Predicting Resource Availability in Local Mobile Crowd Computing Using Convolutional GRU

Stress in caregivers may affect the healthcare recipients receive. We examined the impact of stress experienced by 45 adult caregivers of their elderly demented parents. The participants completed a 32-item questionnaire about the impact of experienced stress. The questionnaire also asked about interventions that might help to reduce the impact of stress. After exploratory factor analysis, we reduced the 32-item questionnaire to 13 items. Results indicated that caregivers experienced stress, anxiety, and sadness. Also, emotional, but not financial or professional, well-being was significantly impacted. There was no significant difference between the impact of caregiver stress on members from the sandwich generation and those from the nonsandwich generation. Meeting with a social worker for resource availability was identified most frequently as a potentially helpful intervention for coping with the impact of stress.

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Social development of modern Russia: trends, risks, prospects

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2018-10-76-89 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 76-89

Author(s):

E. M. Avraamova ◽

V. N. Titov

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Social Development ◽

Social Structure ◽

Structure Formation ◽

Resource Availability ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Quantitative Estimation ◽

Resource Potential ◽

Institutional Conditions ◽

Resource Characteristics

The analysis of present-time directions in the study of social development has allowed to identify the resource approach as the most productive one which enables to assess social dynamics through the range of resource characteristics of different population groups and abilities of the relevant groups to apply development resources in the current economic and institutional conditions. Basing on the sociological survey conducted by ISAP RANEPA, the quantitative estimation of material and social recourses of the population has been made; integral values of the resource potential have been calculated as well. The issues of social structure formation are analyzed through the aspect of resource availability; the barriers of Russian middle-class enlargement are defined.

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Analysis on Vehicle Energy Demand and Key Mineral Resource Availability for Vehicle Production in China

Chinese Journal of Engineering Science ◽

10.15302/j-sscae-2018.01.018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 127

Author(s):

Tianduo Peng ◽

Zhiyi Yuan ◽

Jiehui Yuan ◽

Xufeng Zhu ◽

Xunmin Ou

Keyword(s):

Mineral Resource ◽

Resource Availability ◽

Energy Demand ◽

Vehicle Production

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Modeling the co-evolution of economic institutions and the economy of resource producing regions

Herald of Omsk University. Series: Economics ◽

10.24147/1812-3988.2020.18(4).122-131 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 122-131

Author(s):

Vadim F. Islamutdinov ◽

Sergey P. Semenov

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Resource Availability ◽

Regional Economy ◽

Cumulative Effect ◽

Volterra Equations ◽

Economic Institutions ◽

Predator Prey Model ◽

Resource Endowment ◽

Disincentive Effect ◽

Good Institution

The purpose of the study is to develop a model for the co-evolution of the regional economy and economic institutions. The research methods used: abstract-logical for the study of theoretical aspects and the experience of modeling co-evolution; and economic-mathematical for the development of own model of coevolution. The results of the study: approaches to modeling the evolution of economic institutions, as well as the co-evolution of the regional economy and economic institutions are considered, strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches to modeling co-evolution are identified, on the basis of the logistic model and Lotka-Volterra equations, an own co-evolution model has been developed, which includes three entities: regional economy, “good” institution and “bad” institution. Three versions of the model have been developed: the co-evolution of the regional economy and the “good” institution, the co-evolution of the regional economy and the “bad institution,” and a variant of the co-evolution of all three entities simultaneously, in which the “good” and “bad” institutions interact according to the “predator-prey” model, and their the cumulative effect determines the development of the regional economy. Numerical experiments have been carried out in the MathLab, which have shown the capabilities of the model to reflect the results of the co-evolution of the economy of a resource-producing region and economic institutions. In the first variant, a “good” institution promotes economic growth in excess of the level determined by resource availability. In the second variant, the “bad” institution has a disincentive effect on the GRP, as a result of which the GRP falls below the level determined by the resource endowment. In the third variant, the interaction of “good” and “bad” institutions still contributes to economic growth above the level determined by resource availability, but causes cyclical fluctuations in the GRP.

