Using Actor Network Theory to Understand ICT Integration in Secondary Schools

The aim of this study is to understand the effective implementation and use of technology in secondary schools in Mozambique, a developing country. Actor network theory (ANT) was used as a lens to understand technology integration in the education system as a package, in which the mutual dependence between the social and technical is highlighted. Maputo province in Mozambique was chosen as the site for this research. Both qualitative and quantitative data approaches were employed. The findings revealed that technology implementation in secondary schools is a dynamic process which is impacted either positively or negatively by the surrounding contextual situation. The study emphasizes that the role of non-human actors such as the ICT curriculum guide, the time-table and the schools' basic infrastructure, and its relationship with human actors, such as the heads of schools, teachers, and students, is gradually shaped by technology and its related network entities.

An Improved Method of Comparing Statistically the Technical Solutions Investigated through Quality Function Deployment to Improve Secondary Education

In this age of globalization and scientific revolution, education has got more focus as a fundamental right of human. In Pakistan, substantial efforts are made, both in government and private sectors of education, to promote education. Resultantly, a huge number of educational institutions have been established. The students are the only elements for whom the whole system of education is established. Both, parents and teachers, should feel the responsibility of providing the students with all the educational opportunities for the development as conscientious citizens. This article is an extension of the work by Iqbal et al., (2020), which focuses on exploring the strategies to improve secondary education. Iqbal et. al., (2020) used QFD methodology, and found out the Needs and Demands (N&Ds) of students and their parents; and then explored the Technical Solutions (TSs) to address these N&Ds. The results showed that ‘Teaching Behavior’ was highly important TS with weight of 71, and ‘Checked through Technical devices’ with final weight 57 and “Followed Proper time table by teachers” with weight 55 remained at second and third positions respectively. If we consider weight as the priority factor, the N&D with highest weight deserves to be considered first. But, statistically, because of the random variation in the data, two TSs with different weights could be of same importance. The rationale of this article is to test the weights difference of two TSs by using the methodology developed by Iqbal et al. (2014). This will provide guideline to others education experts to test the significance of any two TSs whether they are equally important or not. If the computed difference is insignificance, they may be treated equally.

Design and Implementation of Private Social Network

Private social networking, is a web-based networking platform which is used in a particular Institution, schools, colleges or organizations (In this current project we are implementing it for college institution purpose only). In this social network people can communicate securely, since it’s a private social network and it’s not free, each & every student must pay the amount decided by the institution. It’s not compulsory to join this social network it’s the student wish. If he need this social network then the admin will provide full support to the student to activate the account. In this network students can communicate with their teachers in order to get help in studies. Even the teachers can also update latest news about technology, politics etc. And the time table, circular information for students and for college can be updated by teachers or institution, so that message can be passed to every student easily. In this network student can upload images, document files. This private network is highly anti-threatened towards social disturbing activities, so that there’ll be no disturbances in the institution. All the User Accounts created in this Social network are valid only for Limited time. In this project all the data will be accepted through .JSP and .PHP scripts which is our front end. All the data will be managed by the database. MySQL which is our back end.

Smart Medicine Reminder Box

Our project's principle point is to make a Smart medication box for those clients who routinely take medicines and the solution of their medication is extremely long as it is difficult to recollect to patients and furthermore for their parental figure. Additionally Old age patients experience the ill effects of issues of neglect to take pills on appropriate time which causes certain medical problems for patients having Permanent infections like diabetes, circulatory strain, breathing issue, heart issues, malignancy sicknesses and so forth We saw these issues in emergency clinics and individuals around us who have such sort of infections and accordingly dependent on these two issues we made brilliant medication box which tackle these issues by Setting up time table of endorsed drugs through press catches as given in remedy.

Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor and its complicated role in hemodialysis (HD) patients with Covid-19 infection

Background: Soluble urokinase plasminogen receptor (suPAR) is a protein in the blood that has been described to reflect the severity status of systemic inflammation. Aims and Objective: We investigated the association between admission suPAR levels and severity and outcome of HD patients with Covid-19 infection. Materials and Methods: In an observational study of adult HD patients hospitalized for Covid-19, we measured suPAR levels in plasma samples. The time table for those measurements were as follows: at the beginning of admission, after hemoperfusion (HP) session for those patients that received them, and just before discharge. Results: Of the 17 patients (7 were male), 13 patients received HP (mean age: 74 years old). The median suPAR level was 12.94 ng/ml. For those who undertook HP in HD unit median suPAR level was before session 12.95 ng/mil and 6.2 ng/ml at the end of each session (p<0.05). 3 patients had suPAR level below 7 ng/ml. 2 of them survived without developing pleural effusions. 7 patients discharged from the hospital with median suPAR level 12.08 ng/ml which did not differ significantly from the median suPAR level of the diceased ones (13.68 ng/ml). Conclusion: Admission of suPAR levels in HD patients hospitalized for Covid-19 do not seem to be predictive for their clinical course in general. Chronic Kidney Disease and its relation to suPAR independently of patients’ inflammation status may be the key component for our notice. Despite that, in patients where low levels of suPAR combined with absence of pleural effusions the prognosis was excellent.

