49 research outputs found
IMPACT OF SUBSTANCE (DRUGS) MISUSE ON MATERNAL HEALTH CASE STUDY BANADIR HOSPITAL MOGADISHU-SOMALI
No full textBackground: Pregnant women who abuse substances (alcohol, tobacco, and prescription and illicit drugs) are at the intersection of public health and criminal justice intervention
Hand Hygiene Compliance and Its Associated Factors Among Health Care Workers at Mogadishu Somali Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research in a Tertiary Care Hospital
No full textSuad Abdikarim Isse,1 Ahmet Doğan,2 Tigad Abdisad Ali,1 Jabir Abdullahi Wehlie,3 Abdirahim Ali Adam,4 Hüsna Öztürk5 1Department of Infectıon Preventıon Control, Mogadıshu Somalı Turkıye Recep Tayyıp Erdogan Traınıng and Research Hospıtal, Mogadishu, Somalia; 2Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Abant Izzet Baysal University Faculty of Medicine, Bolu, Turkiye; 3Department of Dermatology, New Vision Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia; 4Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Mogadishu-Somalia-Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia; 5Department of Infectious Control Nurse Istanbul Koşuyolu Yüksek İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Istanbul, TurkiyeCorrespondence: Suad Abdikarim Isse; Tigad Abdisad Ali, Email [email protected]; [email protected]: Hand hygiene is a critical preventive measure for controlling infections, particularly in underdeveloped nations.Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, from January to March 2024. This study aimed to assess compliance with hand hygiene practices and related factors among healthcare professionals.Results: The study population comprised 52% men and 47.3% women. Most participants held bachelor’s degrees, with the majority being nurses or midwives. A significant proportion had over five years of work experience. Almost all participants were knowledgeable about hand hygiene. Most reported cleaning and drying their hands before, during, and after contact with bodily fluids during aseptic procedures. Age, gender, educational status, marriage, working experience, type of occupation, receiving hand hygiene training and knowledge, and having the availability of water, soap, alcohol, and gloves significantly affected the overall uptake of infection control measures in Mogadishu (p< 0.05).Conclusion: The findings highlight an urgent need for targeted interventions to enhance hand hygiene practices in Somalia. Addressing training gaps and resource shortages is crucial for reducing infection rates and safeguarding patient health in this high-risk setting.Keywords: hand hygiene compliance, healthcare workers, Mogadishu, Somalia, infection contro
Capacity of cover crops to capture excess fertilizer and maintain soil efficiency
No full textThe use of high N fertilizer in sweet corn (Zea mays L.) and wheat (Triticum aestivium L.) production often results in leaching losses and contamination of ground water. Cover crops planted after harvest of sweet corn and wheat may reduce residual soil NO-N levels by crop N uptake and subsequently minimize NO-N content in gravitational water. Field experiments were conducted on a Ste. Rosalie heavy clay (Humic Gleysol) and a St. Bernard sandy clay loam (Melanic Brunisol) to determine the contribution of the six cover crops to nutrient uptake, subsequent N release, leaching losses, denitrification rates and soil properties such as aggregate stability, organic matter. The cover crops were red clover (Trifolium pratense L.), crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum L.), forage radish (Raphanus sativus L.), canola (Brassica rapa L.), barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), annual rye grass (Lolium multiflorum L.). Three replicates were used in a split plot arrangement of a randomized complete block experiment. Sweet corn and wheat were grown at three fertilizer N rates, 0-75-150 kg N ha for sweet corn and 0-45-90 kg N ha for wheat. Cover crop of forage radish, canola and barley were more effective at absorption or soil N than rye grass and clover species at all sample times. Levels of soluble N in the soil were reduced with cover crop in the off-season. Cover crop plots had higher NO-N levels than control plots in the spring, indicating net mineralization and nitrification. Gravitational water NO-N contents were higher in the control plots relative to cover crop plots at both sites. Therefore growing cover crops after harvest of sweet corn and wheat can reduce residual NO-N level in the soil and thus restrict ground water contamination with fertilizer N
Electret-Nanopore Ionic Flux Generator
No full textTowards the development of in-vivo autonomous technology, this paper proposes and investigates an electret-nanopore based ionic flux generator (IFG). The Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations were used to develop a one-dimensional analytical model under circulatory electrolytic conditions characterizing enhanced power density as electret charge saturation or pore length increased due to greater counterion flux. An approximate Electret-Nanopore IFG power density of 11.3 (W/m2) was calculated for a 500 nm pore length, 10 nm pore radius and 80% electret charge saturation system.
