Inventory List Research Articles

Substitution of Conventional Vehicles in Municipal Mobility

Among the economic sectors, mobility is showing significant environmental impacts, especially in the use phase of vehicles. By substituting fossil-fuelled propelling systems, environmental impacts such as the Global Warming Potential (GWP) can be reduced. The use of properly designed light electric vehicles (LEVs) significantly reduces further environmental impacts, as well as maintenance costs, which are relevant for a circular economy. For example, the use of low-voltage (42 V) propelling systems enables the maintenance of LEVs in a broader range of existing bicycle workshops. Regarding the environmental impacts, the described LCA results indicate the advantage of LEVs compared with EVs and ICVs, e.g., vehicle weight is found to be a main factor related to environmental impact for each type of vehicle. This implies a reduced need for battery capacity and lower emissions of particulate matter from tire and break abrasion. This study aims to present the application potential of LEVs and the related reduction in environmental impacts. Anonymised inventory lists of municipal vehicle fleets are analysed for quantifying the substitution potential of LEVs in specific use cases. For this purpose, the use phase of vehicles is analysed with a focus on product design for repair and recycling and supplemented by the results of a comparative environmental impact assessment of internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs), electric vehicles (EVs), and LEVs. The comparison is made on the premise of similar application requirements. These specifications are the ability of each of the vehicles to transport a maximum of three persons (driver included) or one driver and 250 kg of cargo in 3 m3 over a daily distance of 100 km in urban areas. On this basis, the municipal environmental benefits derived from substituting small vehicles in the form of ICEVs and EVs with LEVs are assessed. The results show that in the field of municipal mobility, a relevant number of conventional small vehicles can be substituted with LEVs. The environmental impacts in categories of the highest robustness level, RL I, that is, Global Warming Potential, fine dust emissions, and Ozone Depletion Potential, can be reduced by LEVs by 50% compared with EVs and by over 50% compared with ICEVs. The strong influence of vehicle weight on the abrasive conditions of tires and brakes is considerable, as shown by reduced fine dust emissions.

The Effect of Pedagogical Training in Higher Education on the Newly Employed University Teacher’s Approach to Teaching and Self-efficacy Beliefs in Algerian Universities

"To align with society’s ever-changing needs, the principal goal the university seeks to achieve within the community shifted from providing knowledge through teaching to the strategic role of knowledge production by applying skills. Accordingly, the implementation of the L.M.D. system in Algerian universities focused on supporting the students’ learning process and emphasized student work; this imposed new pedagogical teaching methods and raised the need to improve the pedagogical skills of university teachers. This study aims to determine the impact of pedagogical training in higher education for newly employed teachers at Algerian universities on their approach to teaching, as measured by the Approaches to Teaching Inventory list, and on their self-efficacy beliefs, as measured by the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire. Data were collected in a pre-post design; a questionnaire was designed based on the measurement methods and sent electronically twice to a sample of 50 newly employed teachers before and after pedagogical training. The study finds no statistically significant differences in the teacher-centered or in the student-centered approach among newly employed teachers, and no statistically significant differences in their self-efficacy beliefs before and after pedagogical training. Pedagogical training is not helping newly employed university teachers to center their teaching approach around the student."

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE OBJECTS ACCOUNTING OF URBOECOSYSTEMS: METHODOLOGICAL AND APPLIED ASPECTS

