Position In Rank Research Articles

Professional development: a mixed methods study of Masters of Public Health alumni

IntroductionWe examined the perceptions of the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree graduates regarding their personal competencies, job performance and professional development using a mixed method, explanatory sequential design.MethodsA cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire of the Haifa School of Public Health alumni who graduated between 2005 and 2022 was disseminated to 849 graduates between March and June 2022, from which 127 responded (response rate: 14.90%). This was followed by 24 in-depth interviews with alumni from the same sample (conducted between November 2022 and March 2023).ResultsThe sample included 74.8% of females with a mean age of 40.7 years, 35% of alumni agreed that the MPH degree helped them attain a promotion in their present position (in rank or salary), and 63.8% felt that the degree helped them improve their job performance and contribute to their current workplace. Most (80.3%) alumni reported not changing jobs after graduation. The interview themes revealed that the MPH contributed to their personal and professional lives, provided them with a holistic view of public health and health systems, and improved their in-depth scientific skills. The main reported barriers to professional development included missing core competencies, low salaries, and a lack of information regarding suitable jobs. Surprisingly, an MPH was not a requirement for some public health sector jobs. Alumni reported that the MPH degree contributed to improving many graduates’ careers and satisfaction levels and to build their leadership competencies in public health.DiscussionThere seems to be a lack of coordination between the academic curriculum and the jobs available for alumni, hindering better alumni professional development. Regular discussions, information sharing, and curriculum refinements between MPH program leaders and health sector leaders might help address many of the concerns of MPH degree graduates.

Implementing Modern Technology for Vital Sign Monitoring to Enhance Athletic Training and Sports Performance

(1) Background: Applying medical procedures to keep track of athletes’ metabolic health is a well-known behavior for increasing sports performance. This study’s primary goal was to examine whether implementing a health-screening routine using invasive and non-invasive methods in a mountain running training program can increase sports performance by obtaining a better rank in specific races. (2) Methods: Seven male mountain runners with good results at the international level participated in the research, which featured an initial and a final test. The initial test took place in March at the beginning of the competitive season, and the final test took place in September at the end of the annual training plan in 2021. The entire experiment used invasive tests, such as taking blood samples to perform blood biochemistry analysis, and non-invasive tests, such as mountain running races, determinations of VO2max, EKGs, urine biochemistry and NeuroTracker tests. (3) Results: Comparing the initial test with the final one from a statistical point of view, a significant improvement was found in the final test regarding the obtained results in most tests and, most importantly, the occupied position in the final general rank (p = 0.005). The main variations after effort were decreased Ca++ and increased Cl−, a low TGL level if the diet was inadequate, increased LDH and CPK strongly correlated with the skeletal muscle response, and only physiological changes were found in the EKG and urine summary. (4) Conclusions: The invasive and non-invasive tests applied in this study provided crucial information on the athletes’ health statuses, enabling the coach to adjust the training program in light of the findings in order to improve sports performance and avoid overexertion.

Biada zwyciężonym – gospodarka i relacje społeczne w kulturze lateńskiej

The economy of any community depends on the values which are considered to be the most important. Social organization and technologies are subordinated to their implementation. In traditional societies, including people of the La Tène culture, the most significant issues concerned the status of individuals and the resulting interpersonal relations. The position in rank was manifested and gained through participation in military expeditions. The economy was subordinated to military action. Nonetheless, new technologies and financial solutions created opportunities for military success. This, however, has its price in enormous social inequalities and almost permanent war.
 

The Brain Emotional Systems in Addictions: From Attachment to Dominance/Submission Systems.

Human development has become particularly complex during the evolution. In this complexity, adolescence is an extremely important developmental stage. Adolescence is characterized by biological and social changes that create the prerequisites to psychopathological problems, including both substance and non-substance addictive behaviors. Central to the dynamics of the biological changes during adolescence are the synergy between sexual and neurophysiological development, which activates the motivational/emotional systems of Dominance/Submission. The latter are characterized by the interaction between the sexual hormones, the dopaminergic system and the stress axis (HPA). The maturation of these motivational/emotional systems requires the integration with the phylogenetically more recent Attachment/CARE Systems, which primarily have governed the subject’s relationships until puberty. The integration of these systems is particularly complex in the human species, due to the evolution of the process of competition related to sexual selection: from a simple fight between two individuals (of the same genus and species) to a struggle for the acquisition of a position in rank and the competition between groups. The latter is an important evolutionary acquisition and believed to be the variable that has most contributed to enhancing the capacity for cooperation in the human species. The interaction between competition and cooperation, and between competition and attachment, characterizes the entire human relational and emotional structure and the unending work of integration to which the BrainMind is involved. The beginning of the integration of the aforementioned motivational/emotional systems is currently identified in the prepubertal period, during the juvenile stage, with the development of the Adrenarche—the so-called Adrenal Puberty. This latter stage is characterized by a low rate of release of androgens, the hormones released by the adrenal cortex, which activate the same behaviors as those observed in the PLAY system. The Adrenarche and the PLAY system are biological and functional prerequisites of adolescence, a period devoted to learning the difficult task of integrating the phylogenetically ancient Dominance/Submission Systems with the newer Attachment/CARE Systems. These systems accompany very different adaptive goals which can easily give rise to mutual conflict and can in turn make the balance of the BrainMind precarious and vulnerable to mental suffering.

