bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
ЗНАЧЕННЯ РАЦІОНАЛЬНОГО ХАРЧУВАННЯ ДЛЯ ЗДОРОВ’Я ВАГІТНИХ
Authors: Лотоцька О. В. , Гавліч О. Є.
Published: December 2021

Мета: проаналізувати дані літературних джерел щодо особливостей харчування вагітних і визначити його роль у профілактиці розвитку ускладнень вагітності та здоров’ї майбутньої дитини.

Матеріали і методи. Проведено аналіз літературних джерел щодо особливостей харчування вагітних жінок. Використано бібліосемантичний та аналітичний методи дослідження.

Результати. Для нормального розвитку плода потрібне регулярне та раціональне харчування майбутньої матері з достатньою кількістю макро- і мікроелементів. Особливо підвищується потреба в таких нутрієнтах, як залізо, йод, фолієва кислота, кальцій, магній, цинк, вітамін D тощо. Недостатнє і неповноцінне харчування може призводити не лише до уроджених вад розвитку плода, але й до інших ускладнень гестаційного процесу, таких як прееклампсія, гестаційна гіпертензія, синдром затримки росту плода, передчасні пологи тощо. У наукових літературних джерелах все ще існують протиріччя щодо середнього рекомендованого споживання енергії під час вагітності, кількості додаткового приймання вітамінів та інших макро- і мікронутрієнтів. Для нормалізації харчування усім вагітним необхідно організовувати свій раціон згідно з основними принципами так званої «Тарілки здорового харчування», яка розроблена відповідно до рекомендацій Міністерства охорони здоров’я та Гарвардської школи громадського здоров’я.

Висновки. Раціональне харчування, збалансоване за всіма харчовими продуктами, з необхідною кількістю макро- і мікронутрієнтів, є одним із найважливіших факторів, необхідних для підтримки здоров’я та забезпечення стійкості організму вагітних жінок до негативного впливу зовнішнього середовища, який дозволить знизити ризик розвитку перинатальної патології, дитячої смертності, зменшити частоту недоношеності та уроджених вад розвитку.
НОВІ МОЖЛИВОСТІ СКРИНІНГУ АТАКСІЇ-ТЕЛЕАНГІЕКТАЗІЇ
Authors: Ярема Н. М. , Боярчук О. Р. , Макух Г. В. , Костюченко Л. В. , Полякова К. О. , Кравець В. C. , Кінаш М. І. , Гаріян Т. В. , Чорномидз І. Б.
Published: December 2021

Мета: встановити діагностичну значущість кількісного визначення рівнів TREC/KREC для раннього виявлення змін імунної системи у дітей з атаксією-телеангіектазією (АТ).

Матеріали і методи. Визначено рівні TREC/KREC методом полімеразної ланцюгової реакції у режимі реального часу в 25 дітей з АТ віком від 3 до 14 років та 173 здорових дітей контрольної групи. У дітей з АТ також проведено аналіз клінічних даних на основі медичних карт.

Результати. Встановлено низькі показники TREC-молекул у 84 % дітей з АТ, а кількість KREC була зниженою у 48 % дітей з АТ. Показники TREC-молекул були нижчі за показники KREC і між ними спостерігалася пряма кореляційна залежність y дітей з АТ (r=0,4743, p<0,05). Окрім того, встановлено зворотний зв’язок між значеннями TREC та концентрацією альфа-фетопротеїну (r=-0,5507).

Висновки. Достовірне зниження рівнів TREC/KREC у дітей з АТ свідчить про уроджені дефекти Т- і В-клітин та може бути використано для ранньої діагностики АТ. Раннє виявлення АТ у програмах масового скринінгу на тяжкі комбіновані імунодефіцити дозволяє ідентифікувати захворювання до клінічної маніфестації, провести ефективне лікування, запобігти розвитку тяжких інфекцій.
THE CONCEPT AND CURRENT TRENDS OF PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM IN UKRAINE
Authors: Shulhai A. H. , Saturska H. S. , Saturskyi O. V. , Terenda N. O. , Panchyshyn N. Ya. , Petrashyk Yu. M.
Published: December 2021

Purpose: to highlight the concept of public health system and public health services in Ukraine.

Materials and Methods. Scientific methods of analysis, synthesis and generalization were used in order to achieve this goal.

Results. Considering in detail the functioning of public health institutions in Ukraine at the national and regional levels, we can note that to ensure the epidemiological surveillance and assessment of health and well-being of the population modern new tools were created. These tools have been used to monitor public health. The basic standards of activity and priorities are used. There are new structures, such as a clear reporting system, financing, monitoring of the quality of labor resources and rendering of services to consumers.

The current state of social programs in public health research has shown the presence of a number of theoretical, methodological, economic, organizational, legal problems. Evidence suggests that investing in public health is generally cost-effective for the health care sector, other sectors, and the economy in a broad sense. A clear position of the state is important for the further development of social programs in public health. The state created the basic conditions for the development of such programs and these conditions were important for the initial stage of their formation. It is a need for creation a regulation system of such programs, which will reflect not only tax benefits, but also other preferences for developers of such programs. Particular attention should be paid to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, which has made significant changes to the number of chronic and acute diseases and to the public health system.

