cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Skin Cancer Prevention and Screening in the Republic of Macedonia
Creators: name: Kamberova, Suzana
name: V`Lckova-Laskoska, Marija
name: Pesic, Nebojsa
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Skin cancer is among the most common types of cancer. The incidence of skin cancer is very high and raising worldwide, especially its most serious and aggressive form, melanoma. Severe childhood sunburn and long term sun exposure over many years are the leading risk factors for skin cancer. Macedonia is situated in the region with high UV index of radiation and has an average annual incidence of skin cancer, compared with other countries in Europe and in the world. Almost all skin cancers are preventable and they are highly curable if detected and treated early. Even malignant melanoma is almost 100 percent curable if detected early, before the cancer has invaded into the deeper layers of the skin. Since the year 2005 a new technology, dermatoscopy, has been introduced in the routine practice at the Clinic of Dermatology at the Clinical Center in Skopje. This new method of skin cancer detection makes possible diagnosis of melanoma in in situ stadium. It was the starting point for multiple activities and programs, which the Clinic has undertaken within the last two years, for prevention, screening and early detection of the skin cancer, as well as managing further appropriate cure. A new dermato-oncology unit was founded within the Clinic of Dermatology. Currently it is engaged in: clinical protocols of diagnosis and prevention, educational activities and informative campaigns, education of medical staff for working with this category of patients, selection of patients into groups (patients with low and high risk for developing skin cancer) and their followup in regular intervals, creating medical records in electronic form for each patient, promotion of dermatoscopy as a method, use of modern information and communication technologies (telemedicine, teledermatology) and active participation in the international activities for skin cancer control.
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Global Public Health Threats and Disaster Management
Creators: name: Stikova, Elisaveta
name: Lazarevski, Pande
name: Gligorov, Ilija
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Major emergencies, disasters and other crises do not respect national borders and never occur at convenient times. The magnitude of human suffering caused by these events is huge, and many aspects of people’s lives are affected – health, security, housing, access to food, water and other life commodities, to name just a few. That is why it is vital to strengthen public health preparedness and response to different natural and man-made disasters. Disaster management has a crucial role in mitigation of disaster consequences. The aim of disaster management is to support countries in building their emergency response capacities, stressing a multisectoral and comprehensive approach in terms of risk reduction. Since the risk is a function of the hazards to which a community is exposed and the vulnerabilities of that community, the risk can be modified by the level of the emergency preparedness of the community at risk. The challenge is to put in place systematic capacities such as: legislation, plans, coordination mechanisms and procedures, institutional capacities and budgets, skilled personnel, information, and public awareness and participation that can measurably reduce future risks and losses. Emergency preparedness is a programme of long-term activities whose goals are to strengthen the overall capacity and capability of a country to manage efficiently all types of emergencies. It requires development of emergency plans, training of personnel at all levels and in all sectors, education of communities at risk, and monitoring and regular evaluation of these measures. The main goal of this module is to give more detailed and comprehensive approach to the definition of the major incidents, scientific evidence for public health importance of specific type of emergencies/disasters and basic elements for disaster management with special emphasis to risk assessment and emergency preparedness programmes.
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Learning and Inference in Factor Graphs with Applications to Tactile Perception
Creators: name: Sodhi, Paloma
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Factor graphs offer a flexible and powerful framework for solving largescale, nonlinear inference problems encountered in robot perception and control. Typically, these methods rely on handcrafted models that are efficient to optimize. However, robots often perceive the world through complex, highdimensional sensor observations. For instance, consider a robot manipulating an object in hand and receiving high-dimensional tactile observations from which it must infer latent object poses. How do we couple machine learning to extract salient information from observations and graph optimization to efficiently fuse such information? This thesis addresses three principal challenges: (1) How do we learn observation models from data with optimizers in the loop? We show that learning observation models can be viewed as shaping energy functions that graph optimizers, even non-differentiable ones, optimize. (2) How do we impose hard constraints in graph optimizers derived from real-world physics or geometry? We expand incremental Gauss-Newton solvers into a broader primal-dual framework to efficiently solve for constraints in an online manner. (3) Finally, we look at different learned feature representations that extract salient information from tactile image observations. We evaluate these approaches for a real-world application of tactile perception for robot manipulation, where we demonstrate reliable object tracking in hundreds of trials across planar pushing and in-hand manipulation tasks. This thesis establishes novel connections between factor graph inference, energybased learning, and constrained optimization, opening avenues for new research problems at the intersection of these topics.