Determinants Of International Tourism In Indonesia

Tourism is considered as big industry which growing up faster compare to other industry in this recent year. It is reported that Indonesia received approximately 11.5 million of international tourists in 2016. Because the tourism shows significant trend in Indonesia and getting strong position in the third rank as the foreign revenue for this country, the government willing to boost up the factors that might contribute more on attracting international tourist. This study tried to analyse the determinant factors of international tourist in Indonesia by using Random Effect Model. The variables are GDPs origin and destination country, exchange rate of origin country, free visa impact and length of distance in Indonesia during the period of 2006 to 2016. The study found that all variables are statistically significant. GDPs origin and destination country and country with visa-free entry have positive effect to the number of international tourist arrival while the rest which is exchange rate of origin country and length of distance have negative effect to the international tourists. Hence, the government needs to promote aggressively to the international tourist by conducting important events, increasing the number of countries that receive Indonesia free visa and maintain the GDP in both origin and destination country.

INDICATIONS OF WINDOW DRESSING ON COMMERCIAL BANKS IN INDONESIA

More than often, banks are ranked based on their total assets. The bigger its assets the higher its position in the rank. To maintain its position in a higher rank, a bank may take extra efforts, to maintain its total assets high, whether by increasing its performance or manipulating their financial statement like window dressing. The higher its position in the rank the more likely a bank to perform temporary banking activities at the year end to increase its assets. The examples of the such activities are increasing temporarily customer deposits in the year end. Those temporary activities in are tending toward a window dressing.This paper examines the possibilities of window dressing activities at the year end conducted by high ranked banks by temporarily pushed their assets up through extra efforts in gathering temporary customer deposits at the year end. If those window dressing activities really exist, researchers expect that data will show temporary increase in assets, customer deposits and also cost of funds of high ranked banks in Indonesia. Researcher uses the monthly data and started from January 2006 untill December 2011.This research shows an evidence that bank total assets increase significantly at the year-end and the increase is temporary. Further, the increase in total assets appears to be funded with purchased demand deposit, savings, and time deposits. This research also shows that larger banks are more likely than smaller banks to exhibit window dressing.Keywords: banks, window dressing, asset.

The Ecological Footprint Accounting of Products: When Larger Is Not Worse

One of the main goals of any (sustainability) indicator should be the communication of a clear, unambiguous, and simplified message about the status of the analyzed system. The selected indicator is expected to declare explicitly how its numerical value depicts a situation, for example, positive or negative, sustainable or unsustainable, especially when a comparison among similar or competitive systems is performed. This aspect should be a primary and discriminating issue when the selection of a set of opportune indicators is operated. The Ecological Footprint (EF) has become one of the most popular and widely used sustainability indicators. It is a resource accounting method with an area based metric in which the units of measure are global hectares or hectares with world average bio-productivity. Its main goal is to underline the link between the (un)sustainability level of a product, a system, an activity or a population life style, with the land demand for providing goods, energy, and ecological services needed to sustain that product, system, activity, or population. Therefore, the traditional rationale behind the message of EF is: the larger EF value, the larger environmental impact in terms of resources use, the lower position in the sustainability rank. The aim of this paper was to investigate if this rationale is everywhere opportune and unambiguous, or if sometimes its use requires paying a special attention. Then, a three-dimensional modification of the classical EF framework for the sustainability evaluation of a product has been proposed following a previous work by Niccolucci and co-authors (2009). Finally, the potentialities of the model have been tested by using a case study from the agricultural context.

Influence of previous medical treatments on social rank in dairy cows

Animal health can present economic and animal welfare concerns for dairy farmers. However, it is unknown whether changes in behaviour as a result of sickness have long-term effects, and whether...

