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Psychosocial needs of childhood cancer caregivers attending the main cancer treatment center in Sri Lanka: A qualitative assessment

Diagnosis of childhood cancer significantly changes the lives of those children and their family members. A family caregiver plays a significant role in providing most of the care to their ill patient, in addition to the care provided by the health staff. Identifying and addressing these psychosocial needs of primary caregivers (PCG) of children and adolescents with cancers (CAAWC) is emerging globally as a component that should be incorporated into quality cancer care. This study aimed to describe the psychosocial needs of primary caregivers of childhood cancer patients at the National Cancer Institute, Maharagama (Apeksha Hospital at present), in Sri Lanka. MethodA qualitative study through Focus Group Discussions (FGD) was conducted among primary caregivers of children and adolescents with cancer at the main Cancer treatment center in Sri Lanka. Data were transcribed verbatim, translated to English, and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results -Twenty-two PCGs participated for FGDs, and saturation point was reached by the fourth discussion. PCGs of CAAWC described their psychosocial needs at the time of the discussion and the emerged themes which could be identified during the analysis echoed the psychosocial needs already known in the literature as follows; Financial needs, Emotional needs, Informational needs, Social needs, and Practical needs. In addition, caring for the siblings emerged as a new category which is usually grouped under practical needs. Conclusion Almost all PCGs of CAAWC in Sri Lanka, who were at the early stages of diagnosis had multiple unmet psychosocial needs, which required the early attention of health care professionals.
UNDERSTANDING MAGNITUDE OF SEX/GENDER DIFFERENCES 1 Understanding the Magnitude of Psychological Differences Between Women and Men Requires Seeing the Forest and the Trees

Whether women and men are psychologically very similar or quite different is a contentious issue in psychological science. This article clarifies this issue by demonstrating that larger and smaller sex/gender differences can reflect differing ways of organizing the same data. For single psychological constructs, larger differences emerge from averaging multiple indicators that differ by sex/gender to produce scales of a construct’s overall typicality for women versus men. For example, averaging self-ratings on personality traits more typical of women or men yields much larger sex/gender differences on measures of the femininity or masculinity of personality. Sex/gender differences on such broad-gauge, thematic variables are large relative to differences on their component indicators. This increased effect magnitude for aggregated scales reflects gains in both their reliability and validity as indicators of sex/gender. In addition, in psychological domains such as vocational interests that are composed of many variables, at least some of which differ by sex/gender, the multivariate distance between women and men is typically larger than the differences on the component variables. These analyses encourage recognition of the interdependence of sex/gender similarity and difference in psychological data.
Investigating the physiological resilience of the northern star coral Astrangia poculata to nutrient enrichment under thermal stress

I. Abstract As a result of urbanization and anthropogenic activity, Earth’s oceans are warming and receiving an influx of nutrients such as inorganic nitrogen. Marine organisms located adjacent to human development may be vulnerable to the interactive effects from inorganic nitrogen enrichment and increasing sea surface temperature. The impact of these two stressors have been investigated in obligate symbiotic tropical corals, but the specific effects of nitrate and thermal stress on the coral animal & symbiont remain unknown. One seemingly resilient coral is Astrangia poculata, a facultatively symbiotic temperate coral that exists with and without symbionts along the eastern United States coast, including highly urbanized areas such as the New York Harbor. This study aimed to examine the effect of nutrient enrichment, specifically elevated nitrate, on the physiology of symbiotic and aposymbiotic A. poculata fragments at constant and elevated sea surface temperatures. Four treatments were run with both aposymbiotic and symbiotic colonies of A. poculata experiencing either a ramping temperature from 27-33°C or a constant 25°C, and presence or absence of 5 μM of NaNO3 nitrate over the course of a 7-day experiment. Coral color, photosynthetic efficiency, polyp behavior, and metabolic activity (measured via oxygen consumption on a respirometer) were used as a read-out to determine lethal & sublethal response to stressors. Overall, we found no effect of nitrate enrichment on coral physiology, but found significant decreases in photosynthetic efficiency (Fv/Fm), polyp behavior, and increased bleaching beginning at 31 °C temperature stress. Interestingly, there were no observed differences between Fv/Fm or polyp extension score between symbiotic states under 31 °C+ thermal stress. Taken together, our results suggest that A. poculata corals are more resilient to nitrate enrichment than thermal stress, and that symbiotic state cannot predict thermal and/or nutrient enrichment resilience. As anthropogenic sources continue to input nitrates into warming coastal waters, it is essential to understand the impacts on coastal marine ecosystems. Our study lays the groundwork for more studies focusing on the intersection of ecotoxicology and global change stressors in temperate coral communities.
Multiphase Numerical Simulations of Dielectric Fluid Immersion Cooling Scenarios including Effects of Nucleation Site Density and Bubble Departure Diameter Functions

