Resident Home Research Articles

Financial Analysis of China Duty-Free Group under the Framework of Harvard Analysis

Due to the COVID-19 in 2019-2022, global resident home quarantine, the economic downturn has led to lower household consumption levels than those before the epidemic, but with the economic and political policy and regulation and the availability of vaccines. Global COVID-19 is essentially over, at this time, the tourism retail industry is the main driver of economic recovery. In the tourism retail industry, China's duty-free industry is also a giant in the international retail industry. China Duty-Free Group has industry advantages, this article is based on the financial situation of China Duty-Free Group under the framework of Harvard analysis. Through the Oriental Fortune network, The National Bureau of Statistics of China, The China Immigration Bureau, statistic Data analysis on the China Duty-Free Group's environment and financial situation to analyze the development status and prospects of China Duty-Free Group, Conclusion for China Duty-Free Group after COVID-19 and acquisitions this year, the financial indicators in the capital increase have decreased. But this does not affect the dominant position of China Duty-Free Group in the future development, suggestions that China Duty-Free Group should hold the first position in China's duty-free industry in China's future development, from the Asian market to the international market in the global duty-free industry, make the full use of assets to expand their market share in the global tax-free industry.

Diversifikasi Olahan Ikan Patin dan Pelatihan Pembuatan Maggot di Desa Bangkiling Raya Kecamatan Banua Lawas Kabupaten Tabalong

The community empowerment activities of the Community Science and Technology Program are specifically aimed at enhancing the knowledge of the residents, especially the housewives of Bankirin Raya Village, Banua Lawas District, Tabalong District. Meatballs and nuggets are a commodity and easy to make. This empowerment activity encourages communities to start new businesses based on catfish exploitation to increase income for the surrounding communities. Methods used include socialization and counseling, and training. , production management development, program discussion and evaluation. This activity took place in a resident home with 20 participants. Many participants participated in this activity. During the activity, all participants were very enthusiastic to participate in training and coaching. Materials were provided to participants on how to process catfish into economically valuable products. The participant also received online her marketing and financial management guidance and training on starting a new business to improve the participant's skills and knowledge.

Are online reviews of assisted living communities associated with patient-centered outcomes?

Existing literature on online reviews of healthcare providers generally portrays online reviews as a useful way to disseminate information on quality. However, it remains unknown whether online reviews for assisted living (AL) communities reflect AL care quality. This study examined the association between AL online review ratings and residents' home time, a patient-centered outcome. Medicare beneficiaries who entered AL communities in 2018 were identified. The main outcome is resident home time in the year following AL admission, calculated as the percentage of time spent at home (i.e., not in institutional care setting) per day being alive. Additional outcomes are the percentage of time spent in emergency room, inpatient hospital, nursing home, and inpatient hospice. AL online Google reviews for 2013-2017 were linked to 2018-2019 Medicare data. AL average rating score (ranging 1-5) and rating status (no-rating, low-rating, and high-rating) were generated using Google reviews. Linear regression models and propensity score weighting were used to examine the association between online reviews and outcomes. The study sample included 59,831 residents in 12,143 ALs. Residents were predominately older (average 81.2 years), non-Hispanic White (90.4%), and female (62.9%), with 17% being dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. From 2013 to 2017, ALs received an average rating of 4.1 on Google, with a standard deviation of 1.1. Each one-unit increase in the AL's average online rating was associated with an increase in residents' risk-adjusted home time by 0.33 percentage points (p <0.001). Compared with residents in ALs without ratings, residents in high-rated ALs (average rating ≥4.4) had a 0.64 pp (p <0.001) increase in home time. Higher online rating scores were positively associated with residents' home time, while the absence of ratings was associated with reduced home time. Our results suggest that online reviews may be a quality signal with respect to home time.

