TransWorld University

Analisar a relação da qualidade do sono dos estudantes de medicina e a prevalência da Síndrome de Burnout, identificar os fatores que levam a má qualidade do sono para instalação da Síndrome de Burnout, compreender os fatores sociodemográficos e a rotina acadêmica que podem levar a Síndrome de Burnout e verificar a relação da Síndrome de Burnout e os ciclos acadêmicos dos estudantes de medicina. Trata-se de uma Revisão Narrativa de Literatura na qual utilizou-se as bases de dados NCBI, PubMed e SciELO. Os descritores escolhidos foram “Síndrome Burnout”, “Estudante de Medicina”, “Sono”. Assim, 17 artigos entre 2012 a 2020 foram escolhidos para revisão. A Síndrome de Burnout apresenta grande prevalência nos estudantes de medicina devido à alta grade curricular, atividades extracurriculares, expectativas geradas quanto a formação e desempenho profissional, associado a isso, a pressão para cumprir com eficiência esses desafios gera um estresse crônico o que favorece não só essa síndrome, como também a baixa qualidade do sono. Tais estudantes ficam mais suscetíveis a transtornos relacionados ao sono, abuso de substâncias licitas e ilícitas, além de transtornos do humor. Portanto, se faz necessário a identificação desses fatores que contribuem para a Síndrome de Burnout e baixa qualidade do sono nos estudantes de medicina, para assim haver a prevenção e tratamento abordando-os.

The demand for both sensors and a dedicated workforce has been increasing rapidly; an appropriate curriculum is needed to train this workforce. This study was conducted to identify elements that need to be included in the curriculum to teach sensor technology and the associated data management effectively. In this study, interviews with experts and a survey by questionnaire were conducted. The data were analyzed with an analytical network process (ANP), and statistical analysis including ANOVA, regression analysis, and factor analysis. As a result, four criteria (problem analysis, pattern recognition, abstraction of problems, and finding solutions) were defined with 12 subcriteria including faculty education in the curriculum, self-directed learning in the curriculum, committees and working groups to structure the curriculum, planning, organizing and managing the curriculum, learning outcomes, feedback from students and teaching staff, advice of experts, training assistants, appropriate assessment, appropriate education, appropriate evaluation, and recruiting students. Analytical skills, problem-solving, and decision-making were found to be alternatives (elements in education) in the analysis. The results of ANP and other statical analyses indicated that among the criteria, problem analysis is more important than the others in education for sensor technology and data management. Among alternatives (educational elements), analytical skills are more important than problem-solving and decision-making. Therefore, education in sensor-related subjects needs to be more focused on analyzing and detecting problems in sensor data. These results provide the basis for creating a curriculum for education in sensor-related technologies.

ABSTRACT Grounded in career construction theory, we proposed that proactive personality (a disposition that drives people to focus on the future) influences career adaptability (the attitudes and behaviours that people use to adapt to work), which in turn influences career exploration (purposive cognition and behaviour to seek information for self-career advancement). However, psychological safety as a boundary condition may affect career adaptability’s relation to career exploration. Hence, this study examined whether students’ psychological safety moderates career adaptability’s mediating effect on the relationship between proactive personality and career exploration. A total of 288 students who completed internships at Taiwanese sports centres or fitness clubs participated in this research. The results indicate that interns’ psychological safety, functioning as a moderator, intensifies proactive personality’s indirect effect on career exploration through career adaptability. The implications of this finding for students’ career counselling are discussed.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, nutritional problems are observed to be increasing, such as obesity, minimum nutritious food intake, and micronutrient deficiency. The dreadful effects of COVID-19 on the health sectors, combined with the advanced technology development, had prompted the emergence of Nutribid application. Nutribid is an online health service application focusing on nutritional health. This study aimed to investigate the users' satisfaction with the service quality of Nutribid application during the COVID-19 pandemic. This quantitative research approach used the descriptive method. The univariate test was used to analyze the data through mean and frequency distribution. The users' satisfaction was examined from 5 aspects, namely responsiveness, empathy, reliability, tangibles, and assurances. We obtained scores of 86.32, 88.8, 88.84, 87.84, and 88.52 percent for responsiveness, empathy, reliability, tangibles, and assurances, respectively. These scores indicate that the users present great satisfaction with the services from Nutribid. This result is also supported by the average results of the Likert scale of more than 81 percent. Our findings can be used as a reference for user satisfaction with the services of the Nutribid application.

