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THE ORGANIZATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP FOR MOTHERS WITH STILLBIRTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND UKRAINE
Authors: Thompson I. І. , Nadvorna О. М. 
Published: April 2021

Purpose: to illustrate the importance of psychological support to families who experience the loss of their unborn child at any stage of its development.
Materials and Methods The trial is based on experience and practice of multiple NST Trust in North West region of the UK.
Results. The main idea of this article is to illustrate the process of highly qualified and compassionate help British mothers with stillborn receive while inpatient, before and after delivery as well as after being discharged. Once the baby is born, mothers and their families would continue receiving professional psychological support to help them to return to their as much as possible normal life. She would receive multiple consultations and counselling after the events. Occasionally the follow up might last up to 12 months.
The article highlights the importance of exchanging the knowledge and experience between two countries as well as active involvement of other members of multidisciplinary team: midwives, psychologists, obstetricians with a special interest in mental health and general practice doctor who will take over once women is discharged after follow up.
Also the cooperation of British and Ukrainian obstetricians, exchange of knowledge and experience could improve obstetric services and have positive effects on mental health of Ukrainian women and their families who experience pregnancy loss. The further collaboration will help to realize that learning from already established British system of helping mothers who experienced stillbirth could significantly improve Ukrainian obstetric service in the field.
Conclusions. It is important time when Ukraine is undergoing active medical transformation in order to modernize the provision of medical services. By learning from international colleagues Ukrainian medicine could benefit from introducing the positive experience in management and provision of psychological support to women with pregnancy loss regardless of gestation.
Atherosclerotic Burden and Vascular Risk in Stroke Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
Authors: Park Jong-Ho , Chung Jong-Won , Bang Oh Young , Kim Gyeong-Moon , Choi Kang-Ho , Park Man-Seok , Kim Joon-Tae , Hwang Yang-Ha , Song Tae-Jin , Kim Yong-Jae , Kim Bum Joon , Heo Sung Hyuk , Jung Jin-Man , Oh Kyungmi , Kim Chi Kyung , Yu Sungwook , Park Kwang Yeol , Kim Jeong-Min , Choi Jay Chol , Seo Woo-Keun 
Published: April 2021

Background and Purpose:
Data on the effect on vascular outcomes of concomitant atherosclerotic vascular disease (ASVD) with atrial fibrillation (AF) after stroke are limited. This study evaluated the effect of ASVD with AF versus AF only on the risk of vascular events.

Methods:
We retrospectively analyzed a prospectively registered multicenter database involving 3213 stroke patients with AF. ASVD included extracranial atherosclerosis measured in the proximal portion of the internal carotid artery, intracranial atherosclerosis (all ≥50% stenosis), coronary artery disease, and peripheral artery disease and was categorized into 4 strata depending on the number of ASVDs (0, 1, 2, and 3–4). The independent associations of ASVD with major adverse cardiovascular events, stroke, and all-cause death were assessed.

Results:

A total of 2670 patients were included (mean age, 73.5±9.8 years; median CHA
2
DS
2
-VASc score, 5; interquartile range, 4−6). During the follow-up (mean, 1.7 years), a total of 672 (25.2%) major adverse cardiovascular events, 170 (6.4%) stroke events, and 501 (18.8%) all-cause deaths were noted. The adjusted hazard ratio for major adverse cardiovascular events versus no ASVD was 1.25 (95% CI, 1.00–1.56) for ASVD 1, 1.34 (95% CI, 1.02–1.76) for ASVD 2, and 1.93 (95% CI, 1.24–2.99) for ASVD 3–4. The adjusted hazard ratio for all-cause death versus no ASVD was 1.32 (1.01–1.74), 1.47 (1.06–2.03), and 2.39 (1.47–3.89), respectively. Among ASVD components, the presence of symptomatic or asymptomatic extracranial atherosclerosis was a more potent predictor of major adverse cardiovascular events (1.27 [1.05–1.54]) and all-cause death (1.45 [1.17–1.81]).

