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Advance Care Planning for Older Australians Living in the Community

To evaluate the impact of advance care planning (ACP) education with people aged ≥60 years living in the community. The interactive workshop explored all aspects of ACP—legal, emotional, physical, spiritual, role of significant others—and allowed reflection time, questions, and group discussion. Evaluation of knowledge and attitudes toward ACP were completed pre- and post-training. Readiness-to-change and feedback about the workshop quality were collected post-training. Eleven workshops were delivered in Queensland (132 matched pre- and post-questionnaires compared for analysis). Participant’s ACP knowledge and confidence increased significantly (12/13 statements, p<0.05) alongside some shift in attitudes (4/12 statements, p<0.05) after training. Participants were engaged and rated the workshop positively. Single ACP workshops are an effective intervention for healthy older people in the community. Training should focus on demystifying legislation and documentation, the importance of planning and communicating wishes while still healthy, and the need to regularly review and update plans. Follow-up is required to assess translation of education into ACP action.
Magnetic Cleanliness Program on CubeSats and Nanosatellites for Improved Attitude Stability

CubeSats are being increasingly specified and utilized for demanding astronomical and Earth observation missions where precise pointing and stability are critical requirements. Such precision is difficult to achieve in the case of CubeSats, mainly because of their small moment of inertia, this means that even small disturbance torques, such as those due to a residual magnetic moment are an issue and have a significant effect on the attitude of nanosatellites, when a high degree of stability is required. Also, hardware limitations in terms of power, weight and size, make the task more challenging. Recently, a PhD research program has been undertaken at the University of Surrey, to investigate the magnetic characteristics of CubeSats, it has been found that the disturbances may be mitigated by good engineering practice, in terms of reducing the use of permeable materials and minimizing current-loop area. This paper discusses the dominant source nanosatellites disturbances and presents a survey and a short description of magnetic cleanliness techniques to minimize the effect of the residual magnetic field. It is mainly intended to supply a guide for CubeSat community to design future CubeSats with improved attitude stability. We present then our findings to date of a new technique of the residual magnetic dipole determination for CubeSats and Nanosatellites. This method is performed by implementing a network of eight miniature 3-axis magnetometers on the spacecraft. These are used to determine the strength, the direction and the center of the magnetic dipole of the spacecraft dynamically in-orbit and in real-time. This technique will contribute to reduce the effect of magnetic disturbances and improve the stability of CubeSats. A software model and a hardware prototype using eight magnetometers controlled via a Raspberry-Pi were developed and successfully tested with the boom payload of the Alsat-1N CubeSat and a magnetic air coil developed for validation purposes.
Evaluating Risk for Psychiatric Re-Hospitalization a Recurrent Event History Analysis

by Mason Howard Burley, Ph.D. Washington State University May 2017 Chair: Kenn B. Daratha Between 1960 and 2010, the number of psychiatric treatment beds in the United States dropped ten-fold – from 300 to 30 beds per 100,000 persons. The vision for this planned deinstitutionalization was to replace substandard institutional care with community based treatment. In reality, the community care system has failed to meet the needs of many patients with serious mental illness. Approximately one in five patients hospitalized with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression disorder are re-hospitalized within 30 days. Furthermore, many high-risk patients in this population are recurrently hospitalized and may cycle between emergency departments, jail and homelessness. This study addresses two questions related to recurrent psychiatric hospitalizations: 1) how do risk factors for re-hospitalization vary between the initial and subsequent hospital episodes, and 2) is length of inpatient treatment related to a reduced risk of re-hospitalization in latter episodes? This retrospective, observational cohort study utilizes administrative records from nineteen community hospitals in Washington State to follow patients for up to two years post-discharge. The study cohort of 27,858 adult patients were first hospitalized between 2012 and 2015. A repeated-event Cox proportional hazard model was used to test for factors
Exploring the Weight and Health Status of Adults with Down Syndrome

