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Modelling the field personnel resources to control foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in New Zealand
Authors: Sanson Robert , Rawdon Thomas , Andel Mary van , Yu Zhidong 
Published: August 2022

The objective of the study was to simulate New Zealand’s foot-and-mouth
disease (FMD) operational plan to determine personnel requirements for a
FMD response and understand how the numbers of frontline staff available
could affect the size and duration of FMD outbreaks, when using
stamping-out (SO) measures with or without vaccination. The model
utilized a national dataset of all known livestock farms. Each
simulation randomly seeded infection into a single farm. Transmission
mechanisms included direct and indirect contacts, local and airborne
spread. Prior to each simulation, the numbers of personnel for
front-line tasks were set randomly. In a random subset of simulations,
vaccination was allowed to be deployed as an adjunct to SO. Front-line
tasks included contact tracing, surveillance of at-risk farms,
depopulation and vaccination using teams comprising personnel of the
different types required by New Zealand’s operational plans. The effect
of personnel numbers on the size and duration of epidemics were explored
using machine learning methods. In the second stage of the study, using
a subset of iterations where numbers of personnel were unconstrained,
the number of personnel used each day were quantified. When personnel
resources were unconstrained, the 95 percentile and
maximum number of infected places (IPs) were 78 and 462 respectively,
and the 95 percentile and maximum duration were 69
and 217 days respectively. However, severe constraints on personnel
resources allowed some outbreaks to exceed the size of the UK 2001 FMD
epidemic which had 2026 IPs. The number of veterinarians available had a
major influence on the size and duration of outbreaks, while the
availability of other personnel types did not. A shortage of
veterinarians was associated with an increase in time to detect and
depopulate IPs, allowing for continued transmission. Emergency
vaccination placed a short-term demand for additional staff at the start
of the vaccination programme, but the overall number of person days used
were similar to SO-only strategies. This study determined the optimal
numbers of front-line personnel required to implement the current
operational plans to support an FMD response in New Zealand. A shortage
of veterinarians was identified as the most influential factor to impact
disease control outcomes. Emergency vaccination led to earlier control
of an FMD outbreak, but also resulted in a short-term spike in demand
for personnel. A successful response needs to have access to sufficient
personnel, particularly veterinarians, trained in response roles and
available at short notice.
Managing Complications of Diabetes in Men
Authors: Lau Jennifer , Riley Kaitlyn , Moverley Joy 
Published: August 2022

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<p>Male reproductive disorders are a less-discussed complication of diabetes. These disorders can include balanitis, erectile dysfunction, decreased libido, erectile impotence, and infertility. This article reviews the epidemiology, pathophysiology, classic presentation, and treatment of balanitis, erectile dysfunction, and sperm dysfunction. </p>
Twelve-month Clinical Performance Evaluation of a Glass Carbomer Restorative System
Authors: Kaynar ZB , Dönmez N 
Published: August 2022

SUMMARY

Objective
The aim of this in vivo study was to evaluate the clinical one-year follow-up of a silica- and flouroapatite-reinforced glass carbomer filling material as compared to a resin composite restorative material.

Methods and Materials
In this study, a total of 100 restorations were performed. Caries were removed conventionally with diamond burs. Half of the restorations were restored with nanocomposite resin (TEP) (Tokuyama Estelite, Tokuyama Dental, Japan) and the other half were restored with glass carbomer (GC) material (GCP Dental, The Netherlands). Each restorative material was applied according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Restorations were evaluated with modified USPHS criteria at the end of the first week, 6 months, and 12 months. Data were analyzed using Fisher’s Exact Chi-Square test, Fisher Freeman Halton Test, and Continuity (Yates) Correction. The Wilcoxon sign test was used for intra-group comparisons of the parameters.

Results
When the filling materials were compared with one another, a statistically significant difference was observed in the 12th month on the marginal discoloration. A statistically significant difference was observed between the two materials in the 6th month on the marginal adaptation (p&lt;0.05).