Introduction. The need to improve and develop methodical approaches to the accounting of green infrastructure objects is due to the lack of a unified system for determining the green infrastructure objects status of municipal territorial communities; the high dynamism of changes in the quality of the urbanized environment natural components and the economic conditions of society's existence; insufficiently regulated spatial development of cities and intra-system zoning and zoning of cities; lack of an ecosystem approach to the procedure of green infrastructure objects assessment and accounting.
 The purpose of the article: to justify the need in determine the green infrastructure objects status of urboecosystems, generalize methodical approaches to the accounting of such objects and develop proposals for their improvement.
 Results. The article substantiates the necessity of determining the green infrastructure objects status in municipal territorial communities, improving and developing methodical approaches to their accounting. The institutional prerequisites for the green infrastructure objects accounting of urban ecosystems, the tools of quantitative and quantitative-qualitative accounting of green spaces (interactive maps and plans, GIS accounting, mapping methods) that have gained practical application are considered. International approaches to the accounting of green infrastructure objects of urban ecosystems are analyzed. Current approaches that can be used for the identification of green infrastructure objects, their inventory, and certification have been identified, which allows us to assert the feasibility of considering green infrastructure as natural assets of the urban economy with all the prerequisites and consequences, namely, reflection in the General Development Plans, development strategies, plans and projects, accounting on the accounts of municipalities, distribution of responsibility for creation, operation, restoration, etc., which will be directly reflected in the green infrastructure management system. Proposals have been developed to fill in the criteria for quantitative and qualitative accounting of green spaces, which must be included in inventory lists, registers and passports of green infrastructure objects. As well as value indicators: book value, restoration value, improvement value, value increase, depreciation of green infrastructure objects. The experience of accounting implementation for the value indicators of green infrastructure objects ecosystem services is substantiated, since ecosystem capital is no less important than financial capital, and over time it will become the basis of the national wealth of the world countries.
 Conclusions. The green infrastructure formation is one of the strategic directions of the green course principles implementation in urban planning, and the accounting system of green infrastructure objects is an institutional environment element of the green cities functioning, information support for making management decisions that will contribute to the natural resources protection of urban ecosystems, and the quality improvement of the city`s residents living environment.

Development of an App for Symptom Management in Women With Breast Cancer Receiving Maintenance Aromatase Inhibitors: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Feasibility Study.

Patients with postmenopausal nonmetastatic estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer often experience a reduced quality of life after primary treatment. The disease and treatment trajectory consists of surgery followed by chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Upon this, maintenance hormone therapy with an aromatase inhibitor can result in several physical and psychosocial symptoms. Optimal symptom control during maintenance therapy is central to maintaining the patient's quality of life. This study aims to (1) develop an electronic symptom management tool for patients with postmenopausal early breast cancer receiving maintenance aromatase inhibitors with an endocrine aspect and (2) assess the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of the pilot version of the Bone@BC app. Furthermore, longitudinally, symptom prevalence and quality of life for patients with postmenopausal nonmetastatic estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer will be explored. This study follows a multistage research plan. In stage 1, a systematic literature review to establish an overview of aromatase inhibitor-related symptoms reported by postmenopausal women with nonmetastatic estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer will be completed. In stage 2, a comprehensive overview of symptoms related to aromatase inhibitors (letrozole, exemestane, and anastrozole) will be performed (eg, by reviewing medical leaflets and guidelines). In stage 3, an electronic app with a user-friendly Patient Concern Inventory list to comprise symptoms and concerns will be developed. Last, in stage 4, a convergent mixed methods feasibility study of the pilot version of the Bone@BC app will be conducted. A total of 45 patients with postmenopausal nonmetastatic estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer will use the app daily for symptom identification and respond to 6 serial patient-reported outcome measurements for 12 weeks. Finally, semistructured interviews will be performed. The primary outcome includes consent rate, attrition rate, retention rates, technical issues, and adherence, assessed using preestablished criteria on feasibility and a mixed methods approach for exploring acceptability. A patient advisory board consisting of 5 women with breast cancer is recruited to include their perspectives and experiences in the planning, organization, implementation, and dissemination of the research throughout the project. At the time of submitting this paper (January 2024), a total of 23 patients have been included in the stage 2 medical audit over the recruitment period of 3 months (November 2022 to February 2023), and 19 patients have been enrolled in stage 2, the semistructured patient interviews. This protocol describes a study investigating the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of the symptom management tool Bone@BC developed for patients with breast cancer with an endocrine aspect. ClinicalTrails.gov NCT05367830; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05367830. DERR1-10.2196/49549.

New records of hard-bottom polychaete species in the central Adriatic Sea

Adriatic Sea is a diverse marine ecosystem that supports a rich biodiversity of polychaete species on soft and hard-bottoms, with 764 recorded species in the latest inventory list. Benthic surveys conducted in 2018 in the hard-bottom infralittoral zone on the east coast of the central Adriatic Sea revealed one previously unreported species for the Adriatic Sea, Syllis kabilica Ben-Eliahu, 1977 (Syllidae), as well as two species reported for the first time in the eastern Adriatic Sea, Syllis tyrrhena (Licher and Kuper, 1998) (Syllidae), and Streblosoma nogueirai Lezzi and Giangrande, 2019 (Terebellidae). Furthermore, one alien species was identified, Lysidice collaris Grube, 1868 (Eunicidae). These findings provide new insights into the distribution and diversity of polychaete fauna in the Adriatic Sea.

