AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POVERTY, POLLUTION, PREVENTIVE ACTIONS AND THE PROGRESSION OF COVID-19 IN BURKINA FASO

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elodie DJEMAI
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Empirical examination of decision making core technology adoption theory to explain youth preferences for HIV preventive actions

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Njabulo Samson Melusi Shongwe
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information System ◽  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Core Model ◽  
Adoption Theory ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Core Technology ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Action Intention

This study reports on the application of decision making core technology adoption theory to empirically examine youth preferences for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) preventive actions. In order to contribute to the open discourse on whether technology adoption rate is higher for male or female, goal desire, goal intention, action desire and action intention elements of decision making core theory were tested. A mobile health information system was implemented as an HIV information disseminating tool and used for experimentation to determine adoption by youths. A dataset of 118 pupils from two high schools was used for pilot investigation. A dataset of 292 undergraduate youths aged 10-24 years from two universities in South Africa was generated to validate the research model. The Partial Least Square (PLS) analytic modelling technique was used to determine the predictive power of decision making core model from the input dataset. Results of experimentation show that regardless of the gender youth accepts to use mobile information system to access HIV information. The predictive power of the decision making core model was found to be independent of gender factor, which was also not found to moderate the relationship between Perceived Behavioural Control (PBC) and action intention. In addition, gender was not found to moderate the order of importance in factors that predict youth preferences for HIV preventive action. PBC, action desire and goal desire were selected as the most important predictors of HIV preventive actions. The factor of action desire was found to mediate the relationship between PBC and action intention such that the mediation effect was stronger for male youth (68%) than for female youth (19%). Finally, the decision making core model better predicted youth preferences for HIV preventive actions as compared to two models based on Theory of Reason Action (TRA) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB)

PREDICTING SOFTWARE CHANGE IN AN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (06) ◽  
pp. 1350025
Author(s):  
RUCHIKA MALHOTRA ◽  
ANKITA JAIN BANSAL
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Roc Analysis ◽  
Area Under The Curve ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Operating Characteristics ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Change Proneness ◽  
The Relationship

Due to various reasons such as ever increasing demands of the customer or change in the environment or detection of a bug, changes are incorporated in a software. This results in multiple versions or evolving nature of a software. Identification of parts of a software that are more prone to changes than others is one of the important activities. Identifying change prone classes will help developers to take focused and timely preventive actions on the classes of the software with similar characteristics in the future releases. In this paper, we have studied the relationship between various object oriented (OO) metrics and change proneness. We collected a set of OO metrics and change data of each class that appeared in two versions of an open source dataset, 'Java TreeView', i.e., version 1.1.6 and version 1.0.3. Besides this, we have also predicted various models that can be used to identify change prone classes, using machine learning and statistical techniques and then compared their performance. The results are analyzed using Area Under the Curve (AUC) obtained from Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) analysis. The results show that the models predicted using both machine learning and statistical methods demonstrate good performance in terms of predicting change prone classes. Based on the results, it is reasonable to claim that quality models have a significant relevance with OO metrics and hence can be used by researchers for early prediction of change prone classes.

scholarly journals Treatment of female and male inpatient crack users: a qualitative study

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemeri Siqueira Pedroso ◽  
Félix Kessler ◽  
Flavio Pechansky
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Spiritual Support ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Criminal Involvement ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Purposive Sample ◽  
Crack Users

OBJECTIVE: To map treatment trajectories in a sample of male and female crack users through their narratives about the course of treatment seeking and their attempts to access health care services in Brazil. METHODS: Qualitative study of a purposive sample (five female and nine male hospitalized crack users) using semi-structured interviews. The interviews were transcribed and data explored using content analysis. RESULTS: Respondents reported difficulties getting access to hospitalization, relapse after discharge, and abandonment of treatment. There seems to be a peculiar model of behavior for women and men while dealing with craving for crack: while women got involved with prostitution and consequently became infected with HIV, every men of the sample reported criminal involvement. CONCLUSIONS: The relationship between relapse and a social environment conducive to consumption, associated with belief or disbelief in spiritual support, prostitution, and the legal complications arising from the use of crack, are relevant issues and should be taken into consideration in the development of preventive actions aimed at this specific population.

scholarly journals Tout ton flottant bas autorise-t-il la propogation du ton haut précedent en Dagara-Wule.pdf

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-236
Author(s):  
Penou-Achille Somé
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Relationship

