COVID-19 and its consequences on the physical, psychological and social health of obstetricians by Yuly Raquel Santos-Rosales, Elia Stephanie Ku-Chung, Miriam Yoana Correa-Lopez

“…Obesity reported by 102 (20.0%) obstetricians was the main comorbidity, followed by hypertension with 38 (7.4%) and diabetes with 14 (2.7%); 263 (51.5%) reported depressive symptoms and 464 (90.8%) stress; 238 (46.6%) felt discrimination and 118 (23.1%) carried the workload of the home alone. Conclusions: The physical, psychological and social health of obstetricians is affected by the pandemic; generates disorders of overweight/obesity, depression, stress; as well as discrimination and work overload at home.…”
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Sexual Behaviour and Fantasies in a Group of Young Italian Cohort by Marina Di Mauro, Giorgio Ivan Russo, Gaia Polloni, Camilla Tonioni, Daniel Giunti, Gianmartin Cito, Bruno Giammusso, Girolamo Morelli, Lorenzo Masieri, Andrea Cocci

“…As for pornography, we have shown that 80% of our group watched porn at home, alone or from their smartphones. Our results have several practical implications for the areas of sex education and sexual health. …”
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SIEGE : Trump Under Fire / by Roth, Wolff-Michael, 1953-, author 386033

Sensitivity Analysis of Factors Influencing Rural Housing Energy Consumption in Different Household Patterns in the Zhejiang Province by Chen Chen, MeiYan Wang, Chengzhu Shen, Yingying Huang, Minhua Zhu, Huifang Wang, Liping He, Dewancker Bart Julien

“…Unlike urban dwellings, it is very common for elderly people to stay at home alone in Chinese rural families, and some families have three generations in the same house who are in different situations, and their different family patterns lead to different highly sensitive parameters of building energy consumption. …”
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Establishing the Manner of Death: A 3D Reconstruction of a Case of Hanging by Marcello Benevento, Laura Ambrosi, Eloisa Maselli, Davide Ferorelli, Biagio Solarino, Aldo Di Fazio

“…After that, she left home alone with her phone charger in her hand. Due to self-harm behaviors, the first hypothesis was suicide by hanging. …”
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Tuning Hyper Parameters of Deep Learning Model to Monitor Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) by V. Maria Anu, Mandala Jagadeesh, L. Mary Gladence, Senduru Srinivasulu, S. Revathy, V. Nirmal Rani

“…Hence, this exploration displays framework for both to acknowledge and help for the treatment of OSA of aged, home alone persons by observing various factors, like sleeping position, rest status, physical activities and physical parameters just as the utilization of open information accessible in smart urban communities. …”
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Factors affecting hospital admission, hospital length of stay and new discharge destination post proximal humeral fracture: a retrospective audit by B. R. McDonald, S. Vogrin, C. M. Said

“…New discharge destination was required for 109 (15.5%) participants, of whom 49 (45%) changed from home alone to home with family/friend(s). Greater comorbidities, as indicated by the Charlson Comorbidity Index score, were associated with hospital admission, longer LOS and new discharge destination. …”
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Socializing practices of Irish children and adolescents with food allergy: A prospective study by Miranda Crealey, MD, Aideen Byrne, PhD

“…Among adolescents, 94% visited friends’ homes, but only 12% had been away from home alone. Overall, 523 participants (98.5 %) visited food establishments, whereas 4.6% did not eat out in any food establishment; these participants were significantly more likely to be adolescents (RR = 3.27; 95% CI = 1.65-7.48; P = .0001). …”
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THE SOCIAL LIFE OF INFORMATION / by Brown, John Seely, author 396149, Duguid, Paul, 1954-, author 513333

Economic Evaluation of Telerehabilitation: Systematic Literature Review of Cost-Utility Studies by Sandrine Baffert, Nawale Hadouiri, Cécile Fabron, Floriane Burgy, Aurelia Cassany, Gilles Kemoun

“…Several types of interventions were assessed as telerehabilitation, consisting in monitoring of rehabilitation at home (monitored by physicians) or a rehabilitation program with exercise and an educational intervention at home alone. All studies were based on randomized clinical trials and used a validated health-related quality of life instrument to describe patients’ health states. …”
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Development and psychometric properties of a friendly dietary function assessment scale for home-dwelling people with dementia by Mei-Yin Liu, Hua-Tsen Hsiao, Yi-Ju Chen, Chi-Jane Wang, Jing-Jy Wang

“…Most people with dementia live at home alone or are cared for by informal caregivers, typically their spouses or other family members. …”
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Home-Dwelling Older Adults’ Day-to-Day Community Interactions: A Qualitative Study by Elodie Perruchoud, Armin von Gunten, Tiago Ferreira, Alcina Matos Queirós, Henk Verloo

“…Because many older adults live at home alone or are able to hide any signs of abnormal behaviours from others, the non-healthcare workers who interact with older adults on a daily basis are key actors in detecting those behaviours and orienting older adults towards appropriate support services. …”
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Packaging design with sense-ability by Yeo, Jesvin Puay-Hwa

“…The sheer growth in the older population will lead to increases in older persons living alone or staying home alone in most part of the day. The results from Singapore National Survey of Senior Citizens (1995, 2005) show that there are more Singaporean above 75 years old living alone. …”
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La tecnología como complemento al proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de la flauta dulce en la etapa de Educación Primaria / Technology as a complement to the teaching-learning proces... by Paloma Bravo-Fuentes

“…After the collective class, the students have to practice at home alone, with the responsibility for their progress in the study falling on themselves.This work proposes the inclusion of a digital tool as a complement to the deficiencies that the teaching-learning process of the instrument presents, as well as a proposal for a study protocol to be followed by the student in their autonomous progress.TThe objective of the computer application is to offer the possibility of listening to the musical piece, showing the score, recording the performances and, finally, providing references and data on the mistakes made, both to the students and to the teaching figure. …”
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An Artificial Intelligence Exercise Coaching Mobile App: Development and Randomized Controlled Trial to Verify Its Effectiveness in Posture Correction by Han Joo Chae, Ji-Been Kim, Gwanmo Park, David Michael O'Sullivan, Jinwook Seo, Jung-Jun Park

“…Subsequently, a mobile workout assistant app, Home Alone Exercise, was developed, and a 2-week interventional study, in which the EXP used the app while the CTL only followed workout videos, showed how the app helps people improve squat exercise. …”
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Group decisions and individual differences: route fidelity predicts flight leadership in homing pigeons (Columba livia). by Freeman, R, Mann, R, Guilford, T, Biro, D

“…Birds that are more faithful to their own route when homing alone are more likely to emerge as leaders when homing socially. …”

Consequences and mechanisms of leadership in pigeon flocks by Pettit, BG

“…I used GPS loggers to track pigeons homing alone and in flocks, and applied mathematical modelling to explore the mechanisms underlying group decisions. …”

Prevalencia de los trastornos del sueño en el adulto mayor Prevalence of sleep disorders in the elderly by Manuel Pando-Moreno, Carolina Aranda Beltrán, María E. Aguilar Aldrete, Patricia L. Mendoza Roaf, José G. Salazar Estrada

“…<br>This study was performed with senior citizens in Greater Metropolitan Guadalajara, Mexico, who live in private homes, alone, or with family. Of these, 58% of men and 76% of women showed at least one symptom of sleep disorder according to the Goldberg General Health Questionnaire, while 8.5% were positive for all survey items. …”
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