Amnestus
Creators: name: Martinez, Cristina Mayorga
name: Peredo, Luis Cervantes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Amnestus

description: KEY TO THE MEXICAN SPECIES OF AMNESTUS
1. Jugum with 5 marginal spines (Fig. 1 C)....................................... 2 1' Jugum with 4 marginal spines (Fig. 1 A, 1 B,1 C, 1 E, 1 F)........................... 3
2. Tylus longer than jugum, usually as long as wide; prosternal carina longer than high........................................................... A. uhleri Distant 2' Tylus just slightly longer than jugum; prosternal carina higher than long.... A. obscurus n. sp.
3. Fore tibia flattened, with 6 spines on external margin (Fig. 5 C)........... A. carinatus n. sp. 3' Fore tibia flattened, with 5 spines on external margin (Figs. 5 A, 5 B, 5 E, 5 F)............. 4
4. Male fore tibia without subasal ventral spine.......................... A. pusio (Stål) 4' Male fore tibia with a subasal ventral spine.................................... 5
5. Fore femur with a bifid spine on posterior mesial area of ventral surface.......................................................... A. ficus Mayorga & Cervantes 5' Fore femur without bifid spine............................................. 6
6. Rostral segment II covered by prosternal carina, with margin strongly elevated anteriorly, but straight posteriorly (Fig. 2 E).................................... A. rugosus n. sp. 6' Rostral segment II not covered by prosternal carina, with margin slightly concave mesially (Fig. 2 A, 2 B, 2 F)...................................................... 7
7. Fore tibia flattened, external margin with mesial area of internal margin angulated (Fig. 5 F)................................................ A. sinuosus n. sp. 7' Fore tibia flattened, external margin not angulated (Figs 5 A, B)...................... 8
8. Male ventral subapical spine of hind femur 1/3 the length of tibia.......... A. pusillus Uhler 8' Male ventral subapical spine of hind femur shorter............................... 9
9. Tylus convex, transverse impressions present, except on apical lobe...... A brailovskyi n. sp. 9' Tylus without transverse impressions........................................ 10
10. Pronotum with transverse impression delimited by a series of setigerous punctures (Fig. 1 B).................................................... A. calakmulensis n. sp. 10' Pronotum with transverse impression just slightly marked, without series of punctures...... 11
11. Lateral margin of pronotum slightly concave on basal fourth; corium brown on apical third..................................................... A. brunneus Signoret 11' Lateral margin of pronotum straight on basal fourth; corium pale yellow... A. pallidus Zimmer
description: Published as part of Martinez, Cristina Mayorga & Peredo, Luis Cervantes, 2005, DESCRIPTION OF SIX NEW SPECIES OF AMNESTUS DALLAS (HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA: CYDNIDAE) FROM MEXICO, pp. 159-173 in Journal of the New York Entomological Society 113 on pages 171-172, DOI: 10.1664/0028-7199(2005)113[0159:dosnso]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/15361142
Quality Improvement in Health Care and Health Promotion: Health Grants
Creators: name: Breckenkamp, Jürgen
name: Laaser, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: The public offer of health grants is a possibility to get an overview of project activities within a certain region. Innovative, economic and qualitative highly valuated approaches can be made familiar to the general public by this procedure. If applicable, such problem-solving approaches can be taken over by other projects in a modified form. In so far the identified projects can serve for quality improvement in various fields of health care and health promotion.
