The Development of Islamic Big Book Learning Media For Early Children's Languages

This article aims to develop Big Bookis learning media (Big Book Islami). The problems that occur are the children's language skills are still not optimal and the learning media used by the teacher is less attractive so that they are less able to improve children's language skills. This article uses a research and development approach. The data collection technique used in this research is a questionnaire and documentation method. Media that have been assessed by material experts and teachers are then given to students of Kindergarten ABA 13 Helvetia Medan as respondents and their language development is assessed by the teacher. The method used to analyze the data is expressed in the distribution of scores on a scale of five against a predetermined rating scale category. The results of Islamic Big Book Learning Media Development are declared suitable for use after being tested by developers, material experts, media experts, and users. Details of the data obtained from the test results include: material expert testing obtained a score of 4 and a presentation value of 80% with a decent category, media expert testing obtained a score of 4, and a presentation value of 80% with a decent category, and the results of children's language development through Islamic Big Book 80 media. .83 with a well-developed category. The results of the study show that Big Bookis media can improve children's language skills in Kindergarten ABA 13 Helvetia Medan.

Pharmacogenomic Testing and Patient Perception Inform Pain Pharmacotherapy

(1) Background: Chronic pain is one of the most common reasons for individuals to seek medications. Historically, opioids have been the mainstay of chronic pain management. However, in some patient populations, opioids fail to demonstrate therapeutic efficacy, whereas in other populations, opioids may cause toxic effects, even at lower doses. Response to pain medication is affected by many factors, including an individual’s genetic variations. Pharmacogenomic testing has been designed to help achieve optimal treatment outcomes. This study aimed at assessing the impact of CYP2D6 pharmacogenomic testing on physicians’ choice in prescribing chronic pain medications and patient pain control. (2) Methods: This retrospective study reviewed 107 patient charts from a single site pain management center. All 107 patients received pharmacogenomic testing. The outcomes of interest were confirmation that the optimal pain medication is being administered or a change in the chronic pain medication is warranted as a result of the pharmacogenomic testing. The main independent variable was the pharmacogenomic test result. Other independent variables included patient gender, race, and comorbidities. The retrospective study was reviewed and approved by the Touro College and University System IRB, HSIRB1653E. (3) Results: Patients self-reported pain intensity on a scale of 1–10 before and after pharmacogenomic testing. Then, 100% of patients in the retrospective study were tested for their pain pharmacogenomic profile. Of the 107 patients participating in the study, more than 50% had their medications altered as a result of the pharmacogenomic testing. The percentage of patients with intense pain were decreased post-pharmacogenomic testing (5.6%) as compared to pre-pharmacogenomic testing (10.5%). Patients with intense, moderate, and mild pain categories were more likely to receive changes in pain medications. In contrast, patients with severe pain were less likely to receive a change in pain medication. Hispanic ethnicity was associated with a statistically significantly decrease in a pain scale category. Illegal drug abuse was associated with a decrease in pain scale category. Change in medication dose was associated with a decrease in pain scale category. (4) Conclusion: In this retrospective study, implementation of pharmacogenomic testing demonstrated significant benefits to patients with intense pain undergoing treatment.

Critically Ill Children in a Swiss Pediatric Emergency Department With an Interdisciplinary Approach: A Prospective Cohort Study

Objective: Delivery of prompt and adequate care for critically ill and injured children presenting to the pediatric emergency department (PED) is paramount for optimal outcomes. Knowledge of the local epidemiology, patient profile, and presentation modes are key for organizational planning, staff education strategy, and optimal care in a PED. Our aim was to analyze the profile of critically ill and injured children admitted to a tertiary, non-academic Swiss PED, to investigate potential risk factors associated with admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and the outcomes mortality and PICU admission.Methods: Prospective cohort study of critically ill and injured children presenting to the PED over a two-year period (2018–2019). Inclusion criteria were Australasian triage scale category (ATS) 1, trauma team activation (TTA), medical emergency response (MER) activation, additional critical care consult, and transfer to an outside hospital.Results: Of 42,579 visits during the two-year period, 347 presentations matched the inclusion criteria (0.81%). Leading presentations were central nervous system (CNS) disorders (26.2%), trauma (25.1%), and respiratory emergencies (24.2%). 288 out of 347 cases (83%) arrived during the day or evening with an even distribution over the days of the week. 128 out of 347 (37%) arrived unexpectedly as walk-ins. 233 (67.15%) were ATS category 1. 51% of the cohort was admitted to PICU. Australasian triage scale category 1 was significantly more common in this group (p = 0.0001). Infants with respiratory disease had an increased risk of PICU transfer compared to other age groups (OR 4.18 [95%CI 2.46, 7.09] p = 0.0001), and this age group presented mainly as walk-in (p = 0.0001). Pediatric intensive care unit admissions had a longer hospital stay (4 [2, 8] days vs. 2 [1, 4] days, p = 0.0001) compared to other patients. 0.045% of all PED patients had to be transferred out. Three deaths (0.86%) occurred in the PED, 10 patients died in the PICU (2.9%).Conclusions: High acuity presentations in the PED were rare, more likely to be young with CNS disorders, trauma and respiratory diseases. A significant proportion were unexpected walk-in presentations, mainly during day and evening shifts. Low exposure to high-acuity patients highlights the importance of deliberate learning and simulation for all professionals in the PED.