Change of Mazhab (School of Thought): The Effects on Inheritance in Islamic Family Law

Muslim scholars unanimously agreed that a Muslim can inherit the legacy of the deceased who is a Muslim without looking at gender status or position in society or rank of piousness possessed by the deceased and the beneficiaries. Muslim scholars also agreed that nonMuslims are not prohibited from inheriting the deceased's estate according to rules of inheritance in their religion, provided that they possess the same religion. However, there are discussions by Muslim jurists as regards to the inheritance between a Muslim and a nonMuslim. The issue of inheritance, as well as other issues regarding fiqh, is exposed to differences of opinions among scholars from different schools of thought (mazhab). This article comes to discuss change of mazhab, its effect on inheritance. In the end of this article, the study towards to the practiced law and some relevant cases in inheritance in Malaysia will be carried out. This research uses the methodology of library research which is applying qualitative approach of exploratory and descriptive. It is using method of content analysis technique in examining the data. Hence, the data of this research are collected through library research methods and consequently been processed, organized and analyzed. They are taken from journals, seminar proceedings, scientific magazines, printed media, electronic media, internet, and others.

Impacto y calidad de la productividad académica de los investigadores en Colombia en neurociencia comportamental utilizando modelos animales

La productividad científica colombiana es limitada considerando indicadores como el número de artículos publicados en revistas de alto impacto y el índice h. La ausencia de una línea de base y de metodologías de comparación de productividad dificulta trazar las expectativas de publicación provenientes de las instancias nacionales. El objetivo del presente estudio es el de evaluar de manera comparativa aspectos relacionados con el impacto y la calidad de la productividad académica de los investigadores en neurociencia comportamental utilizando modelos animales en Colombia. Se encontró que aunque los investigadores en Colombia publican de manera significativa (0.9 artículos por año), están rezagados en todos los aspectos de productividad con relación a investigadores internacionales. Se espera que la metodología propuesta pueda extenderse a la evaluación del impacto y calidad de la productividad en temáticas específicas de otras áreas de investigación.

Epidemiology of clinical trials of medicines in respiratory diseases in Europe and Italy

BackgroundClinical trials play a key role in advancing medical knowledge, improving patient care and promoting economic growth in Europe. We have assessed the clinical trial activity in any respiratory diseases in Europe, with a specific focus on Italy. MethodsInformation from public sources (EFPIA, clinicaltrials.gov, clinicaltrialsregister. eu, AIFA) was used to describe clinical trial activity of in respiratory diseases in Europe and by country. ResultsIn 2015, 3908 clinical trials were reported in Europe, 386 in respiratory diseases (9.9%). Germany was the first country both as absolute number (76 trials) and as percentage within country trials (14%), followed by Poland. Spain, Italy and France were the countries with the lowest number and percentage of trials in respiratory diseases. In 2013, the Italian Drug Agency reported 9 trials with respiratory compounds in Italy (2.1% of overall trials, 12ˆ position in the therapeutic area rank), 33% in phase 2 and 66% in phase 3. No phase 1 or phase 4 trials were reported for respiratory trials. Prevalence of respiratory trials by non-profit sponsors (28.3%) was below the average for the country (38.3%). ConclusionsEurope has a greater potential for clinical research on drugs for respiratory diseases, particularly in countries with less activity, such as Spain, France and Italy, that should identify and implement actions to increase attractiveness for clinical trials of drugs.

Symposium 20 - PABMB: Teaching biochemistry in a connected world: Hands-on inquiry-based biochemistry courses for improving scientific literacy of school teachers and students

Wednesday – August 26th, 2015 - 3:30 to 5:30 pm – Room: Iguaçu II – 5th floorSymposium 20 - PABMB: Teaching biochemistry in a connected world Chair: Miguel Castanho, Universidade de Lisboa, PortugalAbstract:In the last decades, Brazil has reached a prominent position in the world rank of scientific production. Despite this progress, the establishment of a scientific culture in Brazilian society is still challenging. Our group has been offering hands-on inquiry-based courses to primary and secondary students, which aim to introduce them to the scientific method and improve their interest in science. More recently, we started new initiatives focused on the improvement of the scientific literacy of school science teachers. Here we describe two intensive short-term courses designed in different formats. One consists in a discipline offered to a Master Program to school science teachers, in which the main objective was to work with core disciplinary concepts through an active teachers engagement in “doing science”. The discipline, named “Energy transformation in the living organisms”, intends to deal with the main Biochemistry subjects that take part of the high-school science curriculum, namely, fermentation, photosynthesis and cellular respiration processes. The other initiative was developed in Urucureá, a small community with about 600 residents, located on the banks of the River Arapiuns, in Amazonia region. We trained the local school teachers to act as tutors in the course offered to 40 students of the community, ages 10 to 17. The theme we chose to address was the properties and effects of snakes´ poisons, since poisoning events are a problem with which the local community frequently deal with. Another important point was that we adapted a number of experiments to make them feasible with very limited laboratory resources. Our results show that the activities that we have developed offer real opportunity of scientific training for teachers, future teachers and students and that interventions may allow the incorporation of new methodologies in the classroom.

