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Estudo na Implementação de Eficiência Energética em Estabelecimentos Assistenciais de Saúde
Authors: Nascimento Felipe B , Leite Paulo Wallison A , Campos Marcel Veloso 
Published: February 2019

Resumo: O consumo e gerenciamento da energia nos Estabelecimentos Assistências de Saúde (EAS) estão intimamente ligados à sustentabilidade financeira e ao crescimento eficiente de tais instituições. O conceito de eficiência energética se tornou tendência e de suma importância, uma vez que a crise hídrica e energética alcançou patamares cada vez piores e financeiramente altos, tais questões têm levado a pensar no uso cada vez mais eficiente de tal recurso, porém sem o detrimento do consumidor final, no caso o paciente. Contudo, a energia elétrica se tornou vital em qualquer seguimento, nos estabelecimentos alvo desse estudo ela é ainda mais importante, pois está ligada ao bom funcionamento das tecnologias em saúde. Além disso, consome uma parte considerável do orçamento desses estabelecimentos. O emprego das medidas de eficiência energética propostas no estudo tornará o funcionamento sustentável e trará não só retorno financeiro, mas também adequara à instituição há um crescimento saudável. O estudo em questão mostra o direcionamento de pontos aos quais sejam essenciais para fazer o uso eficiente da energia elétrica, tendo como premissa a verificação do real consumo do parque elétrico em relação à demanda contratada junto à concessionária de energia, munido dessas informações foi possível à elaboração de estratégias eficientes, adequação de consumos, ajuste de demanda e aplicação de métodos para conscientização e racionalização, pois é controlando as variáveis dentro da instituição e demostrando a eficiência dos procedimentos propostos, bem como a sua aplicabilidade, que se tornou possível gerar redução no custo com energia elétrica e assim diminuir o impacto financeiro, além de não comprometer a produção e o bem estar dos usuários, impactando apenas no fator econômico. A economia financeira conseqüente da aplicação deste estudo superou 16% do montante faturado em toda unidade hospitalar.
Palavras-chave: Energia elétrica. Sustentabilidade. Eficiência energética. Tecnologias em saúde.
Analytical Study on the Effect of Corrosion to the Construction Performance
Authors: KOÇER Mustafa , ÖZTÜRK Murat , BOĞA Ahmet Raif 
Published: February 2019

Corrosion is one of the most important factor to achieve in completing the service life of reinforced
concrete structures also cause significant losses in energy damping capacities of structures. In this
study, the reinforced concrete column designed in ½ geometrical scale was subjected to accelerated
corrosion test for 26.5 days under 1 ampere constant current. As a result of the experiment, weight
loss and strength reductions was obtained. Loss of strength in reinforcement due to corrosion
damage was obtained with experimental procedure. Loss of cross section and reduction of
compressive strength of concrete were obtained with empirical formulas in the literature. Thanks
to this data, 3 different scenarios applied on a sample building in Hatay province. Static pushover
analyzes of the sample building designed in accordance with the regulations were carried out with
Sap 2000 program under the specified corrosion scenarios. The load-displacement curves obtained
by the scenarios are compared with the curves of the reference building. As a result of the
comparisons, it was observed that corrosion damage caused significant loss in horizontal load
carrying capacity of the building. The corrosion scenarios show that corrosion in columns or beams
changes collapse modes of the structure.
Efficiency of a Herbal Liquid Extract Mixture for the Prevention of Salmonella Growth in Whipped Cream
Authors: ÖZOĞLU Özüm , ALTUNTAŞ Evrim Güneş 
Published: February 2019

In this study, a herbal liquid extract mixture (ASATİM® ST 1412; recommended for milk-based
product and whipped cream by company, Kayseri, Turkey) was used to exhibit the inhibitory effect
on Salmonella Enteritidis growth in whipped cream. For this aim, 8 different groups (K1, K2, K3,
K4, K5, 0.1%, 1%, 10%) were designed and the samples were left 1 to 3 hours at room temperature.
Then, the bacterial counts were obtained. The experiment was performed in duplicate. In the first
experiment number of the bacteria of whipped cream (K1) showed roughly 1 logarithmic unit rising
as from 4.6 to 5.5 in 3 hours. Calculated results were at the end of the 3rd hour for cream added
Salmonella and the herbal liquid extract mixture of 0.1%, 1%, 10% to the samples; 3x107
cfu/g,
2.05x108
cfu/g and 1.3x105
cfu/g respectively for the first experiment. Then, in the results of second
experiment these values were found as &lt;108
cfu/g, 4.5x108
cfu/g and 3.5x104
cfu/g respectively.
Thus, 10% ratio herbal liquid extract mixture was much more effective on Salmonella growth than
the other ratios. According to the results of this study, the commercial herbal liquid extract mixture
is an alternative and natural method for precluding Salmonella growth in whipped cream.
Bullying; A Psychosocial Stressor
Authors: Saleem Yusra , Noushad Shamoon , Kazmi Shahana Urooj , Shaikh Salman , Noor Nabeela , Asim Mariyam 
Published: February 2019

