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An alginate–PHMB–AgNPs based wound dressing polyamide nanocomposite with improved antibacterial and hemostatic properties
Authors: Asadi Laleh , Mokhtari Javad , Abbasi Marjan 
Published: January 2021

AbstractWound dressing should be impenetrable against microorganisms and it should keep the wound wet. Gauze and polyamide (PA) substrate were treated with various concentrations of AgNPs (25, 50, 75, and 100 ppm), PHMB (0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, and 1% w/v), and constant concentration of alginate (0.5% W/V) using a simple dipping method. Prepared samples were characterized by various techniques including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The results indicated that the particles were successfully applied onto both substrates with an average diameter of particle size of 78 nm on gauze and 172 nm on the PA substrate surface (based on 50 nanoparticles). Antibacterial activity of the prepared nanocomposite against Staphylococcus aureus (gram-positive) bacteria on PA substrate and gauze were evaluated using the disc diffusion method. The results indicated that the prepared nanocomposites offer favorable antibacterial properties and bacteria would not grow in culture media. The water uptake capacity test of the treated samples was assessed and the data demonstrated that the water absorption rate significantly increases on both treated substrates (gauze and PA substrate) due to the presence of alginate polymer. Also, observing the results of the coagulation test showed that treated samples caused blood clots on the dressing. This is due to the presence of alginate polymer. The present work demonstrates that the prepared samples offer excellent antibacterial properties and good water uptake capacity that capable of being a potential candidate for wound dressings. Due to the results, the produced PA substrate could be an appropriate replacement for the cotton gauze as a wound dressing.
Trends in coverage of hygiene and disease prevention topics across national curriculum frameworks for primary science, physical education, and health
Authors: Morrish Daniel , Neesam Marc 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThe response to the Covid-19 pandemic raises a question about the role of national curriculum frameworks in acquiring and applying knowledge about hygiene and prevention of disease. For curriculum designers, this means determining what children of different ages should learn about these topics and how they should develop and apply this knowledge. Curriculum designers must do so amid trends towards reducing curriculum content and transitioning to competency-based curricula with transversal elements. Arguments can be made for placing health literacy competences, knowledge, and skills across the intended curriculum for science, physical education, and health. These are different disciplines with different models of knowledge, learning, and progression. This exploratory study looks at the placement of public health-related content in a selection of recently reformed, competency-based national curriculum frameworks from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Australasia. From these examples, it highlights risks and opportunities for incorporating public health messages into the intended curriculum.
Biogas potential of organic waste onboard cruise ships — a yet untapped energy source
Authors: Schumüller Kai , Weichgrebe Dirk , Köster Stephan 
Published: January 2021

AbstractTo tap the organic waste generated onboard cruise ships is a very promising approach to reduce their adverse impact on the maritime environment. Biogas produced by means of onboard anaerobic digestion offers a complementary energy source for ships’ operation. This report comprises a detailed presentation of the results gained from comprehensive investigations on the gas yield from onboard substrates such as food waste, sewage sludge and screening solids. Each person onboard generates a total average of about 9 kg of organic waste per day. The performed analyses of substrates and anaerobic digestion tests revealed an accumulated methane yield of around 159 L per person per day. The anaerobic co-digestion of sewage sludge and food waste (50:50 VS) emerged as particularly effective and led to an increased biogas yield by 24%, compared to the mono-fermentation. In the best case, onboard biogas production can provide an energetic output of 82 W/P, on average covering 3.3 to 4.1% of the total energy demand of a cruise ship.
Clinical Profile of Women with Congenital Fetal Malformations: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Authors: Garg Sonal , Dasari Papa , Ali Ashraf M. 
Published: January 2021

