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BACKGROUND: Effective primary care necessitates follow-up actions by the patient beyond the visit. Prior research suggests room for improvement in patient adherence. OBJECTIVE: This study sought to understand patients views on their primary care visits, the plans generated therein, and their self-reported adherence after 3 months. METHODS: As part of a large multisite cluster randomized pragmatic trial in 3 health care organizations, patients completed 2 surveys-the first within 7 days after the index primary care visit and another 3 months later. For this analysis of secondary outcomes, we combined the results across all study participants to understand patient adherence to care plans. We recorded patient characteristics and survey responses. Cross-tabulation and chi-square statistics were used to examine bivariate associations, adjusting for multiple comparisons when appropriate. We used multivariable logistic regression to assess how patients intention to follow, agreement, and understanding of their plans impacted their plan adherence, allowing for differences in individual characteristics. Qualitative content analysis was conducted to characterize the patients self-reported plans and reasons for adhering (or not) to the plan 3 months later. RESULTS: Of 2555 patients, most selected the top box option (9=definitely agree) that they felt they had a clear plan (n=2011, 78%), agreed with the plan (n=2049, 80%), and intended to follow the plan (n=2108, 83%) discussed with their provider at the primary care visit. The most common elements of the plans reported included reference to exercise (n=359, 14.1%), testing (laboratory, imaging, etc; n=328, 12.8%), diet (n=296, 11.6%), and initiation or adjustment of medications; (n=284, 11.1%). Patients who strongly agreed that they had a clear plan, agreed with the plan, and intended to follow the plan were all more likely to report plan completion 3 months later (P

When it comes to expressing the flexibility of uses of the domestic space, the floor plan is the most appropriate graphic piece. This paper reflects on the relationships that exist between the design ideas that support the proposals and the graphic resources used by designers to communicate them. With this objective, the flexible modality called versatile floor plan is analyzed. It is considered as an initial flexibility since it is developed before users’ occupation. To carry out this reflection, the ideas of different authors who have theorized about flexible housing are opened to discussion. Second, as an illustration of the studied theoretical concepts, the analysis of a series of projects and accomplished works is performed. These proposals are presented by means of plan drawings published by designers themselves to explain their ideas. From the study of the floor plans, a series of conclusions are drawn about the use of the aforesaid graphics as discursive tools at the service of the project.

What is involved in acting together with others? Most shared agency theorists endorse the Shared Intention Thesis, i.e., the claim that shared agency necessarily involves shared intentions. This article dissents from this orthodoxy and offers a minimalist account of shared agency—one where parties to shared activities need not form rich webs of interrelated psychological states. My account has two main components: a conceptual analysis of shared agency in terms of the notion of plan, and an explanation of undertheorized agency‐sharing mechanisms. My analysis states that we act together just in case our activities conform to a plan and that plan figures in an explanation of our activities' joint conformity to it. To sloganize: shared activity is plan‐coordinated activity. Sometimes, plan‐coordination goes by way of shared intentions. However, besides shared intentions, there are at least two additional families of agency‐sharing mechanisms. The first features a central planner who determines the content of a plan and attributes the different parts of that plan to a collection of agents. The second does away with the planner and involves a roughly Darwinian selection of patterns of activity. Both families of mechanisms enable us to act together even in the absence of shared intentions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The need to act on urban expansion has been a common concern throughout the history of urbanism. Different authors have shown how in industrialized countries the old distinctions between urban and rural become blurred. The location and conformation of new leisure, commercial and tertiary objects have become triggers for new looks at the urbanization edges of industrial cities. Although they have been less explored in non-industrial cities or cities with a lower degree of industrialization, different studies show that these characteristics seem to be combined there with other factors such as social housing, progressive expansion of the urban fabric and degraded areas. Nevertheless, could there be a theory that enlightens the conditions and transformations of the metropolitan edge and guides their research? The aim of this work is to compare four key approaches: spaces in socio-spatial transformation, multi-actor project, multiple, dynamic and heterogeneous uses, and non-universal spatial delimitation, focusing on three categories: concept, attribute, and methodology. This research is grounded in the selection of relevant publications based on their substantive scope, significant impact factor index, and/or number of citations, as well as the international recognition of researchers. These findings underscore the importance of theorizing the metropolitan edge as a process that transforms inherited spaces according to their socio-economic, historical, and environmental contexts. The results reflect the need for denominations and classifications that help us to differentiate analytically and cartographically the multiple landscapes of the metropolitan edge and question us about the specificity of this territory that extends between urban nuclei and rural space, the processes that have overlapped over time, and their logics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eighteenth-century Ireland was well-toured