scholarly journals ANÁLISE DA EVOLUÇÃO DO USO E OCUPAÇÃO DAS TERRAS NO ARRONDISSEMENT DE ARCAHAIE-HAITI (1987, 1997 E 2018)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 3393
Author(s):  
Ralph Charles ◽  
Regina Celia de Oliveira ◽  
Ivonice Sena de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Supervised Classification ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
The West ◽  
Evolution Analysis ◽  
Administrative Division

Atualmente, utiliza-se os recursos da natureza de forma exploratória, sem a projeção dos impactos que essa atitude pode ocasionar, gerando problemas de caráter social e/ou ambiental, podendo apresentar seus efeitos rapidamente ou em grande escala de tempo. No Haiti, constata-se que a região possui incapacidade de enfrentar qualquer problema de caráter ambiental, essa situação está relacionada diretamente com as atividades antrópicas.  Nesse sentido, a presente pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar a evolução temporal do uso e ocupação da terra do Arrondissement de Arcahaie, localizada a Oeste do Haiti. O Arrondissement é uma divisão administrativa do território haitiano que é composta por vários municípios. O método utilizado foi uma fotointerpretação sobre o recorte das Imagens Landsat 5 e Landsat 8, referente a área de estudo. Para o mapeamento foi utilizada a classificação supervisionada. As classes de uso e ocupação definidas foram: pastagem, cobertura vegetal, solo exposto, área cultivada, área urbana, mata natural. Os resultados mais significativos mostram mudanças na dinâmica de uso e ocupação da terra no Arrondissement de Arcahaie, durante 31 anos e consequentemente, podendo causar danos, muitas vezes, irreversíveis ao meio ambiente e comprometer a qualidade de vida da população.     EVOLUTION ANALYSIS OF THE LAND USE AND OCCUPATION IN ARRONDISSEMENT OF ARCAHAIE-HAITI (1987, 1997 AND 2018)A B S T R A C TCurrently, the nature resources are used in an exploratory way, without the projection of the impacts that this attitude can cause, generating social and / or environmental problems, can present their effects quickly or in a large scale of time. In Haiti, it appears that their inability to face any environmental problem is directly related to anthropic activities. In this sense, the present research had as main objective to analyze the temporal evolution of the use and occupation of the land of the Arrondissement of Arcahaie, located to the West of Haiti. The Arrondissement is an administrative division of Haitian territory that decomposes several municipalities. The method used was a photointerpretation on the clipping of the Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 images, referring to the study area. Supervised classification was used for the mapping. The classes of use and occupation defined were pasture, vegetation cover, exposed soil, cultivated area, urban area, natural forest. The most significant results show changes in the dynamics of use and occupation in the Arrondissement of Arcahaie during the last 31 years and, consequently, can cause damage, often irreversible to the environment and compromise the quality of life of the population.Key words: Environmental impacts, Natural resources, Arrondissement of Arcahaie

Assessment of quality of life in patients with the effects of transient ischemic stroke

2016 ◽  
pp. 37-39
Author(s):  
A. Babirad
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Ischemic Stroke ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cerebrovascular Diseases ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Cerebrovascular Events ◽  
Sf 36 ◽  
Angioplasty And Stenting

Cerebrovascular diseases are a problem of the world today, and according to the forecast, the problem of the near future arises. The main risk factors for the development of ischemic disorders of the cerebral circulation include oblique and aging, arterial hypertension, smoking, diabetes mellitus and heart disease. An effective strategy for the prevention of cerebrovascular events is based on the implementation of large-scale risk control measures, including the use of antiagregant and anticoagulant therapy, invasive interventions such as atheromectomy, angioplasty and stenting. In this connection, the efforts of neurologists, cardiologists, angiosurgery, endocrinologists and other specialists are the basis for achieving an acceptable clinical outcome. A review of the SF-36 method for assessing the quality of life in patients with the effects of transient ischemic stroke is presented. The assessment of quality of life is recognized in world medical practice and research, an indicator that is also used to assess the quality of the health system and in general sociological research.

Translation and Validation of the Thai Version of the Wisconsin Quality of Life Questionnaire (TH WISQoL) for Kidney Stone Patients

2020 ◽  
Vol 103 (11) ◽  
pp. 1194-1199
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Kidney Stone ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Outcome Measurement ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Sf 36

Objective: To develop and validate a Thai version of the Wisconsin Quality of Life (TH WISQoL) Questionnaire. Materials and Methods: The authors developed the TH WISQoL Questionnaire based on a standard multi-step process. Subsequently, the authors recruited patients with kidney stone and requested them to complete the TH WISQoL and a validated Thai version of the 36-Item Short Form Survey (TH SF-36). The authors calculated the internal consistency and interdomain correlation of TH WISQoL and compared the convergent validity between the two instruments. Results: Thirty kidney stone patients completed the TH WISQoL and the TH SF-36. The TH WISQoL showed acceptable internal consistency for all domains (Cronbach’s alpha 0.768 to 0.909). Interdomain correlation was high for most domains (r=0.698 to 0.779), except for the correlation between Vitality and Disease domains, which showed a moderate correlation (r=0.575). For convergent validity, TH WISQoL demonstrated a good overall correlation to TH SF-36, (r=0.796, p<0.05). Conclusion: The TH WISQoL is valid and reliable for evaluating the quality of life of Thai patients with kidney stone. A further large-scale multi-center study is warranted to confirm its applicability in Thailand. Keywords: Quality of life, Kidney stone, Validation, Outcome measurement