Conclusions:
ASVD burden with AF can be a cumulative marker of a high risk for untoward vascular outcomes. Among ASVD components, extracranial atherosclerosis seems to have a predominant effect.
From Nineveh to Fars
Authors: Pritula Anton 
Published: April 2021

Abstract
The Syriac poetry of the 11th–14th centuries (so-called Syriac Renaissance) was studied very purely until quite recently. One of the reasons for such indifference is a traditional approach of the scholars, who treated this poetry as a secondary one, because of a strong influence of the Islamic literature.
In this article, it is argued that the authors of this period were trying to connect their own poetical traditions with the achievements of the Persian and Arabic poetry. As the result, they created new original forms that need to be carefully examined.
One of the creators of this new style was probably Bar ʿEbrōyō (1226–1286), a famous West-Syrian philosopher and scientist. His esthetic approach was developed by his East-Syrian contemporary Khāmīs bar Qardaḥē of Arbela, who used sophisticated rhythmic and rhyme schemes to achieve a stronger expressive effect. The article discusses one of his poems that demonstrates his outstanding skills as a poet experimentalist in both rhythm and rhyming.
Cloud-Precipitation Hybrid Regimes and their Projection onto IMERG Precipitation Data
Authors: Jin Daeho , Oreopoulos Lazaros , Lee Dongmin , Tan Jackson , Cho Nayeong 
Published: April 2021

AbstractIn order to better understand cloud-precipitation relationships, we extend the concept of cloud regimes (CRs) developed from two-dimensional joint histograms of cloud optical thickness and cloud top pressure from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), to include precipitation information. Taking advantage of the high-resolution Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) precipitation dataset, we derive cloud-precipitation “hybrid” regimes by implementing a k-means clustering algorithm with advanced initialization and objective measures to determine the optimal number of clusters. By expressing the variability of precipitation rates within 1-degree grid cells as histograms and varying the relative weight of cloud and precipitation information in the clustering algorithm, we obtain several editions of hybrid cloud-precipitation regimes (CPRs), and examine their characteristics.In the deep tropics, when precipitation is weighted weakly, the cloud part centroids of the hybrid regimes resemble their counterparts of cloud-only regimes, but combined clustering tightens the cloud-precipitation relationship by decreasing each regime’s precipitation variability. As precipitation weight progressively increases, the shape of the cloud part centroids becomes blunter, while the precipitation part sharpens. When cloud and precipitation are weighted equally, the CPRs representing high clouds with intermediate to heavy precipitation exhibit distinct enough features in the precipitation parts of the centroids to allow us to project them onto the 30-min IMERG domain. Such a projection overcomes the temporal sparseness of MODIS cloud observations associated with substantial rainfall, suggesting great application potential for convection-focused studies where characterization of the diurnal cycle is essential.
The Sensitivity of Persistent Geopotential Anomalies to the Climate of a Moist Channel Model
Authors: Tierney Gregory , Robinson Walter A. , Lackmann Gary , Miller Rebecca 
Published: April 2021

AbstractHigh-impact events such as heat waves and droughts are often associated with persistent positive geopotential height anomalies (PAs). Understanding how PA activity will change in a future warmer climate is therefore fundamental to projecting associated changes in weather and climate extremes. This is a complex problem because the dynamics of PAs and their associated blocking activity are still poorly understood. Furthermore, climate change influences on PA activity may be geographically dependent and encompass competing influences. To expose the salient impacts of climate change, we use an oceanic channel configuration of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model in a bivariate experiment focused on changes in environmental temperature, moisture, and baroclinicity. The 500-hPa wind speed and flow variability are found to increase with increasing temperature and baroclinicity, driven by increases in latent heat release and a stronger virtual temperature gradient. Changes to 500-hPa sinuosity are negligible. PAs are objectively identified at the 500-hPa level using an anomaly threshold method. When using a fixed threshold, PA trends indicate increased activity and strength with warming but decreased activity and strength with Arctic amplification. Use of a climate-relative threshold hides these trends and highlights the importance of accurate characterization of the mean flow. Changes in PA activity mirror corresponding changes in 500-hPa flow variability and are found to be attributable to changes in three distinct dynamical mechanisms: baroclinic wave activity, virtual temperature effects, and latent heat release.
Case Dependence of Multiscale Interactions between Multisource Perturbations for Convection-Permitting Ensemble Forecasting during SCMREX
Authors: Zhang Xubin 
Published: April 2021

