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Knowledge and Awareness Toward Cervical Cancer Screening and Prevention Among the Professional College Female Students

Background: Worldwide, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer affecting women. The five most frequent cancers affecting women in India are breast, cervical, oral cavity, lung, and colorectal cancer. More women die from cervical cancer in India than in any other country. Cancers of major public health relevance such as breast, oral, cervical, gastric, lung, and colorectal cancer can be cured if detected early and treated adequately. The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes toward cervical cancer screening and prevention. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 100 professional college female students to obtain information about their knowledge and attitudes on cervical cancer screening and prevention. Results: In this study, we intended to assess the knowledge and attitudes toward cervical cancer screening and prevention among 100 professional college female students with a mean age of 18 years. All the respondents were single. Majority of the respondents were not aware about the cervical cancer, PAP smear testing, and human papillomavirus vaccine. Conclusion: These results indicate that most of the students participated in our study were not aware about the cervical cancer screening and prevention. Deaths resulting from cervical cancer are tragic as this type of cancer develops slowly, which is treatable and can be prevented through screening. Therefore, it is important that negative attitudes and gaps in knowledge should be addressed early before the women reach suitable ages for screening and vaccination.
Evaluation of Novel Remote Sensing Techniques for Soil Moisture Monitoring in the Western Canadian Arctic

Evaluation of Novel Remote Sensing Techniques for Soil Moisture Monitoring in the Western Canadian Arctic Elizabeth Wrona Advisor: University of Guelph, 2016 Dr. Aaron Berg Committee Member: Dr. Philip Marsh Regional soil moisture monitoring from satellite platforms can inform our understanding of climate change in the Canadian Arctic. These sensors require ground-based validation to ensure product accuracy, which can be achieved by upscaling cosmic-ray probe derived soil moisture measurements from an intermediate footprint. Calibration of the cosmic-ray probe installed at Trail Valley Creek, NWT was performed and resulted in an accuracy of 0.019 m m RMSE. In addition, a preliminary validation of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) soil moisture product was performed. Results indicate a SMAP dry bias at this study site (>0.09 m m RMSE). A forward model was employed to determine if SMAP’s bias is a projection or algorithm issue, and results indicate a statistically significant correlation between SMAP brightness temperature and in situ network brightness temperature (r = 0.44). This demonstrates the potential accuracy improvement made by projecting SMAP soil moisture data on a polar grid in northern latitudes.
Novel simulations to determine the impact of superficial perineal structures on vaginal delivery

This study's aim was to determine whether the inclusion of superficial perineal structures in a finite-element simulation of vaginal delivery impacts the pubovisceral muscle and perineal body, two common sites of birth-related injury. The hypothesis, inferred from prevailing literature, was that these structures would have minimal influence (differences less than ±10%). Two models were made using the Visible Human Project's female cadaver to create a rigid, fixed pelvis, musculature held by spring attachments to that pelvis, and a rigid, ellipsoidal fetal head prescribed with an inferior displacement to simulate delivery. Injury site stretch ratios and fetal head and perineal body displacements and angles of progression were compared between the Omitted Model (which excluded the superficial perineal structures as is common practice) and the Included Model (which included them). Included Model stretch ratios were +107%, −9.84% and −14.6% compared to Omitted Model perineal body and right and left pubovisceral muscles, respectively. Included Model peak perineal body inferior displacement was +72.5% greater while similar anterior–posterior displacements took longer to reach. These results refute our hypothesis, suggesting superficial perineal structures impact simulations of vaginal delivery by inhibiting perineal body anterior–posterior displacement, which stretches and inferiorly displaces the perineal body.
Income Convergence and R&D Intensity in OECD Manufacturing Industries: A Panel Study

This paper evaluates the impact of R&D investment on income convergence for a cross section of manufacturing industries in 12 OECD countries over the time period 1987-1999. We apply dynamic panel estimation techniques to obtain a speed of convergence which, when conditioned to R&D expenditure, is significantly greater than the conventional 2%. In particular, the inclusion of the R&D variable results to a speed of convergence of 7-9% per year, suggesting that convergence is faster between equally technologically advanced industries. A further implication from our results is that differences in the industry mix can be important in explaining the speed of income convergence between countries.
Impact of aerosol on post-frontal convective clouds over Germany

