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Studi Kinerja Kepala Puskesmas Asera Kabupaten Konawe Utara
Authors: Risky MS Sartini , Akbar Muhammad Ikhsan
Published: September 2021

Latar Belakang:

Sumber Daya Manusia yang diterima, ditempatkan, diberi pekerjaan atau kepercayaan memimpin suatu organisasi/unit kerja tertentu diharapkan mampu menunjukkan kinerja yang baik dan memberikan kontribusi yang maksimal terhadap pencapaian tujuan Puskesmas. Usaha untuk mewujudkan kinerja sumber daya manusia yang maksimal atau optimal seperti harapan organisasi ditentukan oleh kepuasan pegawai, kemampuan pegawai, motivasi, sarana kerja, gaya manajemen dan gaya kepemimpinan.

Tujuan :

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui Studi Kinerja Kepala Puskesmas Asera Kabupaten Konawe Utara.

Metode Penelitian:

Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan desikriptif dengan metode kualitatif dengan 2 Informan kunci dan 5 informan biasa. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara menggunakan lembar wawancara, alat tulis, dan recording. Selanjutnya data akan dianalisis dengan metode content analysis dan Triangulai.

Hasil :

Hasil penelitian menjelaskan bahwa kinerja seorang pegawai khusunya kepala puskesmas telah mendapatkan kepercayaan dalam perbaikan kesehatan masyarakat sehingga pemimpin mampu memberikan motivasi bagi bawahannya dengan rasa aman dan tanpa tekanan dari pemimpin. Hasil penelitian lain menjelaskan bahwa penghargaan itu sangat perlu bagi petugas agar prestasi kerja dapat meningkat namun bukan dalam bentuk uang. Dalam melakukan pekerjan petugas kesehatan tidak mengharapkan imbalan atau tunjangan dari kepala puskesmas namun bekerja untuk pengabdian kepada masyarakat, bangsa, dan negara. Hasil penelitian lain menjelaskan bahwa keputusan yang di keluarkan oleh kepala puskesmas memberikan dampak positif dengan melibatkan staf dan tidak menggunakan kepemimpinan yang sifatnya otoriter.

Kesimpulan:

Kinerja Kepala Puskesmas Asera sudah baik karena mampu memberikan motivasi kepada bawahannya, memberikan rasa aman dan tanpa tekanan kepada bawahannya, dan mampu memberikan penghargaan kepada bawahannya dan tidak memiliki kepemimpinan yang otoriter gaya.
Hubungan Kadar Kolesterol dan Indeks Massa Tubuh dengan Kejadian Hipertensi pada Anggota Polisi di Klinik Bhayangkara Polres Madiun Kota
Authors: Laila Nurjannah Oktafa , Abidin Zaenal , Wibowo Pipid Ari
Published: September 2021

Latar Belakang:

Hipertensi adalah peningkatan tekanan darah sistolik ≥ 140 mmHg dan tekanan darah ‎diastolik ≥ 90 mmHg ‎pada dua kali pengukuran dengan selang waktu lima menit dalam keadaan cukup istirahat/tenang‎.

Tujuan :

Tujuan penelitian ini mengetahui hubungan kadar kolesterol dan indeks massa tubuh dengan kejadian ‎hipertensi pada anggota polisi di Klinik Bhayangkara Polres Madiun Kota‎.

Metode Penelitian:

Jenis penelitian menggunakan desain studi kasus kontrol dengan sampel berjumlah 132 orang. ‎Teknik sampel ‎yang digunakan adalah simple random sampling. Analisis data dilakukan ‎secara bertahap mencakup analisis ‎univariat, bivariat menggunakan chi-square, dan multivariat ‎menggunakan regresi logistik‎.

Hasil :

Hasil penelitian menunjukkan nilai p value variabel ‎kadar kolesterol adalah 0,250 dan nilai p value variabel ‎indeks ‎massa tubuh adalah ‎‎0,045 (aOR = 2,270: 95% CI = 1,020-5,056). Sehingga variabel yang berhubungan ‎‎dengan ‎kejadian hipertensi pada anggota polisi di Klinik Bhayangkara Polres Madiun ‎Kota adalah indeks ‎massa tubuh ‎‎(IMT)‎.

Kesimpulan:

Dapat disimpulkan hubungan kejadian hipertensi pada anggota polisi di Klinik Bhayangkara Polres Madiun ‎Kota adalah IMT dengan kategori obesitas ( ≥ 25 kg/m2) merupakan faktor risiko yang ‎berpengaruh terhadap ‎hipertensi pada anggota Polres Madiun Kota‎.

