bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Impact of Mass Media on Changes in Food Habits and Food Preferences among Adolescence during Covid – 19 pandemic
Authors:   Assistant Professor (FSN), Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Community Science College and Research Institute, TNAU, Madurai -625 104., V Meenakshi , S Bharathi ,   Student, Community Science College and Research Institute, TNAU, Madurai -625 104., Siva Sankari B ,   Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, AC&RI,Madurai, Ilamaran M ,   Assistant Professor (FSN), Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Community Science College and Research Institute, TNAU, Madurai -625 104.
Published: June 2022

The emergence of COVID 19 pandemic has severely impacted individuals from all walks of life. The present aims to evaluate the mass media impact on food habits, food preference and quality of life during the COVID 19 among adolescence. An questionnaire was framed and converted as Google form. The developed Google form was sent to 200 adolescents belonging to AC & RI and CSC & RI, Madurai and the received 200 responses from the students. The data obtained was consolidated. From the results it was found that the consumption of cereals and millets reminded the same among 46 % of the participants. Around 55 % of the respondents increased their fruits and vegetable and green leafy vegetables intake during COVID 19. 38 % of the respondents have significantly decreased their consumption of unhealthy foods such as fast foods / junk foods. 36 % of the respondents falls under the category of significantly decreased of their consumption of sugar sweetened beverages during COVID 19. 32 % of the respondents have slightly increased their consumption of non vegetarian foods during COVID 19. 42.3 % of the respondents have slightly increased their immunity boosting foods followed by 30.8 % of the respondents have significantly increased their immunity boosting foods. 46.3 % of the respondents used television is a major source of information to get information regarding COVID 19. The platforms such as twitter, facebook, radio and local news station were some of the mass media lowest used for COVID 19 information. Key words: COVID 19, Mass media, Social media, Food habits, Food preference, WhatsApp, Television, YouTube.
Reducing The Energy Cost of Buildings Using Shading Plates: Experimental and Numerical Study
Authors: Abhiviran Vimal Subramaniam  , Mohammed W. Muhieldeen  , Rodney Tan Hean Gay  , Lim Chong Lye
Published: June 2022

The amount of carbon emission pumped into the atmosphere has led to a rise in global temperature. Rapid urbanization increased the use of air conditioners, resulting in the urban heat island effect. The use of environmentally friendly methods in reducing energy consumption for buildings is needed now more than ever. This study aims to evaluate the cooling load of a prototype by installing a shading plate above its roof at a height of 0.67m. A wooden panel with an attached aluminium sheet is used as a shading plate, 2m by 0.9m. The prototype with a dimension of 0.80m (L) x 0.50m (W) x 0.97m (H) is a scaled-down model of the guardhouse located near Block E, UCSI University. Along with the shading plate, the prototype is placed nearby the guardhouse to validate the actual guardhouse's exact condition. The shadow acts as an insulator to the prototype. There were two devices used for data collection; a VELOCICALC thermometer to measure the air velocity and air temperature and an infrared thermometer to measure the profile temperature of the room walls, roof, and floor. To ensure the prototype is adequately ventilated, it was placed 20 cm above the floor using red bricks from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, a maximum temperature reduction of 4.5°C when the shading plate thoroughly shades the room. A total of 14.5% electricity cost can be reduced monthly when the guardhouse is fully shaded from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. In contrast, both the actual guardhouse and the prototype model can receive full sunlight from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., while from early morning till 11 a.m., the guardhouse is fully shaded by the UCSI Block E building.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN BAYELSA STATE CIVIL SERVICE
Authors: Okponanabofa Tamunosiki-Amadi Jasmine , Rowland Ogbise Coleman
Published: June 2022

This study examines emotional intelligence and employee’s performance in Bayelsa State Civil Service. From the study, self-management a dimension of emotional intelligence was used and employee performance was measured through productivity and creativeness. The research adopts cross-sectional survey with a population of 2,699 and a sample size of 348 was determined using Taro Yamen’s formula. Also, 348 questionaries were distributed to 10 Ministries and 324 were completed and were retrieved. The stratified random probability sampling technique was utilized spearman’s ranked other correlation statistic tool was used to test. The findings indicated the dimension of emotional intelligence (self-management), significantly enhance employee’s performance through productivity and creativeness. The findings also showed a strong relationship exist between selfmanagement and the measures of employee’s performance. The study therefore recommends that Mentoring and or coaching employees on the relevance of self-management should be the priority of administrative heads, if they want to be productive.
Antarctic krill: an unused biological resource in the food balance of Russia
Authors:   First deputy Chairman for agro-industrial policy at the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Mitin S.G. , Kolonchin K.V. ,   Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Seregin S.N. ,   Federal Science Center for food systems named by V.M. Gorbatov at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sysoev G.V. ,   Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM
Published: June 2022

