113 research outputs found
Faina Tlehuci in the history of library science
No full textThe author has browsed the library archive, guests book, from which it split off file containing unpublished impressions and opinions about the institution and its leader, messages of congratulations on the occasion of anniversaries, the mass-media of the last century, which wrote, unfortunately, very little about a librarian who through hard work and passion for the profession has made exemplary career. Faina Tlehuci has been steering 40 years the University Library. She has deserved the title of Honorary Member of the University Senate
Erratum to: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Aromatherapy with Lavender Essential Oil on Depression
No full textThe editors of the Central Asian Journal of Global Health regretfully published the article “A Systematic Review of the Effects of Aromatherapy with Lavender Essential Oil on Depression” with a misspelled word in the title. This mistake has been corrected. The original article has been updated to reflect this change.Jafar-Koulaee A, Elyasi F, Taraghi Z, Ilali ES, Moosazadeh M. A systematic review of the effects of aromatherapy with lavender essential oil on depression. Cent Asian J Glob Health. 2020;9(1) doi:10.5195/cajgh.2020.442
Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
No full textThe Supercourse website contains thousands of lectures on global health and prevention "designed to improve the teaching of prevention." Their network includes 174 countries, and is available in no less than 30 languages. The site is located at the University of Pittsburgh and its core developers include Ronald LaPorte, Faina Linkov, Mita Lovalekar, and Eugene Shubnikov. It's a tremendous undertaking, and first-time visitors may wish to start by clicking through the "What is the Supercourse?" introduction section. After reading a bit about their work, visitors can move on to the "Supercourse Lectures" section. The lectures here are organized topically into headings that include epidemiology, public health, and special diseases. Additionally, visitors can browse the lectures by author or keywords. Further down the homepage, visitors will find the "Special Lectures" area and information for potential authors who would like to become part of this initiative
Maritim epidemiologi på Supercourse
No full textMaritim epidemiologi er nu kommet med i samlingen af undervisningsmidler på ”Supercourse”. Der er oprettet en særlig mappe med Maritime Epidemiology og alle der har gode bidrag inden for området opfordres hermed til at publicere her. Supercourse er en samling af foredrag beregnet til at være en ressource til at forbedre undervisningen om forebyggelse. Det er et netværk med mere end 56000 videnskabsfolk i 174 lande, der deler gratis et bibliotek af 5264 foredrag på 31 sprog. Det er en teknologi for billig, bæredygtig global uddannelse der blev udviklet på WHO Collaborating center University of Pittsburgh af bla. Ronald LaPorte, Faina Linkov, Mita Lovalekar og Eugene Shubnikov.God fornøjelseOlaf Jense
Maritim epidemiologi på Supercourse
No full textMaritim epidemiologi er nu kommet med i samlingen af undervisningsmidler på ”Supercourse”. Der er oprettet en særlig mappe med Maritime Epidemiology og alle der har gode bidrag inden for området opfordres hermed til at publicere her. Supercourse er en samling af foredrag beregnet til at være en ressource til at forbedre undervisningen om forebyggelse. Det er et netværk med mere end 56000 videnskabsfolk i 174 lande, der deler gratis et bibliotek af 5264 foredrag på 31 sprog. Det er en teknologi for billig, bæredygtig global uddannelse der blev udviklet på WHO Collaborating center University of Pittsburgh af bla. Ronald LaPorte, Faina Linkov, Mita Lovalekar og Eugene Shubnikov.God fornøjelseOlaf Jense
Caracterização geológica-estrutural da região aurífera de Santa Rita (Jeroaquara), norte do Greenstone Belt de Faina (GO)
No full textThe Faina Greenstone Belt (FGB) is a NW-SE/SW (strike/dip), 50 km length and 6 km outward width structure, located in the Goiás Archean Block, a Granite-Greenstone terrain inserted in the Inner Brasilia Fold Belt, central Brazil. The Goiás Archean Block hosts five Greenstone Belts Terrains (Crixás, Guarinos, Pilar, Serra de Santa Rita and Faina), the first three host proved gold deposits that are currently exploited, whilst Santa Rita and Faina remain under explored. Despite being under surveyed the FGB shows many vestiges of past gold exploitation, such as various shaft works from Brazilian colonial period, such those of Cascavel Project, and more recent activities such as the disabled Sertão Mine. Orinoco Gold is currently the main player in the mineral surveying in the area; this final academic work was developed by the author during a trainee period at the exploration company. The work was a detailed (1:10.000) geological and structural mapping of a 40 km2 area in the north portion of the FGB, westwards of Santa Rita (Jeroaquara) village. The interest in this region goes by the fact that it was registered significant gold, silver, chromium and copper grades by chip sampling and whole rock analysis in this area. Also, the area is just southwards of Eliseu Target (in the same structural trend), where whole rock analysis and drilling core showed important gold occurrences. The work allowed delineating a complex stratigraphic and structural setting for this portion of the FGB. The rocks of the area are structured as four tectonic domains separated by major NW-SE/SW (strike/dipdir), NE vergence thrust faults. In the studied area these faults cause significant tectonic truncations that dictate the outcrop pattern in this part of FGB. Also macroscopic folds mapped in the area, related to various deformational phases, influences in the rocks exposition in the area. The three upper domains coincide...O Greenstone Belt de Faina (GBF) é uma faixa de atitude NW-SE/SW (direção/rumo do mergulho), de 50 km de comprimento 6 km de largura em sua