by many distinguished travel writers, yet many of them remained strangely silent about language, surely one of the most significant, if intangible, attributes of any human environment. Did these travelers ever think of their deficiencies in understanding the Irish language, sometimes the only language spoken by a majority of a locality's population? Were bilingualism and its communicative advantages and disadvantages at all present in their books and letters? The early nineteenth-century plan and poem of Tipperary's Cill Chaise/Kilcash evoke the bilingual language and landscape of early nineteenth-century Ireland, before both were axed over the course of the romantic era. Together they demonstrate how a landscape may be described and voiced in two ways and how each decodes the other by means of a conjoined history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research aims to investigate the effect of vitamin D supplementation on the efficacy of Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy and to find new drug combinations for the eradication of the bacterium. A total of 128 children participated in the research. They were distributed under the following criteria: group A were children who tested positive for H. pylori and were treated with the standard so-called triple therapy including vitamin D; group B were children who tested positive for H. pylori and received the standard triple therapy without including vitamin D in the treatment; and group C were children who tested negative for H. pylori. After endoscopic examination, additional venous blood samples were taken from the children to determine vitamin D levels. A controlled study was carried out 45 days after the initial treatment. The overall success rate of eradication therapy was 84.1 %. In group A, the success rate of treatment was 93.5 %, contrary to group B, where the success rate was 75 %. Although there was a difference in the percentage of H. pylori eradication therapy in the main group compared to the control group, there was no significant difference in group B. The success rate of eradication is p=0.082. Following the research results, the addition of vitamin D to the standard triple therapy regimen for H. pylori had no effect. It can therefore be concluded that vitamin D does not significantly increase the efficacy of eradication therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The management deficit of school administrators and infrastructure problems in infrastructure problems of educational institutions in the north of Peru are increasing. Peru, are increasing, so this research aims to propose an administrative management plan to improve the propose an administrative management plan to improve the maintenance of school infrastructure. maintenance of school infrastructure, developing basic research with a quantitative approach and non-experimental with a quantitative approach and a non-experimental design. The population consisted of 200 principals, of which a sample of 132 was selected. the questionnaire, with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.895, determining that the instrument has a very high reliability instrument has a very high reliability and the normality test of Kolmogorov-Smirov Kolmogorov - Smirnov normality test whose result is 0.000 and 0.006 <0.05 whose distribution isare non-parametric data. We conclude that the diagnosis of administrative management in relation to the maintenance of school premises administrative management in relation to the maintenance of school premises in educational institutions is educational institutions is in process, and therefore an improvement plan is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Local governments are pivotal in the implementation of sustainable development initiatives. However, the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into local plans remains a significant challenge. In Nepal, there is an increasing recognition of the need to align local plans with the SDG framework to achieve holistic and inclusive development. This study explores the practices and challenges faced by local governments in integrating the SDGs into their plans, programs, and budgets. The qualitative case study method was adopted as a mode of inquiry. The findings reveal that local governments have yet to fully incorporate the SDG framework directly into their plans, programs, and budgets. They have yet to recognize the benefits of localization in effectively implementing and achieving the SDGs. Local governments face several challenges, including a lack of ownership, limited financial resources, insufficient SDG-friendly data, lack of institutional capacity, and weak coordination and cooperation. Despite these challenges, some local governments have formulated SDG-friendly periodic plans, while others are in the process of doing so. This study sheds light on the shift from an indirect to a direct approach in integrating the SDGs into local plans, programs, and budgets. This paper contributes to on-going efforts to promote sustainable development in Nepal by offering valuable insights to those involved in formulating and implementing local plans.

En la actualidad, las investigaciones sobre proyecto de vida recaen, sobre todo, en las etapas de la adolescencia y la adultez mayor, dejando un vacío en la adultez joven. La presente investigación tiene un enfoque cualitativo, se trabajó con 13 personas que se dedican a la docencia e impartición de la asignatura de educación física en programas públicos de la Ciudad de México y en diferentes niveles educativos. La técnica fue una entrevista semiestructurada y el instrumento que se aplicó fue una guía de entrevista con base en las categorías: proyecto de vida, relaciones y desarrollo socioafectivo, metas y éxito. En los hallazgos, se identificó que las orientaciones de los proyectos de vida de las personas entrevistadas han sido instauradas y configuradas por las circunstancias vivenciales y por su contexto social, el cual ha permeado su estructura psicológica, pensamientos e ideales, sin embargo, no tienen estructurado ni escrito un proyecto de vida con objetivos concretos. El proyecto de vida no es un fin o medio para llegar a una meta, sino constituye una parte vital del ser humano.

