Bacterial diversity in high Andean grassland soils disturbed with Lepidium meyenii crops evaluated by metagenomics

Soil quality is usually determined by its physical-chemical characteristics without taking into account the bacterial communities that play a fundamental role in the chemical decomposition of plant nutrients. In this context, the objective of the study was to evaluate bacterial diversity in high Andean grassland soils disturbed with Lepidium meyenii cultivation under different gradients of use (first, second and third use) and crop development (pre-sowing, hypocotyl development and post-harvest). The sampling was carried out in the Bombón plateau in the central Andes of Peru, during the rainy and low water seasons, by the systematic method based on a specific pattern assigned in a geometric rectangular shape at a depth of 0 - 20 cm. The characterization of the bacterial communities was carried out through the metagenomic sequencing of the 16S rRNA. 376 families of bacteria were reported, of which it was determined that there was a significant change in bacterial composition and distribution in relation to use pressure. There were no major changes due to the development of Lepidium meyenii. The families most sensitive to use pressure and soil poverty indicators were Verrucomicrobiaceae, Acidobacteraceae and Aakkermansiaceae.

K-MEANS CLUSTERING FOR GROUPING INDONESIA UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS IN 2020 BASED ON POVERTY INDICATORS

Poverty is still a problem in Indonesia, especially in underdeveloped areas. Underdeveloped areas are areas where the region and its people are less developed than other regions on a national scale. The classification of disadvantaged areas is determined by the president in the Presidential Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia Number 63 of 2020 concerning the Determination of Underdeveloped Regions of 2020-2024. Various policies need to be set by the government to overcome poverty in underdeveloped areas. Program planning strategies may be different for each region. Therefore, in order to achieve an optimal implementation of poverty alleviation programs, it is necessary to group the districts covered in underdeveloped areas in Indonesia based on poverty indicators. The data used is macro data from the characteristics of each region in disadvantaged areas obtained from regional publications in the figures for each district. From the results of the analysis of k means clustering formed three groups with different characteristics in each cluster. In cluster one, the focus of government policies is on employment and sanitation aspects, cluster two is on health, education, and employment aspects, cluster three is on all aspects because cluster three is the area with the highest percentage of poor people compared to the other two clusters. The high percentage of poor people is also followed by other poor aspects.

Aid, Multidimensional Poverty and Growth: Reversing the Micro-Macro Paradox in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone

This article analyses whether Official Development Assistance (ODA) is linked to multidimensional poverty indicators in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Indictors and the principles stated by the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation. Focused on three western Sub-Saharan Africa and least developing countries such as Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, this article uses Error Correction Vector Model to estimate if ODA and economic growth are cointegrated and a sectoral and spatial analysis to check if ODA are linked to Multidimensional Poverty Indicators in the sample countries. Despite the 2014 Ebola outbreak, the three countries have achieved noticeable good results in poverty alleviation. Results shows a certain macro-micro paradox because, despite a common trend between aid and growth identified at the macro level, we cannot find any sign of ODA contributions to the multidimensional poverty indicators when the micro level analysis is carried out. Our results may serve to increase the level of implementation of the ownership principle for effective development co-operation and achieve a significant improvement of several goals and targets included on the 2030 Agenda.

الحكم الرشيد وكفاءة التخطيط للموازنة الاتحادية والدور المرتقب لتحقيق التنمية المستدامة في العراق

The Iraqi reality misses the foundations of good governance in Iraq, as well as the comprehensive development programs that produce economic and financial reforms, especially in the federal budget, which is characterized as a fragile, weak and vocal budget. Therefore, it came as a modest attempt to shed light on the justifications for achieving good and good governance and efficient planning for the federal budget in its expenditures and revenues. The public, which contributes to building the state and achieving sustainable development that helps solve the main community problems, reduce poverty indicators, reduce unemployment, provide housing and basic services for all components of Iraqi society, and one of the doors to good and rational governance is the efficient management of the federal budget in Iraq, which is represented by efficient planning for managing public money. And protecting it from corruption is in addition to the many problems that fiscal policy suffers from, including weak non-oil financial revenues and dependence on oil revenues, and the growing deficit in budget planning and reliance in particular on foreign debt in the face of the deficit, and solutions are not impossible but need a national administration to achieve them.