Some clinical studies have indicated the patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) display an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Here, to examine the relationship between AD and CVDs, we investigated the changes in heart function in triple-transgenic late-stage AD model mice (3× Tg-AD; APPSwe, PS1M146V, and tauP301L). We fed the AD mice folic acid (FA) or folinic acid (FN) and analyzed the protective effects of the compounds on the heart; specifically, 20-month-old triple-transgenic AD mice, weighing 34-55 g, were randomly allocated into three groups-the AD, AD + FA, and AD + FN groups-and subject to gastric feeding with FA or FN once daily at 12 mg/kg body weight (BW) for 3 months. Mouse BWs were assessed throughout the trial, at the end of which the animals were sacrificed using carbon dioxide suffocation. We found that BW, whole-heart weight, and left-ventricle weight were reduced in the AD + FA and AD + FN groups as compared with the measurements in the AD group. Furthermore, western blotting of excised heart tissue revealed that the levels of the hypertrophy-related protein markers phospho(p)-p38 and p-c-Jun were markedly decreased in the AD + FA group, whereas p-GATA4, and ANP were strongly reduced in the AD + FN group. Moreover, the fibrosis-related proteins uPA, MMP-2, MEK1/2 and SP-1 were decreased in the heart in both AD + FN group. In summary, our results indicate that FA and FN can exert anti-cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis effects to protect the heart in aged triple-transgenic AD model mice, particular in FN.

Engaging in social contributions to enhance social participation and attending community experiential service learning or internship courses have become an essential learning experience for university students. On the basis of postmodern education theories, this study adopted images and oral accounts involving personal experiences to construct a postmodern education research scheme by using the method of collaborative ethnography. This study selected and performed the following services: filming a community documentary, administering community health dance classes, and archiving community cultural artifacts in databases. Interviews were also administered to facilitate implementation of the actual services. Community health services commonly seen in Taiwan and abroad were compiled, and the resources required for each service were examined. Subsequently, factor analysis was performed to explore the characteristic of these services in order to recommend feasible services for university students to undertake. The results indicated that the eight resources required for the 59 common community health services were (1) a designated space or venue, (2) materials, (3) monetary resources, (4) human resources, (5) expertise, (6) professional equipment, (7) patience, and (8) empathy. The results revealed three principal components, namely labor services, high-resource services, and professional services, for a total explanatory power of 67.99%; the individual explanatory power of these components accounted for 25.04%, 21.81%, and 21.15%, respectively. Next, community health care services suitable for university students to perform were selected and implemented, and these services were well received. The study results indicated that community and environmental justice can be realized by identifying with the value of community health services and promoting postmodern education theories and social norms. The research results are suitable for implementation after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The present study investigated the feasibility of applying the Silent Way in teaching Japanese to Taiwanese university students. A total of 168 (96 female and 72 male) students in a university in central Taiwan were the subjects of this study. They were studying Japanese as a general course, and were grouped in five classes ranging from freshmen to juniors. Some basic principles and techniques of the Silent Way were adopted in teaching them some vocabulary and 50 Japanese Hiragana sounds during six successive sessions in three weeks. Each administration took about 20 minutes embedded in the normal class time. A 25-item Hiragana sounds oral test was used as the pre-test and post-test in order to examine the effects of applying this method. Using a paired sample T-test (α ≤.05) significant difference between students’ knowledge of the Japanese sounds before and after the experiment was observed. However, comparing female and male students’ gained scores via applying a Mann Whitney U-test, no significant difference was observed. Thus, this study shows that the Silent Way can be used in teaching Japanese sounds and vocabulary, and that the effects for both females and males seem to be the same.

The purpose of the present study is to examine a theoretical model using authentic experience, perceived benefit, perceived cost, and support for tourism development among attendees of the Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage in Taiwan. Overall, 1,244 usable responses were collected and analyzed. Analytic findings indicated that authentic experience and perceived benefits are precedents of support for tourism development. Perceived benefits significantly mediate the relationship between authentic experience and support for tourism development in both first-time and repeat attendees. The present study concludes that an individual who attends a traditional religious festival has authentic experiences of pilgrimage that create perceived benefits and lead to behavior that supports tourism development. The theoretical and managerial implications presented in this article elucidate an original theoretical framework and valuable insights for promoting support for tourism development, potentially also contributing to the literature.

Product design is a complicated activity that is highly reliant on individual impressions, feelings and emotions. Back-propagated neural networks have already been applied in Kansei engineering to solve difficult design problems. However, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have a slow rate of convergence, and find it difficult to devise a suitable network structure and find the global optimal solution. This study developed an ANN-based predictive model enhanced with a genetic algorithm (GA) optimization technique to search for close-to-optimal sports shoe color schemes for a given product image. The design factors of the sports shoe were set as the network inputs, and the Kansei objective value was the output of the GA-based ANN model. The results show that a model built with three hidden layers (28 × 38 × 19) could predict the object value reliably. The R2 of the preference objective was equal to 0.834, suggesting that the developed model is a feasible and efficient tool for predicting the objective value of product images. This study also found that the prediction accuracy for shoes with two colors was higher than that for shoes with only one color. In addition, the prediction accuracy for shoes with a relatively familiar shape was also higher. However, the prediction of color preferences is relatively difficult, because the respondents had different individual color preferences. Exploring the sensitivity and importance of the visual factors (form, color, texture) for various image words is a worthy topic for future research in this field.