cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploring Mental Health Clinicians’ Experiences and Perceptions of Supporting Sex Workers with their Mental Health in Mainstream Service Settings
Creators: name: BARTLETT, LAURA KIMBERLEY
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: "Background: Sex workers face challenges to their mental health including experiences of stigma, discrimination, and violence. Therefore, mental health clinicians need to be able to provide sex workers with non-judgmental care and support. It has been highlighted that by focusing on psychopathology, research with sex workers contributes to unhelpful pathologizing assumptions in clinical practice. Additionally, a pathology-based focus risks neglecting the resilience, strengths, and coping skills of sex workers. Resilience is defined as the ability to overcome adversity and can encompass individual and social resources. Developing understanding of the resilience of sex workers can reduce pathologization and stigma, and inform strengths-based support and interventions. The aim of this review was to address the question: How do sex workers demonstrate resilience in relation to the challenges they experience?
description: Method: Electronic searches were completed using Psychology Cross Search (including PsychINFO and MEDLINE). Fourteen eligible studies were identified from the initial 208 results found. Eligible studies were reviewed using a qualitative quality appraisal tool and a thematic synthesis of study findings was completed.
description: Findings: Three main themes were developed regarding sex workers’ resilience at the individual/personal, the collective/community level, and demonstrations of resilience through resistance and defining their own narratives.
description: Conclusions: Qualitative research around the resilience of sex workers is limited. Implications for practice and future research are discussed, including the need for further research with an explicit and primary focus upon the resilience of sex workers as well as longitudinal research to explore the different trajectories of sex workers’ resilience."
Impressum
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

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Neues aus dem Asienhaus
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

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Generalizing Prototype Theory : A Formal Quantum Framework
Creators: name: Aerts, Diederik, 1953-
name: Broekaert, Jan
name: Gabora, Liane
name: Sozzo, Sandro
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media
Year: 2018

description: Theories of natural language and concepts have been unable to model the ﬂexibility, creativity, context-dependence, and emergence, exhibited by words, concepts and their combinations. The mathematical formalism of quantum theory has instead been successful in capturing these phenomena such as graded membership, situational meaning, composition of categories, and also more complex decision making situations, which cannot be modeled in traditional probabilistic approaches. We show how a formal quantum approach to concepts and their combinations can provide a powerful extension of prototype theory. We explain how prototypes can interfere in conceptual combinations as a consequence of their contextual interactions, and provide an illustration of this using an intuitive wave-like diagram. This quantum-conceptual approach gives new life to original prototype theory, without however making it a privileged concept theory, as we explain at the end of our paper.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Grabowski, Maike
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
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The role of the nectin1 receptor in HSV1 infection of human keratinocytes
Creators: name: Kite, Joanne
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Primary HSV1 infection occurs in the keratinocytes that form the stratified epithelium of
description: human skin and mucosa. Despite HSV1 entry being a well studied aspect of the viral biology,
description: relatively few studies have been performed in the physiologically relevant keratinocyte cell.
description: In this thesis nTERT keratinocytes were used as a relevant, yet tractable, model to investigate
description: the role of the nectin1 in HSV1 entry.

description:

description: A CRISPR-cas9 knockout (KO) of nectin1 was generated resulting in a cell line that was
description: refractory to efficient HSV1 infection. Re-introduction of the receptor restored susceptibility
description: to HSV1 infection. However, a small subpopulation of KO cells were still able to support
description: infection. At later times post-infection KO cells, which were originally resistant to infection,
description: also became infected. This was found to be via direct cell-to-cell spread of HSV1 in a process
description: that was dependent on both viral genome replication and nuclear egress. Transmission in the
description: KO cells was also reliant on viral glycoproteins gD and gE-gI, but siRNA depletion of the second
description: major entry receptor HVEM or cellular protein PTP1B had no effect on spread. These results
description: indicate that nectin1 is absolutely required for efficient HSV1 entry into keratinocytes, but is
description: dispensible for cell-to-cell spread.