Abstract
Background Though this is an era of imaging, many women with fetal congenital malformations are presenting beyond 20 weeks of pregnancy posing problems in decision making. This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of congenital fetal malformations presenting to tertiary health care and to analyse the gestational age at presentation and spectrum of malformations and the clinical and socio-demographic factors.
Material and Methods This was a retrospective analysis of hospitalised women with diagnosis of congenital fetal malformations (CFM) from January 2017 to December 2017. The data was retrieved from Medical Records Section after due permissions and analysed with respect to socio-demographic status, age, consanguinity, type of congenital anomaly and gestational age at presentation.
Results The prevalence of CFM was 1.56%. The majority (64%) of CFM were detected during the second trimester and 27% were detected in the 3rd trimester. The most common anomalies were CNS followed by multiple anomalies and 72% and 65% of them were live born respectively. The majority (90%) belonged to lower middle socioeconomic group and were from rural background (82%). The majority of women were less than 30 years of age (77.6%) and 38% were primigravidae. Consanguinity was present in 34%, medical disorders were associated in 29% and 3% had family history of congenital fetal anomalies.
Conclusion The most common anomalies were CNS and majority were primigravidae. The most common medical disorder associated was diabetes. It is possible that they are deficient in folic acid and vitamin B12. Hence pre-conceptional control of medical disorders, nutritional counselling regarding intake of micronutrients and awareness programmes to take pre-conceptional folic acid and vitamin B12 are the need of the hour for prevention.
Use of the SWAT model for estimating reservoir volume in the Upper Navet watershed in Trinidad
Authors: Beharry Sharlene L. , Gabriels Donald , Lobo Deyanira , Ramsewak Deanesh , Clarke Ricardo M. 
Published: January 2021

AbstractIn tropical small islands the application of hydrological modelling is challenged by the scarcity of input data. Using in-situ and statistically estimated data, a hydrological model was calibrated and validated for the Upper Navet watershed in Trinidad, a small Caribbean island. The model was built using the soil water assessment tool (SWAT). The sensitivity analysis, calibration and validation were performed in SWAT calibration and uncertainty program (SWAT-CUP) using sequential uncertainty fitting (SUFI-2). The results revealed that for the estimated volume of water flowing into the reservoir (Flow_In) there were six sensitive parameters. To estimate the reservoir volume (Res_Vol), a modification of only the effective hydraulic conductivity was required. The model’s performance for the Flow_In validation showed acceptable values (R2 = 0.91 and NSE = 0.81). The uncertainty analysis indicated lower than recommended values for both theR-factor (0.46) andP-factor (0.31). For Res_Vol, the model’s validation performance indicated acceptable values (R2 = 0.72 and NSE = 0.70) and theP- andR-factors were 0.80 and 0.64, respectively. Based on the statistical metrics, the uncertainty for the Res_Vol was regarded as reasonable. However, care must be taken with the model’s use in the dry season, as the simulated Flow_In was generally over-predicted. A second validation of the model was performed for the reservoir under different negative (removal) and positive (addition) water amounts which confirmed the model’s ability to estimate the Res_Vol. The hydrological model established can therefore serve as a useful tool for water managers for the estimation of the Res_Vol at the Navet reservoir.
Resilience and Sexuality After Concussion in Women
Authors: Anto-Ocrah Martina , Oktapodas Feiler Marina , Pukall Caroline , Pacos-Martinez Amy 
Published: January 2021

Abstract

Background
Previous findings from our group show that in the acute (ie, 6–10 weeks) post-injury period, women with concussions have a 70% greater risk of sexual dysfunction than those with extremity injuries. There are currently limited treatment options for the clinical management of concussions. Resilience is a protective, modifiable psychological construct that has been shown to improve concussion-related sequelae. To date, however, no research has evaluated how resilience impacts sexuality outcomes after concussion in women.

Aim
Evaluate if resilience offers protection against negative sexuality outcomes in a cohort of reproductive, aged women with a concussion, seeking care in the Emergency Department of a Level-1 Trauma Center. We hypothesized that women with low resilience will be more likely to experience negative impacts on sexuality and that increasing levels of resilience will be associated with more positive sexuality outcomes.

Methods
Secondary data analyses.

Measures
Resilience was evaluated with the Resilience Scale (RS), and the Brain Injury Questionnaire for Sexuality (BIQS) was used for sexuality.

