Great Worry Research Articles

Dual influence of graphene oxide/clay and electron beam radiation on the structure, mechanical, thermal, and antimicrobial properties of nitrile butadiene rubber nanocomposite

Infective diseases are becoming more popular, and managing them has become a great worry for humanity. A rubber nanocomposite based on nitrile butadiene rubber with graphene oxide (NBR/GO) and GO/nanoclay (montmorillonite, MMT) (NBR/GO/MMT) was fabricated by a simple technique, roll milling. The synergistic influence of the existence of GO, clay, and electron beam (EB)-radiation on the NBR nanocomposites was characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and Fourier-transform infrared (FT–IR) techniques to study the mechanical, thermal, and antibacterial properties. The antibacterial activity of the prepared rubber nanocomposites was estimated via the disk diffusion process against Gram-positive bacteria, Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus lentus, and Gram-negative bacteria ; Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Proteus mirabilis. The results demonstrated that the physico-mechanical performance was significantly reinforced by incorporating nano GO (6 phr) and clay with GO (3 phr/6 phr. NBR films have no antibacterial potential. GO increases the antibacterial efficiency of the NBR films. NBR/3% GO/3% clay film is the most effective in reducing bacterial growth and B. subtilis was the most sensitive bacteria for rubber treatments. The inhibition zone diameters of the un-irradiated and irradiated NBR/3% GO/3% clay films for B. subtilis were 18.03 ± 0.59 and 25.63 ± 0.98 mm, respectively. It could be concluded that because of its outstanding flexibility and human-body compatibility penetration, rubber in corporation with antimicrobial agents can be utilized for manufacturing medical and environmental products.

Evaluating the Impact of Inflation and Exchange Rates on the Net Active Value (NAV) of Conventional Mutual Funds in Indonesia

The growing development in the financial industry and the current high inflation rate are a great worry for investment prospects, especially mutual funds. Conventional mutual funds in Indonesia have experienced significant growth in the capital market. In the last 10 years, the number of domestic mutual funds has continued to increase. One measure of investment performance in mutual funds is proxied by the Net Asset Value (NAV) of mutual funds. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the influence of macroeconomics variables on the NAV of conventional mutual funds in Indonesia. In this study, using commercial bank data in Indonesia, we estimate an empirical model of the effect of inflation and exchange rates on the NAV of conventional mutual funds in Indonesia during the period 2012–2022. We employ a time series model using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS). The main findings show that while inflation has no effect on the NAV of conventional mutual funds, the exchange rate has a significant effect on it because there are many instruments in conventional mutual funds that have invested abroad due to changes in exchange rates that appear with dominant results that do not affect the growth of the NAV of conventional mutual funds. Keywords: macroeconomics, net active value (NAV), mutual funds

Study on Environmental Problems and Sustainability with Reference to Delhi-NCR

Today, all over the world there is a great concern and worry as to what will become of the earth, considering the inherent effect of the ever increasing environmental pollution that has adversely distorted the ecosystem, thereby spurring but the international communities, the government, generation public, cooperate bodies, policy makers, professionals and even politicians to take adequate measures aimed at addressing environmental problems. This Research paper discussed on environmental pollution and sustainability. It presented what our environment is made up, its ever-increasing problems and challenges facing our environment from different perspective. The purpose of this paper is timely; with a consideration that due action is ripe for the proper implementation of environmental planned strategies (Techniques) and tools for addressing environmental menace in different part of the world, by different government, public and private sectors. The obtained results in this paper are rich enough to provide adequate solutions to many environmental problems in different parts of the world, especially in African countries.

Książę Adam Jerzy Czartoryski i jego obóz polityczny wobec grekokatolików

Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski and his political camp towards Greek Catholics The article aims to describe the actions of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski and his friends of the same political group directed towards Greek Catholics. Prince Adam Jerzy, firstly religiously indifferent, came into contact with Uniates’ problems at the beginning of the 19th century, as a curator of Vilnius Scientific Society. In that period he was a protector of Uniate Bazylian Convent. As a representative of authorities of the Kingdom of Poland he aimed to engage Uniates in development of people’s education. New opening for Czartoryski’s activities started with the Great Emigration after the failure of the November Uprising. As a leader of Hotel Lambert Prince Czartoryski observed with a great worry the liquidation of the Church Union in Russian partition. Several times he intervened by Pope Gregory XVI in favour of the persecuted people of Uniate Church. Apostolic Capital was then receiving journals, letters, and other proofs for Russian repressions. In 40s and 50s of the 19th century Czartoryski’s agents were involved in issues of Uniates living in Russian and Austrian partitions. Some examples of these actions were: giving the Roman Catholic Church Madonna del Pascola to Bazylian Convent, opening of Uniate Collegium and placing Galician clerics in Apostolic Capital. Moreover, initiatives for Greek Catholics among Polish immigrants were supported and also the foundation of the Greek Catholic Church in Bulgaria was backed up.