description:

description: Nectin1 was highly expressed on nTERT keratinocytes allowing observation of endogenous
description: nectin1 during HSV1 infection. Nectin1 was found to be specifically downregulated in HSV1
description: infected keratinocyte cells in a two step process. At early times post infection nectin1 formed
description: large macrodomains on the cell surface then, at later times post-infection, these domains
description: were removed or degraded in a proteasome dependent manner, that was also reliant on
description: gD synthesis
Der stille Abgang des Salamat Hashim: Notizen zum Tod des Vorsitzenden der Moro Islamischen Befreiungsfront
Creators: name: Werning, Rainer
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Mitte März 2000. Eine sengende Hitze hatte den Süden der Philippinen im Griff. Als letzte »westliche Langnase« sollte ich das Privileg genießen, ungehindert und ausführlich mit Salamat Hashim und anderen Führungspersönlichkeiten der Moro Islamischen Befreiungsfront (Moro Islamic Liberation Front, MILF) in deren Hauptquartier Camp Abubakar zu sprechen. Zu ­ vor hatte im etwa 800 Kilometer nördlich gelegenen Manila ein durchgeknallter philippinischer Präsident, der Ex-Schauspieler und noch immer wegen Korruption im Gefängnis einsitzende Joseph Estrada, eben jener MILF »den totalen Krieg« erklärt
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22 Stunden, die es in sich haben: Über die Meuterei vom 27. Juli und ihre Folgen für die philippinische Gesellschaft
Creators: name: Guerrero, Dorothy
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die 321 Soldaten, die an der nur 22 Stunden währenden »Meuterei« beteiligt gewesen sind - nun stehen sie vor Gericht. Und auch wenn kein Schuss gefallen ist, niemand ums Leben gekommen ist und die Regierung nicht gestürzt wurde, so hat die Wirtschaft doch erwartungsgemäß Blessuren davon getragen.
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Flexible Electricity Generation from Anaerobic Digestion of Sewage Sludge
Creators: name: LAFRATTA, MAURO
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: The UK is a global leader in the decarbonisation of its electricity grid. However, the main renewable sources, wind and solar, are intermittent and weather dependent. Therefore, other flexible sources need to be able to rapidly increase generation when needed. Within the national system, the water industry is a large user and generator of electricity from anaerobic digestion (AD) of sewage sludge. This work aimed at investigating how the sewage sludge-to-electricity generation system can be made flexible and provide such on-demand renewable power generation.
description: This project’s innovation lies in the fundamental concepts of how AD is designed and operated. Specific feeding regimes were designed to increase the biogas production rate at peak time and tested initially at laboratory scale (0.0009 m3 active volume), then at pilot scale (0.05 m3) to test multiple conditions under conventional and advanced configurations and finally at demonstration scale (18 m3) to confirm the scalability of the results in a relevant operational environment.
description: The final step of the experimental research has been to put this concept in operational practice at full-scale (3,800 m3). Supported by a new dynamic kinetics AD model, appropriate feeding regimes were designed and implemented, and the biogas production rate increased at peak time as predicted. After the successful completion of the trial, this operational solution is currently implemented in business as usual.
description: This research work proved that by implementing an appropriate control of AD, the process can produce more biogas in peak periods to generate electricity when the grid’s prices and carbon emissions peak.
description: Economic, environmental, and societal benefits exist, making this solution more sustainable than existing practices: Flexible generation and dynamic control of AD increases financial and operational resiliency by significantly reducing operational costs and health and safety risks and contributing to the development of a fully decarbonised national power system.
Vom Segen in die Traufe: Bevölkerungsprobleme in den Philippinen
Creators: name: Aurin, Heike
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Selbst wenn sich viele Menschen schon heute über die schwierigen Lebensbedingungen beklagen, so ist dies nicht mit dem zu vergleichen, was zukünftige Generationen in den Philippinen erwartet. Kürzlich erschienene Artikel zur zukünftigen Bevölkerungsentwicklung sagen eine deutliche Verschlechterung der Lebensbedingungen bereits zu Beginn des nächsten Jahrzehnts vorher.
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A Thesis of Clinical Research and Practice: Part A: A Systematic Review of Which Child, Family and Other Contextual Factors are Associated with the Presence of Optimal Bedtime Routines for Children; Part B: The Development and Feasibility of a Sleep Resource for 3–6-year-old children to be Used with Caregivers as Part of the Bedtime Routine; Part C: Summary of Clinical Practice and Assessments
Creators: name: Tapping, Alexander John
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Sleep is a vital part of healthy human functioning for all ages and for children a critical part of healthy growth and development. Despite this, childhood sleep problems are common and there is a need for more accessible interventions for families to improve sleep habits. Central to improving sleep outcomes for children, is the implementation of optimal bedtime routines. This thesis aimed to examine which factors are associated with the implementation of optimal bedtime routines for children and to develop a resource that families could use as part of the bedtime routine at home. Part A of this portfolio presents a narrative review of factors associated with the implementation of optimal and sub-optimal bedtime routines for children. The findings of this review highlight a range of child, family and other contextual factors that impact bedtime routine implementation. It adds to and extends an already existing model to help conceptualise these dynamic processes. Part B presents an empirical paper that developed and evaluated the feasibility of a sleep resource for 3–6-year-old children and their parents/caregivers. The findings provided participant feedback of their experience of using the resource, indications as to its initial efficacy and the feasibility of the resource's future evaluation using a larger randomised control trial design.
