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Change and the climate crisis: Aligning urgency and agency

Opinions of the enormity of the climate crisis range from President Trump’s denial (Jacobson, 2016) to the belief that we are experiencing the sixth mass extinction (Ceballos, Ehrlich, & Dirzo, 2017). In November 2016 on New Zealand television, Emeritus Professor Guy McPherson stated he could not imagine a human left on the planet in ten years, and that was three years ago (Newshub, 2016). More recently he has stated, “To put it simply, our fate as a species is sealed. We’re headed for extinction in the very near term” (McPherson, 2018, para. 20). These perspectives are poles apart on a continuum of opinion. The deniers are not motivated to reduce climate crisis drivers, while others on the continuum face the dilemma of how to respond.
Portable Body-Attached Positioning Mechanism Toward Robotic Needle Intervention

This article presents a robotic needle positioning approach with a novel 4-DoF parallel positioner, two back-driveable 2-channel linear/rotational driver, and a machine–body interface. Being more compact and flexible, Ni–Ti alloy wire-based Bowden cable transmission is introduced to connect the positioner and the drivers. For this new mechanism, forward and inverse kinematics are derived, and the workspace is analyzed. The mechanism’s maximum incidence angle is 45<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula>, and the stroke of the slider is 41 mm. The structural size of one positioner is <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\varnothing$</tex-math></inline-formula>70 mm × 45 mm. The compact size and lightweight of the positioner make it readily mountable on the skull or attached to other parts of the body. We fabricated a 3D printed proof-of-concept prototype of the system and tested its performance. The open-loop positioning accuracy of the slider and rotor is within <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\pm$</tex-math></inline-formula>1 mm and from <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-0.8^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula> to 1.5<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula>, respectively. The trajectory tracking error of the system is within 1.71 mm. The stiffness of the positioner in the <italic>x</italic>- and <italic>y</italic>-directions can be calculated as 9.03 and 11.91 N/mm, respectively. Finally, an image-guided navigation framework based on electromagnetic tracking demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed system on a phantom study.
El proceso de diseño desde la génesis de los materiales

Las nuevas dinámicas de generación de producción y difusión del conocimiento, y la interrelación con las plataformas de innovación aplicadas a los sistemas productivos locales, definen nuevos escenarios de innovación. La profunda comprensión de las operatorias de la complejidad contemporánea amplia el espectro de acción del proceso proyectual. La inclusión de la génesis de los materiales en el proceso proyectual redefine las posibles hipótesis de diseño y fomenta una dinámica de co-creación entre múltiples disciplinas.
Perceived Organisational Justice and Climate on Counterproductive Work Behaviour among Public Employees

Employee work activities that are more than expectations are the panacea for organisational success, in today’s dynamic workplace. In achieving this set goal, organisations need to be seen, by employees as taking care of their welfare, as employees are significant resources of an organisation. This study investigated perceived organisational justice and climate on counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) among public employees. A quantitative research design was used, with self-administered questionnaires for the collection of data. Three hundred and seventy-seven employees from public service organisations participated in the study. The participants were made up of 183 (50.3%) females, with a mean of 35.41 years of age, and 7.42 years of working experience. Results revealed that organisational justice and CWB were statistically significant (F (1, 359) = 11.53, p < 05). It was also found that organisational climate and CWB were statistically significant (F 1, 359) = 18.94, p < 0.05). The findings were discussed in line with the literature, as well as outlining their implications for management and suggesting appropriate recommendation. Specifically, the study suggested the creation of an enabling environment that will ensure that employees are well treated; this will encourage employees to take calculated risks with the aim of advancing the organisational objectives, promote employee citizenship behaviour as well as reduce dysfunctional behaviour.
Providing Functional Safety of Hardware-Software Complexes as Mandatory Condition of Forming Digital Eco-Environment at Innovative Project Implementation

—A key part digital eco-environment plays at the implementation of innovative projects brings about qualitative changes of requirements towards the functional safety of hardware-software complexes. The paper dwells upon the issues of increasing the functional safety of hardware-software complexes by means of reasonable resource allocation for locating and eliminating defects. The purpose of the research is the development of the information support of planning resources for defect elimination in software modules. The scientific idea is the development of the method of building linear regression dependencies on the basis of common use of expert assessments and measuring data. The approach novelty consists in the transformation of expert assessments and measuring data towards a single form of the random value distribution law.
A COMPACT WIDEBAND 24 GHZ END-FIRE HELIX ANTENNA WITH HIGH GAIN TURN RATIO IN PLANAR TECHNOLOGY