This study addresses the syntactic implications of low floating tones in Wule, one of the three varieties of Dagara, a language of the Voltai'c Group spoken in the northern part of Ghana and the southern part of Burkina Faso, The data show that if "peripheral" low floating tones allow a high preceding tone to spread, it is the other way around for "internal" low floating tones, In fact, the latter type of tones, like opaque consonants, always prevents a high preceding tone from spreading, This result leads to a question concerning the relationship between internal low floating tones and opaque consonants, After debating two different assumptions, it has been retained that, despite the similar syntactic implications, internal low floating tones and opaque consonants are two different linguistic entities which do not have, as such, any historical link.

scholarly journals Synthesis of Policies Applied in the Fight Against Malaria in two African Countries at different Stages of Intervention (Model of Burkina Faso and Model of Senegal) using Data from Surveys and Literature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvire MFUENI BIKUNDI ◽  
Annie ROBERT ◽  
Catherine BOULAND ◽  
Edouard AKOTIONGA ◽  
MAREME Ndèye SOUGOU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Entomological Monitoring ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background: Malaria is a global public health problem with many cases each year (228 million cases in 2018 with 405,000 deaths). Most malaria cases occur in Africa. Methods: Data used for analysis are from Demographics and Health Surveys (DHS) 2017-2018 for Burkina Faso and DHS 2017 for Senegal. We added information from a synthesis of literature. Linear regression models were performed with an estimation of the mean number of persons using ITNs among groups (urban or rural areas, wealth level, highest education level in the household and age of household head) in each country. We evaluated the importance of co-factors in the relationship between the number of ITNs (insecticide-treated nets) in a household and the number of household members by calculating the R-squared. A criteria grid used for this synthesis of literature included eight important sub-groups: funding sources, entomological monitoring, use of ITNs, use of insecticide, malaria case management, health system organization, communication and surveillance. Results: Senegal and Burkina Faso have the same proportion (51%) of households in which all children under 5 sleep under ITNs. We found R-squared (R2=0.007 in Burkina Faso and R2=0.16 in Senegal) for the relationship between the number of ITNs in a household and household size. When wealth level, age of head of household, area of residence (rural or urban), highest education level in the household and number of bedrooms in the household were controlled for, we found R2=0.106 for Burkina Faso and R2=0.167 for Senegal. We found that Senegal’s national malaria program is decentralized with entomological monitoring in all districts, which is normal considering the intervention stage in the fight against malaria. In Burkina Faso, we found centralization of routine data.Conclusion: Our study synthesized the health policies applied in African countries which are at different stages of intervention in the fight against malaria and which have succeeded in maintaining low malaria prevalence (in Senegal) or in rapidly decreasing the prevalence of the disease (in Burkina Faso). Being close to elimination, Senegal required more active malaria surveillance than passive surveillance. Burkina Faso did not require a lot of active surveillance being not close to malaria elimination. These results merit a review in the context of each African country.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Infection-Avoidance Tendency and Exclusionary Attitudes towards Foreigners: A Case Study of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Japan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Yamagata ◽  
Tsukasa Teraguchi ◽  
Asako Miura
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Web Survey ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Avoidance Tendency ◽  
System A ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
The Relationship

Amidst the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 in January 2020, this study focused on the preventive behaviours against COVID-19 infection and the exclusionary attitude towards foreigners in Japan. Particularly, we examined the effects of individual differences in the infection-avoidance tendency based on the behavioural immune system. A web survey of 1,248 Japanese citizens aged 18 years or above living in Japan who were registrants of a crowdsourcing service indicated that as the threat of the COVID-19 spread increased, there were tendencies for infection-preventive behaviours to increase. In addition, people with a strong infection-avoidance tendency adopted more preventive actions, regardless of whether they were under normal circumstances or the threat of infection, indicating their strong rejective attitudes towards the Chinese and other foreigners under the threat of infection. This study recorded the behavioural and psychological states of people who were in the midst of rapid and unpredictable real-world changes in the early stages of the infection. Data collected in Japan, where the infection had begun earlier, will provide valuable knowledge to countries worldwide where major social changes are expected in the future.

scholarly journals Adoption of yield-increasing technologies in poorly integrated crop output markets

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-330
Author(s):  
Relwende Apollinaire Nikiema
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Price Dispersion ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Output Market ◽  
Spatial Price ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analyzes the relationship between crop output market and the use of modern inputs of farmers in developing countries. For this purpose, we used a large-scale household dataset collected in rural Burkina Faso. We found evidence that crop output market integration matters in farmer decision to adopt modern inputs. More specifically, an increase of the spatial price dispersion by 10% is significantly associated with a decrease of the probability of using modern inputs by 4%. However, price volatility affects neither the decision to use of the modern nor the intensity of adoption. Our finding implies that in order to succeed, agricultural interventions that target the adoption of modern inputs should be accompanied with market development measures.

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