Developing a Health Marketing Model to Foster a Culture of Timely Prostate Cancer Prevention

Introduction: Prostate cancer poses a significant global public health concern for men. Despite advancements in medical knowledge and screening techniques, a considerable number of prostate cancer cases are diagnosed at advanced stages, leading to compromised treatment outcomes and increased mortality rates. This study aimed to develop and introduce a model focused on preventing prostate cancer in men. Methods: This mixed-methods study comprises two phases. In the initial phase, grounded theory was employed to identify and define the influential factors based on the prospectives of both experts and patients. The data were continuously analyzed during data collection using the Strauss & Corbin method (1998) encompassing open, axial, and selective coding. Subsequently, a systematic review and a qualitative study were conducted and the data were integrated to develop a cohesive model. Results: In the qualitative phase, axial coding yielded three axial subcategories: “Underlying factors”, “Causal conditions”, and “Intervening factors”. All extracted categories and codes were linked to the causal, background, intervention factors, strategies, and consequences adopting an approach focused on fostering a culture of timely prostate cancer prevention. A systematic review generated a final scale of 23 questions organized into four subscales: “Life conditions”, “Physical problems”, “Mental injuries”, and “Efficiency of hospitals” developed by the researcher in the second step. All steps of validity and reliability were undertaken. Following the integration of results from the systematic review and qualitative study (phases 1 and 2), the current research model measures the relationships between several latent variables (the primary variables of the research). Simultaneously, structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. Conclusion: The developed study model is validated and reliable, encompassing all the factors influencing prostate cancer prevention in men. Tailored to our context, this model was developed to prevent prostate cancer in men. Further testing in diverse societies is recommended

The TeamPlay project : analysing and optimising time, energy, and security for cyber-physical systems

Funding: This work was supported by the EU Horizon-2020 project TeamPlay (https://www.teamplay-h2020.eu), grant #779882.Non-functional properties, such as energy, time, and security (ETS) are becoming increasingly important for the programming of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This paper describes TeamPlay, a research project funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme between January 2018 and June 2021.TeamPlay aimed to provide the system designer with a toolchain for developing embedded applications where ETS properties are first-class citizens, allowing the developer to reflect directly on energy, time and security properties at the source code level. In this paper we give an overview of the TeamPlay methodology, introduce the challenges and solutions of our approach and summarise the results achieved. Overall, applying our TeamPlay methodology led to an improvement of up to 18% performance and 52% energy usage over traditional approaches.Postprin

The Impact of Sympathetic Components of Emotional Intelligence on Citizenship Behavior of Physicians

Objective: One of the most important characteristics of an effective employee performance is person's Sympathetic components of emotional intelligence that has been increasingly considered in an enterprise environment. In this article, we will survey this component in promoting citizenship behavior of physicians. Materials and methods: In a descriptive, co relational and statistical community approach The outstanding performance of an organization using simple random sampling method, 212 cases were included as doctors having subspecialty of the infertility in the Islamic Republic of Iran. A questionnaire was used for data collection. After summarization, structural equation modeling techniques were used for analysis and interpretation of research data. Results: The Sympathetic component has a significant positive impact on organizational citizenship behavior (T=2.90) and this factor with the effect of 0.46% has the impact on organizational citizenship behavior. Conclusion: Considering the importance of sympathy aspect due to results of this research hospital managers are recommended to consider the importance of emotional intelligence in order to enhance the social capabilities of citizenship behaviors of physicians

Integrated HIFU Drive System on a Chip for CMUT-Based Catheter Ablation System

63rd IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) (2016 : San Francisco, CA)Conventional High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is a therapeutic modality which is extracorporeally administered. In applications where a relatively small HIFU lesion is required, an intravascular HIFU probe can be deployed to the ablation site. In this paper, we demonstrate the design and implementation a fully integrated HIFU drive system on a chip to be placed on a 6 Fr catheter probe. An 8-element capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducer (CMUT) ring array of 2 mm diameter has been used as the ultrasound source. The driver chip is fabricated in 0.35 mu m AMS high-voltage CMOS technology and comprises eight continuous-wave (CW) high-voltage CMUT drivers (10.9 ns and 9.4 ns rise and fall times at 20 V-pp output into a 15 pF), an eight-channel digital beamformer (8-12 MHz output frequency with 11.25 degrees phase accuracy) and a phase locked loop with an integrated VCO as a tunable clock source (128-192 MHz). The chip occupies 1.85 x 1.8 mm(2) area including input and output (I/O) pads. When the transducer array is immersed in sunflower oil and driven by the IC with eight 20 Vpp CW pulses at 10 MHz, real-time thermal images of the HIFU beam indicate that the focal temperature rises by 16.8 degrees C in 11 seconds. Each HV driver consumes around 67 mW of power when driving the CMUT array at 10 MHz, which adds up to 560 m W for the whole chip. FEM based analysis reveals that the outer surface temperature of the catheter is expected to remain below the 42 degrees C tissue damage limit during therapy