bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II
Authors: Ranasinghe Sasanka , Eberle Jonas , Athukorala Namal , Benjamin Suresh P. , Ahrens Dirk
Published: May 2022

Here, we present the results of our field survey in Sri Lanka and describe ten new species of Sericini: Selaserica fabriziae sp. nov., Sel. sororinitida sp. nov., Neoserica pophami sp. nov., Maladera haniel sp. nov., M. kishi sp. nov., M. windy sp. nov., M. karunaratnae sp. nov., M. hiyarensis sp. nov., M. dambullana sp. nov., and M. deenstana sp. nov. All seven of the newly described species of Maladera belong to the M. fistulosa species group, which is an endemic radiation on the island that is characterized by entirely reduced or fused parameres. An updated key to the Maladera fistulosa group is provided. Further, new locality records for 23 already known species are given. The genitalia and habitus of all new species are illustrated, the distribution of the new species is shown with maps.
Impact of COVID-19 outbreak in knee arthroplasty in Chile: a cross-sectional, national registry-based analysis
Authors: Barahona Maximiliano , Martínez Álvaro , Barahona Macarena , Ramírez Marcela , Barrientos Cristian , Infante Carlos
Published: May 2022

Introduction The need for beds and health personnel to treat coronavirus (COVID- 19) patients has led to the suspension of many elective sur-geries in Chile, including knee arthroplasties. This study aims to determine the incidence of knee arthroplasty in 2020, reflecting the effect of the COVID- 19 pandemic, and estimate the cost and time it would take to recover the waiting list prior to March 2020. Methods A cross- sectional study was designed. We analyzed databases from The Department of Statistics and Health Information databases from Chile for 2019 and 2020, identifying patients with surgical discharges associated with knee arthroplasty codes. We estimated the time it would take to recover the surgeries unperformed in 2020 by simulating a monthly workload increase from the 2019 baseline. The costs of knee arthroplasty paid by the National Health Fund to institutions were estimated by diagnosis-related groups. Results We found that the incidence rate of knee arthroplasty in 2020 decreased by 64% compared with 2019. The impact was higher in the public system (68%) and the National Health Found (63%). A simulated increase in knee arthroplasty productivity by 30% would allow recovering the postponed knee arthroplasty surgeries in 27 months, at a monthly cost to the public system of 318 million Chilean pesos (378 thousand US dollars). Conclusions The incidence rate of knee arthroplasty during 2020 decreased by 64%, revealing the extensive waiting line for people with knee osteoarthritis. An increase between 20- 40% in productivity compared with 2019 would allow recovering the unperformed surgeries in 20 to 41 months, at a monthly cost to the public network between 210 and 425 million Chilean pesos (250 to 506 thousand US dollars).
Time use and time use satisfaction: an examination of children�s out of school activities in Namibia
Authors: Gentz Shelene , Chouinard Laura J. , Ruiz-Casares M�nica
Published: May 2022

Population-based information on how school-going children spend their daily lives outside of school from their own perspective in African contexts is limited. Using representative data from 2124 four- and six-graders who completed the 2018 International Survey of Children�s Wellbeing in Khomas region, Namibia, this article describes children�s out-of-school activities, the contextual factors that influence patterns of time use and how these patterns of time use affect subjective wellbeing. Results indicate that children in Namibia spend time on diverse activities related to school, family, and leisure. Furthermore, children�s participation in chores contributed positively to their life satisfaction and both play and spending time with family had a valuable impact on their wellbeing. By describing at a population level children�s out-of-school time use and satisfaction, this study contributes to understanding the richness of children�s lives in Khomas region and the valuable contributions they make to their families and communities.
Children as peacemakers in transforming everyday conflicts in Ghana
Authors: Quantson Davis Ruby
Published: May 2022

African children are often reported in news and publications as child soldiers, dabbling in drug use, indoctrinated to commit violent assaults, and living in poverty. While these occurrences have been recorded in conflicts around the continent, the dominance of such narratives erases both the active and silent roles children play in advancing peace through everyday childhood practices. The generalisation creates a single and narrow description of the African child. This article explores the peace-making practices of Ghanaian children in their homes, communities, schools, and other spaces and seeks to understand why and how these roles are downplayed. The article proposes ways of shoring up this powerful image of African children through their socio-cultural environments and indigenous knowledge. It is important that the narrative of Ghanaian childhood is re-told to reflect these potential peace-making perspectives because they have implications for citizens� participation, and stability in Ghana.
It takes a village to raise a child: everyday experiences of living with extended family in Namibia
Authors: Leonard Emmerentia , Ananias Janetta , Sharley Victoria
Published: May 2022

