174 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-wso-10.1177_17474930211066416 – Supplemental material for Stroke services in Africa: What is there and what is needed
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-wso-10.1177_17474930211066416 for Stroke services in Africa: What is there and what is needed by Tamer Roushdy, Hany Aref, Selma Kesraoui, Michael Temgoua, Kiatoko Ponte Nono, Meron Awraris Gebrewold, Waweru Peter, Urvashy Gopaul, Mohammed Faouzi Belahsen, Djibrilla Ben-Adji, Rita Melifonwu, Sanjeev Pugazhendhi, Noëmie Woodcock, Muhyadin Hassan Mohamed, Anastasia Rossouw, Sarah Matuja, Mark Koba Ruanda, Chokri Mhiri, Deanna Saylor, Nevine El Nahas and Hossam Shokri in International Journal of Stroke</p
Supplemental material for Stroke in the Middle-East and North Africa: A 2-year prospective observational study of stroke characteristics in the region—Results from the Safe Implementation of Treatments in Stroke (SITS)–Middle-East and North African (MENA)
No full textSupplemental Material for Stroke in the Middle-East and North Africa: A 2-year prospective observational study of stroke characteristics in the region—Results from the Safe Implementation of Treatments in Stroke (SITS)–Middle-East and North African (MENA) by Suhail Al Rukn, Michael V Mazya, Faycal Hentati, Samia Ben Sassi, Fatma Nabli, Zakharia Said, Belahsen Faouzi, Husnain Hashim, Foad Abd-Allah, Benhan Mansouri, Selma Kesraoui, Souheil Gebeily, Husen Abdulrahman, Naveed Akhtar, Niaz Ahmed, Nils Wahlgren, Hany Aref, Mohammed Almekhlafi and Tiago Moreira: for the Stroke Emergency Mobile (STEMO) Consortium in International Journal of Stroke</p
Coaching for Emancipation: A framework of coaching in oppressive environments
No full textThis study aims to develop a theoretical and practical framework for the use of coaching in oppressive environments to support the emancipation and development of individuals. A review of the literature suggests that the dynamics of oppression affect every aspect of the human condition. Meanwhile, there is limited understanding of how to support individuals in liberating themselves from the implications of oppression. The study sets out to examine whether coaching can be used as an emancipatory approach, and aims to explore how the context of oppression affects coachees, coaches and the coaching process. Building on a cross-disciplinary review of emancipatory approaches, an initial coaching model was developed. Then, a cooperative inquiry was conducted with a group of twelve coaches from Egypt, who used the initial model with 22 coachees over six months. The first set of findings offers a theoretical view of the individual’s journey from oppression to emancipation, starting from feelings of helplessness and self-blame through a number of cycles that lead to actions of resistance and narratives of liberation. Findings suggest that oppression has implications for the individual’s cognitive and emotional development, and emphasise the role of emotions in enabling the emancipatory process. The second set of findings is organised into three coaching processes, each underpinned by a theoretical understanding of its dynamics, enablers and barriers, as well as a number of practical considerations to improve its effectiveness. The first process “Naming Oppression” suggests that coaching can support emancipation through encouraging coachees to use narratives to understand, externalise and re-author their life. The second process called “Renewing Beliefs” explores how coachees can use critical reflection to understand and challenge the social and psychological structures leading to their experience of oppression. The third process titled “Fighting Back” focuses on how coachees undertake actions to resist and break from the cycle of oppression and to discover new possibilities for change. The third set of findings suggests that coaches in oppressive environments face a complex web of philosophical, psychological, and practical challenges, and discusses the implications of these challenges on their development. The study offers a theoretical and practical foundation upon which coaching for emancipation can be built, and proposes the need for further research into the experience of coachees and most especially the emotional side of their experience
Identification, Development and Achievement Analysis of Talented and Gifted Children in West Germany
No full textDoes financial inclusion interact with Islamic banking industry? Evidence from Saudi Arabia
No full textThis thesis explores the interplay between financial inclusion and Islamic banking in Saudi Arabia.
Recent empirical evidences, journal articles and policy reports showed the importance of financial
inclusion in terms of access, usage and quality of financial services that financial institutions offer to
individuals and businesses. An interesting question in this regard is: Does financial inclusion impact
Islamic banking in Saudi Arabia. To answer this questions, I investigate whether the three
aforementioned dimensions of financial inclusion matter to three challenges of Islamic banking, namely
trust, product development and competition. Using a methodology based on a questionnaire, the
results show that there is a limited impact of financial inclusion on Islamic banking in Saudi Arabia.