Conclusions. The adoption of the Concept for the Development of the Public Health System in Ukraine in 2016 was a driving stage in the modernization of public health in Ukraine and had a positive impact on its development. There are still problems with the need to improve the further development and modernization of the public health system in Ukraine, which ought to be addressed at the national and regional levels, taking into account the international experience of the highly efficient systems in Europe and the World.
СУТНІСТЬ І СТРУКТУРА СФОРМОВАНОСТІ ПРОФЕСІЙНОГО МОВЛЕННЯ СТУДЕНТІВ – МЕДИЧНИХ СЕСТЕР У ПРОЦЕСІ ФАХОВОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ
Authors: Кульчицький В. Й.
Published: December 2021

У статті проаналізовано сутність і структуру сформованості професійного мовлення студентів – медичних сестер у процесі фахової підготовки.
ЕФЕКТИВНІСТЬ ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ МЕТОДІВ ФІЗИЧНОЇ РЕАБІЛІТАЦІЇ ДЛЯ ДІТЕЙ З ДИТЯЧИМ ЦЕРЕБРАЛЬНИМ ПАРАЛІЧЕМ: БІБЛІОМЕТРИЧНИЙ АНАЛІЗ
Authors: Семенець М. Д. , Мисула І. Р. , Бакалюк Т. Г. , Семенець А. В.
Published: December 2021

Проведено бібліометричний аналіз наукових робіт у каталозі бібліотеки PubMed, які містять дані щодо ефективності застосування методів фізичної реабілітації для дітей з дитячим церебральним паралічем. Показано, що дані метааналізу та систематичних оглядів з цієї проблеми свідчать про ефективність застосування методів фізичної реабілітації для дітей з дитячим церебральним паралічем. Необхідним є застосування числових шкал (GMFCS, GMFM) для кількісної оцінки ефективності процесу фізичної реабілітації.
РЕАБІЛІТАЦІЙНІ ПІДХОДИ ПРИ ПАРЕЗІ ВЕРХНЬОЇ КІНЦІВКИ У ПАЦІЄНТІВ ПІСЛЯ ІНСУЛЬТУ
Authors: Вавринчук Н. Т. , Бакалюк Т. Г.
Published: December 2021

У статті проведено аналіз основних реабілітаційних підходів, які застосовують при парезі верхньої кінцівки після інсульту. Використання технологій фізичної та реабілітаційної медицини має ґрунтуватися на результатах якісних рандомізованих контрольованих клінічних досліджень, які є основою для розробки клінічних рекомендацій.
МЕТОДИ КОРЕКЦІЇ ПОСТАВИ У ПАЦІЄНТІВ З ІДІОПАТИЧНИМ СКОЛІОЗОМ
Authors: Бесага Р. А. , Бакалюк Т. Г.
Published: December 2021

У статті проведено аналіз реабілітаційних підходів, які застосовують для реабілітації пацієнтів з ідіопатичним сколіозом. Наведені у статті дослідження мають достатню доказову базу і можуть бути методами вибору при реабілітації  пацієнтів з ідіопатичним сколіозом.
Stimulant Drugs of Abuse and Cardiac Arrhythmias
Authors: Dominic Paari , Ahmad Javaria , Awwab Hajra , Bhuiyan Md. Shenuarin , Kevil Christopher G. , Goeders Nicholas E. , Murnane Kevin S. , Patterson James C. , Sandau Kristin E. , Gopinathannair Rakesh , Olshansky Brian
Published: December 2021

Nonmedical use of prescription and nonprescription drugs is a worldwide epidemic, rapidly growing in magnitude with deaths because of overdose and chronic use. A vast majority of these drugs are stimulants that have various effects on the cardiovascular system including the cardiac rhythm. Drugs, like cocaine and methamphetamine, have measured effects on the conduction system and through several direct and indirect pathways, utilizing multiple second messenger systems, change the structural and electrical substrate of the heart, thereby promoting cardiac dysrhythmias. Substituted amphetamines and cocaine affect the expression and activation kinetics of multiple ion channels and calcium signaling proteins resulting in EKG changes, and atrial and ventricular brady and tachyarrhythmias. Preexisting conditions cause substrate changes in the heart, which decrease the threshold for such drug-induced cardiac arrhythmias. The treatment of cardiac arrhythmias in patients who take drugs of abuse may be specialized and will require an understanding of the unique underlying mechanisms and necessitates a multidisciplinary approach. The use of primary or secondary prevention defibrillators in drug abusers with chronic systolic heart failure is both sensitive and controversial. This review provides a broad overview of cardiac arrhythmias associated with stimulant substance abuse and their management.
Abstract 113: Pharmacists' Perspectives of an Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence after ACS Hospitalization A Qualitative Analysis
Authors: Fehling Kelty B , Lambert-Kerzner Anne , Davis Ryan , Weaver Jennifer , Barnett Casey , Mun Howard , Khanal Pabitra , Bradley Steven M , Ho P. Michael
Published: December 2021

Background:
Despite the success of pharmacist-led interventions to improve medication adherence, pharmacists’ perspectives of these interventions are unknown. Our objective was to understand the pharmacists’ perspectives of a successful multifaceted intervention to improve medication adherence after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) hospitalization.