Struggle for food resources is a stumbling block when it comes to search for new types of aquatic biological resources. Today, almost all water areas are distributed among individual states, 200-mile economic zones have been introduced, with their own established agreements and rules. Countries extracting aquatic bio resources and other industrialized states are paying great attention to the search for small-sized hydrobionts, that are still in low demand on the market. Among them is the Antarctic shrimp (krill). Antarctic krill is the most widespread zooplankton in the Southern Ocean. As a result of the Soviet krill program from 1971 to 1991, it became possible to catch krill in the amount of about 4.0 million tons. During the period of the most active catch during the Arctic season, krill production was approximately 350-400 thousand tons. However, since 1992 there has been no fishery for krill. During 2009–2010 years, several Russian companies carried out krill fishing expeditions with a total catch of 17,000 tons. There is still a big concern about the production of krill in the Federal Agency for Fisheries. In 2021, a meeting was held in Vladivostok on the topic «The resumption of the production of Antarctic krill by Russian fishing organizations and the construction of krill fishing vessels». The meeting addressed a wide range of issues related to the scientific expeditions, the availability of the necessary infrastructure, promising krill products, interaction with the CCAMLR on securing the right to catch Antarctic krill for Russian companies under the CCAMLR Convention. Domestic krill fishery and its development is possible only if the government provides modern competitive market tools that are strong enough to conquer in krill international trade.
Scientific potential of the development of the Russian Arctic: problems of sufficiency, functioning and demand
Authors:   Federal Research Center «Computer Science and Control», Russian Academy of Sciences, Leksin V.N.
Published: June 2022

The achievements of Russian science in the study of natural-climatic, ecological, resource, socio-economic, infrastructural and ethno-national problems of the Arctic are well-known and indisputable. At the same time, there is a clear lack of this potential and its practical use in solving new Arctic problems. Examples of gaps in Arctic research are given, the causes and consequences of insufficient use of scientific developments in the state Arctic policy and in the country’s economy are discussed, several proposals for improving the situation are substantiated.
A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION BASED ON BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM – A CASE STUDY OF ÜLEMISTE CITY
Authors: Chandrasekharan Navya , Titov Eneken
Published: June 2022

Globalization has driven organizations to innovate rapidly by impelling lower entry barriers. As a result, or-ganizations adopt new business models that value interconnectedness and complement partnerships. Simultaneously, business ecosystems enable dynamic networks and creative cultures by integrating a variety of innovation stakehold-ers. The research explores the business model of organizations within the Ülemiste City ecosystem to understand the conceptualization of business models and the factors leading them to create or transform the business models based on ecosystem perspective and a conceptual framework is developed to reinforce the participation and value processes of an organization within the ecosystem. Through semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, the study revealed that the business model concept is perceived differently by organizations as an abstract idea of the business’s inputs, op-erations, activities, and output. Product or service differentiation, market needs, value creation, and a continuous im-provement process were a few factors that influenced a business model transformation. The influence of the ecosystem in the business model pertained to the infrastructure and value-added services offered, with a networking opportunity of partnerships within the community.
MODELING THE FINANCIAL DISTRESS OF SLOVAK COMPANIES USING VARIOUS DECISION TREES
Authors: Durica Marek , Mazanec Jaroslav
Published: June 2022

Financial health prediction is the key topic for many entities in building reliable partnerships with other sub-jects. The paper aims to predict the financial distress of Slovak companies from various industries using specific models based on decision trees such as CART, CHAID, and C5.0. These algorithms are the most used tools for identifying key variables explaining financial health and providing a prompt and understandable implementation in risk management. These models are based on a final set of almost 19,000 companies and a wide range of financial ratios from the Ama-deus database. Finally, the results of the individual and ensemble decision trees were compared to identify the best model for the prediction of the financial distress of Slovak companies. The results demonstrate that C5.0 best classifies entities into financial-distressed and non-financial-distressed companies.
IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC UPON JEWELRY AND GEMS BUSINESS: MARKETING MIXED PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Chemsripong Sujinda
Published: June 2022

The objective of this study was to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the mar-keting mix strategy for Thai gem and jewelry businesses to find ways for business by exploring the marketing mix com-position of 369 jewelry and gems businesses in Thailand. Marketing mix difference was tested by using Paired Samples t-test during pre-and post-COVID and tested the hypothesis using multiple regression analysis. Results found that COVID-19 epidemic has affected almost every marketing mix component (price, distribution, sales promotion, and product) with a statistically significant difference between pairs. Therefore, business units must emphasize and adjust their marketing mix in order to cope with new opportunities, such as creating a new platform for online sales, focusing on speed adaptation, and bringing more innovation to business in order to take advantage of this crisis.
Dynamical Thermal Instability in Highly Supersonic Outflows
Authors: Waters Tim , Proga Daniel , Dannen Randall , Dyda Sergei
Published: June 2022