Evidence of Resident Mountain Lions (Puma concolor) on the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (Arizona, USA)

The San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (SPRNCA) protects approximately 60 linear kilometers (km) of the San Pedro River within the Madrean Sky Islands region of southeastern Arizona. This cottonwood-willow (Populus fremontii-Salix gooddingii) gallery forest habitat with perennial surface flow is unique from the Chihuahuan mesquite desert and supports a wide diversity of plant and animal life. Mountain lions (Puma concolor) were hypothesized to use the SPRNCA as a temporary habitat while moving between neighboring mountain ranges. Using remote camera traps located on desert washes that drain the Huachuca Mountains, we demonstrated that mountain lions use the riparian corridor as part of their resident home range. We recorded 53 independent observations (mean of 1.47 observations per 100 trap nights) of mountain lions with at least 30 minutes between sightings during our study between September 2019 and May 2021. Mountain lions were found using riparian habitat in all seasons and photos were taken of young kittens within 0.3 km of the San Pedro River. Preferred prey species (Coue's white-tailed deer [Odocoileus virginianus couesi] and javelina [Pecari tajacu]) have been observed often within the SPRNCA. Future research should explore the connectivity and metapopulation structure of mountain lions within the SPRNCA and neighboring mountain ranges.

Homeward Bound: A Comparison of Resident Case Volume on Home-Read Workstations and On-Site During the COVID-19Pandemic.

Homeward Bound: A Comparison of Resident Case Volume on Home-Read Workstations and On-Site During the COVID-19Pandemic.

TeleResidents: Exploring the use of Resident Home Workstations During the COVID Pandemic

Rationale and ObjectivesSince the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous strategies have been proposed to allow for continued resident education while following social distancing guidelines. Diagnostic radiology is largely electronic work, allowing for relatively easy transition to telehealth. Our institution deployed home workstations to interested upper level radiology residents and fellows in order to maintain high volume workload and education, while complying with CDC social distancing and quarantine guidelines.Materials and MethodsWe deployed 28 home workstations with integrated PACS, electronic health record, and reporting system, supporting workflow that matched our on-site processes and allowing residents to work from home while on diagnostic rotations. Two months into the pilot, surveys were sent to trainees and faculty to assess satisfaction related to education, productivity, and wellness. A retrospective study count was performed for a sample of residents in order to assess productivity.ResultsResidents perceived their remote productivity as unchanged or better than at the hospital, while faculty were more likely to perceive it as decreased, however, objective results showed no difference. Education was largely considered worse or unchanged with very few regarding it as improved. Those utilizing shared-screen signout platforms rated education better than those utilizing voice/telephone communications only. Trainees expressed improvement in wellness and quality of life.ConclusionHome workstations for trainees represent a feasible solution for implementing social distancing or even quarantine while maintaining operational productivity. There is the added benefit of scheduling flexibility, option to overcome space constraints, and improved quality of life.

Investigation of Smart Home Energy Management System for Demand Response Application

Electricity market reform provides the conditions for demand-side load resources to be incorporated into the supply–demand regulation, and the increase of residential-side electrification level makes residential load resources a high-quality resource for demand response (DR). Resident home appliances participate in the “two-way interaction” of the power grid in the form of DR, which can effectively alleviate the tension of power supply and consume clean energy, to improve the safe and stable operation of the power system. Firstly, this article summarizes the structure and functions of the home energy management system (HEMS). Secondly, it discusses the key technologies of the HEMS, starting from an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and DR technology. Finally, it analyzes the control strategies of the HEMS, including component models and various optimal scheduling algorithms, and describes the challenges of the HEMS.

Prevalence of oral mucosal status in resident and non-resident nursing home in Isfahan city, Iran: a comparative cross-sectional study

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the oral mucosal status of residents nursing home and non-resident in Isfahan, Iran and compare them with each other. Material and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study comparing 281 elderly in two groups: 141 resident and 140 non-residents nursing homes in Isfahan, Iran. The selection of nursing home and all of elderly was randomly. The nonresidents elderly were randomly selected from the public places adjacent to the nursing home. Persons were examining and the relevant information recorded in a checklists. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 24 using t-test, chi square, Mann- Whitney, Fisher exact test. (?=0/05). Results: The sample of the case was 281 people, including 135 males (48%) and 146 females (52%). Of all the subjects 153 patients (54.4%) had at least one oral lesion, 78 (55.3%) in resident nursing home and 75 (53.6%) in non-resident. There was no significant difference between two groups based on Chi-Square test (P&gt;0/05). In this study, 25 different types of lesions were recorded, the most common lesion in all participants was epulis fissuratum (12.1%). Conclusion: The results showed that the prevalence of mucosal lesions is high in the elderly living in the centers and in the non-resident. Therefore, maintaining dentures is necessary to prevent and control lesions. KeywordsLesion; Mouth mucosa; Elderly; Nursing home; Cross-sectional study.