Udržitelnost a sociální aspekt konkurenceschopnosti

The objective of the study is to analyse the Czech position in the fi eld of global competitiveness. In the past, the only data used for evaluating the position of a country were “hard data”: data that were measurable. Nowadays, many research institutions as well as scientists have come with a new idea. Not only hard data are important for a country’s position in the competitiveness rank, but also soft data have to be taken into account. The General Competitiveness Index (GCI), used for measuring competitiveness, has been replaced with the Sustainability- adjusted Competitiveness Index (SCI). Two sustainability pillars are added to the general competitiveness: the social sustainability pillar and the environmental sustainability pillar. This study analyses the GCI and the SCI in the context of sustainability. The main objective is to fi nd out how these two sustainability pillars infl uence the competitiveness position of the Czech Republic. The method used in the study is an analysis and comparison of the hard and soft data, which means that it is based on a multidimensional analysis used by the WEF and the IMD. The study confi rms that there is an increasing infl uence of these soft - qualitative - data.

Dominance and Subordination Interactions Among Nestmates in Pre and Post-Emergence Phases of the Basal Eusocial Wasp Mischocyttarus (Monogynoecus) montei (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

In basal eusocial wasps the social organization is based on a dominance hierarchy which is maintained through agonistic interactions. The dominant wasp is usually the most aggressive individual and assumes the reproductive function of the colony. These wasps lack morphological caste differences and the physiological conditions and behavioral repertoire define the role of each female in the nest. However, the position in the rank and its function in the colony are not definitive and tradeoffs in the social rank, at least in some species, are common. In this study 8 colonies of Mischocyttarus (M.) montei in pre and post-emergence phases of colonial development were observed in field conditions in order to study the interactions of dominance and subordination among nestmates, thus allowing a better understanding of the establishment of the dominance hierarchy and consequently the social regulation of this species. Our results showed that all colonies in pre-emergence were founded by an association of females which had established the hierarchy previously in their natal nest. Such pattern may contribute to the success of association during pre-emergence, once it tends to reduce conflicts among cohorts during initial phases of colonial development, increasing the chances of colonial success. During post-emergence, the conflicts tend to be more intense, usually involving more physical contacts and in this phase, tradeoffs in the social rank are more frequent. During post-emergence, the number of females increases, more cells are available to lay eggs and the reproductive condition of the main egg-layer is probably reduced, aggravating the competition for reproductive dominance of the colony.

COMPETITIVENESS AND REVOLUTION: THE CASE OF EGYPT

ABSTRACT The main objectives of this paper are clarifying the cause of collapse of Egypt position in competitiveness rank after 25 Jan. 2011 revolution and showing the role government should do to resists this collapse and improve Egypt competitiveness rank. Through discussing three points the theoretic view showing competitiveness in economic thought, analyzing Egypt position in competitiveness pillars and indicators, discussing the role government should do. After analyzing Egypt situation, we found significant declines in all indicators in all pillars, although there are insignificant improvements in some indicators. We found that The most decline and influential indicators were related to institutions pillar, because it consists of factors of security, justice, favoritism and transparency of government policymaking, corruption and the efficiency of public frameworks where it lead to economic environment collapse, thus, the most important government role in regulating appropriate laws, good business environment, and justice. Keywords Competitiveness, Government Role, Egypt Rank

Predictors of Tennis Performance of Junior Players

The objective of our study was to identify the psycho-motor factors, their strength influencing the position of players in the national rank. We assume that athletes who achieve good scores in testing psycho-motor factors are likewise highly ranked. The study was conducted on 67 athletes, aged between 13 and 18 years. To evaluate these predictors, the participants were subjected to the Concentrated Attention Test, regarding the Motivation - The Sport Motivation Scale SMS - for coordination assessment - the Tapping and Tracing test and to measure personality the Revised NEO Personality-Inventory. Our survey identified one predictor on mental level (duration attention), one factor on motor-coordination level (tracing left hand) and one predictor on personality level (wish to succeed). In conclusion, players that featured highly developed psycho-motor skills also occupied a high position in the national rank.

Oral health protocol for liver transplant patients

Introduction Chronic liver disease (CLD) and cirrhosis were the ninth leading cause of death in Brazil in 2011. This position in the mortality rank was estimated by considering the number of deaths attributed to chronic viral hepatitis, liver malignancies tumor, liver alcoholic disease, non-alcoholic chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis in the

The Civil War at the Sesquicentennial: How Well Do Americans Understand Their Great National Crisis?