Acceleration can change the ionization of X-ray irradiated gas to the point that the gas becomes thermally unstable. Cloud formation, the expected outcome of thermal instability (TI), will be suppressed in a dynamic flow, however, due to the stretching of fluid elements that accompanies acceleration. It is therefore unlikely that cloud formation occurs during the launching phase of a supersonic outflow. In this paper, we show that the most favorable conditions for dynamical TI in highly supersonic outflows are found at radii beyond the acceleration zone, where the growth rate of entropy modes is set by the linear theory rate for a static plasma. This finding implies that even mildly relativistic outflows can become clumpy, and we explicitly demonstrate this using hydrodynamical simulations of ultrafast outflows. We describe how the continuity and heat equations can be used to appreciate another impediment (beside mode disruption due to the stretching) to making an outflow clumpy: background flow conditions may not allow the plasma to enter a TI zone in the first place. The continuity equation reveals that both impediments are in fact tightly coupled, yet one is easy to overcome. Namely, time variability in the radiation field is found to be a robust means of placing gas in a TI zone. We further show how the ratio of the dynamical and thermal timescales enters linear theory; the heat equation reveals how this ratio depends on the two processes that tend to remove gas from a TI zone: adiabatic cooling and heat advection.
S-type Stars Discovered in Medium-resolution Spectra of LAMOST DR9
Authors: Chen Jing , Luo A-Li , Li Yin-Bi , Chen Xiang-Lei , Wang Rui , Li Shuo , Du Bing , Ma Xiao-Xiao
Published: June 2022

In this paper, we report on 606 S-type stars identified from Data Release 9 of the LAMOST medium-resolution spectroscopic (MRS) survey; 539 of them are reported for the first time. The discovery of these stars is a three-step process, i.e., selecting with ZrO-band indices greater than 0.25, excluding non-S-type stars with the iterative Support Vector Machine method, and finally retaining stars with absolute bolometric magnitude larger than −7.1. The 606 stars are consistent with the distribution of known S-type stars in the color–magnitude diagram. We estimated the C/Os using the [C/Fe] and [O/Fe] provided by APOGEE and the MARCS model for S-type stars, respectively, and the results of the two methods show that the C/Os of all stars are larger than 0.5. Both the locations on the color–magnitude diagram and C/Os further verify the nature of our S-type sample. Investigating the effect of TiO and atmospheric parameters on ZrO with the sample, we found that log g has a more significant impact on ZrO than T
eff and [Fe/H], and both TiO and log g may negatively correlate with ZrO. According to the criterion of Tian et al., a total of 238 binary candidates were found by the zero-point-calibrated radial velocities from the officially released catalog of LAMOST MRS and the catalog of Zhang et al. A catalog of these 606 S-type stars is available from the following link: doi.org/10.12149/101097.
Metallicity of Galactic RR Lyrae from Optical and Infrared Light Curves. II. Period–Fourier–Metallicity Relations for First Overtone RR Lyrae
Authors: Mullen Joseph P. , Marengo Massimo , Martínez-Vázquez Clara E. , Bono Giuseppe , Braga Vittorio F. , Chaboyer Brian , Crestani Juliana , Dall’Ora Massimo , Fabrizio Michele , Fiorentino Giuliana , Monelli Matteo , Neeley Jillian R. , Stetson Peter B. , Thévenin Frédéric
Published: June 2022

We present new period-ϕ
31-[Fe/H] relations for first-overtone RRL stars (RRc), calibrated over a broad range of metallicities (−2.5 ≲ [Fe/H] ≲ 0.0) using the largest currently available set of Galactic halo field RRL with homogeneous spectroscopic metallicities. Our relations are defined in the optical (ASAS-SN V band) and, inaugurally, in the infrared (WISE W1 and W2 bands). Our V-band relation can reproduce individual RRc spectroscopic metallicities with a dispersion of 0.30 dex over the entire metallicity range of our calibrator sample (an rms smaller than what we found for other relations in literature including nonlinear terms). Our infrared relation has a similar dispersion in the low- and intermediate-metallicity range ([Fe/H] ≲ −0.5), but tends to underestimate the [Fe/H] abundance around solar metallicity. We tested our relations by measuring both the metallicity of the Sculptor dSph and a sample of Galactic globular clusters, rich in both RRc and RRab stars. The average metallicity we obtain for the combined RRL sample in each cluster is within ±0.08 dex of their spectroscopic metallicities. The infrared and optical relations presented in this work will enable deriving reliable photometric RRL metallicities in conditions where spectroscopic measurements are not feasible; e.g., in distant galaxies or reddened regions (observed with upcoming Extremely Large Telescopes and the James Webb Space Telescope), or in the large sample of new RRL that will be discovered in large-area time-domain photometric surveys (such as the LSST and the Roman space telescope).
Preacceleration in the Electron Foreshock. I. Electron Acoustic Waves
Authors: Morris Paul J. , Bohdan Artem , Weidl Martin S. , Pohl Martin
Published: June 2022

