ratings were used to measure feasibility and acceptability of the 4-week intervention. Paired t-tests were used to assess additional secondary outcomes. Results support the feasibility and acceptability of this novel treatment approach among this population. Pre-post intervention effect sizes on alcohol, sex risk and process variable secondary outcomes are discussed.This study develops a comprehensive public safety efficiency index that includes the inputs and outputs of regional public safety. The DEA-BC2 model was used to measure the technical efficiency (TE), pure technical efficiency (PTE), and scale efficiency (SE) of public safety at 31 province-level administrative divisions (regions) in China from 2014 to 2018, and to analyze the effectiveness of public safety in each year. The findings indicate that the average TE, PTE, and SE of all regions from 2014 and 2018 were mostly redundant and ineffective. The average Malmquist index continued to decline, with the lack of technological progress identified as the main hindering factor. The public safety efficiency of 31 regions was affected by the technical progress change, pure technical efficiency change, and scale efficiency change at different periods. The findings suggest that all regions should improve the public safety inputs, better allocate various input elements and utilize public safety resources more effectively.The way electorates were influenced to vote for the Brexit referendum, and in presidential elections both in Brazil and the USA, has accelerated a debate about whether and how machine learning techniques can influence citizens' decisions. The access to balanced information is endangered if digital political manipulation can influence voters. The techniques of profiling and targeting on social media platforms can be used for advertising as well as for propaganda Through tracking of a person's online behaviour, algorithms of social media platforms can create profiles of users. These can be used for the provision of recommendations or pieces of information to specific target groups. As a result, propaganda and disinformation can influence the opinions and (election) decisions of voters much more powerfully than previously. In order to counter disinformation and societal polarization, the paper proposes a responsibility-based approach for social media platforms in diverse political contexts. Based on the implementation requirements of the "Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence" of the European Commission, the ethical principles will be operationalized, as far as they are directly relevant for the safeguarding of democratic societies. The resulting suggestions show how the social media platform providers can minimize risks for societies through responsible action in the fields of human rights, education and transparency of algorithmic decisions.Self-stratifying microbial fuel cells with three different electrodes sizes and volumes were operated in supercapacitive mode. As the electrodes size increased, the equivalent series resistance decreased, and the overall power was enhanced (small ESR = 7.2 Ω and P max = 13 mW; large ESR = 4.2 Ω and P max = 22 mW). Power density referred to cathode geometric surface area and displacement volume of the electrolyte in the reactors. With regards to the electrode wet surface area, the large size electrodes (L-MFC) displayed the lowest power density (460 μW cm-2) whilst the small and medium size electrodes (S-MFC, M-MFC) showed higher densities (668 μW cm-2 and 633 μW cm-2, respectively). With regard to the volumetric power densities the S-MFC, the M-MFC and the L-MFC had similar values (264 μW mL-1, 265 μW mL-1 and 249 μW cm-1, respectively). Power density normalised in terms of carbon weight utilised for fabricating MFC cathodes-electrodes showed high output for smaller electrode size MFC (5811 μW g-1-C- and 3270 μW g-1-C- for the S-MFC and L-MFC, respectively) due to the fact that electrodes were optimised for MFC operations and not supercapacitive discharges.