Comparison of Self-Strength, Seeking Help and Happiness between Pakistani and Chinese Adolescents: A Positive Psychology Inquiry

Adolescents’emotions and preferences are influenced by their childhood experiences.In today’s world,there is a pervasive eagerness for happiness.Happiness has been linked to feelings of self-strength,seeking help,and psy-chological health.The current quantitative research was designed with a positive psychological perspective to compare Pakistani and Chines adolescents’self-strength,seeking help,and happiness.The research design of the study was causal-comparative.The study population consisted of 400 Pakistani and 409 Chinese adolescents studying in the elementary grades of both countries.The sample was selected by using a simple random sampling technique.It consisted of 413 boys(51%)and 396 girls(49%),319(39)of them were from the age group of 13–14 years,386(48%)of them were from the age group of 15–16 years,and 104(12.9%)were from the age group of 17–18 years.Three different scales were developed to collect study data.Independent sample t-test and simple linear regression were used to test study hypotheses.The analysis revealed that Pakistani adolescents have signifi-cantly higher self-strength,seeking help and happiness than their counterparts.It was also found that adolescents’self-strength and seeking help significant affect their happiness.Based on thefindings,it was suggested to inves-tigate the factors contributing to the improved self-strength,seeking help,and happiness of Pakistani adolescents.It was also recommended to investigate the mediating effect of adolescents’self-strength on the relationship between their happiness and seeking help.

基于HELP模式的集束化干预策略在老年髋部骨折术后谵妄护理中的应用

目的探讨基于医院老年生活计划(the hospital elder life program,HELP)模式的集束化干预策略对老年髋部骨折患者术后谵妄的预防及护理效果。方法选取2019年9月至2022年6月住院并手术的老年髋部骨折患者167例,用数字表法随机分为对照组87例和观察组80例,分别收住A病区和B病区。其中对照组患者给予骨折围手术期常规护理,观察组在常规护理基础上,增加基于HELP模式的集束化干预方案进行谵妄的预防及护理。结果观察组患者谵妄发生率(8.75%)低于对照组(20.69%),谵妄持续时间(3.36±0.56)d短于对照组(4.25±1.03)d,差异均有统计学意义(P<0.05);观察组患者术后3 d内疼痛评分、术后40项恢复质量评分、住院费用、出院时患者满意度调查评分均优于对照组,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05),但两组患者术后重度疼痛发生情况比较,差异无统计学意义(P>0.05)。结论基于HELP模式的集束化干预策略应用于老年髋部骨折术后谵妄护理,能有效地降低了患者术后谵妄的发生率,最大程度提高患者术后恢复质量,提高患者满意度。

Could chatbots help devise the next pandemic virus

An MIT class exercise suggests AI tools can be used to order a bioweapon,but some are skeptical.Science.2023 Jun 23;380(6651):1211.doi:10.1126/science.adj3377.Epub 2023 Jun 22.

HELP护理模式在老年骨折患者术后护理中的应用价值

目的:探究住院老年人生活项目(HELP)护理模式在提高老年骨科患者术后早期离床活动依从性及自护能力中的价值。方法:选取2020年1月—2022年12月我院收治的75例老年骨科手术患者为研究对象。按随机数字表法将其分为观察组(n=38)和对照组(n=37)。对照组采用常规护理,观察组采用HELP护理模式,比较2组患者术后早期离床活动依从性、自护能力、术后并发症。结果:相比于对照组,观察组患者术后离床时间更短、每次活动持续时间更长,组间差异有统计学意义(P<0.05);干预后,2组自护能力评分均较干预前升高,且观察组高于对照组,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05);相比于对照组,观察组术后便秘、泌尿感染、压疮、下肢血栓并发症总发生率更低,组间差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。结论:相比于常规护理方式,采用HELP护理模式对于老年骨科手术患者而言,更有利于增强术后早期离床活动依从性,更能提升自护能力,减少术后并发症。

Application of the HELP Model for Landfill Design in Arid Areas: Case Study Babylon Governorate, Iraq

The landfill design is necessary to be implemented in various regions to protect public human health and the factors of environment. The suggested design of landfill was performed in the arid areas, where that Babylon Governorate, Iraq was selected as a case study. Babylon Governorate is located in the middle of Iraq. The suggested design for the selected sites for landfill in the arid areas was consisted of the base liner and final cover systems. The HELP 3.95D model was applied on both systems to check if there is any leakage by leachate from the suggested soil layers of landfill base on the water balance in Babylon Governorate for the years 2005-2016. The suggested design of final cover system was implemented based on weather parameters in the arid areas through storing water that coming from the surface within upper layers that have fine particles and over the top barrier without leakage into the waste body, thereby preventing leachate generation. This is allowing to the stored water to evaporate from the surface of soil or transpire through vegetation due to the high temperature during the most months in the study area. The results showed there was no percolation of leachate through the base liner system. The design of final cover system was acted to reduce the runoff on the surface and increase the actual evaporation.

