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The Stockholders\u27 Right to Inspect Corporate Books and Records in Cases of Receivership and Reorganization
Mental health symptoms in children and adolescents during COVID-19 in Australia
OBJECTIVE:
COVID-19 has led to disruptions to the lives of Australian families through social distancing, school closures, a temporary move to home-based online learning, and effective lockdown. Understanding the effects on child and adolescent mental health is important to inform policies to support communities as they continue to face the pandemic and future crises. This paper sought to report on mental health symptoms in Australian children and adolescents during the initial stages of the pandemic (May to November 2020) and to examine their association with child/family characteristics and exposure to the broad COVID-19 environment.
METHODS:
An online baseline survey was completed by 1327 parents and carers of Australian children aged 4 to 17 years. Parents/carers reported on their child’s mental health using five measures, including emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, anxiety symptoms and depressive symptoms. Child/family characteristics and COVID-related variables were measured.
RESULTS:
Overall, 30.5%, 26.3% and 9.5% of our sample scored in the high to very high range for emotional symptoms, conduct problems and hyperactivity/inattention, respectively. Similarly, 20.2% and 20.4% of our sample scored in the clinical range for anxiety symptoms and depressive symptoms, respectively. A child’s pre-existing mental health diagnosis, neurodevelopmental condition and chronic illness significantly predicted parent-reported child and adolescent mental health symptoms. Parental mental health symptoms, having a close contact with COVID-19 and applying for government financial assistance during COVID-19, were significantly associated with child and adolescent mental health symptoms.
CONCLUSION:
Our findings show that Australian children and adolescents experienced considerable levels of mental health symptoms during the initial phase of COVID-19. This highlights the need for targeted and effective support for affected youth, particularly for those with pre-existing vulnerabilities
Dissipative and Non-dissipative Single-Qubit Channels: Dynamics and Geometry
Single-qubit channels are studied under two broad classes: amplitude damping
channels and generalized depolarizing channels. A canonical derivation of the
Kraus representation of the former, via the Choi isomorphism is presented for
the general case of a system's interaction with a squeezed thermal bath. This
isomorphism is also used to characterize the difference in the geometry and
rank of these channel classes. Under the isomorphism, the degree of decoherence
is quantified according to the mixedness or separability of the Choi matrix.
Whereas the latter channels form a 3-simplex, the former channels do not form a
convex set as seen from an ab initio perspective. Further, where the rank of
generalized depolarizing channels can be any positive integer upto 4, that of
amplitude damping ones is either 2 or 4. Various channel performance parameters
are used to bring out the different influences of temperature and squeezing in
dissipative channels. In particular, a noise range is identified where the
distinguishability of states improves inspite of increasing decoherence due to
environmental squeezing.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Alien Registration- Uhlman, Edna E. (Bethel, Oxford County)
https://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/13103/thumbnail.jp
Calculation of the Added Mass and Damping Forces on Supercavitating Bodies
A linearized formulation for the unsteady forces experienced by supercavitating bodies is developed in terms of their added mass and damping coefficients. The formulation is general, but is applied here using an axisymmetric base flow. Expressions for the added mass, damping and restoring tensors are derived in a form suitable for incorporation in a numerical "flight" simulation tool for supercavitating vehicles. Disk and conical cavitating bodies are investigated. It is found that the added mass in surge can actually be negative for small values of the reduced frequency. The physical interpretation of this phenomenon is provided
Alien Registration- Uhlman, Edna E. (Bethel, Oxford County)
https://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/13103/thumbnail.jp
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