A study of the priorities selected by public health staff nurses for making home visits to antepartal patients

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Uveitis in spondyloarthropathies

Background: Uveitis is associated with several systemic disorders. It may be the initial presentation or manifestation of a systemic disease. It is the most common ocular complication and is sometimes the earliest manifestation of spondyloarthropathies. This study aimed to review the current literature on spondyloarthropathies and associated uveitis. Methods: A narrative review was performed using various combinations of the keywords spondyloarthropathies, seronegative spondylarthritis-related uveitis, and human leukocyte antigen-associated uveitis using PubMed/MEDLINE and Google Scholar from January 1, 2000, to September 30, 2022. We describe the disease mechanisms, genetics, and classification of spondyloarthropathies, the clinical patterns of their related ocular diseases, and the current modalities for the management of their ocular or systemic manifestations. Results: Seronegative spondyloarthropathies are a group of rheumatic disorders including ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease-related spondyloarthropathy, juvenile-onset spondyloarthritis, and undifferentiated spondyloarthritis. These are characterized by enthesitis in the absence of serum rheumatoid factor and have a strong association with human leukocyte antigen B27. The clinical courses and features of spondyloarthropathies are remarkably diverse. Ocular inflammation is common in spondyloarthropathies, often precedes the onset or diagnosis of systemic disease, and responds well to topical therapy. Timely diagnosis of systemic diseases may improve quality of life and help avoid ocular and skeletal complications. Recurrence of ocular inflammation is frequent; on occasion, it may be associated with etanercept administration. Conclusions: Eye care professionals should be able to recognize spondyloarthropathies, manage ocular disease, and collaborate with related specialties for modification of systemic treatment if associated with ocular complications. Timely referral and early management could attenuate or prevent ocular or systemic morbidities associated with spondyloarthropathies

Antecedents of Halal Brand Equity : A Study of Halal Food Sector of Malaysia

Purpose - Islamic marketing is an emerging field with a lot of potentials, so it is worthwhile to explore it. This study aims to conduct research on the unexplored relationship of antecedents of the equity, image, and consumers’ trust and satisfaction of halal brands. Design/methodology/approach - A structured questionnaire was designed to conduct research to analyze the halal brand equity and its antecedents. Data were collected from 250 halal consumers of Kota Samarahan and Kuching, Malaysia through a self-administered questionnaire using a convenience sampling method. Findings -The study finds a positive relationship of three antecedents of brand equity which confirms a strong relationship between the image and satisfaction of halal brand equity. The results further showed that halal brand image is linked with halal brand trust but the relationship between halal brand trust and its equity could not be proved. Originality - Islamic marketing has received great attention of researchers, academicians, and practitioners which has rather been unexplored earlier particularly the relationships among antecedents of the equity, image, and consumers’ trust and satisfaction of halal brands. Research Limitations -This has been a cross-sectional study that was limited to Malaysia, a Muslim majority country. Researchers can conduct a longitudinal study and can conduct it in non-Muslim societies to comprehend their diversity and wider impact. Additionally, this study was limited to halal food brands in Malaysia

Morphological and anatomical response of Acacia ehrenbergiana Hayne and Acacia tortilis (Forssk) Haynes subspp. raddiana seedlings to induced water stress

The response of Acacia ehrenbergiana Hayne and Acacia tortilis (Forssk) Haynes subspp. raddiana seedlings to 100, 50 and 25% field capacity (FC) watering regimes was studied to determine their morphological and anatomical behaviour. Both species responded morphologically as well as anatomically to water stress. Water stress caused significant (P=0.05) decrease in relative water content, leaf number and area and leaf water potential, chlorophyll content, and stem height and diameter. Seedlings of both species responded to water stress by the development of longer roots. Vessel segment length, radial diameter, tangential diameter, wall thickness and density were significantly (P=0.05) affected by water stress at 25 and 50% FC. It can be concluded that both species can adapt well under dry conditions.Keywords: Anatomical deviations, drought, morphological response, root elongatio

Helicobacter pylori: A Clinical Review

Helicobacter pylori, a gram negative microorganism, concomitant with a ramification of gastro-intestinal illnesses blanketed duodenal, non-ulcer dyspepsia, and gastric ulcer and active persistent gastritis. The frequency of H. pylori contamination ought to more than ninety % in patients showing sign and symptoms of gastrointestinal infections. It has been reported of affiliation of H. pylori infection with complication of stomach cancer. It may be transmitted through oro-fecal rely via the eating of waste-polluted water or meals. Combination of antibiotics and bismuth compounds found to be powerful in treating lively infection. Diagnosis of infection is through invasive testing techniques i.e. histology, Culture, based totally on endoscopy and biopsy, or non-invasive trying out strategies, which include serologic antibody assay, urea breath test and stool antigen test. Serologic antibody assay and UBT do no longer distinguish between a current infection and past cured infection. The stool antigen test is used to detect antigen presence inside the faeces that suggests lively infection. It can be extensively utilized to monitor the prognosis of disease and the recurrence. Prevention is by means of hygiene measures like hand washing practice and transmission control.  If infection left untreated may also lead to critical hassle. Keywords: H. Pylori, Helicobacter Pylori, Clinical Revie

Factors Affecting Brand Relationship Quality of Halal Food and The Mediating Role of Halal Literacy

