News at a glance: Stricter mask recommendations, a misfiring Russian space module, and a retrial over China ties

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Author(s):  
V.V. Bulanov ◽  
V.M. Ivanov ◽  
V.I. Luckiaschenko ◽  
G.R. Uspensky

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Chen ◽  
Yuxuan Jiang ◽  
Linbo Luo ◽  
Yue Gu ◽  
Kangle Wu

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
MORGIEVE Margot ◽  
catherine Genty ◽  
Jonathan Dubois ◽  
Marion Leboyer ◽  
Guillaume Vaiva ◽  
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Background: Many suicide risk factors have been identified, but traditional clinical methods do not allow the accurate prediction of suicide behaviors. To face this challenge, we developed emma, an app for Ecological Momentary Assessment/Intervention (EMA/EMI) and prediction of suicide risk in high risk patients.Objective: We wanted to test the feasibility of implementing this mHealth-based suicide risk assessment and prevention tool and its impact in subjects at high risk of suicide in real world conditions.Methods: The EMMA Study is an ongoing longitudinal interventional multicenter trial in which patients at high-risk for suicide (n=100) use emma for 6 months. During this period, they complete four EMA types (daily, weekly, monthly, spontaneous) and may use EMI modules. Participants undergo clinical assessment at month 0, 1, 3 and 6 after inclusion.Results: Among the 43 patients already recruited in the EMMA Study, 14 participants had completed the follow-up. Their data were analyzed to evaluate emma implementation and impact on suicide risk management. EMA completion rates were extremely heterogeneous among the 14 participants with a sharp decrease over time. The completion rates of the weekly EMA (25% to 87.5%) were higher than for the daily EMA (0% to 53.3%). Most patients (n=10/14) answered the EMA questionnaires spontaneously. Similarly, the Safety Plan Modules use was very heterogeneous (2 to 75 times). Specifically, 11 patients used the Call Module (1 to 29 times), designed by our team to help them to get in touch with healthcare professionals and/or relatives during a crisis. All patients used the Breathing Space Module and 8 the Emotion Regulation Module (1 to 46 times). The diversity of patient profiles and use of the EMA and EMI modules proposed by emma was highlighted by three case reports.Conclusions: These preliminary results suggest that it is possible and acceptable to collect longitudinal fine-grained contextualized data (EMA) and to offer personalized intervention (EMI) in real time to people at high risk of suicide. Patients have different clinical and digital profiles and needs that require a highly scalable, interactive and customizable app. To become a complementary tool for suicide prevention, emma should be integrated in the existing emergency procedures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 17-25
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M. K. DULESOVA ◽  
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G. V. TRUKHANOV ◽  
E. A. SOKOLOVA ◽  
E. E. KELASKINA ◽  
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The article discusses the importance of early design stages in the implementation of the project and proposes a methodology for designing innovative products. Examines an example of its application in the design of a space module.


Author(s):  
Shao Zhiyu ◽  
Sun Hanxu ◽  
Jia Qingxuan ◽  
Ye Ping ◽  
Tan Yuesheng
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Jeremy Withers

For the May 1967 issue of Analog, the influential science fiction magazine that began under the name Astounding Stories of Super-Science in 1930, editor (and sometimes author) John W. Campbell, Jr. composed an editorial titled ‘The Safest Form of Transportation.’ Campbell wrote the editorial, he tells us, in the days immediately following the Apollo 1 disaster, an incident that occurred on January 27, 1967, in which a cabin fire broke out in a space module as it sat on the ground during a launch rehearsal test. Three NASA astronauts were trapped inside the module and killed by the fire. Campbell, concerned that this disaster might halt subsequent development of human space flight programs, opens his editorial by brazenly declaring: ‘As of January 30th, 1967 travel by spaceship retains its unblemished record as the safest known form of travel; in hundreds of millions of miles of travel, not one person has been killed or injured.’...


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