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Impact of Hepatitis C Virus Co-Infection on Tuberculous Patients

Background: Tuberculosis [TB] and hepatitis C virus [HCV] infections are both common infectious diseases. Although HCV infection is frequent in patients with TB, few studies have been conducted worldwide and there is still little evidence concerning this topic. Aim of the work: To assess the prevalence of HCV infection among tuberculous patients and to investigate its impact on tuberculosis and its treatment outcome. Patients and Methods: A cross-sectional study was done on 500 tuberculous patients. Socio-demographic data, clinical history and examination, clinical severity, response to drugs, laboratory and radiological investigation, Tuberculin skin test, and HCV screening were done. Results: HCV infection was detected among 54 tuberculosis patients [10.8%]. HCVpositive patients suffered more from almost all clinical presentation than HCVnegative patients but without statistical significant difference. Tuberculin skin test induration and reactions were more in HCVnegative patients with 17.9 ± 4.9 mm compared to 12.9 ± 2 mm in HCVpositive patients. Lung cavitation and lung infiltration were the most predominant radiological finding among HCVpositive patients. CAT [category] IV and modified CAT I were the most treatment regimen used in HCVpositive patients. Failure of treatment was significantly higher among HCVpositive patients [59.3%] compared to 9.9% of their counterparts. Moreover, multidrug resistance [MDR] and rifampicin resistance were significantly higher in HCVpositive group than their comparable group [31.5% and 29.6%, and 9% and 4.3% respectively]. Conclusion: Co-infection of HCV in Patients with TB is frequent. It increases the frequency of almost all clinical presentation and had its predominant findings on laboratory and radiological investigations. Co-infection also alters the response to TB treatment and should be screened among tuberculous patients before treatment and closely monitored during treatment to detect early any drug resistance or treatment failure.
CRITICAL CARE NURSES' KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES ABOUT TOXICOLOGICAL EMERGENCIES

Background: A global public health problem is poisoning. Also consider one of the most important reasons for attendance in emergency unit. The critical care nurses play an essential role in assessing poisoning patient at emergency unit . Patients with poisoning have a better chance of surviving if they are identified early and treated effectively. Aim: This study aimed to assess knowledge and practices of critical care nurses about toxicological emergencies. Subjects and method: Study Design: A descriptive design was utilized in this research. Setting: This study was carried out at poisoning center in Al-Mansura city, emergency department in Al-Manzala central hospital and El-Salam hospital. Subjects: A convenient sample of 81 nurses included in the study. Tools: Two tools used for data collection, nurses' knowledge questionnaire and nurses' practice observational checklist. Results: More than half (54.3%) of participants had poor knowledge; however (76.5%) of them had acceptable practices about toxicological emergencies. There was a positive statistical significant correlation between overall nurses' knowledge and practices about toxicological emergencies as p value is 0.002. Conclusion: This study concluded that 54.3% of participants had overall poor knowledge and 76.5% of them had acceptable practices about toxicological emergencies. There was a positive statistical significant correlation between overall nurses' knowledge and practices about toxicological emergencies. Recommendation: Educational training programs for nurses regarding toxicological emergencies are recommended.
Distraction and attitudes towards safe pedestrian behaviour

Pedestrians account for around 14% of Australian road deaths annually. International research suggests that pedestrian distraction from smart phones may lead to greater risk of trauma. Ownership of smart phones in Australia is high, suggesting this may present an emerging road safety challenge. Austroads commissioned research to identify: community attitudes towards, and personal, social and environmental factors influencing, safe pedestrian behaviour; groups most at risk of distracted walking; most likely locations; and effective countermeasures. The project had three components: a literature review; an intercept survey with pedestrians; and an on-line survey of pedestrians. The literature review identified that pedestrian distraction from technology is influenced by age, gender, and type of activity. Non-intersection locations are more likely than intersections for pedestrian crashes generally, though there is no research on distraction-specific crashes. Illegal pedestrian behaviours may be both common and riskier. Many effective countermeasures address general pedestrian crash risk, but few address distraction from mobile phones while crossing, and these have been educational in nature, with unproven effectiveness. Surveys results suggested that use of smart phone while crossing the road was low for the sample overall, but significantly higher among 18-30 year olds, with 30% indicating they used their smart phones for texting or internet access at risky levels while crossing the road. Risk perception and attitudes towards using a smart phone while crossing were important factors influencing likely behaviour for 18-30 year olds. Countermeasures should integrate education and engineering interventions within a Safe System approaches, target pedestrians under 30 years, and be located at high pedestrian activity locations.
Seismic Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation Supporting Single-Degree-of-Freedom Structures