Conclusions
In view of these results, there is a need to improve the physical properties of the GC filling material in further in vivo studies.
Road Sensing with Intelligent Tires for Driving Assistance Applications
Authors: Zhao Tong , Kaliske Michael , Wei Yintao 
Published: August 2022

ABSTRACT
Tires with embedded sensors enable them to be active sensing components. Intelligent tires have increased potential in sensing not only the state of the tire itself but the related properties of the road. This Technical Note briefly describes the application of accelerometer-based intelligent tires in sensing the adhesion level and unevenness of the road. A combined tire longitudinal dynamic model is introduced to estimate the tire-road friction from the waveform features of the acceleration signals. Data-driven methods are adopted to directly classify the road unevenness level from the original signals. Primary analyses and experiments verify the proposed method. Road sensing with intelligent tires contributes to the development of active safety control and driving assistance systems.
DESIGN AND BUILD A CHILDREN'S TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM USING THE MLX90614 TEMPERATURE SENSOR AND NODEMCU ESP-12E BASED ON ANDROID
Authors: Abdullah Zidny Sholehan 
Published: August 2022

The degree of children's health reflects the nation's health status, because children as the nation's next generation have abilities that can be developed in continuing the nation's development. The limited parental monitoring of children, so the authors make a child temperature monitoring device that can make it easier for parents to monitor their child's temperature in real time. This study uses a sensor temperature of the infrared MLX90614, NodeMCU ESP-12E as a controller programmed with the Arduino software idea later in the show via the LCD and the application blynk. This system was developed based on the needs of the children's monitoring system. The results of this research are that a child temperature monitoring system has been realized that can monitor the condition of a child's body in real time. Metode used isto compare data between Thermometer Gun with sensor systems ML X90614, then obtained an average difference of 0.0190 C and an average error of 0.053%.

Keywords: Infrared sensor, MLX90614, real time, monitoring
Procedure of the design of photovoltaic systems applied to ornamental lighting
Authors: X. Serrano-Guerrero  , C. Ochoa-Malhaber  , I. Ortega-Romero  
Published: August 2022

Photovoltaic systems have the advantage of reducing atmospheric pollution, avoiding CO2 emissions. Another advantage is the energy savings they produce and that in the long term they can return the investment made. PV systems off grids are applied in remote and rural areas, where there is no electricity distribution network. The use of PV systems off grids can be included in ornamental lighting, as they have low levels of luminous efficiency due to the use of old technologies. Therefore, this study presents a procedure for the design of PV systems applied to ornamental lighting, starting from obtaining adjusted values of solar irradiance, based on estimated solar irradiance data from NASA in the city of Cuenca (Ecuador) and measured data. The critical month (maximum consumption and minimum irradiance) is selected, which corresponds to June with a value of 3,76kWh/m2. The results indicate that these systems are feasible to be implemented, due to the fact that the total investment cost is around $10.450,00 compared to a 5,2 km grid extension system that costs around $44.512,00. Finally, the responses of the PV systems off grid applied to ornamental lighting are tested in MATLAB/Simulink.
Study of the Level of Information Culture of 1st Year Undergraduate Students to Increase Competitiveness in the Scientific Environment
Authors: Abubakirova M. I. 
Published: August 2022

Introduction. Entry into science should occur from the first year of university. One of the main barriers is the inability to work with scientific information. In order to improve the competitiveness of students in the scientific environment, a study of the level of information culture of students enrolled in the first year of undergraduate studies was conducted.Materials and methods. The main research method is a selective Internet questionnaire survey. The main method of information analysis is the method of constructing typologies, the essence of which is to find such empirical indicators that would sufficiently adequately reflect the levels of competitiveness in research activities and the corresponding types of applicants to a technical university in the digital era.Results. During the survey, it was revealed that the majority of respondents do not have an understanding of the basics of design as a method of work, there are no skills in building an experiment, using methods of analysis and synthesis, there is no understanding of the importance of publishing the results of their work. More than 90 % of respondents have an average level of information culture with good skills in owning applied office programs.Discussion and conclusions. It was concluded that in order to achieve competitiveness in the scientific environment of students, it is necessary to teach information culture almost from scratch.
POSSIBLE USE OF MATHEMATICS AND REASONING IN PROBLEM-SOLVING PROCESS OF SEVERAL CHEMICAL PROBLEMS
Authors: TSIRUNYAN VAHAGN , ADONTS HOVHANNES , GYULBENKIAN ZHAN 
Published: August 2022