Die Freiheit nehm' ich mir: Fortpflanzung und sexuelle Selbstbestimmung – ein Lagebericht zu »Reproductive Health«
Creators: name: [Philippinische Frauengesundheitsorganisation], Likhaan
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Rebecca braucht dringend Ruhe. Sie liegt auf einer Matte auf dem Boden und versucht zu schlafen, doch ihre beiden kleinen Kinder, die lärmend ums Haus toben, hindern sie daran. »Ich bin andauernd müde, aber es ist für mich unmöglich auszuruhen.« sagt sie und zeigt auf einen Berg Kleidungsstücke, die gewaschen werden müssen.
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Walang Problema? AIDS in den Philippinen
Creators: name: Reese, Niklas
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: HIV/ AIDS scheint für die Philippinen noch kein Problem zu sein. Während Ende 2001 in Asien 7,1 Millionen Menschen an AIDS erkrankt sein sollen und jedes Jahr mindestens 800.000 Menschen dazu kommen, die sich mit dem Hl-Virus infiziert haben, galten zur gleichen Zeit in den Philippinen gerade einmal 10.000 Menschen als mit HIV-infiziert (Tendenz der Neuansteckungen nur leicht steigend). Von 200.000 Erwachsenen hätte demnach gerade einmal einer HIV/AIDS, das ist 43 mal weniger als etwa in Thailand. Zwischen Januar 1984 und April 2003 hat das Gesundheitsministerium gerade einmal 1.884 AIDS-Erkrankungen registriert, 1.156 von ihnen Männer, die meisten zwischen 20 und 39.
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Analysis of the temporal model of perceived control in response to an imagined traumatic event: investigation of the measurement model and the relationships among temporal orientations and individual characteristics
Creators: name: Williamson, Danielle
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis applied a theory of meaning-making developed in the context of traumatic or stressful life events, the Temporal Model of Perceived Control, to a new context - that of an imagined traumatic event. The TMPC proposes that meaning-making has a temporal dimension (it can focus on the past, present or future) and that this orientation is linked to psychological outcomes. The current study explored whether these orientations are pre-existing biases and the linkages they have to other psychological characteristics. The results demonstrated that present control was the most robust of the orientations, and that it had significant negative relationships with Ambivalent Attachment Type and Neuroticism, and significant positive relationships with Optimism and Male gender. These findings are applicable to clinical practice in supporting interventions that enhance a present control focus.
Continuous Learning of Inverse Problems with Applications to Structure from Motion
Creators: name: TOSO, MATTEO
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: This thesis deals with the problem of improving classical methods for scene reconstruction via multi-view geometry, by combining them with modern, deep learning techniques. This is related to the problem of taking inverse problems, solved by minimising an energy function, and including them into pipelines containing deep network elements. Ideally, training these pipelines end-to-end should allow benefiting from the best of both worlds, combining the flexibility and ability to learn problem solving from data of deep networks, and the carefully designed and easily interpretable energy functions of classical inverse problems. The main issue, however, is that such inverse problems are often non-differentiable: while in many cases it is possible to unroll the optimisation process and propagate gradients through it, storing gradients for each step is memory intensive. Moreover, some optimisers are non-differentiable; this is the case for Levenberg-Marquardt, which is the gold standard for many inverse problems.
description: This thesis makes four main contributions: (i) the first involves improving the energy function of a model in which the inverse problem admits a closed-form-solution and is therefore differentiable; since this is not the case for most inverse problems, (ii) the second contribution is to formulate a general framework, called “Wibergian learning”, that allows computing the gradient from the energy optimisation output independently of the optimiser. This process is reminiscent of implicit differentiation but is stable for a larger class of problems. (iii) The next contribution is using this framework to turn the non-differentiable Bundle Adjustment (BA) component of a pre-existing pipeline into a single differentiable layer, and (iv) investigating whether such a layer may be included in a different pipeline, containing deep networks and trained end-to-end.
description: The first three contributions were successfully carried out, and this thesis provides experimental results to validate them. The pipelines introduced in contribution (iv) were less successful, showing poor generalisation. However, ablative studies suggest that such limitations are likely due to the training data and the chosen deep networks, and not to the BA layer. Moreover, such experiments still provide important information about the generalisation gap and the main source of error in similar pipelines.
description: Overall, these contributions and the corresponding experiments show how geometry-based inverse problems can be significantly improved by combining them with deep learning tools, and how the framework introduced at point (ii) can successfully be applied to pre-existing models.
description: Email: matteotoso@msn.com
Laser diode-based ultrafast crosslinking of cell-encapsulated gelatin methacrylate hydrogels
Creators: name: Wang, Zongjie
name: Jin, Xian
name: Dai, Ru
name: Samanipour, Roya
name: Boddeda, Akash
name: Holzman, Jonathan F.
name: Kim, Keekyoung
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2018

Abstract
An Investigation for the use of Wastes from Four Plant Materials in Paper Production: Ananas Comosus L, Musa Paradisiaca L, Saccharum Officinarum L And Zea Mays L.