규사모래지반에 대하여 동적원심모형 시험과 3차원 시간영역 양해법을 적용한 수치해석을 이용하여 단자유도 얕은 기초 구조물의 지진시 지지력 평가를 수행하였다. 수치해석은 동적원심모형 시험의 원형스케일로 시행되었다. 수치해석결과는 실험 계측결과와 매우 일치하는 해석결과를 나타내었다. 본 논문에서는 검증된 수치해석결과로 부터 기초면 하 접지압을 획득하여 지진시.
ASSESSMENT OF VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR AND SOLUBLE FIBRIN MONOMER COMPLEX IN LEUKEMIC PATIENTS

Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a common hematological malignancy characterized by the clonal growth of myeloblasts/promyelocytes not only in the bone marrow but also in peripheral blood and/or tissues. Thrombosis is a major complication; early detection of thrombotic event is the important of its treatment. Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a major component of hemostasis. Soluble fibrin monomer complex (SFMC) forms in early stage of thrombus formation by fusion of two fibrinogen molecules and one fibrin monomer. Objective: To assess the levels of VWF Ag, a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondin type I motif, member13 (ADAMTS13), D dimer & SFMC in patients with AML. Patients and methods: The study was conducted on 40 patients newly diagnosed as AML patients. They were compared with 40 healthy individuals with identical demographic characteristics not suffering from any disease. Levels of VWF Ag, ADAMTS13, D dimer and SFMC were measured in both groups by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). This study carried out over a period from April2019 and March 2020, at Sayed Galal University Hospital. Results: A significant increase in VWF Ag, SFMC, DD and a significant decrease in ADAMTS13 level occurred in all patients with AML compared with control group. (p=<0.0001). Conclusion: VWF and ADAMTS13 played an important role in hypercoagulability state in AML patients. SFMC could be used as an early indicator of hypercoagulability.
THE DETERMINANTS OF EARNING QUALITY OF LISTED FIRMS IN VIETNAM

This paper examines the determinants of earnings quality of Vietnamese listed firms. By using data of 528 non-financial listed firms from 2011 to 2020 and applying the Fixed-effect and System GMM method, we find that financial performance, firm age, and audit committee independence have positive effects on earnings quality. In contrast, firm leverage is negatively related to earnings quality. These results provide some important implications for firms to enhance earnings quality.
Neural Adaptation of the Electrically Stimulated Auditory Nerve Is Not Affected by Advanced Age in Postlingually Deafened, Middle-aged, and Elderly Adult Cochlear Implant Users

