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Ecological-Economic Modelling for Biodiversity Conservation

Ecologists and economists both use models to help develop strategies for biodiversity management. The practical use of disciplinary models, however, can be limited because ecological models tend not to address the socioeconomic dimension of biodiversity management, whereas economic models tend to neglect the ecological dimension. Given these shortcomings of disciplinary models, there is a necessity to combine ecological and economic knowledge into ecological-economic models. Gradually guiding the reader into the field of ecological-economic modelling by introducing mathematical models and their role in general, this book provides an overview on ecological and economic modelling approaches relevant for research in the field of biodiversity conservation. It discusses the advantages of and challenges associated with ecological-economic modelling, together with an overview of useful ways of integration. Although being a book about mathematical modelling, ecological and economic concepts play an equally important role, making it accessible for readers from very different disciplinary backgrounds.
Teacher Feedback Its Correlation with Students’ Preferences and Perceptions, and Its Impact on Learning at an International school in Thailand.

Being up-to-date with researched-based teaching practice is essential in providing qualityeducation. To achieve this goal, this quantitative study investigated the effect of teacherfeedback (TF) on student learning in an international high school. It was hypothesized thatteacher feedback affects achievement. A paper-and-pen survey questionnaire adapted fromRowe and Wood (2008) was administered to students in grades 9-12. Data was collectedthrough convenient sampling (N= 78). Descriptive statistics analysis revealed TF methodswere either individual verbal, individual written, group verbal or group written. Studentsvalued TF that specifically revealed what needed to be improved, and what the teachers’expectations were relevant to the purpose of the assignment. They preferred TF on the errorsthey made on their right and wrong answers and through sample answers posted onSchoology. This was indicative of TF on surface learning. The preferred TF on deep learningincluded discussing the subject with the teacher, guidance on how to work out the answers ontheir own and participation in classroom discussion. A multiple regression was calculated topredict CGPA based on teacher feedback. The result shows that there is a weak relationshipbetween TF and student achievement (R2 of .096). For those who are interested in teacherfeedback, the researcher recommends an experimental study on the feedback that leads toself-regulation
Clinicopathological Profile and Treatment Outcomes of Bilateral Breast Cancer: A Study from Tertiary Cancer Center in South India

Abstract Background: Bilateral breast cancer (BBC) is a rare clinical entity with limited data regarding clinicopathological aspects and treatment guidelines. Materials and Methods: This was an observational study of patients diagnosed with BBC from August 2012 to July 2014. Synchronous breast cancers (SBCs) was defined as two tumors diagnosed within an interval of 6 months and metachronous breast cancer (MBC) as second cancer diagnosed after 6 months. Results: Out of 750 breast cancer patients seen during a 2-year period, 35 had BBC. Ten patients were diagnosed as SBC whereas 25 patients as MBC. Among patients with MBC, the average time for development of contralateral breast cancer was 5 years. In 8 patients, the contralateral breast cancer was detected mammography whereas rest 27 patients were detected by clinical breast examination. At a median follow-up of 24 months, 23 (66%) patients were disease free, 9 (26%) patients had disease relapse, and 3 (8%) patients succumbed to the progressive disease. Conclusions: Every patient with breast cancer should be regularly followed up with clinical breast examination at a more frequent interval. The role of frequent clinical breast examination appears more than mammography especially beyond 5 years for early detection of contralateral breast cancer.
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS, FINANCING TYPE, ACCREDITATION STATUS, AND QUALITY OF HEALTH SERVICES AT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, SURAKARTA

