International student mobility (ISM) is an important educational means to promote the international (job market) potential of university students. Beyond that, it constitutes a context personality development in young adulthood. With present research, we tried integrate perspectives applied and research addressing following questions. First, scrutinized robustness ISM effects on as controlled f...

Sweat absorption is investigated using the subjective and objective methods. The subjective investigation analyses the physiological responses of male and female volunteers wearing two kinds of textile fabrics (cotton and polyester) during certain physical activity. The subjects were exposed to the different conditions of ambient temperature (23, 26, 29 and 32 degrees C) and constant relative h...

A simple model of a portfolio allocation between mature and emerging markets is specified. The representative-agent, rational expectations version of the model has an unlimited number of equilibria, providing no reason to expect that heterogeneous agents would all coordinate on one or another equilibrium. Therefore, the model is simulated with heterogeneous expectations based on ex post returns...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous breathing trials (SBTs) are a very important test in the weaning process. The trial involves evaluation of multiple objective and subjective variables. These characteristics could lead to variability in interpreting outcomes with important clinical implications. We aimed to measure the inter-observer agreement between respiratory therapists when analyzing SBT outcomes. ...

The relationship between SARS-CoV-2 viral load and infectiousness is poorly known. Using data from a cohort of cases high-risk contacts, we reconstructed at the time contact inferred probability infection. effect was larger in household contacts than non-household with transmission as large 48% when greater 10 copies per mL. peaked symptom onset, mean 29%, individual variations. model also proj...

Contact tracing is the most commonly employed process of identifying the relevant contacts of a person with an infectious disease. A systematic review and meta-analysis on contact tracing of tuberculosis (TB) suspects has shown that the yield of household contact investigation in lowand middle-income countries was 6.5 %. However, a recent study from Malaysia has shown the yield of TB contact tr...