Nowadays it is important to use various approaches, methods and tricks during teaching process of chemistry helping students gain new knowledge. Using interdisciplinary relations, we show the use of concept of similar triangles and mathematical reasoning during problem-solving process of chemical problems.
In “Solutions” section it is shown how to apply concept of similar triangles and corresponding formula is derived. Patterns observed here exactly match the properties of well-known concept of similar triangles, which gives possibility to solve problem using mathematical tricks and methods. The formula is used to calculate the mass of precipitate formed caused by the drop of temperature of a saturated solution. In another example, in order to solve the problem, it is needed to solve a triangle equation, which is done using mathematical reasoning and concepts taught at school. It is well known that school knowledge may be insufficient to solve triangle equations. It should be noted, that majority of unknown values in chemical problems can be expressed using discreet values, which allows to solve problem by redefining it to mathematical divisibility problem.
We provide solutions to chemical problems that don’t involve much of chemical reasoning. Suggested solutions broaden learners’ mind and enhance creative thought.
LINGUA-PHILOSOPHICAL PERCEPTIONS OF A LINGUISTIC SIGN, SIGNIFICATION, MEANING AND THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD
Authors: MARTIROSYAN ARTASHES 
Published: August 2022

The article discusses the questions raised in correlation with the reflection of the linguistic picture of the world and still causing philosophical concerns: What is the ratio? Is it “complicity” that exists between a word and its meaning? What is their “degree of independence”? Does the word help to form thoughts or meaning? Which of them prevails? Are there other significant components in forming the linguistic picture of the world? In the context of these issues, the provisions of the world’s leading lingua-philosophical streams in different periods of history regarding the complementary role of verbal sign, meaning and sense in the process of creating the linguistic picture of the world are presented. If the meaning is constant in all languages and the word is a carrier of certain information, what is the nature of invariants in the formation of the meaning of the word given for the same concept in different languages, associated with worldview of this linguistic community? Maybe this difference is connected with the reality of modelling the world.
However, the conceptualization of the world through the language, sign is universal and nationwide, while the peripheral ones are linguistic and national, still remains pendent in linguistic semantics.
INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM OF YOUTH IN CATEGORIES OF LEGAL CULTURE
Authors: BOTIVETS SERGEY , KARAPETYAN VLADIMIR 
Published: August 2022

The article reveals the categories of legal culture as a sphere of individual freedom, which allows a young person to realize own preferences, talents and interests. Each new generation faces to the legal achievements of the predecessors correspond to self-realization and prospects of realizing the collective meaning of social self-development. The analysis of works on the issue testifies to the relevance and multidimensionality of both the problem itself and the methodological approaches to its scientific solution. The formation of legal culture of modern youth is covered in multidisciplinary issues of legal culture, legal awareness of man and young people in particular, legal education, training in pedagogical, psychological, philosophical, sociological, political, economic sciences, culture, public administration and social communications. Legal consciousness is formed in the process of personal development. The humanistic nature of the formation of modern youth’s legal culture is represented by the embodiment of social self-movement, which requires general scientific structure and typology of methods of cognition and transformation of reality in their development and relationships. The main methodology of formation of legal culture as a phenomenon and process is defined by the idea of ​​development.
Changes of the airway reactivity in patients with rhinosinusitis
Authors: Miroslava Lucanska , Andrej Hajtman , Renata Pecova 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Rhinosinusitis is one of the most common conditions in primary and secondary care all over the world. Rhinosinusitis together with asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease represent the most common causes of chronic cough. The relationship between rhinosinusitis and cough is still not completely understood, however, direct stimulation of nasal mucosa, upper airway cough syndrome, inflammation of the airways, and cough reflex sensitisation play the crucial role in the pathogenesis of chronic cough.
Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant: An observational study from a hospital in Southern India
Authors: Rangarajan Jayanthi , Jayanandan Rajesh , Pravin Kumar Raviganesh , Murugan Arun , Gnanavel Pavithra , Devasena N 
Published: August 2022