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the associations between advanced age and the amount and the speed of neural adaptation of the electrically stimulated auditory nerve (AN) in postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant (CI) users. Design: Study participants included 26 postlingually deafened adult CI users, ranging in age between 28.7 and 84.0 years (mean: 63.8 years, SD: 14.4 years) at the time of testing. All study participants used a Cochlear Nucleus device with a full electrode array insertion in the test ear. The stimulus was a 100-ms pulse train with a pulse rate of 500, 900, 1800, or 2400 pulses per second (pps) per channel. The stimulus was presented at the maximum comfortable level measured at 2400 pps with a presentation rate of 2 Hz. Neural adaptation of the AN was evaluated using electrophysiological measures of the electrically evoked compound action potential (eCAP). The amount of neural adaptation was quantified by the adaptation index (AI) within three time windows: around 0 to 8 ms (window 1), 44 to 50 ms (window 2), and 94 to 100 ms (window 3). The speed of neural adaptation was quantified using a two-parameter power law estimation. In 23 participants, four electrodes across the electrode array were tested. In three participants, three electrodes were tested. Results measured at different electrode locations were averaged for each participant at each pulse rate to get an overall representation of neural adaptation properties of the AN across the cochlea. Linear-mixed models (LMMs) were used (1) to evaluate the effects of age at testing and pulse rate on the speed of neural adaptation and (2) to assess the effects of age at testing, pulse rate, and duration of stimulation (i.e., time window) on the amount of neural adaptation in these participants. Results: There was substantial variability in both the amount and the speed of neural adaptation of the AN among study participants. The amount and the speed of neural adaptation increased at higher pulse rates. In addition, larger amounts of adaptation were observed for longer durations of stimulation. There was no significant effect of age on the speed or the amount of neural adaptation. Conclusions: The amount and the speed of neural adaptation of the AN are affected by both the pulse rate and the duration of stimulation, with higher pulse rates and longer durations of stimulation leading to faster and greater neural adaptation. Advanced age does not affect neural adaptation of the AN in postlingually deafened, middle-aged and elderly adult CI users.
Fishery Biology and Population Structure of the Blue Swimmer Crab, Portunus pelagicus, from the Red Sea, Egypt

Blue swimmer crab (BSC), Portunus pelagicus, is a tropical species belonging to family Portunidae and is found in estuaries and inshore marine waters. It is widely distributed in the Indian and the Pacific oceans (Svane & Hooper, 2014). It can be found in different water depths across many countries in Asia, Australia and Africa (La Sara et al., 2017). The blue swimming crab is a large commercially valuable crab found within tropical and subtropical regions of the Indo-West Pacific. Over 80 species are ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: Received: Oct. 12, 2021 Accepted: Nov. 30, 2021 Online: Dec. 24, 2021 _______________
Analysis of the Ability of Principal in Developing Policies to Maintain Education Quality in the Pandemic Covid-19 Era

This study aims to analyze the ability of school principals to develop policies in maintaining the quality of education in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. This research at SD Negeri 161/X Simbur Naik, Muara Sabak Timur Subdistrict, Tanjung Jabung Timur Regency, Jambi Province uses a qualitative approach with the research subjects being the principal, vice-principal, teachers, and educational staff as well as the documentation of related activities. The data sources in this study were school principals (primary data sources) and deputy principals, teachers, and education staff (secondary data sources) as well as documentation of related activities (tertiary data sources). To ensure the quality or validity of the data in this study, two important activities were carried out, namely reduction and triangulation. The results of the study show that in general, the ability of school principals to develop educational policies to maintain the quality of education in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic is good. This can be seen from five indicators, namely: 1) the ability to understand government policies related to the implementation of learning in the COVID19 pandemic era, 2) the ability to implement and adapt educational policies at the school level, 3) the ability to identify and analyze problems that occur, 4) the ability to look for alternatives to online learning problems, and 5) the ability to maintain teacher performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The five indicators as a whole have been carried out by the principal optimally.
Predicting Working Memory in Healthy Older Adults Using Real-Life Language and Social Context Information: A Machine Learning Approach