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Indonesian government’s primary balance and debt
Authors: Ayyubi Muhammad Salahudin Al , Saputra Putu Mahardika Adi
Published: September 2021

This study aims to determine the Indonesian fiscal sustainability condition by analyzing the impact of government debt on primary balance for the 1980-2018 period. Accordingly, we analyze the research data by using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method. The results show that government debt has a significant and positive effect on primary balance, likely because the government intends to stimulate the economy and boost tax revenues by keeping debt interest rates low. Therefore, based on Bohn’s condition, Indonesia exhibits sustainable fiscal policies. However, in the short run,  government debt negatively affects primary balance due to several factors, such as suboptimal tax efforts and revenue growth, unproductive use of debts, and relatively low capital expenditures. In sum, our research results recommend that the Indonesian government considers various policies that likely offset increased debts, such as intensifying and extending tax efforts to increase tax revenues and increase government spending in various productive sectors.
A Curiosity About Links Between Adventure Playgrounds, Loose Parts, Playwork Approach, a State of "Flow" and Children’s Wellbeing
Authors: Gorrie Angus
Published: September 2021

Over the past century there has been a documented rise in childhood anxiety and depression (Gray, 2011; Twenge, 2001). This increase largely correlates to the significant decrease in the amount of time children have to play freely (Gray, 2013). The suggested reason for this is a decrease in free time and play creating a strong external locus of control, the result of which has been shown to cause increases in childhood anxiety and depression (April, Dharani, & Peter, 2012; Gray, 2013). This paper records a practitioner’s musings on the links between aspects of playwork practice and children’s wellbeing. It considers Csikszentmihalyi (2008) concept of a state of flow and the development of an internal locus of control and the opportunities afforded children in an adventure playground wedded to playwork theory and practice.
Child Development Just Outside the Front Door: Neighbourhood Play Project
Authors: Moser Hyahno
Published: September 2021

This project examines the nature of contemporary childhood with a focus on changing rates of play in Queensland’s urban neighbourhoods. The Neighbourhood Play Project is a pilot project funded by the Queensland Government Department of Sport & Recreation. The purpose of the project was to examine and record the prevalence of local children’s existing play networks in urban Queensland neighbourhoods and to quantify their influence on children's physical activity and outdoor play levels. The recorded decline of Queensland children’s activity levels and physical literacy over the last 30 years – and its direct negative correlation with children’s increasing screen usage over the same time period (Active Healthy Kids Australia (2016) – necessitated a focused study on the possible causes of these changes to Queensland childhood. At the outset of the project it was hypothesised that supporting the creation and growth of local play networks would see a corresponding growth in the healthy play habits and physical activity of the children immediately involved in the project, and subsequently of other children living in the local area. A collaborative approach was employed whereby the playwork practitioners leading the project facilitated the creation and development of local neighbourhood play networks. Additionally, they talked with parents about their understanding of and engagement with neighbourhood play at the outset and throughout the project.
Human-Rights Discourse: An Examination of Shifting Conceptions of Human Rights within the Netherlands
Authors: Wicks Declan
Published: September 2021

The thrust of this research focuses on the dynamic ways in which conceptions of human rights, culture, and identity change in relation to increased inflows of allochthonous, non-western migration. Focusing on the Netherlands, this paper examines the Dutch public’s varied responses to migration – whether welcoming or antipathic – through two separate frames. First, an analysis of case law that focuses on the Dutch government’s response to personal family law within Islamic religious situations and the “free-speech trials” of Geert Wilders is undertaken to examine situational responses to perceived changes in culture and identity. Second, an exploration of migration within news coverage is attempted with an understanding that news framing – while “uncovering” certain truths, creates fictions through the single-storied fetishization of, in this case, the incompatibility of migrant culture with Dutch culture. Finally, this research concludes that human rights – while not explicitly discussed within public contexts – constitute a process-oriented part of the Netherland’s “culture of rights” while still at risk of being ignored in larger debates surrounding cultural compatibility.
The British Smuggling Dilemma: 1698-1784
Authors: Rosenberger Bree
Published: September 2021

By the late 17th century, Great Britain had a major smuggling problem, initially in illegally exported wool but later imported teas and French brandies. The problem grew to its peak in the mid 18th century and caused enormous financial loss to the government. This paper analyzes, among other contemporary documents, the 1767 account from Sir Stephen T. Janssen to argue that the problem was created by high taxes on teas and politically-motivated attempts by the crown to popularize gin. Even during time of war, smuggling between Great Britain and France continued. Adept tactics, aid from local townspeople, and notorious violence from smuggling gangs all proliferated the problem. Despite parliamentary efforts amidst the War of Austrian Succession to stop it, smuggling activity was not truly curbed until 1784, when Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger lowered taxes on imported teas.
The Chinese Communist Party and the Uyghurs: Securitization and How Ethnic Minorities are Oppressed in an Multi-Ethnic State
Authors: Mascarin Justin
Published: September 2021

Since the beginning of the War on Terror in 2001, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has convinced its own populace as well as foreign countries that increasing security measures in the Xinjiang region are necessary. In 2014, in response to terror attacks, the Chinese Government announced the “Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism” aimed at the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and more specifically the Uyghur ethnic minority. This paper will analyze the oppression of the Uyghurs in China through securitization theory and the political and ethnic theories to construct a better understanding of how large multi-ethnic states legitimize oppressing minority groups within their own country. The findings are that through a combination of Han-ethnocentrism, internal political control and the redefinition of Uyghur resistance to cultural assimilation as a security issue of “Islamic extremism” the CCP can justify the incarceration and indoctrination of the Uyghurs. The international Community despite its acknowledgement of human rights abuses is ill equipped to confront ethnic oppression by big states such as China due to a lack of appropriate legal structures, concepts and definitions on the international level.
Butterfly Voices – Creative Self-Representation of Migrant Sex Workers
Authors: Choi Alvis , Lam Elene
Published: September 2021