Methods:
We ascertained pharmacist perspectives’ through qualitative inquiry that included an open-ended survey, semi-structured interviews, and a focus group with the four pharmacists who participated in the intervention. Transcripts of surveys and interviews were analyzed using a content analysis approach. The intervention components included: 1) patient education; 2) assessment tools for potential medication adherence barriers; 3) collaborative care; and 4) automated medication refill reminders and educational messages. Pharmacists’ perspectives on each of these components were evaluated.

Results:
The pharmacists felt the intervention could be sustained in routine clinical care and identified key themes that facilitated intervention success. Pharmacists believed educating patients about their cardiovascular medications filled a gap in usual care. In addition, assessment tools that identified medication discrepancies and gaps in knowledge were helpful in tailoring patient education, while face-to-face conversations were more helpful in identifying mental and cognitive deficits that were barriers to adherence. Pharmacists also noted that the intervention led to the development of bi-directional relationships with patients through increased in-person and tele-health communication. As a result, poor adherence related to medication side effects was more readily addressed. Potential areas for improvement identified by the pharmacists included 1) emphasizing in-person visits to build relationships (begin the educational process while the patient is hospitalized and schedule both the follow-up clinic appointment and pharmacy visit at the same time); 2) utilizing the patient centered medical home concept to improve access to providers; 3) allowing sites to determine provider type to support the personal contact (i.e. pharmacist, nurse practitioner, registered nurse); and 4) employing interactive voice response (IVR) technology to facilitate communication.

Conclusions:
Pharmacists’ perspectives of a medication adherence intervention gave insights into reasons for the intervention success and suggestions for improvements and dissemination. We found that in-person meetings between pharmacists and patients led to bi-directional conversations and relationships with providers, which positively influenced patient adherence behavior. Future interventions designed to improve medication adherence should incorporate these pharmacist-identified factors.
Abstract 119: The Impact of Medicare Part D on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Cardiovascular Medication Adherence among the Elderly
Authors: Hussein Mustafa , Waters Teresa M , Solomon David K , Brown Lawrence M
Published: December 2021

Objective:
Although Medicare Part D has improved medication adherence among the elderly, its effect on adherence disparities remains unknown. We sought to estimate the impact of Part D on the racial/ethnic disparities in adherence to cardiovascular (CV) medications among Medicare seniors.

Approach:
We analyzed annual data (2002-2010) from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) on Medicare recipients (65+, “treated” group) and the near-elderly (60-64, control group), who were white, black, or Hispanic, and used ACE inhibitors/Angiotensin receptor blockers, statins, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, or diuretics. Pooled 2002-2005 and 2007-2010 data covered the pre- and post-Part D periods, respectively. Drug class-specific and average overall adherence were measured over survey year as the proportion of days covered (PDC), then dichotomized at an 80% PDC threshold. Since MEPS had no days’ supply data before 2010, we derived refill days’ supply from dispensed quantities and validated it in 2010 sample. In survey-adjusted logistic regressions, we estimated Part D impact on disparities using a difference-in-difference-in-difference interaction term of race, post period, and treatment group. Following the Institute of Medicine, we differentiated between racial differences in adherence due to variations in demographics, health status, and beliefs across groups, and the inequitable disparities created by the differentials in socioeconomic position, experience with the healthcare system, and discrimination. Empirically, we used a rank-and-replace procedure to replace minority distributions of demographic and health characteristics with their white counterparts. Disparities were then computed as the adjusted adherence differences relative to whites.

Findings:
Our sample included 17,566 respondents, nationally representing 25 million. In the 2010 sample, continuous PDC and binary adherence distributions, based on actual and derived days’ supply, were very similar: Lin’s concordance coeff. 0.83 and C-statistic 0.93, respectively. Part D was associated with a reduction in Hispanic-white disparity in overall CV medication adherence by 15.38 percentage points (95%CI: 2.41, 28.36; P=0.02), and a non-significant increase in the black-white disparity by 5.32% points (95%CI: -17.19, 6.56; P=0.38). In sensitivity analyses, these effects were robust to various adjustments, and to including 2006 data in the post period. The largest reduction in Hispanic-white disparities was observed in adherence to beta blockers (28.9% points; 95% CI: 5.11, 52.69; P=0.02), whereas black-white disparities in statin adherence increased the most (14.7% points; 95%CI: -31.92, 2.52; P=0.09).