Creators: name: West African Journal of Educational Administration And Planning
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Journal
Thesis
Publications

description: This study investigates the potential use of waste from four plant materials—Ananas comosus (pineapple), Musa paradisiaca (plantain), Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane), and Zea mays (maize)—in paper production, evaluating their suitability for sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives to conventional paper sources.
Behandlung hat ihren Preis: Warum Medikamente in den Philippinen so teuer sind
Creators: name: (Council For Health And Development), CHD
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Philippinen haben keine eigene Pharmaindustrie. Sie sind daher abhängig von multinationalen pharmazeutischen Unternehmen und dem Import bereits fertiger Medikamente. Diese Importe — aus den USA, Großbritannien, Kanada, Deutschland, Schweiz und Schweden — haben sich zwischen 1993 und 1998 von 14,8 Millionen auf 29,2 Millionen US-Dollar verdoppelt.
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Ethical issues for psychological practice in a large organisation
Creators: name: Menezes, Glen Gerard William
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Societies in general have had a long-standing concern with the ethical behaviour of professionals. The current study described the role codes of ethical behaviour have played in the development of professions such as psychology. Various ethical theories were discussed, including two approaches that have been focussed on psychology: Principle and virtue ethics. The evolution of psychology’s professional associations in Australia and other English speaking countries was outlined together with the development of ethics codes which set minimum standards of expected ethical behaviour and aim to protect psychologists’ clients. While overseas studies have found that the ethical issues many psychologists report as most troubling are confidentiality and dual role relationships, these studies typically sample counselling or clinical psychologists. Very few studies have investigated the ethical issues confronting Australian psychologists who work in organisations. The primary aim of this study was to identify, categorise and analyse the ethical issues confronted by psychologists employed in an Australia-wide organisation. Seventy-eight psychologists working in the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) were surveyed on a range of ethical beliefs and practices. They were also invited to describe real-life incidents from their work in which they had perceived an ethical conflict. The survey results showed that whilst the sample agreed on a number of ethical issues there was also a marked lack of consensus on a broad range of beliefs and practises that are regularly dealt with by ADF psychologists. The ethical dilemmas described by the psychologists were categorised according to four different frameworks identified in the literature. These were based on two empirical studies (MacKay & O’Neill, 1995; Pope & Vetter, 1992), the three ethical principles of the APS Code of Ethics (2002) and Kitchener’s (1984) ethical principles for psychologists. Quantitative and qualitative results suggested that, for psychologists working in an organisation, the dual relationships intrinsic to such a working environment generate a range of ethical issues, particularly related.
A Thesis of Clinical Research and Practice: Part A: Disclosing Racial Trauma in Psychological Therapy: Exploring the Experiences of Racially Minoritised People in the UK; Part B: Cultivating Cultural Humility in Clinical Psychology Training: Bridging the ‘Competency’/‘Humility’ Gap; Part C: Summary of Clinical Practice and Assessments
Creators: name: Samuel, Nicole Katherine Sevornie
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: In clinical psychology and the wider psychological professions, racialised disparities are
description: longstanding and well-documented. These inequities are exacerbated by the dearth of attention
description: afforded to racism and cultural humility within training curricula, and difficulties experienced
description: by trainees, qualified clinicians and trainers alike related to talking about race and racism.
description: However, given the pervasiveness of racism throughout our society, and its traumatic impact,
description: psychological professionals, trainers and supervisors must be equipped to respond sensitively
description: to racial trauma to avoid perpetuating further racial harm. This thesis aims to explore how these
description: issues might be addressed. Part A of this portfolio presents an empirical study of racially
description: minoritised people’s experiences of disclosing racial trauma in psychological therapy in the
description: UK. The findings highlighted a range of harms and burdens imposed on participants by
description: therapists’ insensitivity, ignorance or inadequate containment of their own emotional responses
description: to disclosures, as well as ways in which therapists were experienced to demonstrate
description: understanding and validation, and to promote healing. Part B presents a conceptual paper which
description: reviews the concept of cultural humility and its relevance to clinical psychology; explores a
description: variety of pedagogical approaches used to promote this stance across a number of disciplines;
description: and considers how the cross-disciplinary literature informs our understanding of how cultural
description: humility can be promoted within the competence-based field of clinical psychology training.
description: Taken together, both papers’ findings emphasise the critical importance of both: a) increasing
description: knowledge of racialised operations of power, privilege, marginalisation and oppression and our
description: collective socialisation into these systems; and, b) increasing racial self-reflexivity in order to
description: safeguard and minimise harm towards racially minoritised clients, trainees and colleagues we
description: work with, in order to promote greater racial equity within our professions. A whole-systems
description: commitment is required from trainers and trainees, supervisors, professional bodies and policy
description: makers for meaningful and sustained change to occur.