Deterioration of basic activities of daily living and their impact on quality of life across different cognitive stages of dementia: a European study

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1283-1293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarissa M. Giebel ◽  
Caroline Sutcliffe ◽  
Minna Stolt ◽  
Staffan Karlsson ◽  
Anna Renom-Guiteras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
European Study ◽  
Severe Dementia ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Adl Performance

ABSTRACTBackground:Performing basic activities of daily living (ADLs) is one of the major difficulties encountered in dementia, which can have considerable negative impacts on the quality of life (QoL) of people with dementia (PwD). However, the extent to which basic ADL performance deteriorates across mild, moderate, and severe dementia is little examined and its impact, together with depression and neuropsychiatric behavior, upon QoL, is of considerable relevance across European countries.Methods:Data were drawn from people living in the community who were participants in a large-scale European study on transition from community living to care homes of PwD. PwD completed measures on cognitive functioning and QoL, and informal carers reported upon QoL, depressive symptomatology, psychopathology, and functional ability of the PwD.Results:ADL performance deteriorated differently for each activity. In particular, toileting, transfer, and feeding remained relatively intact throughout, whereas performance on bathing and dressing deteriorated to a greater extent from mild to severe dementia. It appears that continence was not affected by the stage of dementia with similar levels of impairment. Basic ADL performance impacted to different degrees on QoL across dementia stages and countries.Conclusions:Interventions aimed at maintaining independence or QoL need to target different ADLs across different dementia stages and perhaps also tailor interventions to the context of different countries. Findings contribute to the development of non-pharmaceutical interventions and governmental pledges to promote independence in dementia.

scholarly journals Screening for gastric cancer: East and West, features of diagnostic criteria

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
A. A. Avanesyan ◽  
O. V. Chukina ◽  
Yu. V. Kokovina ◽  
T. M. Chirkina ◽  
I. G. Bakulin
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Gastric Cancer ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Tumor Development ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
The West ◽  
Systematic Screening ◽  
Diagnosis Of Cancer

Gastric cancer is the leading cause of death among all cancer deaths. Identification of risk groups and special carcinogens will prevent the development of the tumor or detect it in the early stages, which will significantly increase the quality of life of patients with high risks of developing gastric cancer. For the timely detection of tumor development, it is optimal to use systematic screening. Undoubtedly, the approaches to the diagnosis of cancer have significant differences in the countries of the West and the East.

scholarly journals Exploration and Analysis on Incidences of Covid-19 on the Senior Peoples and TCM Management-60 Clinical Cases

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-05
Author(s):  
Dan Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
The West ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Made In ◽  
Clinical Cases

Incidence and prevalence of infected Covid-19 are still rampant in the West and the most countries throughout world from 2020 to 2021. Although the incidence of infected Covid-19 in the developed countries has decreased down by the popular vaccination, it is still anxiety and worry to make more serious widespread from the variated coronavirus. It is a rigorous fact that there still are higher on the mortality to the seniors, special seniors who are resided at nursing homes. For seniors, the infected Coronavirus may product them a disastrous attack according to their pre-existing diseases, complication accompanied with Covid-19, and post-syndromes caused by Covid-19. Their Covid-19 may be more complex, more serious, harder to find a fast and effective therapies and easier to become to the post-syndromes which will make a bad influence to the quality of life in the rest of their life. TCM focuses to individual case, and pay attention more for their pre-existing diseases, complication with Covid-19, and possibility of post-syndrome’s production while some anti-coronavirus herbs are prescribed, so a more fixed prescription is made. In this clinical trial, the author classified 60 cases into two groups: over 45 years old as the observing group and under of 44 years old as the contrasted group, incidences on pre-existing diseases, complication and post-syndromes are observed separately; their results after treated by Chinese medical herbs are also observed. We recognize from these observation and analysis TCM treatment can significantly stabilized pre-existing diseases, treat complication together and prevent the post-syndromes’ occurrence while is treating to Coronavirus. TCM is a suitable treating choice to Senior with Covid-19.

Blog Snippets Based Drug Effects Extraction System Using Lexical and Grammatical Restrictions

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiho Kitajima ◽  
Rafal Rzepka ◽  
Kenji Araki
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Drug Effects ◽  
Large Scale Data ◽  
Medical Documents ◽  
Baseline System ◽  
Scale Data

Obtaining medical information has a beneficial influence on patients' treatment and QOL (quality of life). The authors aim to make a system that helps patients to collect narrative information. Extracting information from data written by patients will allow the acquisition of information which is easy to understand and provides encouragement. Additionally, by using large-scale data, the system can be utilized for discovering unknown effects or patterns. As the first step, the purpose of this paper is to extract descriptions of the effects caused by taking drugs as a triplet of expressions from illness survival blogs' snippets. This paper proposes a method to extract the triplets using specific clue words and parsing the results in order to extract from blogs written in free natural language. Moreover, recall was improved by combining their proposed method and a baseline system, and precision was improved by filtering using dictionaries we created from existing medical documents.

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