Conclusion:
With Part D, Hispanic-white adherence disparities appear to have been mitigated. Significant black-white disparities still persist post Part D, meriting further attention.
İNOVASYON GÖSTERGELERİNİN DIŞ TİCARET ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİNİN EKONOMETRİK ANALİZİ: BRICS-T ÜLKELERİ İÇİN BİR ARAŞTIRMA
Authors: ŞEN Ali , PEHLİVAN Ceren
Published: December 2021

Ekonomide yaşanan teknolojik gelişmeler birçok değişimin yaşanmasına yol açmıştır. Ülkeler bu gelişime ayak uydurmak için yenilikçi politikaları uygulamak zorunda kalmıştır. İnovasyon temelli atılan adımlar neticesinde hem yeni ürünler oluşturulmuş hem de mevcut yapı geliştirilmiştir. Bu çalışmada inovasyon göstergelerinin dış ticarete sağladığı katkı BRICS-T ülkeleri için araştırılmıştır. 2000-2018 yıllarını kapsayan çalışmada panel analizi yapılmıştır. Yapılan analiz sonucunda inovasyon göstergelerinin dış ticaret üzerinde pozitif bir etki oluşturduğu görülmüştür.
Emerging with Oddkin: Interdisciplinarity in the Animal Turn
Authors: Mattes Seven , Vincent Aviva , Whitley Cameron T.
Published: December 2021

The Animals and Society Institute facilitates an annual interdisciplinary meeting of emerging scholars from around the world, encouraging attendees to interrogate what it means to be a scholar, with an emphasis on animal studies within our respective disciplines. In that vein, we assess what it means to be an emerging animal-studies scholar in three interconnected but distinct academic disciplines: anthropology, sociology, and social work. We elaborate on three dominant themes: (1) the place of animals or the “animal turn”; (2) our subjectivity and how we find unorthodox networks or what Donna Haraway refers to as our “oddkin”; (3) and our inherent roles as interdisciplinary scholars and the liminal positions we occupy, as we address complex social problems like climate change. By reflecting on how we have encountered barriers and overly strict binaries collectively and as individuals, we can begin to deconstruct these obstacles and create opportunities.
Schengen Borders and Multiple National States of Emergency: From Refugees to Terrorism to COVID-19
Authors: Guild Elspeth
Published: December 2021

The re-introduction of intra-Schengen state border controls has been a constant feature of the area since the abolition of those controls in 1995. The seriousness of the controls introduced and the justifications which have been put forward for them have varied substantially. At the moment there are three overlapping regimes of temporarily reintroduced border controls in the area: those reintroduced to counter terrorism, those reintroduced to counter so-called secondary movements (the movement of people seeking international protection within the Schengen area) and those introduced to counter the spread of COVID-19. The article examines the three frameworks of temporary controls, the justifications provided by states using them for their operation, and the response of the EU institutions.
Old Fiddle, Good Tune
Authors: Burghart Marjorie
Published: December 2021

In this article the author presents and edits a set of texts, two model sermons In capite ieiunii and two Parisian reportationes by the same preacher, Gilbert of Tournai (OFM, d. 1284), at different moments of his career. The study of those texts offers a rare insight into the mental toolbox of a preacher, showing how Gilbert was able to craft different sermons, over a number of years, by recycling, repurposing and enriching a favourite set of preaching material. This also raises the issue of transmission and transformations of the preaching material, through the prism of live performances, memory, and written records.
History of Emotions: Where Are We?
Authors: Stearns Peter , Ruys Juanita Feros , White Robert S. , Moore Grace , Bailey Merridee L. , McIlvenna Una , Essary Kirk
Published: December 2021

As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the CHE, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion (initially focusing on Europe 1100–1800 and with the late Professor Philippa Maddern as its founding Director) and the fifth anniversary of the launch of the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society (founding Editors: Katie Barclay, Andrew Lynch, Giovanni Tarantino), it is only pertinent that we look back and assess our efforts by hearing from some prominent emotions scholars who contributed in different ways and capacities to this pathbreaking intellectual journey.
A. C. Mukerji on the Problem of Skepticism and Its Resolution in Neo-Vedānta
Authors: Garfield Jay L.
Published: December 2021

This paper examines the work of the unsung modern Indian Philosopher A. C. Mukerji, in his major works Self, Thought and Reality (1933) and The Nature of Self (1938). Mukerji constructs a skeptical challenge that emerges from the union of ideas drawn from early modern Europe, neo-Hegelian philosophy, and classical Buddhism and Vedānta. Mukerji’s worries about skepticism are important in part because they illustrate many of the creative tensions within the modern, synthetic period of Indian philosophy, and in part because they are truly profound, anticipating in interesting ways the worries that Feyerabend was to raise a few decades later. Arguing that Humean, Kantian, neo-Hegelian, and Buddhist philosophy each fail to provide an adequate account of self-knowledge, Mukerji leverages this finding to further argue that these systems fail to offer a proper account of knowledge more generally. His solution to skepticism centers on a distinctively modern interpretation of Śaṅkara’s Vedānta.
Three Formulations of Cognitive Skepticism: Nāgārjuna, Jayarāśi, and Śrīharṣa
Authors: Gokhale Pradeep P.
Published: December 2021

This paper provides a study of the three most famous skeptical thinkers of classical India, examining both their commonalities and unique differences. Adepts of the controversial debate methodology called vitaṇḍā, “negative debate,” these thinkers manage to challenge the very possibility of knowledge, while espousing (at least nominal) allegiance to distinct schools of thought. They also pass negative judgement on the possibility of certainty while appealing to rational persuasion. This paper explores these paradoxes and possible contradictions, with a culminating reflection of the role of the “two truths,” ultimate vs. everyday perspectives.
Memorial Urban Art as an Aesthetic Experience in the City ‒ An Aesthetical Reading of War Murals in Tehran’s Urban Landscape
Authors: Mansouri Maryamalsadat , Shad Ghazvini Parisa
Published: December 2021

