scholarly journals Children's Species Literacy as Estimated and Desired by Biodiversity Communicators: a Mismatch with the Actual Level

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiel J. D. Hooykaas ◽  
Cathelijn Aten ◽  
Elisabeth M. Hemelaar ◽  
Casper J. Albers ◽  
Menno Schilthuizen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Young Audiences ◽  
Knowledge Levels ◽  
Literacy Level ◽  
Biodiversity Decline

While biodiversity decline continues and laypeople's knowledge about species is limited, especially in children, high-quality communication is needed to raise awareness. For this, communicators should be aware of current knowledge levels in their target groups. We compared biodiversity communicators' estimates of the average species literacy level in primary school children with the actual level. Moreover, we explored the importance that communicators placed on species literacy and the level that they desired. Estimations of children's average knowledge level varied widely and differed from the actual level. In particular, communicators overestimated the species literacy level. Although most biodiversity communicators agreed that knowledge about species is important, their view differed as to why species literacy would be important. Moreover, communicators differed with respect to the relative importance attached to different knowledge components. Professionals may thus benefit from a detailed framework of species literacy that illustrates different aspects and values. Most importantly, our findings suggest that to bridge the gap between actual and desired knowledge levels in children effectively, biodiversity communicators first need to become more aware of current perceptions in young audiences.

Obtaining High-Quality Blood Specimens for Downstream Applications: A Review of Current Knowledge and Best Practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 411-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiyuan Li ◽  
Xian Wang ◽  
Xue Li ◽  
Xuheng He ◽  
Qian Wan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Blood Specimens

GAIN Premix Facility: An Innovative Approach for Improving Access to Quality Vitamin and Mineral Premix in Fortification Initiatives

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (4_suppl3) ◽  
pp. S381-S389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Guinot ◽  
Vincent Jallier ◽  
Alessandro Blasi ◽  
Christophe Guyondet ◽  
Marc Van Ameringen
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Edible Oils ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Adequate Quality ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Cost

Background Vitamin and mineral premix is one of the most significant recurring input costs for large-scale food fortification programs. A number of barriers exist to procuring adequate quality premix, including accessing suppliers, volatile prices for premix, lack of quality assurance and monitoring of delivered products, and lack of funds to purchase premix. Objective To develop and test a model to procure premix through a transparent and efficient process in which an adequate level of quality is guaranteed and a financial mechanism is in place to support countries or specific target groups when there are insufficient resources to cover the cost of premix. Methods Efforts focused on premixes used to fortify flour, such as wheat or maize (iron, zinc, B vitamins, and vitamin A), edible oils (vitamins A and D), and other food vehicles, such as fortified complementary foods, complementary food supplements, and condiments. A premix procurement model was set up with three distinct components: a certification process that establishes industry-wide standards and guidelines for premix, a procurement facility that makes premix more accessible to countries and private industry engaged in fortification, and a credit facility mechanism that helps projects finance premix purchases. Results After three years of operation, 15 premix suppliers and 29 micronutrient manufacturers have been certified, and more than US$23 million worth of premix that met quality standards has been supplied in 34 countries in Africa, Central and Southern Asia, and Eastern Europe, reaching an estimated 242 million consumers. Conclusions The Premix Facility demonstrated its effectiveness in ensuring access to high-quality premixes, therefore enabling the success of various fortification programs.

scholarly journals Knowledge levels of senıor nursing students about epilepsyHemşirelik son sınıf öğrencilerinin epilepsi hakkındaki bilgi düzeyleri

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Havva Sert ◽  
Serap Çetinkaya ◽  
Ahmet Seven ◽  
Meryem Pelin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Health Personnel ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Knowledge Levels ◽  
Senior Students

Aim: This study was conducted to determine knowledge levels and the factors affecting of  senior nursing students about epilepsy.Method: The study was conducted descriptively and cross-sectional between 17-27 January 2017 with 168 nursing senior students who agreed to participate in the study. The data was collected on social media with questionnaire which was composed of the literature review by the researchers. 15 of the questions were about socio-demographic characteristics and 20 of questions were about epilepsy. Analysing of data were carried out in a computer program by using percentage, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis-H test.Results: It was determined that mean score of the students' knowledge level about epilepsy is 81,10±7,27. There was a statistically significant relationship between where they got the information about epilepsy, care a patient previously had a seizure and mean scores of epilepsy knowledge level (p<0,05). It was determined that students ,who got information about epilepsy from the health personnel and those who care a patient previously had a seizure, had high mean scores.Conclusion: In the study, ıt was determined that nursing senior students’ knowledge level about the epilepsy is high; where they got the information about epilepsy, care a patient previously had a seizure affects epilepsy knowledge.Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetAmaç: Bu çalışma, hemşirelik son sınıf öğrencilerinin epilepsi hakkındaki bilgi düzeylerini ve etkileyen faktörleri belirlemek amacıyla yapıldı.Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışma, 17-27 Ocak 2017 tarihleri arasında çalışmaya katılmayı kabul eden 168 hemşirelik son sınıf öğrencisiyle tanımlayıcı ve kesitsel olarak yapıldı. Çalışmanın verileri sosyal medya aracılığı ile toplandı. Verilerin toplanmasında araştırmacılar tarafından literatür taranarak oluşturulan, 15’i sosyo-demogrofik özellikleri, 20’si epilepsi hakkında bilgi durumlarını ölçmeye yönelik sorudan oluşan soru formu kullanıldı. Veriler; bilgisayar ortamında, yüzdelik, Mann-Whitney U ve Kruskal Wallis-H testleri kullanılarak değerlendirildi.Bulgular: Öğrencilerin epilepsi bilgi düzeyleri toplam puan ortalamalarının 81,10±7,27 olduğu belirlendi. Öğrencilerin epilepsi hakkında bilgiyi nereden aldığı ve daha önce nöbet geçiren hastaya bakma durumları ile epilepsi bilgi düzeyi toplam puan ortalamaları arasında istatiksel olarak anlamlı ilişki olduğu saptandı (p<0,05). Sonuç: Çalışmada hemşirelik son sınıf öğrencilerinin epilepsi hakkındaki bilgi düzeylerinin yüksek olduğu; epilepsi hakkında bilgiyi nereden aldığı ve daha önce nöbet geçiren hastaya bakım vermenin epilepsi bilgi durumunu etkilediği belirlendi.