A wideband end fire antenna architecture in planar technology with fewer turns: helix antenna in planar technology adopting thickness of quarter wavelength is suggested. A wideband 24 GHz helix antenna with 2.25 turns in Rogers compressed RT 4350 technology is presented. The antenna has a bandwidth of 6.2 GHz for S11, gain of 9.3 dBi, half power width of 39.5◦ and 39◦, respectively in X-Z and X-Y planes. This helix antenna is characterized by wide bandwidth, high gain, high half power width, compactness, and high gain turn ratio. It could also be utilized in antenna design for other frequency bands with compressed PCB technology, as well for on-chip THz antenna design.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation-related complications. An essential approach to rescuer’s liability in Greece

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a life-saving medical practice with particular characteristics. On time initiation of CPR can increase survival in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. The main component of CPR is the application of external chest compressions. Unfortunately, bystander CPR rates have remained low over the past decade. The unwillingness has been attributed to various causes among which complications are discussed in this paper. Complications of cardiopulmonary resuscitation often occur even if the doctor is skilled and acts according to the guidelines. The iatrogenic manipulations of CPR contain a significant violation risk for both the patient and the physician. The scope of this paper is to review the main complications of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the discussion of the points that characterize the ethico-legal approach of these complications. The ultimate objective is the prejudice of negative “defensive medicine” so that all doctors will not avoid the application of CPR, fearing malpractice litigation.
Multimode Process Mode Identification With Coexistence of Quantitative Information and Qualitative Information

The mode division and identification of the multimode process is to classify the normal production data according to the changes in process information and then to identify the corresponding process mode. The mode division and identification of the multimode process is the primary prerequisite for multimode process monitoring, evaluation, modeling, quality prediction, and process optimization. In the multimode complex industrial process, it usually contains both qualitative information and quantitative information, which makes the mode division and identification much more difficult. To deal with this problem, a new mode division and identification method is proposed in this article. First, the mode of the production process is roughly divided by the mode indicator variables that contain the initial production conditions with more qualitative variables. Then, the mode refinement is performed by using the process variables that contain a large amount of quantitative information. Therefore, the whole process is divided into multiple stable modes and transitional modes. At the end, the efficiency of the proposed method is illustrated with a case of the cyanide leaching process of gold hydrometallurgy. Note to Practitioners—From the practical application point of view, a new method of cross-referencing quantitative information model and qualitative information model is proposed in this article to divide the multimode production process into multiple stable modes and transitional modes. Then, feature models are established for different mode data online for process mode-type identification. The effective mode division and identification of multimode processes is the key to realize multimode process monitoring, evaluation, modeling, quality prediction, and process optimization. Although the validity of the proposed method is verified only in a gold hydrometallurgical cyanide leaching process, the method is equally applicable to other multimode complex industrial processes with the qualitative information and quantitative information coexistence characteristics.
Automatic Spoken Digit Recognition Using Artificial Neural Network

: Speech Processing is a vast domain for research work where Speech Recognition is a small part of it. This research work is an attempt to recognize ten spoken English digits starting from zero to nine by using Artificial Neural Network. The system will be able to recognize digits spoken in English. Although the spoken language is English, the utterance may vary from speaker to speaker. We have built the system by training the voice samples of the people of the Northeastern region of India. After recognizing the utterance it will display the recognized digit as output. We have programmed and simulated the design in MATLAB. The design of our research is based on using the Linear Prediction Coefficient (LPC) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for signal analysis. We were able to get an overall accuracy of 82%.
Older boards are better boards, so beware of diversity targets

Abstract This study examined 130 Australian companies from the ASX 500 All Ordinaries between 2011 and 2015. We performed regression analysis on the effects of age of the board (mean age and age diversity) upon financial performance (measured by ROA and Tobin's Q). Controlling for board size, firm size and industry sector, we found that the average age of board members is positively associated with firm performance as measured by ROA. Boards with an older average age of directors perform better than boards with a younger average age. There was no significant relationship between age diversity as measured by the within-board standard deviation on the two performance measures. The primary focus of our study was age. However, an interesting concomitant finding is that the focus on increasing female representation on boards will lower the average age of a board (as female directors tend to be significantly younger than their male counterparts) and this may have an adverse impact on financial performance.
EXPLORANDO EL PAPEL DE LA AUTOEFICACIA PARENTAL EN EL USO DE LOS SERVICIOS SANITARIOS: REVISIÓN DE LA LITERATURA

