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Double Burden of Poverty and Cardiovascular Disease Risk among Low-Resource Communities in South Africa

Limited studies evaluating the prevalence of cardiovascular risk (CVR) in resource-poor black communities in South Africa (SA), exist. The objective of this chapter is to evaluate the prevalence of CVR in a cross-sectional studies in randomly selected low income children, adults and elderly in Gauteng, Free State and Eastern Cape, SA. The test panel of CVR markers included: anthropometry, lipid profile, blood pressure, fibrinogen, high sensitive–C–reactive protein (HS–CRP), homocysteine, vitamin B12, folate, glucose and dietary intakes. The main findings indicated high CVR with prevalence of overweight/obesity, Hypertension, hyperhomocysteinaemia, increased fibrinogen and HS-CRP, as well as low intakes of dietary fibre, vitamins B6 and B12, folate and polyunsaturated- and monounsaturated fatty acids, and high intakes of dietary sodium, saturated and trans fatty acids, and added sugars. Multiple CVR factors are present among all the communities. It can thus be concluded that a double burden of poverty and risk of CVD exists across the different age groups and geographical locations in these resource-poor communities.
Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of global mortality. Besides imparting a tremendous amount of human suffering, they also inflict huge direct and indirect financial costs on the worldwide society. With the ready availability of affordable therapeutics, and the lack of newer innovations, non-invasive strategies are being developed to halt their worldwide spread. The major emphasis has been on implementing lifestyle changes. Physical exercise is one such prescription. This manuscript briefly discusses the benefits of exercise in the prevention and management of cardiovascular diseases. Keywords: Cardiovascular, Erectile dysfunction, Coronary heart disease.
Optimization of a Microgrid Integrated with Renewable Energies using PSO

Nowadays, microgrids (MGs) play a crucial role in modern power systems due to possibility of integrating renewable energies into the MG system. It is expected in near future collaborating microgrids as a community has a great affect in providing efficient energy for suppliers. Therefore, optimal operation of a MG, as a first step, is an important issue in this field. In this paper, by considering an integrated MG comprised of conventional generators, photovoltaic and wind a particle swarm optimization (PSO) is applied to minimize the cost function of the MG. Finally, the simulation results are discussed and analyzed to evaluate the system operation.
Expedient floating process for ultra-thin InGaZnO thin-film-transistors and their high bending performance

Recently, much attention has been focused on the development of devices with ultra-thin sample thickness for imperceptible and patchable applications, but the use of inorganic active films in flexible electronics has seen a great obstacle due to brittle mechanical properties during bending, despite better electrical performance and high stability. We report a procedure for fabricating organic electronic devices on ultra-thin polymer substrates using a floating process. This process uses water soluble polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a sacrificial layer and the maximum process temperature is increased until around 200 °C, which is a valuable condition for high-quality InGaZnO channels and Al2O3 gate dielectrics. The 400 nm PVA coating produced with low molecular weight characteristics had relatively smooth surface roughness and quick floating process. The ultra-thin InGaZnO TFT showed good transfer and reproducible performance under extreme bending conditions due to the use of ultra-thin compliant substrates.
Development of apparatus to evaluate cutting resistance of protective fabrics

In recent decades, attention has been focused on the design of protective soft fabrics against cutting. The anticipated textiles should shield the wearer's body from threats caused by pointed or sharp-edged objects, such as a knife, sharp blade, or spike. Therefore, as it is of great importance to design slash-resistant fabrics, it is also necessary to have an apparatus that gives the possibility to simulate the conditions of cutting processes of the protective fabric. The main objective of the present work is to develop a new apparatus to test the slash-proof materials used in soft protective armor or gloves. The apparatus can test the material with different cutting angles, different speeds, and various normal forces applied to the sample at the point of contact between the material and the cutting blade, with the capability to change all the parameters affecting the cutting force. This study aims to develop a cutting apparatus to study the cutting mechanism of textile materials with the capability to change all the parameters affecting the cutting force. The cutting angle and cutting speed have a significant effect on the maximum cutting force; however, the latter showed a high decrease of the maximum cutting force.
Síndrome de Münchausen por poderes. Alto riesgo para la vida de niños, niñas y adolescentes

The objective of this article was to carry out a review of the Munchausen syndrome to contribute to the early diagnosis of this type of high-risk child abuse. One of the goals was to disseminate it among the professionals of health teams, organizations that protect the rights of children and adolescents, the justice system and school institutions. The historical journey of the concept was described and its characteristics, clinical manifestations and indicators were addressed. An unpublished data collection model for health care providers was presented. An epidemiological registry was prepared with data obtained from the Family Violence Unit of the Pedro de Elizalde Children's Hospital, from the period 2001-2017, the result of which was 24 confirmed cases. The diagnostic strategy during the hospitalization of children and adolescents, the behaviour of the perpetrator, the counter-transference aspects of the treating team, the discharge and the psychological treatment of the child were described.
The Unusual Severe Dust Storm of May 2018 Over Northern India: Genesis, Propagation, and Associated Conditions