To undergo diffusive shock acceleration, electrons need to be preaccelerated to increase their energies by several orders of magnitude, else their gyroradii will be smaller than the finite width of the shock. In oblique shocks, where the upstream magnetic field orientation is neither parallel nor perpendicular to the shock normal, electrons can escape to the shock upstream, modifying the shock foot to a region called the electron foreshock. To determine the preacceleration in this region, we undertake particle-in-cell simulations of oblique shocks while varying the obliquity and in-plane angles. We show that while the proportion of reflected electrons is negligible for θ
Bn = 74.°3, it increases to R ∼ 5% for θ
Bn = 30°, and that, via the electron acoustic instability, these electrons power electrostatic waves upstream with energy density proportional to R
0.6 and a wavelength ≈2λ
se, where λ
se is the electron skin length. While the initial reflection mechanism is typically a combination of shock-surfing acceleration and magnetic mirroring, we show that once the electrostatic waves have been generated upstream, they themselves can increase the momenta of upstream electrons parallel to the magnetic field. In ≲1% of cases, upstream electrons are prematurely turned away from the shock and never injected downstream. In contrast, a similar fraction is rescattered back toward the shock after reflection, reinteracts with the shock with energies much greater than thermal, and crosses into the downstream.
Neutrino Rocket Jet Model: An Explanation of High-velocity Pulsars and Their Spin-down Evolution
Authors: Li Zheng , Peng Qiu-He , Kang Miao , Liu Xiang , Zhang Ming , Huang Yong-Feng , Chou Chih-Kang
Published: June 2022

The fact that the spatial velocity of pulsars is generally higher than that of their progenitor stars has bothered astronomers for nearly 50 years. It has been extensively argued that the high pulsar velocity should be acquired during a natal kick process on a timescale of 100 ms–10 s in the supernova explosion, in which some asymmetrical dynamical mechanism plays a key role. However, a satisfactory picture generally is still lacking. In this study, it is argued that the neutrino rocket model can well account for the high speed as well as the long-term evolution behaviors of pulsars. The neutrinos are emitted from superfluid vortex neutrons through the neutrino cyclotron radiation mechanism. The unique characters of left-handed neutrinos and right-handed antineutrinos resulting from the nonconservation of parity in weak interactions play a major role in the spatial asymmetry. The continuous acceleration of pulsars can be naturally explained by this model, which yields a maximum velocity surpassing 1000 km s−1. The alignment between the spinning axis and the direction of motion observed for the Crab pulsar (PSR 0531) and the Vela pulsar (PSR 0833) can be well accounted for. The observed correlation between the spin-down rate and the period of long-period pulsars with P ≳ 0.5 s can also be satisfactorily explained.
Probing the Origin of Cosmic Rays in Cygnus Cocoon Using Ultrahigh-energy Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Observations
Authors: Banik Prabir , Ghosh Sanjay K.
Published: June 2022

Recent ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray observations by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory up to 100 TeV and LHAASO observatories up to 1.4 PeV energies from the direction of Fermi Large Area Telescope 4FGL source 4FGL J2028.6 + 4110e (Cygnus Cocoon) are indicative of a hadronic origin over a leptonic process for their creation. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has reported IceCube-201120A, a neutrino event coming from the same direction, suggesting that the Cygnus Cocoon may correspond to one of the most plausible sources of high-energy cosmic rays. The apparent relationship of the neutrino event with the observed ultrahigh-energy gamma rays from the Cygnus Cocoon is investigated in this work to study if it can be explained consistently in hadronic interactions of accelerated cosmic rays with ambient matter. Our findings reveal that leptonic mechanisms, together with pure hadronic mechanisms, make a considerable contribution to the understanding of the total electromagnetic spectrum as well as the observed neutrino event. The estimate of expected muon neutrino events from the Cygnus Cocoon agrees with the one muon neutrino event detected so far in IceCube multiyear observations. Thus, our results are indicative of the potential of the Cygnus Cocoon to be a Galactic cosmic-ray source capable of accelerating at least up to PeV energies.
The Platinum Abundance of ι CrB A
Authors: Monier Richard
Published: June 2022

The analysis of six high resolution SOPHIE spectra obtained over three consecutive nights in 2007 March reveals the presence of a strong Pt ii line at 4514.14 Å. Over the spectral range 4400 up to 4600 Å, the lines do not vary either in reduced intensity nor in radial velocity. Spectrum synthesis of this spectral range using updated atomic data yields abundances for helium (0.10 solar), magnesium (2 solar), titanium (2.20 solar), chromium (2.20 solar), manganese (28 solar), iron (1.2 solar), zirconium (80 solar), barium (15 solar) and platinum (2500 solar), which confirm the HgMn status for this star.
On the Age of the Magnetar Inside GRB 130310A
Authors: Tong H.
Published: June 2022

The GRB 130310A has recently been reported to be due to magnetar giant flare. Unlikely gamma-ray bursts, the giant flare of magnetars are not assumed to be strongly beamed. This will change the estimation on the magnetar’s magnetic field and age (about several hours).
The Genetic relatedness of Burkholderia contaminans clinical isolates from cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis patients in Argentina
Authors: Cipolla Lucia , Prieto Monica , Faccone Diego
Published: June 2022

Introduction: The Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) bacteria are opportunistic pathogens that cause nosocomial infections and are especially dangerous for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Burkholderia contaminans is an emerging BCC species isolated from CF patients that also occurs as a contaminant in pharmaceutical and personal care products, sometimes linking it with outbreaks.