Krankenschwestern nach Übersee
Creators: name: Santos, Jocelyn
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Bach Angaben der Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO sind die Philippinen bereits der größte Exporteur von ausgebildeten Krankenschwestern. Philippinische Krankenschwestern sind im Ausland gefragt wegen ihrer Pflegekenntnisse und des ihnen geläufigen Englisch; derzeit arbeiten 300.000 von ihnen in aller Welt. Für 2001 wurden 13.536 auswandernde Krankenschwestern behördlich registriert, doppelt so viele wie im Vorjahr. Sie gingen in 131 verschiedene Länder.
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Fakten zu Gesundheit
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Mehrheit der 64 Millionen Filipinos, von denen 29 Millionen in städtischen Ballungsräumen und 35 Millionen auf dem Land leben, kann sich keine angemessene Gesundheitsversorgung leisten; zu ungleich ist das medizinische Personal verteilt und zu teuer sind Medizin und Gesundheitsdienstleistungen.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 3 (2003): Gesundheit! Schönheit! Langes Leben! – Gesundheit und Bevölkerung in Südostasien
The influence of corticosteroid treatment on the outcome of influenza A(H1N1pdm09)-related critical illness
Creators: name: Delaney, Jesse W
name: Pinto, Ruxandra
name: Long, Jennifer
name: Lamontagne, François
name: Adhikari, Neill K
name: Kumar, Anand
name: Marshall, John C
name: Cook, Deborah J
name: Jouvet, Philippe
name: Ferguson, Niall D
name: Griesdale, Donald
name: Burry, Lisa D
name: Burns, Karen E A
name: Hutchison, Jamie
name: Mehta, Sangeeta
name: Menon, Kusum
name: Fowler, Robert A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Patients with 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1pdm09)-related critical illness were frequently treated with systemic corticosteroids. While observational studies have reported significant corticosteroid-associated mortality after adjusting for baseline differences in patients treated with corticosteroids or not, corticosteroids have remained a common treatment in subsequent influenza outbreaks, including avian influenza A(H7N9). Our objective was to describe the use of corticosteroids in these patients and investigate predictors of steroid prescription and clinical outcomes, adjusting for both baseline and time-dependent factors. Methods: In an observational cohort study of adults with H1N1pdm09-related critical illness from 51 Canadian ICUs, we investigated predictors of steroid administration and outcomes of patients who received and those who did not receive corticosteroids. We adjusted for potential baseline confounding using multivariate logistic regression and propensity score analysis and adjusted for potential time-dependent confounding using marginal structural models. Results: Among 607 patients, corticosteroids were administered to 280 patients (46.1 %) at a median daily dose of 227 (interquartile range, 154–443) mg of hydrocortisone equivalents for a median of 7.0 (4.0–13.0) days. Compared with patients who did not receive corticosteroids, patients who received corticosteroids had higher hospital crude mortality (25.5 % vs 16.4 %, p = 0.007) and fewer ventilator-free days at 28 days (12.5 ± 10.7 vs 15.7 ± 10.1, p < 0.001). The odds ratio association between corticosteroid use and hospital mortality decreased from 1.85 (95 % confidence interval 1.12–3.04, p = 0.02) with multivariate logistic regression, to 1.71 (1.05–2.78, p = 0.03) after adjustment for propensity score to receive corticosteroids, to 1.52 (0.90–2.58, p = 0.12) after case-matching on propensity score, and to 0.96 (0.28–3.28, p = 0.95) using marginal structural modeling to adjust for time-dependent between-group differences. Conclusions: Corticosteroids were commonly prescribed for H1N1pdm09-related critical illness. Adjusting for only baseline between-group differences suggested a significant increased risk of death associated with corticosteroids. However, after adjusting for time-dependent differences, we found no significant association between corticosteroids and mortality. These findings highlight the challenges and importance in adjusting for baseline and time-dependent confounders when estimating clinical effects of treatments using observational studies.
