Regional prospecting for iron ores in Bahariya Oasis-El Faiyum area, Egypt, using LANDSAT satellite images, part 1

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Creating Bill of Students Rights and Responsibilities at Helwan University

University is open to all persons who are qualified according to its admission standards unless resource limitations results in the closure of academic programs in which applicants have expressed interest. Students' rights refers to a set of rights, responsibilities, and duties under which a student can seek and receive all educational service, encompass legal and ethical issues in the academic institutions and student relationship, including a student's right to privacy and to equal evaluation. So this study aimed to creating bill of students' rights and responsibilities at Helwan University. Operational design was carried out in the twenty faculties at Helwan University; Quota sampling used a sampling method for gathering representative data from two categories first category was university students consisted of 1200 students enrolled in four levels at academic year 2013 / 2014 representative 60 students from every faculty from twenty faculties studied setting at Helwan University. Second category was academic staff consisted of 40 academic staff 20 were professors and 20 were assistant professors 2 from every faculty study setting at Helwan University. Self-administered questionnaire used for the data collection consisted of two parts; the first part is socio-demographic characteristics served to collect information about age, gender, levels and educational qualification. The second part was 98 items divided into four components about academic, non-academic rights and responsibilities. The researchers developed a bill of students' rights and responsibilities based on students' opinions, and second part is an opinionnaire sheet used for the validity of the created students' bill of rights and responsibilities. The response was 3-point Likert scale from "strongly agree" to" disagree." The results are evident that; Mean Score in total agreements upon students' rights were ''1.57 ± 0.37''. While, Mean Score in total agreement upon students' responsibilities were ''1.53 ± 0.41''. There is a highly statistically significant positive correlation between students' scores of agreement upon rights and responsibilities (p<0.01). In conclusion, there is a highly statistical significant positive correlation between students' score of agreement upon rights and responsibilities. There was negative statistically significant correlations were revealed between students' scores of academic responsibilities and non- academic responsibilities with levels. It is concluded that the proposed students' bill of rights was valid, and effective in almost all items related to academic and non-academic students' rights and responsibilities were highest score; this reflects the importance of increasing students' awareness of their rights as well as their responsibilities and involves the students' rights to be informed about all aspects of the learning process and their involvement in the quality of education. The study recommends disseminating this created bill of rights and responsibilities in all universities at the Ministry of Higher Education in Egypt.Keywords: bill of rights, quota sampling, responsibilities, rights, and students bill of rights

Developing and Validating of a Managerial Procedures Manual for Head Nurses

The managerial skills are a set of behaviors based on knowledge that can be learned through procedure. Procedures are descriptions of how to carry out an activity. Procedures manual is essential to ensure consistency and quality in products and services. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a managerial procedure manual for head nurses at Ain-shams University Hospital. The study was conducted in Ain Shams University Hospital using operational design. It included a group of 78 head nurses for assessment and a jury group consisting of 16 faculty members of Nursing Administration and 8 nursing directors and assistants. Data were collected using a head nurses' self-administered questionnaire and opinionnaire form for the jury group. The researchers discussed the idea of the study with representatives of the hospital administration to reach to an agreement regarding the importance of the proposed manual and its content, then assessed head nurses’ view of the importance of a managerial manual. The results showed that 25.6% of the head nurses did not know about the presence of a manual for managerial nursing procedures, 96.2% expressed the need for such manual, and 70.7% reported having faced problems due to lack of such manual. Based on analysis of the data the researchers developed the manual that was validated by the jury group, and distributed to head nurses after approval of the hospital administration. The hospital administration participated in all steps of the development of the manual, and adopted its use in the setting. The effectiveness of the manual in reducing head nurses' stress related to managerial problems needs to be assessed after a few months of implementation. Key words: Head nurse, Manual, Managerial skills and Managerial procedure

How to screen for domestic violence against women in primary health care centers

Background: Violence against women is a major public health problem. Primary health care workers are involved in both detection and management of violence. Screening of women for violence is an important tool for early detection and prevention of violence through a valid and accepted screening tool.Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify the main elements and characteristics of a violence screening tool that can be used in primary health care centers.Methods: An observational cross-sectional study was carried out in primary health care centers located in two randomly selected health regions in Kuwait. The study involved all available physicians (210) and nurses (464) in the selected centers. The overall response rate was 54.3%. A selfadministrative questionnaire was used for data collection.Results: Physicians favored an indirect question about violence (79.7%), while a question about feeling safe (83.6%) was suggested by nurses. The most frequently suggested method was searching for signs of violence. The majority of both nurses (82.4%) and physicians (82.0%) suggested physicians to carry out the screening process for domestic violence against women. The primary health care level was suggested to be in charge of screening for violence by 88.7% of nurses and 82.0% of physicians. Both  nurses and physicians agreed that the examination should be carried out in complete privacy (95.0% and 91.4%), by an examiner of the same sex (89.1% and 89.8%), and not allowing a relative of the victim to attend the screening (85.3% and 78.9%). Opportunistic screening was preferred by both physicians (69.5%) and nurses (87.8%) when manifestations of violence are noticed.Conclusion: A short tool containing a question about safety and looking for signs of violence administered by a physician on opportunistic basis in the primary health care centers in complete privacy was suggested for screening of women.Keywords: Screening; Tool; Violence; Women; Primary Cente