Methodology: A total of 55 B. contaminans isolates from CF and non-CF patients in Argentina were identified by recA sequencing and MALDI TOF MS. A standardized Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) protocol was set up in order to assess genetic diversity, outbreak investigations, and possible clone persistence.

Results: All isolates were identified as B. contaminans by both MALDI-TOF MS and recA sequence analysis. PFGE has enabled us to compare and determine the genetic relationship between B. contaminans isolates. Isolates were distributed in different PFGE clusters with evidence of the presence and persistence of a clone, over a period of 3 years, in the same hospital. This large hospital outbreak involved CF and non-CF patients. Moreover, PFGE results showed a good correlation between sporadic or outbreak-related isolates and the available epidemiological information.

Conclusions: These findings highlight the importance of B. contaminans in Argentina and provide evidence for encouraging the surveillance of highly transmissible clones. The study also contributes to global knowledge about B. contaminans infections.
Raoultella planticola and urinary tract infection: The first laboratory-confirmed case in an HIV-infected patient in Mali.
Authors: Cissoko Yacouba , Maiga Aminata , Dabitao Djeneba , Dicko Mariam S , Koné Drissa , Konaté Issa , Dembele Jean-Paul , Sidibe Assetou F , Maiga Ibrahima I , Dao Sounkalo
Published: June 2022

Raoultella planticola is a Gram-negative, aerobic, non-motile bacterium, abundant in the environment, but rarely associated with pathology in humans. Notably, few urinary tract infections caused by R. planticola have been reported. To our knowledge, we are presenting here the first case of urinary tract infection caused by R. planticola in an HIV-infected individual. It is a 50-year-old female, with a history of HIV-1 infection treated for three years. At admission, her CD4 count was 70 cells/mL, and the main complaints were severe diarrhea and cough. She was diagnosed and treated for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and E. Coli enteritis. Initially, we observed a good evolution. However, on day 21 of hospitalization, she presented with fever and dysuria. Urinalysis revealed the presence of R. planticola with resistance to multiple antibiotics. We also detected that she has an HIV-2 but not HIV-1 infection. After receiving the right regimen, she was confirmed cured of her bacterial infections.
Serogroups and genetic diversity of diarrheagenic strains of Escherichia coli: a retrospective study
Authors: Mare Anca , Man Adrian , Ciurea Cristina Nicoleta , Pintea-Simon Ionela Anca , Ianoși Edith Simona , Gîrbovan Cristina Elena , Toma Felicia
Published: June 2022

Introduction: Diverse serogroups of Escherichia coli cause sporadic cases and outbreaks of diarrhea among children. Our study aimed to evaluate the serogroups of diarrheagenic strains of E. coli that cause diarrheal disease in children under two years old, and clarify if the cases were sporadic or outbreaks.

Methodology: The retrospective study included 130 strains of pathogenic E. coli, isolated from children who were less than two years of age, and had diarrheal disease, between May 2016 and July 2019. The study was conducted in the Bacteriology Laboratory (County Clinical Hospital, Mureș, Romania). The 130 strains were sero-grouped using polyvalent and monovalent O antisera. Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus-PCR (ERIC-PCR) was performed to evaluate the similarity between different E. coli strains, and a simplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed to detect the presence of the hlyA gene that is specific to the enterohemorrhagic strains.

Results: After agglutination with polyvalent O antisera, slightly more than half of the strains (50.77%) were sero-grouped as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), and the rest of the strains belonged to the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) serogroups. Serogroup O157 was the most frequently identified (16.51% of the total number of typeable strains), and one strain was positive for hlyA. ERIC-PCR revealed a high diversity of strains, with an overall 50% similarity.

Conclusions: STEC serogroups were the most common strains causing diarrheal disease, and O-157 was the dominant serogroup identified. The strains included in our study presented high genetic diversity, suggesting that most of the cases were sporadic.
Clinical features and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted at a tertiary hospital in Cebu City, Philippines
Authors: Dinsay Mark Gavin Coronel , Cañete Maria Teresa Acosta , Lim Bryan Albert Tan
Published: June 2022

Introduction: The World Health Organization has categorized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) into mild, moderate, severe, and critical illness severities to guide clinical decision-making. This study aimed to describe the clinical characteristics, complications, and outcomes of COVID-19 patients by illness severity, at a tertiary healthcare center in Cebu City, Philippines.

Methodology: This was a retrospective, observational cohort study that examined clinical information of patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection admitted between March and September 2020.