Strukturanpassung schadet Ihrer Gesundheit: Strukturanpassungsprogramme im Gesundheitssektor
Creators: name: (Citizens Assessment Of Structural Adjustment), CASA
name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Seit den 80er-Jahren setzte die Regierung eine Reihe von Strukturanpassungsprogrammen (SAPs) um, die ihr vom Internationalen Währungsfonds und von der Weltbank auferlegt worden waren, um der Schieflage bei der Handelsbilanz, dem Haushaltsdefizit und der gewaltigen Auslandsverschuldung zu begegnen. (Der Artikel ist eine stark gekürzte Fassung des Abschlussberichtes des Citizens Assessment of Structural Adjustment (CASA) Philippines im Rahmen der Initiative »Strukturanpassung auf dem Prüfstand«, 2002.)
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»Als Tochter dieses Landes musste ich etwas tun!« Zeugnisse der Terra de Sol Nascente — Führungsfrauen in Osttimor
Creators: name: Fleschenberg, Andrea
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Auszüge aus einem Gespräch, das Andrea Fleschenberg mit Olandina Caeiro, der Vorsitzenden und Mitbegründerin der osttimoresischen Frauenorganisation ETWAVE und Kommissarin der Wahrheitskommission CAVR, am 31. Juli in Arrábida, Portugal, führte.
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Hepatitis C treatment outcomes among people who inject drugs co-infected with HIV in Manipur, India
Creators: name: M Himanshu
name: WL Oo
name: A Cavalheiro
name: A Mesic
name: J Shougrakpam
name: P Gurung
name: K Romeo Singh
name: M Lekkerkerker
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Poster presented at MSF Scientific Days International (London), May 13/14, 2020
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Arnez, Monika
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 3 (2003): Gesundheit! Schönheit! Langes Leben! – Gesundheit und Bevölkerung in Südostasien
Es hätte nicht besser laufen können: Das Juni-Treffen der ASEAN war für Indonesien seit langem wieder ein Erfolg
Creators: name: Borgerhoff, Andre
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Das diesjährige (2003) Juni-Treffen der ASEAN in Phnom Penh hätte für Indonesien nicht besser laufen können: Einerseits gewann Jakarta den ein ­ stimmigen Rückhalt der Gemeinschaft in der militärischen Bekämpfung des Separatismus in Aceh. Andererseits gelang es der Regierung mit dem Vorschlag einer ASEAN Security Community (ASC) wieder eine potenziell bedeutende Initiative auf den Weg zu bringen, wie sie von Indonesien seit dem Ende Suhartos nur noch selten hervorgebracht wurde.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 3 (2003): Gesundheit! Schönheit! Langes Leben! – Gesundheit und Bevölkerung in Südostasien
The lived experience of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) surgery : a narrative exploration.
Creators: name: Rist, Nicola
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Objectives: In the United Kingdom (UK), laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) surgery is available to obese individuals who meet the National Institute for Clinical Excellence criteria (NICE, 2014). The literature suggests that LAGB surgery can provide an effective route to weight-loss and other health benefits for some but not all individuals, and these benefits are not always maintained in the longer term. There is a current gap in the literature exploring the longer-term (>5 years) impact of LAGB surgery on individuals in a UK sample. The present study used narrative analysis to explore the lived-experience of obesity, and the role of LAGB in managing weight loss and diabetes, 5-years post-surgery for seven female patients with type-2 diabetes to better understand these mixed findings. Design: Secondary analysis of a primary qualitative dataset was used, applying a retrospective narrative approach. Results: Participants provided rich accounts of their lived-experience of obesity (pre-surgery) and their five-year journey thereafter. Individual case analysis revealed participant’s core narratives, including the ‘episodes’, characters and emotional tone. The process of cross-analysis identified four main themes (and 20 subthemes): 1. My Weight Is Beyond My Control, 2. The Band is Not a Miracle Cure, 3. Everything’s Changed but Not Me, 4. Change Occurs Within a System. Conclusions: Findings suggest that participants experienced their weight as beyond their control and they were seeking the LAGB to provide an external source of control. While the band satisfies this need to some extent it also presents challenges and does not address the fundamental psychological problems that underlie obesity. To support and maintain effective weight loss, services might consider psychological support to address the psychological and behavioural mechanisms underlying obesity. Further research is now needed to develop a theoretical model, which addresses all aspects of the bio-psychosocial nature of obesity in relation to LAGB surgery, which can be used clinically to inform weight-management services
Schlussverkauf am Regenwald – Palmölplantagen oder: wie wirtschaftlich ist Raubbau?