The family is the fundamental group of society and the natural environment for the growth and well-being of children. The Namibian Constitution protects the family, without specifying what �family� means�which allows for legal concepts of family to evolve to fit social realities. The caring for children, most commonly by extended family or kinship carers is widespread and a practice acceptable in most Namibian cultures in the spirit of Ubuntu. This article foregrounds the importance of carer-child relationships in the care provided by extended family for children who do not live with their birth parents. It further investigates children�s everyday understandings of what family means to offer a multiplicity of experiences of child fosterage practice. These are presented from a range of carers and children within the fosterage context and considered within children�s unique and positive relationships within their families.
Сorrelation of the oral and the written in topolect poetry
Authors: Dreyzis Yulia A.
Published: May 2022

The paper describes the practice of creating poetic texts on lects that possess a problemat­ic linguistic status. The author proposes using ‘topolect’ as a universal term for such entities, which allows them to be placed in a special category of language systems that occupy an in­termediate level between the standard and the rather homogeneous territorial dialects in a kind of multilingualism that is characterized by the distribution of functions between idioms. The analysis of the poetic tradition of topolects makes it possible to reveal some general pat­terns of text functioning for the texts on de facto normalized, but not subjected to strict standardization, semi-autonomous idioms. Different modes of correlating the oral and the written in these texts come in direct connection with the practice of recitation and other forms of the auditory existence of poetry. The introduction of new empirical material contributes to the reassessment of the problem of the oral and the written, since it demonstrates the non-equivalence of the oral and the spoken, and the written and the literary. The visually percepti­ble text in its written form is informatively not equivalent to the voiced version of the same text. Building relationships between ‘visual speech’ (in the form of a poetic text) and its sounding shows the evolution of topolect writing and metalanguage reflection of its authors.
Poetics of the deconstruction of Reinhard Jirgl’s text: A trans­lational perspective
Authors: Potyomina Marina S.
Published: May 2022

This article explores Reinhard Jirgl’s concept of literary writing, which uses linguistic and textual deconstruction, alphanumeric encoding, and intra- and intertextual strategies. Semiotic and discursive analyses allow identifying lexical, syntactic, and semantic elements of the structural and functional performativity of Jirgl’s texts. His prose exploits the enor­mous poetic potential of the alphanumeric code, the aesthetics of narrative simultaneity and hypertextuality, and the fragmentedness of the agent. The principle of aberrant text produc­tion helps the author stage the process of sense formation and brings to the fore the concept of hierarchical rule destruction, which applies to language, society, and reality. By deconstruct­ing syntax and orthography, Jirgl’s system of language and script generates new senses. It also compels the recipient to destroy customary mental matrices and analyse processes taking place in society. Narrative staging of Jirgl’s texts is performed to identify the main problems that student translators are faced with when decoding the writer’s prose. Rendering a contemporary fic­tional text into a different language requires paying attention to meaning construction and (de)construction, the extralinguistic context, and links and interactions between linguistic and social meanings. Moreover, it is necessary to explore connections between the performa­tive and narrative characteristics of utterances. New literary contexts and the alarmist forms of narrative peculiar to Jirgl’s writing urge the translator to develop specific professional skills and philological competencies.
Deployment risk and resilience model applied to military children
Authors: dos Santos Renato Pessoa , Francisco Rita , Ribeiro Maria T.
Published: May 2022

This exploratory study investigates the impact of a military mission on Portuguese families, specifically on children. Although most research seeks the negative consequences of this lived experience, through the “Deployment Risk and Resilience Model” the present study intends to explore if this period can also be an opportunity for military’s children to grow and become more resilient. Aiming to express freely their lived and felt stories about the phenomenon under study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 children of the service members of the Portuguese Army, aged between 8 and 21 years old. The results of the thematic analysis indicated that the most critical moments of the mission were the notification period, the last days before the departure of the service member, and the deployment. The preparation of activities for the service members’ absence in the pre-deployment and the increase of tasks to be carried out, during the deployment, were the most referenced changes. In the post-deployment, children perceived a rapid readjustment of the family system. Despite the military's children's difficulties in readjusting during the mission, they reported that the feelings of closeness to the nuclear family, increased responsibility, and personal growth were positive results experienced. It would be interesting to extend similar studies within family systems, as in other branches of the armed forces. As practical implications, the findings of our pioneering study may significantly contribute to the construction of programs and/or actions that promote a possible growth in the personal resilience of the children of Portuguese service members, and not only the recovery of the state prior to the mission.
Age of acquisition of personality terms: Implications for personality theory
Authors: Roivainen Eka
Published: May 2022