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Cardiovascular Diseases Prevention and Control
Creators: name: Sadikario, Samuel
name: Donev, Doncho
name: Zaletel Kragelj, Lijana
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: The CVD (heart disease and stroke, atherosclerosis, high blood pressure) today are the cause of the greatest public health pandemic globally in the history of the world ever, with very high morbidity and death rate, and economical and social consequences. CVD are the number one killer and cause more than 50% of all deaths. CVD are a major cause of disability, health and human suffering. Social and economic losses are high and CVD cause 25-30% of all medical expenses. The risk factors for CVD are well known and largely preventable through health education and health promotion. The medical knowledge for effective prevention is available and health promotion programmes for prevention of CVD have a huge public health potential leading to increased productivity among the working age population, to improved functional capacity among elderly, to diminishing health inequalities, to a reduced needs for health and social services, and to an increased quality of life to everybody. The resources needed for CVD prevention and heart health promotion are modest in relation to the huge health service costs to society caused by CVD. There is a marked divergence between the advances in the expensive clinical medicine management and the much lower costs for prevention of the CVD. The output is a condensed informative, educative and action programme encompassing the following aspects of the CVD: epidemiology, social medicine, economics, information, clinical aspects, quantization, “home medicine”, research, and the future. There is a significant weakness and under-motivation of the CVD prevention in many countries. The action for CVD prevention should be comprehensive encompassing health education and health promotion activities toward healthy life styles, capacity building and strengthening, monitoring and evaluation of the policy and programme interventions impact, advancing public health policy, and engaging relevant stakeholders and sectors in partnerships in order to reverse the CVD epidemic.
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General Objectives and Methods in HIV/AIDS Surveillance
Creators: name: Tase, Adrian
name: Titu, Luminita
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Preventing transmission of virus is still the single intervention known as effective in limiting the spread of HIV infection. So, the epidemiological surveillance of HIV/AIDS is an important tool used by public health specialists in controlling epidemics. Epidemiological surveillance is a continuous process of collecting, analysing, interpreting and disseminating data in order to plan, implement and assess public health interventions. The objectives of HIV/AIDS surveillance should be specific, measurable, transformed into actions, realistic, planned to be done in due time. The main methods used by HIV/AIDS surveillance in collecting the data are biological surveillance, behavioural surveillance, other sources of information. The main indicators recommended for any HIV/AIDS programme components include the fields of politics, condoms availability and quality, social stigmatus & discrimination, knowledge, vertical transmission, sex negotiation and attitude, sexual behaviour, especially in youngsters, injection with drugs, safe blood and derivatives, STI treatment and prevention, care and social support, social & health impact. Data collected by public health surveillance systems guide the responses to the events, measure and monitor the burden of the disease, assess public health politics, etc.. Integrated approach in epidemiological surveillance takes into account, generally, the integration of all activities that have to do with epidemiological surveillance into a single service with multiple functions using the same structures, procedures and personnel. Second generation HIV/AIDS surveillance is a WHO concept developped on modular systems. The metodology in risk behaviour surveillance studies includes: justifying, behavioural risk, methods for collecting data, behavioural data value, steps in organizing behavioural surveillance studies.