Credit Card Fraud Identification using Logistic Regression and Random Forest

Fraud is an ancient yet ever-changing profession. Because of the digitization of money, financial transactions, banks, fraudsters now have a limitless number of possibilities to perpetrate crime from behind a screen, anywhere around the world. Fraud has a broad influence, with direct ramifications for business and the economy. It is of great worry to cybercrime organizations as recent studies have proven that ML algorithms may successfully be utilized to identify fraudulent transactions in massive amounts of payment data. Such techniques may identify fraudulent transactions in real time, which human auditors may miss. In this research, we apply supervised ML algorithms to the issue of fraud identification by analyzing simulated financial transaction data that is available to the public. Our aim is to show how supervised ML methods may be utilized to successfully identify data with extreme class disproportion. By way of example, we show how exploratory analysis may be utilized to identify fraudulent from real purchases. We also show that Random Forest outperform Logistic Regression when applied to a clearly distinguished dataset.

Worries and Psychological Well-Being in Potential Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors Before Donation—A Swedish National Study

The physical risks involved in donating hematopoietic stem cells have been thoroughly studied, but little is known about the psychological risks potential donors might face before donation. The aim of this study was to describe potential the pre-donation worries and psychological well-being of hematopoietic stem cell donors and investigate possible associations between donor characteristics and psychological well-being. In a cross-sectional, national cohort study, we describe pre-donation worries and psychological well-being and investigate possible associations between donor characteristics and psychological well-being. A questionnaire was sent to prospective adult hematopoietic stem cells donors. The study included 210 participants, 47% of whom were related and 53% unrelated to the recipient. Of the participants, 39% reported great worry about the recipient and 12% great worry about themselves as potential donors. Symptoms of anxiety were expressed by 21%, whereas symptoms of depression were uncommon and perceived general mental health was slightly lower than in the Swedish population. Great worry about oneself, lower age, and female sex were related to increased anxiety and lower mental health. This study highlighted that some potential donors report high levels of pre-donation worry and that greater worry about oneself, lower age, and female sex are associated with lower psychological well-being. Although further studies are needed to investigate this psychological risk over time, it is clear that some potential donors are particularly vulnerable.

Ecological and human health risk assessment of metals in soils and wheat along Sutlej river (India)

Heavy metal (HMs) entry into soil affects the food chain, which is of great worry for human well-being hazards. In order to study the association of HMs in soil-plant system, surface (0–0.15 m) soil and wheat grain samples were collected within five km buffer zone of Sutlej river in Punjab (India). These samples were analysed for total arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), nickle (Ni), lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn). Among all the HMs in soil and grain samples, the concentration of total Fe was maximum and As was minimum. The HM contamination of soils was assessed using contamination factor (CF), enrichment factor (EF), potential ecological risk (Er) and modified potential ecological risk (mEr). The CF, EF, Er and mEr were highest for Cd in soils. The bioaccumulation metal factor was highest for Zn and lowest for Ni in wheat grain. There was a significant (p < 0.05) positive relationship between HM concentration in soils and wheat grains indicating the health risk due to consumption of wheat cultivated around the five km buffer of the Sutlej river. The carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risk due to ingestion of wheat grain were higher from Cd and Pb, respectively. These results are helpful for devising the remediation approaches to decrease the multi-metal contamination in soils and plants, and the epidemiological ways to preclude the human health risk from HM contamination.

Molecular tools, potential frontiers for enhancing salinity tolerance in rice: A critical review and future prospective.

