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The Effects of a Psychosocial Support Program on Perceived Stress of Family Caregivers of Patients with Mental Disorders
Authors: Hajisadeghian Reihaneh , Ghezelbash Sima , Mehrabi Tayebeh 
Published: April 2021

Background:
Taking caring of patients with mental disorders is stressful and people who take care of these patients need to receive enough support and training to overcome this challenging situation. The present study was aimed at investigating the effects of a psychosocial support program on perceived stress of family caregivers of patients with mental disorders.

Materials and Methods:
This randomized controlled clinical trial was performed on 64 family caregivers of patients with mental disorders referred to Noor and Hazrat-e-Ali Asghar hospital in Isfahan, Iran, in 2018-19. The participants were randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups using a random number table. In the intervention group, the training program was held in 6 sessions of 90-minute training classes twice a week. Data were collected using a demographic characteristics form and the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) before, immediately after, and 1 month after the intervention. Descriptive and inferential statistical tests such as Chi-square, Mann-Whitney, independent t-test, repeated measures ANOVA, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test were used to analyze the data in SPSS software.

Results:
The result of the study showed that the total mean score of perceived stress in the intervention group was significantly less than the control group immediately after (F2=66.29, p<0.001) and 1 month after the intervention (F2=66.29, p<0.001).

Conclusions:
Delivering a training program on the different dimensions of support family caregivers need will reduce the perceived stress of family caregivers of patients with mental disorders. Therefore, the implementation of this intervention is recommended in this group of caregivers.
Comprehensive–Comparative Study of Fracture Distal end Radius with Plating and K-Wire Fixation
Authors: Kumar Randir , Kumar Nand , Kumar Ashutosh 
Published: April 2021

Introduction:
Distal end radius fracture is a common fracture seen in the routine orthopedic outpatient department. The optimal management of distal radius fractures remains controversial.

Aim:
The aim of the study is to compare the functional outcomes folloing volar plating and K-ire fixation of the distal end radius fractures and to compare hich method produced better result. The functional outcome in terms of range of movements, pain, and grip strength of the patients as assessed at 6 months in both groups by demerit score system of Gartland and Werley. Material and Methods: The ORIF group as treated ith volar plating and CRIF group ith k ires. The functional outcome as measured using Gartland and Werley system.

Results:
Functional outcome as per Gartland and Werley as 95% excellent-to-good results in the plating group as compared to 75% in the K-ire fixation group.

Conclusion:
The study emphasizes that open reduction and internal fixation ith volar plating has excellent functional outcome hen compared to K-ire fixation in distal radius fractures. When considering the cost, K-ire fixation is preferred over volar plating.
Evaluation and flora diversity of Gashaka Gumti National Park-1, Gashaka Sector, Taraba State, Nigeria
Authors: Akinsoji A , Adeonipekun P.A. , Adeniyi T.A. , Oyebanji O.O. , Eluwole T.A. 
Published: April 2021

This article has been retracted as requested by the authors owing to an unresolved issue bothering on conflict of interest in the article.The alarming rate of ecosystem degradation in many parts of Nigeria has continued to have significant impacts on the country’s resources, conservation potential, and climate. This pressure led to an ecological and geographical survey in Gashaka Gumti National Park 1, Taraba State, Nigeria in 2013 and 2015 to document the species composition across the different vegetation types and geomorphic gradients, and to assess the vegetation loss between 1991 and 2013. Vegetation analysis was done using standard ecological sampling procedures. Digital Elevation Mapping (DEM) was also done to estimate the altitudinal ranges of the Park, while a Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was calculated to ascertain vegetation loss over time. Recognized vegetation types are lowland rainforest, southern Guinea savanna, and montane. A total of 426 species were identified belonging to 306 genera and 104 families with Asteraceae dominating (37 spp.). Also, five species which have never been formally documented in any published flora of Nigeria were identified. With respect to habit, 29 grasses, 26 ferns, 19 climbers, 98 forbs, 9 sedges, 79 shrubs, 152 trees and 14 epiphytes were classified. Plant diversity decreased with increasing altitude. The DEM classified the heights of the sampled area into lowland (400 – 933 m), sub-montane (933 – 1467 m), and montane (1467 – 2000 m). The NDVI revealed higher vegetation cover in 1991 than 2013. These results indicate the importance of regular assessment of floristic composition through checklisting of species in national parks for effective and efficient species conservation and management.Keywords: Gashaka Gumti, National Park, floral diversity, geomorphic gradient, DEM and NDVI
РАЗРАБОТКА СИСТЕМЫ АВТОМАТИЗАЦИИ
ЭЛЕКТРОЛИЗНО-ВОДНОГО ГАЗОГЕНЕРАТОРА
Authors: Пинчук В.И. , Никулин Т.Р. 
Published: April 2021