Butterfly is an Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The organization was founded upon the belief that migrant sex workers, like all workers, are entitled to respect and human rights. The following essay on Butterfly Voices was written by the project’s co-creators, Alvis Choi and Elene Lam, and details the creative energies, political vision, and methodological steps that went into bringing the project to life.
You are more than your productivity
Authors: Murphy M-A
Published: September 2021

I drew and digitized this image during the last semester of my undergraduate degree when I felt like my entire life was serving tables, reading and producing papers. Now that I am in graduate school, I feel even more like this, but I am trying to assuage the societal feelings and pressures I have of always wanting/needing to be productive. I am working on reminding myself to slow down sometimes, but it is so hard, particularly in a university environment.
“Say Their Names”
Authors: McLetchie Melissa
Published: September 2021

Katherine Bischoping and Amber Gazso (2016) use the notion of a “good story” to evaluate how successfully the storyteller conveys their message to the reader. The goal of this observational reflection paper is to explore whether the same criteria of good storytelling (i.e., good reportability, good liveability, good coherence, and good fidelity) can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of narratives told by prisoner rights protestors. I draw on my firsthand experience of a protest outside the Central East Correctional Facility in Lindsay, Ontario to develop my evaluation and conclude that the stories I observed can be analyzed using this criterion.
Reflections on Conducting Community-Engaged Research During COVID-19
Authors: Duker Peter
Published: September 2021

As an emerging scholar committed to social justice and anti-oppressive praxis, I entered my master’s program in Geography at York University, Toronto, with the goal of contributing to new theoretical insights and meaningful outcomes for research participants in Thailand. While initially the concept of communityengaged research appeared to alleviate the tensions between these two goals, the realities of the university’s constraints on graduate student research coupled with those of the COVID-19 pandemic have made it clear that this endeavor would not be straightforward. The inherent messiness of balancing academic matters (e.g., contributing to new theory and demonstrating an adequate level of rigor) with social justice concerns (e.g., eliminating epistemological violence and contributing meaningful outcomes for research participants) in community-engaged research has only intensified as COVID-19 has reconfigured our social relations, exacerbating existing inequities and restricting our social mobility, particularly across international borders. In this reflection, I consider how remotely collaborating with local research assistants in my own graduate research project typifies these tensions. More specifically, I posit that the COVID-19 pandemic has further underscored the importance of researchers, particularly white men researchers such as myself, to be willing to consistently re-evaluate our projects, and embrace flexibility, accountability, and the removal of ego from our work.
For the Insane in the Insane World
Authors: Ringstrom Celia
Published: September 2021

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all now living in a world of mass panic, confusion, and isolation that inflicts experiences of mental illness on those not typically considered mentally ill. When, where, and how does identifying “mental illness” come to trap certain people under the stigmatizing identity, while others are able to avoid the problematic medical classification but not the lived experience? As a writer mitigating a long-term struggle between my lived experiences with depression and anxiety, and the outside categorization and medical classification of these “mental illnesses”, I realize the current public sentiment has never been more welcoming of my personal musings on these tensions. I have centered an autoethnographic approach that reflects on mental health experiences and critiques of biomedical ontologies through a reading of My Brilliant Friend (and the associated quadrilogy). By attending to socially relevant story arcs involving mental health, I use the symbol of book character Lila’s “blurred boundaries” to both identify and rethink mental health categorizations and lived experiences that previously differentiated subsets of people prior to COVID-19. My reflection ultimately seeks to address the ways that these once dissimilar groups have converged psychologically through disruptions of time during the current health pandemic.
What's Safe
Authors: Hashemi Mélika , Casasanta Maryanne , Runions Lauren , Graterol Heddy
Published: September 2021

What’s Safe is an ongoing response to Toronto’s social distancing measures. It is a dance score documented cinematically in Trinity Bellwoods Park, with movements inspired by Deepa Iyer’s framework (Mapping Our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems, 2020) and Jay Pitter’s open letter to Canadian urbanists (A Call to Courage, 2020). The project was conceived, performed, and captured by the authors of this paper. The two dancers, our second and third authors, engage in creative problem-solving by facing the reality of socially-distant grounds for play and suggesting a different type of productivity, one which is conducive to individual and social growth. The movements are then captured by our multimedia creator (or fourth author), while our artist-researcher (first author) curates and provides critique throughout. The final project considers artistic practice in response to social change as informed by (un)productivity. It uses productive imagination (e.g., play, improvisation, creative problem-solving) to investigate parameters of safety (e.g., surveillance, control, space). Through the dancers’ improvisations, we attempt to navigate these tensions and better position ourselves in relation to our current socio-geographical circumstances.
Pandemagogy and Online Teaching: A Case for Online Teaching
Authors: Khurram Shehnoor
Published: September 2021

The Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is not merely a medical crisis; it is also a social one. It has paralyzed all aspects of public life, leading to closures of all “non-essential” public spaces, chief among them, schools. Universities across Canada have shut down and moved online in an attempt to halt the transmission of the deadly virus. What many initially thought would be remote learning for just a few weeks, turned into months. Now, for the foreseeable future, remote learning will be the new normal. However, this poses unique challenges for educators and students, because there is no universal access to high-speed internet in Canada, which means that those who have access to it can transition online with ease; while those who do not have access are left behind. In an effort to work through these challenges, this reflection paper offers an autoethnographic account of online learning and its associated challenges during COVID-19. It makes the case for public internet and pandemagogy.
Book Review: Dealing in Desires
Authors: McKeen Patara
Published: September 2021

This is a review of Kimberly Kay Hoang’s (2015) Dealing in Desire. Her ethnographic study observes four different bars in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: 1) Kong Sao Bar, 2) Naught Girls, 3) Secrets, and 4) Lavender. Hoang traces different representations of the global financial sector after the 2008 financial crisis and explores the relationship between Asian ascendancy and Western decline. From the local to the international, interactions with clients and hostesses in the bars of Ho Chi Minh City demonstrate a new global trend: the rise in transactions occurring among a global financial sector undefined by traditional social structures (e.g., commercial or national banks). By moving from observer to participant, Hoang develops a deeper understanding of the capital and labour practices that these men and women engage in, highlighting how their everyday experiences demonstrate that nightlife in the city is a way for locals to move up the socio-economic ladder.
Lise öğrencilerinin çevre sorunlarına yönelik tutumlarının belirlenmesi
Authors: GÜNGÖR CABBAR Burcu , KUTAY Yasin
Published: September 2021

Bu araştırmanın amacı lise öğrencilerinin çevre sorunlarına yönelik tutumlarının tespit edilmesidir. Bu amaçla, 2018-2019 eğitim öğretim yılında Kayseri’de Anadolu Lisesi ve aynı ilde Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi 9, 10, 11 ve 12. sınıflarında öğrenim gören 120 kız ve 115 erkek olmak üzere toplam 235 öğrenciye Çevre Sorunlarına Yönelik Tutum Ölçeği (ÇSYTÖ) uygulanmıştır. Veri toplama aracı olarak kullanılan ölçek Güven (2013) tarafından geliştirilmiştir. Ölçekte 3' lü likert tipi 45 madde bulunmaktadır. Ölçekte 5 alt boyut yer almaktadır. Bu alt boyutlar duyuşsal alanın boyutları olan "Alma", "Tepkide Bulunma", "Değer Verme", "Örgütleme" ve "Kişilik Haline Getirme" dir. Öğrencilerden toplanan veriler genel dağılımlarının belirlenmesi ve nicel verilerin normal dağılım gösterip göstermediğinin araştırılmasında betimsel istatistik tekniklerinden yararlanılmıştır. Verilerin çözümlenmesinde frekans, yüzde dağılımları kullanılmıştır. Ayrıca sınıflar arası farkı test etmek için toplanan veriler IBM SPSS 24 paket programı kullanılarak ANOVA ile analiz edilmiştir. Verilerin analizi sonucunda bulgulara bakıldığında, öğrencilerin çevre sorunlarına yönelik tutumlarının sınıf düzeyi açısından istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir fark gösterdiği tespit edilmiştir. Alt boyutlara bakıldığında ise “Değer Verme”, “Örgütleme” ve “Kişilik haline getirme” boyutlarının orta seviyede olduğu görülmektedir.
A abordagem dialogal e o discurso
Authors: Menezes Tayana Dias de
Published: September 2021

A finalidade deste artigo é revisar a abordagem dialógica de Ivana Marková (2006), discutindo a produtividade da perspectiva para as análises linguísticas, especialmente na análise do discurso sociocognitivista de Van Dijk (2006). Os estudos da autora são contextualizados no âmbito da grande Teoria da Representação Social (TRS) desenvolvida por Serge Moscovici. Os conceitos-chave da TRS são tomados para a formação de um modelo de análise capaz de dar conta das intrincadas relações entre linguagem, cognição e sujeito. Além disso, foi examinado como a articulação entre a abordagem de Marková (2006; 2017) e da Análise do Discurso auxilia na compreensão da (re)construção da Representação Social (RS) sobre os surdos dentro dos discursos dos sujeitos surdos que fazem parte da comunidade Letras- Libras da UFPE. Foi constatado que a noção da deficiência ainda orienta a (re)construção da RS sobre o surdo, no entanto esse elemento é ancorado pela noção de corpo são/ corpo defeituoso dentro dos discursos dos próprios surdos.
O verbo
Authors: Lisboa Jordana Tavares Silveira
Published: September 2021