Informal Land Delivery and Tenure Security Institutions in Benin City, Nigeria

The informal sector in urban land supply has continued to meet the increasing demand for urban land owing to the deficiencies of the formal sector in Nigeria. But tenure security and equity in land supply have become the major issues that have evoked much concern in the sector. This article seeks to understand the provisions of tenure rights through customary institutions not as the binary opposite of the formal land titling but as a part of the continuum that includes the formal system in Benin City. Through focus group discussions with key informants in the customary land delivery systems and in-depth interviews of resident home owners in two selected communities, the customary practices that guarantee tenure security in the study area were identified. The article concludes that customary tenure institutions need to be modernised and customary tenure rights need to be recognised as alternative to statutory rights by the government.

SUSTAINABLE MULTIFAMILY KITCHEN DESIGN: A STUDENT ELICITATION APPROACH

This case study focuses on the sustainable design of a demonstration kitchen space within a multifamily residence through a student lens. A project-based learning opportunity for undergraduate students in a senior-level kitchen and bath design studio was created to redesign a multifamily starter kitchen space into a multifamily sustainable kitchen space within the Center for Real Life Kitchen Design at Virginia Tech. Upon completion of this student project, a content analysis was employed to uncover sustainability themes within these student projects. As students are making the environment and sustainability priorities in their shopping choices, uncovering student themes regarding multifamily sustainability kitchen design criteria can uncover trends important to this millennial generation (The Nielsen Company, 2015; Timm, 2014). Furthermore, as demand for sustainability increases, comparing student themes to multifamily industry sustainability certification systems may unearth potential gaps in the industry which need to be addressed. Although there are several sustainability certification agencies that apply to multifamily in general, there is no one specific source for sustainability guidelines for kitchens, much less in multifamily units. This lack of guidelines and the inconsistency between existing certification programs make it confusing for consumers, developers, designers, and students to value and weigh elements of a sustainable kitchen project, especially with respect to multifamily housing.By examining kitchens using current sustainability certification programs as well as this case study, recommendations can be put forth to shape guidelines for sustainable multifamily kitchens that are both clearly understood and sensitive to the environment. Ultimately, this could lead to sustainable kitchen design features becoming more commonplace in the multifamily resident home.

Normalisation Process Theory and the Implementation of Resident Assessment Instrument–Home Care in Saskatchewan, Canada

Meeting the health needs of the community client in Saskatchewan, Canada, has been theoretically improved by the home care program’s adoption of an electronic client assessment system, Resident Assessment Instrument–Home Care (RAI-HC). Valid and reliable client outcome data are generated from a completed RAI-HC, and available to home care and its assessor coordinators to support clinical and program decisions. To realize the benefits of RAI-HC, user comprehension and application of this system in totality is central. This study fostered an understanding of the association of normalisation process theory (NPT) with the implementation, utilization, and integration of RAI-HC within home care practice in Saskatchewan. The findings suggest encumbered utilization and integration of RAI-HC into day-to-day home care practice, and a parallel relationship with NPT.

Habitat use and home range of black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) on farmlands in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) are an abundant mesopredator on farmlands (croplands and rangelands) across South Africa. Given their adaptability in a changing anthropogenic landscape, knowledge of spatial movements can provide important ecological information on the species. We captured, collared and monitored five black-backed jackals in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal to determine their home range and habitat use in farmlands. The 95% fixed kernel (95% FK) home range sizes were large, showing a marked seasonal variation in movement. One adult male dispersed 150 km over two seasons (winter and spring) and thereafter settled into a home range that it maintained. Transient home ranges of males and juveniles were larger than resident home ranges. The mean resident home ranges (95% FK) across seasons for adult males, adult female and juvenile males were 11.4 ± 4.3 km2, 5.6 ± 0.36 km2 and 2.15 ± 0.45 km2, respectively. The mean transient home ranges (95% FK) of all the seasons for adult and juvenile males were 1 181.93 ± 575.81 km2 and 104.27 ± 35.64 km2, respectively. Adult jackal preferred croplands in spring, summer and autumn but avoided croplands in winter. Variable habitat use and large home ranges in our study confirmed the species’ ability to adapt to agricultural areas.