В представленной статье проведена разработка интеллектуальной системы управления электролизно-водного газогенератора на платформе Ардуино. Описана
конструкция электролизно-водного газогенератора, определены ключевые показатели,
необходимые для отслеживания в ходе работы устройства. Составлена схема автоматизации
и подобраны плата управления и датчики. Программирование микроконтроллера производилось в интегрированной среде разработки Arduino IDE на языке C++. Проведена
сборка и наладка спроектированной системы, сделаны выводы.
Interventions Within the Scope of Occupational Therapy to Improve Activities of Daily Living, Rest, and Sleep in People With Parkinson’s Disease: A Systematic Review
Authors: Doucet Barbara M. , Franc Ingrid , Hunter Elizabeth G. 
Published: April 2021

Abstract
Importance: People with Parkinson’s disease (PD) commonly experience difficulty in performing activities of daily living (ADLs), which affects their perceived quality of life.
Objective: To examine the evidence for the effectiveness of interventions within the scope of occupational therapy to improve performance and participation in ADLs, rest, and sleep in adults with PD.
Data Sources: Databases searched were MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, OTseeker, and Cochrane Collection. Included articles were published between January 2011 and December 2018.
Study Selection and Data Collection: Articles describing Level 1b, 2b, and 3b studies that examined outcomes related to ADLs, rest, and sleep in people with PD were included following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.
Findings: Forty-five articles (10 Level 1b, 27 Level 2b, and 8 Level 3b) met the inclusion criteria.
Conclusions and Relevance: Strong strength of evidence was found to support inpatient multidisciplinary intensive rehabilitation treatment (MIRT) to improve ADLs, and moderate strength of evidence that MIRT improves sleep performance. Low strength of evidence was present for outpatient occupational therapy to improve ADL and sleep outcomes. Low strength of evidence was found for resistance exercise programs to improve ADLs, but moderate strength of evidence indicates that multimodal exercise programs and targeted exercise programs can improve ADLs. Low to moderate strength of evidence suggested that alternative therapies and cognitive–behavioral therapy have a positive impact on ADLs and sleep. These results can be used to inform evidence-based occupational therapy practice.
What This Article Adds: This article provides information for practitioners on the effectiveness of interventions within the scope of occupational therapy practice to improve ADLs and sleep.
Learning Vector Illustration with Adobe Illustrator
Authors: Hopper Jodi Staniunas 
Published: April 2021

When you begin using vector illustration software it can be confusing and frustrating to even work out how to make a mark on the page - but this new hybrid approach to learning integrates tutorial videos and step-by-step projects to help you become confident in no time.
Starting with first principles, this book introduces you to all the important tools and processes – from the basics of Bezier curves to applying meshes – so you can quickly and efficiently create your own designs. As you learn each skill there are projects for you to try out, and by the end of the book you’ll build up to a major design project to put all your new abilities into practice.
Gender and Early Television
Authors: Arnold Sarah 
Published: April 2021

Between the nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century television transformed from an idea to an institution. In Gender and Early Television, Sarah Arnold traces women’s relationship to the new medium of television across this period in the UK and USA. She argues that women played a crucial role in its development both as producers and as audiences long before the ‘golden age’ of television in the 1950s.
Beginning with the emergence of media entertainment in the mid-nineteenth century and culminating in the rise of the post-war television industries, Arnold claims that, all along the way, women had a stake in television. As keen consumers of media, women also helped promote television to the public by performing as ‘television girls’. Women worked as directors, producers, technical crew and announcers. It seemed that television was open to women. However, as Arnold shows, the increasing professionalisation of television resulted in the segregation of roles. Production became the sphere of men and consumption the sphere of women. While this binary has largely informed women’s role in television, through her analysis, Arnold argues that it has not always been the case.
Contesting Africa’s New Green Revolution
Authors: Ignatova Jacqueline A. 
Published: April 2021

Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Proponents hail them as an example of ‘pro-poor’ innovation, while critics regard them as a threat to food sovereignty and the environment. The promotion of biotechnology is an integral part of ‘new Green Revolution for Africa’ interventions and is also intimately linked to the rise of ‘philanthrocapitalism,’ which advances business solutions to address the problem of poverty.
Through interviews with farmers, policymakers and agricultural scientists, Jacqueline Ignatova shows how efforts to transform the seed sector in northern Ghana–one of the key laboratories of this ‘new Green Revolution’-may serve to exacerbate the inequality it was notionally intended to address. But she also argues that its effects in Ghana have been far more complex than either side of the debate has acknowledged, with local farmers proving adept at blending traditional and modern agricultural methods that subvert the interests of global agribusiness.
Edge of Memory
Authors: Nunn Patrick 
Published: April 2021