Background: An indicator of quality health service is the extent of patient expectation fulfilment. Perceived quality of health services may be influenced by various factors such as patient socio-demographic factors, financing type, and accreditation status. As statistics have shown, the number of patient visits at Surakarta Community Health Center has been decresing for the last few years. This study aimed to determine the associations between patient characteristics, financing type, accreditation status, and the quality of health services at community health center. Subjects and Method: This was a quantitative study with cross-sectional design. It was conducted at Community Health Center, Surakarta, Central Java, from May to July 2017. A sample of 120 patients were selected for this study from 2 Community Health Centers selected at random from all 17 Community Health Centers existing in Surakarta. The independent variables were patient characteristics, financing type, and accreditation status of the Community Health Centers selected. The dependent variable was quality of health service. The data were collected using a set of questionnaire and analyzed using multiple logistic regression. Results : Quality of service was negatively associated with patient education (OR = 0.27 ; 95% CI = 0.08 to 0.90; p = 0.033), being employed (OR = 0.15 ; 95% CI= 0.04 to 0.48; p = 0.002), higher patient income (OR = 0.28 ; 95% CI= 0.08 to 0.94; p = 0.039), being insured (OR = 3.06 ; 95% CI= 0.81 to 11.52; p = 0.099), and higher accreditation status of Community Health Care (OR = 2.96 ; 95% CI= 1.03-8.50; p = 0.044). Conclusion: Quality of service at Community Health Care is negatively associated with patient education, being employed, higher patient income, being insured, and higher accreditation status. Keywords: patient characteristic, financing type, accreditation status, quality of services Correspondence: Yeni Tri Utami. Masters Program in Public Health, Sebelas Maret University, Jl. Ir. Sutami 36 A, Surakarta 57126, Central Java. Email: yenie_03@yahoo.co.id. Mobile: +6285642339053. Journal of Health Policy and Management (2017), 2(1): 79-90 https://doi.org/10.26911/thejhpm.2017. 02.01. 07
Twenty-First-Century Climate Change Hot Spots in the Light of a Weakening Sun

Satellite measurements over the last three decades show a gradual decrease in solar output, which can be indicative as a precursor to a modern grand solar minimum (GSM). Using a chemistry–climate model, this study investigates the potential of two GSM scenarios with different magnitude to counteract the climate change by projected anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the twenty-first century. To identify regions showing enhanced vulnerability to climate change (hot spots) and to estimate their response to a possible modern GSM, a multidimensional metric is applied that accounts for—in addition to changes in mean quantities—seasonal changes in the variability and occurrence of extreme events. We find that a future GSM in the middle of the twenty-first century would temporarily mitigate the global mean impact of anthropogenic climate change by 10%–23% depending on the GSM scenario. A future GSM would, however, not be able to stop anthropogenic global warming. For the GHG-only scenario, our hot-spot analysis suggests that the midlatitudes show a response to rising GHGs below global average, while in the tropics, climate change hot spots with more frequent extreme hot seasons will develop during the twenty-first century. A GSM would reduce the climate change warming in all regions. The GHG-induced warming in Arctic winter would be dampened in a GSM due to the impact of reduced solar irradiance on Arctic sea ice. However, even an extreme GSM could only mitigate a fraction of the tropical hot-spot pattern (up to 24%) in the long term.
The effect of training intensity, age and diet on aerobic capacity and metabolic risk factors: testing procedures and training interventions

Background: Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) with accompanying metabolic risk factors such as overweight/obesity, reduced blood glucose control, elevated blood pressure, and dyslipidemia, is one of the most important predictors of all-cause mortality. Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) is considered the single best indicator of CRF. VO2max gradually decreases with increasing age, partly because of a reduced activity level, with concurrent increase of body weight (BW), reduced ability of fat oxidation (FatOx) and increased prevalence of T2D. High-intensity aerobic interval training (HAIT) has been found to effectively increase VO2max. HAIT may thus have the potential to counteract both age, -and inactivity related declines in VO2max and concomitant metabolic risk factors. Still, previous studies indicate blunted VO2max adaptations among older compared to younger individuals. However, no previous studies have systematically compared the VO2max responses after HAIT in different age groups. T2D most often occurs above the age of 30 and is associated with metabolic disturbances in both glucoseand FatOx. T2D is also associated with elevated blood pressure (BP), overweight and impaired blood lipid profile (BLP). Aerobic exercise has been associated with improvements in all these metabolic risk factors, but few studies have investigated the effects of HAIT compared to work matched moderate-intensity continuous training (MIT) on these variables among T2D. When assessing FatOx adaptations to exercise, it is crucial to have a strict diet control since changes in diet will interfere with the FatOx results. Test – retest reliability should also be considered when interpreting FatOx measurements, since day to day variations in FatOx will occur also during equal diet conditions. Objectives: To investigate a) the effects of HAIT on metabolic risk factors among individuals diagnosed with T2D (paper I), b) the effects of age on VO2max adaptations (paper II),and c) to evaluate the impact of diet and testing reliability on FatOx during exercise (paper III).
Evaluating the efficacy of liposomal delivery of nedaplatin in enhancing cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and DNA damage in lung, breast, and osteosarcoma cancer cell lines