Analisis Clustering K-Medoids Berdasarkan Indikator Kemiskinan di Jawa Timur Tahun 2020

Keberadaan pandemi COVID-19 di Indonesia, mengakibatkan kemiskinan di Indonesia semakin tinggi terutama di Jawa Timur yang menjadi satu diantara provinsi lain dengan kasus COVID-19 tinggi di Indonesia. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu mengetahui pengelompokan kabupaten/kota di Jawa Timur yang mempunyai kesamaan karakteristik berdasarkan indikator kemiskinan tahun 2020. Penelitian ini menggunakan data yang didapatkan dari Badan Pusat Statistik. Metode yang digunakan ialah metode k-medoids clustering yang merupakan metode partisi clustering guna pengelompokan n objek ke dalam k cluster. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, diperoleh pengelompokan karakteristik masing-masing cluster yang dibentuk berdasarkan nilai indikator kemiskinan di Jawa Timur tahun 2020 sebanyak 2 cluster. Dimana 30 kabupaten/kota pada cluster 1 dan dan 8 kabupaten/kota pada cluster 2. Cluster 1 memiliki karakteristik Persentase Rumah Tangga yang Mempunyai Sanitasi Layak, Angka Harapan Hidup, dan Persentase Angka Melek Huruf Umur 15-55 Th tinggi. Sedangkan cluster 2 memiliki karakteristik Persentase Rumah Tangga Miskin Penerima Raskin, Persentase Penduduk Miskin, dan Persentase Pengeluaran Perkapita untuk Makanan dengan Status Miskin tinggi. Kata kunci: Clustering; Jawa Timur; K-medoids; kemiskinan K-Medoids Clustering Analysis Based on Poverty Indicators in East Java in 2020 ABSTRACT The existence of the pandemic COVID-19 in Indonesia has resulted in higher poverty in Indonesia, especially in East Java, which is one of the other provinces with high cases in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to find out the grouping of regencies/cities in East Java that have similar characteristics based on the poverty indicators in 2020. This study uses data obtained from the Badan Pusat Statistik. The method used is k-medoids clustering method which is a clustering partition method for grouping n objects into k clusters. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the grouping of the characteristics of each cluster formed based on the value of the poverty indicator in East Java in 2020 was 2 clusters. Where 30 regencies/cities in cluster 1 and and 8 regencies/cities in cluster 2. Cluster 1 has the characteristics of the percentage of households that have proper sanitation, life expectancy, and a high percentage of literacy rates aged 15-55 years. While cluster 2 has the characteristics of the percentage of poor households receiving Raskin, the percentage of poor people, and the percentage of per capita expenditure on food with high poor status. Keywords: Clustering; East Java; K-Medoids; poverty

Evolution of mortality and lethality due to covid-19 in the state of Roraima, Brazil, from march 2020 to july 2021

Introduction: the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Brazilian North region is worrying. There is a lack of resources for Public Health, a low human development index, and poverty indicators above the national average. Objective: to analyze mortality and lethality from COVID-19 in the State of Roraima, Brazil. Methods: this is an ecological time-series study of secondary data on COVID-19 in Roraima, Northern Brazil, from March 2020 to July 2021. The incidence, mortality, and lethality rates due to COVID-19 were calculated. The Prais-Winsten regression model was used to calculate the time series trends. Trends were classified as increasing, decreasing, or stationary. The trend was considered static when the p-value was not significant (p>0.05). Results: in the state of Roraima, from March 2020 to July 2021, there were 123,125 cases and 1,903 accumulated deaths due to COVID-19. The first wave (March 2020 to October 2021) of COVID-19 recorded the incidence rate (2,995.30 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants - July 2020) and mortality (56.32 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants - June 2020) higher lethality. However, in the second wave (November 2020 to July 2021), the highest lethality rate was observed (3.47% - February 2021). It was observed that during the first wave, the incidence rate of COVID-19 showed increasing trends. During this period, the mortality rate had a stationary tendency (p>0.05) and the percentage lethality with a decreasing trend (p<0.05). During the second wave, there was a more aggravating scenario for lethality, which changed from a daily reduction rate of 0.90% to stationary trends. Conclusion: the pandemic in the state of Roraima is not yet under control, so it is necessary to strengthen strategies to mitigate the spread of the pandemic in the region and prevent the formation of new waves.