How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future?
In today’s society it is the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a history textbook over the version of history retold by a friend – after all, human memory is unreliable, and how can you be sure your friend hasn’t embellished the facts? But before humans were writing down their knowledge, they were passing it on in the form of stories.
The Edge of Memorycelebrates the predecessor of written information – the spoken word, tales from our ancestors that have been passed down, transmitting knowledge from one generation to the next. Among the most extensive and best-analysed of these stories are from native Australian cultures. These stories conveyed both practical information and recorded history, describing a lost landscape, often featuring tales of flooding and submergence. Folk traditions such as these are increasingly supported by hard science. Geologists are starting to corroborate the tales through study of climatic data, sediments and land forms; the evidence was there in the stories, but until recently, nobody was listening.
In this book, Patrick Nunn unravels the importance of these tales, exploring the science behind folk history from around the world – including northwest Europe and India – and what it can tell us about environmental phenomena, from coastal drowning to volcanic eruptions. These stories of real events were handed down the generations over thousands of years, and they have broad implications for our understanding of how human societies have developed through the millennia, and ultimately how we respond collectively to changes in climate, our surroundings and the environment we live in.
hyphen
Authors: Mahdavi Pardis 
Published: April 2021

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the hyphen has persisted, bringing and bridging new words and concepts.
Hyphen follows the story of the hyphen from antiquity – "Hyphen” is derived from an ancient Greek word meaning “to tie together” – to the present, but also uncovers the politics of the hyphen and the role it plays in creating identities. The journey of this humble piece of connective punctuation reveals the quiet power of an orthographic concept to speak to the travails of hyphenated individuals all over the world. Hyphen is ultimately a compelling story about the powerful ways that language and identity intertwine.
Mahdavi – herself a hyphenated Iranian-American – weaves in her own experiences struggling to find her own sense of self amidst feelings of betwixt and between. We meet three other individuals who are each on a similar journey and watch as they find a way to embrace the space of the hyphen – rejecting the false choice of trying to fit into previously prescribed identities. Through their stories, we collectively consider how belonging only serves to fulfill the failures of troubled states, regimes, or institutions and offer possibilities to navigate, articulate, and empower new identities.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
EU Law and International Arbitration
Authors: von Papp Konstanze 
Published: April 2021

This timely book addresses the main areas of tension between EU law and international arbitration, looking at both commercial and investment treaty arbitration. It opens pathways for practical solutions based on communication between the different regimes. At the same time, it offers a sound theoretical basis that allows for addressing the core problem as normative conflict between legitimate public interests and the ‘privatisation of justice’.
The book is divided into five parts. It introduces key aspects of the overall tension between EU law and international arbitration, before setting out the theoretical framework, arguing that EU law, international commercial arbitration, and investment treaty arbitration are operationally closed systems. The author then addresses the core problem of finding the limits to contracting out of the EU legal order, which is linked to the question of trust-building and hence the legitimacy of the respective legal regimes. The book concludes with a short summary of each chapter and key theses.
Combining a theoretical and normative stance with a more pragmatic approach to very topical issues, this book offers invaluable insights for academics and practitioners, private and public, commercial and investment treaty lawyers alike.
Pandemics, Protests, and Publics
Authors: Shugars Sarah , Gitomer Adina , McCabe Stefan , Gallagher Ryan J. , Joseph Kenneth , Grinberg Nir , Doroshenko Larissa , Foucault Welles Brooke , Lazer David 
Published: April 2021

As an integral component of public discourse, Twitter is among the main data sources for scholarship in this area. However, there is much that scholars do not know about the basic mechanisms of public discourse on Twitter, including the prevalence of various modes of communication, the types of posts users make, the engagement those posts receive, or how these things vary with user demographics and across different topical events. This paper broadens our understanding of these aspects of public discourse. We focus on the first nine months of 2020, studying that period as a whole and giving particular attention to two monumentally important topics of that time: the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic. Leveraging a panel of 1.6 million Twitter accounts matched to U.S. voting records, we examine the demographics, activity, and engagement of 800,000 American adults who collectively posted nearly 300 million tweets during this time span. We find notable variation in user activity and engagement, in terms of modality (e.g., retweets vs. replies), demographic subgroup, and topical context. We further find that while Twitter can best be understood as a collection of interconnected publics, neither topical nor demographic variation perfectly encapsulates the "Twitter public." Rather, Twitter publics are fluid, contextual communities which form around salient topics and are informed by demographic identities. Together, this paper presents a disaggregated, multifaceted description of the demographics, activity, and engagement of American Twitter users in 2020.
Love and Anger in Global Party Politics
Authors: Muraoka Taishi , Montgomery Jacob , Lucas Christopher , Tavits Margit 
Published: April 2021