Analysis of the age of acquisition (AoA) of personality terms represents a genetic method for the study of the individual personality lexicon and offers a potential alternative to correlational analysis for identifying the fundamental personality descriptors among the thousands of terms that appear in language. In the present study, the relationship between AoA, word frequency, word desirability, and factor loading in the Big Five and Hexaco models of 274 and 408 personality adjectives was analyzed. It was found that young children (2nd graders or younger) acquire personality terms that represent traits at the core of the broad personality factors in the Big Five and Hexaco models slightly earlier than words that represent more peripheral traits. In older children beyond second grade, the correlation between factor loading and AoA is weak. Words that describe the broad openness and stability/emotionality aspects of personality are learned later than words for the other broad factors. Word frequency (in book texts) and desirability have a weak negative correlation with AoA. It is hypothesized that the AoA of a personality term reflects the importance of the corresponding trait for children and may be used as one criterion for ranking facet level traits independent of the broad factors.
Living in a world with God: An interpretative phenomenological exploration of the religious experiences of five Baptists in Britain
Authors: Murphy James , Jones Fergal W. , Nigbur Dennis , Gee Kate
Published: May 2022

Religious and spiritual experiences often form significant elements of people’s narratives about their faith and lives, but the impact of these experiences is often neglected in academic studies. This study investigated the connections between perceived experiences of God and beliefs in the lives of five members of a Baptist church in Britain, using data from semi-structured interviews. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to explore the data and develop 11 recurrent sub-themes, organized into two super-ordinate themes: “Knowing God” and “Living in the World.” There were idiosyncratic differences between the experiences of the participants, but they all perceived God communicating with them and attributed certain events to God’s influence. These experiences developed real and meaningful relationships with God, and the participants’ faith affected every aspect of their lives, shaping their actions, beliefs and daily lived experiences. The participants’ diverse experiences and beliefs created mutually supporting meaning systems (or worldviews) that were much stronger than the individual elements that contributed to them. God was an intrinsic part of the participants’ social reality, and their lived experiences cannot be adequately understood without appreciating the influence of this central aspect of their lives. These findings show the importance of taking a holistic and idiographic perspective when studying religiosity and spirituality. The study also demonstrates IPA is a useful and effective tool for studying lived experiences of religiosity and spirituality and supports its broader use to investigate such phenomena.
THE LIQUIDATING VALUE OF A COMPANY'S ASSETS IN A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING
Authors: SAN JOSE RUIZ DE AGUIRRE LEIRE , RETOLAZA AVALOS JOSE LUIS , OLABARRIETA DE FRUTOS UNAI
Published: May 2022

Abstract
The companies avoid going to the bankruptcy process, they do it late and a great majority finish with liquidation; probably because the bankruptcy process does not meet the objective of restructuring companies with financial problems. If the active resources and the granted credit were in balance (standard accounting principle); this problem would disappear; but it certainly is not the case and the problem persists. Thus, our work aims to determine the degree of impairment shown by the assets in bankruptcy proceedings to try to reveal the variables that could explain the greater or lesser impairment. This work highlights the lack of efficiency of the bankruptcy process due to the poor credit satisfaction of its creditors in liquidation. This helps to establish a cause, specifically, the low liquidation value of the assets. This implies that the culture in the bankruptcy process must change one should go to the process as soon as possible and try to balance assets and equity and payable at all times.
Keywords: bankruptcy proceeding, liquidation value, efficiency, risk, illiquidity.
PISA da la razón a Bourdieu
Authors: Hernàndez Dobon Francesc Jesús
Published: May 2022

El artículo revisa La reproducción de Bourdieu y Passeron y explica que, junto a la teoría habitual de la violencia simbólica, hay otra teoría sobre la vanalidad de la educación, que conecta con la índole amorfa del poder de Weber. A continuación usa los datos de PISA, que calcula según una adaptación de la metodología del índice de Gini, y establece la correlación entre desigualdad social y educativa. Por último, revisa el papel en tal correlación de los diversos Estados, apareciendo un perfil determinado en antiguos países socialistas.
Prácticas estudiantiles de diferenciación social vinculadas a la concepción de juventud, sus problemáticas y consumos culturales en el campo escolar de Tandil, provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Authors: Leivas Marcela
Published: May 2022

El presente artículo expone los primeros resultados de un trabajo de investigación, que a partir de recuperar los aportes de Pierre Bourdieu, específicamente los planteados en su obra "la Distinción. Criterios y bases sociales del gusto" (1979), busca conocer las "distinciones" vigentes entre las "estrategias estudiantiles" desplegadas por jóvenes que asisten a diferentes escuelas secundarias de la ciudad de Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, y dar cuenta además de la relación que dichas estrategias mantienen con determinado "sistema de enclasamiento". Para ello, se han tomado 96 encuestas cualitativas a jóvenes que asisten a tres escuelas secundarias de la ciudad (una urbana de gestión privada, una urbana de gestión estatal y una sub-urbana de gestión estatal). A pesar de que la indagación ha sido mas amplia, aquí se presentan análisis relacionales sobre su localización geográdica, significaciones sobre la juventud y consideraciones sobre consumos culturales. El análisis cualitativo de los datos relevados ha permitido indicar características específicas de los grupos de jóvenes que aisiten a cada institución, así como también relaciones de cercanía y distancia entre ellos, dando cuenta además de indicios sobre la relación que cada grupo mantiene con alguna de las clases socales que componen la estructura social argentina (kessler, 2016), colocando indicios sobre la configuración del "sistema de enclasamiento" que los determina.
A propósito de La reproducción. Una entrevista a la socióloga Marina Subirats
Authors: Villar-Aguilés Alícia
Published: May 2022