Results
Of the 299 participants recruited for the parent study, 80 with concussion had complete follow-up data and were included in these secondary analyses. Less than half (42.5%; n = 34) had low resilience (score≤130 on the RS), and the remaining 46 (57.5%) had high resilience (score&gt;130 on the RS). In crude linear regression models, 1-unit increase in resilience was associated with a 4% increase in sexuality outcomes (β = 0.04, 95% CI:0.01, 0.05; P = .008). The effect estimate remained similar in post-concussion-symptom-adjusted models (β = 0.03, 95% CI:0.002, 0.06; P = .03). Mood-adjusted models showed a statistically significant interaction term (P &lt; .0001). After stratifying by mood, findings showed that unit increases in resilience were associated with a 6% increase in sexuality outcomes for women in the high risk mood group (HADS score ≥11; PCS-adjusted β = 0.06, 95% CI:0.02, 0.11; P = .009).

Conclusion
Longitudinal studies are needed to evaluate how these improvements in resilience translate to patient recovery measures following concussion.
A New Wave of Social Democracy? Policy Change across the Social Democratic Party Family, 1970s–2010s
Authors: Manwaring Rob , Holloway Josh 
Published: January 2021

AbstractSocial democracy is in a state of change and flux, and the electoral fortunes of many centre-left political parties are poor. This article offers an analysis of the current trajectory of the centre left, by detailing a systematic mapping of policy change across the family of social democratic political parties. Many of the parties, especially in the 1990s, took a ‘third way’ turn, or a shift to what has been called the ‘new social democracy’. Yet, the ‘third way’ label is a poor descriptor to capture the changing policy profile and dynamics of the family of mainstream centre-left political parties. In Adam Przeworski's view, there have been four main waves of social democracy. We employ the ‘wave’ frame to examine if there is an emergent, fifth, breaking wave of social democracy. Overall, we find that social democratic parties have moved beyond the ‘third way’; they are shifting leftwards, but they are a new kind of ‘left’ from that of previous decades.
The link between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, inflammation and glucose/insulin homoeostasis is mediated by adiposity factors in American adults
Authors: Mazidi Mohsen , Siervo Mario 
Published: January 2021

AbstractWe used an established mediation analysis to investigate the role of adiposity in the relation between serum 25(OH)D with markers of inflammation and glucose and insulin metabolism. We used data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005–2010), to evaluate the associations between serum 25(OH)D and markers of insulin resistance (IR) or inflammation, and whether these associations are mediated by adiposity factors. Analysis of co-variance and conceptual causal mediation analysis were conducted taking into consideration the survey design and sample weights. BMI was found to have significant mediation effects (to varied extent) on the associations between serum 25(OH)D and CRP, apo-B, fasting glucose, insulin, HOMA-IR, HOMA-B and HbA1c (all P < 0·05). Both WC and apVAT were also found to partly mediate the associations between serum 25 25(OH)D with CRP, FBG, HbA1c, TAG and HDL-cholesterol (all P < 0·05). These findings support the importance of optimising 25(OH)D status in conditions with abnormal adiposity (i.e. obesity) and treatments for the prevention of cardiometabolic diseases affecting adipose tissue metabolism (i.e. weight loss).
Civic Education in High School and Voter Turnout in Adulthood
Authors: Weinschenk Aaron C. , Dawes Christopher T. 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThis article examines the effect of high school civic education on voter turnout in adulthood by integrating extensive academic transcript data on social studies and civic coursework into a large-scale, longitudinal survey of a nationally representative sample of adolescents. In an initial series of regression models, civics courses appear to have an effect on turnout in adulthood. However, after accounting for individual and family attributes, civic education has a fairly limited effect on turnout, though several measures have statistically significant effects even in the presence of controls. Interestingly, the study finds no support for the idea that high school courses that focus on service learning, civic skills development or political issues increase turnout in adulthood, which is contrary to expectations from the resource model of participation. After subjecting the civic effects that persist after accounting for controls to additional scrutiny by using family fixed-effects models that account for all observed and unobserved influences shared by siblings in the same family (for example, socialization, predispositions, etc.), the evidence suggests that there is a null relationship between civic education and turnout; the best-case scenario is that any civic education effects that do exist are likely very small. The idea that additional civics training will help to substantially elevate voter turnout appears to be overly optimistic.
The Ottoman Chancery's Role in Diplomacy with Iran
Authors: Güngörürler Selim 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThis study first considers how master secretaries of the Ottoman Imperial Council went beyond their field of scribal business and began to have a share in carrying out the empire's foreign policy by putting it into words. Next, it deals with the specific genre of documents that took shape step by step as one chancery office worked up an incoming writ and forwarded it to another bureau. It thereby shows how we can indeed unearth new knowledge on political history by looking into these outputs of the chancery's practice of writing and keeping financial transactions between dignitaries, superintendents, petitioners, and departments. The study then tackles in what ways one can link these trends to the early modern growth of the chancery and the branching out in government, and how the state's lordship rights and making, as well as keeping, logs were understood in those times. A document belonging to the handled genre is reproduced, transcribed, and translated at the end.
Dealing with Controversy, Part II: Guiding Nursing Students into Troubled Waters
Authors: Greenlaw Jane 
Published: January 2021