AbstractThis study examines the case dependence of the multiscale characteristics of initial condition (IC) and model physics (MO) perturbations and their interactions in a convection-permitting ensemble prediction system (CPEPS), focusing on the 12-h forecasts of precipitation perturbation energy. The case dependence of forecast performances of various ensemble configurations is also examined to gain guidance for CPEPS design. Heavy-rainfall cases over Southern China during the Southern China Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (SCMREX) in May 2014 were discriminated between the strongly and weakly forced events in terms of synoptic-scale forcing, each of which included 10 cases. In the cases with weaker forcing, MO perturbations showed larger influences while the enhancements of convective activities relative to the control member due to IC perturbations were less evident, leading to smaller dispersion reduction due to adding MO perturbations to IC perturbations. Such dispersion reduction was more sensitive to IC and MO perturbation methods in the weakly and strongly forced cases, respectively. The dispersion reduction improved the probabilistic forecasts of precipitation, with more evident improvements in the cases with weaker forcing. To improve the benefits of dispersion reduction in forecasts, it is instructive to elaborately consider the case dependence of dispersion reduction, especially the various sensitivities of dispersion reduction to different-source perturbation methods in various cases, in CPEPS design.
Applicability of Human Development Index for Measuring Economic Well-being: A Study on GDP and HDI Indicators from Indian Context
Authors: Sajith G G , Malathi K. 
Published: April 2021

The tracking of gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of well-being of the society or human-being has been debated by many researchers and economists (Elizabeth, 2007; Abhinav, 2014; Deb, 2015 ) There are many deficiencies in tracking GDP as the economic development indicator, as it does not capture the inequality or true development of Human-being. Noted economist Mehbub ul Haq’s human development project defined a composite matrix which captures the life expectancy, education and per capita indicators in one matrix. This was developed to track as a development indicator of human welfare. In the previous studies, the GDP or GDP per capita was regressed with the Human Development Index (HDI) composite index and indicated a direct correlation between the two variables. However, this article examines the contribution of the income component in the HDI index by recalculating the composite matrix. This article also qualitatively examines the ability of HDI index to measure the human development parameters. JEL Classification Codes: E01, I12, O1
Unconventional US Monetary Policy: Impact on the Indian Economy
Authors: Jaswal Anshuman , Ahuja Bhavna Ranjan 
Published: April 2021

This article examines the impact of the US Quantitative Easing (QE) on the Indian economy. Against the backdrop of indications of economic slowdown worldwide and developing countries lowering the interest rates and restarting the treasury purchases, it aims to understand the influence US QE had on Indian economy and how it will impact way forward. Macroeconomic variables pertaining to India and the USA were examined from September 2008 to June 2019 (fortnightly data) using the vector error correction method model. It was found that the influence of the US monetary base on the Indian money supply was far more as compared to the US policy rate. Overall, the impact of QE on the Indian economy has not been as large as on the other economies of the world due to regular RBI intervention in terms of interest rates, exchange rates and other active monetary policy measures. JEL Classification Codes: E44, E52, E58, F32, O16
Custodial deaths seen in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Lagos, Nigeria: An 11-year autopsy study
Authors: Soyemi Sunday S , Faduyile Adedayo F , Sanni Ayodele D , Mgbehoma Alban I , Obafunwa John O 
Published: April 2021

Introduction Deaths in custody are a matter of global concern. However, such information is often missing in developing countries. This study aimed to examine retrospectively the profile, cause and manner of deaths amongst cases of custodial deaths in Lagos State, Nigeria. Method An 11-year study (June 2008–June 2019) was done of all autopsy cases of custodial deaths in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Variables including age, sex, offence, place of death, duration in custody prior to death and cause and manner of death were extracted from the records. Results were analysed using frequencies and percentages. Results Out of 9894 autopsies over the study period, 45 custodial deaths were identified. Males and females constituted 84.4% and 15.6%, respectively (M:F = 5.4:1). Ages ranged from 20 to 64 years, with a mean age of 37 ± 11.0 years. These deaths were most common in the third decade. Armed robbery and financial crime were the two leading reasons for arrest, while most deaths occurred within 24 hours of arrival in custody. The two leading causes of death were acute cardiac failure from hypertensive heart disease and cranio-cerebral injury from blunt-force trauma. Conclusion Deaths in custody need to be properly investigated and particular attention needs to be paid to unlawful deaths if and when they arise.
Spanish Version of the Bedtime Procrastination Scale: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation in a Sample of Nursing Students
Authors: Brando-Garrido Cecilia , Montes-Hidalgo Javier , Limonero Joaquín T. , Gómez-Romero María J. , Tomás-Sábado Joaquín 
Published: April 2021