On the evening of May 02, 2018, an unusually severe dust storm (DS) from a convective system, which developed over the Thar Desert, struck northwest India resulting in more than 100 casualties. Analysis of its genesis from surface measurements and reanalysis data indicates that this DS was “Haboob” type which are formed when strong downdrafts from a convective system reaches the surface in arid regions. Surface observations show that this DS was accompanied by a sharp drop in temperature and visibility and increase in relative humidity. Model simulation at convective‐permitting scale reveals the complex structure of dust transport in space and time. In contrast to the generally observed dust storms over the Indo‐Gangetic Plain being mostly associated with westerly wind bringing dust from Southwest Asia and Eastern Africa, this particular DS was triggered by strong easterly wind. The moisture‐laden easterly wind at the surface level colliding against the dry westerlies from the desert region along a steep front resulted in strong convection over northwest India leading to the formation of strong downdrafts. This, in turn, was largely due to the positioning of the upper level jet stream, which modulated the location and the strengths of surface lows and highs. The importance of this study is that while recent studies indicate that dust aerosol over India is on the decline partly due to reduction in westerly wind strength, the present work shows that anomalous easterlies can provide an alternate pathway to intense dust storms over the region.
Which Green Transport Corridors (GTC) Are Efficient? A Dual-Step Approach Using Network Equilibrium Model (NEM) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

The development of Green Transport Corridors (GTCs) is an important strategy to help a region achieve more sustainable solutions. When such GTCs are implemented, multimodal supply chains and environmentally-friendly alternatives for freight transportation through economically relevant hubs and long-distance routes can be facilitated. Based on previous efforts for evaluating single routes, this paper aimed to propose a single multi-criteria Logistics Composite Index (LCI), constructed based on a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), to evaluate the efficiency of GTCs considering the integration of multiple transport modes (highways, railways, and waterways). This approach consists of a dual-step procedure, applying a Network Equilibrium Model (NEM) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It was applied to Brazilian agricultural bulk transport export corridors, considering the existing and planned infrastructure in the harvest year of 2018/2019. In general, the best indexes were those from corridors considering planned railways. Specifically, the best index was from a corridor from the Northeast region. The second was from the South. The third was from the North (Amazon), and was one of the few corridors with adequate waterways. This approach is useful for decision-makers to determine the most efficient corridors as well as for policy-makers to guide infrastructure investments and address public policies.
Qualidade físico-química de mortadelas e carnes moídas e conhecimento dos consumidores na conservação destes produtos Quality physicist-chemistry of mortadelas and pounded meats and knowledge of the consumer in the conservation of these

Meat products present a composition that facilitates its deterioration. Cares since the production to the consumption guarantee its quality. Was evaluated pH, temperature, calcium, humidity, sulfidrico gas and sulfite of pounded meats and mortadelas, and the knowledge of the consumer in the conservation of these. Respecting to pH, all the samples of pounded meats and 2 of mortadelas were of the established one for lANARA. The temperature of 60% of the samples was superior to the praised one. All the samples were inside of the standards respecting to the composition of calcium and humidity. All pounded meats and 92% of mortadelas had presented sulfidric gas. The sulfite presence was observed in 47% of the pounded meats. Analyzing the label it was observed that 20% of mortadelas did not respecting to the calcium composition and 57% of mortadelas and 40% of the pounded meats did not for humidity. But 60% of the consumers observe the temperature of conservation of the meat products in the ranks of selling (“contact”) and the freezing of these in the proper packing is common. one gives credit that the industry and the comercializador establishment must be fiscalized with bigger severity and that educative actions of the consumer must be stimulated aiming at the guarantee of the quality in the food sector.
A prospective study on prescribing pattern of drugs in geriatric patients in the department of medicine in a tertiary care center

Background: India stands at 3 position with large elderly population in the world. Elderly population has special problems related to health, social support, and economic security. Comorbidities in elderly people are frequent, which require use of multiple medications which increases the number of inappropriate medications noncompliance, economic burden, adverse drug reactions (ADRs), and drug interactions. The overall incidence of ADR is two to three times higher due to physiological and pharmacological variations. Currently used screening tools for inappropriate prescription in old age are: Beers criteria and inappropriate prescribing in the elderly tool (IPET). Methods: A prospective observational study of elderly patients of either sex admitted in the medicine ward, conducted from May 2019-November 2019. A total of 102 prescriptions were collected and analysed. Data was analysed using Microsoft excel. Results: In this study most of the patients (67 out of 102) were in the age group 65-70 years with male population (73%) dominance. Most of the patient were admitted due to cardiovascular (35.84%) and respiratory system (14.15%) disorder. Anti-diabetics (17.64%) followed by anti-microbials (14.24%) were the most commonly prescribed medicines in this study. Our study revealed poly pharmacy in geriatric patients with an average number of drugs per prescription being 6.07. According to BEER’s criteria 3.47% of total drugs prescribed were inappropriate Conclusions: In this study most of the patients had co morbid conditions, cardiovascular disease and diabetes being the common cause led to polypharmacy. A high number of potential prescription errors were found.
The 100 Top-cited Studies on Ebola: A Bibliometric Analysis