Comparative Hygienic Assessment of the Composition of Ash and Dust Fractions in Ambient Air of the Area Affected by Emissions from a Thermal Power Station: Improving the Accuracy of Human Health Risk Assessment

Introduction: The relevance of the study is determined by a great number of functioning thermal power stations that operate using solid fuels (40 %) and are a source of ambient air pollution posing human health risks. Objective: A comparative hygienic assessment of the component, disperse, and morphological composition of fly ash and airborne particles in the area surrounding a coal-fired power station for the purpose of increasing the accuracy of human health risk assessment. Materials and methods: We have used unified and approved methods for hygienic assessment of ambient air quality; hazard identification and health risk assessment; scanning electron microscopy and micro-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy of component, disperse, and morphological structure of fly ash and airborne particulate matter. Results and discussion: Large coal-fired thermal power plants emit about 36 chemicals. Over 59 % of brown coal ash particles are calcium, magnesium, iron, silicon, aluminum, sodium, potassium, sulfur, and phosphorus compounds. Particles found in fly ash and ambient air of the surrounding area have similar components and dispersion, are predominantly less than 10 µm in diameter with the sphericity index ranging from 0.4 to 1.0. Maximum allowable concentrations (MAC) of seven chemicals are exceeded in the study area: up to 3.3 single MAC, up to 1.4 average daily MAC, and up to 1.5 average annual MAC, with the estimated contribution of the thermal power stations of about 40 %. We have also established increased non-carcinogenic health risks with the dust fractions alone generating risk levels as high as 5.5 HQac, 2.4 HQch, and 6.9 HIch, which are rated as “high” and “alerting”. Identified solid particles (aluminum, magnesium, calcium, etc.) are more significant risk factors compared to unidentified particulate matter and can cause respiratory and circulatory diseases, diseases of the eye, etc., which requires their quantification. These chemicals are not included in air emissions inventory lists and are, therefore, not monitored. As a result, health risks posed by economic activities of thermal power stations may be underestimated.

OP171 Canadian Disease Registry Inventory: Environmental Scan Of The Literature

IntroductionIn consideration of the lessons learned from other jurisdictions and other ongoing work in the disease registry data space, an opportunity existed to investigate the current Canadian landscape and identify opportunities for a Canadian registry list. Previously, no national-level inventory of registries existed in Canada that could provide the necessary information to support awareness and use of available data for decision-making.MethodsA literature search was conducted on key resources, including MEDLINE and a focused internet scan. No methodological filters were applied to limit retrieval by publication type. The search was limited to documents published in English or French.ResultsCore characteristics of the identified registries were extracted and contextual information on the current landscape of disease registries in Canada was explored. A literature review and draft inventory list has been produced.ConclusionsA CADTH environmental scan was undertaken to collect and report on existing Canadian disease registries and to identify key features, characteristics, and intersections. This information and analysis increase the potential of Canadian registries to inform decision-making and identifies opportunities for the optimal use of registry data in Canada more broadly.

PROFOUND INVESTIGATION OF DUST CHEMICAL COMPONENT IN INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS FOR CORRECT ESTIMATION OF GEOECOLOGICAL IMPACT AND MONITORING

