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The use of 3.15% chlorhexidine gluconate/70% alcohol hub disinfection to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in dialysis patients
Authors: Marty Cooney R. , Manickam Nisha , Becherer Paul , Harmon Laura S. , Gregg Liza , Farkas Zena , Shea Louanne M. , Parekh Priyanka , Murphy Jacqueline , Shade Wanda 
Published: January 2020

Purpose: Preventing CLABSI events in the dialysis inpatient population represents significant challenges. Bacteremia associated with lines or grafts are common health-associated infections that lead to adverse patient outcomes. Dialysis patients represent a much higher infection risk due to health frequency needs, more frequent hospitalizations, multiple comorbidity issues, fistula functionality, and multiple attempts for line access leading to additional complications, costs, morbidity, and mortality. Methods: An observational study was conducted including central line device days, CLABSI events, and possible confounding variables in admitted dialysis patients. All CLABSI data were identified according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network's definitions for CLABSIs. The intervention involved the removal of 70% alcohol swabs and alcohol hub disinfecting caps, then replacing with swabs containing 3.15% chlorhexidine gluconate/70% alcohol for central line hub disinfection and vascular graft access skin disinfection. Results: The 5-year preintervention period (2008–2012) involved 7568 central line days, 11 CLABSI events, and a 1.45 per 1000 device day rate. The 6-month trial period involved 1559 central line days and no CLABSI events. The 5-year postimplementation period (2013–2017) involved 9787 central line days, 5 CLABSI events, and a 0.51 per 1000 device day rate. The postimplementation period represented a statistically significant (P value=0.0493) reduction with 65% fewer CLABSI events compared with the preimplementation period. Limitations: A limitation was variations in scrub time and dry time during central venous catheter hub access. While we were comparing 2 products, behavioral practices using these 2 products were possible influencers and represent a possible confounding variable. Conclusions: This study found that using alcohol with chlorhexidine gluconate prior to accessing central line hubs and vascular grafts allows for reduction in CLABSI events and sustains statistically significant lower CLABSI rates in the inpatient dialysis population. HIGHLIGHTS Using alcohol with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) before accessing central line hubs helps reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) events Using alcohol with CHG before accessing vascular grafts helps reduce CLABSI events A statistically significant reduction (65%) in CLABSI events occurred after use. Statistically significant lower CLABSI rates are sustainable with use of alcohol with CHG
Normal-mode splitting and ponderomotive squeezing in a nonlinear optomechanical system assisted by an atomic ensemble
Authors: He Qing , Badshah Fazal , Basit Abdul , Guo Peng , Zhang Xuehua , Zhou Zhong , Li Liping 
Published: January 2020

We theoretically investigate the displacement spectrum of a movable mirror and squeezing spectrum of the cavity quadrature field in a hybrid optomechanical system (OMS), which contains a degenerate optical parametric amplifier (OPA) and

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two-level cold atoms. In comparison with the bare OMS, when there is only an OPA in the optical cavity, with the increasing nonlinear gain of the OPA, peak separation of the normal-mode splitting (NMS) in the displacement spectrum and degree of the squeezing spectrum for the cavity quadrature field increase. Further, the simultaneous presence of both OPA and the atomic ensemble in the optical cavity ensures wider spacing in the NMS and greater degree of the squeezing spectrum than the OMS with just an OPA or an atomic ensemble. Further, a decrease in temperature ends the peak in the squeezing spectrum due to a reduction in mechanical thermal noise.
Redefining Poverty and Its Measurement: An Islamic Political Economy Perspectives
Authors: Khaleel Fawad 
Published: January 2020

