The Associations of Experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic With Religiosity and Spirituality:A Cross-Sectional Study in Czech Adults

Objectives: We investigated the associations between religiosity/spirituality and respondents' changes in their relationships, feelings, thinking, and behaviour during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic.Methods: A sample of Czech adults (n = 1,434; 48.3 +/- 16.4 years; 49.65% women) participated in the online survey. We measured spirituality, religiosity, self-reported changes in relationships, disrupted feelings, and changes in behaviour during the pandemic.Results: Spiritual respondents were more likely to report increased physical activity, sex, reading and self-education, with odds ratios (ORs) ranging from 1.26 (95% confidence interval 1.09-1.46) to 1.56 (1.31-1.86). The combination of spirituality and religiosity led to an increase in the range of ORs to 1.57-2.69. Spiritual and religious participants were less likely to feel the decrease of hope by 70%, while mere spirituality significantly reduced the decrease of hope by only 30%. Religiosity itself led to a lower risk of reporting a disrupted day structure with an OR = 0.74 (0.58-0.95).Conclusion: Religiosity and spirituality separately help people during a pandemic in some areas. Especially their combination has a more positive impact on relationships, feelings, and behaviour

Analysis of CANaerospace Protocol Communication Quality in Aviation System

This paper analyses CAN bus utilisation, complying with the CANaerospace protocol, in on-board aircraft electronic systems. The article briefly compares buses used on aircraft board, explains CAN bus applications and selection methods for different bus communications. Then it describes the mathematical analysis of bus capacity and bus utilisation, proposes a time schedule for transmitting and receiving messages and analyses the proposed time schedule. The main focus of the article is on testing the communication behaviour quality of the proposed aviation system with specific conditions for transmitting individual messages, carrying flight and aircraft parameters, complying with the CANaerospace specification. It is a modular system, where each module represents an intelligent aircraft device. Testing is focused on verification of correct entry of individual messages into the communication system

PlaneFinder: a methodology to find the best plane for a set of atoms involved in the metal coordination in protein structures

Metal ions play a considerable role in protein structure and function. The roles of most metals and their importance are determined by the arrangements of the interacting atoms in the three-dimensional protein structure. This information is essential in predicting the geometry of the atoms involved in metal coordination. The deviation of the other atoms from the best plane is another crucial factor. The proposed web server, PlaneFinder, provides a fast and efficient method to calculate the best-fit plane for a set of atoms involved in the metal coordination. It provides in addition other possible planes by considering the maximum number of interacting atoms as well as user-selected atoms. The deviations of the selected atoms and other atoms from the best-fit plane are also displayed. PlaneFinder is freely available and can be accessed at http://bioserverl.physics. iisc.ac.in/plane/