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The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) acquires new observations of the Earth from a state-of-the-art, optically fast F/1.8 visible to short wavelength infrared imaging spectrometer with high signal-to-noise ratio and excellent spectroscopic uniformity. EMIT was launched to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 14, 2022 local time. The EMIT instrument is the latest in a series of more than 30 imaging spectrometers and testbeds developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, beginning with the Airborne Imaging Spectrometer that first flew in 1982. EMIT's science objectives use the spectral signatures of minerals observed across the Earth's arid and semi-arid lands containing dust sources to update the soil composition of advanced Earth System Models (ESMs) to better understand and reduce uncertainties in mineral dust aerosol radiative forcing at the local, regional, and global scale, now and in the future. EMIT has begun to collect and deliver high-quality mineral composition determinations for the arid land regions of our planet. Over 1 billion high-quality mineral determinations are expected over the course of the one-year nominal science mission. Currently, detailed knowledge of the composition of the Earth's mineral dust source regions is uncertain and traced to less than 5,000 surface sample mineralogical analyses. The development of the EMIT imaging spectrometer instrumentation was completed successfully, despite the severe impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The EMIT Science Data System is complete and running with the full set of algorithms required. These tested algorithms are open source and will be made available to the broader community. These include calibration to measured radiance, atmospheric correction to surface reflectance, mineral composition determination, aggregation to ESM resolution, and ESM runs to address the science objectives. In this paper, the instrument characteristics, ground calibration, in-orbit performance, and early science results are reported. © 2023 IEEE.
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The covid pandemic with national lockdowns and restrictions profoundly affected people's lives in many ways including the experience of neighbourhood noise. Initial research indicated a rise in noise complaints at the start of restrictions (Tong, 2021) supported by CIEH, 2022 finding a 54% increase in noise complaints in 2020/21. Analysis of complaints received in 2020 and 2021 at one local authority in Northern Ireland indicates a different experience. Total number of complaints did not see statistically significant increases when compared to 5-year averages. While there were increases in some categories, comparison with 5-year averages were not statistically significant. The only category of noise with a statistically significant increase in 2020 related to retail, returning to a more typical pattern in 2021. It may be explained by increased demand in essential food retail as well as social distancing requirements, limitations to customers inside, etc., as the sector adapted in 2020 followed by people becoming used to changes and a return to some behaviours more akin to those pre-covid. A wider study involving local authorities across Northern Ireland, the UK and countries that experienced lockdown measures may reveal a more accurate picture of the impact of neighbourhood noise experienced during the covid pandemic. © 2022 Internoise 2022 - 51st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering. All rights reserved.
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Aim. To assess the changes in cardiology diagnostics scope in the Russian Federation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Material and methods. In an online survey organized by the Division of Human Health of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), including questions about changes in the workflow of diagnostic laboratories and the scope of cardiac diagnostics from March 2019 (pre-pandemic) to April 2020 (first wave of the pandemic) and April 2021 (recovery stage), 15 Russian medical centers from 5 cities took part. Results. The decrease in the diagnostics scope by April 2020 by 59,3% compared to March 2019, by April 2021, stopped and was replaced by growth (+7,1%, the recovery rate, 112,1%). The greatest increase was in routine examinations, such as echocardiography (+11,6%), stress echocardiography (+18,7%), stress single photon emission computed tomography (+9,7%), and to a lesser extent resting computed tomography angiography (+7,0%) and magnetic resonance imaging (+6,6%). The performance of stress electrocardiography, stress magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography for the diagnosis of endocarditis in April 2021 compared to March 2019 decreased by 10,3%, 63,2% and 62,5%, respectively. Conclusion. Due to the resumption of patient admissions for cardiac examinations during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with the anti-epidemic measures taken and certain changes in the workflow, there has been a recovery in the diagnostics scope in most of the included centers. Copyright © 2022, Silicea-Poligraf. All rights reserved.