Taking a mixed method and comparative case study approach, this paper has analyzed the formulation process of mobility policy strategies and plans and their implementation in four Asian cities. The key findings are: (1) there was some evidence on leadership shown by mayors, governors, public transport administrators and police in all four cities; (2) limited stakeholder engagement in the whole process of policy formation to implementation and some forms of donor influence were observed in three capital cities that resulted in follow-up projects or studies; and (3) the implementation of policies and plans faced many challenges relating to leadership, resources, prioritization, and coordination among various organizations. There was much focus on the formulation of mobility policies and plans and the users could not feel a meaningful improvement to urban mobility services despite the implementation of large urban mobility projects. A comprehensive evaluation framework is proposed and used to evaluate the whole process of improving urban mobility from policy formulation to implementation. There seems to be much preference for large urban transit projects vis-à-vis infrastructure for active mobility and low-cost solutions. The research also indicates the need for meaningful public engagement so that the mobility plans take a citizen-centric approach that reflects the needs of the urban residents, rather than taking a modernistic approach with solutions more suitable for middle-income groups. Delays in the implementation of major projects also suggest that more realistic planning, scheduling, and improvement in project management and coordination is necessary. • Reviews and assesses the whole process of mobility polices and plans in Asian cities. • There was some evidence of leadership shown by mayors, governors, public transport administrators and police. • Limited stakeholder engagement in the process of policy formation to implementation and some donor influence observed. • There was much focus on the formulation of mobility polices and plans and without much improvement to mobility services. • A comprehensive evaluation framework is proposed to evaluate mobility polices and plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Islamic councils and municipalities serve as the foundational pillars of urban governance in Iran. The Islamic Councils of Cities, as policy-making bodies, play a crucial role in shaping urban management processes and performance. The decisions and policies endorsed by these councils significantly influence urban management outcomes. Therefore, it is imperative to evaluate these councils’ performance by scrutinizing their resolutions to identify strengths and areas needing improvement. The most effective tool for this evaluation is an analysis of their legislative outputs. During its five terms, the Islamic Council of Tehran has reviewed numerous bills and plans, resulting in a substantial number of resolutions. In its fifth term, the Council passed 878 resolutions across 315 meetings. This research aims to: 1. Conduct a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the resolutions passed by the Tehran Islamic Council in its fifth term. 2. Analyze and compare these resolutions with the Law on Organizations, Duties, and Powers of Councils. 3. Assess the alignment of these resolutions with the key priorities and issues facing Tehran, as well as the concerns of its citizens. Theoretical Framework: In a local management system that emphasizes genuine citizen participation, the primary goal is planning by the people, not merely for the people. Urban Islamic councils, as representatives of the populace, embody this participatory approach through their legislative activities. Over the past two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in urban planning and management from prescriptive to participatory approaches. This shift includes moving from a focus on results to an emphasis on processes, from reliance on existing resources to capacity building, and from government-centric solutions to problem-solving methods that leverage civil society initiatives and citizen participation. In this context, the resolutions passed by Islamic councils hold particular significance. Methodology: This research is classified as basic research with a developmental focus, analyzing the resolutions of the Tehran Islamic Council from an evaluative perspective. Data and information were collected through a document-library method, utilizing sources such as the Tehran Islamic Council’s approvals department and the comprehensive system of council resolutions. Given that many entries in the approval system contain flaws and omissions, a compliance method was employed to correct these issues by cross-referencing each resolution individually and extracting the missing information. Moreover, due to the nature of the research—which involves the critique and evaluation of the content of the council’s resolutions in its fifth term—a content analysis approach was used. Results and Discussion: The findings reveal that 68.1% of the fifth term council’s resolutions were bills, while only 31% were plans. This suggests that more than two-thirds of the council’s legislative efforts were directed towards municipal bills, leaving limited time for council members to develop and propose reformative or developmental plans. Furthermore, 93.6% of the resolutions were categorized as standard, 4.6% as urgent, and only 1.7% as highly urgent. Conclusion: The results of this research indicate that the fifth term of the Tehran City Council may be considered one of the weakest in terms of its contributions to urban governance. The content and thematic analysis of the resolutions suggest that: 1. A significant portion of the council’s time was consumed by internal municipal matters, with few resolutions addressing urban issues, citizen concerns, or current challenges facing Tehran. 