Background Language use and social interactions have demonstrated a close relationship with cognitive measures. It is important to improve the understanding of language use and behavioral indicators from social context to study the early prediction of cognitive decline among healthy populations of older adults. Objective This study aimed at predicting an important cognitive ability, working memory, of 98 healthy older adults participating in a 4-day-long naturalistic observation study. We used linguistic measures, part-of-speech (POS) tags, and social context information extracted from 7450 real-life audio recordings of their everyday conversations. Methods The methods in this study comprise (1) the generation of linguistic measures, representing idea density, vocabulary richness, and grammatical complexity, as well as POS tags with natural language processing (NLP) from the transcripts of real-life conversations and (2) the training of machine learning models to predict working memory using linguistic measures, POS tags, and social context information. We measured working memory using (1) the Keep Track test, (2) the Consonant Updating test, and (3) a composite score based on the Keep Track and Consonant Updating tests. We trained machine learning models using random forest, extreme gradient boosting, and light gradient boosting machine algorithms, implementing repeated cross-validation with different numbers of folds and repeats and recursive feature elimination to avoid overfitting. Results For all three prediction routines, models comprising linguistic measures, POS tags, and social context information improved the baseline performance on the validation folds. The best model for the Keep Track prediction routine comprised linguistic measures, POS tags, and social context variables. The best models for prediction of the Consonant Updating score and the composite working memory score comprised POS tags only. Conclusions The results suggest that machine learning and NLP may support the prediction of working memory using, in particular, linguistic measures and social context information extracted from the everyday conversations of healthy older adults. Our findings may support the design of an early warning system to be used in longitudinal studies that collects cognitive ability scores and records real-life conversations unobtrusively. This system may support the timely detection of early cognitive decline. In particular, the use of a privacy-sensitive passive monitoring technology would allow for the design of a program of interventions to enable strategies and treatments to decrease or avoid early cognitive decline.
LIPIDS PROFILE AMONG EGYPTIAN SCHOOL AGE OBESE CHILDREN

Background: Obesity and overweight raises adverse changes in lipid profiles as complications of obesity, while decreasing or increasing the related obesity indices such as BMI and waist circumference might affect the parameters of lipid. Objectives: To assess lipid profile in school-age obese children. Patients and methods: This case-control study was conducted on 80 Egyptian children divided into 4 equal groups according to anthropometric indexes: Overweight group, central obesity without general obesity group, central obesity with general obesity group and control group. All children were subjected to history taking, complete clinical examination, local systemic examination, complete blood count and fasting lipid profile. Results: There was a statistically significant difference between the studied groups regarding skipping breakfast, access to soft drink at home, consumption of sweetened drink per week and frequency of fruit consumption. Higher percentage of control (Normal weight) group reported significantly less frequency of skipping breakfast (<3times/week), no access to soft drink at home, fewer consumption of sweetened drink per week (<3 times/week), and higher frequency of fruit consumption (≥3times/week). There was a statistically significant difference between the general central obesity and overweight groups regarding serum triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL, VLDL and HDL cholesterol. There was a statistically significant difference between the general central obesity and control groups regarding serum triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL, VLDL and HDL cholesterol. A statistically significant difference was between the central obesity and overweight groups regarding serum triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL, VLDL and HDL cholesterol. Significant difference was found between the central obesity and control groups regarding serum triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL, VLDL and HDL cholesterol. Conclusion: Detection of abnormalities in lipid profile such as high TG and low HDL-C levels in overweight and obese children can help in preventing the child from progression to metabolic syndrome.
Effect of relationship between planting distance and load of buds on bud behavior, vegetative growth, yield, canopy microclimate and fruit quality of Flame seedless grapevines

This experiment was carry out for two successive seasons on Flame seedless grapevines (2019 & 2020) in vineyard of EL-Baramon experimental farm, Horticultural Research Institute, Mansoura, Egypt. The target of this present study was identify the optimum planting distance and number of buds which must be left per square meter to gain the best results with respect to bud behavior, characteristics of vegetative growth , yield, canopy microclimate and quality of berries. The vines were planted under three different levels of planting distances (1.5 x 3m & 2 x 3m and 2.5 x 3m) and were loaded at three different levels of buds load (8 &10 and12 buds/ m 2 ). Results showed that all studied characteristics were significantly affected with planting distance and load of buds. Increasing planting distance from (1.5m×3m) to (2.5m×3m) was accompanied with an improve in vegetative growth parameters, nutritional status, yield/vine, microclimatic data and chemical properties in berries, while decreased bud burst%, cluster and berry weight yield/ feddan. Also, increase load of buds /vine from (8 buds/ m 2 ) to (12 buds/ m 2 ) was accompanied by an increase in yield/vines and feddan, while negatively effected on bud burst%, vegetative growth parameters, microclimatic data, chemical properties in berries and total carbohydrates in cans.It could be suggested that planting Flame seedless grapevines at planting distance (2.5mx3m) or (2mx3m) with retained (8buds/m 2 ) were considered the most optimum treatment for improving vines nutritional status, vegetative growth characteristics, microclimatic data and quality of berries.
Influence and personality: relationships among superdiffuser traits and big five traits

