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Current Overview of Undergraduate Nursing Courses in the Northeast

Introduction: Nursing education has been undergoing transformations in due to the need to adapt to the market demands. Thus, within the academic context, it is necessary to observe the quality of training linked to the demands of the contemporary world. To assess this quality, the National Institute of Studies and Research uses instruments to outline the quality panorama of the courses through the evaluation of students, through the result of the National Student Performance Exam, in addition to using the educational indexes: administrative category, institutional nature, number of vacancies offered and course concept. Objective: To outline the current panorama of undergraduate nursing courses in the Northeast region, establishing a relation with the quality of teaching based on the evaluation of educational indices. Methodology: Document research, of a descriptive character and qualitative approach, using secondary data from the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira of the Ministry of Education, available in April 2020. The sample consists of 336 institutions that offer 406 undergraduate courses in nursing in the Northeast. The data were compiled in an Excel®️ spreadsheet and statistically analyzed using the SPSS 12.0 program. Results: It was observed that the face-to-face modality stands out with 89% coverage in the region, but distance learning includes the largest number of places. Public education institutions stand out with the higher concepts of the course. The NSPE evaluation concept 2 was the one that most appeared in the evaluated courses. The state of Bahia has the largest amount of courses, with 24.5%, and Sergipe was the lowest index (5.4%), but it has an average of vacancies higher than the average in the region. Final considerations: The analysis of this study shows a deficit in the quality of undergraduate nursing courses in the Northeast. Further studies in the area of ​​Nursing Education are needed to analyze the monitoring of its quality.

The effect twisted petung bamboo variations as reinforcement on concrete beam

Reinforced Concrete is a composite material consisting of concrete and steel-reinforced concrete. Steel is used as reinforcement because it has high yield strength. However, the price of steel reinforcement is higher due to high demand. Besides having a relatively high price, steel is a non-renewable material, which makes the amount of course very limited as for other alternatives as a substitute for the concrete reinforcement, called bamboo. Bamboo is a renewable natural product with high tensile strength. With the many advantages of bamboo, especially petung bamboo as a construction material, therefore, necessary to research the flexural strength of bamboo petung reinforced beams. Reinforced bamboo used is twisted petung bamboo with a variation of three strands, five strands, and seven strands. The method used in this study is a numerical analysis based on standard concrete flexural strength test with two loading points. Analysis shows that tensile strength of bamboo strands for three strands amounted to 222.93 MPa, five strands of 230.04 MPa, and seven strands of 237.14 MPa. For the maximum load, The highest load produced for concrete beams with reinforcement three strands, five strands, and seven strands are 11.87 kN, 35.62 kN and 52.21 kN respectively. Meanwhile, The flexural strength produced for each scheme is 6.73 Mpa, 8.23 Mpa and 9.86 Mpa.

Online Counselling Support in Australian and New Zealand Universities

The higher education sector is currently undergoing a major shift towards increasing the amount of courses that are taught online, hence there is also a growing need to provide support services for online students. This paper reports on the results of a survey that aimed to gather information on the online presence of counselling services across Australian and New Zealand higher education facilities. It indicates that movement towards offering online counselling support for students is slow, with services and professionals showing some resistance to, and anxiety around, moving into this sphere. Where services have been offered, there is little consistency across the sector. A number of challenges around engagement, marketing, technology and clinician anxiety have hampered successful outcomes. There have been notable exceptions to this, with a few universities trialling different online platforms and engagement strategies with students, with varying levels of success. Overall there appears to be a need for counsellors to be offered training in providing online services to students; not only to increase their confidence in providing these services, but also to help to change attitudes about online mental health services. There is also a need for more research into the efficacy of those models which are operating successfully, in order to encourage change in clinician attitudes, which in turn may lead to further adoption of online services across the sector.

PFAPA-SYNDROME in CHILDREN: SHOULD WE REMOVE or SAVE the TONSILS?