Social Determinants of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Racial and Regional Variations

To examine whether racial and regional social determinants of health disparities exist for older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). We identified 115,879 African American (AA) and White older adults with ADRD (10% from the Deep South) from administrative claims data for a 5% random sample of Medicare beneficiaries (2013-2015). We examined racial and regional differences across sociodemographic characteristics, county-level linked poverty indicators, medical resource availability categories, insurances quality indicators. Social context differences were found between regions including Deep South older adults with ADRD having higher economic impoverishment and lower access rates to specialty medical care services. Older Deep South AA had higher Medicare/Medicaid eligibility rates and less medical access. Significant socioeconomic disparities exist between Deep South and other US regions across several social determinant factors in older adults with ADRD. Social context differences were especially prominent for older Deep South AA with ADRD.

The Effect of Ageing, Gender and Environmental Problems in Subjective Well-Being

This paper studies the relationship of factors such as ageing, gender and environmental problems included in the quality of life (QoL) with the subjective well-being represented by the life satisfaction (LS) indicator of the citizens of 33 European countries. To do so, it uses the LS of a country’s citizens as the dependent variable; ageing, gender and environmental variables as independent variables; and other factors included in the QoL indicators and macroeconomic factors as control variables. Analysis uses data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the European Values Study (EVS) for LS, from Eurostat for QoL indicators and World Bank for macroeconomic indicators. The values of LS have been treated based on the individual data from WVS and EVS in percentages according to their levels by country, and we present four robust models (two logit model and two OLS model). The results show that arrears of people aged 65 and over are a relation of positive significative in models with low levels of LS. The opposite is true for the income of people aged 65 and over. On the other hand, pollution, grime or other environmental problems and inequality show an inverse relationship with life satisfaction in models with high levels of satisfaction and a positive relationship in models with low levels of satisfaction. Nonetheless, the study has also shown contradictions in the gender gap and poverty indicators that should be studied further.

The burden and determinants of post-TB lung disease

BACKGROUND: Post-TB lung disease (PTLD) is an important but under-recognised chronic respiratory disease in high TB burden settings such as Tanzania.METHODS: This was a cross-sectional survey of adults within 2 years of completion of TB treatment in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Data were collected using questionnaires (symptoms and exposures), spirometry and chest radiographs to assess outcome measures, which were correlated with daily life exposures, including environment and diet.RESULTS: Of the 219 participants enrolled (mean age: 45 years ± 10; 193 88% males), 98 (45%) reported chronic respiratory symptoms; 46 (22%) had received treatment for TB two or more times; and HIV prevalence was 35 (16%). Spirometric abnormalities were observed in 146 (67%). Chest X-ray abnormalities occurred in 177 (86%). A diagnosis of PTLD was made in 200 (91%), and half had clinically relevant PTLD. The prevalence of mMRC ≥Grade 3 chronic bronchitis and dyspnoea was respectively 11% and 26%. Older age, multiple episodes of TB and poverty indicators were linked with clinically relevant PTLD.CONCLUSIONS: We found a substantial burden of PTLD in adults who had recently completed TB treatment in Tanzania. There is a pressing need to identify effective approaches for both the prevention and management of this disease.