ABSTRACT A survey was conducted (N = 632) to determine which of the Big Five personality traits tended to be related to each of the three traits specified in the superdiffuser model of diffusion and influence (connector, persuader, maven). The purpose of the study was to better understand the traits that form the core of the superdiffuser model of opinion leadership and to inform methods of recruiting superdiffusers for behavior change campaigns. The connector and persuader measures were both associated with extraversion, as predicted. Persuader scores were somewhat negatively associated with agreeableness and positively with openness. Six types of mavenness were tested and found to vary substantially in their associations with Big Five personality traits. Clothing mavenness was positively associated with neuroticism whereas sports mavenness was negatively associated. These results suggest that mavenness for one topic may exist in a different nomological network than mavenness for another.
Value of Fetal Renal Artery Doppler Indices in Idiopathic Oligohydramnios and Polyhydramnios

Background: The advent of fetal hemodynamic studies performed in conjunction with Doppler velocimetry of the umbilical arteries enabled clinicians to detect abnormal fetal blood flow and evaluate perfusion of the fetal organs. Technological advances have permitted the study of other vessels, including the renal artery, thereby improving fetal surveillance. The aim of this work is to study the relation of renal artery flow velocity waveforms and amniotic fluid volume in normal pregnancies and those complicated by either polyhydramnios or oligohydramnios. Methods: this study included 60 women; they were divided into 3 groups; Group (I): included 20 women with normal amniotic fluid volume, Group (II): 20 women with oligohydramnios, Group (III): 20 women with polyhydramnios. Pulsed wave Doppler sonographic studies was performed on the participants placed in the left lateral position with a 3.5-MHz convex transducer. The wall filter was set at the lowest available setting (50– 75 Hz) to preserve the end-diastolic component of the waveform. Results and Conclusion: There is a relation between renal artery flow velocity waveforms and Amniotic fluid index, whether normal, oligohydramnios or polyhydramnios, using Pulsed wave Doppler Ultrasonography. An increase in Renal Artery PI value develops in relation to decreased AFI (Oligohydramnios) especially in the third trimester, which may be an indicator for rapid delivery to save the life of the fetus. Oligohydramnios could be predicted according to changes in the Renal artery PI values. In pregnancies with increased AFI (Polyhydramnios), Renal artery PI values were decreased
Error Management on Modern Flight Decks: How Pilots Explain and Recover from Unintended Actions and Outcomes

Errors are a fundamental aspect of human adaptation in complex systems. Efforts to reduce and/or eliminate errors through training and design have met with only limited success. Therefore, it is critical to invest also in effective support for error management (the detection, explanation, and recovery from errors) to mitigate their negative consequences. To date, most research on error management has focused on the first step in this process – error detection. Instead, this paper presents a subset of results from a recent simulator study that examined the role of error explanation and the nature and effectiveness of error recovery strategies. Process tracing was used to analyze error management activities of pilots on highly automated flight decks. Our findings suggest that incomplete mental models of automation function limit error explanation and often lead to recovery strategies that rely on either “resetting” the system or serendipitous error evasion prior to negative consequences, or reverting to lower levels of automation when immediate corrective actions become necessary. These findings will be discussed in terms of their implications for training and design.