O trabalho aborda o conceito de verbo na Grammatica Philosophica da Lingua Portugueza (1822), de Jerônimo Soares Barbosa (1737-1816). O objetivo é examinar, interpretar e explicar o conceito de verbo, considerando as semelhanças e diferenças na abordagem da classificação entre a Grammatica Philosophica da Lingua Portugueza (1822), de Barbosa, a Grammatica philosophica (1783), de Bernardo de Lima e Melo Bacellar (1736-1787), e a Gramatica Portugueza (1804), de Manuel Dias de Souza (1753-1827), a fim de observar se houve mudanças do conhecimento dessa categoria, tendo em vista as obras anteriores à Grammatica Philosophica de Barbosa, no contexto da gramaticografia portuguesa. Com base em pressupostos da História das Ideias Linguísticas, segundo Auroux (1998, 2009) e Colombat, Fournier e Puech (2017), essas três obras são estudadas como instrumento linguístico, que registram o saber metalinguístico de certa época, por meio da descrição de um corpo de regras que não se restringe a um único falante. Assim, é abordado o significado de verbo para Bacellar, Souza e Barbosa, destacando a definição por meio de análise descritiva e interpretativa. Concluímos que há mudanças do conhecimento dessa categoria, tendo em vista as obras anteriores à Grammatica Philosophica de Barbosa, no contexto da gramaticografia portuguesa. Barbosa (1822) construiu seu conceito de verbo com base na teoria das gramáticas gerais, defendida pelos autores que compuseram seu horizonte de retrospecção, apresentando, porém, uma nova interpretação do conceito dessa parte do discurso.
Application of the circular economy in the industrial scrapmanagement process: a case study in the Açu Port Complex
Authors: Messias Sodré Cunha Arthur , do Nascimento Germano Jully , Tavares Machado Gustavo , Pavan de Souza Frank
Published: September 2021

The main proposal of the circular economy is to change the concept of "garbage" fromWaste that was structured in this project and replaced by a continuous and cyclical vision of the production, in which resources are no longer just explored and discarded and are now reused in a new Cycle. The Circular Economy encourages new management practices, creating opportunities and value for organizations in harmony with the environment. This article aims to analyze the feasibility of implementing Circular Economy methods, with an emphasis on controlling scrap disposal in the Açu Port Complex (São Joãoda Barra/RJ), bringing sustainable alternatives to Waste Management. In addition to evaluating its environmental and economic efficiency, it proposes to end the linear production process and reinsert waste into the production cycle to minimize environmental treatment and the extraction of raw materials. The investigation will start through specific exploratory research, bringing as a consequence, possible economic alternatives for the reuse of these materials. The research is also classified as descriptiveand case study since a survey of real information on waste management in the Açu Port Complex will be carried out. It is hoped through this research to demonstrate how the circular economy can contribute to economic, social, and environmental development when used in an interdisciplinary way by productive activities.
Public policies for the homeless population and the guarantee of anexistential minimum
Authors: Nunes Vasconcelos Bruna , Nunes Machado Manoela , Landim Gomes Siqueira Juliana
Published: September 2021

The Federal Constitution of 1988 has in its body the so-called second dimension rights that aim to guarantee the dignity of the human person. However, when it comes to the homeless population, the reach of these rights, in practice, is distant or non-existent. The absence of official census data hinders the action of the State in the elaboration of effective public policies aimed at solving the various problems faced by individuals living on the streets, without guaranteeing the existential minimum. Given this scenario, the objective is to investigate the development, elaboration and implementation of public policies in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes for the homeless population, which aim to protect the minimum set of rights to have a decent life, reaffirming the importance existing policies or indicating the need for reformulation or the adoption of other measures that guarantee the minimum foreseen in the constitutional text.To achieve the objectives proposed in this research, the methodological procedures will start from a bibliographic, longitudinal, descriptive survey; legislative and jurisprudential analysis on the subject, in addition to a qualitative and quantitative approach, through the collection of primary and secondary data at the Human Development Department and Centro Pop, drawing up a profile of the homeless population in the studied municipality. The aim of this research is to systematize the theoretical framework and the actions of the State through laws, projects, decrees, ordinances on the homeless population and the implementation of public policies as a way to guarantee the existential minimum; proposition of viable solutions at the municipal level for the implementation of effective public policies for the multi-cited population, and elaboration of an article bringing together the results achieved by the studies carried out during the project.
The impact of the anchoring heuristic on the financial decision-making process of elderly people in relation to the acquisition of payroll-deductible loans
Authors: Maia Bragança Beatriz , Batista Silva Chesil
Published: September 2021

This research aims to investigate whether the financial decision-making process of elderly people in the acquisition of payroll loans is influenced by the anchoring heuristic. In the Anchorage heuristic, individuals focus their attention on recently received information and use it as a reference to make a decision, or itcan also be the result of a partial or incomplete analysis of the received information, which often happens with elderly people. As the financial decision-making process is somewhat complex, the use of mental shortcuts (Heuristics) to facilitate decisionscould lead to catastrophic long-term indebtedness situations, especially in elderly people in a situation of gradual decline in physical and psychological health. This is a qualitative, quantitative, exploratory, descriptive and survey research, the data collection instrument used refers to the adaptation of a questionnaire that aims to seek answers for possible effects and/or relationships between anchoring and financial decision making, using as a measurement and analysis parameter the method proposed byJacowitz & Kahneman (1995). Expected with this research to measure the impact of the anchoring heuristic in the financial decision-making process of elderly citizens, retirees and/or INSS beneficiaries in the acquisition of payroll-deductible loans. In this way, if the bias hypothesis is confirmed, strategies to support financial education may be implemented as an initiative to minimize the heuristic effects, culminating in a better quality of life for the elderly class, with effects on the general population.
Teaching architecture project with virtual reality
Authors: Gonçalves Magalhães Isabela , Alves dos Santos Júlia , Vitor de Freitas Muzy Lopes Pedro , Márcia Dutra Valente Gisa , Cremoneze Rangel da Silva Laura , Fonseca Matos Xavier Janine , Miguel Gomes Januário Pedro , Gustavo de Souza Xavier Luis
Published: September 2021