A recent line of research concerns bedtime procrastination, its effects on sleep quality and duration, and the associated repercussions for health and wellbeing. The Bedtime Procrastination Scale is a brief, self-report instrument developed by Kroese et al. with the aim of evaluating this behavior and exploring its association with insufficient sleep, and hence with health. The aim was to develop and validate a Spanish version of the Bedtime Procrastination Scale (BPS-Sp) and to examine the relationship between bedtime procrastination and both general procrastination and self-control. The original BPS was translated from English into Spanish in accordance with international guidelines on the cross-cultural adaptation of measurement instruments. The sample for the validation study comprised 177 nursing students who completed a questionnaire requesting demographic data and which included the following instruments: the newly developed BPS-Sp, the Tuckman Procrastination Scale, and the Brief Self-Control Scale. Statistical analysis involved tests of normality (Kolmogorov-Smirnov), reliability (Cronbach’s alpha, test-retest), construct validity, and confirmatory factor analysis. Scores on the BPS-Sp showed excellent internal consistency (α = .83) and temporal stability (test-retest r = .84), as well as significant correlations with general procrastination ( r = .26; p < .01) and self-control ( r = −.17; p < .05). Confirmatory factor analysis showed an adequate fit for the single-factor solution proposed by Kroese et al. The results suggest that the BPS-Sp is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing bedtime procrastination in the Spanish-speaking population.
Citizen Ken: Branagh, Shakespeare, and the movies
Authors: Crowl Samuel 
Published: April 2021

As Kenneth Branagh turns sixty, he finds himself honoured by the English theatrical world as the restored heir to its tradition of the actor-manager, having created a theatre and film career unlike any other. He is an actor-manager-film director who builds on the tradition he inherits from Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, and Franco Zeffirelli even as he revises it. This overview of his career reveals that he can do small and tidy, but his cinematic imagination first feasts on Hollywood movie genres – noir thrillers, murder mysteries, Disney classics, Superhero fantasies, spy films, musicals, and bio-pics – then feeds his lasting legacy to Shakespeare on film.
Simple anthropometry-based calculations to monitor body composition in athletes: Scoping review and reference values
Authors: Bonilla Diego A , De León Lidia G , Alexander-Cortez Pedro , Odriozola-Martínez Adrián , Herrera-Amante Carlos A , Vargas-Molina Salvador , Petro Jorge L 
Published: April 2021

Background: Kinanthropometry offers to exercise and health professionals a standardized procedure of acquiring surface anatomical measurements that might be used to track changes in body composition. Aim: To describe simple anthropometric indices to monitor body composition changes in amateur and elite athletes, and to provide reference values during the competition phase. Methods: A search of articles indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE, ScienceDirect, Cochrane, and SciELO databases using the string body composition AND (anthropometric OR skinfolds OR circumferences OR girth OR estimation equation) AND “body fat”. Inclusion criteria were: quantitative and/or qualitative research published between 2009 and 2020, written in English or Spanish, reporting simple anthropometric indices that included skinfolds, girths, or basic measures in amateur and elite athletes. Results: A total of 51 studies (Price’s index = 66.4%) met all the inclusion criteria and were included in this scoping review. Contrary to the frequent practice, the use of a regression equation might not be accurate to evaluate body composition. To avoid this, anthropometrists should base their analysis on the absolute values of the sum of skinfolds (∑S) and related variables, such as skinfold-corrected girths and lean mass index. While not definitive, because further research is required, the practical recommendations and updated reference values in competition phase provided by this review would contribute to the accurate identification of body composition changes. Conclusions: ∑S and lean mass index have been shown to be valid for monitoring changes in fat mass and fat-free mass, respectively. More research is needed to derive the lean mass index-specific coefficient for each sports population.
Identification of candidate biomarkers of liver hydatid disease via microarray profiling, bioinformatics analysis, and machine learning
Authors: Peng Jinwu , Duan Zhili , Guo Yamin , Li Xiaona , Luo Xiaoqin , Han Xiumin , Luo Junming 
Published: April 2021