Creators: name: Paukert, Cornelia
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Indonesien hält noch immer den unrühmlichen Rekord der weltweit höchsten Entwaldungsrate. Jährlich werden dort etwa zwei bis 2,4 Millionen Hektar Wald vor allem für Palmölplantagen und zur Holzgewinnung vernichtet. Kein Wunder: Palmöl und Holz gehören zu den lukrativsten Exportgütern.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 3 (2003): Gesundheit! Schönheit! Langes Leben! – Gesundheit und Bevölkerung in Südostasien
»Scharlatanerie«? — Weit gefehlt! Jamu: Ein Beispiel traditioneller Medizin
Creators: name: Liebich, Evelyn
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Im malaiischen Raum und insbesondere in Indonesien werden pflanzliche Medikamente, traditionelle Heilmittel und kosmetische Produkte als Jamu bezeichnet. Sie bestehen meist aus verschiedenen Ingredienzien, zum Beispiel aus Wurzelextrakten, Rinden, Blüten etcetera, die zum Eigengebrauch häufig selbst hergestellt werden, die man jedoch auch als Getränk, in Form von Pasten und Salben und neuerdings auch in Pillenform kaufen kann.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 3 (2003): Gesundheit! Schönheit! Langes Leben! – Gesundheit und Bevölkerung in Südostasien
Ground reaction force analysed with correlation coefficient matrix in group of stroke patients.
Creators: name: Szczerbik, Ewa
name: Krawczyk, Maciej
name: Syczewska, Małgorzata
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2014
Subjects: ground reaction force, correlation coefficient, stroke

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 02/2014; ISSN 1509-409X
The Development of Novel Yolk@Shell Catalysts for the Thermochemical Conversion of CO2
Creators: name: PRICE, CAMERON ALEXANDER
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: CO2 is a plentiful feedstock for reactions that converts this waste material into a valuable source of chemicals and fuels. The current technology used in this field is complex supported metal nanoparticles, popularised by simplistic synthetic routes and reaction applicability. This morphology is highly prone to sintering, which can, in turn, cause carbon deposit formation (coke) on the surface that blocks the active sites.
description: A promising method to improve upon these issues is the variation of the catalytic morphology; encapsulation of the active phase to produce Yolk@Shell particles. Results from the “proof of concept” NiZnO@SiO2 material proved varied; the catalyst demonstrated impressive longevity within the dry reforming of methane, surpassing the internal comparisons by a significant margin, but deactivated. The second chapter sought to improve upon the sample homogeneity and explore their reverse water gas shift reaction performance. The NiCo@SiO2 catalysts performed admirably and suggested advanced product formation after a mass spectrometry study. This finding suggests that the Yolk@Shell structure is capable of increasing internal pressure, allowing new reaction mechanisms to occur. The third catalyst was a reimagining of a traditional catalyst (Cu/ZnO@Mo2C) in the Yolk@Shell morphology. In addition to favourable longevity and reactive selectivity, complex organic product formation was also seen, again linked to the Yolk@Shell structure. The final catalyst developed for this thesis was a preliminary study aiming to combine single-atom catalysts and the encapsulation. Catalytic testing displayed impressive CO2 conversion and longevity, with no sintering or coke. While the XRD results show that single-atom sites were not achieved, however further work could see these two structures combined successfully.
description: Overall, this thesis is based on synthetic development and reactive studies to produce highly effective catalysts for the thermal conversion of CO2, while remaining facile and highly resistant to deactivation. It is hoped that this work will inspire more imaginative methods of catalytic development and investigation to further the field as a whole and not just thermal CO2 utilisation.
Motion planning for mobile surgery assistant
Creators: name: Pająk, Grzegorz
name: Pająk, Iwona
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2014
Subjects: mobile manipulator, path following, trajectory planning, surgery assistant

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 02/2014; ISSN 1509-409X
Legitimes Recht oder Neokolonialismus? Die Patentierung von Naturheilpflanzen
Creators: name: Yudea, Heny
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Wenn die Trockenzeit bei uns im Dorf so verläuft wie dieses Jahr, sind viele Flüsse und Bäche ausgetrocknet. Die Reisfelder bringen nur geringe Erträge ein und die Menschen in den Trockengebieten können sich nur eine Mahlzeit am Tag leisten. Die Älteren, die nicht mehr arbeitsfähig sind, essen dann gezwungenermaßen »nasi aking«, die in der Sonne getrockneten Reste von gekochtem Reis. »Nasi aking« muss in der 15 Kilometer entfernten Stadt gekauft werden und wird normalerweise nur als Entenfutter verwendet.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 3 (2003): Gesundheit! Schönheit! Langes Leben! – Gesundheit und Bevölkerung in Südostasien
In Angriff genommen: Der Aufbau der Sozialen Krankenversicherung
Creators: name: Lankers, Christoph
name: Hohmann, Jürgen
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Bislang hat nur jeder siebte Indonesier eine Krankenversicherung, meist noch ohne vollständige Deckung bei schweren Krankheiten. Über 80 Prozent der Bevölkerung sind auf die medizinische Grundversorgung in staatlichen Gesundheitszentren angewiesen, die in der Regel nur bei leichten Erkrankungen helfen können. Seit dem Amtsantritt von Präsidentin Megawati hat sich der politische Wille der Regierung, eine soziale Krankenversicherung für die gesamte Bevölkerung aufzubauen, konkretisiert. Ein Gesetzentwurf liegt seit kurzem vor.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 3 (2003): Gesundheit! Schönheit! Langes Leben! – Gesundheit und Bevölkerung in Südostasien