The advance of digital modeling software, computers with greater processing capacity and the evolution of specific rendering software, contribute to the increased use of images that simulate a real environment, being a practice increasingly inserted in the professional exercise of Architecture and in the university. This practice is already observed in undergraduate scanswhere students seek to learn on their own the use of programs and plug-ins for rendering. This work aimed to elaborate a process aimed at teaching architecture design using modeling in SketchUp and application of low-cost immersive virtual reality simulation tools for analysis of model studies in design disciplines. The method used was the use of some renderers and free virtual reality tools on the Internet. As a result we had the first contact of the students with the immersive virtual reality tools and in turn broadening the perception of the details of the objects studied and spatial vision
Contributions of Neuropsychological evaluation to the Psychotherapy process in children with ADHD traces
Authors: Paes Pereira da Silv Edelma , Clara Ribeiro Miranda Maria , Soares da Silva Dias Thalia , Maria Ribeiro Rocha Ferreira² Scheilla , Lopes Soares Sananda
Published: September 2021

The intersection between Neuropsychology and Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy in several cases has been shown to be beneficial, improving the quality and speed of treatments due to the greater understanding and resources that the two areas together make possible. This project proposes to know, evaluate and understand the implications involving the human being with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as well as their parents/guardians, in an attempt to improve the quality of life of the subjects involved in this context from awareness of cognitive and behavioral processes. This study is promoted by the Laboratory of Studies in Stigmatization Processes (LEPE) of the Psychology course at CENSA Higher Education Institutes -ISECENSA and presents as a general objective of thisproject to evaluate the importance of Neuropsychology for the psychotherapeutic process of old children in cases of Attention Deficit HyperactivityDisorder (ADHD).The methodology used in the research will be of a qualitative nature. At first, a Literature Review will be carried out to support the researchers views on the topic with the following descriptors: Psychology,Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Cognitive-behavioral Psychotherapy.Afterwards, field research will use the semi-structured interview technique and the application of the ETDAH-PAIS scale. Such instruments will be appliedto ten subjects, parents or guardians of children who have ADHD traits.This research is expected to contribute to the promotion of a better quality of life for subjects with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), as well as for their families. It also intended, at the end of the research, to publish the results collected and analyzed in Revista Perspectivas on line
A Robust and Efficient Implicit Solvation Model for Fast Semiempirical Methods
Authors: Ehlert Sebastian , Stahn Marcel , Spicher Sebastian , Grimme Stefan
Published: September 2021

We present a robust and efficient method to implicitly account for solvation effects in modern semiempirical quantum mechanics and force-fields. A computationally efficient yet accurate solvation model based on the analytical linearized Poisson--Boltzmann~(ALPB) model is parameterized for the extended tight binding (xTB) and density functional tight binding (DFTB) methods as well as for the recently proposed GFN-FF general force-field. The proposed methods perform well over a broad range of systems and applications, from conformational energies over transition-metal complexes to large supramolecular association reactions of charged species. For hydration free energies of small molecules GFN1-xTB(ALPB) is reaching the accuracy of sophisticated explicitly solvated approaches, with a mean absolute deviation of only 1.4 kcal/mol compared to experiment. Logarithmic octanol--water partition coefficients (log Kow) are computed with a mean absolute deviation of about 0.65 using GFN2-xTB(ALPB) compared to experimental values indicating a consistent description of differential solvent effects. Overall, more than twenty solvents for each of the six semiempirical methods are parameterized and tested. They are readily available in the xtb and dftb+ programs for diverse computational applications.
The Transcriptional Repressor Orphan Nuclear Receptor TLX Is Responsive to Caffeine and Istradefylline
Authors: Faudone Giuseppe , Kilu Whitney , Ni Xiaomin , Chaikuad Apirat , Sreeramulu Sridhar , Heitel Pascal , Schwalbe Harald , Knapp Stefan , Schubert-Zsilavecz Manfred , Heering Jan , Merk Daniel
Published: September 2021