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Situation Analysis of HIV/AIDS in Albania: Case-study
Creators: name: Roshi, Enver
name: Burazeri, Genc
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Albania today is still a low HIV prevalence country, but major concerns exist that since the 1990s there has been an uncontrollable increase in the risk-behaviours coupled with spontaneous massive internal and external migration, and a lack of information about the causes and prevention of HIV/AIDS. By the end of 2004, there were 149 HIV cases in Albania, of which 48 cases of AIDS (with 25 deaths). Sexual transmission, both homosexual and heterosexual, accounts for over 90% of HIV cases in Albania and the age-group most affected is 30-40 years old. The majority of reported HIV cases were acquired outside Albania. According to projections of the National HIV/AIDS Program, in 2010, the number of HIV cases might reach 10,000-15,000 if the necessary prevention measures would not be taken. Thus, after 2000, there was an emerging need for a national strategy of control and prevention of HIV/AIDS in Albania. This was due to the increasing number of new cases every year as a consequence of risky behaviors especially among the risk-sexually active population. By the end of 2003, the Ministry of Health approved the National Strategy of Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS in Albania: 2004-2010. As Albania has signed the Millennium Declaration, the approval of the National Strategy on HIV/AIDS confirms the commitment of the government to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
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Tobacco Control and Health Promotion Activities
Creators: name: Spasovski, Mome
name: Donev, Doncho
name: Arnikov, Aleksandar
name: Karadzinski, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: The use of tobacco is considered as one of the main risk factors for numerous chronic diseases, such as: lung diseases, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. 4.9 million deaths per year worldwide are tobacco related, having an increasing trend that will lead to double death toll by 2020. WHO is one of the leading organizations in the world actively involved in the health promotion activities related to tobacco consumption reduction and tobacco control. In this regard WHO prepared the Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2003, enforced on February 27, 2005. Based on the FCTC the national tobacco control programs should be comprehensive, aiming to control the use of tobacco through various actions including legislation and pricing measures, prevention through education, communication, informative campaigns in order to raise the awareness on tobacco dangers, to prevent tobacco use initiation, to stimulate smoking cessation and to create smoke free environment. WHO recommends that health promotion program should incorporate activities on smoking cessation, smoke free environment, special activities for vulnerable groups such as youth and pregnant women and activities for prevention of initiation of tobacco use. These programs should be supported by the governments through multisectoral activities emphasizing economics and legislation issues. Tobacco smoking is a widespread and serious problem affecting the health of the population in Macedonia. The National Tobacco Control Strategy in R. Macedonia (2005-2010) incorporates legislative and economic measures, health promotion and education for prevention of initiation and smoking cessation, agricultural and environmental measures.
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Quit and Win Campaign
Creators: name: Novak Mlakar, Dominika
name: Zaletel Kragelj, Lijana
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Quit and Win is a smoking cessation campaign/competition for adults. It has proved to be a cost-effective way to help a wide group of people to stop smoking. It was developed in the 1980s by the Minnesota Heart Health Program and has been widely used since then as a populationbased smoking cessation intervention. The idea of the contest is to abstain from smoking for four week period in May. At the end of this period, there is a draw for prizes among the contestants in participating countries. Abstinence is verified by a witness and by a biochemical test. One year after, there is a follow-up survey of contest participants in order to assess abstinence rates and evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign.
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Supplementary document for Observation of Strong Terahertz Field-Induced Second Harmonic Generation in Plasma Filaments - 6087121.pdf
Creators: name: Francis, Kareem Garriga
name: Chong, Mervin Lim Pac
name: E, Yiwen
name: Zhang, Xi-Cheng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Say Yes to No–smoking: Case Study Croatia
Creators: name: Civljak, Marta
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Smoking is the main health risk factor that can be avoided, but remains the largest single cause of premature death in developed countries, accounting for almost 20% of all mortality. Smoking increases the risk of approximately 30 diseases, for some of them even by 10 to 30 times. There exist different measures/intervention programmes to tackle the problem of smoking, anti-smoking campaigns being one of them. Every year, 13,000-14,000 people in Croatia die from the consequences of smoking. Although the advantages of quitting smoking are wellknown, large number of smokers find hard to give up smoking. As a response to this problem, in Croatia the campaign »Say Yes to No-smoking« was organized. As a part of this campaign, a first national »Smoke Out Day« was organized on March 2003 under the slogan »Croatia Breathes«.