Applied Research of Solar Water Heater Integrated with Modern Architecture

This paper describes the application forms of building integrated with solar energy. We explain a solar water heating system; its solar collectors and water storage tanks are placed together. We discuss another solar water heating system, its solar collectors are placed together but its water storage tanks are placed in every resident's home. This paper also introduces the wall-hung SWH and the application of solar refrigeration and solar heating. At last we analyze the problems of the development of solar water heater integrated with modern architecture.

Are Community-Nuisance Fiscal Zoning Arrangements Undermined by State Property Tax Reforms? Evidence from Nuclear Power Plants and School Finance Equalization

The conventional view of fiscal zoning is that communities only make land use accommodations to Nuisance Entities who generate enough fiscal benefits to compensate for their other undesirable traits. By representing a disproportionate burden of the property tax base, this finance-for-location quid pro quo is often thought to be transmitted from the nuisance to the community in the form of reducing the property tax burden for the enfranchised residents. State tax reforms which redistribute property tax revenues have been accused by critics of violating these implicit arrangements between communities and nuisance entities. This paper tests this critique by examining communities with nuclear power plants sited before the school finance equalization reforms of the 1970's and 80's. A hedonic regression reveals that housing prices in communities with nuclear power plants were 11 percent lower than their immediate neighbors. Furthermore, it is discovered that communities experience a compensating increase in housing prices after a reform when their neighbor has a nuclear power plant. This is consistent with a model where resident home buyers bid on properties in a way that capitalizes interjurisdictional differences, implying that the reform had a disparate impact on the communities with the nuclear plants. Finally, the results do not seem to be conditional on whether the reforms were judicially or legislatively initiated.

Are migrant and resident elk (Cervus elaphus) exposed to similar forage and predation risk on their sympatric winter range?

Partially migratory populations, where one portion of a population conducts seasonal migrations (migrants) while the other remains on a single range (residents), are common in ungulates. Studies that assess trade-offs between migratory strategies typically compare the amount of predation risk and forage resources migrants and residents are exposed to only while on separate ranges and assume both groups intermix completely while on sympatric ranges. Here we provide one of the first tests of this assumption by comparing the amount of overlap between home ranges of GPS-collared migrant and resident elk and fine-scale exposure to wolf predation risk and forage biomass at telemetry locations on a sympatric winter range in west-central Alberta, Canada. Overlap between migrant and resident home ranges increased throughout the winter, and both groups were generally intermixed and exposed to equal forage biomass. During the day, both migrants and residents avoided predation risk by remaining in areas far from timber with high human activity, which wolves avoided. However, at night wolves moved onto the grasslands close to humans and away from timber. Resident elk were consistently closer to areas of human activity and further from timber than migrants, possibly because of a habituation to humans. As a result, resident elk were exposed to higher night-time predation risk than migrants. Our study does not support the assumption that migrant and resident elk are exposed to equal predation risk on their sympatric range when human presence alters predation risk dynamics and habituation to humans is unequal between migratory strategies.

Adapting "the Staff Attitudes to Nutritional Nursing Care scale" to geriatric nursing care.

