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Genetic Variation In Perennial Ryegrass For Volatile Fatty Acid Production In Rumen Fluid, H.J P. Marvin, E N. Van Loo, O Dolstra, C.H A. Snijders, D Reheul, J W. Cone

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

In perennial ryegrass genetic variation was shown not only for in vitro organic matter degradation (OMD) in rumen fluid and neutral detergent fibre content (NDF) but also for production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) upon in vitro incubation in rumen fluid. The correlations among concentrations of VFAs in the incubation fluid were high. OMD and NDF, on the other hand, were poorly correlated to the VFA concentrations.

Assessment Of Postural Stability Of 14-Year-Old Girls Training Volleyball, Robert Walaszek, Wiesław Chwała, Katarzyna Burdacka, Marcin Burdacki, Paweł Kurowski

Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity

Introduction: Measurements of postural stability are carried out for the prevention of injuries and for rehabilitation of athletes who have sustained traumatic injuries. The aim of the study was to assess postural stability measured in static and dynamic conditions in 14-year-old girls, of whom some were training volleyball, and some were not. Materials and Methods: The study involved a group of 30 girls aged 14, attending volleyball classes. This group was compared with the control group (n = 30) of girls of the same age who regularly participated only in regular physical education (PE) classes. The tests were conducted twice. …

Quality Improvement In Healthcare: A Practical Guide For Providers (Part 4), Jeremy Ellis

Transformative Medicine

No abstract provided.

Direct Oral Anticoagulants: A Review For Health Care Providers, Mary Hoang, Maley Zents, Christina Swiger, Emily Wagner

Transformative Medicine

Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are a novel class of anticoagulants. They include rivaroxaban, apixaban, edoxaban, and dabigatran. Benefits of DOACs over many older anticoagulants include oral administration, quicker onset of action, less monitoring requirements, and fewer drug interactions. Since the DOACs were first introduced, their use has increased tremendously. This article aims to help providers become more familiar with DOACs and the specific factors that may impact prescribing practices. Several drugs used for the reversal of DOACs will also be discussed. Lastly, the article will describe certain situations in which warfarin is preferred over DOACs.

Understanding And Managing Right Bundle Branch Block, Muhammad Mohsin Zafar, Muhammad Asad Hanif, Tayyab Ali Waheed, Aniruddha Singh

Transformative Medicine

No abstract provided.

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, Sandesh R. Parajuli, Anish C. Paudel, Anthony Donato

Transformative Medicine

No abstract provided.

Examining The Mental Health Impact: Investigating The Association Between Suicide And Long Covid Syndrome, Nicole Ann E. Villa, Gina Maria P. Fiore, Eduardo Espiridion

Transformative Medicine

Since its emergence in late 2019, Covid-19 has had many devastating economic, social, mental, and physical health consequences and caused millions of deaths worldwide over the course of the pandemic. While most cases are mild and symptoms resolve within a couple of weeks, some Covid patients' symptoms can last for multiple weeks, months, or even years after contracting the virus, and these long-lasting symptoms have been identified as Long-Covid. Psychiatric symptoms have been associated with Long-Covid in addition to physical symptoms, and impaired cognitive functioning, sleep abnormalities, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and psychosis have been observed in Long-Covid patients. Given the …

Mortality And Comorbidities Associated With Covid-19 Infection In Psychiatric Patients From A State Hospital, Nicole Ann E. Villa, Matthew Driben, Regina Reed, Maria Yee, Eduardo Espiridion

Transformative Medicine

Introduction: Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection has spread globally and resulted in more than one million deaths in the US as of July 2023, where it has been more severe in psychiatric wards. State hospitals are a particularly transmissible location for COVID-19, and the medications that psychiatric patients typically utilize may contribute to the incidence of comorbidities including obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. Studies have found that patients with preexisting mental health disorders and comorbidities tend to have worse COVID-19 outcomes. Thus, we examine the mortality and comorbidity rate of patients, and discuss how psychiatric medications may contribute to the risk of …

The Transgenerational Transmission Of Physical Attractiveness Perceptions: Role Of Parents' Physical Activity And Nutrition Habits In Modelling Body-Focused Health Attitudes And Body Shape Perception In Five-Year-Old Offspring, Agata Kamionka, Mariusz Lipowski, Sebastian Lizińczyk, Urszula Sajewicz-Radtke, Bartosz Radtke, Ariadna Łada-Maśko, Dariusz Olszewski-Strzyżowski, Małgorzata Lipowska

Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity

Introduction: Observing parents’ body-focused behaviours during middle childhood is one of the initial ways in which children model their perceptions of pro-health attitudes and their connection to physical attractiveness. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between parents' health behaviours, their appearance, and the perceptions of adult body types (skinny, medium, obese) by their five-year-old children. Moreover, the role of gender in the above relationship for both children and parents was also examined. Materials and methods: This study participants were 680 families with five-year-old children (330 girls). Participation was limited to the moth-er-father-child triad. The Beauty and Health Scale, Healthy …

Face Mask Detection Based On Deep Learning: A Review, Shahad Fadhil Abbas, Shaimaa Hameed Shaker, Firas. A. Abdullatif

Journal of Soft Computing and Computer Applications

The coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak caused widespread disruption. The World Health Organization has recommended wearing face masks, along with other public health measures, such as social distancing, following medical guidelines, and thermal scanning, to reduce transmission, reduce the burden on healthcare systems, and protect population groups. However, wearing a mask, which acts as a barrier or shield to reduce transmission of infection from infected individuals, hides most facial features, such as the nose, mouth, and chin, on which face detection systems depend, which leads to the weakness of these systems. This paper aims to provide essential insights for researchers and …

A Novel Approach To Generate Dynamic S-Box For Lightweight Cryptography Based On The 3d Hindmarsh Rose Model, Ala'a Talib Khudhair, Abeer Tariq Maolood, Ekhlas Khalaf Gbashi

Journal of Soft Computing and Computer Applications

In lightweight cryptography, the absence of an S-Box in some algorithms like speck, Tiny Encryption Algorithm, or the presence of a fixed S-Box in others like Advanced Encryption Standard can make them more vulnerable to attacks. This study introduces an innovative method for creating a dynamic 6-bit S-Box (8×8) in octal format. The generating process of S-Box passes through two phases. The first is the number initialization phase. This phase involves generating sequence numbers 1, sequence numbers 2, and sequence numbers 3 depending on X_i, Y_i, and Z_i values generated using the 3D Hindmarsh …

The Impact Of Material Selection On Acoustic Performance In Interior Design: A Scientific Investigation, Ahmed Salah Ahmed Mohamed, Ashraf Hussein Ibrahim, Doaa Abdel Rahman

Journal of Art, Design and Music

This holistic approach to design acknowledges that a space's functionality and comfort are influenced by a multitude of factors beyond its visual appearance. For instance, designers now pay close attention to acoustics to ensure optimal sound quality within a space, creating environments conducive to communication and concentration. They also consider lighting design to enhance mood, productivity, and overall well-being, while ensuring energy efficiency. Additionally, designers address the thermal environment by optimizing insulation, ventilation, and heating/cooling systems to create comfortable indoor climates year-round. By integrating these tangible and intangible elements seamlessly into the design process, designers can create spaces that not …

The Role Of Procedural Justice In Alleviating The Stress Of Role Conflict An Applied Study On The Members Of The Nursing Staff At Tripoli Medical Hospital In Libya, Almokhtar Almajdoubi

Al Jinan الجنان

This study aims to study the fairness of the procedures and the stress of the role of the nursing staff in Tripoli Medical Hospital in Libya, and determine the relative importance of the fairness of the procedures and their relevance to the pressures of the role struggle. In the Tripoli Medical Hospital. The researcher concluded that there is no significant effect between the fairness of the procedures and the role conflict. The results also showed significant differences between the perceptions of the nursing staff for the justice of procedures due to the following demographic variables (gender, age, Level of education, …

واقع الإدمان السلوكي, Rouba Awad

Al Jinan الجنان

This study aimed to focus on the reality of online behavioral addiction among the teenagers at the Technical Industrial Institute seeking to know the extent of their addiction, where the description survey method was used, and the study sample considered of (407). This study was used addiction behavioral scale according to cognitive behavioral “Davis” model for Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale2 (GPIUS2), where the study found that the five fields are below the average which indicates the disagree of sample’s tendency about online behavioral addiction.