We carried out simulations with predefined and simulated aerosol distributions in order to investigate the improvement in the forecasting capabilities of an operational weather forecast model by the use of an improved aerosol representation. This study focuses on convective cumulus clouds developing after the passage of a cold front on 25 April 2008 over Germany. The northerly flow after the cold front leads to increased sea salt aerosol concentrations compared to prefrontal conditions. High aerosol number concentrations are simulated in the interactive scenario representing typically polluted conditions. Nevertheless, due to the presence of sea salt particles, effective radii of cloud droplets reach values typical of pristine clouds (between 7 µm and 13 µm) at the same time. Compared to the predefined continental and maritime aerosol scenarios, the simulated aerosol distribution leads to a significant change in cloud properties such as cloud droplet radii and number concentrations. Averaged over the domain covered by the convective cumuli clouds, we found a systematic decrease in precipitation with increasing aerosol number concentrations. Differences in cloud cover, short wave radiation and cloud top heights are buffered by systematic differences in precipitation and the related diabatic effects. Comparisons with measured precipitation show good agreement for the interactive aerosol scenario as well as for the extreme maritime aerosol scenario.
Size distribution of EC and OC in the aerosol of Alpine valleys during summer and winter

Abstract. Collections of samples were conducted for the determination of the size distributions of EC and OC during the intensive sampling campaigns of the POVA program, in two Alpine valleys of the French Alps, in summer and in winter. The comparison of concentrations obtained for samples collected in parallel with impactor- and filter-based methods is rather positive with slopes of 0.95 and 0.76 for OC and EC, respectively and correlations close to 1 (0.92 and 0.90 for OC and EC, respectively, n=26). This is an indication that the correction of pyrolysis seems to work for the impactor samples despite non even deposits. The size distributions of the concentrations of EC and OC present large evolutions between winter and summer, and between a suburban and a rural site. In winter, an overwhelming proportion of the mass fraction of both species is found in the droplet and accumulation modes, often (but not always) in association with sulfate and other chemical species resulting from secondary formation processes. Some indications of gas/particles exchanges can be found for the other parts of the size spectrum (the Aitken and super micron modes) in the case of the rural site. In summer, the changes are more drastic with, according to the case, a dominant droplet or accumulation mode. Particularly at the rural site, the large extent of processing of the aerosol due to gas/particles exchanges is evident for the Aitken and super micron modes, with increasing of the OC mass fractions in these size ranges. All of these observations give indications on the degree of internal vs. external mixing of the species investigated in the different modes.
Evaluation of the Effect of Extraction and Restorative Procedures on Blood Pressure and Pulse Rate Due to Anxiety in 6- to 12-Year-Old Children: An In Vivo Study

Background: The objective of this study was to determine the changes in the cardiovascular parameters, blood pressure, and pulse rate due to anxiety in children undergoing dental extraction and restorative treatment. Materials and Methods: A total of 150 children were included in the study based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. The parameters were measured at four and three intervals for the extraction and restorative group, respectively. The obtained data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance test. Results: In the extraction group, the change in blood pressure in female children (144mm Hg) was significant compare to male children (141mm Hg). In the restoration group, the change in blood pressure in male children (140/84mm Hg) was found to be statistically more significant when compared to female children (139/85mm Hg). The pulse rate change in both sexes was equally significant in restorative and extraction group. Conclusion: It can be inferred that pain and fear anxiety play important roles in the cardiovascular changes during dental treatment because there was significant change in blood pressure and pulse rate over time during dental treatment.
Dependence of Knowledge Management on Organizational Characteristics

Organizational structure and organizational culture are factors forming organizational characteristics, which are determinants of knowledge management. Prior research has explored the influence of organizational structure and organizational culture on the management of knowledge; however none of them have evaluated the relative importance of organizational culture and structure to the management of knowledge. The current project attempts to re-investigate the relations of the knowledge management with organizational structure and culture by using the multiple linear regressions. Especially, it applies the analytic hierarchy procedure to rank the comparative significance between organizational structure and organizational culture to the knowledge management. The data for analyses was obtained from 101 publicly listed firms in Vietnamese Stock Exchanges. The findings provide statistically significant evidence on the influences of organizational culture and structure on the knowledge management and the influential levels are different. This research makes some contributions. For theoretical aspect, the findings offer new evidence on the relative importance between organizational structure and organizational culture to the knowledge management that is organizational culture more important than organizational structure in boosting the implementation of knowledge management in business. On practical aspect, the empirical findings will help executives come to better decisions in the management of knowledge conditional on kinds of organizational characteristics.
INFLUENCE OF SOME AGRO-TECHNICAL TREATMENTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND YIELDS OF AMARANTH

BIELSKI, St. and B. SZWEJKOWSKA, 2015. Influence of some agro-technical treatments on the development and yields of amaranth. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 21: 909–915 This study was based on a field experiment conducted in 2010-2012 at the Experimental Station in Tomaszkowo near Olsz tyn. The experiment was set up on light soil of very good rye complex, in a split-plot sub-block design with four replications. During the experiment, amaranth seeds were sown at a rate of 1.5 kg ha -1 , in rows spaced at 50 cm, in the last decade of May. The objective was to determine the effect of different doses of mineral fertilization (N + P + K) and fungicide treatments on the yield of seeds, protein and fat per field area unit and on some biometric traits: plants’ height, length of inflorescences, 1000seed weight, obtained from the amaranth cultivar Aztek. It was determined that mineral fertilization had a significant influ ence on all analyzed characteristics. The highest parameters of the tested traits were achieved from the plots with the highest mineral fertilization. The level of fungal control had a significant effect only on the protein yield.
Certified clone and powdery mildew impact rotundone in red wine from Vitis vinifera L. cv. Duras N