Results: Data from 901 admitted patients were analyzed, with 185 (20.5%) classified as mild, 429 (47.6%) as moderate, 223 (24.7%) as severe, and 64 (7.1%) as critical. The frequency of male gender, advancing age, co-morbidities (hypertension and diabetes mellitus), inflammatory marker elevation (LDH, CRP, Ferritin, Procalcitonin), and elevated mean white blood cell counts with relative neutrophilia and lymphopenia increased with COVID severity. Severe and critical cases of COVID presented with more diffuse lung involvement in chest radiographs and abnormal electrocardiographic patterns such as ischemic changes, PVCs, PACs, and sinus tachycardia. The most common complications on admission were ARDS (10.9%), AKI (10.1%), shock (6.6%), and cardiac arrest (6.3%). Mortality rates were highest in critical cases (82.8%). Severe and critical COVID-19 cases were predominant on final disposition, rising to 62.5% of the study population from 32.1% on admission.

Conclusions: This study highlights key differences in clinical characteristics, complications, and outcomes between illness severities. Risk prediction models are needed for disease progression and poor outcomes.
Regulatory and risk oriented approach to the design and development of medical devices in accordance with Ukraine regulations
Authors: Bondarets Inna , Sidorenko Lyudmila , Georgiyants Victoriya , Mishchenko Volodymyr
Published: June 2022

Based on the interpretation of regulatory requirements to describe the approach to risk-oriented medical devices design and development strategy and approaches to their certification in Ukraine market. The approach to the medical devices design and development strategy is described taking into account the classification by level of risk; a tree of decisions on determining the risk class and certification of medical devices according to the requirements of the Technical Regulation № 753 is presented.
Presence of Psychiatric Assistance Dogs and Relation to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Outcomes: A Nonrandomized, Observational Study in a Military Sample
Authors: Goetter Elizabeth M. , Sylvia Louisa G. , Tanev Kaloyan S. , Xu Bingyu , McCarthy Megan D. , Lynch Elyse , Stasko Cory , Hartvigsen Nathan , Harward Laura , Wright Edward C.
Published: June 2022

The purpose of this study was to examine differences between military veterans and service members with and without a psychiatric assistance dog (PAD) who were receiving cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Six hundred eighty-two military veterans presented at a 2-week intensive, outpatient CBT program for PTSD from February 2016 to February 2020. Self-reports of symptoms and rates of treatment completion by PAD ownership were assessed. Patients with PADs (
n
= 93) reported higher scores on the PTSD Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition) (
P
= .04; Cohen's
d
= 0.23) and Neurobehavioral Symptom Inventory (
P
< .01; Cohen's
d
= 0.34) at baseline. PTSD symptom change was comparable between participants with and without PADs (
P
> .05). Dropout was higher among owners of PADs, but this difference was not significant (
P
= .11). Among military populations, those with PADs may experience more severe PTSD and neuro-cognitive symptoms, but having a PAD was not associated with treatment outcome in intensive CBT.

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Psychiatr Ann
. 2022;52(5):191–198.]
The effects of small changes in temperature on proteolysis during isothermal and non-isothermal aging of full-fat and reduced-fat Cheddar cheese
Authors: Rosenberg Moshe , Rosenberg Yael
Published: June 2022

Effective approaches for modulating the evolution of cheese quality attributes are needed for mitigating challenges that are associated with fluctuating supply and demand as well as with disrupt supply chain. Proteolysis is the most important and most complex cascade of events that affects the evolution of cheese quality attributes. Information about the effects of small changes in temperature during isothermal and non-isothermal aging of Cheddar cheese at temperatures lower than 10 ℃ on proteolysis has been developed to a very limited extent. The objective of the research was to age FF and RF Cheddar cheeses for six months at different isothermal and non-isothermal time-at-temperature regimes at temperature ranging from 5 to 8 ℃ and to investigate the effects of these conditions on proteolysis. Changes in the level of cheese-N fractions that are soluble at pH 4.6, soluble in 12% TCA and soluble in 5% PTA were monitored. The proteolytic cascade during aging was significantly (p < 0.05) influenced by a combined impact of the time-at-temperature details of aging and cheese composition. The highest and lowest levels of the investigated fractions were found in cheeses that had been aged isothermally at 8 and 5 ℃, respectively. In most cases, proteolysis in the FF cheeses was to a higher extent than in the RF ones. Proteolysis during non-isothermal aging was significantly affected by the aging regime in a time-at-temperature-specific manner (p < 0.05). The results can offer new opportunities for modulating the rate of cheese aging. The demonstrated significant effect of a very small change in aging temperature on proteolysis during cheese aging also highlights the critical importance of establishing and maintaining isotropic temperature distribution in cheese aging rooms.
State-of-the-art review of fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle energy management systems
Authors: Obu Showers Samson , Kamoru Raji Atanda
Published: June 2022