However, the most striking fact is the clear dependence between the impact of quality of the three
aspects of Islamic banking. This indicates that when Saudi Islamic banks improve the quality of products
and services they offer their clients trust them more, they will be endowed with a higher product
development ability, and can strengthen their competitive powe
Determination of Demand-Side Management Practices affecting Energy Consumption in Egypt: Potential Benefits and Barriers
No full textAbstract: Over the last 30 years, the electricity and renewable energy laws in Egypt had been restructured, and the energy efficiency codes of electricity and buildings had been developed. However, there is a lack of effort towards the end user behavior and there is a need to consider energy savings that can be gained from consumption patterns’ reconstruction. This paper discusses various solutions to the before mentioned matter, while discussing smart grid and demand side planning. Also, the paper explains the steps that should be followed in order to stimulate the customers to reshape their use of electricity to reach a desired alteration in the load profile.
Keywords: Energy, Energy efficiency, Energy tariffs, demand side management, Energy consumption in Egypt.
Title: Determination of Demand-Side Management Practices affecting Energy Consumption in Egypt: Potential Benefits and Barriers
Author: Ahmed Maher, Hany Moneb, Hatem Sadek
International Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Technology
ISSN 2348-7593 (Online)
Vol. 10, Issue 1, April 2022 - September 2022
Page No: 10-19
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 12-August-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6985237
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https://www.researchpublish.com/papers/determination-of-demand-side-management-practices-affecting-energy-consumption-in-egypt-potential-benefits-and-barriersInternational Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Technology, ISSN 2348-7593 (Online), Research Publish Journals, Website: www.researchpublish.co
Addressing Ambiguities in Constrained Sensitivity Analysis for Reactor Physics Problems
No full textThis paper presents an algorithm for completing sensitivity analysis that respects linear constraints placed on the associated model’s input parameters. Any sensitivity analysis (linear or nonlinear, local or global) focuses on measuring the impact of input parameter variations on model responses of interest, which may require the analyst to execute the model numerous times with different model parameter perturbations. With the constraints present, the degrees of freedom available for input parameter variations are reduced, and hence any analysis that changes model parameters must respect these constraints. Focusing here on linear constraints, earlier work has shown that constraints may be respected in many ways, causing ambiguities, i.e., nonuniqueness, in the results of a sensitivity analysis, forcing the analyst to introduce dependencies with downstream analyses, e.g., uncertainty quantification, that employ the sensitivity analysis results. This paper develops the theoretical details for a new algorithm to select model parameter variations that automatically satisfy linear constraints resulting in unique results for the sensitivity analysis, thereby removing any custom dependencies with downstream analyses. To demonstrate the performance of the algorithm, it is applied to solve the multigroup eigenvalue problem for the multiplication factor in a representative CANDU core-wide model. The model parameters analyzed are the group prompt neutron fractions, whose summation must be equal to one over all energy groups. The results indicate that the new algorithm identifies the gradient direction uniquely which represents the direction of maximum change while satisfying the constraints, thus removing any ambiguities resulting from the constraints as identified by earlier work.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.RST/Reactor Physics and Nuclear Material
Real-world evaluation of compliance and preference in Alzheimer’s disease treatment
No full textMing-Chyi Pai,1,2 Hany Aref,3 Nazem Bassil,4 Nagaendran Kandiah,5 Jae-Hong Lee,6 AV Srinivasan,7 Shelley diTommaso,8 Ozgur Yuksel81Division of Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, 2Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan; 3Department of Neurology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; 4Saint Georges Hospital Medical Center, Balamand University, Beirut, Lebanon; 5Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; 6Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea; 7The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; 8Novartis Pharma AG, Postfach, Basel, SwitzerlandPurpose: Rivastigmine transdermal patch has shown higher caregiver satisfaction and greater preference than oral formulation in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. However, there is limited literature available related to caregiver preference or treatment compliance in real-world clinical settings. To date, no such data are available from Asia and the Middle East, which account for a sizeable proportion of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The objective of this study was to evaluate treatment preference and compliance with oral and transdermal medications in daily clinical practice in an ethnically diverse patient population from Asia and the Middle East with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease.Patients and methods: RECAP (Real-world Evaluation of Compliance And Preference in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease) was a 24-week, multicenter, prospective, noninterventional study. Two treatment cohorts were observed during the study: oral (cholinesterase inhibitors or memantine) and transdermal (rivastigmine patch). Caregiver preference, physician preference, and patient compliance were evaluated at week 24.Results: A total of 978 of 1,931 enrolled patients (mean age: 72.8 years; 50.5% female) were in the transdermal cohort. For patients with exposure to both oral and transdermal monotherapy (n=330), a significant caregivers’ preference for the transdermal monotherapy was observed (82.7%; P<0.0001). Of the 89 participating physicians, 71 indicated preference for transdermal monotherapy. Patient compliance was also significantly higher for transdermal than oral monotherapy (P<0.0001).Conclusion: Our study showed higher caregiver and physician preference and greater patient compliance with transdermal monotherapy in daily practice.Keywords: rivastigmine, Alzheimer’s disease, cholinesterase inhibitors, patient compliance, observational study, transdermal patc
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