Background: People with developmental disabilities experience worse health than typically developing peers. This health differential is often described in terms of health disparities, which refers to differences caused or exacerbated by social or access issues. Objective: the goal of this study was to compare the weight status and health conditions of adults with Down syndrome to comparison groups of adults with developmental disabilities and adults with no disability. Methods: Information about health risks and health conditions was collected for 291 adults with Down syndrome living in Ohio through an online survey. We compared this data on adults with Down syndrome to state-level data from adults without disabilities (2012 BRFSS) and Ohio data on a random sample of adults with developmental disabilities other than Down syndrome (2012-2013 National Core Indicators). Results: Adults with Down syndrome were 3 times more likely to be overweight or obese than adults without disabilities. Surprisingly, despite having a body mass index in the overweight or obese range, 70% of adults with Down syndrome reported having eating habits that were good to excellent and less than 6% of the Down syndrome sample reported having co-occurring diabetes or hypertension. Discussion: Despite high rates of overweight and obesity, few adults with Down syndrome reported having the chronic health conditions associated with excess weight. Further research is needed to understand the health risks of overweight in adults with Down syndrome and the availability of health promotion programs for this population.
Predictors of Intention to Practice Exclusive Breastfeeding among Pregnant Working Women in Jakarta, Indonesia

Background: Breast milk is an ideal form of nutrition to support optimal growth and development of infants. Not only infants could get many advantages from breastfeeding but also the mothers who breastfeed have a chance to gain physical and psychological advantages. Although there are a lot of advantages of breastfeeding, working mothers are facing many challenges to adopt the practice of exclusive breastfeeding, including return to work and short duration of maternity leave. Concerning these challenges, pregnant working women should determine the intention to practice exclusive breastfeeding as a first step of breastfeeding practice process. The study aimed to identify significant predictors of the breastfeeding intention. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 118 pregnant working women in Antenatal Care Unit, Public Health Centre of Sint Carolus Hospital Jakarta, Indonesia by purposive sampling. A standard multiple regression was performed to identify factors predicting intention to practice exclusive breastfeeding, based conceptually on the Theory of Reasoned Action. Results: The findings revealed that perceived behavioral control (β = 0.49, p < .001) was the strongest predictor to explain the intention, followed by perceived norm (β = 0.19, p = .01), while attitude was not a significant predictor of intention (β = 0.17, p = .09). Conclusions: Perceived behavioral control and perceived norm are significant predictors of intention to practice exclusive breastfeeding. Therefore, it is important for the husband, family, and co-workers to support and facilitate pregnant working women to practice exclusive breastfeeding.
Which active optical sensor vegetation index is best for nitrogen assessment in irrigated cotton?

Funding information Cotton Incorporated Abstract Use of active optical sensors (AOS) in nitrogen (N) management of row crops continues to grow. Since the first studies in the mid-1990s, several commercial AOS are now available. Typically, canopy reflectance in red and near infrared (NIR) bands are used to calculate the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). More recently, commercially available AOS include a third, red-edge band that allows the calculation of additional vegetation indices (VIs). We present two studies of five site-years of N management studies in Maricopa, AZ, on a Casa Grande sandy loam with cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). The 2014–2015 study was conducted under an overhead sprinkler irrigation system (OSI), and the 2016–2018 study was in subsurface drip irrigation (SDI). The study objective was to compare the ability of 12 different VIs to detect N deficiency among N treatments from shortly after emergence to midbloom. In the OSI study, which showed delayed, small N treatment effects, NDRE and the chlorophyll index using amber (CIRE) detected N deficiency in zero-N and in reduced N-reflectance-based plots 7–23 d before other VIs did. With SDI, the choice of VI was less critical as several VIs could distinguish N deficiency in zero-N and in reflectance plots. The commonly used NDVI red (NDVIR) only detected N deficiency in reflectance plots in one of five site-years. In conclusion, we recommend the use of AOS with NIR and red-edge bands and the calculation of NDRE or CIRE to guide AOS-based in-season N management of irrigated cotton.
Web-Based Innovation Indicators – Which Firm Website Characteristics Relate to Firm-Level Innovation Activity?

Web-based innovation indicators may provide new insights into firm-level innovation activities. However, little is known yet about the accuracy and relevance of web-based information. In this study, we use 4,485 German firms from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2019 to analyze which website characteristics are related to innovation activities at the firm level. Website characteristics are measured by several text mining methods and are used as features in different Random Forest classification models that are compared against each other. Our results show that the most relevant website characteristics are the website’s language, the number of subpages, and the total text length. Moreover, our website characteristics show a better performance for the prediction of product innovations and innovation expenditures than for the prediction of process innovations.
Determinants of Survival among Patients with Cervical Cancer: A Hospital Based Study -

