Perinatal psychosocial interventions

Background: Joint working between adult and child services has historically been difficult; the Think Family Toolkit was produced by the government in order to aid collaborative working. Aim: The aim of this evaluation was to explore joint working between services using the Think Family Toolkit. Method: An adult team, child team and service users were given questionnaires to explore joint working. Results: Joint working was described as something that would be useful but there were many barriers to achieving it. The child team did not respond to the questionnaire perhaps due to time constraints and potential burnout. Conclusions: Recommendations are provided to increase the effectiveness of joint working between services

Exploring Mediated Interactions: A Design Exercise

With the emergence of personal and ubiquitous computing systems in the last decade, interaction designers have started designing products by employing quality oriented aspects such as user experience, playfulness, enchantment and others. In order to explore novel forms of mediated interactions, designers need to focus beyond the basic user requirements and usability issues. We present a procedure and results of a design exercise that we carried out with students of a master’s course on Visual Design. Our intention was to explore new forms of mediated interaction by using a specific design exercise. We provide the details of the resulted design concepts and discuss the usefulness of our design exercise

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HIV Stigma Within Religious Communities in Rural India

This study was conducted to gain a better understanding of HIV/AIDS-related stigma within religious communities in rural Gujarat, India. This study used the hidden distress model of HIV stigma and the HIV peer education model as conceptual frameworks to examine a rural population sample of 100 participants. Regression analysis was conducted to test if school education had a moderating effect on the relationship between illness as punishment for sin (IPS) and HIV stigma. Religiosity was tested for mediating effects on the relationship between early religious involvement (ERI) and HIV stigma. The results of this study indicated that single unemployed men under the age of 28 were more likely to relate religiosity, IPS, and ERI to HIV stigma. Furthermore, education did not significantly moderate the relationship between IPS and HIV Stigma, and religiosity also did not mediate the relationship between ERI and HIV stigma. However, an additional mediation analysis showed that IPS did mediate the relationship between religiosity and HIV stigma in this study. The results of this study suggested that HIV/AIDS awareness programs may need to focus on young unemployed men because they may be the most susceptible to stigmatic thinking. It can be concluded that IPS was a major contributor in the proliferation of HIV stigma for participants in this study. Further research is needed to understand how belief in an authoritarian God could increase IPS, and how education initiatives may aid in decreasing IPS among inhabitants. This study strived to add to the existing body of knowledge and help improve the lives of those infected with HIV in rural parts of India

Spin-String Interaction in QCD Strings

I consider the question of the interaction between a QCD string and the spin of a quark or an antiquark on whose worldline the string terminates. The problem is analysed from the point of view of a string representation for the expectation value of a Wilson loop for a spin-half particle. A string representation of the super Wilson loop is obtained starting from an effective string representation of a Wilson Loop. The action obtained in this manner is invariant under a worldline supersymmetry and has a boundary term which contains the spin-string interaction. For rectangular loops the spin-string interaction vanishes and there is no spin-spin term in the resulting heavy quark potential. On the other hand if an allowance is made for the finite intrinsic thickness of the flux-tube, by assuming that the spin-string interaction takes place not just at the boundary of the string world-sheet but extends to a distance of the order of the intrinsic thickness of the flux tube, then we do obtain a spin-spin interaction which falls as the fifth power of the distance. Such a term was previously suggested by Kogut and Parisi in the context of a flux-tube model of confinement.Comment: 19 pages, 1 figure; Published version with added discussion and references in section

Assessing gender equality in the South African sports sector

Abstract: Sport has generally been a male-dominated domain which appears to discriminate against women by preventing their advancement to high-level positions in sports organisations. The article conceptually utilises the Gender and Development approach as a theoretical framework. The rationale behind this approach is that in a patriarchal society, there are stereotyped mentality, social practices, and cultural traditions confining women to household tasks only; role-conflict between men and women; and gender challenges in terms of work-family-balanced tasks that restrict women from advancing their careers outside their delegated and expected home-based tasks. This approach therefore aims to empower, incorporate, integrate, and mainstream gender in the sport sector. The article contextually utilises a comprehensive literature survey, document analysis, and a desktop review of the Department of Sport and Recreation South Africa to identify gender gaps. Through document analysis, the gender gaps will be discussed in the South African sports sector at strategic and policy levels that suppress women from holding decision-making and strategic positions. Authors believe that women alone are not responsible for the lack of gender-based representation in sports management. Male counterparts hold equal responsibility to encourage, promote,..

Free Response of Shells on Flexible Foundation

Free response of axisymmetric shells resting on flexible foundation in their asymmetric modes is studied using Finite Elements based on harmonic formulation. Influence of various parameters, such as subgrade modulus, proximity of boundary, density ratio, shear wave velocity, embedment of structure and depth of flexible foundation., on free response is studied. Axisymmetric interface element with harmonic functions is developed and introduced between the raft slab and foundation media

Methemoglobin formation in mutant hemoglobin α chains: electron transfer parameters and rates

Hemoglobin-mediated transport of dioxygen (O2) critically depends on the stability of the reduced (Fe2+) form of the heme cofactors. Some protein mutations stabilize the oxidized (Fe3+) state (methemoglobin, Hb M), causing methemoglobinemia, and can be lethal above 30%. The majority of the analyses of factors influencing Hb oxidation are retrospective and give insights only for inner-sphere mutations of heme (His58, His87). Herein, we report the first all-atom molecular dynamics simulations on both redox states and calculations of the Marcus electron transfer (ET) parameters for the α chain Hb oxidation and reduction rates for Hb M. The Hb wild-type (WT) and most of the studied α chain variants maintain globin structure except the Hb M Iwate (H87Y). The mutants forming Hb M tend to have lower redox potentials and thus stabilize the oxidized (Fe3+) state (in particular, the Hb Miyagi variant with K61E mutation). Solvent reorganization (λsolv 73–96%) makes major contributions to reorganization free energy, whereas protein reorganization (λprot) accounts for 27–30% except for the Miyagi and J-Buda variants (λprot ∼4%). Analysis of heme-solvent H-bonding interactions among variants provide insights into the role of Lys61 residue in stabilizing the Fe2+ state. Semiclassical Marcus ET theory-based calculations predict experimental kET for the Cyt b5-Hb complex and provide insights into relative reduction rates for Hb M in Hb variants. Thus, our methodology provides a rationale for the effect of mutations on the structure, stability, and Hb oxidation reduction rates and has potential for identification of mutations that result in methemoglobinemia

Implications of New Quantum Spin Perspective In Quantum Gravity

Consequences of new quantum spin perspective in quantum gravity are far-reaching. Results of this novel perspective in loop quantum gravity, i.e., the modification of the equation of geometrical operators such as the area and the volume operator are known. Using newly proposed formula from this perspective, the magnitude of fundamental constants such as the reduced Planck constant $\hbar$, the gravitational constant $G$, the speed of light $c$, the Boltzmann constant $k_{\beta}$, the fine structure constant $\alpha$, can be validated. With the aid of this perspective, we find new formulas for the fundamental Planckian quantities and the derived Planckian quantities. We also propose novel formulas for the Planck star such as the size, the curvature, the surface area and the size of black hole (for the Planck star) without modifying its significance. The relation of the quantum spin with the Planck temperature $T_{P}$ $(T_{p} \propto n^{2})$, the Planck mass $m_{P}$ $(m_{P} \propto n^{2})$, the Planck length $l_{P}$ $(l_{P} \propto n)$ are also proposed using this novel perspectiveComment: 13 page