Abstract

Introduction
The Omicron variant rapidly outpaced Delta with documented community transmission in most countries and has led to an upsurge in cases in most regions. Since its initial detection from a specimen collected on November 8th 2021, Omicron amounted to 74.0% of the genome sequenced in South Africa and more than 99.0% in rest of the world.

Objectives
1. To describe the socio-demographic and clinical profile of Omicron cases treated at our tertiary care institution. 2. To assess the factors associated with the vaccination status of such Omicron cases.

Methods
This observational study was conducted at a 500 bedded hospital in southern India from 15th of December 2021 to 5th of February 2022. Of the 333 COVID-19 patients who were registered with Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) positive result along with S Gene Target Failure (SGTF), 203 patients were included and were interviewed using a pre-designed semi-structured questionnaire. With prior approval from the Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) data was collected and statistically analyzed with descriptive statistics and inferential statistics using SPSS software trial version 28.0 and OpenEpi software. At 95% confidence level, a P value of < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

Results
Of the 203 cases studied, majority 149 (73.4%) were symptomatic, of which almost 114 (76.5%) had fever, 72 (48.3%) had cough and 29 (19.5%) had myalgia. 193 (95.1%) cases were categorized as mild, 8 (3.9%) as moderate and 2 (1.0%) as severe cases of COVID-19 with SGTF. Only 10 (4.9%) patients received supplementary oxygen support. Almost 158 patients (77.8%) were vaccinated against COVID-19 of which 106 (67%) were vaccinated with Covishield vaccine followed by 50 (31.7%) of them with Covaxin. 126 (79.7%) patients were completely vaccinated with two doses of any COVID-19 vaccine and 32 (20.3%) were partially vaccinated with a single dose of any COVID-19 vaccine. Among those who required supplemental oxygen (n = 10), the proportion of those vaccinated (40.0%) was lower com pared to those who were unvaccinated (60.0%). This association was statistically significant (P = 0.003, OR = 0.169, 95% CI of OR = 0.045, 0.628). Among the completely vaccinated subjects (n = 125), there was a statistically significant difference in mean (95% CI) interval between the last dose of vaccine taken and date of RT-PCR positivity with SGTF (P < 0.001). It was 186 (162, 210) days for Covaxin and was 131 (114, 148) days for Covishield vaccine.

Conclusion
Omicron (SGTF) cases manifests mostly as mild cases with symptoms like fever, cough, myalgia and majority were independent of oxygen supplementation and had good prognosis. Omicron infection was delayed over six months among completely vaccinated subjects especially those who were vaccinated with Covaxin.
A randomized controlled trial of intravenous magnesium sulphate as an adjunct to standard therapy in atrial fibrillation
Authors: Raghu K , Ramakrishnan TV , Sreedevi G , Shreevani P , Gopala Krishna S , Ravishankar B 
Published: August 2022

Abstract

Background
Magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) has been proven as an analgesic, neuromuscular blocker agent, and treatment of acute asthma.

Objective
The study aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of magnesium sulphate infusion for the treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation.

