Volontiranje je definisano kao neprofitna aktivnost kojom jedinka doprinosi razvoju svoje lokalne zajednice (Allen i Rushton, 1983). Iz svakodnevnih razgovora sa studentima se zaključuje da se ...značajan broj njih uključuje u različite volonterske aktivnosti, te je cilj ovog istraživanja bio utvrditi razloge uključenja studenata u volonterski rad, na području Bosne i Hercegovine. Konkretno, izabran je volonterski angažman studenata na savjetodavnoj liniji “Plavi telefon”, koja godinama okuplja veći broj volontera, prvenstveno onih koji se bave pomagačkim profesijama. “Plavi telefon” je jedna od usluga koje pruža nevladina organizacija „Nova generacija“ iz Banje Luke, a podrazumijeva pružanje besplatne psihološke pomoći i podrške svim građanima Bosne i Hercegovine. U ovom radu predstavljeni su podaci dobijeni intervjuisanjem studenata volontera koji su imali priliku biti angažovani na Plavom telefonu (n = 10). Uzorak je činilo 9 studenata psihologije i 1 student pedagogije (9 studentkinja i 1 student), prosječne starosti 21 godinu (M = 21.63, SD = 1.12). Sa ispitanicima su obavljeni intervjui putem onlajn platformi „Zoom“ i „Google Meet“. Dobijeni rezultati sugerišu da su najčešće navođeni razlozi uključenja u volonterski angažman bili profesionalno usavršavanje, želja za ličnim rastom i razvojem, te potreba da se pomogne drugima. Kao pozitivne aspekte volontiranja studenti navode karakteristike organizacije i sam tretman volontera. Kao potencijalni negativan aspekt volontiranja, većina volontera navodi tzv. testirajuće pozive (pojava da tinejdžeri, ali i odrasli zovu “Plavi telefon” neozbiljno pristupajući liniji i ismijavajući rad volontera). U radu se detaljnije prikazuje volonterski rad na “Plavom telefonu” i diskutuje se o značaju volontiranja u ovakvoj organizaciji.
Few studies have focused on frailty as a predictor of mortality and readmission among inpatients in the acute care setting, especially over long follow-up periods. We conducted this study to ...determine the impact of the frailty on subsequent mortality and readmission in this setting. This study was a prospective observational study conducted in the acute geriatric wards, with a three-year follow-up duration. We assessed frailty via the 36-item Frailty Index (FI), and a cut-off value of 0.25 was used to identify the presence or absence of frailty. We collected survival and readmission information through telephone interviews at 12, 24, and 36 months. We used the Cox regression model to examine the association between frailty and outcomes interested (death and readmission). The present study included 271 patients (mean age: 81.1 years old; 20.3% females), of whom 21.4% died during the 3-year follow-up period. One hundred and thirty-three patients (49.1%) were identified as being frail. The prevalence of frailty was similar in men and women (46.8% vs.58.2%, P = 0.130). Compared with non-frail patients, death and hospital readmission rates of frail patients were increased. Frailty was an independent predictor of 3-year death (adjusted hazard ratio (HR): 2.09; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.20 to 3.63) and readmission (adjusted HR: 1.40; 95% CI: 1.04 to 1.88) after adjusting for several potential confounders. Frailty is prevalent among older inpatients and is a valuable predictor of 3-year mortality and hospital readmission in an acute care setting.
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One of the efforts of banks to do marketing is by telephone to offer their products, such as deposits. There are many variables that influence whether the customer decides to subscribe or ...not. In this study, we present a comparison of feature selection from high features dataset. We use a bank marketing dataset which has 20 features and consists of 4,119 instances. We consider 2 ranking methods entropy-based, namely Information Gain (IG) and Gain Ratio (GR). In our experiment, we classified the various selected based on the ranking of the selected features using Naïve Bayes. We show that the selection of different features is important for classification accuracy. The different combinations of feature selection can affect the accuracy results.