Turning Dreams Into Reality China is committed to helping African countries to build their space capability

An important feature of China developing its aerospace industry is its insistence on self-reliance and independent innovation,because China firmly believes that aerospace is a hi-tech industry and high core technologies cannot be bought.Only by mastering core technologies can China firmly grasp the initiative in development.

基于HELP理念在预防高龄髋部骨折患者术后谵妄护理的应用

构建基于HELP理念的多学科干预方案,并探讨其在预防高龄患者髋部骨折术后谵妄的应用效果。方法 在证据检索总结下形成相关预防护理管理方案。选取收治于上海市同仁医院骨科的高龄髋部骨折患者,将其中2021年07月-2022年06月的纳入对照组,进行常规护理;降2022年07月-2023年6月的纳入实验组,进行上述护理管理方案的落实。最后对比两组的护理效果。结果 实验组的POD发生率远低于对照组(P<0.05),但两组在POD持续时间和睡眠时间方面的对比,差异不存在统计学意义(P>0.05)。结论 为高龄髋部骨折患者提供基于HELP理念的多学科干预方案,可以预防术后谵妄的发生,效果比较突出,值得临床推广应用。

Relations Between School and Immigrant Families in Albertan Francophone School: Perspectives of Settlement Workers in Schools - A Secondary Publication

In recent years,Francophone schools in Alberta,a province in western Canada,have seen significant ethnocultural diversification of their school population,thus reflecting recent migratory changes in Canada.The population of a Francophone school board located in an agglomeration of Alberta reflects these new migratory trends.A partial ethnodemographic portrait carried out in 2003 in six of its schools indicates that 50%of the pupils come from an immigrant background and come from 23 different countries;mostly from sub-Saharan African countries.This demographic reality,confirmed more than a decade later,represents a major structural change for Francophone schools.In Alberta,as in other Canadian provinces,inclusion is at the heart of discourse and educational practices.With a transformative aim,it intends to promote ethnocultural diversity in the classroom and equal opportunities through school equity practices.This article focuses on the settlement workers in schools responsible for bridging family,community,and school cultures.The analysis of the interviews of the four workers sheds light on and questions both the institutional practices and the personal strategies put in place to face the challenges encountered in this tripartite collaboration.

Schizophrenia knowledge and attitudes toward help-seeking among Japanese fathers and mothers of high school students

The prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia are nonspecific and include social withdrawal, sleeplessness, decreased desire, and loss of concentration. Schizophrenia outcomes might be improved if greater therapeutic effort was focused on people with prodromal symptoms. To hasten help-seeking for schizophrenia, we developed a schizophrenia education program for families of patients. Help-seeking and schizophrenia attitudes and knowledge were analyzed among Japanese parents (666 fathers and 613 mothers) of high school students by using the Social Distance Scale-Japanese version, the Link Devaluation-Discrimination Measure and our own questions on help-seeking and schizophrenia knowledge. Statistical analysis included cross-tabulation, the χ2 test, and multiple regression analysis. Most (97.5%) fathers were aged 40 - 59 years;most (78.3%) mothers were aged 40 - 49 years. There was a significant difference between fathers and mothers in basic knowledge of schizophrenia (P < 0.001);however, fathers and mothers did not significantly differ in their attitudes toward schizophrenia (P > 0.05). When asked what treatment they would seek for a child with sleeplessness or social withdrawal, fathers and mothers significantly differed in seeking help medical care at a department of psychosomatic medicine (P < 0.05) and in seeking help from the nurse at their child’s school (P < 0.001). Fathers and mothers also differed in relation to the decision not to seek help (P < 0.001). Multiple regression analysis revealed that basic knowledge significantly differed between fathers and mothers (P = 0.001). In an analysis of parental response to a child with sleepiness and social withdrawal, multiple regression analysis revealed that fathers and mothers significantly differed in the likelihood of seeking help at a department of psychosomatic medicine and from a school nurse and in the likelihood of not seeking help (P < 0.05, P = 0.001 and P = 0.001, respectively). In conclusion, help-seeking behavior differed between Japanese fathers and mothers. These findings should assist in developing schizophrenia education programs that aim to hasten intervention.