The reactions feature of Facebook provides an opportunity to explore emotional responses to political messages across the globe on a common platform. In this article, we describe this new measure and present a dataset of over two million posts from the Facebook pages of 690 political parties in 79 democracies. We study Love and Angry reactions to these posts, their potential use as measures of emotional response, and party-level variation in the frequency of these reactions. We find that parties receive systematically different proportions of Love and Angry reactions depending on their ideology, party family, and populist orientation. More extreme parties tend to elicit relatively greater emotional responses. Nationalist, populist, and right-leaning parties in particular elicit a higher proportion of Angry reactions and emotional polarization.
Acerca do estatuto da imagem nas redes digitais
Authors: Borges Júnior Eli 
Published: April 2021

O presente artigo decorre de um projeto de pesquisa em que se pretendeu formular uma proposição teórica sobre os modos e meios de operação das imagens em contextos digitais. Procurando trilhar um caminho fenomenológico de reflexão, o artigo debruça-se sobre o caso Neda Agha-Soltan, jovem assassinada no Irã durante um protesto político no ano de 2009. As imagens de sua morte ganhariam vasta repercussão, reaparecendo inclusive em manifestações posteriores, sobretudo da chamada Primavera Árabe. A partir desse caso – sem, no entanto, qualquer pretensão de generalizar nossas proposições –, buscamos abrir uma possível chave por meio da qual possamos identificar certos aspectos particulares a um tipo de imagem gerada e disseminada a partir do elemento digital. Em certa medida legatária da eletricidade e da reprodutibilidade técnica (W. Benjamin), essa imagem, reformulada, a penetrar as mais variadas esferas da vida com a explosão das tecnologias digitais, sugere reverberar – de modo ainda mais extremo – ecos de uma crise da percepção já anunciada pelo filósofo alemão. Diante disso, indagamos: em que medida a hipertrofia dessas imagens digitais abrir-nos-ia um flanco para vislumbrar mesmo uma relação outra com as imagens, um novo modo de acessá-las e percebê-las? Como poderíamos descrever seus modos de operação sobre nós? Reconhecendo a vastidão do tema e de caminhos possíveis para uma abordagem do mesmo, este texto procura, atravessando noções congruentes de outros autores, problematizar essas questões dilemáticas a partir, sobretudo, da noção de imagem digital como uma espécie de “superfície” comum, território de compartilhamento do sentir.
The Role of Motivation and Professional Competence in Improving Teacher Performance
Authors: Fachmi Muhammad , Mustafa Mustafa , Ngandoh Ali Murdhani 
Published: April 2021

Abstract: This study aims to analyze the role of work motivation and professional competence in improving the performance of Vocational High School teachers in Soppeng Regency, as well as which variables are most dominant in influencing the improvement of teacher performance. Researchers took a sample of 72 teachers from five vocational schools in Soppeng Regency with the sampling technique, namely random sampling. The data analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis with SPSS software. The results showed that work motivation has a positive and significant effect on teacher performance, meaning that if the work motivation is higher, the teacher's performance will also increase. In addition, professional competence also has a positive and significant effect on teacher performance, so that if professional competence is getting better, teacher performance will also increase. Researchers also found that work motivation is the most dominant variable affecting the improvement of teacher performance in schools.
Keywords: Work Motivation, Professional Competence, Teacher Performance
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis peranan motivasi kerja dan kompetensi profesional dalam meningkatkan kinerja guru Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan di Kabupaten Soppeng, serta variabel manakah yang paling dominan dalam mempengaruhi peningkatan kinerja guru. Peneliti mengambil sampel sebanyak 72 orang guru yang berasal dari lima SMK di Kabupaten Soppeng dengan teknik penentuan sampel yaitu dengan random sampling. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan yaitu analisis regresi linier berganda dengan software SPSS. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa motivasi kerja berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja guru, artinya jika motivasi kerja semakin tinggi maka kinerja guru juga akan semakin meningkat. Disamping itu, kompetensi profesional juga berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja guru, sehingga apabila kompetensi profesional semakin baik maka kinerja guru juga akan mengalami peningkatan. Peneliti juga menemukan bahwa motivasi kerja merupakan variabel yang paling dominan mempengaruhi peningkatan kinerja guru di sekolah.
Kata Kunci: Motivasi Kerja, Kompetensi Profesional, Kinerja Guru