Improvement of salinity tolerance in rice can minimize the stress-induced yield losses. Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of Asia’s most widely consumed crops, native to the subtropical regions, and is generally associated with sensitivity to salinity stress episodes. Salt-tolerant rice genotypes have been developed using conventional breeding methods; however, the success ratio is limited because of the complex nature of the trait and the high cost of development. The narrow genetic base of rice limited the success of conventional breeding methods. Hence, it is critical to launch the molecular tools for screening rice novel germplasm for salt-tolerant genes. In this regard, the latest molecular techniques like quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, genetic engineering (GE), transcription factors (TFs) analysis, and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) are reliable for incorporating the salt tolerance in rice at the molecular level. Large-scale use of these potent genetic approaches leads to identifying and editing several genes/alleles, and QTL/genes are accountable for holding the genetic mechanism of salinity tolerance in rice. Continuous breeding practices resulted in a huge decline in rice genetic diversity, which is a great worry for global food security. However, molecular breeding tools are the only way to conserve genetic diversity by exploring wild germplasm for desired genes in salt tolerance breeding programs. In this review, we have compiled the logical evidences of successful applications of potent molecular tools for boosting salinity tolerance in rice, their limitations, and future prospects. This well-organized information would assist future researchers in understanding the genetic improvement of salinity tolerance in rice.

Climate change: Will the parties unite or divide?

Climate change: Will the parties unite or divide?

SARS Wars: The aerosols versus the fomites

Early in the pandemic, there was great worry about SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, spreading via fomites, that is inanimate surfaces and objects. People were disinfecting their mail, their groceries, and everything else, in the mistaken belief that this was the way to prevent transmission of the virus. In July 2020, I published online a Comment in Lancet Infectious Diseases challenging this presumption. The title of the Comment was "Exaggerated risk of transmission of COVID-19 by fomites". The crux of the argument was that the concentrations of virus used were way too high in experiments showing long survival of the virus on surfaces. Since the virus decays with a defined half-life, the more you start with, the more half-lives you have to go through before reaching an endpoint of less than one infectious virus particle on the surface. In other words, the experiments that were the basis for concern about fomite transmission of COVID-19 were unrelated to real-world conditions. It turns out to be even worse than I originally thought. Experiments recently published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology show that an enveloped virus, bacteriophage Phi6, protects itself from environmental decay at higher virus concentrations. Phi6 has been suggested for use as a non-pathogenic surrogate for SARS-CoV-2, which is also an enveloped virus. Therefore, the design flaw in experiments measuring surface survival of SARS-CoV-2 is not just that too much inoculum requires more half-lives to go through -- the larger inoculums extend the half-lives as well. The Lancet ID Comment was picked up by the press. A columnist from the Atlantic coined the term "hygiene theater" in an interview about the Lancet ID Comment. Other research corroborated the assertions in the Comment, and finally, Nature posted an editorial citing the Lancet ID Comment, calling on Public Health agencies to emphasize aerosols and stop warning about fomites. Nevertheless, publications continue to appear promoting fomite transmission as a risk. This article describes why these publications should not raise concern over the possibility of fomite transmission in the real world.

The daunting task of fighting HIV in Afghanistan: Current evidence and future recommendations

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), like any other disease, has created great worry in Afghanistan. The country's slew of issues has paved the way for HIV to spread and go unchecked. International groups have banded together to stop the virus's spread since the first case was confirmed in Afghanistan. The cumulative effects of international collaboration have aided in the reduction of cases and improved awareness. Because of their injection use, a large portion of the country's population has been classified as a vulnerable category for HIV infection. Awareness campaigns and international collaboration should be implemented to further limit the spread of HIV.

English

The outbreak of an infectious disease and its spread beyond geographic boundaries which leads to a high mortality is declared as pandemic. The factors responsible for pandemic are globalization and travel of people across the world for education, employment, business etc. On March 11, 2020 the corona virus outbreak was declared as pandemic by the World Health Organization. Nevertheless, India was one of the countries affected by the coronavirus outbreak. This article describes the epidemics and pandemics in India since 20th century. But, India was a sufferer of few serious pandemics even before that which are mentioned in brief in this article. Every pandemic has some similar and some dissimilar set of characteristics. All the possible precautionary measures should be taken to avoid transmission within the country and to other countries. In this article, the sincere efforts have been put into compilation of all these natural disasters to alert the dental and medical professionals about the mistakes they might have committed in dealing with an outbreak in the past or how they would overcome or face the current issues. Fortunately India has fought against all these calamites bravely and successfully. Nevertheless during COVID-19 also, India is maintaining better control over the disease spread irrespective of its limited resources and dense population. Though overall incidence of new cases is reducing day by day, COVID-19 still exists in India and all over the world. A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time is termed as “endemic’. However, if the outbreak of a disease occurs due to its high infectious potential it can lead to a high mortality rate, and so is declared as a pandemic. The globalization and travel of people across the world is usually responsible for pandemic. India has handled many epidemics and pandemics as revealed by history. The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak as pandemic on March 11, 2020. Basically the disease originated in China, as the first case of COVID-19 infection was diagnosed in Wuhan city of China. Large number of cases were detected to be suffering from the same disease in China as it was a highly contagious disease. Presently, the disease has spread all over the world like a storm, affecting most of the countries, with the highest number of infected cases in U.S., Italy and Spain. India is also one of the victim countries. Taking into account the rapid spread of disease COVID 19 is the topic of great worry in India due to its high population density. This article describes the epidemics and pandemics since 20th century. But, India was a sufferer of few serious pandemics even before that such as Cholera Pandemic in 5 phases, Bombay Plague Epidemic and VIth Cholera Pandemic in 19thcentury.