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Relationships in instance segmentation and anomaly detection
Creators: name: Del Giorno, Allison
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the field of computer vision, the overarching goal is to achieve a human level of image understanding through a computational system. Progress in the field has fueled discoveries in broader artificial intelligence and machine learning, generalizing to other signals (e.g., text, sound) and goals (e.g., winning games, understanding language). Because achieving human-level perception is currently unachievable with general artificial intelligence, the field’s progress is largely measured within specific tasks. Many major advances have been motivated by these well-defined tasks, and the results have in turn driven advancements in more general artifical intelligence and machine learning.
Health Promotion in Prevention of Drug Abuse: Guideliness for Primary Prevention of Drug Abuse, Attitude and Behaviour of Youngsters – Case Study Macedonia
Creators: name: Oncheva, Silvana
name: Donev, Doncho
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Many countries in the world are facing the problem of drug use. The problem affects not just the user, but also his family and wider society. Different factors make youngsters particularly vulnerable towards drugs. Republic of Macedonia is facing significant increase in number of drug users during the last 15 years. Basic results of ESPAD survey are presented for Macedonia and other European countries. Few health education models for drug use prevention and the impact of those programs are discussed (SMART; DARE; Mia’s Diary; Just say no; WHO). Principles, based on the lessons learned from the previous experiences in different health education programs are presented.
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Introduction to Primary Care
Creators: name: Švab, Igor
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: People experience a lot of health problems during their life. They deal with most of them by themselves, an only a minority of their health concerns deserves a need for professional help. Every health care system has its medical doctor of first contact, who works in the interface of the population and health care. It is characteristic that primary health care takes care of health problems that are common.
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Psychotherapeutic Service as Integral Part of Comprehensive health Care
Creators: name: Možina, Miran
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: This module describes the history and present status of psychotherapy in Austria and Slovenia. Austrian psychotherapy is one of the most developed in the world and a good example of positive development. Slovenian psychotherapy is confronted with many problems of a country in transition.
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Palliative Care
Creators: name: Lunder, Urška
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Population ageing and the implications these present for care towards the end of life are major public health issues for 21st century. In the line with aging of the population, the pattern of diseases that people suffer and die from is also changing. Palliative care should be an integral part of health care and take place in any setting. Palliative care services are structured in three levels of ascending specialization, referred to the expertise of the staff providing the service: palliative care approach, general palliative care and specialist palliative care. Priority care needs for the three illness trajectories, for short period of evident decline (mostly cancer), for chronic illnesses with intermittent exacerbations and sudden dying (organ system failure), and for slow dwindling (mostly frailty and dementia) are different and specific palliative care services are needed through different length of time.
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Healthy Nutrition
Creators: name: Sbutega Milosevic, Gorica
name: Ilic Zivojinovic, Jelena
name: Maksimovic, Milos
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Many costly and disabling conditions - cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases - are linked by common preventable risk factors. Tobacco use, prolonged, unhealthy nutrition, physical inactivity, and excessive alcohol use are major causes and risk factors for these conditions. The ongoing nutritional transition expressed through increased consumption of high fat and high salt food products will contribute to the rising burden of heart disease, stroke, obesity and diabetes. Changes in activity patterns as a consequence of the rise of motorised transport, sedentary leisure time activities such as television watching will lead to physical inactivity in all but the poorest populations. Many diseases can be prevented, yet health care systems do not make the best use of their available resources to support this process. All too often, health care workers fail to seize patient interactions as opportunities to inform patients about health promotion and disease prevention strategies. Nutrition is an input to and foundation for health and development. Interaction of infection and malnutrition is well-documented. Better nutrition means stronger immune systems, less illness and better health. Healthy children learn better. Healthy people are stronger, are more productive and more able to create opportunities to gradually break the cycles of both poverty and hunger in a sustainable way. Better nutrition is a prime entry point to ending poverty and a milestone to achieving better quality of life.