Introduction: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide and India contributes largest proportion to it. As per Globacon 2012 there were 1,23,000 cases and 67,000 deaths due to cervical cancer in India. Studies directed towards identifying the factors determining survival will help policy makers in designing the strategies for prolonging the life of these patients. Objective of the study was to assess the factors determining survival among patients with cervical cancer.
Determinants of access to skilled birth attendants by women in Galkacyo District, Somalia

xiv CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1 Background of the study . 1 1.2 Problem Statement . 2 1.3 Justification of the study . 4 1.4 Research questions . 4 1. 5 Null Hypothesis . 5 1.6 Objectives . 5 1.6. 1 Broad objective . 5 1.6. 2 Specific objectives . 5 1.7 Significance and Anticipated Output . 6 1.8 Limitations and Delimitations . 6
Study of physiological and pathological skin changes in neonates: An east indian perspective

Background: Numerous dermatological conditions are prevalent in neonatal period, i.e., first 28 days of life with varied presentations ranging from transient self-limiting lesions to serious dermatosis requiring clinical attention. Due to lack of complete knowledge, it is distressing for both parents and treating physician. Objectives: This study was done in eastern part of India to record various dermatosis, and their prevalence compared with other part of country and find association between skin conditions and parameters, namely, sex, parity, gestational age, mode of delivery, and birth weight. Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was done in tertiary care hospital entailed recording of 400 neonates having any kind of dermatosis and statistically evaluated using Chi-square test (SPSS) and significance (P < 0.05). Results: Mongolian spot followed by sebaceous gland hyperplasia and epstein pearls were the common dermatologic findings. Physiological desquamation, acrocyanosis, and sebaceous gland hyperplasia were more prevalent in males and was statistically significant while erythema toxicum neonatorum significantly high in females. Epstein pearls, physiological scaling was also significantly high in term babies. Physiological scaling in cesarean patients and acrocyanosis in vaginal delivery was also significantly associated. Some atypical cases such as phakomatosis pigmentovascularis, plantar keratoderma, collodion baby, and congenital whorled hypermelanosis were also present in our study group. Conclusion: Physiological skin lesions are very common in neonates and appreciation of these lesions are important.
The impact of credit risk and macroeconomic factors on profitability: the case of the ASEAN banks

This study investigates the effect of credit risk and macroeconomic factors on profitability of 20 ASEAN banks, particularly from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines, covering the period of 2012 to 2017. The unbalanced panel data were tested for heteroscedasticity and normality. A fixed effects model and a random effects model were utilized followed by simple ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. The obtained results show that credit risk and GDP growth negatively affect Return on Equity (ROE) at 5% level of significance. The inflation rate increases ROE by 0.323%. In terms of influence, inflation has the highest impact on ROE followed by GDP growth and credit risk. Credit risk and GDP growth negatively affect Return on Assets (ROA) at 5% level of significance. ROA was also influenced by an increase in inflation rate. Therefore, this study will help banks and bank managers, depositors, investors, policy makers and governments to identify factors affecting bank profitability.
The Løkka–Zervos Alternative for a Cramér–Lundberg Process with Exponential Jumps

In this paper, we study a stochastic control problem faced by an insurance company allowed to pay out dividends and make capital injections. As in (Løkka and Zervos (2008); Lindensjö and Lindskog (2019)), for a Brownian motion risk process, and in Zhu and Yang (2016), for diffusion processes, we will show that the so-called Løkka–Zervos alternative also holds true in the case of a Cramér–Lundberg risk process with exponential claims. More specifically, we show that: if the cost of capital injections is low, then according to a double-barrier strategy, it is optimal to pay dividends and inject capital, meaning ruin never occurs; and if the cost of capital injections is high, then according to a single-barrier strategy, it is optimal to pay dividends and never inject capital, meaning ruin occurs at the first passage below zero.
Study on Knowledge and Practice Regarding Dengue among Medical Students in Kolkata, West Bengal

Background: Dengue is an acute arboviral disease caused by dengue virus. The incidence of dengue has increased several folds in recent years. It is usually not fatal, but sometimes with hemorrhagic complication it can cause death. To organise any program for behaviour change it is very important to know the current knowledge and practice of the people about dengue. Method: a cross sectional descriptive study was carried out among the students of a medical college in Kolkata, India. Data were collected with the help of pre designed structured questionnaire. Data on demographic characteristics of the students and their knowledge and practices were collected. Result: Majority knew correctly about causative agent, season of occurrence, breeding place of vector mosquito, reservoir of infection, case fatality, recurrence of infection and non availability of specific treatment. But, they had misconception about mode of transmission in dengue. They also have good knowledge about different preventive measures. Their own practice was not satisfactory considering their knowledge. But, practice score was better in student exposed to dengue. Conclusion: The medical students had good knowledge but their knowledge was not translated into proper action. There is need for behaviour change communication for prevention and control of dengue in the community.
Damage detection in steel-concrete composite bridge using vibration characteristics and artificial neural network