Background. Effective management of dust emissions from industrial enterprises should be based on reliable data on emission sources and emitted components. Correct estimation of geoecological impacts exerted by dust emissions is a complicated process due to chemical diversity of the soil component in them.
 Aim. The aim was to test a practical approach to identifying actual ambient air pollution with solid particles in a zone influenced by an economic entity for correct estimation of impacts and monitoring of ambient air quality.
 Materials and methods. Samples of industrial dust emissions were analyzed with a scanning electronic high-resolution microscope (magnification was from x5 to x300,000; acceleration voltage varied between 0.3 to 30 kW) with S3400N HITACHI x-ray fluorescent device (the limit of detection was approximately 5–10 mass % and the minimum field of view was 100 µm). X-ray photographs were processed by using XRD 6000/7000 software, Version 5.21. The results obtained by calculating dispersion of the dust component were mapped with ArcView 3.2 and ArcGIS 9.3.1., GIS-platforms created by ESRI.
 Results. Complex investigations of dust emissions were performed at a selected enterprise and this made it possible to identify a profile of the dust component in emissions from major sources. Actual composition of dusts emitted by the analyzed enterprise was established to differ fundamentally from the data declared in the inventory lists of emissions issued by the enterprise. The results of dispersion calculations gave grounds for spotting out substances that were priority (marker) ones for the analyzed production and we also estimated actual effects produced by dust emissions on ambient air.
 Conclusions. The study results allow concluding that a dust emission profile is a reliable instrument for estimating actual impacts of an industrial enterprise on ambient air. It can be applied to solve tasks within setting standards, monitoring and estimating actual impacts exerted by anthropogenic dust emissions when environmental measures are being planned and developed.

Impact of LEAN implementation in restocking ambulances in an emergency department and on ambulance rotation within the Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service

Background: With the advent of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup 2022 in Qatar, all healthcare systems were gearing up for an influx of patients. The Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service (HMCAS) has also refined its patient supply chain (SC) processes to improve ambulance turnaround times (ATATs) at the emergency departments (EDs). International ambulance services (AS) are complex, and these ambulances are equipped with approximately 500 individual items, which include various types of medical consumables and equipment used during emergencies. By organizing individual medical items into stock units called “pre-packs”, according to the needs of the patients and type of clinical interventions, the inventory or stock-taking time of items stored in ambulances can be significantly reduced. Implementing reduced inventory lists of items and standardized pre-pack storage across the ambulance fleet has significantly improved the efficiency and accuracy of ambulance checking, restocking, and recovery time, improving overall ATAT at the ED. Aim: This study evaluates the staff’s perceived impact of modular pre-pack kits on ambulance restocking processes and ED ATAT. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a fit-for-purpose survey was designed and distributed to all operational staff at HMCAS. The survey aims to assess HMCAS staff’s opinions about the implemented LEAN pre-pack system. Cronbach’s alpha was calculated to assess the reliability of the survey. The Mann-Whitney U-test was conducted to compare if there was a difference between the group’s opinions. The Shewhart control chart was created to monitor the impact of the implemented intervention on the ATAT at the ED. IBM-SPSS® (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) Version 26 was utilized for data analysis. Results: A group of 287 employees with different backgrounds participated and completed the survey. The Cronbach’s alpha was equal to 0.739, indicating a satisfactory level of reliability of the Mann-Whitney U-test. The descriptive analysis and the Shewhart chart revealed that most staff found that the pre-pack concept helped improve LEAN restocking processes, access to clinical applications, and ambulance checks. Overall, this concept matched the international benchmarks for turnaround time. Conclusion: The pre-pack concept promoted easy and quick processing of clinical applications, restocking procedures, and ambulance checks, and this positively impacted the ATAT at the ED. Further, it improved responses to emergency calls and enhanced access to effective care for patients. This approach also simplified the tasks above when many locum staff is employed on a short-term basis to cover mega-events such as the FIFA World Cup.

The Effectiveness of Computer-Based Monitoring and Evaluating Vessel Inventory List for Human Resource Performance

The urgency of this research is how a company is able to obtain better of HR performance, develop knowledge, improve service quality and can create competitiveness for the company. This study objective is to describe whether quality knowledge can encourage technical superintendent motivation so that it can improve technical superintendent work performance during monitoring and evaluation of inventory on board using computer-based applications and knowing quality knowledge can improve technicalsuperintendent work performance so as to realize the performance of monitoring and evaluation of inventory list on board effectively. The method used in this study is the explanatory method. Data collection was carried out online from the distributed instruments. The target population in this study were employees in the fleet division at 7 (seven) shipping companies which were used as research objects with a total number of employees of 160 employees. The data obtained is then tabulated, then data reduction is carried out and after obtaining proper data, calculations are carried out using the SPSS application by carrying out validity tests, variable reliability tests, normality tests and homogeneity tests. According to the results, it is known that there is a strength relationship between the knowledge quality and human resources performance.