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Violence and Injury Prevention – Challenges For Health Promotion in Macedonia
Creators: name: Tozija, Fimka
name: Spasovski, Mome
name: Karadzinska-Bislimovska, Jovanka
name: Gjorgjev, Dragan
name: Kosevska, Elena
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: World Health Organization estimated 5.1 million deaths from injuries in 2002 in the world or 9% of all deaths, disproportionately affecting the young. These are a leading cause of premature death and DALYs at age of 5 to 45 years. In Europe injuries are third leading cause of death, after cardiovascular diseases and cancers with 800,000 or 8.3%. Injuries can be avoided and prevented. Many effective strategies can be used to target high risk groups and to reduce health consequences for victims of injuries. The health sector can play a key role in injury and violence prevention and control, by providing care and services to victims, prevention and advocacy, and engaging in partnerships with other sectors and across all levels of government and society. Decreasing the burden from injuries will require political commitment across all government levels and with this the allocation of adequate resources to take these activities forward. Future challenges for injury and violence prevention and health promotion, that the countries including Macedonia would face are: developing national action plans for unintentional injury and violence prevention, forming an intersectoral injury prevention committee, improving national surveillance system, strengthening national capacity to respond to the burden of injuries and violence through both primary prevention and care, promoting evidence-based practice by facilitating the exchange of knowledge and experience across the Region, recognize gaps in knowledge and prioritize research and development in both primary prevention and care, as well as studies on costs.
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Public Health Aspects of Trafficking in Human Beings – Health Promotion and Prevention Tasks and Possibilities
Creators: name: Szilard, Istvan
name: Barath, Arpad
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: In the last decades trafficking in human being has become one of the most lucrative criminal enterprises all over the world, with strong links to other illegal activities, such as money laundering, drug trafficking, document forgery, and smuggling. The US Justice Department estimated that annually some 700,000 women and children are bought, sold, transported and held in slavery-like conditions for sexual and labour exploitation. IOM estimates that around 120,000 women and children are being trafficked into the European Union each year, primarily through the Balkans, and 10,000 women, mostly from Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, are working only in the sex trade industry in Bosnia-Herzegovina. However, trafficking is not only a criminal act against human rights and dignity, but an ever increasing public health issue as it is stated in the Budapest Declaration adopted by the participants of the ministerial level Regional Conference on Public Health & Trafficking in Human Beings in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe, held on 19-21 March 2003, in Budapest. Providing appropriate health promotion and care services for trafficked persons is not only a humanitarian obligation, but also a public health concern for countries of origin, transit and destination alike. (Eg.: Medical records from Moldavia show that some 88 per cent of the ex-victims return to their homeland with sexually transmitted infections (STI), and about the same number (84 per cent) exhibit chronic anxiety disorders with the mix of depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD). The module provides a framework not only for the assessment and treatment of specific health and mental health needs of the ex-victims of trafficking, but takes a large-scale public health perspective of a community approach to prevention and health promotion of most vulnerable social groups to this kind of abuse and violence.
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Health Promotion Glossary: Selected Terms and Comments
Creators: name: Pavlekovic, Gordana
name: Donev, Doncho
name: Zaletel Kragelj, Lijana
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

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Terminology: Individual and group Exercise
Creators: name: Jaksic, Zelimir
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

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1-026-Evaporation-ModelingScenario
Creators: name: Winkel, Brian
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2022

description: We provide data on evaporation of 91% isopropyl alcohol in six different Petri dishes and one conical funnel and on evaporation of water in one Petri dish. We ask students to develop a mathematical model for the rate of change in the respective volumes.