A positive attitude is assumed to be important in nursing staff's help and support of elderly people during meals. As there is no specific tool for measuring staff's attitudes regarding important issues within eating and nutrition, the SANN (Staff Attitudes to Nutritional Nursing Care) scale was developed. The scale was developed and tested in nursing staff working at resident homes, and the number of items was reduced from 63 to 19 with five underlying factors. The aim of this study was to describe how the SANN scale was adapted and tested in nursing staff working in different types of elderly care. The raw 63-item version went through minor changes, and one unclear worded item was excluded. The changed raw 62-item version was answered by 188 nursing staff working at six hospital care clinics and 64 staff working at one resident home. The analysis reduced the 62 items to 18, and the adapted scale was named the SANN-G scale, G standing for "geriatric care". A rotated factor analysis gave a five-factor solution, explaining 54% of the variance. The scale achieved good internal reliability, with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.83. Fourteen items fulfilled inclusion criteria in both the SANN and the SANN-G scales. The SANN-G scale is practicable for use in staff working in different types of elderly care. It can be used to explore existing attitudes and identify areas with a low degree of prevailing positive attitudes as well as to evaluate whether and how attitudes change after nutritional education and intervention.

A Modest Proposition to align Geriatrics and Long Term Care Medicine

A Modest Proposition to align Geriatrics and Long Term Care Medicine

Conditioning properties of social subordination in rats: Behavioral and biochemical correlates of anxiety

To develop a socially based model of anxiety, the contextual fear conditioning properties of social defeat were examined in rats. Social threat consisted of exposing intruders to aggressive residents in resident home cage, separated by a partition. During 3 daily encounters, intruders were either defeated or threatened by residents, providing the defeated–threatened (DT) and threatened–threatened (TT) groups respectively. On Day 4, both DT and TT animals were subjected to a social threat only. Additional animals received a 4-day exposure to a novel empty cage (EC group). Further DT, TT, and EC rats were confronted to a different context on Day 4. DT rats exhibited a robust and context-specific anxiety-like response, characterized by significant behavioral and biochemical alterations. DT rats showed increased risk assessment and decreased exploration compared to TT and EC rats that in turn were not different towards each other. DT and TT rats exhibited increased ACTH levels, while only DT rats showed enhanced corticosterone and decreased testosterone levels compared to EC. These differences were context-specific since they were absent confronting animals to a different context and since they were not long lasting. Overall, these data demonstrate the induction of an anxiety-like state in rats through a context conditioning process based upon social factors. The social basis of this paradigm offers good face validity with anxiety disorders, which in humans are mainly related to social factors and associated with HPA axis deregulations. The present procedure may provide a useful experimental model to further investigate the neurobiological mechanisms underlying anxiety-related disorders.

Migration and Home Gardens in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam, India

The Brahmaputra is the largest river system in northeast India. Its valley, in the State of Assam, is home to the Assamese people, indigenous Mishing and Karbi tribes, and Kaziranga National Park. A spectacular array of wildlife shares the floodplain including the endangered Asian elephant, tiger, one-horned rhinoceros and wild buffalo. The fertile floodplain and tea estates have attracted immigrants from within India and from neighboring countries. Migration has been linked to Assam's high population density and agriculture expansion. Based on household surveys in 37 villages in the park's periphery, we compared home garden productivity and economic return among residents and immigrants of different ethnic groups and explored the hypothesis that residents had an advantage over immigrants in maximizing gains from home gardens resources. The results indicated that, although resident home gardens were larger, production from immigrant home gardens was over four times higher and their economic returns were greater. Immigrants, who tended to live in low-lying areas close to the park and whose land tenure was less certain, were at higher risk of crop damage by wildlife and floods. They compensated in part by maximizing productivity of home gardens and by choosing crops that yielded greater economic return. We conclude that home gardens provide a basis for distinguishing between resident and immigrant land use practices.

The Effect of Female Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) Immigrants on Space Use of Conspecific Female Residents

We tested the hypothesis that female prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) residents change their space use patterns in response to immigration pressure. We established prairie vole populations in four 32 × 32-m enclosures during 2000 and 2001. Four populations were supplemented with adult female immigrants and the other four served as control populations in which no females were introduced. Using radio-telemetry, we monitored and compared the home ranges and movement distances of residents vs. immigrants within the same enclosures and residents in enclosures with and without immigrants. Immigrants had significantly larger home ranges and moved greater distances during the evening hours than residents. Resident home ranges and hourly movements were unaffected by the presence of immigrants. The results suggested that resident females could successfully defend their territories without changes in their home ranges and movement distances. However, due to our experimental design, we could not exclude the possibility that female immigrants affected the space use of male residents.