Machine-Learning Screening of Inorganic Compounds for Defect Spin Properties
No full textAn ensemble regression algorithm predicting refractive index, band gap and magnetic susceptibility utilizing elemental composition based physical descriptors is developed to screen for inorganic compounds with color defect spin properties at low computational cost. Mean absolute error (MAE) values of 0.46 for refractive index, 0.65 eV for bandgap utilizing gradient boost regression and 2.95e-3 cm3/mol for magnetic susceptibility with random forest regression were obtained via 70:30 train-test splits. When screened for threshold values of bandgap >2 eV, refractive index > 2 and magnetic susceptibility < 10e-5 cm3/mol, notable binary compounds with defect spin properties include GaN and SiC among 348 compounds demonstrating model utility
Dolina Isse: duhovna avtobiografija in »film spomin«
No full textThe article deals with the novel The Issa Valley, written by the Nobel laureate in literature Czesław Miłosz, and its eponymous film adaptation by film director Tadeusz Konwicki. Both authors were born in the region of today’s Lithuania, which, with its intact natural environment and ancient folk beliefs, left a strong mark on their childhoods. In the present novel or film, the authors narrate their childhood through fragmentary memories, which are transformed by fiction, and through representations of thoughts: while Miłosz narrates his own childhood, Konwicki transforms the novel into film and shows the story through audio-visual images, at the same time also exposing himself in the role of author. With a chronotope analysis, and based on the anthropological-morphological method of film analysis, the contribution presents the methods of verbal and audio-visual representation of an adult-narrator memory on the landscape of his home region and on the time of childhood as well as defining the discussed works with the categories “spiritual autobiography” and “film-memory”.Članek obravnava roman Dolina Isse nobelovca Czesława Miłosza in istoimensko filmsko priredbo režiserja Tadeusza Konwickega. Oba avtorja sta bila rojena na območju današnje Litve, v pokrajini, ki je z neokrnjeno naravo in starodavnimi litovskimi verovanji pustila močan pečat na njunem otroštvu. V obravnavanem romanu oziroma filmu kot odrasla pripovedovalca s fragmentarnim nizanjem spominov, preoblikovanih s fikcijo, in razmišljanj pripovedujeta o otroštvu: Miłosz neposredno o svojem, Konwicki pa Miłoszev roman transformira v filmski medij, pri čemer romaneskno dogajanje prikaže skozi avdiovizualne podobe in se v filmu tudi neposredno izpostavi v avtorski vlogi. Z analizo kronotopa oziroma antropološko-morfološko analizo filma prispevek predstavlja načine besednega in avdiovizualnega prikaza spomina odraslega pripovedovalca na rojstno pokrajino in čas otroštva ter obravnavani deli opredeljuje s kategorijama duhovna avtobiografija in »film spomin«
I hvilken grad hjelper deltakelse i introduksjonsprogrammet flyktninger med å integrere og kvalifisere seg i det norske arbeidsmarkedet?
No full textEt av de viktigste tiltakene regjeringen har tatt i sin integreringspolitikk er introduksjonsprogrammet som ble lansert i 2003. Det hadde som mål å øke arbeidsmarkeds inkluderingen av nye innvandrere.
I oppgaven min skal jeg utforske de ulike aspektene ved integrering og arbeidsmarked, samt introduksjonsprogrammet og flyktninger. Jeg skal analysere personene som deltok i programmet og resultatene til de som sluttet.
Min oppgave søker å kartlegge i hvilken grad introduksjonsprogrammet hjalp flyktninger i Norge til å bli kvalifisert for arbeidsmarkedet. Flyktninger møter ulike utfordringer når de kommer inn i landet, og dette temaet vil også bli utforsket