In the city of Tehran, a series of war-themed murals, often focused on strengthening the audience’s historical memory, stand out among all types of urban art. These works of art, which are generated by the government’s order and created by different state institutions, all carry political and ideological dimensions. They are considered a source of environmental qualitative assessment and recognised as a kind of ‘urban aestheticisation’; in other words, it is a process leading to the production of value according to the ‘John Dewey’ theory. Knowing that the war artworks contain a major political dimension and are mainly created by the order of the ruling governments to ‘strengthen the audience’s historical memory’, an added quality is inevitably integrated, which in the aesthetic domain is commonly known as kitsch: taking advantage of people’s standard associations and confirming them by employing proven stereotypes and clichés, as Ortlieb and Carbon (2019b) wrote. The urban landscape as an exhibition platform is therefore important as it is the context of social events and daily life that affects the audience’s perception. John Dewey defines this perception as an aesthetic experience which takes place in the field of empirical aesthetics and begins by explaining why specific objects give pleasure or displeasure. These explanations will later be integrated into a set of principles which, in turn, will join a global system of analysis, such as Fechner’s aesthetic valuations. The aesthetic experience of war urban artworks is analysed from the observation that in the creation of these works in Tehran, the government, as the sponsor, focuses on the use of the aesthetic qualities of the kitsch. The article then presents the reading of this aesthetic experience through the analysis of a selection of works, based on evaluation criteria and indicators. The interpretation of this experience is to discover the ‘quiddity’ of the evolutions which have occurred in these works from the beginning of the war until today. The following statement highlights one of the most notable results of the research: the weakening of the art position, from a promotional state that improves the urban landscape quality, into a way of showing government’s positioning concerning the paradigms of the country.
Write Like Wittgenstein on lsd: Crisis, Self-Reflexivity, & Representation in Ethnographic Theology
Authors: Lassiter Katharine E.
Published: December 2021

Questions of representation and normativity are not just methodological questions that can be solved by application of right technique. They are questions that researchers must take up by scaffolding self-reflexive movements into any ethnographic projects. This scaffolding serves as a larger project toward ethnographic theology as therapy.
Translations of Historical Works from Middle Persian into Arabic
Authors: Hämeen-Anttila Jaakko
Published: December 2021

This article maps the mainly lost Sasanian historiographical literature through the Arabic translations of Middle Persian works and the information preserved in early Arabic sources. Although only two texts have been preserved in the original Middle Persian, the Arabic sources reveal a sizeable corpus in translation.
Jews as Producers and Consumers of History in the Medieval Islamicate World
Authors: Lieberman Phillip I.
Published: December 2021

The Jews of the medieval Islamicate world were avid consumers and producers of history. In this article, I discuss the major modes of historical writing among the Jews of the period and introduce the question of how that historical writing was used by those Jews. In considering the Sitz im Leben of historical writing, I explore the role of internal communal apologetic, anti-sectarian polemic, inter-religious attack, political support and challenge, entertainment, the contextualizing of philosophy, consolation after adversity, and preparation for eschatological redemption. I pay particular attention to the rewriting of Others’ histories – Christian, Islamic, and Jewish sectarian – and the role these often-popular rewritten histories played in medieval Jewish society. This panoply of historical writing challenges an important scholarly view that Jewish consumption of history was minimal and served a limited range of “religious” needs within the medieval Jewish community.
After the Virus: Disaster Capitalism, Digital Inequity, and Transformative Education for the Future of Schooling
Authors: Miller Richard , Liu Katrina
Published: December 2021

The 2020 COVID-19 disaster triggered an educational crisis in the United States, deeply exacerbating the inequities present in education as schools went online. This primary impact may not be the only one, however: literature describes a secondary impact of such disasters through “disaster capitalism,” in which the private sector captures the public resources of disaster-struck communities for profit. In response to these warnings, we ask how schools, families, and communities can counteract disaster capitalism for educational equity. To address this question, we first synthesize a critical framework for analyzing digital inequity in education. We then dissect the strategies disaster capitalism uses to attack the school-family-community relationship and exacerbate digital inequity in “normal” times as well as during crises. Employing the notion of community funds of knowledge, we next examine the resources schools, families, and communities can mobilize against disaster capitalism and digital inequity. Finally, guided by the concepts of generative change and transformative learning, we consider actionable practices of countering disaster capitalism for a transformative education.
Trend and gender-based association of the Bangladeshi student suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic: a GIS-based nationwide distribution
Authors: Mamun Mohammed A. , Mamun Md. Al , Hosen Ismail , Ahmed Tanvir , Rayhan Istihak , al-Mamun Firoj
Published: December 2021

Background:

Students are one of the most vulnerable groups to suicide. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, a Bangladeshi study was conducted assessing their suicide patterns regarding gender-based associations. But how has the pandemic changed the Bangladeshi students’ suicide patterns is not studied yet, which is investigated herein. Besides, for the first time, this study provides GIS-based distribution of suicide cases across the country’s administrative district.