Perancangan Database Akuntansi Menggunakan Microsoft Access pada Usaha Konveksi Taylor Abadi

This service aims to help design accounting applications at the Konveksi Taylor Abadi Convection Business using Microsoft Access. The application is designed according to the needs of the store, where this application has a form that is equipped with Visual Basic for Application (VBA) and other facilities such as an account list form, inventory list, fixed asset list, transaction recording consisting of sales, purchases, raw material usage, allocation forms. factory overhead costs, direct labor costs, finished production or finished products. This application provides financial reports ranging from reports on the cost of production, profit and loss reports, reports on changes in capital, balance reports and cash flow reports as well as other data needed by the company. From the results of this service, it was found that there were deficiencies in the recording and financial reports at Taylor Abadi Convection. Therefore, the author provides a solution for Konveksi Taylor Abadi Convection to use Microsoft Access computer applications in recording transactions and preparing financial reports in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards (SAK) quickly and automatically.

Mercury's xenolandscapes

The scientific understanding of such features of xenolandscape formation has been carried out, which corresponds to the filling of the scientific-cognitive synthesis of knowledge about this process with all available information appropriate to various natural sciences. At the beginning of awareness, this synthesis is xenoplanetological, with subsequent search and target xenolandscape interpretation and cartographic representation of characteristic, typical local and regional xenolandscape formations of Mercury. Predominantly medium-scale maps of such representations are, first of all, a reflection of local objects of xenoplanet landscape science. Moreover, these reflected objects are out-of-rank, that is, they have not yet been determined with respect to the ranks of xenolandscape formations, similarly formed due to the synergy of influences and interactions of different strengths, but genetically the same initial xenolandscape-forming factors of material and energy-field xenonaturals. Whatever the general diversity of xenolandscape objects of other lithospheric planets, not the Earth, no matter how plentiful and diverse their inventory list may seem, the cosmic conditions for their appearance and the acquisition of their final forms are not rank-limited and, at the same time, essentially not differentiated - they are the same: meteorite falls , the most common example. Therefore, it is unrealistic and impossible to give even an approximate possible rank «link forward» of certain xenolandscape formations and present them as «mainly local» or «mainly lower regional» or even planetary ranks, now and further. This is due to the absence of many landscape-forming factors that are effective within the terrestrial nature, geocomponent and geofactorial, that is, material and predominantly energy, the activity of which is reduced almost to zero. But at the same time, the rank identification of each formation in particular, among all the available xenolandscape objects, is still possible – and this is not a self-contradiction here. In each specific case, and under each expressive illustration with a photo image or a model of such a xenolandscape formation, with its fixed spatial parameters (linear scale), the rank of the displayed formation is determined and indicated here under each figure. The specificity of xenolandscape interpretations of the nature of the terrestrial lithospheric planets is a greater and more accessible performance for the synthesis of knowledge about local and regional landscape formations of xenoplanets using cartographic rather than verbal scientific models. Syntheses-descriptions of xenolandscape formations, typical for landscape scientists, are still waiting for an effective search for their scientific content. Keywords: Mercury, planet, xenolandscape.

The Vascular Flora of Autauga County, Alabama

The vascular flora of Autauga County, Alabama, was surveyed from 2016 to 2020. A total of 168 families, 617 genera, 1,393 species, and eight named hybrids are reported. Of the 1,393 species, 1,097 were collected during this study and 296 are from the search of online databases. Thirty of the species are listed on The Inventory List of Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Plants and Animals of Alabama. Approximately 21.4% of the flora (298 species), are considered non-native. Families with the largest number of species and named hybrids were Asteraceae (162), Poaceae (147), Fabaceae (100), Cyperaceae (96), Rosaceae (42), and Lamiaceae (33).

La fraseología como recurso estilístico y expresión identitaria: el ejemplo de L’empire du mensonge, de Aminata Sow Fall

In this paper, literature is considered as a corpus for the study of phraseology. Specifically, the novel analysed is L’empire du Mensonge by Aminata Sow Fall, one of the most outstanding figures in Senegalese literature. Applying the theoretical-methodological foundations initially proposed, the reading of this novel has allowed to create an inventory list of twenty-five phraseological units (locutions, proverbs, and routine formulae), not of French, but of the author’s first language, namely Wolof. With this work, and due to the peculiarity of the novel under analysis, in which an outstanding presence of words and statements of the Wolof language can be found, I contemplate a double purpose in its use of phraseology: as a stylistic resource used in order to be understood by the Senegalese reader, and as the expression of identity