Introduction: The number of visits to emergency departments in recent years has increased significantly. There are many factors that influence the use of health services and the use that parents make of these services. It has been shown that parental self-efficacy plays a fundamental role in the management of children's health and illness and may also be the case in the use of health services. Objective: The purpose of this narrative review was to explore the role that parental self-efficacy plays in the care of children and the use of health services. Methods: To this end, a bibliographic search was carried out in Pubmed, Cinhal and PsycINFO. Results: No studies were found that directly explored parental self-efficacy and the use of health services. However, the relationship between the concept of self-efficacy and Ascunce Guerrero S, Ruiz-Zaldibar C, Mujika A, Pumar-Méndez MJ. 2019. Horiz Enferm, 30,3, 254-270 256 the management of children's health and minor illnesses shown in the literature points out towards the idea that parental self-efficacy may be playing an important role in the use of health services. Conclusion: Future observational studies are necessary to explore the relationship between parental-self-efficacy and use of service. This information can be of great help in planning health education actions according to the needs of this population and contributing to the sustainability of the system, decreasing unnecessary visits to the emergency departments.
Influenza H3 and H1 hemagglutinins have different genetic barriers for resistance to broadly neutralizing stem antibodies

In the past decade, the discovery and characterization of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) to the highly conserved stem region of influenza hemagglutinin (HA) have provided valuable insights for development of a universal influenza vaccine. However, the genetic barrier for resistance to stem bnAbs has not been thoroughly evaluated. Here, we performed a series of deep mutational scanning experiments to probe for resistance mutations. We found that the genetic barrier to resistance to stem bnAbs is generally very low for the H3 subtype but substantially higher for the H1 subtype. Several resistance mutations in H3 cannot be neutralized by stem bnAbs at the highest concentration tested, do not reduce in vitro viral fitness and in vivo pathogenicity, and are often present in circulating strains as minor variants. Thus, H3 HAs have a higher propensity than H1 HAs to escape major stem bnAbs and creates a potential challenge in the development of a bona fide universal influenza vaccine. ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY Acquisition of resistance by influenza virus to broadly neutralizing hemagglutinin stem antibodies varies tremendously depending on subtype.
The Impact of Nursing Education on Cardiac Patient’s Knowledge Regarding their Lifestyle in Tertiary Care Hospital Peshawar KP

Objectives: The objective of the study was to assess the impact of nursing education on cardiac patient knowledge regarding their lifestyle. Methodology: Quasi-experimental study was conducted in private tertiary care hospital. A well-structured questionnaire was adopted and explained to every participant during data collection. Data was collected through convenient sampling. Data analysis was done by SPSS version. Result: 0ut of 39 participants, 4(10.3%) participants fell under excellent category, 19(48.7%) had good knowledge, and 16(41.0%) had poor knowledge before educational intervention. After the intervention, 38(97.4%) participants fell under excellent category and 1(2.6%) had good knowledge. The mean score was 20.85 with a standard deviation of 7.084 before session; while, the mean score after session was 33.69 with a standard deviation of 2.430. Furthermore, paired T-test was applied to evaluate the effectiveness of education. The result was highly significant with a p-value of 0.000. Conclusion: The findings of this study support the effectiveness of cardiac education that shows an increase in patient’s knowledge and change in behavior. Therefore, educational program is significant for cardiac patients. DOI: 10.32474/LOJNHC.2019. 02.000133
Phytotoxicity of black cumin (Nigella sativa), dragonhead (Dracocephalum moldavica), dill (Anethum graveolens), and soybean (Glycin max) residues on emergence and establishment of wheat

Allelopathic effects of plant residues is an important research avenue regarding optimization of rotation systems in agronomy. The aim of this study was to investigate the allelopathic effects of four plant residues, namely, black cumin, dragonhead, dill, and soybean on the germination and growth of wheat (Triticum aestivum) in different cropping systems. Results showed that application of organic manure for previous crops reduced the residue phytotoxicity and consequently alleviated the adverse effect of plant residues on the leaf area, length, and dry weight of the wheat root, affecting chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, and carotenoids of wheat seedling leaves. In the presence of plant residue, the length and dry weight of the wheat roots were more negatively affected in comparison with shoots. The greatest allelopathic inhibition was observed for the wheat cultivated in the residue of black cumin, but soybean, dill, and dragonhead residues also potentially showed inhibition effects. It can be concluded that agroecosystems in which autumn wheat is in the rotation should be avoided where there are residues of soybean, black cumin, dragonhead, and dill. The tillage system in the same condition may not be agronomically suitable because of the allelopathic effects of previous crops.
New Approaches to Artistic Synthesis Relying on Visual Perception