The primary purpose of fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles (FCHEVs) is to tackle the challenge of environmental pollution associated with road transport. However, to benefit from the enormous advantages presented by FCHEVs, an appropriate energy management system (EMS) is necessary for effective power distribution between the fuel cell and the energy storage systems (ESSs). The past decade has brought a significant increase in the number of FCHEVs, with different EMSs having been implemented due to technology advancement and government policies. These methods are broadly categorised into rule-based EMS methods, machine learning methods and optimisation-based control methods. Therefore, this paper presents a systematic literature review on the different EMSs and strategies used in FCHEVs, with special focus on fuel cell/lithium-ion battery hybrid electric vehicles. The contribution of this study is that it presents a quantitative evaluation of the different EMSs selected by comparing and categorising them according to principles, technology maturity, advantages and disadvantages. In addition, considering the drawbacks of some EMSs, gaps were highlighted for future research to create the pathway for comprehensive emerging solutions. Therefore, the results of this paper will be beneficial to researchers and electric vehicle designers saddled with the responsibility of implementing an efficient EMS for vehicular applications.
Introduction
Authors: Gisel Pierre , Gonzalez Philippe
Published: June 2022

Cette introduction précise le lieu qui a vu se mettre en place les textes qui composent le dossier, les présente et dégage leurs axes principaux respectifs. Dans un second temps, plus décalé, elle ouvre trois interrogations critiques, articulées à ce que propose Joas et visant à poursuivre la discussion sur ce qui est en jeu aux plans social, politique, religieux. Elle salue la visée d’une « autoréflexion des sciences sociales et culturelles sur leurs bases biologiques et leurs contenus normatifs » en lien avec des problèmes sociaux et politiques historiquement déterminés. Elle souligne le substrat anthropologique travaillé par l’approche joassienne, celle-ci visant à mettre en évidence ce qui se joue entre les corps, individuels et sociaux, les créativités de l’agir humain, singulières, et les structures et dynamiques sociales. C’est sous cet horizon que se profilent les trois questions marquant décalage avec le travail de Joas. La première le fait en focalisant sur les jeux entre corps et dépassement, et ce qui y est mobilisé, où se creuse de l’organisation collective non réductible au seul politique et ses nouages propres. La deuxième revient sur la question du rite, pour en évoquer l’importance au cœur de nos activités mondaines, sur mode séculier et non religieux. La troisième reprend la question proprement religieuse, interrogeant ce que Joas fait de la différenciation moderne des sphères sociales, ainsi que l’absence, chez lui, de travail critique sur les religions en leurs traditions, avec ce qui peut les traverser de pathologies propres.
Les traditions religieuses au cœur du socioculturel
Authors: Gisel Pierre
Published: June 2022

Après avoir rappelé les points-forts de ce que Joas propose dans Les pouvoirs du sacré, l’auteur repart de la question de la sécularisation qui obsède les institutions religieuses et les empêche de discerner les traits propres du contemporain : de l’inédit et de l’innovation, portant des quêtes et des refus, à déchiffrer, s’inscrivant en outre dans une redistribution de ce qui fait le social. Or n’en répond plus le jeu des désacralisations-resacralisations collectives cher à Joas, dont il faut dès lors se décaler, pour souligner que le social est d’abord disséminé et désinstitutionnalisé et que le religieux ne se résume pas à la fonction ici mobilisée. Ce dernier est aussi, foncièrement même, marque d’écart et de différence. L’auteur estime que cet aspect doit être validé au regard du contemporain et esquisse ce qui en est entrainé pour le statut et les formes des traditions religieuses.
Comment discuter sans entrer dans Les pouvoirs du sacré ?
Authors: Ullern Isabelle
Published: June 2022

L’article est construit en douze remarques posant et argumentant « le choix de ne pas » : ne pas entrer dans la systématique de l’essai et de la pensée de Joas concernant ce qu’il conçoit comme « les pouvoirs du sacré ». La discussion prend appui sur l’introduction du livre et la préface à sa traduction française, en se maintenant dans un champ de références pluridisciplinaires extérieures à la systématique joasienne. Elle ne porte pas sur les termes du débat, ni sur le débat avec la notion de désenchantement de Weber et de sa réception. Au contraire, au fil des pages de seuil de l’essai de Joas, l’argumentation consolide son extériorité discutante, sans ni chercher ni prétendre invalider la thèse de Joas. Le choix de ne pas comme mode de pensée tenté ici est plus proche de la figure du « divergent accord » taubesien que de celle de l’« attraction élective » wébérienne que, d’ailleurs, Joas reprend à son compte d’une façon qui lui est propre. L’enjeu est de ne pas souscrire à l’invalidation anachronique d’une auto-compréhension moderne qui fut effective, ce qui ne règle pas la question de penser, en effet, comment elle est dépassée aujourd’hui. Il est aussi de ne pas souscrire à penser l’extrême pluralité effective des religions à partir de deux notions unificatrices, le politique et la notion (en réalité trop particulière) de « sacré ».
Policy Framework and Planning in Global Institutions
Authors: Deshpande Mukund Vasant
Published: June 2022