The Evolution of Cluj Fortress From Extramuros Area and the Imprint of the Geosite in the Geographical Landscape of Cluj-Napoca City

"The Evolution of Cluj Fortress from Extramuros Area and the Imprint of the Geosite in the Geographical Landscape of Cluj-Napoca City. Cluj Fortress was built by the military garrison of the Habsburg Empire to have a defensive role in tragic periods. The site of its location was chosen possibly due to morphology, the presence of landforms developed on sandstones and conglomerates which led provided conditions for living and development in that place. The evolution of the area from extramuros to intramuros was shaped by the living necessities that the military garrison had to satisfy. By entering the area beyond the walls, “the world down there”, they had access to the means of satisfying their needs, to the necessary substance and energy exchange. The emergence of miserable households, mere holes in the slope, was possible due to the geological structure. They had a negative impact on the geographical landscape, due to the negative look of the slope, but also because of the precarious living conditions of the inhabitants of that area. The development of communities including disfavoured people determined miserable living conditions, while they tried to survive in different manners. By means of the used methodology, the paper highlights the evolution of Cluj Fortress since ancient times until today, and to emphasize the importance of the Fortress site from a scientific and anthropogenic point of view, by means of the geomorphosite inventory list. Keywords: evolution, Fortress, extramuros / intramuros, sandstones and conglomerates, geosite, geographical landscape, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. "

Pliocene bivalves (Pteriomorphia) of Algiers Sahel (Algeria): Systematics and palaeoecology.

A hundred specimens of pteriomorph bivalves were collected from the marine deposits of the marly-sandy formations of Algiers Sahel, which correspond to transitional facies between the Piacenzian deep marly deposits and the Astian molassic deposits. They are herein analysed from a systematic, taphonomic, palaeoecological and paleoenvironmental point of view. The preliminary inventory list consists of 27 species belonging to eight families: Arcidae, Nuculidae, Glycymeridae, Spondylidae, Pectinidae, Plicatulidae, Gryphaeidae, and Ostreidae. Two sedimentary units with different bivalve biodiversity are recognized: the first: a shallow infralittoral unit characterised by large Flabellipecten alessii, Aequipecten angelonii, Ostrea lamellosa and O. edulis; the second: A deeper unit of circalittoral environment mainly includes Amusium cristatum. These bivalve shells display sclerobiont traces. Bioerosion traces are mostly assignable to clionid sponges (Entobia isp.), polychaete worms (Maeandropolydora isp. and Caulostrepsis isp.), bivalves (Gastrochaenolites isp.) and predatory gastropods (Oichnus isp.). Identified encrusting organisms are juvenile oyster shells, cirripedes, polychaete worms (serpulids), and indeterminate bryozoans. Analysis of boring and encrusting traces indicate a progressive environmental change from a relative high energy setting to a lower energy and deeper water setting, and correspond to a shallow sea with well-oxygenated waters.

NEW SPECIES OF MAMMALS IN KORGALZHYN STATE NATURE RESERVE

Theriological studies of the Teniz - Korgalzhyn region are covered rather sparsely in the literature and are fragmentary, since the Korgalzhyn Reserve mainly has an ornithological direction. The purpose of this article is to study the current state of the species composition of mammals of the Teniz-Korgalzhyn region and make the necessary additions to it. The research work was carried out for the period from 2016-2021. The authors of the article, based on the actual research conducted on the inventory of mammalian species in the reserve, prove the presence of local populations of species not previously noted on the territory of the reserve and include them in the inventory list of the theriofauna of the reserve. The material was collected on the territory of the Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve and in its surroundings. Literary and intradepartmental data were also used. To include a new species in the list of local theriofauna and to distinguish individual visits of animals from the formation of a local population in the study area, 2 criteria were used: frequency and geography of encounters, and breeding of offspring. Of the 4 species new to the region, 2 species are native to Kazakhstan (Siberian roe deer, yellow gopher). Their presence in the region is insignificant and probably does not have a negative impact on the existing ecosystem of the region. The greatest concerns are caused by 2 acclimatizant species, namely the American mink, raccoon dog. Which are recognized as invasive species in Russia and Kazakhstan. The possibilities of the distribution and reproduction of these species in the territory they have developed and the possible impact on the native fauna of the region are also analyzed.

Comparative analysis of the myriapod fauna (Diplopoda, Chilopoda) of the Shumen Plateau and the Madara Plateau (Northeastern Bulgaria)

Abstract At present, the inventory lists of the Myriapoda of many geographical areas in Bulgaria and the comparative analyzes of the similarity between such local faunas are scarce or completely missing. The present paper presents the results of the comparative analysis of α- and β-diversity of the myriapoda communities in natural habitats in two regions in Northeastern Bulgaria – the Shumen Plateau and the Madara Plateau. The compared habitats in these plateaus have similar geographical, soil and climatic conditions, and similar species composition of plant formations. The analysis of the structure of the myriapoda communities included estimation of species diversity by determining the Shannon-Wiever index (H’) and the Berger-Parker index (d). The degree of similarity between the species composition of the communities was analyzed by the Czekanowski-Dice-Sörensen, Jaccard, Bray-Curtis, Horn, Morisita-Horn indices and the corrected Chao-Sörensen and Chao-Jaccard indices. The species diversity of the millipede community in the Shumen Plateau is much greater than that of the Madara Plateau, while the diversity of the centipede communities in the two plateaus does not differ significantly. In both classes the greatest species diversity is registered in deciduous and mixed deciduous-coniferous forests. Chao-Sörensen and Chao-Jaccard indices of similarity for the myriapod communities in these habitats are the highest, approaching 1, in contrast to the other sites where the registered species composition of the centipedes is smaller and the degree of similarity is about 0.6.

Why Do Adult Patients With Cancer Not Seek Help for Their Depressive Symptoms? The Role of Illness Perceptions, Coping, and Social Support

Background: Up to 75% of cancer patients with depressive symptoms do not make use of psychological care. Objective: To examine how perceptions of and coping with depressive symptoms and perceived social support in adults with cancer are associated with their need for psychological care, concurrently and over time. Methods: In this longitudinal study, 127 participants who received a cancer diagnosis in the past 5 years, experienced at least moderate depressive symptoms, and were not receiving psychological help, completed 2 self-report questionnaires (3 months apart) including the brief Illness Perception Questionnaire and brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Inventory and Social Support List. Results: Participants with stronger belief in the efficacy of psychological care and more likely to use avoidant coping reported a greater need for psychological care at both data points. Social support was not significantly associated with perceived need for psychological care. Conclusions: Stronger perceived treatment control and greater use of avoidant coping were significantly associated with a greater perceived need for psychological care. Implications for practice: People with cancer may benefit from being informed about the efficacy of depression treatment. Furthermore, health care professionals should be aware that avoidant coping may complicate psychological care seeking for a group of adults with cancer experiencing depressive symptoms and having a need for psychological care. Foundational: Illness perceptions and coping mechanisms can predict cancer patients’ need for psychological care. Providing information about treatment options and its efficacy, together with targeting avoidant coping may increase adequate decision-making and possibly the uptake of psychological care.

Filicinae Taxonomic Diversity in the Tourism Area of Tretes Waterfall Wonosalam Kabupaten Jombang

Filicinae is a fern with the most species members. The Filicinae includes approximately 170 genera and 7000 species. Filicinae grows in wet, humid, and shady environmental conditions, like waterfall areas with an altitude of 1100-1300 meters above sea level (m a s l). The study aimed to determine the taxonomic diversity of the Filicinae in the Tretes Wonosalam Waterfall Tourism area. Taxonomic diversity is very important in tourism areas because it prevents species extinction due to the destruction of the habitat, they live in. This was descriptive research with exploration and observation techniques used purposive sampling methods based on altitude. The results of the study were stated in the form of an inventory list of species and families of each station. Data gained of species diversity were analyzed using taxonomic diversity with the formula (∆) and dominance diversity with the formula (∆*). Exploration results found 37 species from 12 families composed of 10 species from 7 families at station 1; 12 species from 6 families at station 2; 14 species from 7 families at station 3; and 22 species from 12 families at station 4. The highest taxonomic diversity (∆) was station 4 with 106.8 while the lowest for station 1 was 25.63. Dominance diversity (∆*) at all stations in this study was in the medium category. The highest family found in the study was Tectariaceae with six species.