The orphan nuclear receptor TLX is expressed almost exclusively in neural stem cells. TLX acts as an essential factor for neural stem cell survival and is hence considered as a promising drug target in neurodegeneration. However, few studies have characterized the roles of TLX due to a lack of ligands and limited functional understanding. Here, we identify caffeine and istradefylline as TLX ligands that counteract the receptor’s intrinsic repressor activity in reporter gene assays and modulate TLX regulated SIRT1 and p21 expression. Mutagenesis of residues lining a cavity within the TLX ligand binding domain altered activity of these ligands suggesting direct interactions with helix 5. Using istradefylline as a tool compound, we observed ligand-sensitive recruitment of the co-repressor SMRT and heterodimerization of TLX with RXR. Both protein-protein complexes evolve as factors that modulate TLX function and suggest an unprecedented role of TLX in directly repressing other nuclear receptors.
Mesenchymal stem cells in tuberculosis therapy
Authors:   Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Remezova Anna N. , Gorelova Anna A. ,   Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Gorelova Anna A. ,   Saint Petersburg Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Muraviev Alexander N. ,   Saint Petersburg Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Muraviev Alexander N. ,   Saint Petersburg Medico-Social Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Vinogradova Tatjana I. ,   Saint Petersburg Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Gorelov Andrey I. ,   Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Gorelov Andrey I. ,   Pokrovskaya Municipal Hospital, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Gorbunov Alexander I. ,   Saint Petersburg Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Orlova Nadezhda V. ,   Saint Petersburg Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Yudintseva Natalya M. ,   Institute of Cytology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Nashchekina Yulia A. ,   Institute of Cytology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Sheykhov Magomedsadyk G. ,   Saint Petersburg Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Yablonsky Petr K. ,   Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Yablonsky Petr K. ,   Saint Petersburg Research Institute of Phtisiopulmonology, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Published: September 2021

Tuberculosis, caused by the obligate intracellular microorganism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the oldest known infectious diseases in humans. Modern therapy of tuberculosis, consisting of several antibacterial drugs, is long-term, toxic and requires high compliance from the patient, therefore, the development of new therapeutic strategies that would minimize the duration of treatment and prevent the formation of drug-resistant forms of mycobacteria is relevant and important. Cellular therapy now holds the promise of potential complementary therapeutic options for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. In recent years, the possibilities of using mesenchymal stem cells in the treatment of tuberculosis of various localization have been widely studied. The use of such cells in conjunction with standard anti-tuberculosis therapy holds great promise for shortening the duration of treatment and reducing the formation of drug-resistant mycobacteria. This article describes the possibilities of using mesenchymal stem cells in the treatment of tuberculosis in patients, including those with extensive and multidrug resistance, as well as the mechanisms of interaction of mesenchymal stem cells with M. tuberculosis.
Clinical observation of the course of new coronavirus infection in a patient with subacute form of hypersensitive pneumonitis
Authors:   Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Moscow, Russia, Kuklina Galina M. , Akhmedova Aminat Z. ,   Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Moscow, Russia, Makariants Natalia N. ,   Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Published: September 2021

We present a case of difficult differential diagnostics of subacute form of hypersensitive pneumonitis in a patient with radiological symptom of "frosted glass" in the conditions of new coronavirus infection pandemic, and also the combined course of this disease and coronavirus in one patient.
Upper respiratory tract diseases in patients with cystic fibrosis
Authors:   Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia, Sinkov Eduard V.
Published: September 2021

Among ENT organ diseases in patients with cystic fibrosis, chronic rhinosinusitis is leading. The respiratory epithelium lining the surface of the upper and lower respiratory tract has the same structure. And as a result, in patients with cystic fibrosis, along with the bronchial tree, the upper respiratory tract is involved in the inflammatory process, while chronic rhinosinusitis develops. Impaired drainage leads to stagnation of infected thick mucus. Timely examination and treatment of upper respiratory pathology in patients with cystic fibrosis is needed. In surgical treatment, the method of choice is extended FESS. Observation by an ENT physician and conservative treatment of polypose rhinosinusitis should be carried out throughout the life of a patient with cystic fibrosis.
Preliminary Results of Air Pollution Status in Selected Roadsides in Jalingo, Taraba State Nigeria
Authors: Kanu Maxwell Obia , Targema Terkaa Victor , Abednego Gideon Maumee
Published: September 2021

The rapid increase in vehicular activities in the past two centuries contributes vastly to air pollution levels. In as much as Social interactions and economic growth are well enhanced by vehicular transportation in many developing countries, it is unfortunate that exhausts from vehicles contribute immensely to ambient air quality especially in the urban areas. The concentrations of carbon monoxides (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in selected roadsides in Jalingo have been assessed. Four roads were used as sample locations where the concentration of CO2 and CO were measured using an air quality meter for four weeks. The mean concentration of CO2 and CO obtained were respectively as follows: 542.25 ppm and 7.49 ppm for the roadblock, 540.05 ppm and 5.55 ppm for Hammaruwa way, 598.81 ppm and 17.42 ppm for market road, and 463.80 ppm and 1.08 ppm for Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) road (control). Based on the acceptable limit of CO2 (600 ppm), the Roadblock road, Hammaruwa way, and the NLC/control road are safe. Only the market road had value that exceeded the acceptable limit, and it may be attributed to high vehicular activities on the roadsides. Therefore, more alternative roads should be constructed in other to minimize traffic congestion and also, the use of nose masks should be encouraged. For the CO, all the sites are safe because they fall within the acceptable level of CO (1-70 ppm).
The Imaginable City
Authors:   , Tian Yunyun
Published: September 2021

The latter half of the 20th century saw rapid urban development, implemented to meet rapid growth and changing infrastructural needs. Cities around the world became designed homogeneously. In the early decades of the 21st century, the re-inhabitation of the post-industrial city has brought opportunities to bring new ideas to this homogeneity; yet templates and formulas still seem to gain ground: cities are losing their identity, as well as their imaginability. Within this problematic context, New Plymouth Central Area is a representative urban space. New Plymouth District Council has proposed a banally universal design framework, that promises only to continue burying the unique identity of its urban space, rather than liberating it to the imagination. The contemporary discipline still tends to design directly for universal human needs; an approach that ends up suggesting a city’s identity to its citizens, rather than empowering citizens to imagine, and then create, that identity.

