Objective: To evaluate the relationship between occupational formaldehyde exposure and physical health symptoms among pathology laboratory workers. Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted between May and September 2016, and included 98 healthcare workers. Formaldehyde exposure was measured using a badge method during an eight-hour shift, and the Formaldehyde Exposure Index (FAI) was calculated. Participants completed a structured questionnaire covering sociodemographic characteristics, occupational factors, and physical symptoms. The Mann-Whitney U test and correlation analyses were used for statistical evaluation. Results: The mean age of participants was 40.06 ± 9.09 years. The median formaldehyde measurement was 0.030 ppm (range: 0.004–4.400). Formaldehyde levels were significantly lower in laboratories with local and general ventilation systems (p < 0.05). A total of 89.8% of participants reported at least one physical symptom; the most common were unpleasant odor (75.3%), headache (61.3%), and watery eyes (58.1%). The mean FMI of those reporting at least one symptom (513.83 ± 381.16) was significantly higher than that of those without symptoms (15.35 ± 11.05) (p = 0.001). Conclusion: The incidence of physical symptoms increased with higher formaldehyde exposure indices among pathology laboratory workers. These findings highlight the critical importance of effective ventilation systems, personal protective equipment use, and regular exposure monitoring in protecting worker health.
The significance of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has developed greatly in the last decade, denoting out the important requirement for expandable and energy-efficient routing and data grouping and clustering protocols regarding large-scale encompassment. Most of the study in this field has worked on energy-efficient results, but has not completely evaluated the network efficiency, e.g. in terms of data grouping speed and time. The main goal of this paper is to provide a useful fully-allocated deduction algorithm for clustering, based on supported generation. The algorithm chooses cluster heads, based on a different set of universal and local specification, which finally accomplishes, under the energy conditions, aggregates network efficiency. Analyzing the algorithm execution shows an improvement in yield in more than 40% correlated to HEED scheme. This benefit is shown in terms of network dependability, data collection quality and transmission cost.
Nowdays, cooperative team which composed by the group pursue goal is importance in society, and learning also. To focus on receiving information and teaching strategies and also have to consider learner’s process of learning is important, because psychological factor will indirectly influence learning effect. The purpose of this study is to assist learning skill through integrated system of society communication on mobile device. Subjects were 35 second grader students from the optional course visual communication design of college in Kaohsiung city. The Line group received the mobile device for four weeks in “course visual communication design” while Facebook group received the PC edition, subjects exchange of knowledge with peer. The results of this research were as followed: effects of cooperative learning teaching upgrade. In comparison with PC edition, mobile device is more upgrade in effect.
Due to the increased growth in pervasive applications and wide spread in our day-to-day life activities there occurs a requirement for event awareness to safeguard users being distributed. For these situations, the behaviour of the application depends on the sensed events in addition to internal state and communication between the users upon execution. The major roles are played by event and event awareness in pervasive for performing user choices on behalf of them. The paper proposes a model facilitating reusable event model based upon the ontology. It achieves event reasoning by giving structure for events, rules and their semantics. A multi-field platform usage model is created initially to obtain promising results.
This paper discusses the short-term prediction of wind power and wind speed. The test data is collected at a wind power station in 30 seconds interval. A time-series model and a neural network prediction model are applied for predicting the wind speed and wind power predictions. The performances of prediction of different time points are compared.
This study was carried out to elucidate some of the physical and psychological features of Turkish national badminton team. It was participated by 18 male and 10 female total of 28 national team badminton players. The average age, height , body weight , sporting experience and number of times which they wore the national jersey for the males were 17.88 ± 3.079 years, 177.77 ± 7.13 cm, 70.22 ± 7.28 kg, 8.05 ± 2.6 years and 5.1 ± 2.9 times respectively. Same parameters were found to be 17.00 ± 2.35 years, 168.60 ± 5.29 cm, 60.60 ± 5.35 kg, 7.33 ± 1.3 years and 4.5 ± 0.7 times for the female badminton players. The resting pulse beat, flexibility, vertical jump, 30 m sprint test, aerobic capacity (VO2max), power (paw. back and leg), audio –visual reaction times and the body fat content of the participants were also determined . The data obtained were analyzed by the descriptive statistics (mean values. standard deviation. minimum and maximum values) using SPPS statistical software. The mean flexibility values of the male and female players were 38.5 cm and 40.2 cm. The values for 30 m sprint test were 30 m 4.26 s and 4.93 s . VO2max values for male and female players were found to be 54.95 (ml/kg/min) and 45.47 (ml/kg/min) respectively. Right-–left-paw, leg and back strengths were 46.20 kg, 41.06 kg , 133.66 kg and 112.57 kg for males and 32.37 kg, 28.75 kg, 88.55 kg and 76.50 kg for females; The visual-right-, visual-left, audial –right-and audial – left- reaction times were found to be 216.22 ms, 200.38 ms, 176.22 ms and 175.66 ms for the males . The corresponding values for the females were 205.30 ms, 210.8 ms, 171.50 ms and 184.40 msn respectively. Finally the body fat percentages were % 10.6 for the males and % 19.6 for the females. In conclusion it was found that the physical parameters of the badminton players in Turkish national team were similar to the players coming from different countries.
European Union in several last decades have paid attention to specific instruments and funds development in order to give its contribution to harmonious popularization and development of rural tourism. One of the most important strategic aims of Serbian economic development is supporting of the villages’ sustainable development through rural economy diversification where rural tourism development has an important place. In spite of this model of tourism importance recognition as a possible way of rural areas development, Serbia is in an opening phase of it. Although there are several positive examples, it is significant that recent projects haven’t been established according to national and European development programs, but according to private initiatives of individuals and groups. This paper aim is to emphasise EU funds importance in touristic projects and rural tourism development projects investment, as well as cross border cooperation significance. Taking into consideration the importance of EU financial support in rural tourism development, the object of conducted research were analyses of touristic subjects in rural areas of Vojvodina information, interest and inclusion in projects invested by European Union funds
Objectives: The objective of the study is to report the association between the phenotype of the Turner syndrome with that of its karyotype and the parental origin of the X. Material and Methods: Cytogenetic analysis by GTG banding method was performed in 11 female probands, referred to division of Human Genetics, Department of Anatomy, St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India to confirm the Turner syndrome (TS). After obtaining an informed consent from the confirmed TS female, parental origin of X was determined by using X chromosome specific Short Tandem Repeat (STR) markers. Results: In 11 female probands, one had X structural abnormality; 2 had X-mosaicism and 8 had 45, X. The determined parental origin of X was maternal in 8 (72.7%) and paternal in 3 (27.2%). The typical Turner phenotype and psychosocial traits were observed only in the probands with maternal origin of X. Turner stigmata were observed in 54.16% of subjects irrespective of the parental origin; with maternal X (8) it was 73.42% and with Xp (3), it was 26.57%. On correlation, ≥ 50% of probands with maternally derived X had higher degree of Turner stigmata Conclusion: In the present study, the Turner syndrome features were seemed to be associated with the maternal origin of X.