Intelligent Questioning System Based on Fuzzy Logic

2015 ◽  
pp. 620-642
Author(s):  
Omer Deperlioglu ◽  
Guray Sonugur ◽  
Kadir Suzme
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Difficulty Level ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Clustering Methods ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Student Knowledge ◽  
Question Difficulty ◽  
Knowledge Levels ◽  
And Performance

One of the most important functions of distance learning systems is determining the student knowledge level and performance clearly. In traditional education systems, students can be assessed in single-stage via tests and homework studies, which consist of multiple-choice questions. However, this method cannot provide accurate results since it is not able to evaluate student knowledge level and question difficulty level. In this chapter, a system and software structure that can determine student knowledge levels, topic difficulty level, and question difficulty levels according to instant student answers for the exam is introduced. In forming student knowledge levels, content monitoring and test data taken from distance education vocational school were used. In this way, more accurate results have been obtained. The fuzzy logic technique has been used to determine (classify) student knowledge levels and topic difficulty levels clearly. In order to determine next questions adaptively, the stored questions have been classified with division clustering methods, and the most suitable questions for the related student knowledge level have been found by using the nearest neighbor algorithm.

Screening for prostate cancer

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz H. Schröder
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Secondary Prevention ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Population Based ◽  
High Rate ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Prostate Cancer Mortality

Screening for a disease must be clearly defined and differentiated from early detection. ‘Screening’ refers to the application of tests to the whole population or to defined segments such as males within certain defined high risk age groups. If applied in such a fashion ‘screening’ for prostate cancer may also be described epidemiologically as ‘secondary prevention’. While high-quality randomized studies show that screening reduces prostate cancer mortality by 21–44%, there is wide agreement that the introduction of population-based screening is at present premature because harms, mainly the high rate of overdiagnosis seen currently outweighs the benefits. This chapter attempts to put current knowledge into perspective with a set of recognized prerequirements for the application of screening, established by Wilson and Jungner in 1968.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Pictures and Graphics Semiotics in National kindergarten Interactive Curriculum in Jordan

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Reham Al-Mouhtadi ◽  
Mustafa Jwaifell ◽  
Intisar Aldarabah
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
The Other ◽  
View Point ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Literacy Level ◽  
Interactive Curriculum

<p>This research aimed at evaluation of pictures and graphics semiotics in national kindergarten interactive curriculum in Jordan. Frequencies of items reflecting semiotics were used to evaluation pictures and graphics included in the Jordanian National Kindergarten Interactive Curriculum (JNKIC), depending on the study instrument which was built for the study's purposes. The study results showed that a rich curriculum in graphics and pictures in addition to that it's high quality content, in addition, the literacy level in the pictures and graphics high quality. On the other hand, there is a clear lack of observance pictures and graphics that care with special needs. The researchers recommended giving more attention in the curriculum included pictures and graphics take into account the special needs, in addition, conducting further studies on the evaluation of interactive curriculum from the teachers view point and its relationship between their experience and qualification.   </p>

scholarly journals Pengetahuan Ibu Hamil Trimester III tentang Perawatan Payudara di Klinik Pratama Bina Sehat Kasihan, Bantul, Yogyakarta

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Luvita Sari ◽  
Susi Ernawati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Third Trimester ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Breast Care ◽  
Knowledge Levels ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive

<p>There are many breastfeeding mothers who suffer from mastitis and nipples blister. The nipples blister happened because the condition of a nipple who rarely cleaned and incorrect position when breastfeeding. To get the succeed in breastfeeding, breast care regularly during pregnancy will conduct the increase of milk production. The purpose of this study was to know the knowledge level of pregnant women about breast care. There was an observational study with quantitative descriptive design. The populations were 250 of pregnant women third trimester at the Clinic Pratama Bina Sehat in November 2014–Januari 2015. The samples were 71 women selected by random sampling tecniques and data were analysed by univariat analysis. The results showed that most of pregnant women in third trimester at the Clinic Pratama Bina Sehat Kasihan Bantul Yogyakarta aged 20-35 year (70.4%), graduated from senior high school (53.5%), housewife (60.6%) and having the parity of even multipara (47.9%). The level of knowledge of third trimester pregnant women about breast care based on age, education, occupation and parity were 68.0%, 63.2%, 69.8%, 61.8% that were included in medium category. In conclusion, the knowledge levels of pregnant women about breast care at Clinic Pratama Bina Sehat were in medium category.</p>

scholarly journals On the topicality and research impact of special issues

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-319
Author(s):  
Maxime Sainte-Marie ◽  
Philippe Mongeon ◽  
Vincent Larivière
Keyword(s):  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Relative Scarcity

The publication of special issues constitute an important yet underinvestigated phenomenon of scholarly communication. In an attempt to draw attention to the proliferation of special issues, Priem (2006) suggested that their commissioning has an underestimated opportunity cost, given the relative scarcity of publication space: by distorting the “marketplace for ideas” through the commanding of preselected topical distributions, special issues undermine the total research output by “squeezing out” high-quality but topically unrelated articles. The present paper attempts to test this hypothesis by providing a topicality and research impact analysis of conference-based, monographic, and regular issues published between 2010 and 2015 inclusive and indexed in Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science. The results show that the titles and abstracts of articles copublished are topically closer to each other than those copublished in regular issues, which suggests that their relative importance might influence the total topical distribution. However, disciplinary and overall comparison of relative citations for both special and regular issues shows that intraissue averages and variances in the former case are respectively higher and lower than in the regular issue context, which undermines not only the abovementioned hypothesis, but also the belief that editors often “fill up” special issues by accepting substandard papers.

scholarly journals Anaemia-Related Knowledge Amongst Pregnant Women in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia.

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Hasnah Zani ◽  
Mohd Razif Shahril ◽  
Wan Nor Aliza Wan Abdul Rahman ◽  
Hassan Basri Mukhali ◽  
Rohimah Ismail ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Iron Absorption ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Knowledge Questionnaire ◽  
Knowledge Levels ◽  
Insight Into

The prevalence of anaemia amongst pregnant women in developing countries is increasing yearly, particularly in Malaysia. This problem may be due to their lack of knowledge of anaemia and food choice. This study aimed to measure the knowledge levels on anaemia and iron absorption amongst pregnant women in Kuala Terengganu, as well as the association of knowledge levels between socio-demographic characteristics. Pregnant women were selected from government health clinics located in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. A total of 71 pregnant women aged between 18 and 44 years participated in the study. They self-administered the socio-demographic form and the knowledge questionnaire. Overall, they had moderate knowledge level with mean score of 57.41 ± 4.80. A significant association was found between knowledge level and monthly household income (p<0.05). Meanwhile, no significant association was found between knowledge level with socio-demographic characteristics (age, gravida, occupation, husband’s occupation, and education level) (p>0.05). This study provided an early insight into knowledge of anaemia amongst pregnant women in Kuala Terengganu. Educational intervention should be implemented to increase and improve pregnant women’s knowledge of anaemia and iron absorption.

scholarly journals Dataset of Oyster Virome and the Remarkable Virus Diversity in Filter-Feeding Oysters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing-Zhe Jiang ◽  
Yi-Fei Fang ◽  
Hong-Ying Wei ◽  
Ying-Xiang Guo ◽  
Li-Ling Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Operational Taxonomic Unit ◽  
Filter Feeding ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Dna Viruses ◽  
Viral Ecology ◽  
Marine Virus ◽  
Viral Genomes ◽  
Virus Diversity

Abstract Background:Viruses are the most abundant biological entities, and they play critical roles in entire ecosystems. Nevertheless, current knowledge about them is no more than 1% of the estimated diversity of the Earth’s virosphere. Oysters are filter-feeding molluscan bivalves and are ideal sentinels for marine virus exploration and viral ecology studies. Results: Here we report a Dataset of Oyster Virome (DOV) that contains 728,784 nonredundant viral operational taxonomic unit (vOTU) contigs and 3,473 high-quality viral genomes, enabling the first comprehensive overview of viral communities in oysters. As in other marine viromes, families Siphoviridae, Podoviridae, and Myoviridae are dominant in the DOV. However, Circoviridae is the most abundant family among the high-quality genomes, indicating that oysters may be their potential hotspots. Despite performing target amplification for RNA genomes, the diversity of RNA viruses was much lower than the diversity of DNA viruses. Notably, most of the vOTUs in the DOV were previously undescribed viruses and could not be clustered with any sequences in three reference datasets. Three approaches (based on references, vOTUs, and auxiliary metabolic genes) consistently showed that host health status, location, and sampling date had potential impacts on virome structures. Conclusions: This study highlights the practicality of oysters for marine virus exploration and provides a new direction to understand the relationship between marine bivalves and the environment.

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