Abstract This paper develops and applies a procedure for detecting damage in a composite slab-on-girder bridge structure comprising of a reinforced concrete slab and three steel I beams, using vibration characteristics and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). ANN is used in conjunction with modal strain energy-based damage index for locating and quantifying damage in the steel beams which are the main load bearing elements of the bridge, while the relative modal flexibility change is used to locate and quantify damage in the bridge deck. Research is carried out using dynamic computer simulations supported by experimental testing. The design and construction of the experimental composite bridge model is based on a 1:10 ratio of a typical multiple girder composite bridge, which is commonly used as a highway bridge. The procedure is applied across a range of damage scenarios and the results confirm its feasibility to detect and quantify damage in composite concrete slab on steel girder bridges.
Effects of Aromatherapy Using the Damask Rose Essential Oil on Depression, Anxiety, and Stress in Hemodialysis Patients: A Clinical Trial

Background: Depression, anxiety, and stress are very common among hemodialysis patients. The aim of this study was to investi-gate eﬀects of aromatherapy using the damask rose oil on depression, anxiety, and stress in these patients. Methods: In a clinical trial that was performed in 2015, 60 patients under hemodialysis treatment were randomly allocated to two groups of control and intervention each consisting of 30 subjects. The DASS21 scale was used to measure the rates of depression, anxiety,andstressbeforeandfourweeksafterintervention. Intheinterventiongroup,thepatientswereaskedtoinhalethedamask roseoilwithaconstantdensityof 2% fromapieceof clothsmearedwiththreedropsforanhour. Inthecontrolgroup,onlytheusual, standard care was applied. Results: Thecomparisonof themeanscoresbeforeandaftertheinterventioninthetwogroupsshowedthatafterintervention,the depression, anxiety, and stress scores signiﬁcantly decreased in the damask rose group (P ≤ 0.05). Conclusions: Inhalation aromatherapy using the damask rose oil can decrease depression, anxiety, and stress in hemodialysis patients.
Biogeochemical Connectivity Between Freshwater Ecosystems beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Sub‐Ice Marine Environment

Although subglacial aquatic environments are widespread beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, subglacial biogeochemistry is not well understood, and the contribution of subglacial water to coastal ocean carbon and nutrient cycling remains poorly constrained. The Whillans Subglacial Lake (SLW) ecosystem is upstream from West Antarctica's Gould‐Siple Coast ~800 m beneath the surface of the Whillans Ice Stream. SLW hosts an active microbial ecosystem and is part of an active hydrological system that drains into the marine cavity beneath the adjacent Ross Ice Shelf. Here we examine sources and sinks for organic matter in the lake and estimate the freshwater carbon and nutrient delivery from discharges into the coastal embayment. Fluorescence‐based characterization of dissolved organic matter revealed microbially driven differences between sediment pore waters and lake water, with an increasing contribution from relict humic‐like dissolved organic matter with sediment depth. Mass balance calculations indicated that the pool of dissolved organic carbon in the SLW water column could be produced in 4.8 to 11.9 yr, which is a time frame similar to that of the lakes’ fill‐drain cycle. Based on these estimates, subglacial lake water discharged at the Siple Coast could supply an average of 5,400% more than the heterotrophic carbon demand within Siple Coast embayments (6.5% for the entire Ross Ice Shelf cavity). Our results suggest that subglacial discharge represents a heretofore unappreciated source of microbially processed dissolved organic carbon and other nutrients to the Southern Ocean.
Life Purpose in Youth: Turning Potential Into a Lifelong Pursuit of Prosocial Contribution*

Rather than considering human potential in terms of an unrealized desired state, what if we framed it as gaining momentum in worthy long-term pursuits? This conceptual article, integrating ideas and findings from several scholarly literatures, explores how life purpose can serve as a meaningful, intentional guide for individuals, especially youth, to direct their other potentials into prosocial contributions to society. The argument (a) considers life purpose itself as a form of intrapersonal giftedness different from academic giftedness; (b) describes how life purpose could include distinctions of further potentials: coherence among purpose dimensions, influence on different life domains, reach of others impacted by the youths’ contributions, emphasis to change society, and precocious emergence of purpose’s dimensions and distinctions; and (c) muses how life purpose’s directing of other potentials might become a potential that could be realized by all youth.