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Integrated Coastal Management in Cuba: Progress and Challenges in the 2009-2019 Stage
Authors: Cabrera Hernández J. A. , Arellano Acosta M. , Rey Santos O. , Martínez Á. A. , García Montero G. , Fernández Marquez A. , Pérez de los Reyes R. 
Published: September 2021

Regional efforts jointly done for synthesizing the situation about Integrated Coastal Management and Public Politics in Iberoamerica started almost a decade ago. Ten years later, the present Chapter is aimed to analyze advances regarding implementation of integrated coastal management in Cuba. Due to its condition of being a Caribbean archipelago, everything in Cuba is strongly linked to its coastal and marine characteristics; issues about integrated coastal zone management have received greater attention, becoming, at present, an item of maximum priority among the political and legal frameworks of the country. Improvement to the political-normative framework regarding integrated coastal management, increase in the number of institutions devoted to assess themes related to that topic, as well as in the number of projects, activities for Postgraduate formation and communitarian education regarding the topic, are all widely shown in the present Chapter. Approval and implementation of the National Plan for Social and Economic Development up to 2030 (NPSED, 2030), and of the State Plan to face the Climate Change (“Life Task” in Sp. “Tarea Vida”) have been irrelevant for the country. Both Plans are aimed to analyze typical problems of the coastal zone, focusing on the search of solutions. New challenges for coastal zone management in Cuba are also described in the present Chapter, where possibilities of putting into practice new actions, as well as items, which require deeper analysis, are also given.
Planificación estratégica situacional en la gestión escolar de las instituciones educativas
Authors: Trinidad Marcelo Roberto Tito 
Published: September 2021

El presente artículo está basado en la metodología de la Investigación Acción, en el análisis documentario de los instrumentos de gestión del proceso de la gestión escolar en las instituciones educativas públicas y del proceso de planificación, para ello centrándonos en la planificación estratégica situacional de Carlos Matus. Se puede ver que la carencia y la diversidad de modelos empleados en la formulación de instrumentos de gestión en las instituciones educativas no permite la consecución del objetivo institucional deseado, solo por avocarse al cumplimiento documentario de momento, esto se repite cada año, acción que no se refleja en resultados tal como se espera por ser un objetivo nacional que es elevar el nivel académico, que como parte implícita está la gestión escolar, también se refleja la falta de articulación de los instrumentos de gestión institucional con la gestión pedagógica, administrativa y en algunos aspectos con los objetivos estratégicos regionales y nacionales, para lo cual se analizan los procesos de la gestión educativa, a fin de determinar la pertinencia del modelo de la planificación estratégica situacional aplicado a la gestión escolar.
An Improved Method of Comparing Statistically the Technical Solutions Investigated through Quality Function Deployment to Improve Secondary Education
Authors: Iqbal Zafar , Shoukat Lubna , Muhammad Waheed , Muhammad Rajab 
Published: September 2021

Purpose:. In this age of globalization and scientific revolution, education has got more focus as a fundamental right of human. In Pakistan, substantial efforts are made, both in government and private sectors of education, to promote education. Resultantly, a huge number of educational institutions have been established. Both, parents and teachers, should feel the responsibility of providing the students with all the educational opportunities for the development as conscientious citizens.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This article is an extension of the work by Iqbal et al., (2020), which focuses on exploring the strategies to improve secondary education. Iqbal et. al., (2020) used QFD methodology, and found out the Needs and Demands (N&Ds) of students and their parents; and then explored the Technical Solutions (TSs) to address these N&Ds.
Findings: The results showed that ‘Teaching Behavior’ was highly important TS with weight of 71, and ‘Checked through Technical devices’ with final weight 57 and “Followed Proper time table by teachers” with weight 55 remained at second and third positions respectively. If we consider weight as the priority factor, the N&D with highest weight deserves to be considered first. But, statistically, because of the random variation in the data, two TSs with different weights could be of same importance.
Implications/Originality/Value: The rationale of this article is to test the weights difference of two TSs by using the methodology developed by Iqbal et al. (2014). This will provide guideline to others education experts to test the significance of any two TSs.
Assessment of potentiality of known bacterial blight resistant genes against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae pathotypes exist in Bangladesh
Authors: Haque Md. Mahbubul , Masud Md. Mostafa , Hossain Md. Mokarram , Rashid Md. Mamunur , Alam Md. Zahangir , Islam Md. Rashidul 
Published: September 2021