Este número especial de mayo de 2022 de la RASE está dedicado a Bourdieu en el 20 aniversario de su muerte, un sociólogo fundamental y también célebre en su aportación a la sociología de la educación. Conversamos con Marina Subirats a propósito de La reproducción en la que participó como traductora y prologista en su versión al castellano y sobre la influencia de la obra del sociólogo francés.
A generalized cortical activity pattern at internally generated mental context boundaries during unguided narrative recall
Authors: Lee Hongmi , Chen Janice
Published: May 2022

Current theory and empirical studies suggest that humans segment continuous experiences into events based on the mismatch between predicted and actual sensory inputs; detection of these ‘event boundaries’ evokes transient neural responses. However, boundaries can also occur at transitions between internal mental states, without relevant external input changes. To what extent do such ‘internal boundaries’ share neural response properties with externally driven boundaries? We conducted an fMRI experiment where subjects watched a series of short movies and then verbally recalled the movies, unprompted, in the order of their choosing. During recall, transitions between movies thus constituted major boundaries between internal mental contexts, generated purely by subjects’ unguided thoughts. Following the offset of each recalled movie, we observed stereotyped spatial activation patterns in the default mode network, especially the posterior medial cortex, consistent across different movie contents and even across the different tasks of movie watching and recall. Surprisingly, the between-movie boundary patterns did not resemble patterns at boundaries between events within a movie. Thus, major transitions between mental contexts elicit neural phenomena shared across internal and external modes and distinct from within-context event boundary detection, potentially reflecting a cognitive state related to the flushing and reconfiguration of situation models.
Radiological Outcome of Subcentimeter Arterially Enhancing Nodules Detected during Surveillance for Hepatocellular Carcinoma- A Cohort Study
Authors: Gupta Prabhat Prakash , Lohiya Nimisha
Published: May 2022

Introduction: Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most diagnosed cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancerrelated death globally. The male: female ratio for HCC in India is 4:1 with age of presentation ranging from 40 to 70 years. There is limited clinical information on the course of SubcentimeterSized Nodules (SCSNs) detected during surveillance for HCC. Aim: To evaluate the serial outcome of subcentimeter arterially enhancing nodules evolving into HCC and henceforth, to identify specific radiological features which can prognosticate and, if possible, predict which SCSNs will turn into HCC. Materials and Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted in a tertiary care center in Delhi NCR, in the Department of Radiodiagnosis between 1st May 2018 and 30th April 2019. Total of 72 lesions in 59 patients were evaluated during the study period of one year, which included images spanning over a mean duration of three years (range 2-6.5 years). Dynamic contrast enhanced imaging was done as per Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System version 2018 (LI-RADS version 2018) using either Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) or Computed Tomography (CT). The gold standard for HCC diagnosis was LR 5 lesion. Size cut-off, rate of growth, enhancement features were studied and calculated. Student’s t-test was used for comparison of quantitative outcome parameters. Results: A total of 59 patients were analysed with mean age 53±12 years, of which 85% were males. The cumulative HCC development rate was 47.5%. A 60.9% of the SCSNs which turned into HCCs showed an increase in size, 31.6% of the non HCC-SCSN lesions also showed an increase in size. Upon baseline comparison, the growth difference was more in the HCC group (8.2±12.24 mm) than in the non HCC group (3.37±7.39 mm). The optimal cut-off points after which the likelihood of an arterially enhancing lesion turning into HCC increased significantly was 8.5 mm on CT and 10.5 mm on MRI. Conclusion: Around 47.5% of arterially enhancing SCSN converted into HCC; this percentage is much higher than quoted literature. A six monthly follow-up may be considered as 52.2 percent of lesions turned into HCC in a span of 1 year. The optimal cut-off points after which the likelihood of an arterially enhancing lesion turning into HCC increases can be taken as 8.55 mm on CT and 10.5 mm on MRI. Among the lesions showing washout, 80.8 % on CT and 91.3% nodules on MRI changed into HCC.
Dasatinib causing Intracerebral Bleeding in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia
Authors: Rathod Santosh Govind , Khan Afaq Ahmad , Geelani Sajad Ahmed , Roshan Reshma , Bhat Javid Rasool
Published: May 2022