APA Citation Abdelnaser, S. (2018). Evaluating the efficacy of liposomal delivery of nedaplatin in enhancing cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and DNA damage in lung, breast, and osteosarcoma cancer cell lines [Master’s thesis, the American University in Cairo]. AUC Knowledge Fountain. https://fount.aucegypt. edu/etds/479 MLA Citation Abdelnaser, Salma. Evaluating the efficacy of liposomal delivery of nedaplatin in enhancing cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and DNA damage in lung, breast, and osteosarcoma cancer cell lines. 2018. American University in Cairo, Master's thesis. AUC Knowledge Fountain. https://fount.aucegypt. edu/etds/479
Structural Relationships Among Parents’ Media Literacy, Smart-Media Mediation, Preschoolers’ Smart-Media Usage Time, and Social Competence

This to examine the importance of preschoolers’ social competence effects of smart-media (smartphones, tablet PCs) use on the development of their social competence. Methods: Questionnaires were used to measure preschoolers’ social competence, smart-media usage time, parents’ media literacy, and smart-media mediation. SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0 were used to analyze the collected data while descriptive statistics, t-test, Pearson’s correlation, structural equation modeling, and bootstrapping were adopted for data analysis. Results: First, parents’ media literacy had significant effects on their smart-media mediation, which in turn had indirect effects on preschoolers’ smart-media usage time. Second, preschoolers’ smart-media usage time had a significant effect on their social competence. Additionally, their parents’ smart-media mediation indirectly affected their social competence through their smart-media usage time. Conclusion: The findings highlight the importance of parental roles in mediating and regulating preschoolers’ use of smart-media to promote their healthy social development.
Kant on Logic and the Laws of the Understanding

Like all of our powers [Kräfte], the understanding in par tic u lar is bound in its acts [Handlungen] to rules we can investigate. [T]he science that contains these universal and necessary rules is a science merely of the form of our understanding’s cognition or of thinking. Now this science of the necessary laws of the understanding and of reason in general, or, which is the same, of the mere form of thinking, we call logic.
A cross-sectional study of the role of HIV/AIDS knowledge in risky sexual behaviors of adolescents in Nigeria