ii Acknowledgments iv List of Tables ix List of Figures x List of Abbreviations xv CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Motivating Factors for Multiphase Liquid Immersion Cooling 2 1.2 Numerical Modeling of Multiphase Heat Transfer 4 1.3 Motivating Factors for User-Defined Functions (UDFs) 5 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 7 2.1 Multiphase Conservation Equations 7 2.2 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Boiling Model 9 2.3 Foundation of Boiling Functions in ANSYS Fluent 14 2.3. 1 Bubble Departure Diameter 14 2.3. 2 Nucleation Site Density 15 2.4 Numerical Simulations of Multiphase Flow using the RPI Boiling Model . 17 2.4. 1 Simulations involving Water 17 2.4. 2 Alternative Boiling Functions 23 2.4. 2.1 Frequency of Bubble Departure and Area of Influence 23
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The expectation that voters behave rationally has been challenged through studies suggesting that “irrelevant events” like natural disasters and sports results change voting behavior. We test the effect of irrelevant events by matching candidate-level election results from Irish general (1922–2020) and local elections (1942–2019) with games in the men’s Gaelic football and hurling championships, the most popular sports in Ireland. Although Irish citizens care deeply about sports, we fail to find any relationship between match results and support for incumbents or politicians of government parties. These findings hold when applying an “unexpected event during survey design” to two representative surveys. Our results contribute to the literature on political accountability and point to conditional effects of irrelevant events.
Negative results in science: Blessing or (winner’s) curse?

Two players receiving independent signals on a risky project with common value compete to be the first to invest. We characterize the equilibrium of this preemption game as the publicity of signals varies. Private signals create a winner’s curse: the first mover suspects that his rival might have privately received adverse information, hence exited. To compensate, players seek more evidence supporting the project, resulting in later investment. A conservative planner concerned with avoiding unprofitable investments may then prefer private signals. Our results suggest that policy interventions should primarily tackle winner-takes-all competition, and regulate transparency only once competition is sufficiently mild.
SELECTION FOR GRAIN YIELD UNDER NORMAL AND DEFICIT IRRIGATION REGIMES IN BREAD WHEAT

The objectives of the present research were to study the direct selection response for grain yield plant -1 under normal and deficit irrigation conditions and estimate the correlated response of other studied traits. Two cycles of selection were practiced on a segregating populations of wheat cross (Sid 1× Misr 2) in the F3-F5 generations. Selection was practiced separately under normal and deficit irrigation conditions. The genotypic variance was slightly less than the phenotypic variance under both environments and generally decreased from the base population (F3) to the F5 generation. Broad-sense heritability estimates for grain yield plant -1 after two cycles of selection were 65.66 and 59.95% under normal and deficit irrigation, respectively. The realized heritability under normal irrigation was 47.94 and 53.66% compared to 34.90 and 58.64% under deficit irrigation conditions after the first and second cycles of selection, respectively. The average observed gain for grain yield plant -1 from selection under normal and deficit irrigation groups, evaluated under normal irrigation were (13.92 and 15.48%) over the bulk sample and (9.27 and 10.78%) over the better parent, respectively. While, from selection under normal and deficit irrigation, evaluated under deficit irrigation were (16.87 and 20.08%) over the bulk sample and (15.44 and 18.61%) over the better parent, respectively. Drought susceptibility index (DSI) showed that six families selected under normal irrigation and five families selected under deficit irrigation were superior for drought tolerance and had high grain yield under deficit irrigation in F5 generation. The antagonistic selection was better than the synergistic selection in changing the mean and decreasing the sensitivity.
Soft matter in confinement and at interfaces

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Soft matter in confinement and at interfaces Thomas Salez
Smart City management support: an ICT framework for vehicular traﬃc ﬂow classiﬁcation. The City of Turin case study.

Smart City is a paradigm rapidly evolving which brings with it new ICT issues to address. Scholars described the smartness of a city as the ability to bring together all its resources, to eﬀectively and seamlessly achieve the goals and fulﬁl the purposes it has set for itself. Public data are a pillar on which its development is founded, and are the basis for enabling real time decisions by stakeholders. Torino As a Platform is the project that the City of Turin is developing to reach those goals: collecting data from IoT infrastructure, application, utilities, companies and citizens reports to build a data driven decision making platform that will support governance of the smart city. The project realization bases its development on two main activities: on one side realizing and delivering to communities an SDK with standard API for increasing and facilitating collection and reuse of data and citizens participation. On the other side, developing a machine learning framework with predictive algorithms that helps the governance of the Smart City and visually supports the decision making process. Inside this second activity, we studied a system to analyse temporal trends of traﬃc ﬂow within the boundaries of the city, and make predictions about its status in short, medium and long period (15 minutes, 1 hour, and 2 hours
Effect of Stock Market Development on Economic Growth: Case Study Egypt

