The use of the multivariate Principal Response Curve (PRC) for community level analysis: a case study on the effects of carbendazim on enchytraeids in Terrestrial Model Ecosystems (TME)

Abstract Background Community health workers (CHWs) are the mainstay of the public health system, serving for decades in low-resource countries. Their multi-dimensional work in various health care services, including the prevention of communicable diseases and health promotion of non-communicable diseases, makes CHWs, the frontline workers in their respective communities in India. As India is heading towards the development of One Health (OH), this study attempted to provide an insight into potential OH activists (OHA) at the community level. Thus, this case study in one of India’s western cities, Ahmedabad, targeted identifying OHA by exploring the feasibility and the motivation of CHWs in a local setting. Methods This case study explores two major CHWs, i.e., female (Accredited Social Health Activists/ASHA) health workers (FHWs) and male (multipurpose) health workers (MHWs), on their experience and motivation for becoming an OHA. The data were collected between September 2018 and August 2019 through a mixed design, i.e., quantitative data (cross-sectional structured questionnaire) followed by qualitative data (focus group discussion with a semi-structured interview guide). Results The motivation of the CHWs for liaisoning as OHA was found to be low; however, the FHWs have a higher mean motivation score [40 (36–43)] as compared to MHWs [37 (35–40)] out of a maximum score of 92. Although most CHWs have received zoonoses training or contributed to zoonoses prevention campaigns, their awareness level was found to be different among male and female health workers. Comparing the female and male health workers to act as OHA, higher motivational score, multidisciplinary collaborative work experience, and way for incentive generation documented among the female health workers. Conclusion ASHAs were willing to accept the additional new liaison role of OHAs if measures like financial incentives and improved recognition are provided. Although this study documented various systemic factors at the individual, community, and health system level, which might, directly and indirectly, impact the acceptance level to act as OHA, they need to be accounted for in the policy regime.

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China's low-carbon governance at community level: A case study in Min’an community, Beijing

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127530 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 127530

Author(s):

Tianle Liu ◽

Yufei Wang ◽

Huimin Li ◽

Ye Qi

Keyword(s):

Community Level ◽

Low Carbon

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Development of dynamic system response curve method for estimating initial conditions of conceptual hydrological models

Journal of Hydroinformatics ◽

10.2166/hydro.2018.022 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (6) ◽

pp. 1387-1400

Author(s):

Yiqun Sun ◽

Weimin Bao ◽

Peng Jiang ◽

Xuying Wang ◽

Chengmin He ◽

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Keyword(s):

Dynamic System ◽

Response Curve ◽

Initial Conditions ◽

Model Performance ◽

System Response ◽

Hydrological Models ◽

Flood Prediction ◽

Ill Posed ◽

Value Decomposition

Abstract The dynamic system response curve (DSRC) has its origin in correcting model variables of hydrologic models to improve the accuracy of flood prediction. The DSRC method can lead to unstable performance since the least squares (LS) method, employed by DSRC to estimate the errors, often breaks down for ill-posed problems. A previous study has shown that under certain assumptions the DSRC method can be regarded as a specific form of the numerical solution of the Fredholm equation of the first kind, which is a typical ill-posed problem. This paper introduces the truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) to propose an improved version of the DSRC method (TSVD-DSRC). The proposed method is extended to correct the initial conditions of a conceptual hydrological model. The usefulness of the proposed method is first demonstrated via a synthetic case study where both the perturbed initial conditions, the true initial conditions, and the corrected initial conditions are precisely known. Then the proposed method is used in two real basins. The results measured by two different criteria clearly demonstrate that correcting the initial conditions of hydrological models has significantly improved the model performance. Similar good results are obtained for the real case study.

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WebGIS Based Poverty Level Analysis (Case Study Of Wonosari Sub-District Boalemo Regency)

Jambura Geoscience Review ◽

10.34312/jgeosrev.v1i2.2349 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 77-86

Author(s):

Irwan Muis ◽

Sunarty Suly Eraku ◽

Syahrizal Koem

Keyword(s):

Spatial Distribution ◽

Gis Analysis ◽

Poverty Level ◽

Gis Application ◽

Household Poverty ◽

Poor Households ◽

Poverty Levels ◽

Level Analysis ◽

Descriptive Statistical Analysis

Information on household poverty level in Wonosari Sub-district area is still very difficult to access by all parties. Therefore, this study aims to analyze poverty level and map of the spatial distribution of webGIS-based poor households in the site area. In determining the number of samples, descriptive statistical analysis techniques focused on assessing and describing the poverty level of each household. GIS analysis used GIS Application 2.18 to map the spatial distribution of poor households and regional poverty levels. GIS Application has been equipped with 2 web tools that are able to display webGIS-based maps. The results shows that the poverty level of households is in the poor category with a percentage of 72% of households, 14% of households are in the extremely poor category and 14% are in the fairly poor category. and 1 village is in a fairly poor category. This is a village that was built with a view that can be accessed by various PCs, laptops and android media so that the maps information from an analysis of household poverty levels and the spatial distribution of poor households can be accessed on the webGIS that has been built.