Artists often take advantage of the limitations of the human visual system to create art that provides new experiences for the observers. Similarly, in this thesis, we explore new computational artistic compositions that create new visual experiences by relying on the limitations of the human visual system. We focus on two characteristics of the human visual system: One is the ambiguity that arises due to the differences between the eye projection space and the real physical space, and the second is the property of the integration of temporal information. For the projection-space ambiguity, we propose two frameworks that enable two different artistic representations. First, we show how to create high reliefs that represent full 3D forms in a very limited space. The main challenges are to preserve the relationships of scene parts and the fine details of the shape. Second, we develop an approach for creating sculpture paintings where paintings and sculptures are blended within the same compositions. The main challenge is to ensure continuity between the 2D and 3D parts of the scene geometry. They create plausible effects for the viewer by showing a new relationship of 2D and 3D parts at each different angle. For the temporal-space ambiguity, we propose a new stream of frames called tempocode that encodes the hidden information in video frames that show artistic dither matrices. In order to achieve this, we develop a visual-masking method that hides an input image, both spatially and temporally. Our masking function creates temporal and spatial variations on the frequency bands of the original input signal, with the constraint that the integrations of the final signal and the original signal are the same. The hidden information cannot be perceived by the human eye but it can be easily decoded by a long exposure photograph with a camera.
Multi-scales region segmentation for ROI separation in digital mammograms

Mammography is currently the most effective imaging modality used by radiologists for the screening of breast cancer. Segmentation is one of the key steps in the process of developing anatomical models for calculation of safe medical dose of radiation. This paper explores the potential of the statistical region merging segmentation technique for Breast segmentation in digital mammograms. First, the mammograms are pre-processing for regions enhancement, then the enhanced images are segmented using SRM with multi scales, finally these segmentations are combined for region of interest (ROI) separation and edge detection. The proposed algorithm uses multi-scales region segmentation in order to: separate breast region from background region, region edge detection and ROIs separation. The experiments are performed using a data set of mammograms from different patients, demonstrating the validity of the proposed criterion. Results show that, the statistical region merging segmentation algorithm actually can work on the segmentation of medical image and more accurate than another methods. And the outcome shows that the technique has a great potential to become a method of choice for segmentation of mammograms.
Benigní hyperplazie prostaty - kombinovaná léčba alfablokátory a inhibitory 5-alfa reduktázy

Benigni hyperplazie prostaty (BHP) je nejcastějsim benignim nadorem u mužů ve vyssim věku. Klinicka manifestace tohoto onemocněni ve formě přiznaků dolnich mocových cest (LUTS – lower urinary tract symptoms) zhorsuje kvalitu života pacientů. Autoři shrnuji soucasne možnosti a trendy v lecbě benigni hyperplazie prostaty, seznamuji s ulohou jednotlivých lekových skupin a zejmena pak s jejich možnou kombinaci v lecbě BHP.
Slow Release of HexanalBy Biodegradable ElectrospunNanofibresFor Increasing Shelf-Life of Harvested Mango Fruits

Phospholipase D (PLD) is a crucial enzyme indeterioration of membrane phospholipid by a cascade of metabolic reaction which can be effectively inhibited by hexanal, a C6 aldehyde (volatile) naturally produced asplant defense mechanism. In this study, hexanal is encapsulated by PVA nanofibre intercalated with nanocellulose using electrospinning. In ourstudy, nanocellulose was prepared using biodegradable wastes from banana pseudostem of Grand naine and Poovan cultivars through acid hydrolysis method to increase the loading capacity of matrix. anocellulose extracted from Grand naine and Poovan varieties were found to be 15-25 nm respectively.Further, the prepared matrices were loaded with hexanal in both passive and active method. The effect of hexanal loaded nanofibre on mango fruits in extending shelf life was studied. The actively loaded matrix showed slower and uniform release of hexanal inside the packaging box, while passively loaded matrix initially exhibited burst release pattern, followed by a decrease in the hexanal release pattern. Fruit ripeness parameters such as physiological loss in weight (PLW), vitamin C content, total soluble solids (TSS) and change in fruit colour were positively correlated with the hexanal release pattern till 11 days of storage period at room temperature.These findings give an opportunity to explore electrospinning and encapsulation of various volatile compound for slow release application in post-harvest studies of perishables. Nano-fibrillated Cellulose (NFC), Encapsulation, slow release, postharvest losses, mango.