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Agro-Tourism Service Enhancement in N akhon Pathom Province, Thailand: on Capability Increasing of the Hospitality of Agriculturists

This research aims to study the knowledge used for Hospitality of Agriculturists for Agro-tourism (HAAT) and Tourism Service Enhancement (TSE), to create a hospitality model for agriculturists in Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand, and to study the effect of using the model on TSE. A mixed method was the research methodology. The data was collected from 800 samples selected from the population of 920,030 people in Nakhon Pathom province to ensure the data reliability and accuracy in the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results found that 1) The Hospitality of Agriculturists for Agro Tourism (HAAT) has a positive direct effect on Tourism Service Enhancement (TSE), with the highest TSE in Word of Mouth/Repeat Travel (WM/RT) , 2) Hospitality with Service Mind (HSM) has a positive direct and indirect effects on HAAT, and has a positive direct effect on TSE and Physical Hospitality (PH), and 3) HP has a positive indirect effect on HAAT, but has a positive direct effect on TSE and HSM. The agriculturists can use these findings for tourist hospitality with the same standard to improve the services so as to support in Impression Increase (II), Word of Mouth, and Revenue Increase (RI). It will help agriculturists to have a better life aside from relying only on income from the sale of agricultural products.
COVID-19 Spread Patterns Is Unrelated to Malaria Co-Infections in Lagos, Nigeria

Malaria and COVID-19, though caused by different organisms, share a significant number of symptoms like fever, headaches, difficulty in breathing and fatigue. Therefore, determining if a patient is positive for COVID-19 or Malaria based on symptoms alone, might be misleading, especially during pandemic response. It has been reported that an individual begins to manifest Malaria symptoms between 10 - 15 days after infection with malaria parasite, although some individuals may be asymptomatic. Some COVID-19 infected patients, like Malaria, are also asymptomatic but could contribute to transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus. These similarities in symptoms have led to misconception about COVID-19 being real and misdiagnoses of both infections, especially in Nigeria. However, there are possibilities that Malaria and COVID-19 could co-exist in some individuals thereby leading to mismanagement and treatment of only one infection while neglecting the possibility of the patient being infected with both diseases. We aim to determine possible correlation between Malaria and COVID-19 in a Malaria endemic country like Nigeria. This study was carried out using the qPCR molecular testing approach, a gold standard for COVID-19 testing and rapid diagnostic test kits to detect Malaria parasites in 617 individuals residing in urban settings. We demonstrated that COVID-19 and Malaria infection amongst adults in urban settings are unrelated thereby focusing on symptoms alone may result in misdiagnosis. Our findings show that Malaria is not among the underlying medical conditions strongly associated with increased risk for severe COVID-19 illness amongst adults in urban settings.
Weight reduction ameliorates inflammatory cytokines, adipocytokines and endothelial dysfunction biomarkers among Saudi patients with type 2 diabetes

Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) considered as one of the cardiovascular disorders (CVD) principle risk factor as diabetes is associated with abnormal levels of endothelial function, inflammatory and adipocytokines. Objective The aim of this study was to measure the impact of weight reducing on inflammatory cytokines, adipocytokines and endothelial function biomarkers among obese T2DM patients. Methods One-hundred T2DM patients enrolled in the present study; the age range was 35–55 year. Participants shared in this study were enrolled in group (A) received diet control and aerobic exercise on treadmill, while, group (B) had no intervention for 3 months. Results The mean values of body mass index (BMI), tumor necrosis factor -alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), leptin, inter-cellular adhesion molecule (ICAM-1), vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM-1), E-selectin and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 activity (PAI-1 activity) were significantly decreased and adiponectin was increased significantly in the training group, however the results of the control group were not significant. Also, there were significant differences between both groups at the end of the study. Conclusion Weight reducing program modulates inflammatory cytokines, adipocytokines and endothelial function biomarkers among obese T2DM patients.
Acceptance of open source geospatial software: Assessing QGIS in South Africa with the UTAUT2 model

Geospatial information and technologies are widely used in South Africa, initially mostly with proprietary software but today, mature, open source alternatives such as QGIS are available. We wanted to find out if and why South African users accepted QGIS, globally the most widely used free and open source GIS. We adapted the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model to test several hypotheses regarding the acceptance and use of QGIS in South Africa. 205 registered members of the Geo‐Information Society of South Africa completed a structured questionnaire. Results show that habit has the most significant influence on behavioural intention to use QGIS, followed by facilitating conditions, price value and social influence. Performance expectancy, effort expectancy, hedonic motivation and access to source code played no significant role. The findings show that adoption of QGIS in South Africa is not primarily influenced by benefits attributed to open source software, such as cost benefits, customizability, improved reliability, quality and security. The results are useful for developers of any GIS product and for choosing a GIS product for an organization, because they provide insight into the behavioural intentions of users.
The impact of live broadcasting on stadium attendance reconsidered: some evidence from 3rd division football in Germany