In this paper, we use a Markovian switching process to model the telephone noise in the environment, and propose a stochastic regime-switching predator–prey model with harvesting and distributed ...delays. We first establish the sufficient and necessary conditions for the extinction and the existence of a unique ergodic invariant measure of the model. These criteria can be used to justify whether the populations die out or not when they will die out in some subsystems and will be persistent in others. Then we obtain the sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of an optimal harvesting policy, and give the explicit forms of the optimal harvesting effort and the maximum of sustainable yield. The impacts of the telephone noise on the persistence, extinction and optimal harvesting policy of the model are revealed. Some recent results on predator–prey models without telephone noise are also improved.
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Stroke and cognitive impairment are common in older population. They often occur together and their combined effects significantly increase disability in both basic (BADLs) and instrumental ...(IADLs) activities of daily living. We investigated the individual and combined impacts of stroke and cognitive impairment on BADLs and IADLs. A total of 3331 community-dwelling older adults were enrolled from the Taiwan longitudinal study on aging in 2011. Both BADLs and IADLs were analyzed. Combination of stroke and cognitive impairment increased severity of ADL disabilities, but similar prevalence, similar numbers of summed BADL and IADL tasks with disability, and similar levels of difficulty for each BADL and IADL task were found between the stroke group and cognitive impairment group. The former had more difficult in dressing while the latter had more difficult in using the telephone, transport, and managing finances. A hierarchy of ADLs was also observed in all groups. ADL skill training supplemented with cognitive and physical interventions should focus on secondary prevention of dementia and improve motor functional capacity to reduce loss of ADLs.
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The construction of 12328 telephone is a process of gathering wisdom from multiple sources, focusing on top-level design, and advancing as a whole nationwide. In the process of project ...construction, combined with the public’s demand for travel services and the improvement of the transport industry’s governance capabilities, the “12328” telephone system was researched from top-level design, technology research and development, system construction, and data application. Moreover, technological breakthroughs have been carried out based on key and difficult areas. Based on the above research, the telephone service resources of all areas of the transport industry have been integrated, and the national transport service supervision telephone ‘12328’ one-off dialing service has been realized, and an efficient, smooth and convenient channel for public sentiment and information service has been formed. The 12328 transport service supervision system with unified standards, reasonable structure, complete functions and efficient operation has been established nationwide. And by reserving interfaces with related industries, promote the interconnection and intercommunication of comprehensive transport service supervision information and the collaborative processing of business.
The objective of the study is to analyze the dynamic linkages between technology factors and carbon emission in a panel of 26 selected European countries from 2000 to 2017. The results of the panel ...fixed-effect regression model show the monotonic increasing function between agriculture technology and carbon emissions. In contrast, panel quantile regression confirmed the inverted U-shaped ‘Agriculture Technology Kuznets curve (ATKC)’ of carbon emissions at 30th quantile distribution to 80th quantile distribution with the turning points of 12,60,000 tractors to 9,68,000 tractors, respectively. The results further exhibit the negative relationship between high-technology exports and carbon emissions, as high-technology exports have a positive impact on environmental quality in order to reduce carbon emissions across countries. The relationship between ICT goods exports and carbon emissions is complimentary, while R&D expenditures have a negative relationship with carbon emissions in a given period. The study substantiates the ‘pollution haven hypothesis (PHH)’ that is controlled by trade liberalization policies. The telephone and mobile penetrations have a differential impact on carbon emissions in both of the prescribed statistical techniques, which needs fair economic policies in order to delimit carbon emissions through green ICT infrastructure. The results further exhibit the ‘material footprint’ that is visible at the earlier stages of economic development while it is substantially decreasing at the later stages to verify ‘environmental Kuznets curve (EKC)’ hypothesis with a turning point of US$45,700. Finally, the study shows the positive relationship between industry value-added and carbon emissions that sabotaged the process of green development across countries. The study concludes that green ICT infrastructure is imperative for sustainable production and consumption, and climate change protection with cleaner production techniques and environmental regulations that reshape the international policies towards sustained growth.
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