scholarly journals CURRENT TRENDS IN RESEARCH INFLUENCING ITS SCIENTIFIC VALUE

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Aparna Mohan ◽  
James Chacko ◽  
Preethi Mohan
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Confounding Variables ◽  
Research Profile ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Current Setting ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
Research Demands

Abstract- Research primarily focusses on pursuing in-depth knowledge for the progress of the science and society. Publishing the work is crucial for its communication among the scientific community and to the public. Conducting the research demands extensive time and effort but the entire struggle goes futile unless the work got published in a reputed journal. A researcher confronts many such dilemma as the appraisal of his effort depends upon the quality of conducting and publishing the work. Current setting demands increasing publication for professional accreditation and upgradation of research profile pressurizing authors which results in many ethical lapses in their works. This paper intends to highlight such lapses commonly seen in current research practices. The match between the study design and the research objectives, various components like sample size, methods of recruiting participants against inclusion and exclusion criteria and allocating the subjects to different groups, time period for collecting data or conducting the study, enlisting the confounding variables influencing the results, maintenance of data transparency and arriving at conclusions without considering the alternatives have considerable impact over its credibility. Improper execution of the work could affect its replicability and such negligence in research influences its quality making the entire work insignificant. Summary - The current academic and research settings have forced the scholars and researchers to conduct extensive research for increasing their publications and upgrading their research profile. This led to many works with uncertain credibility, reflected in the execution of the study as well as with its publication. This article points out a few among such works from different aspects which could influence the result of the study. Such trends in research is making the whole resource and time futile and the entire work insignificant.

scholarly journals Probiotics and constipation: mechanisms of action, evidence for effectiveness and utilisation by patients and healthcare professionals

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eirini Dimidi ◽  
S. Mark Scott ◽  
Kevin Whelan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Chronic Constipation ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Mechanisms Of Action ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Public Health Strategies

The aim of this narrative review is to assess and present evidence on the mechanisms of action of probiotics in constipation, their effectiveness and their utilisation by patients and healthcare professionals. Chronic constipation is a common bothersome disorder that has a considerable impact on patients' quality of life. Probiotics have been increasingly investigated for their effectiveness in various disorders, including chronic constipation. Probiotics may affect gut motility and constipation through their impact on the gut microbiota and fermentation, the central and enteric nervous system and the immune system. However, evidence for the effectiveness of probiotics in the management of constipation remains varied, with some strains demonstrating improvements, while others show no effect. Despite the uncertainty in evidence and the fact that the majority of healthcare professionals do not recommend probiotics for constipation, an increased prevalence of probiotic use by people with constipation has been shown. Therefore, there is a need for public health strategies to inform the public about where strong evidence of probiotic effectiveness exist, and where evidence is still weak. Education of healthcare professionals on the increased utilisation of probiotics for constipation by the public and on current evidence for the effectiveness of specific strains is also required.

scholarly journals Analysis Risk Factors of Asphyxia Neonatorum

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Agustin Dwi Syalfina ◽  
Shrimarti Rukmini Devy
Keyword(s):  
Antenatal Care ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Asphyxia Neonatorum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Pregnancy And Childbirth ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Prediction And Prevention ◽  
Confounding Variables

ABSTRACTAntenatal care is designed to promote, protect, and maintain the health during pregnancy and reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. The scope of antenatal care also includes the detection and special care for high risk cases as well as the prediction and prevention of complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth causes of neonatorum asphyxia. Neonatorum asphyxia is a condition where the baby can not breathe spontaneously and regularly after birth. Neonatorum asphyxia cases in Mojokerto district has 46.9% in 2010 and 39.7% in 2014. This aim of this study was to analyze the effect of the quality of antenatal care to neonatorum asphyxia in Mojokerto. The type of this study was observational analytic with case control design with a sample of cases and controls amounted to 80 babies. Data was analyzed using univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis with logistic regression. The results of this study showed that the quality of antenatal care was significant with neonatorum asphyxia (OR = 8,556; 95% CI:2,777–26,358). Confounding variables associated with neonatorum asphyxia were maternal occupation (OR = 4,558;95% CI:1,391– 14,298), primary education (OR = 21,620; 95% CI: 1,932–241,886), secondary education (OR = 20,977; 95%CI: 1,819–241,872). The conclusion quality of antenatal care has effect of nenatorum asphyxia. Suggestions can be drawn based on the results of this study are for health workers are expected to do health education to the public and families about the importance of antenatal care and antenatal care services that should be obtained from health workers.Keywords: quality of antenatal care, neonatorum asphyxia, case control

scholarly journals Efektivitas Penerimaan Negara dengan Penerapan Modul Penerimaan Negara Generasi Kedua Wilayah Kerja

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Andy Priyambodo
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
State Budget ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Revenue ◽  
Time Period ◽  
State Expenditure ◽  
State Revenues