Methods:

As Bangladesh has no suicide surveillance system, this study utilized media reporting suicide cases following the prior studies. A total of 127 students’ suicide cases from March 2020 to March 2021 were finally analyzed after eliminating the duplicate ones, and data were synthesized following the prior studies. Arc-GIS was also used to distribute the suicide cases across the administrative district.

Results:

Results revealed that female (72.4%; n = 92/127) was more prone to die by suicide than males. About 42.5% of the cases were aged between 14 and 18 years (mean age 16.44 ± 3.512 years). The most common method of suicide was hanging (79.5%; n = 101), whereas relationship complexities (15.7%), being emotional (12.6%), not getting the desired one (11%), conflict with a family member (9.4%), academic failure (9.4%), mental health problem (8.7%), sexual complexities (6.3%), scolded or forbidden by parents (3.9%) were the prominent suicide causalities. In respect to gender and suicide patterns, only the suicide stressor was significantly distributed, whereas the method of suicide was significantly associated with GIS-based distribution. However, a higher number of suicide cases was documented in the capital (i.e. Dhaka) and the northern region than in its surrounding districts.

Conclusions:

The findings reported herein are assumed to be helpful to identify the gender-based suicide patterns and suicide-prone regions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic to initiate suicide prevention programs of the risky students.
“You haven’t gone out and done anything”: Exploring Disabled Veterans Experiences in Higher Education
Authors: Cassidy Steven P. , Albanesi Heather
Published: December 2021

Through the analysis of 24 in-depth, semi-structured interviews, this study explored the process through which disability affects veterans’ experiences in the university classroom and their social relations with traditional students. Using inductive-exploratory qualitative methods, this study builds upon the sociological understanding of veterans’ experiences in higher education. Findings from this study tentatively suggest that while disability related fear/hypervigilance, stigma, and anxiety significantly impact veterans’ comfort levels when engaging with traditional students, veterans also externalize the impact of their disability as a social artifact of their military service. More research is needed to determine if the interaction of disability and artifacts of service decreases veterans’ ability to integrate well with traditional students in classroom settings.
Toward Decolonizing Development Education: Study Tours as Embodied, Reflexive, and Mud-up
Authors: Nadarajah Yaso , Mejía Glenda , Pattanayak Supriya , Gomango Srinivas , Rao D. N. , Ashok Mayura
Published: December 2021

The relevance of development studies has come under intense scrutiny with increasing calls for development education to decolonize its materials, pedagogies, and discursive practices. This article draws on a short-term study tour to India, where co-building a mud house with a tribal community and local university became a creative, intercultural site, encouraging reflexivity and learning through embodied insights. Such learnings “from” and “with” knowledges negated by Western modernity involve in essence decolonial pedagogies, enabling students to critically examine their own preconceived ideas of development, while building skills to meaningfully navigate the contested contemporary field. Study tours, we argue, have immense potential toward decolonizing development education.
Evidence on Online Higher Education: The Promise of COVID-19 Pandemic Data
Authors: Shankar Kameshwari , Arora Punit , Binz-Scharf Maria Christina
Published: December 2021

Among the many disruptions caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic was the sudden move to online teaching in colleges and universities across the globe. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of existing literature on the effectiveness of online college programs relative to traditional in-person programs. We argue that pre-pandemic studies may have drawn overly pessimistic conclusions about online teaching in higher education. We highlight two important limitations of pre-pandemic studies, namely endogeneity bias and the use of older instructional technology. The data that will emerge from the forced shift to online instruction during the pandemic will help correct several of these biases and provide a more accurate picture of the hopes and challenges of online higher education. Finally, we also provide some preliminary evidence on virtual instruction and evaluation methods using a survey of online undergraduate and graduate classes. We find that large undergraduate classes benefitted greatly from the online format, while smaller graduate classes faced significant challenges. Empirical studies of post-pandemic data will help in identifying when and how online instruction can provide the effective instruction to students to address both the short-term goals of course and degree completion and long-term outcomes in the labor market.
Barriers Prioritization of the Indian Steel Industry Supply Chain: Applying AHP and Fuzzy AHP Method
Authors: Kumar Rupesh , Tiwari Saurabh , Kansara Surendra
Published: December 2021

This study seeks to identify possible key barriers in the supply chain of the Indian steel industry. Each of these hindrances has a significance in serving the store network and refining the economy of India. The study is a mix of theoretical and useful structures, which would zero in on those critical barriers in the steel supply chain. It includes a theoretical examination of the barriers in the Indian steel industry and ranking of these barriers using multicriteria methods, that is, analytical hierarchical process (AHP) and fuzzy analytical hierarchical process (FAHP) approaches. The main finding is the identification of key barriers in the Indian steel industry supply chain and prioritizing them according to the severity of their impact. Eleven potential key barriers have been considered in the study for analysis. There can be more barriers in the Indian steel industry. This study exposes the application of both methods, that is, AHP and FAHP, for ranking identified barriers.
Managing Technological Innovations at Deki Electronics
Authors: Tripathi Shiv S. , Ashra Sunil
Published: December 2021