2. Many of the council’s resolutions involved minor amendments to existing legislation, rather than introducing new initiatives. 3. The number of resolutions aimed at facilitating urban development and growth was notably limited. 4. The fifth term of the Tehran council was characterized by a focus on theoretical and software-related issues, with minimal emphasis on practical, hardware-related activities. 5. Key provisions of the Law on Organizations, Duties, and Powers of Councils were frequently disregarded or invalidated. 6. The council failed to address urban problem-solving effectively, with no significant new urban issues or innovative solutions emerging during this term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We prove a sharp stability result for the Brunn–Minkowski inequality for A,B⊂R2. Assuming that the Brunn–Minkowski deficit δ=∣A+B∣1/2/(∣A∣1/2/(∣A∣1/2/(∣A∣1/2+∣B∣1/2/(∣A∣1/2)−1 is sufficiently small in terms of t=∣A∣1/2/(∣A∣1/2/(∣A∣1/2/(∣A∣1/2+∣B∣1/2/(∣A∣1/2), there exist homothetic convex sets KA​⊃A and KB​⊃B such that ∣((KA​)/A)∣​+((∣BKB​))/B∣​≤Ct−1/2/(∣A∣1/2δ1/2/(∣A∣1/2. The key ingredient is to show for every, if δ is sufficiently small then ∣co(A+B)/(A+B)∣≤(1+ϵ)(∣co(A)/A∣+∣co(B)/B∣). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

FitEx is an 8-week, group-based physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption program co-created and implemented with the Cooperative Extension System. Effectiveness and delivery personnel perceptions of the program are promising; however, ongoing adaptations are required to continuously meet shifting needs of both researchers and delivery systems. We applied the APDER iterative cycles of implementation over 15 years to understand dynamic and ongoing adaptations as well as implications for FitEx sustainability. Each year, an IRPP between delivery (FitEx deliverers) and research (FitEx developers) systems shared feedback on program core elements and strategies for adaptation through regular team meetings, emails, and evaluations. While the core elements (delivering to groups, goal setting, feedback, and self-monitoring) of FitEx remained consistent, changes were made to address logistical factors, emergent research questions, and technological advancements. For example, program deliverers suggested decreasing training time and making program content available on demand rather than through traditional in-person training. Using APDER with a long-standing IRPP allowed the delivery system to provide feedback to program developers to co-create ongoing adaptations and data-driven decisions. Future work in response to shifting needs includes Fitbit integration and technological updates to the usability of the FitEx platform. Our aim is to report the 15+ years of applying the Assess, Plan, Do, Evaluate, Report (APDER) process with an integrated research–practice partnership (IRPP) for co-creation of ongoing adaptations of FitEx and to share methods for capturing relevant data for decision-making to integrate health promotion programs in community settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under current development is Nanosense, a medication designed for the nonsurgical treatment of superficial cancer via pulsed laser ablation of nanoparticles (PLAN). Nanosens is a stable dispersion of phthalocyanine zinc nanoparticles in a physiological solution. The technology for obtaining stable dispersions of zinc phthalocyanine ensures a shelf life of over two years. This article presents preliminary data from preclinical studies of the Nanosens formulation. Results were obtained on the effectiveness, pharmacokinetics, and biodistribution of the Nanosens drug in mice, as well as toxicity and allergy studies. When tested at therapeutic doses (1 TD = 7 mg/kg) ranging from 1 to 10 TD for acute toxicity and from 1 to 30 TD for chronic toxicity, no signs of intoxication leading to death were observed in animals. However, at the maximum dose, individual organs and tissues exhibited a blue coloration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study I investigated the involvement of top management and teachers in the strategic planning process in 5 district schools located in the Bulawayo Metropolitan Province guided by the Take Stock Analysis (TSA) model. The constructivist/interpretivist paradigm was the qualitative methodology adopted for the study using a case study research method. The participants were 5 education managers and 5 focus groups of 4 teachers, each purposively selected from each school as an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon was sought through face-to-face interviews. Interview data were inductively and thematically analysed while strategic plans provided were inspected using content analysis and supplemented with interview data. The findings were reported following the concept of strategic planning, the formulation, monitoring and evaluation process. The results reveal that some schools used the centralised or decentralised strategic planning process while others hired strategists with minimal involvement