State revenue is the most important part of the State Budget to finance various sectors of state expenditure. In support of this country's acceptance in apply MPN-G2 to facilitate the public in paying taxes. The result found that effectiveness of state revenue by applying of MPN-G2 system is quite effective in the case of quantity in the form of increasing percentage of amount of realization and transaction of state revenue. While the quality of state revenues after the MPN-G2 less effective because of input transparency of state revenue transactions is still too large so that the validity of the transaction is in doubt. For the duration of the state revenue with billing shows effective results because it is faster in the state revenue deposit, but the delegation of state revenue is less effective because it is still like the old system all transactions collected first with the time period determined after it was transferred to the state treasury. This study also produces factors that affect the effectiveness of state revenue with MPN-G2 such as communication, resources, and clarity of technology and procedures.

scholarly journals GDP and Public Expenditure in Education, Health, and Defense. Empirical Research for Greece

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 2319
Author(s):  
Kyriaki Efthalitsidou ◽  
Eleni Zafeiriou ◽  
Konstantinos Spinthiropoulos ◽  
Ioannis Betsas ◽  
Nikolaos Sariannidis
Keyword(s):  
National Income ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Public Expenditure In Education

Wagner Law and Keynesian approaches are the two fundamental theories of public finance. The aim of this study is to assess empirical evidence for the public spending–national income relationship at a disaggregated level for the time period 1995–2019. The sectoral public expenditures include education, health, and defense. The data employed were derived by EUROSTAT and OECD. Based on our findings, a sole relationship of the variables was validated, while the causality of the relationship provides conflict results depending on whether two-variate or multivariate methodology is employed. In the case of the multivariate framework that outperforms the two-variate approach in terms of information, the causality is directed from government expenses to the GDP level, validating the Keynesian approach in the long run as well as in the short run. On the other hand, the results validate Wagner Law based on the results of Granger causality pairwise test. A potential interpreatation for the results found is related to the measures imposed by the Memorandum, since the disproportionate cuts of the public expenses in the period of crisis have determined the evolution of national income. The scientific value of the presents study stands on the suggestion of potential effective measures aiming at the limitation of national income shrinkage in periods of severe economic crises worldwide.

scholarly journals Operating Protocol and Networking Issues of a Telemedicine Platform Integrating from Wireless Home Sensors to the Hospital Information System

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Donati ◽  
Tony Bacchillone ◽  
Luca Fanucci ◽  
Sergio Saponara ◽  
Filippo Costalli
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Hospital Information System ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Home Gateway ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medical Tests ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Novel Concept

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is among the major causes of hospitalization for elderly citizens. Its considerable impact on patient quality of life, the resources congestion, and the related costs can be efficiently mitigated using remote wireless biosensors networks placed at patient home, able to communicate in secure way over the public Internet with the cardiology departmental Hospital Information System (HIS). In this way, physicians can monitor the situation of several patients at distance and quickly realize and act alterations in vital parameters. In this scenario, the Health@Home (H@H) platform is conceived. The pool of Bluetooth sensors enables patients to daily collect vital signs at home in noninvasive fashion. A home gateway receives and processes all signals before sending them to a server node in charge of interfacing with the usual HIS. The novel concept of operating protocol (OP) represents a list of actions, remotely configurable, that the domestic network has to follow (required measurements, transmissions, comparisons with personalized thresholds, etc.). The first medical tests on 30 patients (1 month) allowed to verify the model, both from the patient and the medical perspective. The main evaluation metrics were usability, flexibility, and reliability of the communication from sensors to HIS.

scholarly journals Cardiopulmonary resuscitation on television: are we miseducating the public?

2017 ◽  
Vol 94 (1108) ◽  
pp. 71-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Colwill ◽  
Charlotte Somerville ◽  
Eric Lindberg ◽  
Caroline Williams ◽  
James Bryan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Confounding Variables ◽  
Medical Dramas ◽  
Correct Technique ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Cardiac Arrest Survival

BackgroundOut-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates in the UK are poor, and non-medically trained individuals have been identified to perform substandard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Millions watch televised medical dramas and, for many, these comprise their only education on CPR. This study aims to investigate the quality of CPR portrayed on these programmes and whether this has an effect on public knowledge.MethodsProspective observational study of 30 consecutive episodes of three popular medical dramas. Public knowledge of CPR and viewing habits were assessed with a survey of non-medically trained personnel.Results90 episodes were reviewed with 39 resuscitation attempts shown. Chest compression rates varied from 60 to 204 compressions per minute with a median of 122 (95% CI 113 to 132). Depth varied from 1.5 to 7.5 cm with a median of 3 (3.15–4.31). Rate and depth were significantly different from the UK Resuscitation Council Guidelines (2010) (p<0.05, t-test). Survey participants (n=160, 80% response rate) documented what they thought was the correct rate and depth of chest compressions and were scored accordingly. Those who documented watching medical dramas regularly scored significantly worse than those who watched occasionally (p<0.05, Mann-Whitney test).ConclusionTelevised medical dramas depict CPR inaccurately and laypersons may be less well informed about the correct technique the more they tune into these programmes. While there may be other confounding variables, given the popularity of television medical dramas, the poor depiction may be significantly contributing to poor public CPR knowledge and represent a potential new avenue of public education.

scholarly journals The Segregation in Access to Spaces for Urban Activities during COVID-19 Pandemic in Relation to Gated Communities in Egypt