Nursing must develop techniques for handling controversy. As nursing becomes a more visible and diverse part of the health care system, it must increasingly respond to commentary and criticism — from other providers, from consumers, and from within. Nursing can respond productively to this review, thereby enhancing professional growth and contributing to a positive professional image.An examination of nursing attitudes toward controversy should focus on the preparation — both formal and informal — provided for student nurses in this area. The ability to deal productively with controversy depends upon skills and attitudes; nursing programs must emphasize both of these to truly prepare students who will represent nursing favorably. I have identified four major areas in which nursing can strive to achieve this goal.
The Nurse as Expert Witness
Authors: Northrop Cynthia , Mech Ann 
Published: January 2021

Traditionally the great majority of health care related malpractice suits have involved physicians and hospitals. Increasingly, however, greater attention is being given to nurses as potential defendants and thus as sources for recovery in malpractice suits. As a result, more recognition is emerging for nursing as a profession accountable for its practice. This article will examine the concept of accountability by:1.reviewing selected legal principles of malpractice;2.discussing the trend toward increased inclusion of nurses in malpractice actions and the implications of this trend; and3.describing an Expert Nurse Witness and Consultation Service which was developed to provide nursing opinion on the professionally accepted standard of nursing practice.
Now It's the Nurse Who Needs Emergency Care
Authors: Wilson David B. 
Published: January 2021

She is an attractive woman around 30 with two sons, the same husband she started out with, their mortgage (not the same one they started out with), and a license to practice nursing in Massachusetts.And her story, anonymous but otherwise undisguised, will tell you more about the nursing shortage, the women's movement, the Medicaid crisis, the conservative revival and social change in America than any compilation of research, analysis, punditry and feminist literature. She is angry and the only reason she is going to take it any more is that she has not discovered a decent alternative.She works odd, inflexible hours, some nights and Sundays, in the emergency room of a community hospital outside Boston. It is the kind of place to which your kindly old family doctor, interrupting a weekend frolic with the new cookie, refers his less affluent patients.
Full rainbow matchings in graphs and hypergraphs
Authors: Gao Pu , Ramadurai Reshma , Wanless Ian M. , Wormald Nick 
Published: January 2021

AbstractLet G be a simple graph that is properly edge-coloured with m colours and let \[\mathcal{M} = \{ {M_1},...,{M_m}\} \] be the set of m matchings induced by the colours in G. Suppose that \[m \leqslant n - {n^c}\], where \[c > 9/10\], and every matching in \[\mathcal{M}\] has size n. Then G contains a full rainbow matching, i.e. a matching that contains exactly one edge from Mi for each \[1 \leqslant i \leqslant m\]. This answers an open problem of Pokrovskiy and gives an affirmative answer to a generalization of a special case of a conjecture of Aharoni and Berger. Related results are also found for multigraphs with edges of bounded multiplicity, and for hypergraphs.Finally, we provide counterexamples to several conjectures on full rainbow matchings made by Aharoni and Berger.
Fertilization and development of oocytes with separated and conjoined zona pellucida recovered from polyovular follicles: description of two cases and a literature review
Authors: Coban Onder , Serdarogullari Munevver , Pervaiz Ruqiya , Soykok Afet , Bankeroglu Hasan 
Published: January 2021