Purpose: Brand relationship is anemerging phenomenon and companies are giving it a lot of importance. Islamic marketing is gaining grounds everywhere in the world and capturing a lot of attention in the countries where Muslims are in majority and even in minority. Present research aims to evaluate factors like brand experience, religiosity, price and role of halal literacy as a mediator to the brand relationship quality of halal food brands. Methodology: Survey research method has been conducted in Kuching and Kota Samarahan cities of Sarawak State, Malaysia. 270 respondents took part in this research. The partial least square method (PLS-SEM) has been used for data analysis. Findings: The findings of the research suggest that experiential value, price, and religiosity have effect on brand relationship quality of halal food brands. The role of halal literacy as a mediator has been found significant in respect of experiential value and religiosity, while it remained unchanged in determining the price. Research Limitation: The research has been conducted by applying cross sectional data method. The study is limited to the state of Sarawak, Malaysia and it concerns only the food products. Practical Implication: The findings of this research can be considered as a help by brand managers in formulating their marketing and business strategy. Originality/Value: This research endeavoured to explore the importance of religiosity in customer�brand relationship of halal food brands. Moreover, the concept of the mediation role of price transparency has been investigated for the first time. It indicates that this area has never been explored before in research

Factors Affecting Brand Relationship Quality of Halal Food and The Mediating Role of Halal Literacy

Purpose: Brand relationship is anemerging phenomenon and companies are giving it a lot of importance. Islamic marketing is gaining grounds everywhere in the world and capturing a lot of attention in the countries where Muslims are in majority and even in minority. Present research aims to evaluate factors like brand experience, religiosity, price and role of halal literacy as a mediator to the brand relationship quality of halal food brands. Methodology: Survey research method has been conducted in Kuching and Kota Samarahan cities of Sarawak State, Malaysia. 270 respondents took part in this research. The partial least square method (PLS-SEM) has been used for data analysis. Findings: The findings of the research suggest that experiential value, price, and religiosity have effect on brand relationship quality of halal food brands. The role of halal literacy as a mediator has been found significant in respect of experiential value and religiosity, while it remained unchanged in determining the price. Research Limitation: The research has been conducted by applying cross sectional data method. The study is limited to the state of Sarawak, Malaysia and it concerns only the food products. Practical Implication: The findings of this research can be considered as a help by brand managers in formulating their marketing and business strategy. Originality/Value: This research endeavoured to explore the importance of religiosity in customerbrand relationship of halal food brands. Moreover, the concept of the mediation role of price transparency has been investigated for the first time. It indicates that this area has never been explored before in research

Designing of Different High Efficiency Diode Clamped Multilevel

This research work is aimed at designing of high efficiency multilevel diode clamped inverter. It would cover diode clamped multilevel inverter with particular reference to the comparison of high level and low level inverter using efficient modulation method (sinusoidal pulse width modulation). The main theme of this research is to obtain a pure sinusoidal waveform of high quality having minimum harmonics that can be utilized for both industrial purposes and to sensitive domestic loads. The proposed design besides considering high quality of the output waveform of multilevel diode clamped inverter, the problems regarding multilevel inverter design has been given more consideration high voltage stresses across switching devices. The voltage stresses issues have been resolved with DC link voltage equally distributed among capacitors in multilevel inverter. Simulation results for different level inverters both low level (5, 7, 9, level) and high levels (11, 13, 15) are used as a reference. The proposed design resulted in reduced total harmonic distortion thus eliminating the harmonics in the output waveform to a greater extent resulting in pure sine waveform output. This resulted in reduction in overall losses and elimination of voltage balancing problems in high level diode clamped inverter. Keywords: Hormonics, Clamping, Inverter, Pulse Width Modulation, Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM)

epcAware: a game-based, energy, performance and cost efficient resource management technique for multi-access edge computing

The Internet of Things (IoT) is producing an extraordinary volume of data daily, and it is possible that the data may become useless while on its way to the cloud for analysis, due to longer distances and delays. Fog/edge computing is a new model for analyzing and acting on time-sensitive data (real-time applications) at the network edge, adjacent to where it is produced. The model sends only selected data to the cloud for analysis and long-term storage. Furthermore, cloud services provided by large companies such as Google, can also be localized to minimize the response time and increase service agility. This could be accomplished through deploying small-scale datacenters (reffered to by name as cloudlets) where essential, closer to customers (IoT devices) and connected to a centrealised cloud through networks - which form a multi-access edge cloud (MEC). The MEC setup involves three different parties, i.e. service providers (IaaS), application providers (SaaS), network providers (NaaS); which might have different goals, therefore, making resource management a defficult job. In the literature, various resource management techniques have been suggested in the context of what kind of services should they host and how the available resources should be allocated to customers’ applications, particularly, if mobility is involved. However, the existing literature considers the resource management problem with respect to a single party. In this paper, we assume resource management with respect to all three parties i.e. IaaS, SaaS, NaaS; and suggest a game theoritic resource management technique that minimises infrastructure energy consumption and costs while ensuring applications performance. Our empirical evaluation, using real workload traces from Google’s cluster, suggests that our approach could reduce up to 11.95% energy consumption, and approximately 17.86% user costs with negligible loss in performance. Moreover, IaaS can reduce up to 20.27% energy bills and NaaS can increase their costs savings up to 18.52% as compared to other methods