23,499 research outputs found
Shiraz Women's Healthy Ageing Cohort Project(SWHACP©)
No full textThe attached data-set is a comprehensive and expanded study on women's health and ageing in the city of Shiraz in mid-2019. The statistical population includes all elderly women over 60 years of age living in Shiraz, southern Iran. The sample includes 9117 elderly female and data was collected over the years 2017 till now
Successful Aging Inventory (TSAI-2011): Rasch Partial Credit Model
No full textBackground: The present study aimed to evaluate whether the Persian version of the TSAI-2011 has the optimal number of response category in order to determine successful aging issues in older adults. In addition, it sought to determine whether all of the items contributed adequately to their own domain.Methods: In a psychometric study, the Persian version of the TSAI-2011 was completed by 400 men and women aged 60 and above from urban (211 samples) and rural (189 respondents) settings during mid2019. The Rasch partial credit model (PCM) was used to evaluate item statistics and ordering of response categories. Results: The PCM indicated that items 1 and 20 were misfitting. In addition, the PCM revealed that successive response categories for all items were located in the expected order and version of TSAI with 22-items had more internal consistency compared to those of 20 and 24 items.Conclusions: Although Rasch analysis proved that the majority of items are related to their own underlying construct, response categories should be reorganized and evaluated in further studies, especially in older adults who were settled in the nursing homes and community-based settings
Health Status of Kazaks Minority Aging Group in Iran: a cross-sectional study on their sense of loneliness
No full textObjectives: Loneliness is a mental and debilitating condition that results in metabolic disorders, hypertension, and sadness. In fact, loneliness for the older people is the inability to establish and maintain satisfying relationships with others and is a widespread phenomenon. The study aimed to investigate loneliness in Iranian aging Kazaks and its relationship with their health status.
Design: The present study is a descriptive-analytical one that was conducted on 234 Iranian ageing Kazaks in 2020. Data collection tools included demographic and health information questionnaires and (University of California, Los Angeles) Loneliness Scale, 21-items. The convenience sampling method was used for data collection. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 26. This study was registered at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and all participants provided the written and verbal consent.
Results: the mean score of loneliness was 51.77 (SD = 6.11) and its cut-off point was 44.5. Health index had a significant and inverse relationship with loneliness (P = 0.001, OR = 2.347). Also, living alone, hypertension and gender (OR = 5.034, 4.107 and 4.099, respectively) were the predictors of loneliness.
Conclusion: General health, hypertension, and living alone have a significant relationship with loneliness. It is suggested to provide conditions to create communities and sanctuaries appropriate to the culture and customs of the Kazaks ethnic minority in order to keep them active in the community.
Keywords: Health Status, Minority Group, Cross-Sectional Studies, Loneliness, Aged
Remote sensing of salt marsh vegetation stress
No full textThe data accompanying the PhD thesis of Bas Oteman. Mostly vegetation measurements in European salt marshes
APPLICATION OF CDIO APPROACH TO MSC AND PHD ENGINEERING PROGRAMS
No full textThe paper presents two-level lists of intended learning outcomes in the MSc’s programs (FCDI Syllabus v1) and PhD programs (FFCD Syllabus v1) on the analogy with the CDIO Syllabus v2 for graduates of basic engineering education programs based on the analysis of generalized requirements of national and international standards for competences acquired by graduates of Master’s degree programs (MSc-programs) and postgraduate programs (PhDprograms) in the field of engineering, technology and technical sciences, taking into account the expert opinion of specific features and priority directions in innovation and research engineering activity. Standards of MSc educational programs (FCDI Standards) and PhD educational programs (FFCD Standards) are developed with a focus on FCDI Syllabus v1 and FFCD Syllabus v1 on the analogy with the CDIO Standards for the basic engineering education programs. The developed lists of competencies of graduates and standards of MSc and PhD educational programs may be subject to further development and detailing in higher educational institutions