Knowledge, Perception, Myths and Health Seeking Behaviour on Infertility Among Men and Women Attending Selected Hospitals in Ogun State, Nigeria

Background: Infertility is medically defined as the inability to achieve a pregnancy after a year or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. It causes great worry and sorrow for many couples in Africa, especially for the women. Medical evidence shows that men and women usually have the same rates of infertility. This study therefore investigated the knowledge, perception, myths and health seeking behaviour on infertility among men and women attending selected hospitals in Ogun state, Nigeria. Methods: The study employed descriptive cross-sectional design. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 272 participants for the study. A 70-item validated semi-structured questionnaire with Cronbach’s alpha of 0.77 was used to collect data. The knowledge variable was measures on 27-point rating score and perception was measured on 27-point scale. The health seeking behaviour was measured on 9-point scale. Frequency, correlation, and linear regression analysis were conducted to give statistical responses to the research questions and hypotheses using IBM-SPSS version 25. Results: The mean age of the respondents was 33.27 ±8.7years and 204(75%) of the respondents were female. Most 172(63.2%) of the respondents were of the Christian faith, 149(54.8) of the respondents had a tertiary education, less than half 131(48.2%) of the respondents were self-employed and majority of the respondents were married 220(80.9%). The respondents’ knowledge on infertility measured on a 27points knowledge scale, rating showed a mean score of 14.81±3.48. The respondents’ perception on infertility measured on a 27-point rating scale, showed a mean of 14.45±3.52, and the respondents’ health seeking behaviour was measured on a 9-points scale rating with a respondents mean score of 5.20±1.97. Majority 238(87.5%) of the respondents knew that infertility can be prevented, of those who stated that infertility can be prevented reported the following means, health education on reproduction 225(94.5%), fertility awareness 226 (95%), and early treatment of sexually transmitted disease 236(99.1%) Majority 209(76.8%) of the respondents knew that infertility can be treated. Less than half 100(36.8%) of the respondents disagreed that infertility is not a serious problem, while 91(33.5%) opposed to the idea that infertility is only serious in African society. The knowledge and health seeking behaviour (r=0.22; p=0.00) (R=0.22; R2=0.04; p&lt;0.05), perception and health-seeking behaviour (r=0.14; p=0.02) (R=0.14; R2=0.02; p&lt;0.05). Conclusion: In conclusion the respondents had adequate knowledge and perception of infertility. Majority of the respondents’ health seeking behaviour included the use of traditional and orthodox medicine. Majority of the respondents had poor health-seeking behaviour.

A Study of Multi Criteria Decision Analysis of Accident data for Indian states

Traffic accident is a great worry for traffic safety experts and city planners and authorities because it leads to serious and non-serious injuries, loss of human life and some material loss also. The major causes of traffic accidents has been due to interaction of person, motor vehicle, road and situation. It has been observed that in some states or cities or areas traffic accidents occur very frequently as compared to other states or places. By adopting Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques, the ranking of various Indian states is carried out based on 11 evaluative criteria. By considering these evaluative criteria, like the fatal accidents, grievous injury accidents, minor injury accidents, severity of road accidents, eleven traffic safety criteria are adopted. In the first stage of the model, these eleven criteria has been given weights as per Entropy Weight Method (EWM). In the second phase, ten Indian States have been ranked based on these eleven criteria by adopting Technique of Order Preference Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method. The attained results show which of the state is best ranked. Using these eleven criteria, the proposed model evaluates the road safety performance for a given set of 10 Indian states.