The etiology of PFAPA syndrome is still unknown and due to that there is no specific laboratory test and no specific treatment. Some cases of successful treatment of patients with PFAPA through tonsillectomy were described in literature, but their level of evidence is not enough to consider the PFAPA-syndrome as indication for tonsillectomy.Material and methods. For determination of the frequency of PFAPA-syndrome in children, who were aimed at the routine tonsillectomy, and the efficiency of the tonsillectomy in children with PFAPA-syndrome the analysis of the results of the examination and treatment of the 216 children was performed. The rheumotests and the identification the beta-hemolytic streptococcus in the pharynx were performed to estimate the bacterial background of the tonsillitis. PFAPA-syndrome was diagnosed according to the Thomas criteria. For distinguish the PFAPA-episodes from the others cases of the throat infection we constructed and tested the special questionnaire. The efficacy of the tonsillectomy was estimated by counting the episodes of upper respiratory tract infection, the amount of courses of antibiotic therapy as well as the amount of days of not-attending the schools because of the throat infection during the year after tonsillectomy.Results.PFAPA-syndrome according to the criteria Thomas was diagnosed in 6 children (3,3%). The average age of patients with PFAPA was 4 years, the average period between febrile episodes - 28 days.The two groups were formed according to the results of examination: the first group of the 23 children with bacterial origin of tonsillitis (with presence the hemolytic streptococcus in the oropharynx as well as the high titer of antistreptolysin O); and the second group of the 6 children with symptoms that were assessed as PFAPA-syndrome.The testing of the constructed questionnaire showed that the score in children of the first group ranged from 8 to 20 points and the score of the children with the PFAPA syndrome ranged from 22 to 32 points.After the year after surgery the four and more episodes of throat infection were revealed in 4 children (17,4%) of the first group. The average amount of courses of antibiotic treatment per year has decreased from 6,4 to 1,8.The complete disappearance of the fever episodes in a year after surgery was established in five cases of PFAPA-syndrome. The amount of episodes of upper respiratory tract infections in this group decreased from 9,5 to 0,7; the amount of courses of antibiotic treatment - from 10,3 to 1,4; the amount of days not-attending the schools because of throat infection - from 68,4 to 14,8.Conclusion.The frequency of the PFAPA-syndrome among tonsillectomy children was 3,3%.The constructed questionnaire improves the differential diagnosis process of the episodes of throat infection in children. Thus, the total number of points less than 10 may indicate the bacterial origin of the chronic tonsillitis, but the total number of points above 24 points indicates the high probability of PFAPA-syndrome.Tonsillectomy is an effective treatment for children with PFAPA syndrome.

Online versus Face-to-Face: Students' Preferences for College Course Attributes

The objectives of this article were to determine: 1) students' preferences for college course attributes; and 2) how the amount of course attribute information impacts enrollment. Results indicate students had the highest preferences for face-to-face (F2F) courses offered late morning and early afternoon and two to three days per week. Students selected online over F2F courses depending on course makeup; for example, course topic, online course design technology, and when the F2F version was offered. Additionally, students selected online courses more frequently when additional online course attribute information was available during course selection.

Measures to Improve the Effectiveness of the Training for New Police Officers –With a Focus on Central Police Academy

Training programs for police officers provide necessary knowledge and skills for fulfilling daily tasks. Moreover, the moral aspect of the training instills discipline in the recipients to function as volunteers for the citizens. Therefore, it is the starting point for the new officers to not only achieve their individual goals, but to contribute to the organizational aim. Unfortunately, the training provided at the Central Police Academy (CPA) in South Korea suffers from the overwhelming amount of courses provided to the trainees over a short period of time and an overemphasis on the theoretical aspects of work. In this study, current states of the training in the United Kingdom and the United States are reviewed. A couple of things to note in the US system is that the content of training is becoming more diverse and the training period is being extended. Furthermore, it is a military-style training. A unique characteristic of the UK training is that it has employed the “apprenticeship” system. This study discusses issues with the training for new police officers in South Korea by examining comparable aspects in the United States and the United Kingdom. Extension of training period, practice-oriented education, and benchmarking the apprenticeship-based program in the United Kingdom are suggested. Additionally, assessing individual characteristics thoroughly at the school is recommended in order to increase the overall outcome of the police work.

予測型エージェントを用いた船舶の群行動に関する研究

This paper presents an analysis of ship-group navigation simulations based on an autonomous ship behavior cluster model. In this model, maneuvering decisions of a ship agent are computed by combining four independent forces : goal attainment force, contracting force, expanding force, and cluster collision avoidance force. The magnitude of each force is determined by a sigmoid function which takes distance to a relevant point/vessel as input. Although fairly simple, the sigmoid function led to flexible decision-making. The characteristic of group behavior was compared using two kinds of agents, the estimation type agent which can estimate risk of collision, and the non-estimation type agent which lacks this function. The estimation type agents exhibited better performance in terms of tracks, the distance of CPA and the total amount of course altered.

Judendomen i det kursbundna gymnasiets läroböcker i Finland

Those who belong to the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland and attend upper school (gymnasium) are taught five courses in religion in the course of three years. Those who belong to the Orthodox Church are taught the same amount of courses. In the course on non-Christian religions Judaism in treated in addition to Hinduism, Buddhism, religions in China and Japan, and Islam. This means that Judaism, on average, gets five lessons, which is a very modest amount. In general it can be said that the upper school textbooks deal with Judaism impartially and that they do not contain errors in substance. They contain very little information about modern Judaism and about the Judaism of the diaspora. The text is largely filled with Biblical history, and when it comes to modern Judaism it deals mainly with questions with a political dimension such as the Zionist movement and the state of Israel. Another regrettable matter is the paucity of information concerning the Jews in Finland.