Barriers for domestic violence screening in primary health care centers

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Influence of pravastatin chitosan nanoparticles on erythrocytes cholesterol and redox homeostasis: An in vitro study

AbstractThe objective of this study was to develop and characterize chitosan nanoparticles (CSNPs) to increase efficacy of pravastatin (PR) on erythrocytes redox status. CSNPs and PR loaded CSNPs (PRCSNPs) were prepared by ionic gelation method. The particle size, zeta potential, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to investigate physicochemical characters of the prepared nanoparticles. The present results revealed that CSNPs and PRCSNPs have nanosize about 90nm with spherical shape, positive zeta potential and prolonged PR release. Moreover, DSC and FTIR indicated no chemical interactions between PR and CS. In vitro studies revealed that, erythrocyte uptake of PR from PRCSNPs was higher than free PR solution. Incubation of erythrocytes in high cholesterol plasma, hypercholesterolemia (HC), increases membrane cholesterol, erythrocyte hemolysis, oxidized glutathione (GSH), protein carbonyl (PCC), and malondialdeyhe (MDA). However, HC significantly decreases PR uptake by erythrocytes, superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) catalase (CAT) activities, reduced GSH and nitrite levels compared to control. By contrast, treatment of HC with PR plus CS as free drug or nanostructure formula keeps the measured parameters at values near that of control. The effect of CSNPs and PRCSNPs on redox status of erythrocytes was more prominent than free drugs. In conclusion, PRCSNPs are promising drug carrier to deliver PR into erythrocytes, moreover, PRCSNPs possess promising characteristics with high biological safety for treatment of HC induced disruption of redox homeostasis

Use of Foley\u27s catheter balloon tamponade to control placental site bleeding resulting from major placenta previa during cesarean section

Aim: To evaluate the effect of 2-way Foley\u27s catheter balloon tamponade on controlling immediate postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) in cases of major placenta previa during cesarean section (CS). Methods: We evaluated women with placenta previa from May to November 2015. Women with immediate PPH during CS due to major placenta previa were managed by 2-way Foley\u27s catheter balloon tamponade when medical treatment failed, and before any surgical intervention. Results: Twenty patients, had major placenta previa, were delivered by elective CS and complicated by immediate PPH. Three placenta accreta patients (15%) underwent hysterectomy, 17 (85%) were managed by the 2-way Foley\u27s catheter balloon tamponade. In two patients, Foley\u27s catheter balloon failed to control bleeding and hysterectomy was done immediately. However, Foley\u27s catheter balloon successfully treated the remaining 15 patients. The median bleeding during the operation was 1522.5 (± 619.29) ml. None of them presented complications related to this procedure or required any further invasive surgery. Conclusion: The 2-way Foley\u27s catheter tamponade could be an option to control immediate postpartum hemorrhage resulting from major placenta previa during the cesarean section. This method is simple, cheap, nearly non-invasive and should be considered to reduce the risk of peripartum hysterectomy

Formulation of Synthesized Zinc Oxide Nanopowder into Hybrid Beads for Dye Separation

The sol-gel prepared zinc oxide nanopowder was immobilized onto alginate-polyvinyl alcohol polymer blend to fabricate novel biocomposite beads. Various physicochemical characterization techniques have been utilized to identify the crystalline, morphological, and chemical structures of both the fabricated zinc oxide hybrid beads and their corresponding zinc oxide nanopowder. The thermal stability investigations demonstrate that ZnO nanopowder stability dramatically decreased with its immobilization into the polymeric alginate and PVA matrix. The formulated beads had very strong mechanical strength and they are difficult to be broken up to 1500 rpm. Moreover, these hybrid beads are chemically stable at the acidic media (pH < 7) especially within the pH range of 2–7. Finally, the applicability of the formulated ZnO hybrid beads for C.I. basic blue 41 (BB41) decolorization from aqueous solution was examined