This design-led research proposes that landscape design and urban planning can recover the identity of the New Plymouth Central Area by enhancing its legibility and imaginability. It explores techniques for coordinating mental recognition with visual perceptions, to evoke human imagination of a large-scale urban landscape. It argues that imaginable space can be achieved by creating a mentally identifiable system, with urban patterns, for human physical experimentation and mental recognition to navigate; through agency of this urban system to allow those same dynamics to permeate the history and cultural value of the site; to strengthen the citizen’s recognition of self-identity, which always relates to, and measures itself by, the identity of the land.

The outcomes of this research are: an abstract design method that communicates the mental recognition of landscape and its relation to the designed environment; and a physical design solution, testing the abstract method, for a legible and imaginable New Plymouth City.
Late results of surgical treatment of the aortal arch hypoplasia in newborns and babies
Authors: Truba Ya. P. , Golovenko O. S. , Dzyurii І. V. , Motrechko O. O. , Lazoryshynets V. V.
Published: September 2021

Objective. To conduct the analysis of late results of the aortal arch reconstruction in newborns and babies, basing on determination of the risk factors for lethality and reoperations.

Materials and methods. In 2010 - 2019 yrs in the Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery and Scientific-Practical Medical Centre of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiosurgery the aortal arch reconstruction was performed in 445 patients, ageing up to 1 year old, suffering coarctation and hypoplasia of one or several aortal segments. Into the investigation were included the patients with a two-ventricular physiology and further two-ventricular correction were included. There were 161 (36.2%) girls and 284 (63.8%) boys with the age median 0.7 mo [0.3; 2.7], while the body mass median – 3.7 kg [3.25; 4.59], and the body surface square median – 0.23 m2 [0.20;0.27]. Echocardiography was the main diagnostic method for the failure as well as for estimation of immediate and late results.

Results. Overall lethality have constituted 3.3%, the hospital one – 2.7%, lethality in late period of observation – 0.7%. The observation period have lasted from 1 mo till 9.4 yrs, (2.8 ±2.5) yrs at average. Reoperations on aortal arch were performed in 47 (10.5%) patients: in 12 – surgical aortal arch rereconstruction, in 27 – balloon angioplasty, and in 8 patients both methods were used. The risk factors for lethality after the aortal arch reconstruction in the patients, ageing up to 1 yr old were revealed: the patients’ age on the operation moment lesser than 0.9 mo, the body mass lesser than 2.6 kg, durable operation, presence of concurrent inborn heart failures, residual hypoplasia of the aortal segments A and B. Low mass and the surface square of the body, presence of the aortal arch segments hypoplasia preoperatively, residual pressure gradient on the aortal arch more than 20 mm Hg, hypoplasia of any aortal arch segments after reconstruction have constituted the risk factors for reoperations.

Conclusion. Surgical treatment of the aortal arch hypoplasia in newborns and babies is effective and giving good immediate and late results. Anatomic correction of secondary obstruction on the aortal arch level is secure, with low indices of lethality and reoperations, and performed either surgically or endoscopically. Taking into account the risk factors revealed for lethality and reoperations on aortal arch, have permitted to improve the results of treatment of the aortal arch hypoplasia in patients ageing up to 1 yr old.
The viscosity and thrombocytic-aggregation disorders in patients, suffering myocardial infarction with the ST segment elevation
Authors: Uzun D. Yu. , Lazoryshynets V. V. , Uzun K. S.
Published: September 2021

Objective. Analysis of changes in viscosity and disorders of the thrombocytes-aggregation process under impact of various tactical, diagnostic and intervention approaches in patients, suffering myocardial infarction with persistent elevation of ST segment in presence of multivascular affection of coronary arteries.

Materials and methods. In the investigation four tactical and treatment-diagnostic approaches were used through year of observation.

Results. In patients, suffering myocardial infarction and persistent elevation of ST segment the hyperviscosity and hypercoagulation syndromes were revealed, which have manifested in first weeks by compensatory growth of thrombocytes quantity, the blood viscosity, level of fibrinogen and aggregation properties of thrombocytes. Conduction of additional more profound examination of coronary blood circulation and further application of postponed stenting of the infarction-dependent arteries have promoted lesser amplitude of fluctuations of all laboratory indices, than in other tactical and treatment approaches.

Conclusion. Standard tactical and treatment-diagnostic principles in management of such category of patients do not permit to improve the state of the viscosity and coagulation-aggregation parameters principally, even while application of double antiaggregation therapy.