Objectives Liver echinococcosis is a severe zoonotic disease caused by Echinococcus (tapeworm) infection, which is epidemic in the Qinghai region of China. Here, we aimed to explore biomarkers and establish a predictive model for the diagnosis of liver echinococcosis. Methods Microarray profiling followed by Gene Ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes analysis was performed in liver tissue from patients with liver hydatid disease and from healthy controls from the Qinghai region of China. A protein–protein interaction (PPI) network and random forest model were established to identify potential biomarkers and predict the occurrence of liver echinococcosis, respectively. Results Microarray profiling identified 1152 differentially expressed genes (DEGs), including 936 upregulated genes and 216 downregulated genes. Several previously unreported biological processes and signaling pathways were identified. The FCGR2B and CTLA4 proteins were identified by the PPI networks and random forest model. The random forest model based on FCGR2B and CTLA4 reliably predicted the occurrence of liver hydatid disease, with an area under the receiver operator characteristic curve of 0.921. Conclusion Our findings give new insight into gene expression in patients with liver echinococcosis from the Qinghai region of China, improving our understanding of hepatic hydatid disease.
Analysis of mRNA expression differences in bladder cancer metastasis based on TCGA datasets
Authors: Liu Sha , Shi Jiazhong , Liu Yuting , Wang Liwei , Zhang Jingqi , Huang Yaqin , Chen Zhiwen , Yang Jin 
Published: April 2021

Objective To investigate the metastatic mechanism of muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), which accounts for approximately 30% of all bladder cancer cases, and is a considerable medical problem with high metastatic and mortality rates. Methods The mRNA levels of patients with metastatic MIBC and nonmetastatic MIBC from The Cancer Genome Atlas dataset were compared. An integrated bioinformatics analysis was performed of the differentially expressed genes (DEGs), and analyses of Gene Ontology, Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes pathway, protein-protein interaction, and survival were performed to investigate differences between metastatic and nonmetastatic MIBC. Results Data from 264 patients were included (131 with, and 133 without, metastasis). A total of 385 significantly DEGs were identified, including 209 upregulated genes and 176 downregulated genes. Based on results using the STRING database and the MCODE plugin of Cytoscape software, two clusters were obtained. Moreover, two genes were identified that may be valuable for prognostic analysis: Keratin 38, type I ( KRT38) and Histone cluster 1, H3f ( HIST1H3F). Conclusion The KRT38 and HIST1H3F genes may be important in metastasis of MIBC.
Understanding the root cause(s) of nonlinearities in near infrared spectroscopy
Authors: Martens Harald 
Published: April 2021

NIR process monitoring and NIR hyperspectral video generates a deluge of non-selective spectral data, information-rich but per se useless. This paper demonstrates how interpretable data modelling can lead to simpler and better use of such NIR Big Data: A set of simple powder mixtures of the main constituents in wheat flour were measured by NIR transmission under different measurement conditions. Their absorbance spectra were submitted to multivariate calibration for predicting the protein content, by standard chemometric calibration by PLS regression. A reasonable calibration model was obtained, but it was unexpectedly complex and not robust. However, closer inspection the PLS regression subspace showed a surprising structure. This allowed us to identify the problem: Non-additive, strongly overlapping light scattering and light absorption effects in the NIR absorbance spectra. Based on this insight, a pragmatic, but causal preprocessing model was set up and iteratively optimized for predictive ability. This nonlinear optimized extended signal correction (OEMSC) separated and quantified the main physical and chemical sources of variation in the spectra. The preprocessing greatly simplified the NIR spectra and their quantitative calibration and prediction.