Title: CHANGES IN SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE SLEEP MEASURES DURING RECOVERY IN PEDIATRIC CONCUSSION

Background: Sleep problems after concussion have been associated with longer recovery times and more severe symptoms. Early research has primarily evaluated sleep via subjective measures; however, actigraphy data may help objectively understand sleep patterns after pediatric concussion. Purposes: Our study examined changes in subjective and objective sleep measures during pediatric concussion recovery. We also evaluated whether sleep measures at initial assessment predict concussion symptom resolution time. Methods: Pediatric patients evaluated within 14 days of concussion were given a commercial activity tracker to be worn full-time, including during sleep, through return-to-play (RTP) clearance. During the initial and RTP assessments, patients completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), self-reporting sleep duration, time spent in bed, and sleep quality. PSQI score >5 indicates poor sleep quality. Activity tracker-recorded sleep duration and time spent in bed from the first 3 nights after initial assessment and 3 nights prior to the RTP clearance assessment were also used for analysis. Results: Patients (n=32, 15.1±1.7 years, 41% female) completed initial and RTP clearance assessments (Table 1). On the PSQI, patients reported significantly worse overall sleep quality despite longer sleep duration and more time in bed at initial assessment relative to RTP assessment (Table 2). A majority of patients reported PSQI score >5 at both initial and RTP assessments (Table 2). There were no significant differences across time for sleep duration or time in bed as measured by actigraphy (Table 2). Patients perceived that they spent longer in bed compared to objective measures with initial assessment, and perceived longer sleep duration compared to objective measures for both initial and RTP assessments (Table 3). In each regression model, higher symptom severity was significantly associated with longer symptom resolution time (Table 4). In addition, longer time in bed after the initial assessment measured by actigraphy was significantly associated with longer symptom resolution time (Table 4). Conclusion: Patients reported obtaining more sleep and spending longer time in bed at the initial assessment compared to actigraphy measures, and a majority of patients reported poor sleep quality throughout recovery. Concussion symptom duration increased by 1 day for every 13 additional minutes spent in bed, as measured by actigraphy. Increased time in bed may indicate poor sleep habits during recovery. Both subjective and objective assessment of sleep following concussion offer valuable, yet differing, information. Future research assessing the impact of sleep intervention after concussion on symptom resolution should be considered. [Table: see text][Table: see text][Table: see text][Table: see text]

Supplemental Material: Initiation of Clockwise Rotation and Eastward Transport of Southeastern Tibet Inferred from Deflected Fault Traces and GPS Observations

Table S1: GPS velocity data in a Eurasian-fixed Reference Frame (velocity in mm/yr); Table S2: GPS velocity data in a South China Block-fixed Reference Frame (velocity in mm/yr); Table S3: GPS stations in the South China Block used to define the Euler Vector for transformation of reference frame (velocity in mm/yr); Table S4: Interpolated velocities of the points on current fault trace and extension line of undeflected fault segment, and the averages of each pair of corresponding points (velocity in mm/yr); Table S5: Position and backward velocity of points on current fault trace (velocity in mm/yr); Table S6: Points inferred from the best estimate of duration time; Table S7: Points on smoothed original fault trace.

Supplemental Material: Initiation of Clockwise Rotation and Eastward Transport of Southeastern Tibet Inferred from Deflected Fault Traces and GPS Observations

Table S1: GPS velocity data in a Eurasian-fixed Reference Frame (velocity in mm/yr); Table S2: GPS velocity data in a South China Block-fixed Reference Frame (velocity in mm/yr); Table S3: GPS stations in the South China Block used to define the Euler Vector for transformation of reference frame (velocity in mm/yr); Table S4: Interpolated velocities of the points on current fault trace and extension line of undeflected fault segment, and the averages of each pair of corresponding points (velocity in mm/yr); Table S5: Position and backward velocity of points on current fault trace (velocity in mm/yr); Table S6: Points inferred from the best estimate of duration time; Table S7: Points on smoothed original fault trace.

Student E-Bridge

The main aim of this application is to reduce the communication gap between teachers and students. In the current scenario when classes are being online this application will play a very important role in reducing the crucial communication between the teachers and their students. The educational institution will have full control over the application, Admin will maintain the entire administration like Authorization, Authentication, permissions, History tracking, and troubleshooting, etc. The teacher can access all their student profile and go through her/his Time table as their daily activities. Students will get the notification when their queries get answered on their mobile in the notification tab. The Student will access all information (Subjects, Faculty, and Schedule) and maintain a good relationship with the faculty and his/her classmates as well. He/she can send or receive any kind of information (Clarification, Queries, Notice) by using the Notification tab. Different groups can be made in which selected candidates can be added and information and updates can be added in the groups. All the data will be secured in the cloud storage which would be controlled by the admin.