from the teachers and the top management of the school. I recommend that stakeholders are actively involved in the entire strategic planning process to enhance ownership and commitment at the operational level. Most importantly, joint periodic evaluations are needed for modification purposes and relevance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current pace of People's Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) modernisation drive manifests China’s intentions for the future outlook of the Asia Pacific region. It is not only employing sophisticated weapon systems in service of PLAN to improve its efficiency but also reforming its military doctrine to cope with the current geopolitical and geostrategic realities of the region. On the one hand, China is flexing its muscles to expand its sphere of influence while on the other hand, it is trying to deny reach of the rival powers to its backyard. A closer analysis of the pattern of weapon acquisition by PLAN, and its A2AD and Offensive Defense policy divulge its strategy of regional domination which has security implications for the regional states. Drawing on the Offensive Realism theory, this paper analyses the PLAN struggle for absolute security by developing both offensive and defensive weapons. It further looks into geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic complexities and, the overall regional security architecture being affected by the rapid PLAN modernisation drive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquakes, which occurred on February 6, 2023 and have been the disaster of the century, caused the death of more than fifty thousand of our citizens and an economic loss of over 100 billion dollars, affecting Türkiye very seriously and severely disrupting the sustainable development goals. In addition to the earthquakes, Türkiye is exposed to many different types of disasters, especially floods and forest fires. Many of our citizens lose their lives every year, economic losses occur and the whole society is affected by disasters psychologically. This data shows us that policies that will combat disasters at the desired level have not yet been developed. In order to minimize the effects of possible disasters, many studies need to be carried out on different subjects and areas by looking at the event holistically. Among these studies, emergency and disaster management plans have an important place. Many regulations regarding the preparation of these plans have been made in many laws and regulations published at different times since 1945. The aim of this article is to reveal chronologically how disaster and emergency management plans have developed in the historical process, to provide information about Türkiye's Disaster Response plan dated 2014 and 2022, to guide the preparation of the plans, to contribute to their effective implementation, and to draw attention to the importance and necessity of the issue.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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No Gothic design drawings on paper or parchment have survived from the 12th century, and only a few have survived from the 13th century. For this reason, most recent scholars tend to concur at least broadly with Robert Branner, who argued in an influential 1963 article that such drawings were first produced only after 1200. This conclusion deserves critical re-examination, however, for two principal reasons. First, the continuity of the Gothic architectural tradition in both time and space strongly suggests that early Gothic builders used similar techniques to those used by their late Gothic successors. From this perspective, the lack of surviving design drawings from before 1200 seems likely to reflect their disappearance over time, rather than their not being used in the crucial period when the conventions of Gothic design and construction were first coming into focus. A second argument for the use of drawings in the 12th century comes from consideration of early Gothic buildings, whose complex and carefully calibrated forms would be literally inconceivable without such graphic aids. Churches such as Saint-Denis Abbey and Notre-Dame in Paris, for example, already display a level of geometrical sophistication and coherence that argues strongly for the use of scaled drawings in their original conception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Learning mathematics that emphasizes understanding concepts and solving problems requires learning media. The use of learning media is still low, so learning outcomes are far from the minimum completeness criteria (the student's lowest score), apart from learning media. Besides the media, learning models are essential to discover fun and not dull mathematics. This study aimed to improve learning achievement in data-building material through tangram media with the PjBL model for class IV at SD Negeri Gerih 7, East Java, Indonesia. The research method used was Collaborative Classroom Action Research. The subjects of this study were 23 students in grade IV at SD Negeri Gerih 7, East Java, Indonesia, in the 2022/2023 academic year. The test results obtained were in the form of pre-cycle class average values of 59.13, 64.78 in the results of the first cycle, and 77.82 in the results of the second cycle. It can be concluded that the PjBL learning model and the tangram media effectively improve the achievement results of fourth-grade students at SD Negeri Gerih 7, East Java, Indonesia.