Background: The bullying incidences have been increasing in the past few years resulting in a number of psychosocial traumas including depression, anxiety, violence and many other health concerns. Despite being a global issue, not a large number of studies have addressed this distressing act. This social threat causes negativity on both sides whether the victim or the perpetrator. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of this psychosocial stressor, its associated characteristics and bullying perceptions among the study population.
Methodology: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted for 5 months from July 2017 to December 2017. Data was collected from 399 victims between the age of 15-27 years via a structured questionnaire inquiring victim’s demographics and its associated psychosocial outcomes. Collected data was then analyzed using SPSS ver. 22.
Results: Out of the total study subjects there were 204 females and 195 males with the mean age of 25.10 + 5.70 years. Around 76% participants reported daily bullying events. Bullying incidences were found more common in females i.e. 48.6% of the females were bullied by called out with mean names while only 45.8% males reported so. Majority of the bullying cases were reported from educational institutes. The most prominent psychological outcomes observed and reported by the victims in response to bullying was getting revengeful thoughts for the bully.
Conclusion: In conclusion, the study evaluated the psychological distress resulting from bullying incidences. Our study indicated a high prevalence of this public health concern in both genders and majorly in educational sectors.
Why Am I Not Happy Anymore?
Authors: Batool Syeda Farah 
Published: February 2019

Background: A person needs to be happy to be a functional unit of the society and to add a positive and productive contribution on his behalf to the welfare of humanity. There is a very close interaction between sex and joy, and no one can escape from the fact that sexual interaction is mostly a pleasurable experience. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of compulsive sexual behavior among youth and to find a relation between happiness and sexual activity.
Methodology: This cross-sectional survey was conducted in Karachi-Pakistan. 300 subjects of both genders participated in this study while Sadaf Stress Scale (SSS) was used to evaluate the stress level of the individuals and a section of the questionnaire contained questions about the routine activities, sexual needs and its severity.
Results: Results have shown that the symptoms of hypersexuality are prevalent among the youth of ages between 18 to 25 years. While 27% of unmarried subjects have experienced sex and 49% reported masturbation or phone sex is found to be the source of happiness.
Conclusion: Unfortunately, hypersexuality is not yet considered as a psychological disorder/issue in many regions of the world which gives rise to brutal and feeble act like “Sexual abuse”. It's high time to look into this matter before it’s too late.
Dealing with the psychosocial and spiritual aspects in palliative care
Authors: Rehman Naureen 
Published: February 2019

Background: Palliative care is the provision of end of life care to the patient with a terminal disease; its primary focus is on improving the quality of life rather than quantity of life. While palliative care emphasizes over physical body pain reduction, it also suggests psychological comfort and spiritual wellbeing. Several research studies corroborate that interventions are done to keep the patient mentally relaxed greatly affects the patient's bodily functions and reduces the sensation of pain.
Case Presentation: In this case, the physical attributes were excellently managed but neglect was done in terms of mental and spiritual need that was evident through her verbalization of hopelessness and fear, that the disease condition is a severe punishment by God. In addition, the patient was less likely to socialize with people including friends and family. Therefore, this case has been investigated in light of multiple recent articles (2010-2015) and pointed out the evidenced-based practices that need to be done to provide care emphasizing holistic approach in order to enhance comfort to the terminally sick patients.
Management & Results: It was observed that the health care providers were only concerned for the physical problems and they provided care focusing only physiological component whereas the psychological and spiritual determinants of health were greatly neglected as such that they were not included in the plan of care of the patient.
Conclusion: Palliative care involves not just physiological, but also psychological and spiritual care. Based on the findings of the case study, caregivers must consider psychological and spiritual aspects of care in order to provide holistic as well as peaceful end of life care.
Frequency of somatic complains among patients with mental illness
Authors: Haider Anum , Asad Usama 
Published: February 2019

Background: It is established that physical and mental disorders share common risk factors, among those the unhealthy lifestyle is most common. In order to achieve complete health, it is crucial to monitor both physical and mental health. Mental health problem is the most deserving area to work with because physical health issues are often neglected or mismanaged. This study intends to unveil the frequency of somatic (physical) health complains among patients with mental illness.
Methodology: In this cross-sectional study total 85 patients were enrolled from Psychiatry Out Patient Department, Civil Hospital Karachi, during 16th October to 13th November 2015. Patients were asked about the demographic details and existing somatic complaints from the pre-formulated questionnaire while data was analyzed on SPSS.
Results: 32.9% of the subjects were diagnosed with particular medical comorbidity. However, among undiagnosed somatic (physical) complains; endocrinological complaints were more frequent i.e.16.7% followed by 14.2% Gastrointestinal (GIT) and 13.68% Central Nervous System (CNS).
Conclusion: The current study supported the fact that there is a high frequency of somatic complaints in patients with mental illness. Physical monitoring is crucial for early identification and better prognosis.
Empowering Women by sharing life struggles: A critical Discourse Analysis of Muniba Mazari’s inspirational speech.
Authors: Shaista Shahzadi  , Muhammad Hanif  , Hifza Imtiaz  
Published: February 2019