Islamic economists have always taken the position on the intrinsic capability of poverty alleviation in the Islamic economic model. The poverty, in economics and social sciences, is taken in the context of economic deprivation. Among the multitudinous meanings of poverty, generally it is defined as the lack of income, human underdevelopment, social exclusion, ill being, unsustainable livelihood, lack of basic needs, vulnerability and relative deprivation, while multifarious methodologies like head count ratio, poverty gap ratio, income gap ratio and Sen index are used to measure the poverty. The poverty in the developed countries mostly is identified relative to the average level of income as compared to developing countries which usually define it on the grounds of absolute standard of living. Islamic model clearly addresses poverty in number of ways and even considers it as a threat to faith and recommends alleviating it through different tools like zakat, which is the negative rate of return on savings. The tools prescribed in Islam for counteracting poverty are designed on different conceptual grounds to conventional poverty reduction tools, similarly Islam’s conceptually constructed understanding on: lack of income, human underdevelopment, social exclusion, ill being, unsustainable livelihood, lack of basic needs, vulnerability and relative deprivation differs in its context and in its intrinsic intellectual positioning to the conventional interpretation of these concepts. Inductively therefore, Islam’s idea of, ‘what is poverty?’ and ‘How it can be measured’, is distinct and different to the general perception of poverty. This paper objectively examines the subjective meaning of poverty within Islam, through analysing the intellectual rigour on poverty in the transcendental sources of Islam along with the conceptual construction of Al Ghazali’s work on happiness. It further applies the uniform principles of maqasid al shariah (objectives of Islamic law) and nisab (standard for Zakat to be liable) in an attempt to develop the understanding of monetary measures, which can be used to identify ‘poor and needy’ within an economy. The results should provide the basic argument for the distinction on Islamic concept of poverty and a framework in which such definition can translate into the categorisation of ‘poor’ within an economy; along with some foundational understanding of Islamic value approach on monetary measurement of poverty.
Factors Influence Intention to Opt for Islamic Investment Schemes among Market Players
Authors: Abduh Muhammad 
Published: January 2020

Employing theory of reasoned action with religiosity as its additional construct in the model, this paper is aimed at examining factors influence the intention of investors to opt Islamic investment schemes in Malaysia Islamic capital markets. As many as 120 questionnaires were collected from market players in Bursa Malaysia using online survey. Afterwards, the data collected were analyzed using structural equation model to reveal the relationship of variables tested in the proposed model. The result shows that religiosity and subjective norms appeared to be the significant factors affecting intention to choose Islamic investment schemes in Malaysia Islamic capital markets. Interestingly, despite its significant role shown in previous studies, this study has shown insignificant level of the attitude in predicting the intention behavior. The managerial implications are discussed in this paper. Keywords: Investors’ behavior, Islamic investment, Bursa Malaysia
MARKET POWER AND EFFICIENCY OF ISLAMIC BANKING AND CONVENTIONAL BANKING IN INDONESIA
Authors: Mala Chajar Matari Fath , Rodoni Ahmad , Yaman Bahrul 
Published: January 2020

ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) of banking industry requires both Islamic and conventional banking to improve their efficiency because the competition in banking market industry will be more intense. Therefore, this study aims to identify the type of hyphotesis of industrial organization which exists in Islamic and conventional banks in order to investigate their readiness for AEC. The research sampling consists of 10 Islamic banks and 10 conventional banks from January 2009 to December 2016. To measure x-efficiency and scale efficiency, this research uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Meanwhile, the concentration is measured by Lerner index. The hypothesis is tested by using panel regression. The result shows SCP (Structure-Conduct-Performance) hypothesis is closely applied to Islamic and conventional banks because market concentration significantly influences profitability. RMP (Relative Market Power) hypothesis is also closely applied to Islamic and conventional banking, this indicates Indonesian banking has market power in determining prices and this condition makes the profit higher. RES (Relative Efficiency Structure) and SES (Scale Efficiency Structure) hypothesis do not exist in both conventional and Islamic banks because x-efficiency and scale efficiency do not affect profitability, concentration, and market share simultaneously. Market power and efficiency researches are commonly conducted in conventional banking, however there are only a few research in Islamic banking area. The novelty of this study is the comparison between conventional and Islamic banking in the term of market structure and efficiency.
Social Movement in Pengajian at Jogokariyan Mosque
Authors: Muttaqin Ahmad 
Published: January 2020

