To My Room’s Future Tenant

To My Room’s Future Tenant is an original collection of poems accompanied by a critical preface

For public service or money : understanding geographical imbalances in the health workforce

Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, especially in developing countries. The authors investigate the willingness to work in a rural area among final year nursing and medical students in Ethiopia. Analyzing data obtained from contingent valuation questions, they find that household consumption and the student's motivation to help the poor, which is their proxy for intrinsic motivation, are the main determinants of willingness to work in a rural area. The authors investigate who are willing to help the poor and find that women are significantly more likely to help than men. Other variables, including a rich set of psycho-social characteristics, are not significant. Finally, the authors carry out some simulations on how much it would cost to make the entire cohort of starting nurses and doctors choose to take up a rural post.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Systems Development&Reform,Educational Sciences,Economic Theory&Research,Housing&Human Habitats

For public service or money: Understanding geographical imbalances in the health workforce in Ethiopia

Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, and especially in developing countries. In this paper we investigate the willingness to work in a rural area among final year nursing and medical students in Ethiopia. Analyzing data obtained from contingent valuation questions, we find that household consumption and the student’s motivation to help the poor, which is our proxy for intrinsic motivation, are the main determinants of willingness to work in a rural area. We investigate whoe is willing to help the poor and find that women are significantly more likely than men. Other variables, including a rich set of psychosocial characteristics, are not significant. Finally, we carry out some simulation on how much it would cost to make the entire cohort of starting nurses and doctors chooseto take up a rural post.Health care delivery, health workers, labour supply, public service

Arithmetical structures on bidents

An arithmetical structure on a finite, connected graph $G$ is a pair of vectors $(\mathbf{d}, \mathbf{r})$ with positive integer entries for which $(\operatorname{diag}(\mathbf{d}) - A)\mathbf{r} = \mathbf{0}$, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of $G$ and where the entries of $\mathbf{r}$ have no common factor. The critical group of an arithmetical structure is the torsion part of the cokernel of $(\operatorname{diag}(\mathbf{d}) - A)$. In this paper, we study arithmetical structures and their critical groups on bidents, which are graphs consisting of a path with two "prongs" at one end. We give a process for determining the number of arithmetical structures on the bident with $n$ vertices and show that this number grows at the same rate as the Catalan numbers as $n$ increases. We also completely characterize the groups that occur as critical groups of arithmetical structures on bidents.Comment: 32 page

Gestión del talento humano y satisfacción laboral desde la perspectiva del personal de tecnólogos médicos de la Clínica San Pablo Lima, 2020

La gestión del talento humano considera que las personas son las que generan y fortalecen la innovación, supervisión, administración e incluso llegar a dirigir una organización, entre otros, la presente investigación plantea como objetivo general conocer la correlación existente entre las variables gestión del talento humano y la satisfacción laboral para este fin se aplico dos encuestas para conocer el grado de gestión de talento y el nivel de satisfacción laboral que hay en la población de tecnólogos médicos en la clínica San Pablo, Lima. La metodología aplicada una Investigación de diseño descriptivo Correlacional, no experimental y de enfoque cuantitativo. La hipótesis general planteada fue si existirá o no una correlación entre las variables Gestión del Talento Humano y Satisfacción laboral. Se comprobó en los resultados que no existe correlación entre las variables Gestión del talento humano y la Satisfacción laboral el nivel de significancia fue mayor a sig.= 0,05 Rho de Spearman= 1.000. aceptándose la hipótesis nula H0. Como conclusión se puede decir que el grado de correlación entre las variables es nula, pero se halló correlación significativa entre las dimensiones remuneración y evaluación dado que su valor de significancia es menor a o.o5

Normal mucus formation requires cAMP-dependent HCO3- secretion and Ca2+-mediated mucin exocytosis.

  Evidence from the pathology in cystic fibrosis (CF) and recent results in vitro indicate that HCO3- is required for gel-forming mucins to form the mucus that protects epithelial surfaces. Mucus formation and release is a complex process that begins with an initial intracellular phase of synthesis, packaging and apical granule exocytosis that is followed by an extracellular phase of mucin swelling, transport and discharge into a lumen. Exactly where HCO3- becomes crucial in these processes is unknown, but we observed that in the presence of HCO3-, stimulating dissected segments of native mouse intestine with 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) induced goblet cell exocytosis followed by normal mucin discharge in wild-type (WT) intestines. CF intestines that inherently lack cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)-dependent HCO3- secretion also demonstrated apparently normal goblet cell exocytosis, but in contrast, this was not followed by similar mucin discharge. Moreover, we found that even in the presence of HCO3-, when WT intestines were stimulated only with a Ca2+-mediated agonist (carbachol), exocytosis was followed by poor discharge as with CF intestines. However, when the Ca2+-mediated agonist was combined with a cAMP-mediated agonist (isoproterenol (isoprenaline) or vasoactive intestinal peptide) in the presence of HCO3- both normal exocytosis and normal discharge was observed. These results indicate that normal mucus formation requires concurrent activation of a Ca2+-mediated exocytosis of mucin granules and an independent cAMP-mediated, CFTR-dependent, HCO3- secretion that appears to mainly enhance the extracellular phases of mucus excretion