Aim : Few recent studies have been investigating the effect of clone on aroma compounds. The aim of this research work was to study the impact of certified clones from Vitis vinifera L. cv. Duras N on grape quality and rotundone, a sesquiterpene responsible for peppery aroma which has been reported recently in red wines made from this cultivar. Methods and results : The experimental site consisted of four consecutive rows, each row planted with one of the four certified clones of Duras N (554, 555, 627 and 654). For each clone, measurements were replicated on three experimental units per row. Each experimental unit consisted of twelve continuous vines. Rotundone concentration was measured in wines prepared by microvinification techniques (1-L Erlenmeyer flasks). For both vintages of study, rotundone concentrations were significantly higher in wines from clones 554 and 654 in comparison with clone 555, while clone 627 showed an intermediate level. In 2014, differences in powdery mildew (PM) severity on clusters were identified between the four clones and a positive logarithmic correlation (r 2 = 0.58) was reported on the experimental site between rotundone in wines and PM severity on grapes. Conclusion : Our results found differences in rotundone concentrations in wines made from the four Duras N certified clones. The results also suggested that grapevine defence response to PM could enhance rotundone production in berries. Clonal differences in susceptibility to biotic stress, such as PM, might explain the differences observed in rotundone concentrations between the four studied clones. Significance and impact of the study : Our results may assist grape growers to produce high quality wines with a desired aroma attribute made from Duras N. One should consider planting clone 554 in order to promote high levels of rotundone in wines made from this cultivar.
In situ observation of phytoplankton productivity by an underwater profiling buoy system: use of fast repetition rate fluorometry

To gain a better understanding of variability in phytoplankton productivity in the oceans, we developed an underwater profiling buoy system that uses a fast repetition rate (FRR) fluorometer. We used the profiling buoy system to observe phytoplankton productivity in Sagami Bay, Japan, from 15 April to 10 May 2005. During the observation period, chlorophyll a (chl a) con- centration increased gradually, peaking at > 5 mg chl a m -3 at a depth of 10 m, indicating the occur- rence of phytoplankton blooms. Gross oxygen production (PO2), as determined by FRR fluorometry, increased with the development of phytoplankton blooms and peaked at 49.4 mmol O2 m -2 h -1 on 2 May 2005, when both the chl a concentration and surface irradiance were high. To validate FRR- based PO2, the light-utilization efficiency of a water column (ψO2) was calculated and compared with previous values determined for this location by the oxygen evolution method. The ψO2 derived from FRR fluorometry showed good agreement with those by the oxygen evolution method, suggesting that FRR fluorometry was able to roughly estimate in situ daily PO2. Our profiling buoy system has potential benefits for the measurement of oceanic phytoplankton productivity at a high resolution.
Evaluation of empirical models coupled with EUTROMOD for water quality prediction in Kansas reservoirs

Abstract Agricultural land use contributes high nutrient and sediment loads to nearby streams, lakes, and reservoirs, which can lead to excessive algal growth and increased siltation. Future intensification of agricultural production could further aggravate water quality concerns. To objectively evaluate the effects of agricultural intensification on future water quality, modeling tools must be able to quantitatively predict the degree to which land use change will affect the trophic state of water bodies. This study evaluated the water quality model EUTROMOD as well as several national and regional in-lake empirical water quality models as predictive tools for analyzing and estimating water quality in 28 Kansas reservoirs of varying size and watershed land use. Model-predicted nutrient loading was used with several in-lake empirical models to predict values for total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), and chlorophyll a concentrations. Predicted values were then compared to long-term water quality measurements obtained from the Kansas lake and reservoir monitoring program. All models over-predicted concentrations of TN and TP in Kansas reservoirs; however, predictions from the Bachmann TN and Canfield-Bachmann TP in-lake empirical models were most closely coupled to observed trends and had the least error. Two possible sources of model bias were identified: the sedimentation coefficient in the in-lake empirical models and the nutrient loading estimates from the watershed model. Areas of further research are suggested for determining the dominant source of model bias and improving quantitative predictions of water quality in the Midwest, USA.
Meat and Muscle BiologyTM Introduction