porção central, inserido no Bloco Arqueano de Goiás, um terreno Granito-Greenstone alojado na porção interna da Faixa Brasília. O Bloco Arqueano de Goiás abriga cinco faixas Greenstone Belt (Crixás, Guarinos, Pilar, Serra de Santa Rita e Faina), os três primeiros hospedam significativos depósitos provados de ouro, que são atualmente explorados, entretanto os Greenstone Belts de Santa Rita e Faina permanecem menos estudados. Apesar de ser menos prospectado, o Greenstone Belt de Faina mostra muitos vestígios de explorações antigas de ouro, tal como os garimpos do período colonial, tal como o Projeto Cascavel, e também evidências de atividades mais recentes, tal como a Mina Sertão, atualmente desativada. A Orinoco Gold é atualmente a principal empresa com atividades exploratórias na área; estre trabalho de conclusão de curso foi desenvolvido pelo autor enquanto esta realizada estágio na referida empresa. O trabalho realizado foi o mapeamento e caracterização geológica-estrutural de uma área de 40km2 na porção norte do GBF, a oeste da localidade de Santa Rita (Jeroaquara). O interesse nesta região se deu, pois foram obtidos teores significativos de ouro, prata, cromo e cobre em amostragem de chip e análise química de rocha total., e também pois se situa imediatamente a sul do Alvo Eliseu, onde foram identificadas importantes ocorrências de ouro através de amostras de chip e de furos de sonda. Este trabalho permitiu delinear o complexo quadro Tectono-estratigráfico desta porção do GBF. As rochas da área estão estruturadas na forma de quatro domínios lito tectônicos separados entre si por falhas de empurrão de primeira ordem, de atitude NW-SE, vergência para NE. Estas falhas de empurrão causam expressivos truncamentos..
Advancements in the use of blood tests for cancer screening in women at high risk for endometrial and breast cancer
No full textSeveral years ago, it was argued that the identification of serum biomarkers is one of the most promising approaches for the detection of early-stage malignant or even premalignant lesions. In this review, the need to establish better monitoring protocols is described for obese women who are at higher risk for the development of malignancies commonly associated with excess weight; specifically endometrial and postmenopausal breast cancer. These cancers have been chosen for this review article as our aim was to focus on female cancers that have been linked with obesity. Cancer screening is essential in detecting disease in its earliest stage in order to reduce morbidity and mortality; however, effective screening is not available for many cancer types. Even for cancers that have effective screening protocols available, there are barriers to screening in obese individuals, such as reduced mobility and embarrassment. These barriers often delay screening in these vulnerable population groups, leading to detection of the disease at a more advanced stage and ultimately leading to a poorer prognosis. As of today, biomarkers do not replace but augment imaging and other existing screening approaches. Future development of blood- or urine-based biomarkers as a way to screen individuals at high risk for certain cancers may prove to be an excellent method for overcoming the barriers that individuals at high risk are facing today. The overall purpose of this manuscript is to provide an overview of screening techniques and to identified barriers and alternate biomarker-based approaches for improvement of endometrial and breast cancer screening in obese women.</jats:p
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE QUALITY CONTROL OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL LECTURES ON THE INTERNET
No full textFinding high quality materials for the preparation of epidemiological lectures is a serious challenge for epidemiologists and public health professionals across the world. The emergence of the Internet in the early 90's offered a way to ease the access to the epidemiological lectures; however it also raised important questions about the quality of the educational lectures which are freely available on the Internet. In this research, we analyzed the quality of epidemiological lectures in the Global Health Network Supercourse lecture library. We selected a random sample of 100 lectures in the Supercourse that accumulated at least 3 reviews from the visitors of the Supercourse sites. We found 7 experts, leading researchers in the field of public health and medicine, who were also very experienced in reviewing papers for journals. These experts evaluated the same set of 100 lectures and gave us their expert opinion on their quality. Overall, the lectures were rated positively by both expert and the Supercourse reviewers. Although t-test indicated that the difference between the means was statistically significant, this difference is not meaningful due to large sample size. Kappa statistic and intraclass correlations indicated that inter rater agreement for experts and non-experts was surprisingly low (less than 0.4). We also observed HALO affect with overall score being a good predictor of other scores. Our findings were consistent with existing research in the area of peer review, demonstrating low inter rater agreement. This poor inter rater agreement was demonstrated for the first time for the Internet lectures. Our findings suggested that questionnaires assessing the quality of the Internet lectures may actually be replaced by one rating, similar to the system utilized in Amazon.com or hotel ratings. This research was significant for the field of public health because it was one of the first efforts to evaluate the quality of epidemiological lectures on the Internet. The quality of lectures on the web has rarely been assessed scientifically for epidemiological and public health lectures. Future research in this area may need to concentrate on alternatives to the peer review system
Principles of Biomedical Research
No full textHLT 430/530
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