ABSTRACT Research Question If a sports competition is broadcasted live, consumers may opt for substituting gate attendance with watching that game live on TV (or online). This might be worrisome for teams, particularly those in lower divisions, whose game day revenues typically exceed broadcasting revenues. So far, however, the literature testing this claim empirically is inconclusive. We examine whether (at least parts of) this confusion might be traced back to shortcomings in the econometric modelling process. Research Methods We use attendance data for 1,138 games in German third division football from the 2015/16 to 2017/18 seasons and compare results for our demand equations between ordinary least squares (OLS) and endogenous treatment regressions (ETR). ETRs explicitly account for any selection bias, that is, the broadcasters’ preference to select the most attractive games for live broadcasting (which are expected to also attract comparably larger gate attendances). Results and Findings While OLS models reveal a significant positive impact of live broadcasts on gate attendance, this effect reverses when estimating ETRs. Even though there is suggestive evidence for postponing ticket demand to some extent to later games, the overall negative effect remains robust and large. Implications Our findings highlight the relevance of controlling for the selection bias when analysing the impact of live broadcasting on stadium attendance. From a managerial point of view, our findings suggest that increasing the number of games broadcasted live in German third division football might not be advisable, since additional broadcasting revenues may not exceed predicted losses in ticket revenues.
Evaluation of the relationship between testosterone levels and burnout levels and job satisfaction in emergency department female employees: A prospective study.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of testosterone on the status of burnout and job satisfaction. METHODS The prospective study was conducted at the Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, from April 1 to May 1, 2019, and comprised all female employees working in the emergency department. Data was collected using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale. Blood samples 5 cc were taken to measure the testosterone hormone level. Data was analysed using SPSS 20. RESULTS There were 95 females with a mean age of 33.6±7.1 years (range: 18-53 years). The level of exhaustion was high in 64(67.3%) subjects, intermediate in 20(21%) and low in 11(11.5%). the difference among the groups in relation to testosterone levels was significant (p<0.05). Though the difference in testosterone levels in the groups in terms of job satisfaction was also noted, it was not statistically significant (p>0.05). CONCLUSIONS Hormone levels released from endocrine systems were found to be affected by psychosocial factors.
The Influence of Summer Pruning on Photosynthesis, Transpiration, Leaf Abscission, and Dry Weight Accumulation of Young Apple Trees1

Young, container-grown ‘Topred Delicious’/Malling (M) 9 apple trees (Malus domestica Borkh.) trained to a single shoot out-of-doors were summer pruned to remove 0, 25, 50 or 75% of 78 cm shoots. Net photosynthesis (Pn) and transpiration (Tr) were as much as 36% greater on older, basal leaves of trees with 50 and 75% shoot removal than on unpruned trees. These differences were present for 39 days after pruning. Basal leaves did not abscise in the 11-week period after pruning on trees with 75% shoot removal and remained longer on trees with 50% shoot removal than on unpruned trees. Leaf area removed by pruning was partially compensated by leaves on subsequent regrowth. All summer pruning treatments suppressed the area of individual leaves on regrowth by about 50% of the size of similar aged leaves on unpruned trees. Summer pruning suppressed the dry weight of basal stem sections and roots roughly in proportion to shoot removal amounts, while dry weight of shoot regrowth was less influenced. Eleven weeks after pruning, dry weight of roots on summer pruned trees with 25, 50 and 75% shoot removal was 20, 39 and 50% less, respectively, than root dry weight of unpruned trees.
Social media: A challenge to identity and relational desistance

Society has witnessed a rapid growth in the prevalence and use of social media. The influence and impact of this expansion has sparsely, if at all, been considered within the context of desistance from crime. This article draws upon the narratives of male and female service users subject to community supervision by a Community Rehabilitation Company, collected as part of a doctoral thesis. Evidence demonstrates how social media plays a largely negative role, with some gendered difference on a service user’s identity and relational desistance, alongside individual agency and wider social structures. This enables the article to develop the evidence base of interactionist perspectives of desistance, while also recognising gender.
Influence of egg parasitic fungus, Engyodontium aranearum against root knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita

The indigenous egg parasitic fungal isolates, Engyodontium aranearum was evaluated for its nematicidal potential against root knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita. The study revealed 53.75 per cent egg parasitization by the fungal isolate. Fungal colonies grew over the eggs and fungal hyphae penetrated the egg shells resulting in rupturing of egg shell layers, enzymatic digestion and empty eggs. The fungal culture filtrate was found to inhibit egg hatching by 83.42 per cent and caused upto 91.36 per cent juvenile mortality. This isolate also reduced the attraction of infective juveniles towards tomato root by 79.29 per cent. It seems to be a first report on the antinemic property of the fungus E. aranearum against root knot nematode, M. incognita and its effect was found comparable with Paecilomyces lilacinus which is known as an efficient nematode egg parasitic fungus.
Platelet Indices as Predictive Markers of Prognosis in Critically Ill Patients: A Prospective Study

Abstract Introduction Platelets (PLTs) are dynamic blood molecules which perform multiple physiological functions. Platelet derangements are commonly encountered in intensive care units (ICUs). The relationship of PLT indices with all-cause mortality, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation IV (APACHE IV), diabetes mellitus (DM), and length of stay in ICU is debatable and hence this study was undertaken to bridge this gap of knowledge. Materials and methods Prospective data were collected for 20 months in the ICU of our hospital. Platelet indices were analyzed among survivors and non-survivors. Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation IV scores were used to study the relationship between PLT indices and illness severity. Receiver operating characteristic curves were constructed to compare the performances of PLT indices in predicting mortality, while the effect of DM on PLT indices was evaluated using regression analysis. Results A total of 170 out of 345 patients (119 survivors, 51 non-survivors) met the study criteria. Patients with decreased PLT count and plateletcrit (PCT) (p < 0.001 and 0.001, respectively), increased mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW) (p = 0.014 and 0.004, respectively) had a significant correlation with increased risk of mortality than those with normal PLT indices. These patients also had a higher APACHE IV and acute physiology score (p < 0.001). No significant relationship was found between the PLT indices and the length of ICU stay. The influence of each PLT index adjusted to DM was significant in univariate regression analysis, whereas in multivariate only PDW had a significant influence. Conclusion Patients with low PLT, PCT and high MPV, PDW were associated with more severe illness, poor prognosis, and a higher risk of mortality. Platelet distribution width is the preferred PLT index in a diabetic patient to predict clinical status. Clinical significance Platelet indices which are routinely available can be effectively used as a morbidity and mortality indicator in critically ill patients. How to cite this article Samuel D, Bhat AN, Prabhu VM. Platelet Indices as Predictive Markers of Prognosis in Critically Ill Patients: A Prospective Study. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020;24(9):817–822.
Characterization of multiple xylanase forms from Aspergillus tamarii resistant to phenolic compounds

Aspergillus tamarii was cultivated in different textile wastes. Xylanases with high levels of enzymatic activity were produced after two days cultivation, with constant production for up to seven days. Two xylanases, namely Xyl-1 and Xyl-2, with molecular masses of 35.5 and 22 kDa, respectively, were isolated from the crude extract and purified by ultrafiltration and gel filtration chromatography. Xyl-1 and Xyl-2 were more active at pH 6.0, and 60° C and 40° C, respectively. The respective KM and Vmax values on soluble oat spelt xylan were 4.30 mg.mL -1 and 0.249 IU.mL (Xyl-1) and 18.92 mg.mL and 1.103 IU.mL. s (Xyl-2). Dynamic light scattering (DLS) was used to evaluate purification steps, effective in assessing the degree of purity of the samples, the presence of aggregations and the size of the enzymes. Tween-80 at 0.1% was an efficient dispersing agent for avoiding aggregation of proteins and did not influence enzyme activity. Purified and partially purified xylanases were activated with autohydrolysis liquor from corncob and with ferulic acid, a phenolic compound derived from lignocellulosic biomass. These findings of this study indicate that A. tamarii produces multiple forms of xylanases with considerable potential in different biotechnological applications.
Social Influence Undermines the Wisdom of the Crowd in Sequential Decision Making

Teams, juries, electorates, and committees must often select from various alternative courses of action what they judge to be the best option. The phenomenon that the central tendency of many independent estimates is often quite accurate—“the wisdom of the crowd”—suggests that group decisions based on plurality voting can be surprisingly wise. Recent experimental studies demonstrate that the wisdom of the crowd is further enhanced if individuals have the opportunity to revise their votes in response to the independent votes of others. We argue that this positive effect of social information turns negative if group members do not first contribute an independent vote but instead cast their votes sequentially such that early mistakes can cascade across strings of decision makers. Results from a laboratory experiment confirm that when subjects sequentially state which of two answers they deem correct, majorities are more often wrong when subjects can see how often the two answers have been chosen by previous subjects than when they cannot. As predicted by our theoretical model, this happens even though subjects’ use of social information improves the accuracy of their individual votes. A second experiment conducted over the internet involving larger groups indicates that although early mistakes on easy tasks are eventually corrected in long enough choice sequences, for difficult tasks wrong majorities perpetuate themselves, showing no tendency to self-correct. This paper was accepted by Yuval Rottenstreich, decision analysis.
The park never born: Outcome of a quarter of a century of inaction on the sea-floor integrity of a proposed but not established Marine Protected Area