The growing importance of financial markets around the world renews the interest to investigate whether development of the stock market specifically can promote long-run economic growth or not. The objective of this study is to investigate the empirical relationship between Stock Market Development and Economic Growth in Egypt during the critical economic period of 2009 to 2019 which has experienced many economic and political events. Following the literature, the study uses Secondary data collected from the World Bank, International Financial Statistics (IFS), and the Egyptian Ministry of Planning (MOP) and Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) for stock market indicators, economic growth indicators, banking sector variables and other relevant macroeconomic variables. The quarterly data used to estimate the relationship through hybrid method (both quantitative and qualitative) approach. The qualitative part uses graphical illustration to depict the evolution of various stock market variables while the quantitative part focuses on investigating the empirical effect of stock market development on economic growth using ARDL model. The main findings of the study are as follows: 1) there is no relationship over the short run between Stock Market Development and Economic Growth. 2) The effect of Stock Market Development on Economic Growth is negative over the long run (holds only for the turnover ratio). 3) The main triggers for Economic Growth in Egypt during this period are other factors like higher Primary Education enrolment. 4) There is no relation between the banking sector and the economic growth neither in the short run nor in the long run. 5) The results match with the literature of some developing countries, including Egypt. The negative relationship may be due to the underdeveloped financial systems. 6) The results of the test are stable, robust and correctly specified.
Antiproliferative activity of Portunus segnis muscle extract on apoptosis of colon cancer cell line (HT-29)

Recently, marine natural products have had a critical role in the development of medicinal goods. The present study aimed to determine and compare in vitro effects of hexane, butanol, ethyl acetate, and water extracts of the muscle of Portunus segnis on a colon cancer cell line. In this experimental study, the HT29 colon cancer cell line was treated with various concentrations of crude extracts in three periods of 24, 48, and 72 h. HT29 viability was evaluated by Trypan Blue staining and MTT assay. Cell apoptosis was determined by flow cytometry assays. Also, reactive oxygen species (ROS), lactate dehydrogenase, and caspase 3/7-9 activities were tested in butanol extract-treated HT29 cells. Bioactive compounds of butanol extract were analyzed by gas chromatography-mas spectrometry (GC-MS). Palmitoleic acid (4.83%), 9-octadecenoic acid (4.82%), docosane (4.66%) and eicosane (4.34%) were found in muscle butanol extract of P. segnis . The muscle butanol extract demonstrated an IC50 of 10.12±0.35 µg/mL, towards the cell line. The results also indicate that decreasing cell viability depends on both dose and time. The bioactive compounds led to a significant elevation in ROS production, as assessed by the measurement of fluorescence intensity in stained cells. Furthermore, activation of caspases-3/7 and -9 induced apoptosis. After treatment with the butanol extract compound, activation of caspases-3/7-9 was illustrated and confirmed the involvement of mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis. Butanol extract compounds of the muscle of P. segnis can be introduced as a potential candidate for the development of anticancer chemotherapeutic agents.
Ribeiro Fde’s Parameters Versus CT

Background: Many studies were carried out to investigate the forensic significance of frontal sinus imaging, presuming that they could help in age and sex determination. Objectives: This study aimed to enimaxe the Ribeiro parameters versus the CT dimensions measurement in identifying a person’s age range and gender. Materials and methods: This is a crosssectional study. 73 Egyptian adult patients were recruited for this study. A paranasal coronal CT scan and AP radiograph were performed for each patient. Frontal sinus Ribeiro Fde’s measurements on a plain radiograph and CT diameters were evaluated.Results: Both plain radiograph and CT are simple and reliable methods for frontal sinus analysis. This study showed that both modalities could aid in the sex identification with variable predictive values; the best was for CT, with highly significant differences in the anteroposterior diameter and width of the frontal sinus left compartment and no significant difference in the right compartment dimensions. As for age estimation, both show comparable reliability in age estimation; the largest frontal dimensions as estimated by either of the imaging tools were found in the age range of 50-60 years. However, both show poor discrimination power. Conclusion: Both plain radiograph and CT are reliable, low-cost, and easily reproducible methods for frontal sinus analysis. CT showed better results in sex identification, and for age estimation, both offer comparable reliability in age estimation.
Characterising liberation and flotation potential using image analysis, simulated fragmentation and small-scale flotation