Pengajian (religious teaching) is one of the primary programmes at Jogokariyan mosque. It has been held regularly and incidentally using the current issues as a theme. After the 212 demonstration 2016 in Jakarta, pengajian in Jogokariyan always uses the specific themes related to the religious social issues. This article tries to explore how the reception of hadis or the teachings of prophetic tradition live in a social movement in the context of pengajian at Jogokariyan mosque. Employing a social movement approach, this article seeks to explore deeply how the hadis or prophetic traditions are expressed and its relevance to the social movement in pengajian. The social movement has three strategies, namely, (1) political opportunities, (2) mobilizing structures and (3) framing process. This present paper concludes that firstly, religious teaching in Jogokariyanmosque is a model of reception of hadis about seeking knowledge and majlis ilm’. The hadis is used as a basic tool to mobilize the process of social movement in pengajian. Secondly, the social movement in the Jogokariyan mosque is motivated by the injustice feeling caused by the policy of the government today.
The study of the perceptions of internet and social media among adolescents and problematic use of ınternet
Authors: Atalay Mercan , Tekdemir Yurtdaş Göklem 
Published: January 2020

The adolescents’ perceptions of social media in relation with problematic internet use were examined in this study. The study group consisted of 209 students (113 girls, 96 boys), who were studying secondary schools in Istanbul. "Problematic Internet Usage Scale-Adolescent" and "Open-ended Questions Form on Internet and Social Networking Sites", were utilized by the researchers, and applied to adolescents in order to determine students' level of problematic use of the internet and their perceptions regarding social media. The analysis revealed that the adolescents who stated that they “needed” to use the internet had the highest level of problematic internet use. Significant age differences among adolescents with regard to meaning of internet pointed out how the internet played various purposes to individuals in various age groups. It has been determined that students in the 11-12 age group preferred to use the internet for "entertainment” purposes more than for other purposes. It was also found that the problematic use of the internet by these adolescents was associated with their opinions about their own academic achievements - specifically those individuals who thought of themselves as "poor" students showed a higher use of the internet in correlation with high levels of negative consequences.
Everyday life and a sense of loneliness in the opinion of elderly persons with disabilities in long-term residential care
Authors: SZCZUPAŁ BERNADETA , WIŚNIEWSKA JOLANTA IZABELA 
Published: January 2020

Bernadeta Szczupał, Jolanta Izabela Wiśniewska, Everyday life and a sense of loneliness in the opinion of elderly persons with disabilities in long-term residential care. Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Pedagogy, no. 24, Poznań 2019. Pp. 11-25. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ikps.2019.24.01
The growing number of elderly people, including persons with disabilities, is a major social, economic and political challenge. The article presents the resultsof a qualitative research concerning the opinions of elderly persons with disabilities in long-term residential care, about their everyday life and the sense of loneliness experienced by them.
Love experienced by persons with disabilities
Authors: LIPIŃSKA-LOKŚ JOLANTA 
Published: January 2020

Jolanta Lipińska-Lokś, Love experienced by persons with disabilities. Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Pedagogy, no. 24, Poznań 2019. Pp. 27-49. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ikps.2019.24.02
Humans as social beings feel natural attraction to being with other people, i.e. to establishing and maintaining relationships. Affiliations, such as friendship or love, significantly influence their development from the earliest years of life, either enriching or disturbing the quality of their functioning. Therefore, thosewho due to their health status or another life situation are marked by otherness, must be prepared to endure hardships. Consequently, persons with disabilities experience failures in their interpersonal contacts. They are often devoid of the opportunity to have a good friend or to experience true love, which may exacerbate their already difficult situation, often triggered within a family setting, where there was no acceptance and/or insufficient quality of parental love. All human beings, children in particular, need closeness and affection. Only then do they develop properly, experience happiness, see the meaning of their lives, feel loved and are able to reciprocate that love. Experiencing a disability or being a parent of a child with a disability may make love more difficult, perhaps even impossible. However, the desire for love can be so strong that it will manage to overcome all obstacles. Unfortunately, it may as well make life a grey existence filled with loneliness and suffering.
Parafialne poradnictwo rodzinne elementem nowej ewangelizacji.
Authors: Zając Karina 
Published: January 2020