Dasatinib is a potent inhibitor of BCR-ABL (break point cluster-Abelson) kinase, Src family of kinases, C-kit, and Platelet Derived Growth Factor Receptor beta (PDGFR-beta), and used in the treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML), Ph-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). The most common side effects of dasatinib are myelosuppression, gastrointestinal disturbance, fluid retention, cutaneous eruption, and bleeding diathesis. This report is about a recently diagnosed, 45-year-old female with CML, BCR-ABL positive. After six-month therapy with imatinib, the patient developed resistance to imatinib. The treatment was changed to dasatinib 70 mg, once a day. Three months after starting the therapy, the patient showed a cytological response. While receiving dasatinib, she complained of headaches, nausea, and vomiting. Her complete blood count was within the normal limit. Coagulogram was within the normal limit. Non Contrast Computerised Tomography (NCCT) of the head showed intracerebral bleed in the right frontal area of the brain. The patient was then treated with mannitol and put on artificial ventilation. She succumbed on day fourth of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Dasatinib has been associated with impaired platelet aggregation, and can show fatal bleeding manifestations
Professional Ties and Industrial Disputes: Knowledge, Practices and Management among Doctors in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital
Authors: Nnebue Chinomnso C. , Ike Chukwuma O. , Obi Emeka A. , Sidney-Nnebue Queencallista N.
Published: May 2022

Disputes arise from inherent opposing interests in human co-existence in any system. The only critical element is how to manage dispute to a reasonable extent that none of the parties feels shortchanged or undermined. In Nigeria, specifically, industrial dispute has taken an unprecedented proportion since independence and a geometric level in the 1990s and currently. The aim of this project is to study the knowledge, practices and management of industrial dispute among doctors in the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi. The index study will help reveal causes of disputes as well as proffer evidence-based solutions to averting the negative aftermath. Using NAUTH as a case, questionnaires were self- administered to Doctors. The paper adopted the tabular method in presenting data, while Chi-square was used in testing the hypothesis. The results showed the factors that are apparently responsible for strikes in the Nigerian university teaching hospital system, key among them are the Management and Government’s inability to keep to obligations, promises made during engagements and negotiations, as well as poor infrastructure, poor work environment, and poor remuneration. Hence, this paper recommends that a well-designed industrial dispute management structure must be put in place in Teaching Hospitals among others.
Comparison of Exchange Rates of Tourism Small Enterprises and Traditional Fishermen in Pangandaran District, Indonesia
Authors: Nastiti Annisa Sekar Ratri , Rizal Achmad , Apriliani Izza Mahdiana , Suryana Asep Agus Handaka
Published: May 2022

The fishery is an agricultural sector with abundant natural resources and a high production value, but this does not make traditional fishers and tourism business actors prosperous. This study aims to calculate the exchange rate of tourism businesses and traditional fishers in the Pangandaran District and the factors that influence it. This study uses a comparative descriptive method located in Pangandaran District by using the accidental sampling method. The data used are primary and secondary data, with a total number of 60 respondents for two professions with interview techniques. For analysis using the Exchange Rate formula and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis. This study indicates that the average exchange rate for traditional fishers is 0.99, while the average exchange rate for tourism businesses is 1.05. The exchange rate belonging to traditional fishers is below 1, which means they are not sufficiently able to meet their household needs and can be said to be less prosperous. Meanwhile, the exchange rate owned by tourism business actors is at number 1, which means they are pretty profitable and quite able to meet their household needs. The factors that influence it are income from fisheries or business products (X1), total of family member (X2), workload as fishermen or business actors (X3), and work experience (X4).
Social Media and Sexual Behaviour: A Study of Undergraduate Students in a Public University in Imo State, South East Nigeria
Authors: Nnebue Chinomnso C. , Okolo Emeka H. , Zimughan Jude E. , Onyia Chbuzor P. , Ugwuokpe Lynda A.
Published: May 2022

Objective: To determine the effect of social media use on sexual behaviors among undergraduate students in public universities in Imo State, Nigeria.

Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study employed multistage sampling technique in selecting 300 undergraduates. Data on social media use and sexual behaviors were collected with self- administered semi-structured questionnaire and analysed using statistical package for social sciences version 22.0. Chi-square test was used to identify statistically significant associations between variables. A p value of < 0.05 was considered significant.

Results: The mean age of respondents was 22.13+ 4.26 years, while 252(84%) were youths (ages 15 to 25 years). The mean age at sexual initiation was 18.25+ 3.67 years. There was 100% awareness of social media, 170 (56.67%) heard about it from friends, while the commonest reasons cited for its use is 213 (71.0%) solving school assignments, while the favorite platforms cited was 102 (91.9%) Facebook. There were statistically significant associations between ever had sex and gender and between use of social media and [the sexually active (p=0.001); type of sexual acts practiced (p=0.000) and number of sexual partners (p=0.000)] respectively.