Background: The study presents the critical discourse analysis of Muniba Mazari speech (confined to one speech about her life struggles in her own words in TEDx) to unveil the concept of empowering women by sharing life struggles in Pakistani socio-cultural context. Muniba Mazari is UN representative of women of Pakistan and considered as the ‘iron lady of Pakistan’ that is why in this research her one speech at TEDx Malaysia in 2017,which went viral on social media. Her life story and struggle in the form of speech is analyzed by using Textual dimension of Three dimensional model of Fairclough (1989) approach to critical discourse analysis which is integrated with M.A.K. Halliday’s (1985) Systematic Functional Grammar (SFG).
Methodology: This qualitative study analyzed linguistic elements used by Muniba Mazari in her speech while sharing her life struggles in order to unveil the concept of women empowerment.
Results: The finding include the excessive use of Pronoun ‘I’ which shows the explicit power as a woman. By using words with negative connotation like ‘disable’ she gave new direction to look at these words which have negative connation. Moreover, the key findings include how she was trapped in her societal customs and at last after her tragedy she took step for herself.
Conclusion: This study will play an important role in the emerging trend of women empowerment in Pakistan by analyzing the language of an iron lady of Pakistan.
Women Empowerment: Key to Socio-Economic Development
Authors: Saima Khan  
Published: February 2019

Background: Empowering a women is the key issue in developing nations. Despite of the fact that women are an integral part of any society, yet their involvement in decision making via their active contribution in economic activities is very low. Women empowerment and economic development are interlinked, where on one hand, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between women and men while on the other hand, empowering women can benefit development.
Methodology: A short communication of 5 years i.e. 2014-2018. Databases used were Google Scholar, PubMed, Research gate, Scopus and web of science.
Results: Providing consideration of working at individual consciousness level in order to develop women's sense of their own potentials and critical recognitions of the obstacles within social dimensions, so that women identifies their potentials and put efforts together with other women like a distinctive power to confront inequalities and injustice, will turn out to be ‘power for’ positive societal modifications. Also setting resources in hands of underprivileged women while discouraging gender inequality not only at home but also in society results in enormous development settlements. Those Expanding opportunities for women’s in communal works, investment, agricultural and further areas hasten economic progression, helping to lessen the effects of current and future financial crises.
Conclusion: For improving quality of life there is high necessity of fundamental alterations. Policies should be created to improve the women status as useful society members. There is a high necessity of women’s active participation not only in decision making processes but also in planning and implementation of development programs.
Diversidad y análisis fitosociológico de malezas en un cultivo de musáceas del trópico ecuatoriano
Authors: Vera A. D. , Palacios Z. M. , Liuba D. A. , Suarez C. C. , Mendoza H. C. 
Published: February 2019

One of the first steps for the development of new control tactics and integrated weed management, is to know the composition and diversity of the weed flora affecting the crop. Knowledge of the dominant weed species is the basis forplanning suitable control strategies and determine the management of the crop. This work analyzes the diversity of weeds and identifiesthose species predominant within the ecosystem of Quevedo (Ecuador). Results showed 55 weed species belonging to 22 families, with the Compositae, Poaceae and Euphorbiaceae families having the higher number of species in the monitored area. The ecosystem presented slightly high diversity, high dominance, and medium specific richness. The functional analysis revealed 43 dicotyledonous species and 12 monocotyledonous species. Among the dominant weed species, we found the “piñita” (Murdannia nudiflora (L.) Brenan) that presented medium agresiveness, followed by the “caminadora” (Rottboellia exaltata L. f.) with high agresiveness and “tridax” (Tridax procumbens L.) with slight to medium level of agresiveness. No species had an importance value greater than 28.2 % in the monitored area.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding Drug Abuse among Male of Rural Community, Lahore, Pakistan
Authors: Masih Orung Zaib , Hussain Muhammad , Afzal Muhammad , Emanual Safina 
Published: February 2019