Background: The achievements in Ebola virus disease (EVD) prevention and control can be reflected by scientific studies, particularly in the top-cited studies. The study thus aimed to identify and characterise the 100 top-cited studies of Ebola.Methods: The study used a retrospective bibliometric analysis, which was performed in January 2020. Studies were searched from the Web of Science using the keywords: “Ebola” or “Ebola virus” or “Ebola virus disease” to identify the 100 top-cited ebola studies. Studies were analysed for the number of citations, authorship, and journal, year of publication, country and institution. The analyses were carried out using SPSS, HistCite and VOSviewer.Results: The 100 top-cited studies were published between 1977 and 2017, were cited from 169 to 808 times and had an average citation of 290.5, and 8 studies were cited more than 500 times. They were published in 31 journals, and Journal of Virology published most of the studies (n=14). They were produced by 33 countries, and the USA published most of the studies (63), followed by Germany (8) and Gabon (6). Centre for Disease prevention and Control-USA (26) was the leading institution, while Geisbert TW and Sanchez A were the most productive authors.Conclusions: This study provides insights into the historical advancements reflected by the top-cited studies and has highlighted the leading roles played by various stakeholders in addressing EVD. However, the contribution of African countries is not sufficiently reflected among these studies, and so more focus, funding and involvement in clinical research is needed for effective prevention and control of EVD in Africa.
The Corporate Governance of Environmental Sustainability: A Review and Proposal for More Integrated Research

As corporations’ environmental impact comes under greater scrutiny by global financial, regulatory, and societal stakeholders, management scholars have increasingly focused on the role of corporate governance as a tool for driving environmental initiatives. Still, we lack a comprehensive and systematic understanding of this emergent body of inquiry and a holistic agenda for future research. To address this gap, our integrative framework relates the key corporate governance actors to environmental sustainability outcomes from the extant literature and highlights its main methodological approaches and theoretical arguments. Our framework provides a critical analysis of what we know and points to the knowledge gaps around owners, boards of directors, CEOs, top management teams, and employees as corporate governance actors. We then highlight limitations in the existing literature as significant opportunities for further research to resolve its ambiguous conceptualizations of environmental sustainability constructs, various methodological and theoretical challenges, incomplete engagement with the global dimension of environmental sustainability, and limited analysis of how corporate governance actors may interact to shape environmental sustainability outcomes. We conclude by proposing novel approaches for addressing these issues, which we believe could generate a better way forward on studying the corporate governance of environmental sustainability.
Entropy information-based heterogeneous deep selective fused features using deep convolutional neural network for sketch recognition

An effective feature representation can boost recognition tasks in the sketch domain. Due to an abstract and diverse structure of the sketch relatively with a natural image, it is complex to generate a discriminative features representation for sketch recognition. Accordingly, this article presents a novel scheme for sketch recognition. It generates a discriminative features representation as a result of integrating asymmetry essential information from deep features. This information is kept as an original feature ‐ vector space for making a final decision. Specifically, five different well ‐ known pre ‐ trained deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), namely, AlexNet, VGGNet ‐ 19, Inception V3, Xception, and InceptionResNetV2 are fine ‐ tuned and utilised for feature extraction. First, the high ‐ level deep layers of the networks were used to get multi ‐ features hierarchy from sketch images. Second, an entropy ‐ based neighbourhood component analysis was employed to optimise the fusion of features in order of rank from multiple different layers of various deep networks. Finally, the ranked features vector space was fed into the support vector machine (SVM) classifier for sketch classification outcomes. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated on
THEMED SECTION: MEDIATORS AND RECEPTORS IN THE RESOLUTION OF INFLAMMATION RESEARCH PAPER Resolvin D1 controls inflammation initiated by glutathione-lipid conjugates formed during oxidative stress