Perceptions of risk and motivation for healthy living among immigrants from non-western countries with prior gestational diabetes mellitus living in Denmark

ABSTRACT Objective To explore perceptions of risk and motivation for healthy living among immigrant women from non-western countries with prior gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) living in Denmark. Design Seventeen semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 female immigrants with prior GDM from non-western countries living in Denmark. The women were recruited through a public hospital and other health services and nongovernmental organisations. The theoretical approach was inspired by Arthur Kleinman’s Explanatory Models. Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results A diagnosis of GDM entailed great worry for the future. Participants’ fears were primarily linked to the potential later development of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and poor health. Women’s perceptions of GDM reflected their experiences with T2D-related complications and even death among relatives. The risk perception of GDM was also influenced by participants’ challenges and trauma unrelated to diabetes. Their motivation for healthy living was strengthened by their experiences with T2D among relatives, while unrelated challenges and trauma generally reduced their capacity for healthier behaviours. Conclusion Among women with a non-western immigrant background and prior GDM living in Denmark, experiences with T2D among family members and their close communities affect their perceptions of risk and motivation to prevent the development of T2D. Furthermore, the challenges of daily life and past trauma were critical factors in their levels of available resources for health. Health promotion in this population should address health in a holistic way by integrating mental and social health with interventions aimed at preventing the development of T2D.

Role of China and Iran in Afghanistan Peace Process

China and Iran are the two important neighboring states of Afghanistan. Afghanistan shares a long border of 936 km with Iran but a small border of 76 km with China. China is the most rapidly growing economic and military power of the World with a large number of people. China has great economic, security, and political interests in Afghanistan. China is keen to get natural resources from Afghanistan. China is using regional organizations like SCO and SAARC to get closer to Afghanistan. China is trying to bring peace to Afghanistan so that Afghanistan could get economic benefits from Chinese expertise. Iran is another important state that has stakes in Afghanistan has a historical connection with Kabul. The ouster of the Taliban from power provided a chance to Iran to enhance its historical and cultural ties with Afghanistan. American presence on Iran's eastern border is a great worry for the religious-minded state of Iran. Iran has cordial relations with the Afghan government in Kabul and working on various projects in Afghanistan. Iran also has ties with hard-core militants of the Taliban. This paper highlights the relations of China and Iran with Afghanistan. This paper also shows the role of China and Iran in the Afghan peace process.

Mathematical model of Ebola and Covid-19 with fractional differential operators: Non-Markovian process and class for virus pathogen in the environment.

Differential operators based on convolution definitions have been recognized as powerful mathematics tools to help model real world problems due to the properties associated to their different kernels. In particular the power law kernel helps include into mathematical formulation the effect of long range, while the exponential decay helps with fading memory, also with Poisson distribution properties that lead to a transitive behavior from Gaussian to non-Gaussian phases respectively, however, with steady state in time and finally the generalized Mittag-Leffler helps with many features including the queen properties, transitive behaviors, random walk for earlier time and power law for later time. Very recently both Ebola and Covid-19 have been a great worry around the globe, thus scholars have focused their energies in modeling the behavior of such fatal diseases. In this paper, we used new trend of fractional differential and integral operators to model the spread of Ebola and Covid-19.

Impact of Social Distancing on Curtailing COVID 2019 Epidemic in India: A Systematic Review by SWOT Analysis Approach

The critical analysis of Impact of Social Distancing as a Public Health Measure to curtail India’s Stage 3 of COVID-2019 epidemic carries a crucial importance. Our SWOT analysis reveals that despite being a Good strategy, lack of its strict implementation due to many failures on part of public such as carelessness during many Religious meetings and migrants travel is possibly shifting us into e Stage 3 of Community Transmission of epidemic among many states, of India which is a cause a great worry for Indian Community Existence in World. How to cite this article:Davey S, Davey A, Jain R. Impact of Social Distancing on Curtailing COVID 2019 Epidemic in India: A Systematic Review by SWOT Analysis Approach. Epidem Int 2020; 5(1): 44-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2455.7048.202009

Female Suicide Bombers in Boko Haram Insurgency: Victims or Perpetrators?

The increasing involvement of women in the advancement of insurgency in Nigeria has become a thing of great worry. The question often asked is as to whether their involvement is induced or free-willed. The concept of consent is on different layers and one would imagine the extent of consent given before they become members of the sect or culprits. The different ways women have been used to perpetrate the activities of Boko Haram ranges from threats to abuse, Indoctrination to hypnotism and many others. Due to the subtle and unsuspecting nature of women, they form a good strategy for members of the sect. However, their involvement is not evidence against them as they face situations that almost deny them the opportunity to choose whether or not to subscribe to the forceful approach used by Boko Haram insurgents!.

Personal reflections 25 years after the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo

Personal reflections 25 years after the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo