Invisible Research Articles

Невидимі ризики: що ми знаємо про них?

В статті наведені дані щодо ризиків використання витратних матеріалів із поліхлорвінілів, що містять пластифікатор (пом’якшувач) діетилгексилфталат (ДЕГФ). Представлені дані щодо впливу ДЕГФ на різні органи та системи організму, особливо у пацієнтів групи ризику.

Les clients d’escortboys : les ambivalences d’une économie de la prostitution en ligne

Cet article met en lumière l’adhésion des clients d’escortboys à l’idée de l’incompatibilité de l’intime et de l’économique. Il souligne ainsi les tensions et les ambiguïtés qui jalonnent cette expérience. Le paiement en constitue un moment critique que les clients s’évertuent à invisibiliser. Cette pratique révèle comment ces derniers tentent d’infléchir le sens de la relation d’escorting.

Prevalence and Determinants of Workplace Violence among Physicians and Nurses at Emergency Department in Ministry of Health Hospitals, Jeddah 2019

Background: Emergency healthcare workers (HCWs) have a high risk of exposure to violence with negative personal consequences. Violence is an occupational hazard in hospitals. Occupational researches have gradually shifted focus from traditional, visible environmental risk factors, such as physical, chemical, biological exposure or ergonomic problems, to the invisible, psychological harm that maybe present in the workplace. For example, violence in the workplace is a possible cause of stress, and can contribute to a greater morbidity of asthma. In addition, it can lead to a shortage of health care workers and undermine the quality of health services; study in Riyadh showed that the prevalence of violence among HCWs was 47.8%, which was considerably lower than 89.3% in nurses in the EDs in 3 public hospitals in Saudi Arabia. Because of the increased risk factors associated with violence, the US Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has made an effort to establish guidelines for the prevention of workplace violence. Aim of the study: To explore the prevalence of physical and verbal workplace violence among physicians and nurses in emergency department at Ministry of Health Hospitals, Jeddah 2019. Method: Cross-sectional analytical study has been conducted at emergency departments (EDs), Ministry of health hospitals in Jeddah city, during data collection period 2019, the total sample has been (175) physicians and nurses. Results: age the highest age was (42.0%) were (30-35) years and the data ranged from (23-50) by mean ±SD (32.55±5.331), (61.1%) were females (38.9%)while males. (63.4%) Saudi, the majority of participated nursing were(70.3%). Regarding age, marital status, place of work, Years of experience in ER department results show a significant relation between Physical or Verbal violence and age, marital status, place of work, Years of experience in ER department. Conclusion: Workplace violence was prevalent, and verbal abuse was the commonest type among HCWs in emergency departments of hospitals. Workplace violence, a possible cause of job stress, has recently become an important concern in occupational health. Almost half of the ED physicians and nurses experienced one or more WPV incident. Encouragement to report violent incidents and raising awareness among HCWs about violence reporting systems are important strategies to improve workplace safety.

THE IMPLICIT CURRICULUM AND TEENAGERS’ EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL STABILITY AMID COVID-19

The scale of the coronavirus pandemic calls to mind life calamities that reshaped societies in lasting ways—from how people traveled to the level of security and surveillance they were accustomed to, and even to the language they used. Experts have provided a lot of information regarding how to stay safe amid COVID-19, but little has been said on how unsated messages arising from how we talk about the pandemic and how we are managing the situation affects teenagers emotionally/psychologically, and spiritually. The need therefore to investigate on whether such invisible lessons are a springboard for teenagers’ emotional/psychological and spiritual stability or a dulling blow. To minimize inadequacies in one research approach as well as gain more insights of the phenomenon under study, the researcher used both a closed-ended questionnaire with 17 items among 240 ages 13-19 young people and an interview guide with 12 open-ended items among 10 teachers/ parents—a process generally referred to as triangulation. The validity of the 17-item questionnaire was determined by experts while its reliability was determined using Cronbach’s alpha which gave a reliability coefficient of 0.91. To ensure the clarity of the interview guide items, the researcher used a pilot test among 3 young people and 2 teachers/parents. The results from current research indicated that unintended lessons arising from how COVID-19 is being handled has affected teenagers’ emotional/psychological and spiritual stability both negatively and positively. This means there is need for more research, especially on the negative effects of crises on people’s emotional/psychological, and spiritual stability. Article visualizations:

Doing Re-Enacting. Invisible Gestures of Protest. An Interview with Barbora Klímová

Doing Re-Enacting. Invisible Gestures of Protest. An Interview with Barbora Klímová

Using Multi-Omics to Predict an Individual's Risk for Disease

When the first manifestations of a chronic disease become apparent, the pathologic process has been “brewing,” but invisible, for a long time. In

The Invisible and The Silent

The Invisible and The Silent

Multi-omics data integration for the discovery of COVID-19 drug targets

The novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 continues to have adverse impacts on human health. Despite the volume of experiments performed and data available, its biology is not yet fully understood. Functional omics technologies such as high throughput sequencing and mass spectrometry allow users to capture large quantities of complex data. From these individual data modalities, it is possible to extract valuable information associated with a biological system under study, leading to new discoveries and a deeper knowledge of biology. However, combining these blocks of information can yield information that is not visible with a single data modality.To better understand this virus, we take a multi-omics integrative view of the data, combining both proteomics and translatome data. This is in contrast to existing studies which mostly focus on a single aspect of functional omics data, primarily the genome. As a result of this fragmented view, valuable information may be masked. Using a latent variable approach, our integrative pipeline unifies proteome and translatome. We compared the features of interest contributing to each biological outcome across the individual data blocks and the integrated omics data. This revealed previously invisible and potentially medically relevant features for drug development.

Visible mechanisms to manage "invisible hand": Dialogues to unite expectations, interests and need for open data platform in Central Asia

Visible mechanisms to manage "invisible hand": Dialogues to unite expectations, interests and need for open data platform in Central Asia

Le Petit Prince y la imaginación de lo invisible

Le Petit Prince ha suscitado reflexiones en diversas disciplinas y su valor teórico ha sido reconocido por importantes filósofos contemporáneos. Este artículo muestra que Saint-Exupéry pretende en esta obra ensayar una «forma de mirar», una gnoseología capaz de recuperar la visión de las realidades invisibles que dan sentido a la vida humana. Justificaremos esta lectura desde la tradición poética aristotélica actualizada en la teoría y metodología hermenéutica de autores como Paul Ricoeur y Alfonso López Quintás. https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.43.5

Adaptive significance of the transparent body in the tadpoles of ornamented pygmy frog, Microhyla ornata (Anura, Amphibia)

In Southern India, during the Southwest monsoon phase, the newly formed ephemeral water bodies harbour several species of tadpoles as well as some of their predators. Tadpoles of Microhyla ornata dwell in surface or column zones of water. They face predation threat from aquatic insect predators and carnivorous tadpoles of other anurans though they are invisible due to their transparent body form. We tested whether transparent body form of M. ornata tadpoles is a useful attribute against predation by exposing tail fin stained (with the Nile blue) subjects to a naturally occurring predator (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus tadpoles that detect prey using both visual and chemical cues). The study shows that susceptibility of stained M. ornata tadpoles to predation increased significantly compared to the unstained transparent individuals. We conclude that the transparent body form is of great significance in escaping predation during the larval phase of life in M. ornata.

Covid-19: Invisible, Elusive and the Advancing Enemy.

doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.COVID19-S4.2758
 How to cite this:Shafi KM, Meo AS, Khalid R. Covid-19: Invisible, Elusive and the Advancing Enemy. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(COVID19-S4):COVID19-S138-S139. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.COVID19-S4.2758
 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Sweat is Invisible in the Rain, written by Cherno M. Njie

Sweat is Invisible in the Rain, written by Cherno M. Njie

Hacia una teoría crítica de la razón algorítmica

El artículo parte de la revisión teórica de la literatura sobre los algoritmos para trazar los ejes clave de una teoría crítica. En la dicotomía entre la descripción del mundo, por medio de los macrodatos, y la prescripción de comportamientos preestablecidos una vez analizados los big data, la razón algorítmica puede dar lugar a sistemas cerrados de comunicación que simplifiquen y estandaricen nuestras prácticas. Conforme a una metodología ensayística y filosófica que vincula forma y contenido de la crítica, las dimensiones para una teoría reflexiva sobre los algoritmos se corresponden con tres vertientes fundamentales: a) la abstracción, el cifrado matemático y el cálculo, b) la pasividad inducida ante algoritmos performativos y c) el poder invisible e impersonal. En consecuencia, la principal aportación del artículo radica en la discusión de las constricciones que nacen al abrigo de las tecnologías algorítmicas. El énfasis en una teoría crítica de la tecnología se hace tanto más pertinente a medida que los dispositivos digitales se normalizan como intermediadores en diferentes campos de la actividad humana. Se trata, pues, de problematizar la tecnología como base de comportamientos cotidianos y decisiones, desde una perspectiva teórica. En este sentido, el artículo pretende continuar el enjuiciamiento de la tecnología de autores tales como los pertenecientes a la Escuela de Frankfurt o, en el campo específico de la tecnología, Lewis Mumford y Jacques Ellul, así como críticos actuales del digitalismo, tales como Cathy O’neil, Evgeny Morozov o Nicholas Carr.

Book review: Ritu Dewan, Radha Sehgal, Aruna Kanchi and Swat Raju, Invisible Work, Invisible Workers: The Sub-Economies of Unpaid Work and Paid Work Action Research on Women’s Unpaid Labour

Ritu Dewan, Radha Sehgal, Aruna Kanchi and Swat Raju, Invisible Work, Invisible Workers: The Sub-Economies of Unpaid Work and Paid Work Action Research on Women’s Unpaid Labour. Delhi, UN WOMEN and ActionAid, 203 pp.

Visible Emotions, Invisible Future: Apprehension in Marguerite de Valois’s Mémoires

Visible Emotions, Invisible Future: Apprehension in Marguerite de Valois’s <i>Mémoires</i>

Review on nutrient management, cycles, flows and balances in different farming systems

Soil fertility management is continuously modified and adapted as conditions change in time and integrated plant nutrient management is a holistic approach to optimizing plant nutrient supply for the objective of adequately nourish the crop as efficiently as possible, while minimizing potentially adverse impacts to the environment Existence of life depends on continuous cycling of nutrients from the nutrient pool (in the abiotic component of environment) to the living beings and then back to the nutrient pool. These complex series of invisible, delicately balanced, and interrelated biochemical reactions fuel life on earth. Nutrients cycles have been substantially altered by human activities mainly agriculture with large positive and negative consequences for a range of ecosystem services and for human well-being and The presence of animals into the agricultural production system can modify the rates and flows of nutrient dynamics between the compartments of the system and Integrated crop-livestock systems can positively change the biophysical and socio-economic dynamics of farming systems, reestablishing sustainable rural development and promoting higher overall farm profitability. Soil nutrient balances reflect the net change in soil fertility and indicate trends in time, but do not necessarily determine the current state of soil fertility yet; soil nutrient balances can differ considerably between different crops, farming systems and agro-ecological zones.

India fights the invisible: A saga of strategies, hope, and resilience

India fights the invisible: A saga of strategies, hope, and resilience

History of an Invisible Idea: The Non-Presence of the Concepts of Peace Building and Reconciliation in the Theory of Violence in Peru.

Peru es un caso claro de conflicto interno violento. Este conflicto, dominado por las acciones del grupo guerrillero Sendero Luminoso tuvo sus anos mas duros durante las decadas de los anos 80 y 90. Sin embrago, es peculiar la poca produccion academica que existe analizando los aspectos de paz y conflicto del pais. Este trabajo busca repasar los trabajos realizados en el pais sobre la violencia y analizar la existencia de contribuciones academicas que traten el conflicto peruano desde la perspectiva de los estudios de paz y conflicto. Para ello se presentan los conceptos de construccion de paz y reconciliacion segun los autores seminales de los estudios de paz y se contrastan esos conceptos con las contribuciones academicas mas destacadas. Este articulo concluye que existe un cuerpo limitado de trabajo al respecto, generado en dos epocas diferenciadas. Durante los anos de la violencia seran trabajos que cuestionan las acciones de Sendero Luminoso y despues de la creacion de la Comision de la Verdad apareceran trabajos mas alineados con los estudios de paz, sobre todo con los conceptos de memoria y reconciliacion.

"Something More than Invisible": Care as Agency in Girls' Amateur Periodicals

"Something More than Invisible": Care as Agency in Girls' Amateur Periodicals