Asymptomatic dengue virus cases in misiones, Argentina: a seroprevalence study in the university population

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 184-187
Author(s):  
Cristian Alberto Ferri ◽  
María Mercedes Formichela ◽  
José Ricardo Valdez ◽  
Ivana Magalí Rocío Medina ◽  
Graciela Viviana Dusse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dengue Virus ◽  
Seroprevalence Study ◽  
University Population ◽  
The University

Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Privacy and Closed Circuit Television Systems in Public Settings

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-69
Author(s):  
Abram L. J. Walton ◽  
Sharon A. DeVaney ◽  
Darrel L. Sandall
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Closed Circuit ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Land Grant University ◽  
Closed Circuit Television ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
False Sense ◽  
University Population ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

This qualitative study used grounded theory to examine how university graduate students felt about closed circuit television (CCTV) as it relates to the privacy and safety of students on campuses. As a result of violence at a few universities, more administrators are considering the implementation of CCTV systems. Because graduate students are an important part of the university population, their views were solicited. A qualitative approach was used because of the lack of previous research on this particular topic. Themes that emerged from interviews with 10 graduate students at a large Midwestern land-grant university were identified as: right to safety, right to privacy, personal privacy responsibilities, post-CCTV sense of privacy, post-CCTV sense of safety, crime displacement, false sense of safety, and international perspectives. The findings provide insight into graduate students’ perceptions of a CCTV system and have implications for implementation decisions regarding such a system. Additionally, the findings were utilized to formulate hypotheses for a larger scale research project.

scholarly journals First dengue virus seroprevalence study on Madeira Island after the 2012 outbreak indicates unreported dengue circulation

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Auerswald ◽  
Ana de Jesus ◽  
Gonçalo Seixas ◽  
Teresa Nazareth ◽  
Saraden In ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dengue Virus ◽  
Madeira Island ◽  
Seroprevalence Study

scholarly journals Longer, More Active Commute, but Still not Very Active: Five-Year Physical Activity and Travel Behavior Change in a University Population

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (13) ◽  
pp. 2420
Author(s):  
Lina Engelen ◽  
Erika Bohn-Goldbaum ◽  
Melanie Crane ◽  
Martin Mackey ◽  
Chris Rissel
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Active Travel ◽  
Physical Activity Monitoring ◽  
University Population ◽  
The University ◽  
Active Commute ◽  
Insight Into

Active travel can support the achievement of recommended levels of physical activity. Monitoring travel behavior of university students and staff provides a useful insight into patterns of regional travel and population level changes in physical activity. This study sought to evaluate current travel and physical activity behaviors in a university population and to determine whether these changed over time. An online survey of travel behavior and physical activity was conducted at the University of Sydney, Australia. The survey was actively promoted for three weeks prior to the release of the survey among staff and students, which asked about travel behavior on a specific day in September 2017. The survey questions were the same as those used in a similar online survey conducted across the University in 2012. In total, 4359 People completed the survey, representing 10.8% of staff and 4.1% of students. Approximately two thirds of survey respondents were students, in both the 2012 and 2017 surveys. Compared with 2012, there was an increase in active travel to the University in 2017 from increased walking and train travel. Compared to 2012, in 2017 there was an increase in average minutes walked by about nine minutes, and less time spent sitting. Trip lengths increased, with 68% of trips taking longer than 30 min in 2017. The amount of time spent in low–moderate levels physical activity increased between 2012 and 2017, potentially related to active travel behavior. Citywide changes towards a system-wide transport fare structure was the biggest change in the transport environment between the two surveys and may have contributed to increased train travel.

scholarly journals Sociodemographic factors influencing smartphone addiction in university students

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Aznar-Díaz ◽  
Juan-Manuel Trujillo-Torres ◽  
Santiago Alonso-García ◽  
Carmen Rodríguez-Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Model ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Statistical Test ◽  
Smartphone Addiction ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
University Population ◽  
The University