المقصد الأسمى في شرح حديث لا عدوى, Fathi Bikai

Al Jinan الجنان

This research is a study of the articulation «no infection» contained in the Hadith, as it deals with the following: the verbal context, and especially the character of negation (no) which can hold the meaning of exclusion or prohibition, and exclusion is likely to banish existence and potentially deny the effect of the disease itself without God’s will. In addition, what may appear in the Hadith as a conflict or allocation. Did our Prophet- peace be upon him- want to correct pre-Islamic concepts that prevailed at the time of his mission, or is it an order to not infect others? …

The Impact Of Performance Management System On Learning & Development In Saudi Arabian, Moetaz Soubjaki

Al Jinan الجنان

There is potential need and importance to have performance management system in Saudi Arabia among the organizations since there is more than 20 million eligible workers in all organizations and sectors this concept makes many organizations in Saudi Arabia to ignore performance management and learning and development of employees. This ignorance limits many Saudi organizations from realizing their full performance potentials because many of these expatriate workers, for instance, lack good workplace communication due to lack of many necessary skills. Professional performance management systems can have a positive impact on employee development and enhance the overall performance of an organization. …

The Role Of Social Values In The Student’S Choice Of University Specialization, Abedalkarim Moubarak, Oussama Diab

Al Jinan الجنان

This study aims to identify the role of social factors in the student’s choice of university specialization in Lebanese universities, to determine whether there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) between the averages of the responses of the study sample individuals about the role of social determinants in the student’s choice of university specialization Attributed to the gender variable.

In order to achieve the goal, the descriptive analytical method was used, by preparing a questionnaire that was applied to (623) male and female students after ensuring their honesty and consistency.

The results of the study showed …

عدوى المستشفيات, Afaf Taha

Al Jinan الجنان

Despite the progress in the medical fields and technologies used, and the use of a number of antibiotics to eliminate microorganisms that attack the human body, bacterial infections still a major cause of patient deaths. The irony is that hospitals patients turn to for hospitalization are the source of infection caused by microorganisms resistant to a number of antibiotics. The researcher discusses this problem and tells us that the hospital is an ideal place for transmitting pathogens because patients with similar diseases placed in closed groups and are in contact with health workers so that both become a hotbed for …

Income Taxation And Labour Response. Empirical Evidence From A Did Analysis Of An Income Tax Treatment In Italy, Bruno Bosco, Carlo Federico Bosco, Paolo Maranzano

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

This paper uses the Italian income tax treatment of 2006/7 as a quasi-natural tax experiment to offer some fresh empirical evidence on how labour supply responds to exogenous income tax hikes. We adopt the identification strategy based on TWFE panel data Difference-in-Differences (DID) model to define the correct statistical framework of the study, and to benefit from the specific features of the above tax experiment, namely homogeneity and contemporaneity of the treatment. Results show that the extensive negative adjustments of various response variables measuring the supply of labour services offered by treated taxpayers are statistically significant, rapid, and strong but …

A Study Of Nonlinear Pedagogical Teaching Models For Cognitive And Affective Development Of Elementary School Students, Hari Yuliarto

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

This research aims to advance the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective abilities of elementary school students through a nonlinear pedagogical approach. The method adopted is research and development which combines quantitative and qualitative analysis. From a total of 2,411 elementary school teachers in 150 elementary schools spread across the Kota District area, 52 teachers were selected as the sample in this study. Data analysis uses a quantitative descriptive approach, with a focus on the use of percentages. The results show teachers' understanding of nonlinear pedagogy with a general average score of 2.705, indicating relatively good performance. However, the lowest rating was …

Vol.51 N.49 June 27th 2024, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - June 27, 2024, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the June 27, 2024 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine’s newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include

• Turbeville retires from Whiddon College of Medicine
• USA Medical Alumni Association hosts reunion weekend
• Internal medicine graduates and residents honored
• Pathology faculty present amyloidosis research at international meetings

Evaluation Of The Professional Development Stake Model For Geography Teachers In Jambi City, Mega Nurhidayanti, Muhammad Nursa’Ban, Nor Kalsum Mohd Isa

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

The research aims to assess the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) of geography teachers, addressing: 1) the CPD profile at each level of the stake evaluation model and 2) recommendations based on the Minister of State Regulation Utilization of State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform Number 16 of 2009, regarding the Teacher's Functional Department and Credit Score Article 11, which mandates teachers to engage in self-development activities, scientific publications, and innovative works over the past 10 years (2012-2022). The research employs a quantitative descriptive approach utilizing the Stake Model Evaluation, covering the antecedent (planning), transaction (process), and outcomes (results) levels. Primary data …

Working With Bilingual Populations: Clinical Practices Of Speech-Language Pathologists In New Mexico, Wylie L. Skillman

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

New Mexico is uniquely positioned as a state that has more bilingual speakers than the United States on average, meaning that Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) here are more likely to work with bilingual speakers than elsewhere. Best practices for bilingual evaluation and treatment are taught in graduate education for SLPs but the extent to which they are known and utilized by school-based SLPs differs based on many factors.

As the body of research supporting culturally responsive bilingual assessment and intervention continue to grow, it is unknown how or if clinicians are using this knowledge to assess and treat students who …

Antimicrobial Peptide Screening For Designing Custom Bactericidal Hydrogels, Matthias Recktenwald, Muskanjot Kaur, Mohammed M. Benmassaoud, Aryanna Copling, Tulika Khanna, Michael Curry, Dennise Cortes, Gilbert Fleischer, Valerie J. Carabetta, Sebastian Vega

Rowan-Virtua School of Translational Biomedical Engineering & Sciences Departmental Research

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is an opportunistic pathogen that lives on surfaces and skin and can cause serious infections inside the body. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are part of the innate immune system and can eliminate pathogens, including bacteria and viruses, and are a promising alternative to antibiotics. Although studies have reported that AMP-functionalized hydrogels can prevent bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation, AMP dosing and the combined effects of multiple AMPs are not well understood. Here, three AMPs with different antibacterial properties were synthesized and the soluble minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of each AMP against methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant …

Inter-Institutional Analysis Of Skin Of Color Representation In Dermatological Lecture Content At Md And Do Medical Schools, Oluwafunke Ogunremi

Sanford School of Medicine Posters and Presentations

The purpose of this study was to analyze the lecture materials provided in medical schools through a diversity lens. Skin pathologies manifest distinctively on various shades of skin and physicians must be equipped with the proper knowledge to identify and diagnose these conditions accurately and promptly. For most medical students, images in prominent textbooks and lecture slides are their first encounter with disease presentations. Therefore, it is important to analyze the diversity of skin tones in the content that is being delivered. Specifically, the use of images featuring darker skin tones compared to those depicting lighter skin tones. This study …

Learning Evaluation Of The Study Group Of Packages C Programme In Sragen Regency, Subar Junanto, Rugaya Tuanaya, Mila Faila Shofa, Muntaha Muntaha, Latifah Permatasari Fajrin

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

This study aims to evaluate the learning of the Study Group of Packages C programme in Sragen Regency. This evaluation research uses the EPPKC model, which consists of Process and Product aspects. This research uses a mixed method, a combination of quantitative and qualitative research using a descriptive approach. The evaluation subjects in this study were 322 people, including the Study Group of Packages C programme organiser, tutors, and learning citizens in the Sragen Regency. The main field trial used a sample of 84 people, while the operational field trial used a sample of 238 people. Data were collected using …

Increasing Measurement Accuracy: Scaling Effect On Academic Resilience Instrument Using Method Of Successive Interval (Msi) And Method Of Summated Rating Scale (Msrs), Beta Wulan Febriana, Farida Agus Setiawati

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

A research instrument is crucial and must meet the requirements to be valid and reliable in content and construction. Not infrequently, various methods are tried to increase the accuracy of research instruments, one of them being a simple method such as the scaling technique. This research aims to improve measurement accuracy by using scaling techniques through the process of successive intervals and summated rating scale in confirmatory factor analysis of the Academic Resilience (ARS) instrument. This research is a descriptive exploratory study using a questionnaire consisting of five answer choices (5-point Likert scale) as the research instrument. Participants in this …

Individual Ability On High-Stakes Test: Choosing Cumulative Score Or Rasch For Scoring Model, Muhammad Dhiyaul Khair, Sukaesi Marianti

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

In a test, a method is required to estimate an individual's ability based on their responses. Typically, this is done by summing the correct responses or calculating a cumulative score. An alternative method is the Rasch model. This study aims to determine whether an individual's position, based on cumulative score estimates, remains unchanged or changes when compared with ability estimates using Rasch on dichotomous responses. The study uses open-source data from the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and involves 317 Indonesian students. Ability analysis will be conducted on Math …

An Evaluation Of Teachers' Performance On Gender And Work Experience With The Charlotte Danielson Evaluation Model, Lovely Ezverenzha Lelatobur, Daniel Herman Ferdy Manongga, Ade Iriani

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

The performance teachers in the preliminary study still use teacher-centred methods, both teachers who have received certification and those who have not. On the other hand, the evaluation in schools is still on teacher performance related to learning design and the learning process in the class. Therefore, social, personality and professional competencies are still less reviewed. The purpose of this study is to evaluate teachers' performance based on their gender and work experience in public senior high schools in Maluku Barat Daya (MBD) district. Four main components were used to assess teacher performance: lesson planning and preparation, class management, lesson …