Advancing optical coherence tomography angiography towards the better diagnosis of cutaneous microvascular disease
Creators: name: Durrani, Abdullah Khan
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023
Subjects: Optical coherence tomography angiography
OCTA
OCTAVA
microcirculation
vascular disease
Diabetes

description: Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive optical technique for imaging the microvasculature, available commercially and used clinically and in research. Various imaging protocols, image processing methodologies, and quantitative metrics that can serve as biomarkers for different diseases have been demonstrated. However, standardised quantification methods that can generate metrics and have a significant test-retest repeatability need to be put forward. Due to this absence, studies and results published so far cannot be readily compared with each other. Preliminary studies have shown that capillaries, arterioles, and venules, collectively referred to as microvasculature, may be the indicators of various diseases. Changes in microvasculature can indicate and help in the diagnosis of various age-related cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. To drive OCTA from research to the clinic, approved reference values for the quantitative biomarkers affected by diseases need to be set. Standard values and ranges of these metrics that define the microvasculature for healthy and diseased populations need to be established to distinguish between the two. Also, investigation of image acquisition settings and imaging protocols is needed to acquire good quality images that can generate relevant, consistent, and accurate results. This research project demonstrates the effects of using various imaging protocols and settings to acquire good quality images. The images are then subjected to quantification using open-source OCTAVA software designed in our group to assess the effects of these settings and protocols which helped in defining the optimal values for them. Data analysis that helped in defining the parameters for OCTAVA, which is a step towards standardisation of OCTA metrics, is also carried out and explained in this thesis. A further study was carried out to investigate the age-related differences in microvasculature metrics from healthy and diabetic people. 52 healthy and 11 diabetic people were imaged for this study. Data analysis was done based on the results generated by OCTAVA in which these participants were divided into age dependent groups and analysed. Results from this study defining ranges for nine metrics based on age groups are reported in the thesis. This thesis concerns the potential of OCTA and its application in diagnosis of disease. The studies reported in this thesis represent a step forward in implementing OCTA as a standard diagnostic tool in clinics and point to the growing significance of utilising the microvasculature architecture in defining various health conditions.
Technical aspects of prosthetically guided maxillofacial surgery of the mandible. A pilot test study
Creators: name: Ciocca, Leonardo
name: Mazzoni, Simona
name: Marchetti, Claudio
name: Scotti, Roberto
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2014
Subjects: bone plate, CAD-CAM, maxillofacial prosthesis

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 02/2014; ISSN 1509-409X
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Jordan, Rolf
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 3 (2003): Gesundheit! Schönheit! Langes Leben! – Gesundheit und Bevölkerung in Südostasien
Decline in Performance of Biochemical Reactors for Sulphate Removal from Mine-Influenced Water is Accompanied by Changes in Organic Matter Characteristics and Microbial Population Composition
Creators: name: Mirjafari, Parissa
name: Baldwin, Susan A.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Successful long-term bioremediation of mining-influenced water using complex organic matter and naturally-occurring microorganisms in sub-surface flow constructed wetlands requires a balance between easily and more slowly degrading material. This can be achieved by combining different types of organic materials. To provide guidance on what mixture combinations to use, information is needed on how the ratio of labile to recalcitrant components affects the degradation rate and the types of microbial populations supported. To investigate this, different ratios of wood and hay were used in up-flow column bioreactors treating selenium- and sulphate-containing synthetic mine-influenced water. The degradation rates of crude fibre components appeared to be similar regardless of the relative amounts of wood and hay. However, the nature of the degradation products might have differed in that those produced in the hay-rich bioreactors were more biodegradable and supported high sulphate-reduction rates. Microorganisms in the sulphate-reducing and cellulose-degrading inocula persisted in the bioreactors indicating that bio-augmentation was effective. There was a shift in microbial community composition over time suggesting that different microbial groups were involved in decomposition of more recalcitrant material. When dissolved organic carbon (DOC) was over-supplied, the relative abundance of sulphate-reducers was low even through high sulphate-reduction rates were achieved. As DOC diminished, sulphate-reducers become more prevalent and their relative abundance correlated with sulphate concentrations rather than sulphate-reduction rate.