Bacterial blight (BB) caused by X. oryzae pv. oryzae is a destructive disease of rice and causes 30-50% losses to rice depending on the outbreak. Development BB resistant rice varieties have long been considered as one of the most effective approach to control the disease. However, the durability of host resistance is breaking down due to the change of pathotypes of X. oryzae pv. oryzae globally. Pathotypic analyses of 239 X. oryzae pv. oryzae Bangladeshi isolates on Near Isogenic Lines (NILs) containing resistance (R) gene (s) revealed the existence of eight pathotypes of X. oryzae pv. oryzae. Among eight pathotypes, pathotypes IV and V were considered as major comprising maximum number of isolates, (30.13% and 23.01%, respectively), whereas pathotype VIII considered as minor consisting only 2.51% of total isolates. Pathotype, I showed highest virulence or aggressiveness compatible with all NILs, whereas pathotype VIII exhibited lowest virulence to these NILs. Bacterial blight resistant genes viz. Xa1 (75.00%), Xa11 (62.50%) and Xa21 (50.00%) showed resistance to most of the pathotypes while Xa4 performed worst as compared to all others R-genes. In pyramid lines, IRBBB63 (Xa5+Xa7+Xa13) and IRBB57 (Xa5+Xa7 +Xa21) showed resistance reaction and IRBB61 (Xa4+Xa5+Xa7), IRBB60 (Xa4+Xa5+Xa13+Xa21), IRBB54 (Xa5+Xa21), and IRBB53 (Xa4+Xa21) showed susceptible reaction to X. oryzae pv. oryzae pathotypes. These results collectively indicated the deployment of Xa1, Xa11, Xa4, Xa5, Xa7, Xa13 and Xa21 either alone or in combination against BB would be a best choice for the development of BB resistant rice varieties in Bangladesh.
Effect of different doses of vermicompost on growth, yield and quality of radish (Raphanus sativus L. cv. Mino Early)
Authors: Dulal Dipesh , Baral Deepshikha , Poudel Abichal , Kafle Karuna , Shrestha Bishal 
Published: September 2021

A field experiment was conducted at Horticulture farm of Nepal Polytechnic Institute (NPI) Bharatpur-11, Chitwan to study the effects of different doses of vermicompost on growth, yield and quality of radish (Raphanus sativus L. cv. Mino Early) from January 2020 to March 2020. Five different doses (0 ton, 5 ton, 10 ton, 15 ton, and 20 ton per hectare) of vermicompost were taken as treatments and the experiment was replicated four times. The experiment was set up in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). The result of the study showed that there was a significant effect of different doses of vermicompost on plant height, the number of leaves per plant, spreading of the plant, root length, root weight per plant, root diameter, and root yield at harvesting. The maximum plant height, the maximum number of leaves per plant and maximum plant spreading in radish plant on vermicompost application was recorded every 30, 45 and 60 days after sowing (DAS). The maximum root length (29.60 cm), maximum root diameter (36.27 mm), maximum root weight (191.8 g), maximum biomass weight (241.6 g/plant), maximum root yield (47.9 ton/ha), were recorded on applying 15 ton/ha vermicompost at 60 DAS. The control treatment showed the minimum vegetative growth and yield. Among the different doses of vermicompost, the overall performance of radish was found better in 15 ton/ha of vermicompost. Statistical analysis showed no differences among (5 ton, 10 ton, 15 ton, 20 ton per hectare of vermicompost) applications. Hence, 5 ton per hectare of vermicompost application will be best for radish production in Chitwan.
Factors influencing adoption of major orchard management practices in mandarin orange of Gorkha: A case from mid-hills of Nepal
Authors: Poudel Ashutosh , Kattel Rishi Ram , Adhikari Gaurav 
Published: September 2021

