Herausforderung Alleinerziehend : eine qualitative textbasierte Inhaltsanalyse zu Bedürfnissen und Schwerpunktthemen von alleinerziehenden Elternteilen

Darstellung des Themas: Im deutschsprachigen Gebiet besteht ein mangelndes Unterstützungsangebot für alleinerziehende Eltern im ersten Jahr nach der Geburt ihres Kindes. Über die Bedürfnisse von Betroffenen wurden bisher keine Studien durchgeführt, weshalb es nicht möglich ist, konkrete Massnahmen oder Hilfestellungen abzuleiten. Ziel und Fragestellung: Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die Bedürfnisse und Themenfelder alleinerziehender Eltern im ersten Jahr nach der Geburt des Neugeborenen zu erfassen und aufzuzeigen. Mit der Bedarfserhebung werden die Grundlagen für ein Mapping geschaffen, welches bestehende Versorgungsangebote abbilden soll, ebenso wie bestehende Versorgungslücken. Methode: Nach einer nicht erfolgreichen Suche in gesundheitsrelevanten Datenbanken wurde eine qualitative Inhaltsanalyse von Forumsbeiträgen gemacht. Durch die Codierung der Beiträge konnten Kernthemen herausgearbeitet und festgehalten werden. Relevante Ergebnisse: Viele Betroffene sind nach einer Trennung überfordert mit organisatorischen und finanziellen Angelegenheiten. Sorgen bezüglich dem Kindeswohl im Umgang mit dem anderen Elternteil kommen dazu. Häufig ist keine Unterstützungsmöglichkeit durch Freunde oder Familie gegeben. Auch Überforderung und Erschöpfung werden häufig thematisiert. Schlussfolgerung: Fachpersonen, welche Alleinerziehende betreuen, sollten über Möglichkeiten der Unterstützung und deren Rechte und Pflichten informiert sein. Es ist wichtig, die gesamte Situation der betroffenen Person zu kennen und Ressourcen gezielt zu nutzen und zu fördern

GOMX-4 - The Twin European Mission for IOD Purposes

The next generation of nanosatellites in GomSpace has been developed after the success of GOMX-3 in aircraft traffic monitoring and L-band communications. GOMX-4 is the demonstration mission of this new 6U platform including two satellites; GOMX-4A and GOMX-4B, which are mainly intended to test constellation capabilities for orbital control and inter-satellite communications together with additional innovative technologies. GOMX-4B is funded by ESA for In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) purposes demonstrating the 5 payloads on-board: the 6U propulsion module from NanoSpace; the innovative Inter-Satellite Link (ISL) from GomSpace; the Chimera board developed by ESA; the HyperScout Hyperspectral Camera from Cosine and the Star Tracker from ISIS. GOMX-4A is a satellite to monitor Greenland and the artic region by capturing ADS-B, AIS and images for the Danish Defense Acquisition and Logistics Organization (DALO). The numerous in-orbit experiments and various payloads included in the GOMX-4 mission show the high performance and flexibility of the GomSpace 6U platform, flying its advanced EPS and its AOCS for the first time. The two satellites were launched on the 2nd of February 2018 on a LM-2D. The in-orbit results presented here show the extensive capabilities of these innovative nanosatellites, and opens the path for scaling to larger platforms and advanced constellations with compact communication and optical payloads

“Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees”: Using a Data-Driven Review Process to Add New Resources With No Budget Increases

At Drake University’s Cowles Library, increasing budgetary pressures, combined with improvements in gathering and analyzing usage data, compelled the library in 2014 to reassess its collection development philosophy and approach. This new philosophy—that the value of a resource is directly related to its usage—necessitated a more systematic and analytical process. The library has developed an annual review process that uses data-driven decision making for canceling and acquiring electronic resource subscriptions. The steps in this process are as follows: • Reviewing cost-per-use data • Generating candidate deselection lists (“watchlists”) • Soliciting faculty feedback via a library liaison process • Communicating and marketing • Canceling low-use items • Identifying and acquiring new resources on a yearly cycle With a more deliberate process, the library was able to save $175,169 over a three-year period. Combined with reallocated book acquisition funds, these savings allowed for the coverage of inflationary costs and the acquisition of new electronic resources requested by faculty for unmet curricular needs. This process, including both the challenges and the timeline, will be covered in this paper

A Greedy Algorithm for the Social Golfer and the Oberwolfach Problem

Inspired by the increasing popularity of Swiss-system tournaments in sports, we study the problem of predetermining the number of rounds that can be guaranteed in a Swiss-system tournament. Matches of these tournaments are usually determined in a myopic round-based way dependent on the results of previous rounds. Together with the hard constraint that no two players meet more than once during the tournament, at some point it might become infeasible to schedule a next round. For tournaments with $n$ players and match sizes of $k\geq2$ players, we prove that we can always guarantee $\lfloor \frac{n}{k(k-1)} \rfloor$ rounds. We show that this bound is tight. This provides a simple polynomial time constant factor approximation algorithm for the social golfer problem. We extend the results to the Oberwolfach problem. We show that a simple greedy approach guarantees at least $\lfloor \frac{n+4}{6} \rfloor$ rounds for the Oberwolfach problem. This yields a polynomial time $\frac{1}{3+\epsilon}$-approximation algorithm for any fixed $\epsilon>0$ for the Oberwolfach problem. Assuming that El-Zahar's conjecture is true, we improve the bound on the number of rounds to be essentially tight.Comment: 24 pages, 4 figure

Strategic lesions in the anterior thalamic radiation and apathy in early Alzheimer's disease

BACKGROUND Behavioural disorders and psychological symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) are commonly observed in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and strongly contribute to increasing patients' disability. Using voxel-lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM), we investigated the impact of white matter lesions (WMLs) on the severity of BPSD in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (a-MCI). METHODS Thirty-one a-MCI patients (with a conversion rate to AD of 32% at 2 year follow-up) and 26 healthy controls underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination at 3T, including T2-weighted and fluid-attenuated-inversion-recovery images, and T1-weighted volumes. In the patient group, BPSD was assessed using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory-12. After quantitative definition of WMLs, their distribution was investigated, without an a priori anatomical hypothesis, against patients' behavioural symptoms. Unbiased regional grey matter volumetrics was also used to assess the contribution of grey matter atrophy to BPSD. RESULTS Apathy, irritability, depression/dysphoria, anxiety and agitation were shown to be the most common symptoms in the patient sample. Despite a more widespread anatomical distribution, a-MCI patients did not differ from controls in WML volumes. VLSM revealed a strict association between the presence of lesions in the anterior thalamic radiations (ATRs) and the severity of apathy. Regional grey matter atrophy did not account for any BPSD. CONCLUSIONS This study indicates that damage to the ATRs is strategic for the occurrence of apathy in patients with a-MCI. Disconnection between the prefrontal cortex and the mediodorsal and anterior thalamic nuclei might represent the pathophysiological substrate for apathy, which is one of the most common psychopathological symptoms observed in dementia