The development of mobile devices has affected the way of life of university students, affecting their daily habits and sometimes their health. Specifically, in recent years a series of illnesses have developed as a result of the constant use of smartphones by the university population, which has come to be catalogued as an at-risk population. The aim of this work was to analyze the sociodemographic factors that influence the smartphone addiction of university students. For the measurement of the levels of addiction, the standardized instrument Smartphone Addiction Scale was used in a sample of 385 students from the University of Granada, Spain. A multiple linear regression model was used as a statistical test, highlighting that the factor influencing smartphone addiction is the time of use. Finally, the study includes a series of implications derived from the results obtained, with the aim of establishing preventive measures to help to mitigate smartphone addiction.

scholarly journals Estimating data-driven COVID-19 mitigation strategies for safe university reopening

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qihui Yang ◽  
Don M. Gruenbacher ◽  
Caterina M. Scoglio
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Events ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vaccination Rate ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Contact Patterns ◽  
University Population ◽  
The University ◽  
University Settings ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

AbstractAfter one pandemic year of remote or hybrid instructional modes, universities in the United States are now planning for an in-person fall semester in 2021. However, it is uncertain what the vaccination rate will look like after students, faculty, and staff return to campus. To help inform university-reopening policies, we collected survey data on social contact patterns and developed an agent-based model to simulate the spread of COVID-19 in university settings. In this paper, we aim to identify the immunity threshold that, if exceeded, would lead to a relatively safe on-campus experience for the university population. With relaxed non-pharmaceutical interventions, we estimated that immunity in at least 60% of the university population is needed for safe university reopening. Still, attention needs to be paid to extreme events that could lead to huge infection size spikes. At an immune level of 60%, continuing non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as wearing masks, could lead to an 89% reduction in the maximum cumulative infection, which reflects the possible non-negligible infection size from extreme events.

The University Population in World Society and University Organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-64
Author(s):  
David John Frank ◽  
John W. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
General Capacity ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
University Population ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

This chapter presents the exploding numbers and broadening capacities of students and professors that skyrocket over time, especially as the hyper-modern society assembles around the university-based knowledge system. It discusses how schooling is seen as relevant for more and more sorts of people and points out how the dimensions of people are activated and incorporated. It also looks at people that are involved and seen not simply as passive entrants but as executors of ever more legitimate interests and capacities that is above all the general capacity for empowered choice or actorhood. The chapter describes the properly schooled person that is imagined to be a dramatic social actor, fit to master and change the world and not simply to be a carrier of received culture. It applies a neo-institutional perspective to the expansion of the university populations of reconstructed individual people.

scholarly journals Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Job Activity, Dietary Behaviours and Physical Activity Habits of University Population of Naples, Federico II-Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1502
Author(s):  
Mariarita Brancaccio ◽  
Cristina Mennitti ◽  
Alessandro Gentile ◽  
Luca Correale ◽  
Cosme Franklim Buzzachera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Male Population ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Dietary Behaviours ◽  
New Variant ◽  
University Population ◽  
The University

Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a large family of respiratory viruses that can cause mild to moderate illness. The new variant COVID-19 has started to spread rapidly since December 2019, posing a new threat to global health. To counter the spread of the virus, the Italian government forced the population to close all activities starting from 9 March 2020 to 4 May 2020. In this scenario, we conducted a cross-sectional study on a heterogeneous sample (average age of 28 ± 12 years, 62.6% females) of the University of Naples Federico II (Italy). The aim of the study was to describe the lifestyle change in the university population during quarantine for the COVID 19 pandemic. Participants compiled an online survey consisting of 3 sections: socio-demographic data, dietary behaviours, physical activity habits and psychological aspects. The different results by gender are: 90.8% of females continued to work from home (81.9% were students); 34.8% increased their physical activity; and, only 0.8% prefer ready meals. Whereas, the same percentage of men continued to work from home (90%), but only 72.1% were students (p < 0.001 vs. females), only 23.9% increased physical activity (p < 0.001) and 1.7% favous ready meals. Our data shows that the male population was more affected by isolation and quarantine reporting more unfavourable behavioural changes.

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