Deki Electronics was a Noida based capacitor manufacturing firm. By virtue of being a technology-based manufacturing firm, it was susceptible to risks of technology obsolescence. The company got a major shock when the lighting industry shifted from CFL to LED-based lighting within a very short span of time. Innovation was the only key to their survival. The case explores how they learnt to manage technological innovations and explores the question that how to avoid such technological shocks.
Role of Trust in Influencing Service Recommendation from Customers for Beauty Service Industry
Authors: Panwar Tapish , Khan Kalim
Published: December 2021

The research aims to deconstruct trust in beauty service into underlying latent variables with observable predictors. It further analyses the influence of these latent variables on the service recommendation behaviour of customers for beauty service. Factor reduction using EFA and structural equation modelling using CFA with AMOS 18 was applied on two samples of 214 and 225 respondents. The two latent constructs strongly representing trust were identified as “trust due to customer education” and “trust due to safety and hygiene.” These factors were found to play a significant role in service recommendation when it comes to beauty service.
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Socio-economic Indicators of the Selected Asian Countries
Authors: Babshetti Vaijanath , Singh Jyothi E. , Yaragol Prakash B.
Published: December 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic originated in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The virus has spread across the globe over the last 20 months. In the interest of public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a public health emergency to harmonise international responses to the virus. In a strongly interconnected world, the effect of the pandemic goes beyond mortality and morbidity. The unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 has also resulted in a global economic crisis. Almost every sector of the economy has been gravely affected by the pandemic to various degrees.

In an attempt to curb the spread of the virus many countries have initiated measures such as lockdowns, travel restrictions, ban on public and private transportation, closure of schools and colleges and restrictions on public and social gatherings. These initiatives have led to the decline in GDP, foreign trade and foreign exchange reserves, the rise of unemployment, the crash of stock markets and the depreciation of national currencies among other things.

This study assesses the impact of COVID-19 on selected macroeconomic parameters of various Asian countries to present insights on the economic and health crisis caused due to COVID-19. The study analyses the effect of the pandemic on the macroeconomic factors listed above as well as the human cost of the pandemic during the last 20 months. The research finds that the outbreak adversely affected the economy and lives of people in India when compared to selected Asian nations.
Global Oil Crisis and Early COVID-19 Strategic Containment Responses in Africa: The Nigerian Experience
Authors: Iwuoha Victor Chidubem
Published: December 2021

African countries have been hit by a dual shock of COVID-19 pandemic and global oil crisis, which have caused severe economic and social disruptions. Most studies shed light on the correlates between COVID-19 and the global oil crisis, including their economic impacts on oil producing/exporting countries. However, the objective of this study is to examine the effects of the global oil crisis on the implementation of World Health Organization’s (WHO) healthcare and public health measures to contain COVID-19 in Nigeria. Empirical data from Nigeria was collected and analysed using content analysis based on WHO’s methodology. There was low level of healthcare preparedness and emergency response capacities to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health measures against COVID-19 such as lockdowns and social distancing policies were poorly implemented at the expense of the people without adequate countercyclical stimulus packages and palliatives.
Lethal Restrictive Dermopathy with ZMPSTE24 Mutation
Authors: Pradeep Immanuel , Gowrishankar Kalpana , Shanmugasundaram Lakshmi
Published: December 2021

Lethal restrictive dermopathy is genodermatoses associated with lamin protein defects resulting in connective tissue abnormalities of skin, musculoskeletal, and adipose tissue. We report one such case with a mutation in the ZMPSTE24 gene which is involved in lamin protein synthesis, resulting in fetal akinesia or hypokinesia deformation sequence. Early recognition in the perinatal period of distinctive clinical and skin histological features followed by molecular diagnosis enabled genetic counseling for the affected family.
The Role of Religion in Young Muslims’ and Christians’ Self-presentation on Social Media
Authors: Trysnes Irene , Synnes Ronald Mayora
Published: December 2021

This article examines how young Muslims and Christians with ethnic minority backgrounds in Oslo reflect on their use of social media as a way to present themselves and their religiosity. The study draws upon Arlie Hochschild’s concepts of feeling rules and emotional labour and Erving Goffman’s typology of frontstage and backstage behaviour to analyse how young Muslims and Christian informants present themselves on social media. For minority groups, these strategies can be used to negotiate religion and create a different image. This study shows that both Christian and Muslim youth with minority backgrounds use different strategies to present their religiosity. Even though all the informants want to portray themselves as religious, they carefully consider what type of religious content they share to avoid social exclusion, conflict and religious discussions.
High-fidelity consumption and the claustropolitan structure of feeling
Authors: Hoang Quynh , Cronin James , Skandalis Alex
Published: December 2021

This paper invokes Redhead’s concept of claustropolitanism to critically explore the affective reality for consumers in today’s digital age. In the context of surveillance capitalism, we argue that consumer subjectivity revolves around the experience of fidelity rather than agency. Instead of experiencing genuine autonomy in their digital lives, consumers are confronted with a sense of confinement that reflects their tacit conformity to the behavioural predictions of surveillant market actors. By exploring how that confinement is lived and felt, we theorise the collective affects that constitute a claustropolitan structure of feeling: incompletion, saturation and alienation. These affective contours trace an oppressive atmosphere that infuses consumers’ lives as they attempt to seek fulfilment through digital market-located behaviours that are largely anticipated and coordinated by surveillant actors. Rather than motivate resistance, these affects ironically work to perpetuate consumers’ commitment to the digital world and their ongoing participation in the surveillant marketplace. Our theorisation continues the critical project of re-assessing the consumer subject by showing how subjectivity is produced at the point of intersection between ideological imperatives and affective consequences.
Competitive coordination of iron(III) and copper(II) ions with amidoximated polyacrylonitrile nanofiber and the catalytic performance of the complex
Authors: Li Fu , Fei Pengfei , Dong Yongchun , Zhang Man , Feng Yu , Liu Shuqiang , Jia Lu
Published: December 2021