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Hellen Aziz ◽  
Salma Ellakany
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
History Of ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Urban Activities

Despite the long history of physical and social segregation by various types of gated communities in Egypt, they are attracting more residents. This is a result of the sense of privacy, security, access to proper services and the quality of green areas and public spaces that they offer. In most cases, such privileges and spaces for urban activities have restricted access to users who do not own residential units in such gated communities. With the current COVID-19 pandemic, starting in early 2020, and the Egyptian government’s preventive measures, people’s daily lives have been affected both economically and socially. Regulations such as the application of a curfew, and the closure of public services and facilities have had a considerable impact on population’s urban activities and the use of the public spaces. Yet, it could be argued that urban activities within gated communities have increased as the residents were forced to stay at home, or within the gated compounds’ walls. Thus, this paper investigates the use of the spaces for urban activities inside the gated communities; whether residential or beach destinations, in Egypt during the pandemic. It then studies the segregation in the rights of use of open urban spaces inside and outside gated communities, during the pandemic.

scholarly journals Social Contradictions Media Measurement as a Way of University Scientific Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-596
Author(s):  
Olga Smirnova ◽  
Mikhail Shkondin ◽  
Ekaterina Sivyakova
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
The Public Sphere

The study examined academic research dedicated to the understanding of conflictology as a field of knowledge in the context of the ongoing mediatization of society. We analyzed the key features of the process of mediatization that affect the communication processes in society and media content. The aspects of the presentation of social contradictions in the media space, including the axiological aspect, have been studied. The study identified the specific of the Russian context, in terms of the diagnosis and resolutions of conflicts in the public sphere. The study also analyzed the current trends in the development of social media as a factor of audience differentiation and intensification of conflicts including the phenomena of the “cancel culture”, “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers”. In the same context we examined how changes in media consumption influence the quality of public communication. We identified the features of communication in the public mediatized space that lead to social agreement. It has been found that solving conflicts between participants in current social practice is viewed as an integrative result of such interaction. Future studies should attempt to identify media role in resolving existing social contradictions as well as its role in this process. The current study has identified criteria for an interdisciplinary approach for further research of the subject. It has been found that the results of interdisciplinary research in this area can be considered in the context of the universities’ implementation of their mission to strengthen their expertise and intellectual influence in society, to strengthen the interaction between academics and society for the further achievement of social harmony.

Exploring the Socio-Political Determinants of Open Budget

2013 ◽  
pp. 142-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Djoko Sigit Sayogo ◽  
Teresa Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Political Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Budget Proposal ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Quality Of Governance ◽  
Online Availability ◽  
Transparency And Accountability

In a study of budgetary transparency and accountability, this chapter examines how a country’s disclosure of budget information is related to a set of socio-political factors. The authors analyze data from the biennial Open Budget Survey conducted by the International Budget Partnership for the years of 2008 and 2010. The study compares three types of disclosure practices: online, hardcopy, and unpublished distribution for six types of budgets: pre-budget proposal, executive budget, citizens’ budget, mid-year review, end-year review, and audit report. They find that the level of democracy in a given nation has considerable impact on its level of budgetary transparency and accountability, when these qualities are defined in terms of types of budgetary documents that are available to the public online. It is clear that online publication, most probably in the context of e-government efforts, is key to making this information available. The quality of governance is found to be critical for the availability of a citizens’ budget online, and the numbers of Internet users is related to the online availability of the executive budget.

scholarly journals Assessment of Competitiveness Factors of an Agent of the Financial Environment: Methodology and Comparative Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 01006
Author(s):  
Elvira Sitnikova ◽  
Tatyana Kolmykova ◽  
Irina Tretyakova ◽  
Darya Lobacheva
Keyword(s):  
Commercial Bank ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Capital Intensity ◽  
Loan Portfolio ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Banking Institutions ◽  
European Economies

The functioning of the banking sector of the economy in the world is characterized by a decrease in its capital intensity due to a decrease in the concentration of foreign capital, a deterioration in the quality of the loan portfolio, an outflow of urgent deposit resources and the receipt of significant losses by banking institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking into account the current trends in the spread of the virus, the development and implementation of fundamentally new approaches to anti-crisis management in the banking sector of both the world economy and Russia is of great importance today. The COVID-19 pandemic came as a big shock to the global and European economies. While banks are not hit by the pandemic as directly as other retail institutions, they are in the public eye as they provide funding to corporations and individuals. Their stability is crucial for maintaining the efficiency of the entire economic system, not only of a particular country, but also of the world. Currently, the need for a comprehensive study of the competitiveness of a commercial bank is determined by the objective modern conditions of the life of banks operating in a competitive environment. The article proposes the author’s methodology for assessing the competitiveness of a commercial bank, which includes five groups of indicators, which makes it possible to identify not only problematic, but also stable areas of activity. The proposed method for calculating the integral indicator for assessing the competitiveness of a commercial bank has been tested on the example of Russian Agricultural Bank and Sberbank, and a set of measures has been developed to increase the level of competitiveness of a commercial bank.

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