Development of a geothermal portfolio to meet the heat demand of Straelen
Creators: name: Kettermann, Michael
name: Ritzmann, Oliver
name: Jüstel, Alexander
name: Leist, Jana Henrike
name: Wellmann, Florian
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2023

description: In der Stadt Straelen existiert ein hoher Bedarf an Heizwärme, durch eine Fokussierung von Unterglasgartenbaubetrieben. Derzeit wird der Wärmebedarf überwiegend durch zunehmend teure, CO2 intensive Energieträger gedeckt, was eine Umstellung auf erneuerbare Energien motiviert. Es wurde daher eine Potentialuntersuchung für die Anwendung mitteltiefer bis tiefer Geothermie durchgeführt. Straelen liegt in Nordrhein-Westfalen an der Niederländischen Grenze und geologisch in der Niederrheinischen Bucht. Der Viersener Sprung mit bis zu 500 m Versatz verläuft in Nord-Süd Richtung durch das Gemeindegebiet und trennt den Krefelder Block vom Venloer Block. Regional werden der karbonische Kohlenkalk und der devonische Massenkalk als potentielle geothermische Reservoire im Untergrund vermutet. Diese können durch Verkarstung und Klüftung sekundäre Permeabilitäten von > 1 Darcy erreichen. Darüber hinaus ist der oberdevonische Condroz-Sandstein aufgrund seiner möglichen primären Permeabilität von Interesse. In dieser Studie wurde ein Strukturmodell basierend auf seismischen Bestandsdaten der Niederlande erstellt und mithilfe von Bohrungen tiefenmigriert. So konnten Tiefen und Mächtigkeiten der drei Reservoire in den entsprechenden tektonischen Stufen abgeleitet werden. Aus den Bohrungen, Offset- und Literaturdaten sowie Versenkungskurven wurden anschließend petrophysikalische Parameter wie die Porosität, Salinität oder das Net/Gross Verhältnis in Bandbreiten abgeschätzt. Basierend auf diesen Informationen wurde eine statistische Abschätzung der möglichen thermischen Leistungen aus einem Dublettenbetrieb errechnet. Neben der Berücksichtigung der Variabilität der Parameter (geologische Unsicherheit) wurde auch das Risiko betrachtet, kein nutzbares Reservoir vorzufinden (Fündigkeitsrisiko). Abschließend wurden jeweils die sog. "Levelized Cost of Heat" berechnet und mit den thermischen Leistungen und Fündigkeitsrisiko bewertet, um ein geothermisches Portfolio als Grundlage für zukünftige Entscheidungen bereit zu stellen.
Supplementary document for Ultra-fast modulation of Terahertz wave based on on-chip dual-layer near field coupling - 6087363.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Yaxin
name: Ding, Kesen
name: Zeng, Hongxin
name: Kou, Wei
name: Zhou, Tianchi
name: Zhou, Hongji
name: Gong, Sen
name: ting, zhang
name: Wang, Lan
name: Liang, Shixiong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: supplementary document revised
Primary Health Care
Creators: name: Jakšić, Želimir
name: Kovačić, Luka
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Primary health care is essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community. It is a base and the entrance of the whole health care system, often has the role of gate keeper. It has to be organized according to social realities in which communities live and work. The health system is developed relatively well among the countries in the South Eastern European region. The heath personnel are well-trained and public health services are well established and organized. Around 30% of general practitioners are specialists in family medicine. Health care services in Croatia are organized on three levels: primary, secondary and tertiary. On primary level operate general/family medicine, paediatric, gynaecological and dental practices, public health nursing, diagnostic laboratories and supporting services and pharmacies. The core of primary health services in Croatia are general/family medicine, paediatric services and community nurses. According to the Health Insurance Act in Croatia, there are three main health insurance schemes: basic, supplementary and private health insurance.
description: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe, Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe. Vol. 5: Management in Health Care Practice:  A Handbook for Teachers, Researchers and Health Professionals
5-040-TunedMassDamper-Part-I-Modeling Scenario
Creators: name: Winkel, Brian
name: Landry, Keith
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2022

description: We offer an opportunity to build mathematical models to mitigate dangerous displacements in structures using structural improvements called Tuned Mass Dampers. We model the motion of the original structure as a spring-mass-dashpot system.