Social Inclusion and Disability in the US and China: An International Context for Experiential Learning

Children with disabilities are a highly vulnerable group around the world, including in China (Cheung, 2013). However, China’s context differs in two notable ways: population size and lack of systematic means of delivering community-based services for people with disabilities (Fisher, Li, and Fan, 2012; UNICEF-EAPRO, 2012). This project focused on the study of community-based services in China and their role in the continuum of care for persons with disabilities. In addition, students and faculty participated in experiential learning and professional development through engagement with non-governmental organizations that focus on this population in the cities of Beijing, Xian, Zhengzhou, and Hong Kong. Students also participated in a range of professional activities, including providing training for parents who have children with disabilities, participating in home visiting sessions, and working closely with local service providers on self-identified areas of interest and need

Competencias digitales en el desarrollo profesional docente de una universidad de Tumbes, 2024

La investigación se relaciona estrechamente con el ODS número 4, que busca una educación de calidad para todos e implica mejorar las competencias digitales, lo que a su vez promueve la innovación educativa. El estudio tiene como objetivo central determinar la influencia entre las competencias digitales y el desarrollo profesional docente de una Universidad de Tumbes, 2024. El criterio metodológico que se utilizó fue de tipo básico, el enfoque cuantitativo, con un diseño no experimental, y un nivel explicativo. Se aplicó la encuesta como técnica, y como instrumento el cuestionario. La población y muestra estuvo conformada por 20 docentes de una universidad. Se obtuvo como resultados que, el valor de "Sig. 0.001 es altamente significativo, existe una fuerte evidencia estadística para respaldar la existencia de una influencia real y significativa entre las variables; y un valor de Nagelkerke, de 99,9% de dependencia. Se concluye que, se aprueba la hipótesis general, demostrando que las competencias digitales influyen positiva y significativamente en el desarrollo profesional docente de una Universidad de Tumbes, 2024

Livestock Methane Emission: Microbial Ecology and Mitigation Strategies

Rumen microbiome plays a critical role in the development and nutrition of the host, and any alteration in the rumen microbiome has an important effect on the animal. Rumen microbial ecology is always dynamic in response to the diets and physiological conditions of the host. Ruminal microorganisms are mainly anaerobic and provide around 75% of the energy needed by the animal. The importance of microbial diversity in rumen has gained attention not only due to its significance on the productivity of the host, but also due to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and their environmental impact. Livestock is one of the most important sources of GHGs from agriculture, contributing more than 25% of global GHGs emissions. However, the variations in livestock emission in different regions of the world could be attributed to the changes in diversity and abundance of rumen microbial communities, which vary according to the type and age of animal, type of feeds, feeding strategies, climate, etc. This chapter deals on rumen microbial ecology, the role of microorganisms in enteric fermentation and the different mitigation strategies based on manipulation of rumen microbial diversity to reduce the methane emissions from livestock

Threshold Microsecond Pulsed Electric Field Exposures for Change in Spinach Quality

Pulsed electric fields (PEFs) are often used to pretreat foods to enhance subsequent processes, such as drying, where maintaining food product quality is important for consumer satisfaction. This study aims to establish a threshold PEF exposure to determine the doses at which electroporation is viable for use on spinach leaves, wherein integrity is maintained postexposure. Three numbers of consecutive pulses (1, 5, 50) and two pulse durations (10 and 100 μs) have been examined herein at a constant pulse repetition of 10 Hz and 1.4 kV/cm field strength. The data indicate that pore formation in itself is not a cause for loss of spinach leaf food quality, i.e., significant changes in color and water content. Rather, cell death, or the rupture of the cell membrane from a high-intensity treatment, is necessary to significantly alter the exterior integrity of the plant tissue. PEF exposures thus can be used on leafy greens up until the point of inactivation before consumers would see any alterations, making reversible electroporation a viable treatment for consumer-intended products. These results open up future opportunities to use emerging technologies based on PEF exposures and provide useful information in setting parameters to avoid food quality diminishment