Conclusions: This study found an association between ever had sex and gender, as well as between use of social media for sexually explicit content and some risky sexual behavior.  We recommend that measures such as correct sexuality education should be instituted for these students to help in curbing such use of social media and so minimize risky sexual behaviors and their attendant consequences.
Awareness, Knowledge of First Aid and First Emergency Behavioral Perception of Medical Students in a University in Southeastern Nigeria
Authors: Nwosu Nkechi Clara , Onwuka Osah Martins , Chukwu John Aja O’Brian
Published: May 2022

Background: Students are usually exposed to all kinds of injury in schools and with inadequate health care services in most schools; administering first aid is important in such emergency situations. Hence, this study was conducted to assess the awareness, knowledge and behavioral perception of first aid among medical students of a tertiary institution in South-eastern Nigeria.

Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 250 medical students of Gregory University Uturu, Abia state, Nigeria. A structured pre-tested validated questionnaire assessing their awareness, knowledge and attitude was used to collect the data. Data was analyzed using IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25. Chi-squared test were used to test for associations between socio-demographics, knowledge and attitude of respondents. A p-value of <0.05 was considered significant.

Results: Out of the respondents, 98.4% have heard about first aid before the survey, (52.8%; n=132) have good knowledge of first aid skills, and 94% (n=235) have good attitude towards first aid. 91.2% said they are willing to help if trained while 94% of the respondents felt it was necessary to incorporate first aid in the school curriculum.

Conclusion: Although the students showed good awareness and attitude towards the concept of first aid, there is a gap in their knowledge and application of basic emergency first aid skills. There is a need to incorporate the training of basic first aid skills and basic life support skills in the school’s curriculum to bridge the gap.
Modeling and Forecasting of Rainfall Trends based on Historical Data in Bungoma County, Western Kenya using Holt Winters Method
Authors: Otieno Vanessa A. , Wanyonyi Samson W.
Published: May 2022

Rainfall is termed as a meteorological phenomenon which is very useful for daily human activities. Most of the population depend on it for domestic purpose and agriculture, hence it is vital for farmers to know rainfall trends and patterns prevailing in their locality. In Kenya, rainfall variability has caused hunger to many people. In agriculture section, water problem is the most critical constraint in food productions. Extreme weather conditions which is occasioned by climatic change and weather variability makes a small scale farmer in Bungoma to face very high risks of reduced productivity. Scarcity of water is a severe environmental constraint to plant productivity hence drought causes loss in crop yield. Majority of the population in Bungoma do depend on agriculture either directly or indirectly therefore analysis of rainfall data for long periods will provide a lot of information about rainfall variability and this will help to better the agricultural activities of Bungoma farmers. The main aim of the study was to model rainfall patterns and hence predict the future rainfall trends in Bungoma region using Holt winters method in the context of the time series. This is because time series analysis plays an important role in modelling, predicting and forecasting meteorological data such as humidity, temperature, rainfall and other environmental variable. Therefore, data for Bungoma monthly and yearly rainfall patterns for the period 1988-2021 was obtained from the Kenya meteorological department. Collected data was analyzed using Holt winters method by R software. Rainfall data was found to be seasonal implying that most of the rainfall occurred in a specific period each year. Forecasted rainfall had increasing and decreasing prediction intervals and this implied that rainfall could either start decreasing or increasing. The data was found to be non-stationary due to presence of seasonality and rainfall trends. Findings of the study will make it possible to facilitate planning and management of water for both domestic and agricultural use in Bungoma region.
Exploring the Interrelation between Time Management and Academic Achievement among University Students
Authors: Bhattacharya Rahul , Tipu Md. Nazmul Alom , Sarker Bishwajit , Durud Mohammad Saifuddin
Published: May 2022

Time management plays a very important role in personal and professional life. Several studies have demonstrated that judicious use of time positively affects academic performance. This study was carried out to assess the relationship between time management and academic achievement of the students of Sylhet Agricultural University. Moreover, the study aimed to know if there was any gender difference in time management. Based on the literature review on time management, survey research has been identified as the most prominent design to study time management. The time management questionnaire developed by Britton and Tesser was used as a study tool for its reliability and validity. A total of 187 students were selected from Sylhet Agricultural University as respondents for the study. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, and ANOVA. The results of this study do not suggest a significant relationship between time management and academic achievement. However, females manage time better than males in short-range and long-range planning.
Analysis and Design of an Industrial Tower
Authors: Banerjee Debargha , Ghosh Uddipta , Das Debasish , Nama Puja , Mandi Sukhen , Sarkar Saikat , Sarkar Susama , Chowdhury Unnata Sen , Barman Bapi , Das Suman , Dutta Sibananda Prasad , Bhattacharjee Saikat , Goswami Kishalay
Published: May 2022