This present work describes the competitive coordination of iron (III) and copper (II) ions with amidoximated polyacrylonitrile nanofiber and the catalytic performance of the resulting complex (Fe-Cu-AO- n-PAN). The coordination results showed that the increase of the initial concentration of metal ions was beneficial to the increase of the coordination amount. There were both competition and synergistic effects between the two metal ions. But AO- n-PAN was more inclined to coordinate with Fe3+ ions. The promotion effect of Cu2+ ions on iron coordination due to weak positive electric property and small ion radius increased with its initial concentration in the solution. The Langmuir-Freundlich isotherm model among of four selected isotherm models for binary system showed the best fit to the co-coordination reaction between AO- n-PAN and Fe3+-Cu2+ binary solution. Fe-Cu-AO- n-PAN as heterogeneous Fenton catalyst displayed improved catalytic performance than mono-metal complexes due to its better dye adsorption and the synergistic effect between Cu2+ and Fe3+ ions during degradation process, and both the alkali-resistant and the reusability of it were improved at the same time.
The case for continuity of care for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Authors: Medves Jennifer , Pare Genevieve , Woodhouse Kimberly , Smith-Romeril Carol , Li Wenbin , Tranmer Joan
Published: December 2021

Introduction

Continuity of care by family physicians in primary care settings may play a role in reducing health resource utilization and improving clinical outcomes and satisfaction of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Clear evidence on the impact of continuity of care will support clinical programing and integration of services across health settings.

Methods

The association between continuity of care and unplanned health service utilization in persons with a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a rural region in Ontario, Canada was evaluated. A retrospective cohort study was conducted using population-level health administrative data. The main exposure variable was continuity of care.

Results

A continuity of care index was calculated for patients with at least five visits to a healthcare provider during the 5-year follow-up period ( n  =  40,033). Higher continuity of care ( n  =  20,008) and lower continuity of care ( n  =  20,025), based on the median continuity of care score were calculated. Patients with lower continuity of care had an increased adjusted relative risk of 2.12 (2.08, 2.33) of an emergency department visit, 2.81 (2.72, 2.9) risk of hospitalization, and 3.52 (3.24, 3.82) of being readmitted to hospital compared to those with higher continuity of care.

Discussion

An association between continuity of care and unplanned health services utilization, where a lower use of unplanned health services was observed in the cohort of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease experiencing higher continuity of care. Continuity of care makes philosophical and social sense in that care is provided by a known provider to a known patient and unnecessary investigations can be avoided.
Caste Patriarchy and the Dehumanization of Dalit Women in Indian Society: Phoole–Ambedkarite Perspective
Authors: Priyadarsini Nibedita , Panda Satya Swaroop
Published: December 2021

Indian society is entrenched in graded inequality with the continuity of Brahminical order among the Hindu caste. The Ambedkarite perspective of graded inequality paves the way towards the possibility of a critical examination of the discourse based on a prospective theorization of the caste patriarchy having its epistemological origin in the ideas propounded by Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phoole and Dr B. R. Ambedkar. The article seeks to explore the potential of such a theorization emerging from the predominant practices in Indian caste society that are pervasive across the communities with respect to the dehumanization of Dalit women in their everyday life. The article also focuses upon the strength of such a stand-point which would not only form the basis of an alternate academic discourse but also contribute towards the agenda of Dalit women collective in envisaging their role in terms of self-identity embedded with critical consciousness. The multiplicity of vulnerabilities of being a Dalit and a woman reflects the way the Dalit women get dehumanized in a number of cases, and they are often considered a gateway to the caste system. There is an emerging need of such theorization based on experiential learning along with the realization of its importance in defining the base of a radical sociopolitical alternative championing the ideological principles of a Phoole–Ambedkarite perspective.
Who All Are Labours and Why Are They So Powerless?
Authors: Kumar Pushkar
Published: December 2021

In this article, we discuss the most anonymous section of the Indian society—Dalit labours. In addition, we deal with the most important question of whether the informal labouring sector consists of a majority of Dalits or not. While sticking to the basic definition of ‘Dalit’ From Untouchable to Dalit by Eleanor Zelliot in which she defined the consciousness developed into the minds of marginalized people for their rights, we ask whether Dalits really have sovereignty of their own thoughts. Or, they are the passive victims of the society. While dealing with the same question, we highlight the sub-caste stratification within the Dalits, and within the sub-castes, there is a hierarchy of class and an urge to be strong in the Brahmanical idea of superiority. We have taken three scenarios for this—Dalit indentured migration, Dalit partition refugees and Dalit labour migration during the tumultuous times of the COVID-19.