Temat i treść artykułu koncentrują się na organizacji i zadaniach parafialnego poradnictwa rodzinnego oferowanego małżeństwom i rodzinom przez Kościół katolicki, co jest jednym z elementów pomocy doradczej wobec postępującego rozpadu małżeństw i rodzin, częstego negowania wartości samego małżeństwa, zwłaszcza „istotnych jego przymiotów: jedności, i nierozerwalności” (KPK/83, kan. 1056). Dobro rodziny ma kluczowe znaczenie dla przyszłości świata i Kościoła (AL, nr 31), dlatego Kościół katolicki dostrzega konieczność organizacji, dostosowania i realizacji zadań doradczych poradnictwa rodzinnego, szczególnie przy parafiach, gdyż znajdują się najbliżej wiernych w ich codziennym życiu. Z uwagi na złożoność problemów, z którymi borykają się współczesne małżeństwa i rodziny, Kościół w swoich dokumentach zwraca uwagę na potrzebę rozwoju tej formy poradnictwa z położeniem nacisku na pomoc doradczą z elementem „nowej ewangelizacji”, dynamiczną, otwartą, uwzględniającą obecną rzeczywistość dystansowania się współczesnego człowieka od wiary. W treści artykułu przedstawiono istotne dokumenty Kościoła regulujące działalność parafialnych poradni rodzinnych, ich cele i zadania w optyce „nowej ewangelizacji”. Szczególnie zwrócono uwagę na konieczność prowadzenia takiego poradnictwa dla małżeństw i rodzin, w pierwszych latach ich małżeństwa. W konkluzjach końcowych dokonano podsumowania rozważań i zaproponowano możliwe rozwiązania usprawniające udzielanie wsparcia oraz uczenie przeżywania małżeństwa i rodzicielstwa jako powołania chrześcijańskiego.
Preparation and properties of hydrogel based on sawdust cellulose for environmentally friendly slow release fertilizers
Authors: Zhang Xiao , Liu Yanlu , Lu Panfang , Zhang Min 
Published: January 2020

AbstractA novel hydrogel slow-release nitrogen fertilizer based on sawdust with water absorbency was prepared using grafting copolymerization. Urea was incorporated as nitrogen source in a hydrogel fertilizer. Potassium persulfate (KPS) and N,N᾽-methylenebis acrylamide (MBA) were used as the initiator and cross-linker, respectively. The structure and properties of the samples were characterized by XPS, EDS, SEM, XRD and FTIR. The effects of various salt solutions, ionic strength and pH on swelling behavior were discussed. The results showed that the largest water absorbency of the sample reached 210 g/g in distilled water. In addition, the sample had the good nitrogen release property. Thus, the novel environmentally friendly hydrogel fertilizer may be widely applied to agricultural and horticultural fields.
Effects of high-efficiency infrared heating on fiber compatibility and weldline tensile properties of injection-molded long-glass-fiber-reinforced polyamide-66 composites
Authors: Huang Po-Wei , Peng Hsin-Shu 
Published: January 2020

