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We explore how forcibly resettling encamped households to a disputed location is not only an ongoing perceived injustice regionally but also a continuing reference point in resettlement discussions countrywide, reflecting concerns that land use and economic reconfigurations in resettlement can undermine subsistence livelihoods while privileging certain values and interests over others. Policy lessons highlight the need for reviewing disaster management legislation, developing compensation guidelines and reviewing encampment practices. Analytically, lessons point to how state power may be studied in relation to perspectives on the destruction of flood survivors' connections to place, people and livelihoods, underscoring the critical need for theorising the relationships between power dynamics and diverse experiences around displacement.
Students with learning disabilities (LD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (LD/ADHD) are well-represented on college campuses. However, they experience challenges to meeting occupational and role expectations associated with being in college. Mentors serve as natural supports for young people within college environments. This study investigates the ways in which graduate-student mentors, who were supported in understanding LD/ADHD and their mentee's strengths and challenges through an occupational lens, provided problem solving supports for undergraduate mentees with LD/ADHD.
Thematic qualitative analysis was used to investigate problem solving supports provided by mentors (
= 57) of undergraduate mentees (
= 52) with LD/ADHD.
Three themes,
,
, and
, represent areas in which mentors worked with mentees in guiding and co-creating strategies to address academic, social, and daily life challenges. Mentors' understandings of their mentees' disability-related challenges and strengths within everyday life situations was important for fostering the occupational performance of mentees.
The inclusion of biopsychosocial approaches is needed in the development of disability-related mentorship interventions where occupational therapists can leverage disciplinary understanding of disabilities and the fostering of occupational performance to support social functioning and participation in college.
The inclusion of biopsychosocial approaches is needed in the development of disability-related mentorship interventions where occupational therapists can leverage disciplinary understanding of disabilities and the fostering of occupational performance to support social functioning and participation in college.The coronavirus pandemic has severely affected our daily lives, with direct consequences on passenger transport. This in turn has strongly impacted the energy demand of the transport sector and associated CO2 emissions. We analyse near real-time passenger mobility and related emission trends in Europe between 21 January and 21 September 2020. We compiled a dataset of country-, sector- and lockdown- specific values, representing daily activity changes in private, public, and active passenger transport. In the aggregate, surface passenger transport emissions fell by 11.2% corresponding to 40.3 MtCO2 in Europe. This decline was predominantly due to the reduction of private passenger transport in five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK). During the first lockdown in April 2020, CO2 emissions from surface passenger transport declined by 50% in Europe, resulting in a 7.1% reduction in total CO2 emissions. After April 2020, private passenger travel recovered rapidly, while public passenger flows remained low. Solely prompted by the private sector, a rebound in total emissions and surface passenger transport emissions of 1.5% and 10.7%, respectively, was estimated at the end of the study period. The resulting situation of increased private and decreased public passenger transport is in contradiction to major climate goals, and without reversing these trends, emission reductions, as stated in the European Green Deal are unlikely to be achieved. Our study provides an analysis based on a detailed and timely set of data of surface passenger transport and points to options to grasp the momentum for innovative changes in passenger mobility.The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economic activity in India. Adjusting policies to contain transmission while mitigating the economic impact requires an assessment of the economic situation in near real-time and at high spatial granularity. This paper shows that daily electricity consumption and monthly nighttime light intensity can proxy for economic activity in India. Energy consumption is compared with the predictions of a consumption model that explains 90 percent of the variation in normal times. Energy consumption declined strongly after a national lockdown was implemented on March 25, 2020 and remained a quarter below normal levels throughout April. It recovered subsequently, but electricity consumption remained lower even in September. Not all states and union territories have been affected equally. While electricity consumption halved in some, it declined very little in others. Part of the heterogeneity is explained by the prevalence of COVID-19 infections, the share of manufacturing, and return migration. During the national lockdown, higher COVID-19 infection rates at the district level were associated with larger declines in nighttime light intensity. Without effectively reducing the risk of a COVID-19 infection, voluntary reductions of mobility will hence prevent a return to full economic potential even when restrictions are relaxed. Together, daily electricity consumption and nighttime light intensity allow monitoring economic activity in near real-time and high spatial granularity.The sudden appearance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered extreme and open-ended "lockdowns" to manage the disease. Should these drastic interventions be the blueprint for future epidemics? We construct an analytical framework, based on the theory of random matching, which makes explicit how epidemics spread through economic activity. Imposing lockdowns by assumption prevents contagion and reduces healthcare costs, but also disrupts income-generation processes. We characterize how lockdowns impact the contagion process and social welfare. Numerical analysis suggests that protracted, open-ended lockdowns are generally suboptimal, bringing into question the policy responses seen in many countries.Predictive mean matching imputation is popular for handling item nonresponse in survey sampling. In this article, we study the asymptotic properties of the predictive mean matching estimator for finite-population inference using a superpopulation model framework. We also clarify conditions for its robustness. For variance estimation, the conventional bootstrap inference is invalid for matching estimators with a fixed number of matches due to the nonsmoothness nature of the matching estimator. We propose a new replication variance estimator, which is asymptotically valid. The key strategy is to construct replicates directly based on the linear terms of the martingale representation for the matching estimator, instead of individual records of variables. Simulation studies confirm that the proposed method provides valid inference.A new pandemic attack happened over the world in the last month of the year 2019 which disrupt the lifestyle of everyone around the globe. All the related research communities are trying to identify the behaviour of pandemic so that they can know when it ends but every time it makes them surprise by giving new values of different parameters. In this paper, support vector regression (SVR) and deep neural network method have been used to develop the prediction models. SVR employs the principle of a support vector machine that uses a function to estimate mapping from an input domain to real numbers on the basis of a training model and leads to a more accurate solution. The long short-term memory networks usually called LSTM, are a special kind of RNN, capable of learning long-term dependencies. And also is quite useful when the neural network needs to switch between remembering recent things, and things from a long time ago and it provides an accurate prediction to COVID-19. Therefore, in this study, SVR and LSTM techniques have been used to simulate the behaviour of this pandemic. Simulation results show that LSTM provides more realistic results in the Indian Scenario.A 1470-nm laser previously demonstrated faster sealing and cutting of blood vessels with lower thermal spread than radiofrequency and ultrasonic surgical devices. This study simulates laser sealing and cutting of vessels in a sequential two-step process, for low ( less then 25 W), medium (~ 100 W), and high (200 W) power lasers. Optical transport, heat transfer, and tissue damage simulations were conducted. The blood vessel was assumed to be compressed to 400 μm thickness, matching previous experimental studies. A wide range of linear beam profiles (1-5 mm widths and 8-9.5 mm lengths), incident powers (20-200 W) and irradiation times (0.5-5.0 s), were simulated. Peak seal and cut temperatures and bifurcated thermal seal zones were also simulated and compared with experimental results for model validation. Optimal low power laser parameters were 24W/5s/8×2mm for sealing and 24W/5s/8×1mm for cutting, yielding thermal spread of 0.4 mm and corresponding to experimental vessel burst pressures (BP) of ~450 mmHg. Optimal medium-power laser parameters were 90 W/1s/9.5×3mm for sealing and 90W/1s/9.5×1mm for cutting, yielding thermal spread of 0.9 mm for BP of ~1300 mmHg. Optimal high-power laser parameters were 200W/0.5s/9×3mm for sealing and 200W/0.5s/9×1mm for cutting, yielding thermal spread of 0.9 mm and extrapolated to have BP of ~1300 mmHg. selleck chemical All lasers produced seal zones between 0.4-1.5 mm, correlating to high BP of 300-1300 mmHg. Higher laser powers enable shorter sealing and cutting times and higher vessel seal strengths.Object-based co-localization of fluorescent signals allows the assessment of interactions between two (or more) biological entities using spatial information. It relies on object identification with high accuracy to separate fluorescent signals from the background. Object detectors using convolutional neural networks (CNN) with annotated training samples could facilitate the process by detecting and counting fluorescent-labeled cells from fluorescence photomicrographs. However, datasets containing segmented annotations of colocalized cells are generally not available, and creating a new dataset with delineated masks is label-intensive. Also, the co-localization coefficient is often not used as a component during training with the CNN model. Yet, it may aid with localizing and detecting objects during training and testing. In this work, we propose to address these issues by using a quantification coefficient for co-localization called Manders overlapping coefficient (MOC)1 as a single-layer branch in a CNN. Fully convolutional one-state (FCOS)2 with a Resnet101 backbone served as the network to evaluate the effectiveness of the novel branch to assist with bounding box prediction. Training data were sourced from lab curated fluorescence images of neurons from the rat hippocampus, piriform cortex, somatosensory cortex, and amygdala. Results suggest that using modified FCOS with MOC outperformed the original FCOS model for accuracy in detecting fluorescence signals by 1.1% in mean average precision (mAP). The model could be downloaded from https//github.com/Alphafrey946/Colocalization-MOC.
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