Help received from relatives and services to satisfy needs of adults with severe mental disorders

Background: Few studies have considered the impact of demographic and clinical variables on help received respectively from services and relatives to satisfy needs of adults with severe mental disorders (SMD). Purposes: To identify major needs receiving help and, using the Andersen’s Behavioural Model of Health Service Use, to identify and compare predisposing, enabling and need factors associated with help given respectively by services and relatives. Methods: 352 adults with SMD from Montreal (Canada) were interviewed using six standardized instruments. Clinical records were consulted. Multiple linear regression analyses were processed to measure level of help received from relatives and services. Results: Factors significantly associated with help from relatives were: higher number of perceived needs;fewer diagnoses;better community functioning;being younger, and in a conjugal relationship;living autonomously;having social support and better quality of life;and, marginally, being an immigrant. Factors significantly associated with help from services were: higher number of perceived needs, better quality of life, supervised housing, adjustment disorder and schizophrenia. Conclusions: Help overall is insufficient to meet users’ needs. Services are more helpful than relatives, in particular regarding health needs. Comparatively to help from services, help from relatives is associated with predisposing factors like age, marital status and nationality.

A KEY LINK TO THE EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM TEACHING OF CEC: CLASSROOM DISCUSSION AND ITS ART

I.Significance and merits I have been teaching Comprehensive English Course(CEC)at junior teachers colleges for years, and I have been insisting on conducting classroom discussions (CDs) in my course no matter how many of my fellow teachers involved in the teaching of the same course have

Utilizing Colored Pheromones and Helping Ants for Wireless Mesh Networks Routing

Improving routing algorithm performance not only leads to appreciate the quality of data transmission, but also increases the speed of data transfer. In this paper we propose a hybrid method which is a combination of traffic classification by the help of colored pheromones and helping ants method in the intermediate nodes. This combination increases the convergence speed and decreases the delay and Jitter in the network. Also we compare the obtained results with two known routing algorithms that are based on the ant colony.

Menopause-Related Symptoms and Help Seeking Behavior among Women Attended at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh

Background: Women have experienced different menopause-related symptoms. Objective: The purpose of the present study was to see the menopause-related symptoms and help seeking behavior among the women attended at a tertiary care hospital. Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the outpatient Department of Kushtia Medical College Hospital, Kushtia, Bangladesh from October 2015 to September 2016 for a period of one (01) year. Menopausal women who were attended in the outpatient Department of Hospital were included as study population. The eligible women had at least one year of amenorrhoea. Surgical menopause or due to severe illness, extreme weight loss endocrine disorders or radio therapy were excluded. Each subject completed a questionnaire that elicited their sociodemographic information, personal and family history and current medical problems. Result: A total number of 437 women were recruited for this study. The most prevalent menopausal symptom among the participants was generalized body ache 91.30%. Followed by low back pain 88.55%, muscle & joint pain 87.18%, tiredness 86.04%, hot flush 64.30%, urinary symptoms 43.93%, vaginal dryness 48.28%, insomnia 73.91%, irritability 23.56%. Most of the participants consulted at first with village doctors (63.15%) followed by general practitioners 20.82% due to their health problems. Some sought help from traditional healers like kobiraj 3.20%. Conclusion: In conclusion, body ache, low back pain, muscle and joint pain and tiredness are the most commonly reported menopause-related symptoms that are mostly consulted with village doctors.

Heparin-induced extracorporeal LDL-precipitation(HELP):Mode of action, safety and clinical experience(3)

Safety and practicability of the HELP procedure Compared to standard plasma exchange, HELP-apheresis is much better tolerated, primarily be-cause heparin rather than citrate is used for anti-coagulation and therefore problems due to hypercalce-mia do not play a role.……

Heparin-induced extracorporeal LDL- precipitation(HELP): Mode of action, safety and clinical experience(2)

Rheological effects of acute and chronic HELP - treatment The acute reduction of rheologically relevant plasma constituents such as fibrinogen and largesized lipoproteins significantly improves whole blood and plasma viscosity by a decrease of approximately 15%, erythrocyte aggregability decreases by 53% whereas erythrocyte filtrability improves by 10% (figure 3).……

Six Measures to Help SMEs out——An Interview with the Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology

With the global economic turmoil and the changes in Chinese economic pol- icies in 2008,small,and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs)have all felt the early-coming of a"cold season".They have been undergoing extreme dif- ficulties in doing businesses due to a series of factors including

Systems research helping to meet the needs and managing the trade-offs of a changing world

Facing the challenges of an increasing world population, a changing climate and ever depleting resources, agricultural intensification （Keating et al. 2010） is one of the few options for meeting the demand of food security. It is necessary to apply a dynamic and systematic approach to effectively man- age the complex agri-eco production and green processing systems. Indeed, farming systems approach for appropriate technology development and simulation modeling is a result of adopting the system thinking by the agricultural research community （Norman et al. 1995）.

Helping Hands

A potato farmer was sent to prison just at the timewhen he should have been digging the ground for plantingthe new crop of potatoes. He knew that his wife wouldnot be strong enough to do the digging by herself, butthat she could manage to do the pianting; and he alsoknew that he did not have any friends or neighbours whowould be willing to do the digging for him. So he