DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN COAL MINE INDUSTRY OF BALOCHISTAN

The room and pillar mining method is responsible for high death toll and disability rate of coal mine workers in Baluchistan. The frequent incidents of roof falls day to day accidents, and suffocation due to sufficient emission of methane are the main causes of increased death rate. Substantial increase in injuries are also causing complications in the life of poor coal workers

Examining a Normative Model of Stress Using Choice Under Risk

Novel research in the domain of decisional control (DC), the process whereby individuals in multifaceted stressing situations make probabilistic judgments in order to reduce the occurrence of adverse events, has recently tested a mathematically specified normative model of coping with stress. This model used choice under uncertainty to understand the cognitive underpinnings of choice and linked threat. Findings from this undertaking have supported the notion that individualized subjective expected utilities (SEU) provide the best fit over group-averaged SEU and objective utility models in a sample of undergraduate students. The present research examined whether this finding holds true for choice under risk as well. Specifically, the game-theoretic probability mixture model used previously was tested using known probabilities of threat, rather than unknown probabilities of threat using the same methodology and a similar sample of undergraduate students. Psychometric profiling was also implemented to explore individual differences in DC amenability. A mixed-analysis ANOVA revealed that the three models, Individualized, Group, and Conditional, performed similarly under risk using two model-fit indexes, G2 and Pearsonc2. A correlation analysis also revealed individuals do not seem to differ on DC amenability based on the individual differences examined, but several variables appeared to correlate highly with one another

Viral hepatitis amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Implications and recommendations

Hepatitis, a significant cause of mortality worldwide, results in around 1.34 million deaths each year globally. Africa is not exempt from the plague of Hepatitis. Around 100 million estimated individuals are infected with Hepatitis B or C. Egypt has the highest prevalence of cases of Hepatitis followed by Cameroon and Burundi. The continent is severely affected by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the virus has added an additional burden on the already fragile continent. With the pandemic, it is presumable that Hepatitis like other viral diseases will pose a threat to collapsing healthcare system. Therefore, for Africa to become more resilient in the face of such menaces, including Hepatitis, further prevention policies are required to be implemented.Sin financiación2.327 JCR (2020) Q4, 29/37 Virology0.782 SJR (2020) Q2, 133/293 Infectious DiseasesNo data IDR 2020UE