AbstractGlass fiber composites are prevalent molded materials used in various fields, including aviation engineering, automobile manufacturing, and medical equipment production. The length of a glass fiber affects the mechanical properties of a glass fiber composite. Studies have reported that breakage occurs in long fibers subjected to screw plasticization, injection processes, and geometrical changes in injection molding. Moreover, multigate injection molding can result in weldlines on the final product, consequently reducing its strength. Further exploration is required to determine how product strength is affected by weldlines generated through injection molding with glass fiber composites and how product tensile properties associated with weldlines can be improved. Therefore, this study designed a mold with a vent area and a plug-in mold-surface-heating device to examine changes in the weldlines and tensile properties of long-glass-fiber composite specimens fabricated through injection molding using two melts. The results revealed that fiber length decreased with increasing screw speed; such declines in fiber length affected the tensile strength of the long-glass-fiber-reinforced polyamide-66 composites. In addition, because the arrangement and distribution of the glass fibers were affected by the melt flow rate, melt flow direction, and changes in mold cavity volume, the weldline tensile strength varied with the depth of the vent area. Mold surface heating improved the specimen surface roughness by 5.79% and effectively improved the interfacial adhesion between the fibers and melts, thereby resulting in more favorable weldline tensile strength. This also notably reduced the depth of weldlines produced by the adhesion of two melts.
Polymer genome–based prediction of gas permeabilities in polymers
Authors: Zhu Guanghui , Kim Chiho , Chandrasekarn Anand , Everett Joshua D. , Ramprasad Rampi , Lively Ryan P. 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
Predicting gas permeabilities of polymers a priori is a long-standing challenge within the membrane research community that has important applications for membrane process design and ultimately widespread adoption of membrane technology. From early attempts based on free volume and cohesive energy to more recent group contribution methods, the ability to predict membrane permeability has improved in terms of accuracy. However, these models usually stay “within the paper”, i.e. limited model details are provided to the wider community such that adoption of these predictive platforms is limited. In this work, we combined an advanced polymer chemical structure fingerprinting method with a large experimental database of gas permeabilities to provide unprecedented prediction precision over a large range of polymer classes. No prior knowledge of the polymer is needed for the prediction other than the repeating unit chemical formula. In addition, we have incorporated this model into the existing Polymer Genome project to make it open to the membrane research community.
Neue Wege zur Kalibrierung von E2-Massenormalen und Darstellung von Kräften bis 10 N
Authors: Fröhlich Thomas , Rogge Norbert , Vasilyan Suren , Rothleitner Christian , Günther Ludwig , Lin Shan , Hilbrunner Falko , Knopf Dorothea , Härtig Frank , Marangoni Rafael 
Published: January 2020

Zusammenfassung
Seit dem 20. Mai 2019 gilt das neue Internationale Einheitensystem SI. Dies stellt eine Zäsur in der Geschichte der Einheiten dar, denn von nun an sind alle 7 Basiseinheiten durch Fundamentalkonstanten definiert. Gerade für die Masse und die daraus abgeleiteten Größen hat das weitreichende Folgen. Das Urkilogramm ist jetzt nur noch ein normales 1 kg-Wägestück. Der Gewinn aber ist enorm. Das Kilogramm lässt sich zukünftig für jeden Massewert darstellen und muss nicht mehr auf das Urkilogramm rückgeführt werden. Da die Kraft bislang über die Masse rückgeführt wurde, öffnen sich aber auch deren Definition neue Wege. In diesem Artikel soll beschrieben werden, wie die prinzipiellen Realisierungen des Kilogramms über die Kibble-Waage und die Röntgenkristalldichtemessungen (XRCD-Methode, oder auf Englisch X-ray-crystal-density method) funktionieren und welche Ideen für die Kraft-Messung bereits umgesetzt wurden.
Quantum-Phase-Field: From de Broglie–Bohm Double-Solution Program to Doublon Networks
Authors: Kundin J. , Steinbach I. 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
Different forms of linear and non-linear field equations, so-called ‘phase-field’ equations, are studied in relation to the de Broglie–Bohm double-solution program. This defines a framework in which elementary particles are described by localised non-linear wave solutions moving by the guidance of a pilot wave, defined by the solution of a Schrödinger-type equation. First, we consider the phase-field order parameter as the phase for the linear pilot wave, second as the pilot wave itself, and third as a moving soliton interpreted as a massive particle. In the last case, we introduce the equation for a superwave, the amplitude of which can be considered as a particle moving in accordance to the de Broglie–Bohm theory. Lax pairs for the coupled problems are constructed in order to discover possible non-linear equations that can describe the moving particle and to propose a framework for investigating coupled solutions. Finally, doublons in 1 + 1 dimensions are constructed as self-similar solutions of a non-linear phase-field equation forming a finite space object. Vacuum quantum oscillations within the doublon determine the evolution of the coupled system. Applying a conservation constraint and using general symmetry considerations, the doublons are arranged as a network in 1 + 1 + 2 dimensions, where nodes are interpreted as elementary particles. A canonical procedure is proposed to treat charge and electromagnetic exchange.