A critical aspect of geometallurgy is quantifying mineralogical and textural relationships that affect mineral processing (eg, liberation and recovery). However, to date, this has been an expensive and time consuming venture and only minimal amounts of this type of data are typically available to be included in the mine planning process. Our research is focused on developing methods that will produce the required mineralogical and textural data rapidly and inexpensively. New methods of characterising liberation potential from image analysis of coarse particulate material and direct small-scale flotation measurement are compared with measurement of liberation at final grind size (ie conventional tests on MLA). The new tests are designed to rank the liberation potential of samples in order to classify an ore deposit into domains of low, medium and high liberation potential. This parameter can then be used to adjust the cutoff used to differentiate ore from waste. Results to date show that all tests provide the same ranking for the samples. The measurement based on coarse particulate material compares favourably to the results from MIA analyses on the same samples. Further work is being carried out to determine which of the tests will be the most effective in terms of time, effort and cost.
PERFORMANCE OF THREE BREAD WHEAT CULTIVARS UNDER DIFFERENT SOWING PATTERNS

Two field experiments were conducted in 2013/14 and 2014/15 growing seasons at the Faculty of Agriculture,Kafrelsheikh University, to study the impact of sowing pattern on grain yield and yield contributing parameters of three Egyptian bread wheat cultivars. A strip plot design with three replications was used. Three sowing patterns (Broadcast, Drill and Bed.) were assigned in the horizontal plots. The three bread wheat cultivars (Misr 1, Misr 2 and Gemmeiza 9) were randomly distributed in vertical plots. The number of days to heading and maturity, plant height, flag leaf area, the number of fertile tiller/m -2 , 1000-grain weight, the number of grains/spike, grain yield, straw yield, harvest index (%) and grain filling rate were studied. The most important results could be summarized as follows: sowing pattern significantly affected number of days to heading and harvest index in the 1 st. season, whereas the number of fertile tillers, 1000-grain weight, the number of grains/spike, straw yield and grain filling rate in both seasons. There were highly significant differences among wheat cultivars for all the studied characters. Gemmeiza 9 recorded the highest number of days to heading and the number of days to maturity, plant height, flag leaf area, 1000-grain weight and the number of grains/spike in both seasons, and Misr 1 and 2 in 2013/14 and Misr 2 in 2014/15 recorded the highest harvest index. The results indicated also that Misr 2 produced the highest grain yield, straw yield and grain filling rate in both seasons. Misr 2 produced the highest grain yield, straw yield under drill sowing pattern in both seasons. Drill sowing pattern wasr the best sowing for all cultivars under this investigation.
EFFECT OF DIFFERENT NITROGEN SOURCES ON SOME BOTANICAL CHARACTERS OF WHEAT (Triticum aestivum L).

This expirment was carried out during the two successive winter seasons 2006 and 2007. Aiming to study the effect of different nitrogen sources; bio fertilizer (Azospirillum brasilense, Bacillus polymyxa, Azotobacter choococcum, Klebsiella pneumonia and pseudomonas putida), organic plant compost, organic cattle manure as well as non organic nitrogen (NH4)2 SO4 fertilizer on the botanical characters of wheat under sandy soil conditions. The study showed that, non organic nitrogen treatment led to the highest mean values of plant height, number of fertile tillers per plant, average spike length as well as grain yield per plant as compared with all other single used nitrogen sources. Single bio nitrogen treatment caused minute effect on mean performance of the characters under investigation. The yielding ability of wheat plants could be enhanced by the following single nitrogen treatments ranked in ascending order; non organic nitrogen followed by organic cattle manure, organic plant compost and finally bio nitrogen treatments. The treatments of combined nitrogen sources proved to be more convenient in enhancing the studied traits. The highest mean values of the studied traits were recorded on plants that received full non organic + full organic cattle manure treatment followed by those received organic plant compost + non organic nitrogen treatment. Application of various non organic combined with organic nitrogen treatments showed maximum plant height, number of fertile tillers, average spike length and average grain yield per plant. Stem anatomical measurements of treated plants proved that, all used nitrogen sources caused vital increase in whole stem diameter. These increments were accomplished with changing the investigated nitrogen sources i.e., the non organic nitrogen source achieved the highest increase in stem diameter and the lowest increase was achieved with bio nitrogen treatment. The enlargements in stem wall thickness were reflected on the anatomical features of all tissues shared in stem wall structure; epidermis, sclenchyma belt layer, vascular bundles and the ground parenchyma. The enlargement occurred in stem wall thickness was linked with remarkable increase in the average thickness of ground parenchyma tissue as well as the average vascular bundle diameter. Relative to zero nitrogen treatment all nitrogen sources resulted in a remarkable increase in measurements of all tissues in leaf lamina; thickness of upper and lower epidermis, thickness of mesophyll ground tissue, main vascular bundle length and width, metaxylem vessel diameter and thickness of phloem tissue.