Background and purpose: Inflammation is associated with oxidative stress and local generation of lipid peroxidation-derived aldehydes, such as 4-hydroxy-trans-2-nonenal (HNE). In most tissues, HNE is readily conjugated with glutathione and presently it is unknown whether glutathionyl-HNE (GS-HNE) plays a functional role in inflammation. Here, we sought to determine whether GS-HNE is a mediator of oxidative stress-initiated inflammation and if its actions can be regulated by the antiinflammatory and pro-resolving lipid mediator, resolvin D1 (RvD1). Experimental approach: GS-HNE was administered intraperitoneally to mice and peritoneal lavages were assessed for leukocyte infiltration and lipid mediators were targeted by mediator-lipidomics. RvD1 was administered to mice treated with GS-HNE and leukocyte infiltration was assessed in the peritoneum. Superoxide production and CD11b modulation were measured in isolated human polymorphonuclear leukocytes incubated with GS-HNE. Key results: GS-HNE (1–10 mg) evoked infiltration of Gr-1+ leukocytes into the peritoneum to form an inflammatory exudate. With isolated human polymorphonuclear leukocytes, GS-HNE stimulated both superoxide generation and CD11b expression. Among the lipid mediators, both cyclooxygenaseand lipoxygenase-derived pro-inflammatory eicosanoids, including prostaglandin E2, leukotriene B4 and cysteinyl leukotrienes, were generated in exudates of mice injected intraperitoneally with GS-HNE. RvD1, given i.v. in doses as low as 0.01–10.0 ng, sharply reduced GS-HNE-stimulated leukocyte infiltration (~30–70%). Conclusions and implications: Glutathione conjugates of HNE, derived during oxidative stress, are pro-inflammatory in vivo. RvD1 protects against this oxidative stress-initiated inflammation. British Journal of Pharmacology (2009) 158, 1062–1073; doi:10.1111/j.1476-5381.2009. 00234.x; published online 5 May 2009
Topsoil alternatives selection for surface coal-mined land reclamation in Inner Mongolia, China: an experimental study

ABSTRACT There are many surface coal mines located in Inner Mongolia, which has dry and scarce topsoil, and the selection of topsoil alternatives is key to coal-mined land reclamation. This study used the largest surface coal mine in the Holonbuyr grassland as the experimental site. The soil of layer II (loess) and layer III (mild clay) under the local topsoil, which has a high clay content and good texture, has the potential to be a substitute for topsoil. To reduce its viscosity and improve its nutrients, soil amendments mixed with organic matter, such as corn stalk and sheep and cattle manure and microbial agents, were added to four mixed substrates with different formulas. Twelve topsoil alternatives were produced and compared for further research. The results show that (1) by mixing a variety of substrates, topsoil alternatives can fully meet the alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) growth requirement. (2) The addition of exogenous organic matter and microbial agents could significantly increase the nutrient content and the number of microorganisms in the soil, thereby increasing the plant height of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and the average dry mass of the aboveground and underground parts
Prediction of Mining-Induced Kinematic 3-D Displacements From InSAR Using a Weibull Model and a Kalman Filter

Accurately predicting ground surface deformation is a crucial task in mining-related geohazards control. Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique can widely detect historical line-of-sight (LOS) displacements with a high spatial resolution. By incorporating with spatio-temporal deformation models, InSAR can predict kinematic 3-D displacements due to underground mining. However, this method depends on the geometric parameters (at least seven generally) of underground mined-out areas, hindering its practical applications especially over a large area. To circumvent this, we proposed a new method for predicting kinematic 3-D mining displacements by incorporating InSAR with a temporal model, rather than spatio-temporal models used before, in this article. In doing so, much less prior parameters (only three and can be empirically given) are required, with respect to the previous InSAR-based methods. To achieve this, we first revealed that InSAR LOS displacements caused by underground longwall mining at a single point temporally follow an S-shaped growth pattern. Meanwhile, we also showed that a Weibull model can describe the temporal evolution well. Based on these findings, the proposed method first predicts, in a point-wise manner, the kinematic LOS mining displacements from historical InSAR measurements using the Weibull model and a Kalman filter. The kinematic 3-D displacements are then resolved from the predicted LOS displacements with the help of a common prior information relating to mining deformation. The proposed method was tested in the Datong coal mining area of north China. The results show an averaged accuracy of about 0.007 m of the resolved kinematic 3-D displacements.
Language Usage and Human Resource Performance in Local Governments in Uganda: A Case of Bududa District

In this paper, the authors explain how language usage can affect human resource performance. They do that by explaining how language can be used in different institutions. Authors provide their explanations by referring to Bududa Local district government. The study's objectives were to explain the importance of human resources in organisations and the usefulness of language usage in human resource performance. The research problem is that in Uganda, language usage has not been emphasised so much as a key element in human resource performance. In this study, the researchers used a case study and field research designs. By using this particular research design, they interviewed only a few people and the results were used to represent the whole District. The researchers used the staff in different departments as their respondents following their experience. The researchers tallied the data and gave the frequency of each role of language usage in human resource performance. After tallying the data, the results were presented by the use of tables. The study's findings are as follows: promoting unity among the employees, promoting love among the employees, giving employees the zeal to do the work, making the employees develop the spirit of belonging, and developing a collective responsibility spirit.