The mid-hills of Nepal have immense potential for mandarin orange production. However, its productivity is declining over the years despite an increasing trend in the cultivated area. Since the proper adoption of orchard management practices has been associated with increased productivity, it is, therefore, an imminent requirement to sustain the mandarin orange production for long in the country. Therefore, a research survey was carried out to assess the adoption of major orchard management practices and identify factors affecting its adoption so that the insights from this finding would provide potential policy implications for the rejuvenation of the declining orchards. Altogether, 93 households from Gandaki and Sahid Lakhan Rural municipalities, as well as Gorkha Municipality from Gorkha district were chosen for the study using a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected with a semi-structured interview which was analyzed using SPSS and Stata software. A seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) logit model was used for triangulating the effect of different variables on the adoption of major mandarin orange orchard management practices. The findings revealed that nearly two-third of the households reported citrus decline in their orchards. Further, the adoption of major orchard management practices was mostly found driven by regular access to extension agents, and the income generated from agriculture. Nevertheless, the adoption was plagued by the prevalence of citrus decline in the orchard. In light of these findings, participatory training programs related to the rejuvenation of declining orchards, regular advisory and extension services, and input subsidies to the smallholding farmers are suggested so that the adoption of major orchard management practices gets increased among the mandarin orange farmers.
Matrimônio: Sacramento para o nosso tempo
Authors: Dutra Carlos Alberto dos Santos 
Published: September 2021

A situação da família no mundo de hoje, “tanto e talvez mais que outras instituições tem sido posta cm questão pelas amplas, profundas e rápidas transformações da sociedade e da cultura”. Os fatores socioeconômicos carreiam contra a significativa maioria das famílias no Brasil e na América Latina o peso de estruturas sociais e econômicas injustas, criando situações dramáticas como abandono de menores, miséria e insegurança, êxodo rural e forma­ção de periferias improvisadas no cinturão das grandes cidades, condições precárias de subsistência, moradia, saúde, exploração do trabalho... Paralelo a isto surgem também problemas de ordem matrimonial...
Knowledge of Non-nutritive Digit Sucking Among Mothers of Under-Five Children in Ilorin, Nigeria
Authors: Bello SO , Ibraheem RM , Saka A 
Published: September 2021

Background: The sucking habits of infants can be nutritive and non-nutritive sucking. Digit-sucking is normal in babies and young children, but sometimes it may persist into early childhood.
Objective: To determine the burden, knowledge and belief of mothers/caregivers concerning digit sucking among under-five children.
Methods: A cross-sectional study involving children under the age of 5 years attending the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria, was conducted. The mothers of selected children were surveyed using an interviewer-administered questionnaire.
Results: The prevalence of non-nutritive digit sucking was 45.8%. While 68 (43.9%) of these children sucked their digits, 3 (1.9%) sucked pacifiers. The thumb and two digits were the preferred digits (52.9%). Sucking was done while awake in 36 (52.9%) children while 32 (47.1%) sucked whether awake or sleeping. Most (60.3%) mothers have the wrong perception of digit sucking and had attempted to discourage it.
Conclusions: The prevalence of non-nutritive and digit sucking was high in the population studied. Sucking occurs while awake and asleep, both day and night. Most mothers have the wrong perception of digit sucking and had attempted its stoppage.
Rural-Urban Disparities and Factors Associated with Clients’ Satisfaction with Healthcare in a Nigerian population
Authors: Ahmed AK , Ojo OY , Saka MJ , Salaudeen GA 
Published: September 2021