Selective vs. Integrated PHC
Creators: name: Jakšić, Želimir
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: The major division of health care appeared in many societies between private curative and public preventive health care. This influenced all types of health services, hospitals and primary health care units, as well as education of professionals and research. The opponents of integration have been pointing out negative experiences with integration because preventive services often have been ""eaten up"" by curative services. A special service is used in vertical programs as a vehicle to provide necessary procedures and activities to cover groups ""at risk"". There are several characteristics of vertical programs which determine their role in primary health care, which are analyzed in this module.
description: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe, Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe. Vol. 5: Management in Health Care Practice:  A Handbook for Teachers, Researchers and Health Professionals
Role of Hospitals at the Beginning of the New Millenium
Creators: name: Jakšić, Želimir
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: During a long history, hospitals were continuously changing so that diversity is one of their characteristics. Being a part of a local culture, they also reflect general global trends. At present, the winds of globalisation are stronger, following an overall trend in technology and economics. Changes in technologies will induce changes in management (“new plants do not survive in old pots”). New imaging technologies need a better clinical feed-back, and the pattern of “industry-like” hospital, where specialists work in their narrow fields on a production-line becomes inappropriate for them. Human resource management becomes more important than economic and technical management dominating at present
description: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe, Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe. Vol. 5: Management in Health Care Practice:  A Handbook for Teachers, Researchers and Health Professionals
title: Teacher Educator Enhancement Workshop 1 Agenda
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Teacher Education and Professional Development

description: GOAL: To present and practice the overall principles and tools of the TEEP program (Learning Circle development, Action Research Inquiry, and Portfolio development) OBJECTIVES: At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: Recognize multiple ways of knowing, learning, teaching, and approaching problems of practice State sources of information about problems of practice State approaches to address problems of practice Define and describe the Action Research Inquiry Cycle Use the Action Research Package to practice AR between workshop days Define and describe the use of the Portfolio of Professional Practice Explain what are useful data that constitute credible AR and portfolio evidence DURATION: 2 groups of Teacher Educators, all disciplines 2 days - 6 hours per day Refer to table below for the revised schedule for Arabic, English, Math, Science & Technology Teacher Educators
Mental Health Care
Creators: name: Švab, Vesna
name: Zaletel-Kragelj, Lijana
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Mental health conceptualize a state of well-being, perceived self efficacy, competence, autonomy, intergenerational dependence and recognition of the ability to realize one's intellectual and emotional potential. Mental health care are services provided to individuals or communities by agents of the health services or professions to promote, maintain, monitor, or restore mental health. Students will become familiar with extensiveness of the problem, and levels of preventing it. It is illustrated by the case of Slovenia.
description: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe, Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe. Vol. 5: Management in Health Care Practice:  A Handbook for Teachers, Researchers and Health Professionals
Mental Health in Community Life
Creators: name: Galan, Adriana
name: Scintee, Silvia-Gabriela
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: Mental health is considered a public health problem due to the following particularities of the mental diseases: high incidence and prevalence; long term duration, with consequences over family, social and professional life; cause severe disability; high cost imposed on individual, family and community; associated stigma and discrimination. The main determinants of mental health are: socio-economic, demographic and psychological factors. Public health can bring a major contribution to the improvement of mental health by its main functions, such as: needs evaluation, priority setting, policy development, health promotion and disease prevention, mental health services research and development. According to WHO recommendations, mental health services should be organized based on principles of accessibility, coordinated care, continuity of care, effectiveness, equity and respect for human rights. As well, mental health care should be provided through general health services and community settings. Large and centralized psychiatric institutions need to be replaced by other more appropriate mental health services. The shifting of patients from mental hospitals to care in the community should be based, primarily on the existence of a mental health policy that promotes the development of community-based care. Policies should be drawn up with the involvement of all stakeholders and should be based upon up-to-date and reliable information. Mental health policy and service provision should take into account the context of general health systems organization and financing. For a successful implementation of the mental health policy, political, legislative, financial and administrative support is required.
description: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe, Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe. Vol. 5: Management in Health Care Practice:  A Handbook for Teachers, Researchers and Health Professionals