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A case study on safety integrity level analysis for shale gas station

Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology ◽

10.1007/s12206-021-1115-x ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 35 (12) ◽

pp. 5445-5452

Author(s):

Yuan-Jian Yang ◽

Chao Huang ◽

Qiu-Yang Zhong ◽

Hai-Jun Chen ◽

Hong-Zhong Huang

Keyword(s):

Shale Gas ◽

Safety Integrity Level ◽

Gas Station ◽

Level Analysis

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Mortality Impacts of Socioeconomic Status and Demographic Composition: Community-Level Analysis for the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3737909 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Takeshi Miyazaki

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Community Level ◽

Demographic Composition ◽

2011 Tohoku Tsunami ◽

Tohoku Tsunami ◽

Level Analysis

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Challenges in modelling isoprene and monoterpene emission dynamics of Arctic plants: a case study from a subarctic tundra heath

Biogeosciences ◽

10.5194/bg-13-6651-2016 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 13 (24) ◽

pp. 6651-6667 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Jing Tang ◽

Guy Schurgers ◽

Hanna Valolahti ◽

Patrick Faubert ◽

Päivi Tiiva ◽

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Keyword(s):

Response Curve ◽

Large Scale ◽

Ecosystem Model ◽

The Arctic ◽

Short Term ◽

Response Curves ◽

Arctic Plants ◽

Scale Modelling

Abstract. The Arctic is warming at twice the global average speed, and the warming-induced increases in biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) emissions from Arctic plants are expected to be drastic. The current global models' estimations of minimal BVOC emissions from the Arctic are based on very few observations and have been challenged increasingly by field data. This study applied a dynamic ecosystem model, LPJ-GUESS, as a platform to investigate short-term and long-term BVOC emission responses to Arctic climate warming. Field observations in a subarctic tundra heath with long-term (13-year) warming treatments were extensively used for parameterizing and evaluating BVOC-related processes (photosynthesis, emission responses to temperature and vegetation composition). We propose an adjusted temperature (T) response curve for Arctic plants with much stronger T sensitivity than the commonly used algorithms for large-scale modelling. The simulated emission responses to 2 °C warming between the adjusted and original T response curves were evaluated against the observed warming responses (WRs) at short-term scales. Moreover, the model responses to warming by 4 and 8 °C were also investigated as a sensitivity test. The model showed reasonable agreement to the observed vegetation CO2 fluxes in the main growing season as well as day-to-day variability of isoprene and monoterpene emissions. The observed relatively high WRs were better captured by the adjusted T response curve than by the common one. During 1999–2012, the modelled annual mean isoprene and monoterpene emissions were 20 and 8 mg C m−2 yr−1, with an increase by 55 and 57 % for 2 °C summertime warming, respectively. Warming by 4 and 8 °C for the same period further elevated isoprene emission for all years, but the impacts on monoterpene emissions levelled off during the last few years. At hour-day scale, the WRs seem to be strongly impacted by canopy air T, while at the day–year scale, the WRs are a combined effect of plant functional type (PFT) dynamics and instantaneous BVOC responses to warming. The identified challenges in estimating Arctic BVOC emissions are (1) correct leaf T estimation, (2) PFT parameterization accounting for plant emission features as well as physiological responses to warming, and (3) representation of long-term vegetation changes in the past and the future.

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A Dialogue on the Constructions of GLBT and Queer Ethos: “I Belong to a Culture That Includes …”

Humanities ◽

10.3390/h8020097 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 97

Author(s):

Jane Hoogestraat ◽

Hillery Glasby

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory ◽

Community Level ◽

Gay Identity ◽

Normal Heart ◽

Rhetorical Agency ◽

Socially Constructed ◽

Critical Understanding ◽

Yom Kippur ◽

A Site

Invoking a dialogue between two scholars, authors Jane Hoogestraat and Hillery Glasby discuss the exigence for, construction of, and differentiation between LGBT and queer ethos. Drawing from Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and the construction of a gay identity, the text explores connections between queer theory, LGBT(Q) ethos, and queer futurity, ultimately arguing for a more nuanced and critical understanding of the undecidability and performativity of LGBT and queer ethos. In framing LGBT and queer ethos as being at the same time a self and socially constructed and mediated—legitimate and illegitimate—ethos can be understood not only as a site for rhetorical agency, but also as an orientation and a form of activism. Finally, the text offers a case study of Adrienne Rich’s “Yom Kippur,” which is a poem that offers a queer (and) Jewish perspective on identity—from an individual and community level—exhibiting both an LGBT and queer ethos.

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