Abstract Background Phospholipase-associated neurodegeneration (PLAN) caused by mutations in the PLA2G6 gene is a rare neurodegenerative disorder that presents with four sub-groups. Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD) and PLA2G6-related dystonia-parkinsonism are the main two subtypes. In this cohort, we reviewed clinical, imaging, and genetic features of 25 adult and pediatric patients harboring variants in the PLA2G6. Methods An extensive review of the patients’ data was carried out. Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy Rating Scale (INAD-RS) was used for evaluating the severity and progression of INAD patients. Whole-exome sequencing was used to determine the disease's underlying etiology followed by co-segregation analysis using Sanger sequencing. In silico prediction analysis based on the ACMG recommendation was used to assess the pathogenicity of genetic variants. We aimed to survey a genotype-genotype correlation in PLA2G6 considering all reported disease-causing variants in addition to our patients using the HGMD database and the chi-square statistical approach. Results Eighteen cases of INAD and 7 cases of late-onset PLAN were enrolled. Among 18 patients with INAD, gross motor regression was the most common presenting symptom. Considering the INAD-RS total score, the mean rate of progression was 0.58 points per month of symptoms (Standard error 0.22, lower 95% − 1.10, and upper 95% − 0.15). Sixty percent of the maximum potential loss in the INAD-RS had occurred within 60 months of symptom onset in INAD patients. Among seven adult cases of PLAN, hypokinesia, tremor, ataxic gate, and cognitive impairment were the most frequent clinical features. Various brain imaging abnormalities were also observed in 26 imaging series of these patients with cerebellar atrophy being the most common finding in more than 50%. Twenty unique variants in 25 patients with PLAN were detected including nine novel variants. Altogether, 107 distinct disease-causing variants from 87 patient were analyzed to establish a genotype–phenotype correlation. The P value of the chi-square test did not indicate a significant relationship between age of disease onset and the distribution of reported variants on PLA2G6. Conclusion PLAN presents with a wide spectrum of clinical symptoms from infancy to adulthood. PLAN should be considered in adult patients with parkinsonism or cognition decline. Based on the current knowledge, it is not possible to foresee the age of disease onset based on the identified genotype.

The article deals with the issues of the effectiveness of the implementation of state programs and national projects. The requirements for the development and implementation of programs and projects, the structure and changes in the amount of funding are considered. The analysis of the results was carried out and the problems of the implementation of programs and projects were identified. The features of the implementation of state programs and national projects in the field of healthcare are considered. Comparisons were made of the goals of state policy and adjustments in the work of authorities in the field of healthcare. Proposals have been developed to improve the efficiency of financing state programs and national projects.

Objetivo. En este artículo presentamos un análisis de Planes Lectores de diversos centros educativos de Educación Secundaria en España para identificar cómo son y cómo deberían ser los mismos. Método. Se definieron trece variables de observación: presentación, marco teórico, contexto, trayectoria lectora del centro, cultura del centro, propuestas para promover la lectura (a nivel de aula, centro, biblioteca, familias y otras instituciones), competencias, implicación departamental, relación con otros planes, recursos, evaluación, actualización y elementos diferenciadores. Resultados. Los resultados muestran una amplia diversidad de prácticas, que, en conjunto, son claves para la mejora de la competencia lectora entre el alumnado. Conclusiones. Es posible concluir que esta indispensable herramienta de planificación podría ser mejor aprovechada por parte de los centros para racionalizar y visibilizar los esfuerzos que se hacen en los centros para desarrollar la competencia lectora del alumnado.

Con la aparición del constitucionalismo transformador latinoamericano se hace necesario revisar las metáforas que le sirven de fundamento y que prescriben su debido funcionamiento. Para ello, se propone asimilar estas constituciones a un plan maestro orientado al cambio social. Esta analogía trae importantes implicaciones a partir de los recientes desarrollos de la ontología y la filosofía social. Para los órganos y ramas del Estado, como agentes vinculados al desarrollo del proyecto constitucional, les implica el cumplimiento de las máximas de mutua receptividad, compromiso con la actividad compartida y de apoyo mutuo. En esta última es donde radica el fundamento analítico del deber de colaboración entre los poderes públicos para el cumplimiento del plan constitucional. Adicional a ello, un número significativo de constituciones latinoamericanas prevén expresamente dicho mandato, junto con algunos dispositivos que lo desarrollan y prácticas como las sentencias estructurales que lo usan de fundamento. Por lo tanto, abordar el significado y alcance del principio de colaboración armónica entre poderes resulta no solo novedoso, sino prometedor de cara a mejorar la eficacia y cumplimiento de los textos constitucionales con vocación transformadora.

La capacitación es una de las actividades de mayor crecimiento en la actualidad, esto debido al constante cambio en las necesidades del mundo que requiere productos, servicios o entretenimiento de la más alta calidad. Potenciado también por el desarrollo científico de los procesos que la capacitación requiere, por medio de la investigación y experimentación de los mecanismos que forman este proceso. La capacitación es conocida como la actividad por medio de la cual las organizaciones brindan los conocimientos específicos sobre una actividad a un colaborador. Por medio de este método se forman personas más seguras de sí mismas, más aptos para realizar las actividades propias de sus puestos de trabajo y más motivados para llevar adelante la actividad para la cual se les ha tomado en cuenta en las empresas. En la actualidad la capacitación es una de las actividades más importantes de la cultura organizacional y se considera una de las prácticas que forman el camino al éxito de una empresa. Las empresas requieren mejorar sus planes de trabajo y sobre todo el nivel de competitividad y bienestar en la organización, por lo cual es necesario integrar a un personal calificado que cuente con una correcta capacitación y todas las herramientas necesarias para poder desempeñarse de la manera correcta en su trabajo y en igualdad de ambiente laboral que genere a su vez, un incremento en la productividad dentro y fuera de la organización.