Background: Globally,anestimated4millionof the35millionpeoplelivingwithHIVarebetweentheagesof 15and24. Nigeriahas the second largest burden of HIV worldwide with an estimated 3.2 million individuals living with HIV/AIDS. The prevalence of HIV among adolescents in Nigeria is 3.5%, which is the highest among countries in West and Central Africa. Although insuﬃcient or a completelackof knowledgeaboutHIVhasbeenidentiﬁedasamajorbarriertoHIVpreventioneﬀorts,nostudyhasbeenconducted toevaluateHIVknowledge,identifydeﬁcienciesinknowledge,orexaminetherelationshipbetweenHIVknowledgeandriskysexual behaviors (RSB) among adolescents in senior secondary school (high school) in Nigeria. Objectives: Thepurposeof thisstudywastoevaluateHIVknowledge,identifydeﬁcienciesinknowledge,andexaminetherelation-ship between HIV knowledge and RSB among adolescents in senior secondary schools (high schools) in Nigeria. PatientsandMethods: Weconductedacross-sectionalsurveywithastratiﬁedrandomsampleof 361adolescentsfromninesenior secondaryschools(SS)inJosPlateaustateNigeria. WeusedtheHIV-KQ-18surveyquestionnairetoassessHIVrelatedknowledgeand RSB was assessed using the Brief HIV Screener (BHS) questionnaire. Descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation and multiple linear regression were performed using the SPSS 21. Signiﬁcance for the statistical test was set at P < 0.05. Results: Overall, 361 participants completed the survey. Forty-seven percent were males and 53% were females with a mean age of 16.9. HIV knowledge (t = -3.3, P < 0.01), age (t = 3.4, P < 0.01) and gender (t = -2.3, P < 0.01) were identiﬁed as signiﬁcant predictors of RSBwithfemaleparticipantshavinglowerRSBscores. AninverserelationshipwasidentiﬁedbetweenHIVknowledgeandRSB,while apositiverelationshipexistedbetweenRSBandage. DeﬁcienciesinHIVknowledgeandmisconceptionaboutHIVtransmissionwere identiﬁed. Conclusions: Adolescents in this study with higher HIV knowledge had low RSB, indicating the importance of including interventions to increase HIV knowledge in HIV prevention programs. Misconceptions about casual means of HIV transmission need to be clariﬁed, and culturally stigmatizing myths about HIV transmission need to be debunked among adolescents in Nigeria.
Modelling of nozzle cavitation in newtonian and viscoelastic fluids

Cavitation is the abrupt process of vapour formation due to pressure drop in liquid flows, which may occur in various equipment and hydraulic machinery such as propellers, bearings or fuel injectors. In fuel injector nozzles, cavitation formation may be either beneficial or detrimental to the engine performance, depending on the location and type of the vaporous structures. Cavitation can enhance the turbulence levels inside the nozzle and therefore improve the spray atomisation, moreover large vortex cavities known as string cavitation, can increase the spray cone angle. However, cavitation bubbles collapsing near the internal surfaces result in erosion and ultimately failure of the injector parts. Furthermore, excessive vapour formation inside the nozzle significantly reduces the nozzle discharge coefficient and may eventually result in chocked flow conditions. Therefore, understanding the cavitation dynamics and cavitation control is vital for injector design and an active topic in fluid dynamics research. Newly developed deposit control fuel additives have the potential to reduce the in-nozzle cavitation and enhance the flowrate even in clean injectors due to their non-Newtonian properties. This research aims to provide an understanding about the association between viscoelastic detergent additives and turbulent cavitating nozzle flows using computational fluid dynamics. An accurate framework for modelling the in-nozzle cavitation is developed. Performance of several RANS and LES models is assessed in predicting incipient and developed cavitation regimes. The Reboud at al. eddy viscosity correction is utilized to compensate the effect of mixture compressibility on turbulent viscosity in k-ɛ RNG and k-ω SST models. WALE LES results are validated against the velocity and rms of turbulent velocity measurements in a step nozzle. A homogeneous equilibrium cavitation model based on Wallis speed of sound formula is utilised to study the effect of vapour-liquid mass transfer rate compared to Zwart Gerber-Belamri (ZGB) and Schnerr-Sauer (SS) cavitation models. Cavitation vapour fraction values are validated against X-ray CT measurements. The Phan-Thien-Tanner (PTT) fluid model is implemented to simulate the shear-induced viscoelastic behaviour of Quaternary Ammonium Salt (QAS) surfactants in the additised fuel. The model is validated against analytical solution for channel flow and experimental measurements of corner vortex in a square contraction geometry. The effect of liquid viscosity on cavitation development is presented using LES simulations. Finally, the effect of viscoelasticity on different cavitation regimes, namely cloud cavitation inside a step nozzle and string cavitation in a realistic injector geometry is investigated using LES. The physical flow characteristics are investigated and the effect of the additive on cavitation inside the nozzle is presented. The numerical findings are found to be in agreement with experimental studies of additised fuel.
Spirituality at work and organizational commitment as moderating variables in relationship between Islamic spirituality and OCB IP and influence toward employee performance