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BACKGROUND: An essential component of becoming a professional nurse is a perspective of global health issues and an awareness of diverse populations. Collaborative online international learning (COIL) using digital technologies, offers meaningful and rewarding opportunities to develop international partnerships between nurses from other countries, without economic, organisational or geographical barriers. Despite reported advantages of using COIL, few COIL interventions have been identified in the nursing literature. The aims of this study are to develop, implement and evaluate a COIL program between Australian and Canadian pre-registration nursing students. METHODS: The study will utilize a mixed methods approach incorporating pre and post-test surveys, focus groups, and semi-structured interviews of key stakeholders. The design will adhere to The State University of New York (SUNY) COIL's criteria for intercultural/international learning opportunities. Participants will be recruited from nursing programs at an Australian Training and Further Education Institute and a Canadian college. Bennett's stages of intercultural competence will provide the theoretical framework for the research. Four specific research interventions will be developed for this project. For students, there will be an online virtual community to allow students and teachers to communicate, socially connect and share resources with each other. Virtual reality simulations will be employed within a virtual global classroom to promote collaborative, intercultural learning. For faculty, a virtual community of practice will provide a platform for faculty to share education and research ideas and participate in collaborate research opportunities. DISCUSSION: This study will evaluate the outcomes of a nursing COIL program. It will measure participants' views on COIL, its contribution to student learning, changes in cultural awareness, organisational impact and research productivity. It will provide nursing students with the opportunity to become global leaders in nursing care and for faculty to develop international research skills and outputs. The findings from the study will allow further refinement of future nursing COIL programs.
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The 2019/20 Level 4 mathematics cohort at the Nottingham Trent University sat a full set of mid-year assessments in January 2020 under completely normal circumstances. However, the Covid-19 lockdown meant that their end of year assessments, along with all of their teaching and learning from March 2020 onwards, moved fully online. This has given us a unique opportunity to understand how the same cohort perform in contrasting situations. In this study we consider the issue of attainment gaps and find that the attainment gap closed in this cohort for black and minority ethnic students but that students from a lower socio-economic background may have been put at a disadvantage by the move to online teaching, learning and assessment. We use a linear mixed effect models approach to present statistical evidence to support these two claims as well as investigating the specific aspects of the move online, which may have caused these results.
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Aim. To assess the impact of the first wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the diagnosis of heart disease in the Russian Federation. Material and methods. Fifteen Russian medical centers from 5 cities took part in an online survey organized by the Division of Human Health of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), containing questions regarding alterations in cardiovascular procedure volumes resulting from COVID-19 in March-April 2020. Results. A number of outpatients undergoing cardiac diagnostic procedures was noted in 80% of clinics. Cardiovascular procedure volumes in the period from March 2019 to March 2020 in general decreased by 9,5%, and from March 2019 to April 2020, by 56,5%. Stress electrocardiography decreased by 38,4%, stress echocardiography by 72,5%, stress single-photon emission computed tomography by 66,9%, computed tomography angiography by 49,7%, magnetic resonance imaging by 42,7%, invasive coronary angiography by 40,7%. The decrease in diagnostic procedure volumes in selected regions (Tomsk Oblast, Kemerovo Oblast, Tatarstan) was not so pronounced compared to Moscow and St. Petersburg (-20,7%,-75,2%,-93,8% in April 2020, respectively, p<0,001). Conclusion. The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a sharp decrease in the number of diagnostic cardiac procedures in Russia. This has potential long-term implications for patients with cardiovascular disease. Understanding these implications can help guide diagnostic strategies during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and minimize the future losses.