Trans-disciplinary research within the Marine Environmental Sciences. Four major themes can be defined: 1) Marine and estuarine biodiversity; 2) ecosystem change with time; 3) human impact on the coastal zone; 4) seascape semiotics and diagnostics (characterization and evaluation). Specific topics deal for the great majority with marine benthos, and are marked by a main guideline that has been developing with time and that concerns the study of the complexity of ecological systems. The research of C.N. Bianchi has encompassed the “historical” period of the ecological sciences that saw the passage from the socalled equilibrium ecology, dominating in the 1970s, to the ecology of change, that has become the dominant paradigm in the last decades. C.N. Bianchi has been one of the major Italian interpreters of this approach, which pays greater attention to the understanding of ecosystem variability at different space and time scales, rather than to the definition of their central tendency.
Implementation of SDGs in University Teaching: A Course for Professional Development of Teachers in Education for Sustainability for a Transformative Action

The University Jaume I of Castellon (Spain) launched the “ImpSDGup” course in 2017. The aim of this training course on professional education for sustainable development (ESD) skills and competences for higher education teachers is to help academics in reorienting their subjects’ curricula in order to contribute to the sustainable development goals of the United Nations’ Agenda 2030. The “ImpSDGup” course is based on the Training Model in Transformative Action for Sustainability (TMTAS) model that is structured in three main areas: the content on sustainability, the theoretical approaches, and the ESD teaching and learning methodologies. In this paper, we describe the design and the contents of the training course and we investigate the changes that participants of the course implemented in the design of their subject programs. The methodology of the study was based on content analysis. The main results show that most of the 55 university teachers that undertook the course in its three editions succeeded in transforming course objectives and that they incorporated some of the SDGs and several ESD active learning methodologies in their teaching. As a consequence of this, we consider that the course helps in enhancing university teachers’ ESD professional competences.
Factors Influencing The Destination Image Of Kuching Waterfront: A Tourist Perspective

Tourism plays an increasingly important role in many developing countries’ financial and social advancement. There has been rapid development which translated to visitors for genuine and enjoyable holiday experiences in the last 10 years. In fact, there are a handful of studies that investigated tourism experiences, revisit intention, destination loyalty and destination personality. Nevertheless, limited research has been found to determine the factors influencing the destination image from a tourist’s perspective. Therefore, the current study attempts to explore whether carrying capacity, perceived value, accessibility, accommodation quality, cultural, and destination attractiveness & resources are key factors in influencing destination image. Using a quantitative research design, data were collected from 159 tourists who visited Kuching Waterfront, Malaysia. The research employs PLS-SEM, and the results indicated that four of the direct hypotheses were supported, which are carrying capacity, perceived value, cultural and destination attractiveness & resources. The implications and limitations of the current study were further discussed. 2357-1330 © 2020 Published by European Publisher.
Improving fault surface construction with inversion-based methods

Constructing fault surfaces is a key step for seismic structural interpretation and building structural models. We automatically construct fault surfaces from oriented fault samples scanned from a 3D seismic image. The main challenges of the fault surface construction include the following: Some fault samples are locally missing, the positions and orientations of the fault samples may be noisy, and surfaces may form complicated intersections with each other. We adopt the Poisson equation surface method (PESM) and the point-set surface method (PSSM) to automatically construct complete fault surfaces from fault samples and their corresponding orientations. Our methods can robustly fit the noisy fault samples and reasonably fill holes or missing samples, thus improving fault surface construction. By formulating fault surface construction as an inverse problem, we estimate a scalar function to approximate the fault samples in the least-squares sense. In PESM, we estimate the scalar function by solving a weighted Poisson equation. In PSSM, the scalar function is derived by fitting local algebraic spheres based on moving least-squares approximations. Then, the fault surfaces can be approximated by zero isosurfaces of the resulting scalar function. To handle complicated cases of crossing faults, we first classify the fault samples according to their orientations, and we take each class of samples as input of our inversion-based approaches to independently construct the crossing faults. We determine the ability of our methods in robustly building the complete fault surface using synthetic and real seismic images complicated by noise and complexly intersecting faults.