Proximate composition, Warner-Bratzler shear force (WBSF), consumer sensory traits, fatty acid composition, and volatile flavor compounds were assessed on steaks from USDA Select strip loins (n = 40; 8/treatment) representing grass-fed beef sourced from New Zealand (NZ) with marbling consistent with USDA Select along with strip loins from four feeding treatments designed to evaluate the effects of early exposure to grain-based diets for 0 d (0D), 40 d (40D), 80 d (80D), or 120 d (120D) prior to pasture-finishing on meat quality and composition. Percent fat, moisture, and protein and WBSF did not differ (P > 0.05), but percent ash was decreased in 120D samples compared to those from NZ, 0D, and 40D (P < 0.05). Consumer scores for all traits differed among samples from the treatments (P < 0.05), with steaks from NZ receiving greater scores for flavor liking than those from 0D, 40D, and 80D (P < 0.05). Consumers also rated NZ and 120D samples greatest for overall liking (P < 0.05). Saturated fatty acids were decreased, and monounsaturated fatty acids were increased in NZ samples compared to samples from all other treatments (P < 0.05), and conjugated linoleic acid was least in samples from NZ (P < 0.05). The ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids was greater in 80D and 120D samples than those from all other treatments (P < 0.05). Non-enzymatic browning-derived ketones and 2-pentylfuran were increased in samples from NZ compared to those from all other treatments (P < 0.05), and differences among treatments in lipid-derived compounds were primarily of alcohols and aldehydes. Early exposure to grain-based diets for 120 d prior to pasture-finishing produces beef that is comparable to grass-fed beef from New Zealand in palatability but differs in chemical composition.
New records of Metretopus alter Bengtsson, 1930 and Metretopus borealis (Eaton, 1871) (Ephemeroptera) in northern Norway, including confirmation of M. alter at the type locality after 90 years

The type localities for the Holarctic mayflies Metretopus borealis (Eaton, 1871) and Metretopus alter Bengtsson, 1930 are in northern Norway, between Kautokeino and Karesuando in Finnmark County for M. borealis and along the small stream, Ravatnbekken, in Malselv, Troms County for M. alter. By combining new sampling, records in reports and theses and identification of museum material, new information on the distribution and ecology of both species is given. Larvae of M. alter were found in the type locality in 2012, 90 years after the initial collection, and in two other small streams in Balsfjord in 2012 and 2014. Ravatnbekken is a narrow, slow-flowing woodland stream with variable substrates and some macrovegetation. M. borealis was recorded in seven river systems throughout Troms and Finnmark, predominantly in the upper reaches. It was not collected in systems along the coast, indicating a continental distribution. While M. alter prefers smaller streams and avoids lakes, hard bottom substrates in moderately sized streams and lake littorals were typical M. borealis habitats. The streams had high diversities of mayflies and stoneflies and low abundance of M. borealis, while the lake littorals had low diversity and high abundance of M. borealis. This suggests less ecological interactions on lake shores allow high densities of M. borealis, although nutrient supply may also be important. The study confirmed two new localities for M.alter and many new localities for M. borealis in Norway.
Evaluating RV campground attributes using IPA analysis

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Tourism Insights by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact scholarworks@gvsu.edu. Recommended Citation Severt, Kimberly and Fjelstul, Jill (2015) "Evaluating RV Campground Attributes Using IPA Analysis," Journal of Tourism Insights: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 4. Available at: https://doi.org/10.9707/2328-0824.1052
Attitudes and knowledge towards reproductive health and sexual maturation among secondary school students in Vojvodina

Adolescence is a period in which young people are exposed to various physiological disorders, diseases and social consequences of risky behavior. Sudden changes in society leading to increased poverty, changes of values and increased crime rate can all cause risky behavior among young people. The aim of the study was to establish the attitudes and knowledge of secondary school students in Vojvodina related to the human body, physiological processes, sexual maturation and reproductive health. The study also focused on students’ attitudes towards sexual intercourse and to what extent the topics related to reproductive health are present in the school curriculum. In this investigation we used data obtained in a recent research on second, third and fourth-year secondary students in some municipalities of Vojvodina in 2012 and 2013. The students were examined in the municipalities of Ruma, Senta, Čoka, Kanjiža and Subotica. We applied the method of survey. The questions were both open and closed, and divided into four groups: knowledge on the human body and sexual organs, information on sexual maturation and reproductive health, attitudes towards sexual intercourse and students’ views on the content of reproductive health issues in the curriculum. The adolescents do not know enough about the human body and the basic physiological processes and show insufficient awareness of the importance of using contraception to preserve their reproductive health. Most of the students express a positive opinion of introducing a special subject into the curriculum that would deal with issues related to reproductive health. The obtained data are consistent with other previous studies in Serbia, suggesting that nothing has changed in this segment of our medical culture. The results suggest that young people need sexual education that corresponds to their age and needs, in order to be able to increase their knowledge and improve skills that can help them maintain their health.