Background: Clients’ satisfaction surveys are required to identify gaps and challenges in providing healthcare services; to ensure the quality of care and patient satisfaction.
Objectives: To compare and assess factors responsible for healthcare satisfaction among rural and urban communities in Ilorin East Local Government Area (LGA) of Kwara State to improve service provision among the communities.
Methods: This was a comparative, cross-sectional study involving rural (250) and urban (250) respondents selected through a multi-stage sampling technique and surveyed using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. Focus Group Discussion was also used to collect qualitative data. Participants were selected through the purposive sampling technique.
Results: The proportion of clients who expressed satisfaction was 172 (68.8%) among urban and 175 (70.0%) among rural respondents, (z = 0.57; p = 0.45). The attitude of healthcare personnel influenced satisfaction among both the rural (56.0%) and urban (63.3%) respondents, respectively; short waiting time (12.8%) and privacy of the consulting rooms (13.7%) were reasons influencing satisfaction with service.
Conclusion: Short waiting time and privacy of consulting room were reasons for service satisfaction among clients. Waiting time was a strong predictor of satisfaction. There is a need to improve health personnel’s attitude to work to ensure clients’ satisfaction with healthcare services.
Beta Inflated Regression Models on the Physical and Mental Health of Nigerian Stroke Survivors
Authors: Oritogun KS , Oyewole OO 
Published: September 2021

Background: Stroke is one of the major public health problems worldwide. Physical and mental health data of stroke survivors are often expressed in proportions. Therefore, the Beta Regression models family for data between zero and one will be appropriate.
Objectives: To identify a suitable model and the likely risk factors of physical and mental health of stroke survivors.
Method: Secondary data of stroke survivors from two tertiary health Institutions in Ogun State, Nigeria, were analysed. Inflated Beta (BEINF) and Inflated-at-one-Beta (BEINF1) models were compared using Deviance (DEV), Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and Bayesian Information Criteria (BIC) for model selection. The model with minimum DEV, AIC and BIC was considered to be better.
Results: The deviance (-86.0604,), AIC (-46.0604) and BIC (6.4391) values of the BEINF1 model for physical health and the deviance (-20.1217), AIC (19.8783) and BIC (72.3778) values of BEINF1 model for mental health were smaller than BEINF models. Therefore, BEINF1 was the better model to identify the health risk factors of stroke survivors. Age, marital status, diastolic blood pressure, disability duration and systolic blood pressure had a significant association with physical health, while BMI had a significant positive association with mental health.
Conclusion: The beta-inflated-at-one (BEINF1) model is suitable for identifying health risk factors of stroke survivors when the outcome variable is a proportion. Both demographic and clinical characteristics were significantly associated with the health of stroke survivors. This study would assist researchers in knowing the appropriate model for analysing proportion or percentage response variables.
Seroprevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Infections Among Voluntary Blood Donors at an Indian Hospital
Authors: Kundra M , Sood S , Gulia SP , Sharma N 
Published: September 2021

Background: The knowledge of the incidence of blood Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTIs) such as Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection, malaria and syphilis is essential for monitoring the safety of blood supply.
Objective: To describe the prevalence of TTIs for monitoring blood supply safety and evaluating the efficacy of screening procedures.
Methods: A five-year retrospective study spanning January 2016 to December 2020 was carried out on voluntary blood donors at blood donation camps organised by Adesh Medical College and Hospital, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India, and from donors at the hospital’s blood bank. The donated blood was tested for Hepatitis-B, Hepatitis-C, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), malaria and syphilis.
Results: There were a total of 10,468 voluntary blood donors during the period of study. Out of all the donors, 0.4% tested positive for at least one of the TTIs, including 0.06% testing positive for HIV, 0.21% for Hepatitis-B virus (HBV) infection (Hepatitis-B Surface Antigen) and 0.13% for Hepatitis-C virus (HCV) infection (Anti HCV Antibodies). None of the voluntary donors was positive for malaria or syphilis. There were no co-infections.
Conclusions: The prevalence of TTIs among voluntary blood donors was low hence the advocation for blood from this group of donors. Donated blood specimens should be more effectively screened, and blood should be rationally used.
Cytotype variation and clonal diversity in polyploid apomictic populations of Pilosella (Compositeae, Cichorieae) introduced to southern Patagonia
Authors: Krahulcová Anna , Krahulec František 
Published: September 2021