Development plans are one of the political tools that shape the education approaches of countries. In recent years, researchers and policy-makers have focused on development plans and their implications. Previous studies discuss the responsibilities development plans impose on education authorities from various perspectives. However, the Ministry of National Education's political duties have been neglected in the current development plan. For this reason, the duties given to the Ministry of National Education in the XIth Development Plan are discussed in the present study. The data of the study was obtained from the relevant development plan. Document analysis design was used, and MAXQDA 2020 software was utilized. According to the findings, equity, educational approaches/policies, and vocational education are prominent issues in the development plan. Strengthening the technical infrastructure of educational institutions, increasing the quality of education, regulations on curricula, emphasis on skill-design-competence, and guidance services are other prominent subject areas of the plan. The discussion based on the literature shows that the current development plan, like the previous development plans, made a correct diagnosis but did not reach effective results. The COVID-19 pandemic is thought to be significantly effective in this. Based on the results, some suggestions were made to the researchers and policy-makers about development plans and political duties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including communication and rhetoric, have argued that infectious disease has been increasingly securitized in the post- 9/11 environment. This essay tracks the rhetoric of seven U.S. pandemic plans from 1978 to 2017 to investigate how the evolving language of these plans supports or undermines the infectious disease securitization thesis. Our analysis reveals stark differences in the arrangement, delivery, and style of U.S. pandemic plans, despite a consistent focus on antigenic shifts of influenza A, vaccines, and medical research and development. Although U.S. pandemic plans reflect connections to security since their earliest inception, they have adopted more explicit linkages to national and global health security since 2005. This move reflects the emergence of the global health security paradigm and raises questions about pandemic planning implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Verifying statements at the crime scene allows obtaining information about various details, facts, aspects, sometimes substantial, on account of the clarifications, concretizations, changes and additions presented by the person whose statements are verified. Verification of statements at the crime scene, combining in itself features of several evidentiary procedures, has a special complex character and a specific implementation tactics. The verification of statements at the crime scene has similarities with such criminal prosecution actions as crime scene investigation, identification parade, experiment and interrogation. However, it has its own content and characteristic features that make it individual. The organized combination of the narration and the demonstration of the details of the circumstances of the crime, which confirm the justice of what was related, as well as the demonstration of the actions that confirm the statements are indispensable tactical elements of the verification of the statements at the crime scene. In the process of verifying the statements at the crime scene, we can obtain previously unknown information about the place of the crime, the itinerary traveled by the interrogated persons, co-participants in the crime; traces of the crime or corpus delicti may be discovered; certain circumstances etc. may be clarified or specified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article attempts to clarify and contribute to the formulation of strategy by highlighting its essential components and processes. Strategy is a bridge between political and tactical levels and should not be considered a plan. A classic strategy may consist of ends, ways, means, and risks. A five-stage process consisting of strategic analysis, definition of an end state, identifying means, designing the ways, and assessing the costs and risks can be used in strategy formulation. Yet, the addition of another two phases, which are assessment and management of strategy, is a must for contemporary strategy formulation. Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to take strategy as a rigid formula. The context of a strategy will be changing based on the aim and the field in question. Other than the military and starting with business, many fields continue to use strategy formulation effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article theorizes the "narrative turn" in urban planning studies, using Gérard Genette's work to differentiate first- and second-degree narratives. Genette defines the latter as paratexts that determine the public's reception of the former. The article assesses how second-degree narratives work with different perceptual regimes to construct the reception of the political vision of territory. To that end, it resorts to the recent work of postclassical narratology. Indeed, the latter is particularly interested in the way in which the narrative, in various forms, affects its addressee. Postclassical narratology allows us to renew the theory of narrative in urban planning by focusing on what hypothetically happens in the consciousness of the receiver of the narrative when he or she becomes aware of it. Consequently, the paper sheds light on an emerging aspect of the design process: disambiguating signals embedded in urban planning documents intended for a wider public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En el municipio Morón existen diversas problemáticas relacionadas con la Gestión del Conocimiento en función del Grupo para la Atención a la Dinámica Demográfica. Sobre esta base se planteó la caracterización del municipio, lo cual permitió perfeccionar su labor en función de ofrecer la oportunidad de nuevos conocimientos para la gestión hacia el cambio de mentalidad, en correspondencia con las funciones que desarrollan. Se asumen los fundamentos de la concepción dialéctico-materialista, que posibilitaron la aplicación de diferentes métodos y técnicas del nivel teórico y empírico. Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo elaborar un plan de acción para la Gestión del Conocimiento en Función del Grupo para la Atención a la Dinámica Demográfica en el municipio Morón. Como resultado se diseña un Plan Acción dirigido al funcionamiento del grupo, que incluye nuevas acciones desde la práctica. Además, se propone el proceder para realizar el diagnóstico, la selección de las acciones y la preparación del grupo que contribuyan al perfeccionamiento de este proceso.