Hurricanes and hashtags: Characterizing online collective attention for natural disasters

We study collective attention paid towards hurricanes through the lens of n-grams on Twitter, a social media platform with global reach. Using hurricane name mentions as a proxy for awareness, we find that the exogenous temporal dynamics are remarkably similar across storms, but that overall collective attention varies widely even among storms causing comparable deaths and damage. We construct ‘hurricane attention maps’ and observe that hurricanes causing deaths on (or economic damage to) the continental United States generate substantially more attention in English language tweets than those that do not. We find that a hurricane’s Saffir-Simpson wind scale category assignment is strongly associated with the amount of attention it receives. Higher category storms receive higher proportional increases of attention per proportional increases in number of deaths or dollars of damage, than lower category storms. The most damaging and deadly storms of the 2010s, Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, generated the most attention and were remembered the longest, respectively. On average, a category 5 storm receives 4.6 times more attention than a category 1 storm causing the same number of deaths and economic damage.

Climatic Variation of Maximum Intensification Rate for Major Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific

To analyze the dependence of intensification rates of tropical cyclones (TCs) on the variation of environmental conditions, an index is proposed here to measure the lifetime maximum intensification rates (LMIRs) for the Saffir–Simpson scale category 4–5 TCs over the western North Pacific. To quantitatively describe the intensification rate of major TCs, the LMIR is defined as the maximum acceleration in the sustained-wind-speed over a 24-h period of an overwater TC. This new index, LMIR, is generally independent of the indices for RI frequency. The results show that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) modulates the inter-annual relationship between the LMIR and El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The PDO’s modulation on the ENSO’s effect on the LMIR is explored here by considering the relationship between the LMIR and the environmental conditions in different PDO phases. While the ENSO’s effect on the LMIR for the warm PDO phase is generally by affecting the variations of upper ocean heat content, ENSO mainly influences the variations of zonal wind and vertical wind shear for the cold PDO phase. Our results suggest that fast translating TCs tend to attain strong intensification during the warm PDO phase, while a warm subsurface condition may permit slow-translating TCs also to become strongly intensified during the cooling PDO phase. These findings have an important implication for both prediction of RI and the long-term projection of TC activities in the western North Pacific.

Introducing a Method for Intervals Correction on Multiple Likert Scales: A Case Study on an Urban Soundscape Data Collection Instrument

Likert scales are useful for collecting data on attitudes and perceptions from large samples of people. In particular, they have become a well-established tool in soundscape studies for conducting in situ surveys to determine how people experience urban public spaces. However, it is still unclear whether the metrics of the scales are consistently interpreted during a typical assessment task. The current work aims at identifying some general trends in the interpretation of Likert scale metrics and introducing a procedure for the derivation of metric corrections by analyzing a case study dataset of 984 soundscape assessments across 11 urban locations in London. According to ISO/TS 12913-2:2018, soundscapes can be assessed through the scaling of 8 dimensions: pleasant, annoying, vibrant, monotonous, eventful, uneventful, calm, and chaotic. The hypothesis underlying this study is that a link exists between correlations across the percentage of assessments falling in each Likert scale category and a dilation/compression factor affecting the interpretation of the scales metric. The outcome of this metric correction value derivation is introduced for soundscape, and a new projection of the London soundscapes according to the corrected circumplex space is compared with the initial ISO circumplex space. The overall results show a general non-equidistant interpretation of the scales, particularly on the vibrant-monotonous direction. The implications of this correction have been demonstrated through a Linear Ridge Classifier task for predicting the London soundscape responses using objective acoustic parameters, which shows significant improvement when applied to the corrected data. The results suggest that the corrected values account for the non-equidistant interpretation of the Likert metrics, thereby allowing mathematical operations to be viable when applied to the data.