Reflecting on the role of emotions in the PhD process
No full textThis research project examined the role of emotions in the PhD process through an exploratory, qualitative, self reflective study by six recent or current PhD candidates. Despite differences in the nature of the PhD fields of study, and in the personal backgrounds of the participants, a number of common themes were recognised. We developed an interactive workshop for postgraduate students in which participants were asked to reflect on their emotional experiences in their own studies. The combined information from these sources was used to suggest some strategies for management of negative emotions that may arise during the PhD process. Of critical importance is the multiple roles of the PhD supervisor in helping manage the negative emotions that most PhD students inevitably experience at some stage in their candidature. Most important, though, is the role of self reflection in identifying potential emotional problems and their solutions; a process we recommend to PhD candidates and supervisors
sj-docx-1-ijl-10.1177_15347346211039588 - Supplemental material for Effect of Early Rehabilitation on Gait, Wound and Home Discharge in Lower Extremity Chronic Wound Patients: A Japanese Multicenter Retrospective Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ijl-10.1177_15347346211039588 for Effect of Early Rehabilitation on Gait, Wound and Home Discharge in Lower Extremity Chronic Wound Patients: A Japanese Multicenter Retrospective Study by Noriaki Maeshige, Ph, Hisae Hayashi, PhD, Hiroto Terashi, PhD, MD, Miki Fujii, PhD, MD, Tetsuya Iwamoto, PhD, Yu Watanabe, MSc, Shinsuke Imaoka, MSc, Junichi Matsumoto, MSc, Mayo Nishikawa, BSc, Naoto Takeda, BSc, Ryuzo Mikawa, BSc, Yoriko Tsuji, PhD, MD, Ryuji Higashita, PhD, MD, Shinobu Ayabe, MD, Yuta Terabe, MD, Masahide Furukawa, MD, Junko Tanaka, PhD, MD, Takehiko Ohura, PhD, MD, Nobuhide Kawabe and PhD in The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds</p
Device and application development for haematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) and mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) 3D spheroid cultures
No full textWith an overall aim to improve haematopoietic stem/progenitor cell (HSPC) and mesesnchymal stromal cells (MSC) 3D culture systems, this PhD Thesis addressed the following four interlinked AIMs: (1) The development of a high throughput microwell platform that enabled evaluation of MSC spheroid potential to expand HSPC in vitro; (2) Utilization of the high throughput microwell platform to manufacture HSPC/MSC spheroids to improve the efficacy of direct bone marrow transplantation; (3) The development of an improved microwell platform that retains spheroids within discrete microwells throughout culture; and (4) Characterization of HSPC surface marker change in response to the microwell material
Portuguese Women in Science and Technology (S&T): Some Gender Features Behind MSc. and PhD. Achievement
No full textPortuguese Women in S&T - Abstract Most research based upon institutional data has been dealing with the situation of Portuguese women in Science and Technology as if it would be a homogeneous set. Quite the opposite, whilst women in science are performing increasingly better than men since the early school ages, indeed a Portuguese idiosyncrasy comparing to other PISA countries, they are still underrepresented in most technological fields. Among other determinants this feature ascribes most Portuguese graduate women to occupations where career prospects are quite uncertain and worse than men's in the same qualification levels. Either by career requirements or in reason of one's seeking to improve knowledge and apply to a better job, post-graduation undergoing appears therefore as an obvious way out strategy. Nevertheless, even high skilled Portuguese women in scientific occupations face generally weaker opportunities and have to take more time than men to achieve a post-graduation. A Project in the behalf of Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology provided us longitudinal data on PhD. and MSc. Trajectories within four Portuguese universities. By investigating such a data on the basis of a Hazard-Survival Model and Cox Regression Analysis we could identify some of the main gender determinants behind obstacles and time to achieve MSc (author abstract)Gender and Science; Obstacles to post-graduation achievement; Hazard Survival Models; Portugal.
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