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Police organisations have a wealth of experience in responding to emergencies, but COVID-19 is unprecedented in terms of the speed, scale and complexity of developing doctrine and its implementation by officers. The crisis also threw into sharp relief the fact that police policy and, crucially, practice are always implemented within wider social, political and economic contexts. Using online survey data collected from 325 police officers based at forces operating across different UK contexts (cities, conurbations, towns and rural areas), we seek to understand officer experiences and perceptions of policing COVID-19. In particular, we examine whether (internally) organisational climate and (externally) the UK government’s response to COVID-19 were important to (a) officers’ support for police use of force at times of emergency, (b) officer’s support for procedurally just policing at times of emergency, and (c) their health and well-being;and whether identification and perceptions of self-legitimacy mediate the associations between these variables. We show that a positive organisational climate was associated with <italic>less</italic> support for police use of force, <italic>more</italic> support for procedurally just policing and <italic>increased</italic> police officer health and well-being. Our results, however, suggest potential negative correlates of police officer self-legitimacy: higher levels of self-legitimacy were associated with <italic>poorer</italic> police officer health and well-being and <italic>increased</italic> support for police use of force. These results have important implications for our understanding of police officer well-being and police officers’ commitment to democratic modes of policing when faced with policing a pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Policing & Society is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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The covid-19 pandemic has forced us to reevaluate how we deliver care to our patients. How do we balanceShelter in Place orders with the need to provide well child care and vaccines? We work in an FQHC and serve alargely immigrant Hispanic community, many of our patients' parents are migrant and seasonal farmworkers.We made many changes in our clinic to adapt to covid-19: an outdoor respiratory clinic and covid testing,telephone and telehealth visits to keep patients who are sick out of clinic, telephone outreach to addresssocial determinants of health (mainly food insecurity and housing), administering of free medications forthose uninsured patients who could no longer afford their medications. Throughout these changes to addressimmediate needs, we limited our well child visits to 2 years and under to protect our patients, our staff andour limited clinic resources. However, as we settled into this 'new normal', we quickly realized we needed arecovery plan to address the backlog of well child visits for all ages and vaccines that could be nimble enoughto withstand possibly repeated rounds of social distancing over the months to come. That is how the hybrid clinic model came into fruition. Our pediatrics team was committed to keeping our patients immunized and tosupport their growth and development during covid-19. We began reaching out to colleagues across the stateand country to nd out what others were doing, joined one of the AAP Covid-19 ECHO groups and researchingemerging best practices for how to deliver well child care during a pandemic. We brought the model to ourCovid-19 incident command team and to our frontline medical providers for feedback and ideas. Our currentwell child check model is in pilot stage and involves a combination of telephone and in person components.We are learning and innovating how to best serve our patients. As a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Homeand a Federally Qualied Health Center, we already do quality improvement and quality assurance tracking onmany topics, including vaccines and well child visit adherence. We will continue to use data to monitor oursuccess with this model and make adjustments along the way as needed. The covid-19 pandemic is a globalchallenge affecting us all. Technology, specically telephone and telehealth services have allowed us toinnovate quickly on how to deliver care-both acute and preventive- to vulnerable populations. This time inhistory is highlighting the advances of hospital and ICU medicine to treat people suffering a new disease and,at the same time, it puts primary care into sharp focus as a critical safety net that must remain intact, evenduring a pandemic, to support our children. An initial overview to train medical providers on how we will approach well child visits in clinic during shelter inplace orders related to covid-19. Summary of Well Child Visits Table depicting how telephone technology will be used to limit the amount oftime the patient is physically in clinic while attempting to maximize adherence to Bright Futures.
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Background: Delivering Art Psychotherapy online has become a necessary part of practice for many in 2020 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Art Psychotherapy practice and theory needs to be considered in light of this new way of working in addition to the impact on clients themselves. Context: This paper considers an experience of delivering online group Art Psychotherapy to adolescents attending an NHS day service programme for Anorexia Nervosa. A case vignette of three group sessions is provided to illustrate the process. The experiences and reflections of three clients are reported. Approach: The approach to the art therapy described is psychoanalytical as it focuses on importance of the relationship between the internal and external world and mentalization based as it aims to increase capacity to perceive and understand self and others. Outcome: It is argued that there are additional considerations for this client group when working online including body image concerns and experience of gaze. Conclusion: Consideration of the unique requirements of this client group are important when devising protocol for ways of delivering art therapy online. Implications for research: Further research could consider, on a larger scale, the perspectives of clients with eating disorders on having art therapy delivered online. Plain-language summary: This paper describes the set up and delivery of an online Art Psychotherapy group for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa as part of an NHS day service. The group ran for seven weeks and was attended by three clients. I outline the theoretical framework of my approach to delivering this intervention. Theories of containment, gaze and joint attention are highlighted as being particularly relevant for working with this client group online. I describe the experiences of the clients who attended as well as my process as the art therapist. I note the main themes arising from this group as an intensified experience of gaze, body image concerns and a desire for control over what might be seen or shown. I reflect on my experience of feeling deskilled and having to alter my process to adjust to working online. I conclude that when working with this client group online these are important considerations to bear in mind. Future research is needed to gather perspectives from clients with eating disorders regarding their experience of art therapy being delivered online. © 2020 British Association of Art Therapists.