Steel Transmission Towers are often used to transmit power from one location to another using electrical conductors. Transmission line towers elevate heavy electrical transmission conductors to a safe height above the ground. Furthermore, all towers must withstand various natural disasters such as wind, earthquakes, and so on. Because towers must support the weight of above lines, they must be strong. As a result, the design engineer has a lot of responsibility, as he or she must develop not only an economical, but also a safe and trustworthy design that can withstand various loads, including its own. The voltage, circuit count, and kind of transmission line tower are used to classify them. The most common configurations used are rectangular and square. The most prevalent type of broad-based tower is the square type. Different sorts of towers are introduced in this. Transmission towers are often built of steel or galvanized steel. Lattice structures are commonly utilized and have a sleek body made up of polygonal tubular sections with tubular cross arm management for fastening the tension or suspension clamp. The geometric parameters of transmission line tower configuration include the tower's height, base width, top-hamper width, length, and depth of the cross arm. The leg and bracing elements are the main components of the lattice tower.   They transport the tower's vertical and shear stresses to its foundation. Secondary or redundant bracing members are utilized to offer intermediate support to primary members in order to reduce unbraced length and boost load carrying capability. Rectangular and square configurations are the most common. The most frequent are square-shaped broad-based towers. STAAD PRO V8i was used to construct and analyze a standard steel latticed skyscraper of height 19 meters. On post-processing mode after load analysis The bending moment and shear forces findings were obtained, examined, and updated to meet the requirements.
Adoption of Drought Mitigation Strategies in Irrigated Cropping System of Madurai District
Authors: Mahandrakumar K.
Published: May 2022

In drought situation, farmers in Irrigated ecosystem often faced financial losses due to uncertainty of occurrence of drought event. With the intention of minimizing impact of drought through application of science and technology, drought management plans are implemented by government.  The outcome of   government supported mitigation strategies was studied. The result revealed that only less number of farmer have adopted technological mitigation strategies on their own. Conducting demonstrations, trainings and supply of critical mitigation inputs through development departments must be continued to educate the farmers to adopt the mitigation measures.
Constraints Faced by Farmers due to COVID-19 Disruptions on Agricultural Activities in Nalgonda District of Telangana, India
Authors: Waris Amtul , Jangaiah Battu , Harish Jana
Published: May 2022

The objective of the study was to provide insights on disruptions faced by farmers due to COVID-19 for harvest of rabi (winter) crop and preparations for kharif (summer) crop and to suggest appropriate policy measures to enable farmers to cope with similar disruptions in agricultural activities. Data were collected from 125 farmers from five tribal hamlets of Deverkonda mandal of Nalgonda district of Telangana state. The major constraints reported by almost all the farmers (99.2%) were financial problems primarily due to loss of wage work, repayment of informal loans (83%), fear of contracting COVID-19 (92%) and health of family members (89%) which adversely affected their work efficiency. Paddy crop was the most affected as rated by 80.8% of the farmers, followed by vegetables 52.8%, groundnut 41.6%, cotton 37.6%, redgram 16.8% and fruit crops(sweet lime) 13.6% respectively. The farmers faced problems in land preparation (92.8%), high cost of inputs (96.8%), and low availability of inputs (75.2%), transport problems to procure inputs (96.8%), labour shortage (67.2%) and storage of unsold produce (75.2%). Shortage of animal feed (79.2%) and health care of animals (85.6%) were the constraints faced in livestock care. The harvesting of paddy was the most affected due to shortage of labour and harvesting machines. Community seed and animal feed banks, collectives like farmer producer organizations, collateral free credit, small packaging of inputs, promotion of youth entrepreneurship in processing storage and sale of produce and mechanization of small farms, direct procurement, logistic support are some of the immediate and mid- term measures being suggested for building resilience of food systems to face future risks.
Investigation of the use of Mangrove and Nypa palm Parts as Tools for Remediating Polluted Soils in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Authors: Numbere Aroloye. O. , Gbarakoro Tambeke N. , Eberechukwu Maduike M.
Published: May 2022

This study is based on the theory that mangrove parts can be used to remediate polluted soils. Using chemicals to clean oil spill sites can cause negative feedback by increasing the heavy metal load of the soil and river. However, ground mangrove parts are harmless and can biodegrade faster when introduced on polluted soils. We thus postulate that mangrove parts can be used to remediate polluted sites by conducting an experiment with some parts of mangrove (leaves, root, stem seed, and branch) and nypa palm (leave, root, and seed) that were collected in situ, ground into fine powder applied to polluted soil. We also decided that reduced reduced hydrocarbon content (THC) and heavy metal concentration (Cadmium, Cd, Iron Fe, Zinc, Zn, and Lead Pb) over time means remediation. Soil samples were collected monthly for six months from the treated and control soils. The results show that THC and heavy metal concentrations reduced in the soil over time because of the remediating effect of the plant parts applied. The ANOVA result showed that there was significant difference in heavy metal concentration between treated and control soils (P< 0.05) where mangrove-treated soils had lower concentration of total hydrocarbon content and heavy metals from control (i.e., non-treated soils) for three of the five heavy metals analyzed (Cd, Fe and Zn) compared to the low concentration of two metals for nypa palm-treated soils (THC and Pb). Season has little or no effect on THC and heavy metal concentration apart from Fe that has low concentration during the wet season (P<0.05). There is more correlation in chemical concentration between the roots and soils of both plant species (R=0.95). More experiment is needed with mangrove and nypa palm parts to determine their effectiveness in remediation so that they can be used in a large-scale clean-up of polluted sites globally.
Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infection Induced First Episode Psychosis: A Case Series
Authors: Das Riyal , Mukherjee Aniket , Sarkhel Sujit , Roy Paramita , Bhattacharyya Amit Kumar
Published: May 2022