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Natural gas; a perspective on resource availability

Open-File Report ◽

10.3133/ofr78188 ◽

1978 ◽

Author(s):

Charles D. Masters

Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

Resource Availability

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Social ethology of the wolverine

10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0018 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jeffrey P. Copeland ◽

Arild Landa ◽

Kimberly Heinemeyer ◽

Keith B. Aubry ◽

Jiska van Dijk ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Organization ◽

Social Interactions ◽

Resource Availability ◽

Social Behaviour ◽

Social System ◽

Group Living ◽

Field Studies ◽

Ecological Framework ◽

The Social ◽

Living Species

Social behaviour in solitary carnivores has long been an active area of investigation but for many species remains largely founded in conjecture compared to our understanding of sociality in group-living species. The social organization of the wolverine has, until now, received little attention beyond its portrayal as a typical mustelid social system. In this chapter the authors compile observations of social interactions from multiple wolverine field studies, which are integrated into an ecological framework. An ethological model for the wolverine is proposed that reveals an intricate social organization, which is driven by variable resource availability within extremely large territories and supports social behaviour that underpins offspring development.

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Predictors of historical change in drug treatment coverage among people who inject drugs in 90 large metropolitan areas in the USA, 1993–2007

Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy ◽

10.1186/s13011-019-0235-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Barbara Tempalski ◽

Leslie D. Williams ◽

Brooke S. West ◽

Hannah L. F. Cooper ◽

Stephanie Beane ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Drug Treatment ◽

Resource Availability ◽

People Who Inject Drugs ◽

Census Data ◽

Poverty Rate ◽

Community Action ◽

Historical Change ◽

Treatment Coverage ◽

Over Time

Abstract Background Adequate access to effective treatment and medication assisted therapies for opioid dependence has led to improved antiretroviral therapy adherence and decreases in morbidity among people who inject drugs (PWID), and can also address a broad range of social and public health problems. However, even with the success of syringe service programs and opioid substitution programs in European countries (and others) the US remains historically low in terms of coverage and access with regard to these programs. This manuscript investigates predictors of historical change in drug treatment coverage for PWID in 90 US metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) during 1993–2007, a period in which, overall coverage did not change. Methods Drug treatment coverage was measured as the number of PWID in drug treatment, as calculated by treatment entry and census data, divided by numbers of PWID in each MSA. Variables suggested by the Theory of Community Action (i.e., need, resource availability, institutional opposition, organized support, and service symbiosis) were analyzed using mixed-effects multivariate models within dependent variables lagged in time to study predictors of later change in coverage. Results Mean coverage was low in 1993 (6.7%; SD 3.7), and did not increase by 2007 (6.4%; SD 4.5). Multivariate results indicate that increases in baseline unemployment rate (β = 0.312; pseudo-p < 0.0002) predict significantly higher treatment coverage; baseline poverty rate (β = − 0.486; pseudo-p < 0.0001), and baseline size of public health and social work workforce (β = 0.425; pseudo-p < 0.0001) were predictors of later mean coverage levels, and baseline HIV prevalence among PWID predicted variation in treatment coverage trajectories over time (baseline HIV * Time: β = 0.039; pseudo-p < 0.001). Finally, increases in black/white poverty disparity from baseline predicted significantly higher treatment coverage in MSAs (β = 1.269; pseudo-p < 0.0001). Conclusions While harm reduction programs have historically been contested and difficult to implement in many US communities, and despite efforts to increase treatment coverage for PWID, coverage has not increased. Contrary to our hypothesis, epidemiologic need, seems not to be associated with change in treatment coverage over time. Resource availability and institutional opposition are important predictors of change over time in coverage. These findings suggest that new ways have to be found to increase drug treatment coverage in spite of economic changes and belt-tightening policy changes that will make this difficult.

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