The Civil War at the SesquicentennialHow Well Do Americans Understand Their Great National Crisis? Gary W. Gallagher (bio) I am delighted to be here tonight to receive the Tom Watson Brown Book Prize for The Union War. Few things could be more satisfying than to receive such an honor from the principal professional organization in my field. I look around and see how far the society has come since its origins—a testament to the vitality of Civil War–era scholarship. I’ll express thanks at the outset to the Watson-Brown Foundation—and more particularly to Tad Brown—for this dinner, and to the Society of Civil War Historians and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University for overseeing the myriad details relating to the prize and tonight’s program. Because I first felt the siren call of the Civil War as a ten-year-old at the outset of the centennial commemoration, I chose to revisit that time for my talk tonight. I went to National Geographic’s coverage in 1961–63 and in 2011–12 in search of comparative insights. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some interpretive emphases remain about the same, others—more important ones—do not. Both the early 1960s and the early twenty-first century underscore how, in their long relationships with the memory of the Civil [End Page 295] War, every generation of Americans has found what suits its needs and overlooked or marginalized things that do not. Our current preoccupation with race, as a profession and a society, is much in evidence as we navigate the sesquicentennial. I can date my lifelong engagement with the war to an article titled “The Civil War” in the April 1961 issue of National Geographic. Written by Ulysses S. Grant III, it struck a reconciliationist tone reminiscent of the speeches Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered on the fiftieth and seventy-fifth anniversaries of the battle of Gettysburg. “Our forefathers fought to the limit of endurance for four years;” observed the preeminent Union military hero’s grandson, “when the echo of the last shot died away, they saw in the unity of their land something that overshadowed the bitterness of the struggle.” Out of the unimaginable carnage of the Civil War, continued Grant, “emerged a more firmly united country—a country that has become the leader of the Free World.”1 Just more than two years later, in July 1963, National Geographic recalled the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg in an issue featuring an essay by Carl Sandburg, the poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Sandburg alluded to “little American burgs named for long-forgotten settlers, Gettys and Vick . . . towns with no special claim to be noted or long remembered, till events wrote them red for all time as the turning point in the Civil War.” Lincoln’s address in November 1863 further sanctified the ground at Gettysburg: “No wonder,” reflected Sandburg, “that—100 years later—we honor the great events that made us not a parcel of quarreling states, but a united Nation.”2 For anyone who might worry that Gettysburg no longer gets sufficient attention as the war’s great turning point, I am happy to say that National Geographic offers comfort. A beautiful map inserted in the May 2012 issue pronounces 1863 to be the “Turning Point of the Civil War,” and accompanying text explains that “the Union began to gain the upper hand only in July 1863 with its victory at Gettysburg, the largest battle ever fought in North America.” Thus does National Geographic sustain a hoary distortion regarding Gettysburg’s preeminence—a distortion propped up by Michael Shaara’s novel The Killer Angels, Ken Burns’s documentary The Civil War, and Ron Maxwell’s Gettysburg, the four-hour cinematic translation of The Killer Angels. Thanks to Shaara, Burns, and Maxwell, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain now enjoys a position in the front rank of Union heroes—something William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan, I think it safe to say, might find odd.3 Recent issues of National Geographic also mirror the most obvious—and noteworthy—change in popular understanding of the conflict between [End Page 296] the...

Skills and Motivation of Junior Tennis Players

The objective of our study was to identify differences in tennis performance across the national junior ranking. The survey was conducted on the assumption that the position in the national rank is influenced by mental and motor skills. Our study involved a total of 67 athletes, aged between 13 and 18 years (mean age = 15.39, SD = 1.63). The participants were subjected to the focused attention test, Toulouse-Piéron the space guidance test of the CAS battery, the Sport Motivation test SMS – 28 and a coordination test Tapping and Tracing, all aimed to achieve image profiles of junior players. The test results reported substantial differences regarding skills between top athletes and participants of lower national rank.

Psychological and Motor-coordination Factors in Children Tennis Players

The objective of the study was to identify differences in tennis performance of children at skill, motivation, and motor-coordination level, depending on their position in the national rank. The research was conducted on 33 athletes, aged between 10 and 12 years (average age = 11.51, SD = .55). Participants were subjected to the Concentrated Attention Test, The Sport Motivation Scale SMS - 28 and a coordination trial of Tapping and Tracing Test. Concluding, differences between athletes at national level can be explained by differentially developed psycho-motor factors. Athletes who have reached high scores in the skill tests likewise achieved the best sport results.