Aims: We presented 3 similar cases of 1st episode psychosis that occurred after Corona Virus Disease -2019 (COVID-19) infection which we treated at our institute’s on going post-COVID-19 mental health clinic, to provide more evidence to the existing literature and to describe whether an asymptomatic COVID-19 infection can also induce psychosis in previously healthy individuals and tried to elaborate the probable etiology and nature of the psychotic symptoms.

Presentation of the Cases: All the 3 cases had COVID-19 infection, few days before their psychotic symptoms started for the 1st time. They didn’t have any history of regular substance or medication use that are known to induce psychosis or any previous history of psychiatric disease or family history of psychiatric disease, without any abnormality in physical examinations and laboratory investigations. All the cases had history of stress which were not overwhelming (except the 3rd case) and were mostly related to COVID-19 infection and pandemic associated social and financial stress. 1st case (54 years, married male) developed delusion of persecution, delusion of reference, 2nd and 3rd person auditory hallucinations, 2nd case (61 years, widower male) developed delusion of persecution, 2nd person auditory hallucination (commanding type), disinhibited behaviour (disrobing in public) and the 3rd case (32 years, unmarried male) developed delusion of persecution and delusional misidentification (Intermetamorphosis). All of them responded well to commonly used antipsychotics within 4 weeks that prompted a diagnosis of Acute and Transient Psychotic disorder according to ICD-10 criteria.

Discussion: This study points out that even an asymptomatic COVID-19 can induce psychosis for the first time in life, where the etiology most probably is the direct effect of the virus itself on brain or the COVID-19 and pandemic related stress which is supported by the fact that factors like family history of psychiatric disease, substance use or medication use or any comorbidity that can induce psychosis were also absent. The psychopathological findings were persecutory delusion and auditory hallucinations with one case having Intermetamorphosis phenomenon which is a rare finding and perhaps a novel finding in post-COVID-19 Psychosis.

Conclusion: All COVID-19 infected individuals should be screened early for appearance of any symptom that raises the suspicion of psychosis. Large studies are needed to ascertain the etiology of post-COVID-19 psychosis.
Genetic Variability for Morphological and Biochemical Traits among the Interspecific F4-5 Populations of Brassica Species
Authors: Ali Barkat , Kumar Sujon , Ahmed Waleed , Khan Muhammad Ayoub , Ullah Izhar , Rahman Md. Moshiur
Published: May 2022

The study was carried out to determine genetic variability, heritability, and genetic progress among the F4-5 population of Brassica species for several biochemical and morphological traits at Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan, during the Rabi season 2018-19. In Pakistan, Brassica are economically important and high yielding oil seeds and it is needed to produce improved Brassica varieties for successful expansion of cultivation of oilseed crops. The genetic variability among 51 populations (genotypes) of four interspecific crosses Bn-531xBr-118, Bn-525xBr-118, Bn-514xBj-109 and Bn-510xBj-109 with six parents of Brassica species in paired rows of 4 m length with a spacing of 30 x 10-15 cm (row × plant). Data were recorded on ten different agro-morphological characters and six biochemical traits. The interspecific crosses of Brassica species highly performed all types of morphological traits in populations viz; 142, 129, 196, 186 and 142. Biochemical traits are highly performed in interspecific crosses of F4-5 populations other than parental genotypes. Majority had high to moderate heritability, whereas greatest had less environmental and genetic influence in the expression of these characters and had high heritability with substantial genetic advance. Interspecific crosses showed superior diversity for various traits and thus give a unique opportunity in further evaluation of these materials for profitable exploitation in next generations.
Capturas do Silêncio: memórias do vazio em Lisboa
Authors: Gemelli Catia Eli
Published: May 2022

A experiência da pandemia não é a mesma para todas as pessoas e são múltiplas as formas de expressar cada vivência. As fotografias podem exibir o mundo de maneiras particulares, mas também dizem de momentos e experiências coletivas. Este ensaio fotográfico apresenta algumas das memórias do meu período de doutoramento intercalar na cidade de Lisboa/Portugal, durante a pandemia provocada pela COVID-19. São capturas de luz à sombra da falta, da vida concretada, da noite calada, do (in)finito de cores e flores sem plateias. Os registros iniciaram em 18 de março – data em que o governo português declarou estado de emergência – até 17 de julho de 2020 – dia em que retornei ao Brasil. Para além do meu olhar, essas imagens compõem um patchwork de momentos fragmentados por vazios.