Substance mishandle in Pakistan is one of the real reasons for worry that influences all sections of society. It has not just destroying consequences for the physical and mental prosperity yet in addition has the unfriendly impacts on labor and financial development of the nation. Roughly 6.7S million peoples in Pakistan have been related with various sorts of prescriptions. For instance, Cannabis is the most frequently used solution, with an inescapability of 3.6% of the people, after that poly-calm use is ordinary. With reference to sedatives, a normal 860,000 masses are general heroin customers and 320,000 are opium.
Methods: The quantitative cross sectional study was used.
Results: The discoveries of the examination. in 23 tables and 27 figures have been utilized to demonstrate comes about. That just about 80 for every penny of respondents viewed every single illicit medication as similarly hurtful to one's wellbeing recommend an inability to perceive the distinctive different impacts related with various medication writes (Cocaine, Grass, and Heroin). More than 94 for every penny of respondents announced that they had known about cannabis, and the larger part of respondents detailed having known about bliss (96.3%), cocaine (96.4%) and heroin (92.3%).
Conclusions: The knowledge, attitude, and beliefs of drug abuse among male are good.
Pregnancy Outcome in Women Having Oligohydramnios in Gandaki Medical College Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal
Authors: Tripathi Malati , Gurung T , Ghale TM , Gurung B , Pandit C , Shrestha R , Adhikari A , Sherchan K 
Published: February 2019

Background: Amniotic fluid index is one of the most commonly used methods of amniotic fluid volume assessment and is a predictor of adverse maternal and perinatal outcome.
Objectives: To compare the maternal and perinatal outcome in women with singleton term pregnancies having amniotic fluid index (AFI) ≤5 cm to those having AFI ≥5 to 20 cm.
Methods: This is a prospective, case-control study which was conducted at Gandaki Medical College Teaching Hospital over a period of one year from July 2017 to July 2018. It included 60 pregnant women at term pregnancy with amniotic fluid index ≤5 cm. The control group included 60 pregnant women at term pregnancy with amniotic fluid index ≥5 cm. The two groups were compared. Statistical analysis was done using the Chi-square test to calculate the P- value.
Results: There was a significantly higher incidence of overall cesarean rates due to fetal distress, low birth weight babies and adverse neonatal outcome like 5 minute Apgar score ≤7, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission rates, and meconium aspiration syndrome in the group with oligohydramnios as compared to the group with normal liquor volume.
Conclusion: Oligohydramnios adversely affects the perinatal outcome. However a favorable outcome can be expected by good antenatal and intrapartum surveillance and neonatal care.
Dry Eye among Medical Students of Gandaki Medical College, Pokhara, Nepal
Authors: Tuladhar S , Poudel B , Shahi D 
Published: February 2019

Introduction: Dry eye disease results from decreased tear production, increased evaporation of tears and inflammation. Medical students of­ten have dry eyes due to use of projectors, computers for study and also due to use of mobiles.
Objective: The present study was undertaken to find out dry eye by Schirmer 1 test with local anesthesia and measurement of wetting of Schirmer test strip.
Methods: Schirmer 1 test with anesthesia was performed on 200 medi­cal students from June 1, 2017 to June 1, 2018 after obtaining informed consent and after applying some exclusion criteria. The test was per­formed by first applying 4% topical lignocaine and then using Whatman filter paper no 41 and wetting of the filter paper measured after five minutes and time noted.
Results: 146 (73%) Among 200 Students, were males and 54 (27%) were females. Mean age of patients was 21.73 ±1.42 years. Mild dry eye was seen in 19.5%, moderate in 13% and severe dry eye in 13.5% of medical students
Conclusion: Dry eye is one of common ocular disease among medical students.
Measurement of Length of Styloid Process by Orthopantomography
Authors: Sharma BR , Singh S , Timilsina M , Sharma P , Sharma K 
Published: February 2019

Background: Styloid process (SP) is an anatomical structure whose elongation is not well understood. Proper clinical and radiological assessment is needed to detect an elongated SP. Anatomical variation is also common. SP is said to be elongated if longer than 30 mm. Orthopantomogram (OPG) is also an imaging modality by which we can view SP.
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the SP on OPG and identify eagle syndrome.
Materials and Methods: The study was conducted on archived OPG radiographs available in the Department of Oral Radiology, Gandaki Medical College Teaching hospital and Research Centre. These radiographs were from patients who were subjected to radiographic examination for other dental problems. The length of SP was measured on both sides using the measurement tool bars on the accompanying analysis software.
Results: Average length of SP on males was 26.5 mm ±14.4 mm in right and 25.5 mm ±6.19 mm in left; and on females was 23.78 mm ±5.93 mm on right and 24.7 mm ±10.44 mm in left. Elongated SP was more on males compared to females. Elongated styloid process (ESP) was more prevalent in 21 - 30 years of age group, similarly unilateral and bilateral elongation was also predominant on males compared to females.
Conclusion: OPG is also useful for detection of an ESP in patients with or without symptoms and helps to avoid misdiagnosis of tonsillar pain or pain of dental, pharyngeal or muscular origin as well as Eagle syndrome (ES).