The Soviet experience of economic management was formed taking into account the experience of the American and European industrial management of the industrial revolution of the late 19th century. In turn, the Soviet model became the subject of close analysis in the West by the end of the second five-year plan. Contrary to the general consensus, attention was drawn not only to the question of the depth of the market, but also to the ratio of territorial and sectoral administration.

Although Ihuatzio has been one of the most important pre-Hispanic cities in western Mexico, until now, there was no complete map of the Tarascan city. In this sense, through field work and a study based on the LiDAR technique, a complete plan of Ihuatzio is presented for the first time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Phospholipase-associated neurodegeneration (PLAN) caused by mutations in the PLA2G6 gene is a rare neurodegenerative disorder that presents with four sub-groups. Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD) and PLA2G6-related dystonia-parkinsonism are the main two subtypes. In this cohort, we reviewed clinical, imaging, and genetic features of 25 adult and pediatric patients harboring variants in the PLA2G6. Methods: An extensive review of the patients' data was carried out. Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy Rating Scale (INAD-RS) was used for evaluating the severity and progression of INAD patients. Whole-exome sequencing was used to determine the disease's underlying etiology followed by co-segregation analysis using Sanger sequencing. In silico prediction analysis based on the ACMG recommendation was used to assess the pathogenicity of genetic variants. We aimed to survey a genotype-genotype correlation in PLA2G6 considering all reported disease-causing variants in addition to our patients using the HGMD database and the chi-square statistical approach. Results: Eighteen cases of INAD and 7 cases of late-onset PLAN were enrolled. Among 18 patients with INAD, gross motor regression was the most common presenting symptom. Considering the INAD-RS total score, the mean rate of progression was 0.58 points per month of symptoms (Standard error 0.22, lower 95% − 1.10, and upper 95% − 0.15). Sixty percent of the maximum potential loss in the INAD-RS had occurred within 60 months of symptom onset in INAD patients. Among seven adult cases of PLAN, hypokinesia, tremor, ataxic gate, and cognitive impairment were the most frequent clinical features. Various brain imaging abnormalities were also observed in 26 imaging series of these patients with cerebellar atrophy being the most common finding in more than 50%. Twenty unique variants in 25 patients with PLAN were detected including nine novel variants. Altogether, 107 distinct disease-causing variants from 87 patient were analyzed to establish a genotype–phenotype correlation. The P value of the chi-square test did not indicate a significant relationship between age of disease onset and the distribution of reported variants on PLA2G6. Conclusion: PLAN presents with a wide spectrum of clinical symptoms from infancy to adulthood. PLAN should be considered in adult patients with parkinsonism or cognition decline. Based on the current knowledge, it is not possible to foresee the age of disease onset based on the identified genotype. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the increasing recognition of the importance of mental health promotion, its implementation in practice remains underdeveloped in most countries. Having a standalone strategy ensures commitment to delivering on mental health promotion within the political and policy system. This paper outlines the process of developing the first Mental Health Promotion Plan for the health service in Ireland. The process of developing the Plan, together with key reflections and learnings from the experience are outlined. The framework for the development of the Mental Health Promotion Plan, and the processes involved are outlined. The development process constituted three distinct phases over a two and a half year period: (i) planning; (ii) identifying core actions; (iii) stakeholder engagement. The steps involved in each of these phases are described. The Mental Health Promotion Plan takes a lifecourse and settings-based approach, including 27 actions for enhancing protective factors for mental health and minimising risk factors. A wide range of stakeholders from across sectors contributed to the development process. The development of this Plan marks a watershed in placing mental health promotion on the policy agenda at a national level, building on the existing health promotion policy and practice infrastructure in Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]