Methods
A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was conducted on 55 atrial fibrillation patients at the Emergency Department. The treatment group consisting of 41 patients received 20 mEq (2.5 g, 10 mmol) magnesium sulphate over a 20-minute period, followed by 20 mEq (2.5 g, 10 mmol) over a 2-hour period intravenously in addition to the standard treatment, and the control group consisting of 14 patients received placebo with a standard treatment. ECG was repeated and monitored upto 24 hours after the infusion.

Results
41 patients received magnesium sulphate and 14 patients received a placebo. The heart rate was 127 bpm – 210 bpm at the presentation to the emergency department and it was reached <100bpm in 70%(n=31) patients after 150 minutes of MgSO4 infusion. Two patients attained a heart rate of <100bpm in Placebo infusion. In the treatment group, 65% of subjects attained normal sinus rhythm at the end of 24 hours of infusion. Magnesium sulphate was more likely than placebo to achieve a heart rate of <100bpm and more likely to convert to sinus rhythm. ECG report reverted to normal in 74.5% in the treatment group and 25.5 % in the Placebo group within 24 hours. The patients in the treatment group stay a mean of 2.25 days in ICU, while the patients in the Placebo group stayed 4.25 days in ICU. Seven patients in the treatment group had minor side effects like flushing, headache, and nausea, which came to normal after 48hrs.

Conclusions
Magnesium sulphate has been shown a better efficacy to control the heart rate and conversion to sinus rhythm when used along with the standard management of Atrial fibrillation.
The Impact of Digitalisation of Higher Education: The Case of Latvia and Nordic-Baltic Region
Authors: Petrovica Sintija , Anohina-Naumeca Alla , Avanesova Jelena 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
For the next seven years, the digitalisation of higher education is one of the priority tasks of Latvia. An extensive review of information sources was performed, and an online survey with the technical staff of higher education institutions was conducted to evaluate the progress made towards education digitalisation in Latvia and compare these results with the countries of the Nordic-Baltic region. The paper presents the study results and identifies issues hindering the digitalisation progress, e.g., issues with the legislation, basic digital skills, and required competences for academic staff.
Urdu Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Rehman Iffraah , Soomro Tariq Rahim 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The world is heading towards more modernized and digitalized data and therefore a significant growth is observed in the active number of social media users with each passing day. Each post and comment can give an insight into valuable information about a certain topic or issue, a product or a brand, etc. Similarly, the process to uncover the underlying information from the opinion that a person keeps about any entity is called a sentiment analysis. The analysis can be carried out through two main approaches, i.e., either lexicon-based or machine learning algorithms. A significant amount of work in the different domains has been done in numerous languages for sentiment analysis, but minimal research has been conducted on the national language of Pakistan, which is Urdu. Twitter users who are familiar with Urdu update the tweets in two different textual formats either in Urdu Script (Nastaleeq) or in Roman Urdu. Thus, the paper is an attempt to perform the sentiment analysis on the Urdu language by extracting the tweets (Nastaleeq and Roman Urdu both) from Twitter using Tweepy API. A machine learning-based approach has been adopted for this study and the tool opted for the purpose is WEKA. The best algorithm was identified based on evaluation metrics, which comprise the number of correctly and incorrectly classified instances, accuracy, precision, and recall. SMO was found to be the most suitable machine learning algorithm for performing the sentiment analysis on Urdu (Nastaleeq) tweets, while the Roman Urdu Random Forest algorithm was identified as the best one.
mHealth and User Interaction Improvement by Personality Traits-Based Personalization
Authors: Avanesova Jeļena , Lieldidža-Kolbina Jeļizaveta 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
During COVID-19 pandemic, interest in mHealth rose dramatically. An ample literature review was carried out to discover whether personality traits could be the basis for mHealth personalization for human-computer interaction improvement. Moreover, the study of three most popular mHealth applications was conducted to determine data collected by users. The results showed that personality traits affected communication and physical activity preferences, motivation, and application usage. mHealth personalization based on personality traits could suggest enjoyable physical activities and motivational communication. mHealth applications already process enough user information to enable seamless inference of personality traits.