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of Islamic spirituality toward organizational citizenship behavior from Islamic perspective (OCBIP), influence Islamic spirituality toward OCBIP in which spirituality at work and organizational commitment become mediators and influence of OCBIP toward working performance. Design/methodology/approach The study was categorized as an explanatory research. The setting of the study was the branch office of BRI Syariah in Malang. The population was employees of the branch office. The samples were 217 employees of BRI Syariah Malang. With an estimated population of 193 individuals and a 5 per cent confidence level, the total samples were 150 employees, including the supervisors. The sampling technique was proportional random sampling, in which all members of the population have an equal chance to become a sample based on proportion per section (Sekaran, 2003). The data were primary data obtained through questionnaires. The questionnaire consisted of question items on Islamic spirituality, workplace spirituality, organizational commitment and OCBIP. The data analysis technique was partial least squares (PLS). Findings Islamic spirituality is not directly influencing toward OCBIP, spirituality at work and organizational commitment as moderation variables in the influence of Islamic spirituality toward OCB IP, OCBIP had influence toward working performance. Higher OCBIP would result in better working performance accepted, and at the opposite, lower OCBIP would result in poorer working performance. Originality/value There are some limitations of previous studies that examine spirituality relationships with OCB. Nasrudin et al. (2013) and Kazemipour et al. (2012) found significant correlations between spirituality with OCB, but there is an inconsistency of research findings to suggest that spirituality has no direct effect on OCB, but through individual perceptions of organization. As the study of spirituality with OCB is still limited, this study attempts to explain OCB from an Islamic perspective, to propose a framework on Islamic spirituality, spirituality at work as an individual source of OCB and moderation of organizational commitment using Djafri and Noordin’s (2017) and previous empirical studies, with an aim to integrate the spirituality and OCB in a model that can be used to better understand OCB. It is hoped that this model development will reduce the scarcity of literature on spirituality with OCB through organizational commitment. This will help the organization to understand the role of spirituality and organizational commitment to improve OCB of employees that ultimately will improve organizational performance.
Ticket to the mind: a mobile eye-tracking investigation of executive functions while playing physical and digital games.

Physical and digital games are increasingly used beyond entertainment in schools and hospitals for their cognitive health benefits, but there is a lack of understanding of how game medium impacts executive functions. The present study presents a novel method using mobile eye-tracking, combined with a post-experiment survey, to compare working memory and inhibition between physical and digital versions of the popular board game Ticket to Ride. Results indicate that both fixation duration and mean pupil diameter change are statistically significantly greater while playing digital games versus physical games, indicating increased load on working memory. No statistically significant difference between the versions appear regarding the amount of time players spent looking at the game versus outside of it, suggesting level of inhibition does not differ. The findings can influence how games are used and designed for medical and educational purposes to maximize specific player experiences down to brain function during play. Keywords— Board games; physical games; digital games; executive functions; mobile eye-tracking; working memory; inhibition
Condiciones de trabajo relacionada con salud autopercibida en floricultores

RESUMEN: Para determinar asociación entre condiciones de trabajo (CT) y salud autopercibida se realizó estudio transversal y correlacional a 434 floricultores, aplicando SUSESO-ISTAS 21 y analizando datos con software STATA. Mujeres con mayor probabilidad que hombres de referir mala salud y se encuentra asociación significativa entre sexo y salud autopercibida. De las 4 dimensiones que miden CT, solo exigencia psicológica muestra asociación con salud autopercibida, resto de dimensiones muestran riesgo psicosocial moderado y alto. Concluyendo que CT afecta todas las esferas. Palabras clave: Salud auto percibida, condiciones de trabajo, bienestar de los trabajadores. ABSTRACT: To determine the association between working conditions (WC) and self-perceived health, a cross-sectional and correlational study was carried out on 434 florists, applying SUSESOISTAS 21 and analyzing data with STATA software. Women more likely than men of poor health reference and significant association between sex and self-perceived health. Of the 4 dimensions that measure WC, only psychological requirement shows association with self-perceived health, other dimensions risk moderate and high psychosocial risk. Concluding that WC affects all spheres.