Introduction and objectives: The members of the genus Pilosella are native in Europe and Asia, but they are successful invasive species on most continents. These species form an agamic complex with common apomixis. Apomictic species hybridize, they have different degree of residual sexuality. Main aim of this paper was to determine if the interspecific hybridization already occurred in Patagonia.
M&M: This study is based on analysis of seed progeny collected at thirteen populations of Pilosella in southern Argentina and Chile. The plants were examined for their taxonomic identity, DNA ploidy level (using flow cytometry), chromosome number, reproduction, formation of parthenogenetic seeds and clonal identity (using isozyme phenotypes).
Results: No mixed-species population was recorded. Two apomictic clones of P. officinarum (one pentaploid and the other hexaploid) were found in populations: eight were hexaploid and one was mixed in cytotype composition. A new species for Patagonia, the apomictic pentaploid P. caespitosa, was represented by plants from two populations in Argentina. Some of the progeny plants cultivated from seeds sampled at three localities represented seed-fertile aneuploids the morphology of which implied a hybrid origin and indicated P. officinarum as one of the parents.
Conclusions: The presence of seed-fertile, aneuploid and parthenogenetic hybrids among the cultivated plants signifies an increased risk of the formation of new hybridogeneous genotypes of Pilosella in southern Patagonia.
Breakthrough infection after Covishield COVID-19 vaccine among health care workers at Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal
Authors: Shah Jay , Samson Priscilla , Pradhan Nabees MS , Shrestha Ashis , Maharjan Shreekrishna , Dangol Shrestha Shanta , KC Sarala 
Published: September 2021

Introduction: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines have an important role in the control and prevention of the pandemic. However, infection after vaccination, though uncommon, has been reported after partial or complete immunization. This study aims to find out vaccine breakthrough infection after the Covishield COVID-19 vaccine.
Method: This cross-sectional survey was conducted among the health care workers (HCWs) from May 2021 to July 2021 at Patan Hospital, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal who received the Covishield vaccine. The data were collected using Google form and a printed questionnaire on COVID 19 breakthrough infection ≥2w after vaccination. The rate of breakthrough infection, hospitalization, and its association with age, gender, and working departments of HCWs was analyzed using SPSS. Ethical approval was obtained.
Result: Out of 1462 HCWs approached, 880 completed the survey, among which 819 (93.1%) had a completed vaccination status. Infection after the first and before the second dose was 164 (18.7% of 880) and after two doses 131 (16%). The breakthrough infection occurred in 83 (10.1% of 819). There was no statistically significant association of breakthrough infection with age, gender, and working department of HCWs. Total 74 (8.4%) were managed by admission in hospital.
Conclusion: The findings of this study reveal a low breakthrough infection rate after Covishield vaccination among HCWs at Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal. Overall, COVID-19 infection rates decreased after the first and second dose of the vaccine.
Clinical profile of patients presenting to emergency with upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a tertiary hospital of Nepal
Authors: Adhikari Sunil , Rijal Suraj , Rose House Darlene 
Published: September 2021

Introduction: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is an acute emergency condition. It is an important cause for the hospital admission. This study descriptively analyses the clinical profile of upper gastrointestinal bleeding presenting to a tertiary hospital in Nepal.
Method: This is a cross-sectional study of patients presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding from 01 Oct 2018 to 30 Sep 2019 at Patan Hospital Emergency Department, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal. Patient’s demographics, clinical presentation, duration of illness before presenting to Emergency, vitals, and laboratory parameters were descriptively analyzed. Ethical approval was obtained.
Result: There were 121 patients, male 82(67.8%) and female 38(31.4%) aging 14 to 90 years. Fifty-three patients (43.8 %) presented with hematemesis, 38(31.4%) with melena, and 27(22.3%) with both hematemesis and melena. Variceal bleeding was the main cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding found in 73(60.33%) followed by ulcer bleeding in 48(39.66%).
Conclusion: Variceal bleeding was the main cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and hematemesis was the most common clinical presentation in patients presenting to the Emergency Department.