Global institutions play a central role in developing nations. Each nation has its own identity, and therefore, single policy for one nation rarely matches with the other. As a result, a variety of dimensions is essentially searched while planning a policy especially in a global institution. Although policies on food, habitation, and clothing are considered as common need of people in the globe, peoples' living entirely depends upon variety of characteristics such as their philosophy, environment, and desire to make development creating heavy influence on policy making. Therefore, this chapter is planned to understand how ideas and concepts are developed amongst the policy designers and converted into policy making.
Promoting the Relationship Between School-Based Agricultural Education and the Community
Authors: McKim Aaron J. , McHugh Sallie
Published: June 2022

This chapter explores the past, current, and future relationship between agricultural education programs and the communities in which programs operate. Throughout the chapter, opportunities to leverage communities to optimize the design and operation of an agricultural program are emphasized. Specifically, this chapter explores the development and utilization of a community profile, methods for identifying community needs and structuring a program to meet identified needs, state and national curriculum and program standards, and building and utilizing stakeholder groups. The chapter concludes with an opportunity to utilize the knowledge gained in the development of a program philosophy statement designed to guide the facilitation of an agricultural education program.
Providing Teacher Certification and Professional Development Programs
Authors: Lawver Rebecca Grace
Published: June 2022

Agriculture teacher preparation programs, whether traditional or lateral entry, should prepare school-based agriculture teachers with the technical content, pedagogical knowledge, and professional skills to be successful educators in the classroom. This chapter explores the preparation of agriculture and agriscience educators for the classroom through an overview of the types of teacher certification options, describing the components of an agriculture teacher preparation program, including the Standards for School-Based Agricultural Teacher Preparation, exploring opportunities for agriculture teacher professional development, and investigating opportunities to enhance teaching excellence and technical skill enhancement through systematic needs assessment.
An Analysis of the Health Economic Impacts of COVID-19 and Government Financial Packages in Its Management
Authors: Norouzi Nima , Rabipour Sajedeh
Published: June 2022

This chapter focuses on the extent of government intervention against COVID-19 and compares and evaluates support packages in different countries based on available statistical evidence. Economic interventions were described by collecting statistical data from government reports and international organizations. The statistical sample includes 46 countries with the highest number of patients as of May 20, 2021. Comparing the success rate of the health system (net ratio of the number of recovered to the number of patients with COVID-19) and the share of government support in countries affected by the COVID-19 virus shows a positive correlation coefficient of 0.26. The high recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in Iran has been achieved while the Iranian economy is under inhumane US sanctions. The experience of COVID-19 crisis management in Iran shows that the general mobilization of facilities and capabilities can turn any threat into an opportunity for the country's progress, growth, and excellence.
Legendary, Life-Changing, and Memorable Benefits of Digitalization to Restart the Economy
Authors: Popescu Cristina Raluca Gh. , González Arturo Luque
Published: June 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 crisis suddenly, abruptly accentuated both individual and business needs to move at an accelerated rate to digital activities like never before in history of mankind, which led to increased importance of digitalization in terms of use of digital technologies. The post-COVID-19 era seeks to create novel communication patterns and business models capable to ensure new revenue and value-producing benefits and opportunities in accordance to the Sustainable Development Goals by launching tremendous provocations on global economic environment for sustainable development: How can people and entities adapt, implement digitalization in their daily lives, in order to restart the economy? What will the world's digital business transformation roadmap look like, in order to find a balance between individuals' expectations and planet's needs? Will the digital skills transformation enhance the role of human resources in society, or will these new acquired skills create an even larger gap between people than ever before? Is artificial intelligence the future?
Grandiose Mirrors of the Self
Authors: Şahin Sena , Yılmaz Recep
Published: June 2022

Advertising narratives mostly use narcissistic discourses while appealing to the self of today's people to provide identification and transfer between the consumer and the brand. The study focuses on advertisements that promise to complete the lack of spiritual structure that the consumer's ego needs and desires based on a narcissistic narrative. The article's main question is how the promise of completion in the advertisement is realized through the egocentric structure in the advertisement narrative and how it is included in the story. Another focal point of the work is how and within which themes the transference between the narcissistic narrative in the advertisement and the consumer affects the consumer and how this interaction will be evaluated from a psychoanalytic point of view. This chapter offers the reader an analytical discussion to open these issues.
Therapeutic Storytelling
Authors: Mukba Gamze
Published: June 2022

Therapeutic storytelling aims to find the psychological difficulties experienced by the individual through creative narratives, uses problem-solving skills, and offers alternative ways based on narrative therapy. In therapeutic storytelling, questions about the meaning attributed to the story, the hero and metaphors that can be asked to the client, and the circular question forms of systemic interventions related to others important to the person are similar. In both forms of these interventions, subjective reality is reconstructed, and so, therapeutic storytelling can be used eclectically with systemic interventions. In this chapter, a sample intervention template for systemic-based therapeutic storytelling has been offered. Moreover, an exemplary hypothetical case of the systemic-based storytelling intervention pattern is presented. As a result, instead of focusing directly on the client's own life story, using storytelling intervention in a less threatening environment for the client through other stories may activate the client to gain insight and different viewpoints.