SummaryRecovery of more than one oocyte from a single follicle during laparoscopic egg collection has been reported sporadically and accepted as confirmation of the presence of polyovular or binovular follicles in the human ovary at reproductive age. Most of these reports include conjoined oocytes that share common or fused zona pellucida, and are generally accepted as evidence for true polyovularity due to its certain characteristics. In this study, we report one case of a conjoined oocyte and another case of the recovery of two separate oocytes in a cumulus cell complex and details of their early embryonic development. To our knowledge, this report of the recovery of two separate oocytes without zonal contact is the first in the literature. We reviewed the relevant literature to evaluate information regarding the origin, incidence and significance of polyovularity in reproductive health.
EQUIVALENCE OF ELLIPTICITY AND THE FREDHOLM PROPERTY IN THE WEYL-HÖRMANDER CALCULUS
Authors: Pilipović Stevan , Prangoski Bojan 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThe main result is that the ellipticity and the Fredholm property of a

$\Psi $
DO acting on Sobolev spaces in the Weyl-Hörmander calculus are equivalent when the Hörmander metric is geodesically temperate and its associated Planck function vanishes at infinity. The proof is essentially related to the following result that we prove for geodesically temperate Hörmander metrics: If

$\lambda \mapsto a_{\lambda }\in S(1,g)$
is a

$\mathcal {C}^N$
,

$0\leq N\leq \infty $
, map such that each

$a_{\lambda }^w$
is invertible on

$L^2$
, then the mapping

$\lambda \mapsto b_{\lambda }\in S(1,g)$
, where

$b_{\lambda }^w$
is the inverse of

$a_{\lambda }^w$
, is again of class

$\mathcal {C}^N$
. Additionally, assuming also the strong uncertainty principle for the metric, we obtain a Fedosov-Hörmander formula for the index of an elliptic operator. At the very end, we give an example to illustrate our main result.
Playing With Networks
Authors: Ammannato Giulio , Chiesi Francesca 
Published: January 2021

Abstract. Video gaming behavior may offer information about the players and the widespread diffusion of this form of entertainment produces a staggering amount of data about gaming behaviors. The aim of the current study was to investigate the possibility to use the information about the way the player acts and reacts in a competitive video game to assess personality traits inside the HEXACO space. Deep learning was used to train deep neural networks that classified a sample of players ( N = 41) with different personality traits by how they play in a Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA) video game. Results suggested that the likelihood of correctly identifying the player’s trait level was above chance for five out of the six personality dimensions, but there is a medium to high margin of error in the classification. These findings provide interesting suggestions to set the premises for future studies to test the feasibility of this alternative assessment tool.
Simulation Inference of Plasma Parameters From Langmuir Probe Measurements
Authors: Resendiz Lira Pedro Alberto , Marchand Richard 
Published: January 2021

AbstractA novel approach is presented to infer plasma parameters from Langmuir probe measurements. Three‐dimensional kinetic simulations capable of accounting for multiple physical processes and realistic measurement conditions, are used to construct synthetic data sets, or solution libraries, consisting of computed probe collected currents, with corresponding plasma environment parameters. Applying the Swarm standard data analysis procedure to infer density and temperatures, and comparing them with values used in the simulations, provides an assessment of the uncertainties resulting from these procedures. A significant source of discrepancy is found to come from the neglect of minority light ions, and the effect of the sheath of the nearby satellite. An empirical relation is constructed, which reproduces the plasma density within 5%, given probe voltages and collected currents, and known temperatures, effective masses, plasma flow speeds, and the satellite floating potential. This relation is presented as a useful constraint between these several variables; not all of which being measured or estimated accurately in situ.