Psychovisual Perception Scale Based on a Neural Network

The purpose of this article is to construct a psychophysical scale of visual perception from lighting scene based on a direct propagation neural network using for assessment of real or synthesized images with spatial brightness distribution. Visual perception assessments of different scenes were obtained for 10 observers at the experimental installation of the Department of lighting engineering of the MPEI (NRU). These results were checked and found out agreed with the numerical scale of visual perception proposed by Lekish and Holladay. Neural network was trained to predict a sensation at the level of 40-70%, depending on the scale category. For more careful prediction level in each of 5 categories of scale a new experiment should be done with new calibration and with tested instructions and with more observers involved. The novelty consists in using a neural network as an expert to assess the degree of comfort of the lighting scene.

Analysis of the third generation buy-back program for fishing vessels in Turkey

The third buy-back program in Turkey entered into force in 2014 with the Notice No. 29023 of the Official Gazette titled “Notice of Agricultural Support-Official Notice of Decommissioning of Fishing Vessels”, issued by the Directorate of Fishery and Aquaculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. This study is an evaluation of the third generation of the program. In this study, simple random sampling method was used to interview 89 vessel owners out of a total number of 191 vessels which are longer than 10 meters. The biggest number of buy-backs was in Marmara Region (38%), followed by the Agean (15%) and the Mediterranean (15%) regions. Most of the decommissioned vessels were 10-12 meters in length. The only fisher that benefited from the program was the owner of a vessel longer than 31 meters. The remaining 9 vessels were longer than 12 meters and shorter than 23 meters. In the scope of the program, 95% of the buy-back vessels are in the small-scale category. Among those, 41% of the vessels were in use for 3-90 days, while 4% had never been used within the year 2015. However, 60% of the owners who handed over their vessels also owned a second boat. Although 85% of the fishers employed a crew on-board and 73% of their crew were not family members, the fact that the program lacks a component for the crew can also be criticised. In conclusion; the third generation buy-back program bought a total of 191 vessels for 22.5 Million Turkish Liras ($8.3M US). However, since 77% of the interviewees continued fishing with their second boat and 26% bought a new boat with the support they were granted. Therefore all details of the results and the success of the buy-back programs should be evaluated by the authorities and future programs should be put into practice with necessary amendments.

Evaluation on Augmented-Reality-Based Interactive Book Using System Usability Scale and User Experience Questionnaire

Nowadays, the implementation of information and communication technology in education is important. In harmony with technological developments, the term mobile learning comes to represent learning that utilizes mobile communication devices. The implementation of augmented reality in education provides a new learning model in the form of a combination of technology-based conventional learning media. This research aimed to evaluate augmented reality-based books as media for learning Cirebon mask dance. As many as 15 respondents were involved in the evaluation process, including testing the usability using the System Usability Scale (SUS) and User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ). The evaluation using SUS found a value of 77.67, meaning that the Acceptability Ranges category was “Acceptable”; the Grade Scale category was “C”; and the Adjective Rating category was “Excellent”, while that using UEQ found that each category, namely Attractiveness, Perspicuity, Efficiency, Dependability, Stimulation, Dependability, and Novelty got a value greater than the impression value (0.8), namely 2.122; 2.117; 1.983; 1.750; 1.950 and 1,867, respectively. Overall, all of the evaluation results show that augmented reality-based books are acceptable to be used as media for learning Cirebon mask dance.

Mapping Evolution of Audit Quality Measurement

This study discusses the audit quality measurement issues. The issue becomes important because of difficult will be to define audit quality measurements by many researchers. This research aims to map audit quality measurements with certain aspects and becomes important in making it easier for researchers, especially beginner researchers to choose the approach to audit quality measurement. The type of research is explanatory with a qualitative approach. Data analysis methods doing three steps viz. data reduction, data display, and data verification with data triangulation technique. The findings of this study show that researchers who are interested in measuring audit quality variables should do to mapping first to understand of measurement formats into the audit quality proxies according to the definition of audit quality, derived from proxies used in previous studies, measurement formulation and choose the use of scales. This study is very important considering secondary data usage will look at the measurement scale category to determine the methods and data analysis techniques to be selected as well as the statistical program assistance which can be used.