bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Tuberculosis Risk Assessments among Key Populations in Nigeria.
Authors: Usman Saheed , Arubuola Mary Anuoluwapo , Tumusiime James
Published: November 2022

Background

HIV key populations in Nigeria continue to face social stigma and legal implications. Homosexuality, use of any kind of drugs, and sex work remain illegal in the country. This prevents such individuals from seeking and accessing health services, resulting in an increased incidence and prevalence of HIV as well as opportunistic diseases like TB and STIs among key populations. A challenge remains, however, in determining the risk levels and prevalence of these diseases as key populations are unwilling to come forward. This study aims to carry out a risk assessment among key populations in Ondo State, Nigeria.

Methodology

Analysis was carried out to find out the risk factors among the key populations in the given sample. Various variables were first assessed against HIV, TB and STI (outcome variables) using a bivariate analysis to see which variables had a significant correlation with each of the outcome variables. After which, a multi-logistic regression analysis was carried out to identify which risk factors were significantly correlated.

Findings

Whilst the unadjusted odds ratios were reported in the results section, the main discussion was focused on adjusted odds ratios (AOR). Based on the AOR findings, men were shown to be at a higher risk of STI, HIV and TB. This is possibly due to the sample comprising of men who have sex with men, a key population with little to no access to health educations and services. Middle aged participants (36–45 year olds) had a higher risk than the younger and older age groups, due to their higher tendencies to be involved in risky sexual behaviours. Single participants were observed to have similar (in the case of HIV) or higher odds of the other outcomes in comparison to their married counterparts. There were not enough participants among separated groups to determine their odds ratio in comparison to other groups.

Conclusion

Key population groups in Nigeria continue to be at a disadvantage due to the legal restrictions imposed on them. Studies have shown that there is a slightly increased prevalence rate of HIV and STIs among PLHIV. Various factors were investigated and cross-tabulated with the diseases of interest and possible confounders were discussed.
“You need someone steering the ship for you”: Australian brain tumour care coordination needs, practices, and opportunities.
Authors: Cootes Hannah , Heinsch Milena , Wells Hannah , Tickner Campbell , Kay-Lambkin Frances
Published: November 2022

Objective
In Australia, care coordination has not been widely adopted in neuro-oncology services and there is a dearth of empirical evidence about routine care coordinator practices with brain tumour (BT) patients and their caregivers. In this study, we explored how neuro-oncology service models can best promote personalised, flexible interventions, and how BT care coordination can be effectively integrated within Australian health care services.

Methods
We used a qualitative approach, conducting semi-structured interviews with 21 informal brain tumour caregivers and 11 multidisciplinary health and social care professionals.

Results
Three main themes were developed: i) “No-one’s really on your team”: Need for patient-and family-centred care, partnership, and support; ii) “You need someone steering the ship for you”: Navigating complexity and guiding the whole family; and iii) “Good, shared decision-making communication improves patient outcomes every time”: Future opportunities and modifiable factors.

Conclusion
Care coordination can improve the responsiveness of BT care and increase the accessibility of already-existing services. However, many families do not have access to a central coordinating figure. Since BT care coordination is an emerging subspecialty in Australia, it is critical that neuro-oncology services review and evaluate these positions to ensure that they are adequately integrated and supported.
Intersection of sets and inter-understanding between Portuguese and Spanish
Authors: López-Astorga Miguel
Published: November 2022

This paper describes a study about inter-understanding between Portuguese and Spanish. Based on Peano’s work, the study resorts to the logical relation of intersection between sets and applies it to words in Portuguese and Spanish meaning the same. The material is a text that is the abstract of a psychology paper. Each of the words in that text, which is written in Portuguese, is compared to its corresponding Spanish word by means of the relation of intersection. This is made by considering the letters in the words to be elements in sets. The results show the potential that this methodology can have to provide percentages of inter-understanding between the two languages (and between any pair of languages).
O homem está morto: a antropologia de Abraham Heschel como caminho de humanismo e crítica à modernidade
Authors: Silva Nogueira Emivaldo , Ferreira de Lima Narcélio
Published: November 2022

No pensamento do filósofo e teólogo judeu Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), o ser humano é colocado em uma posição única diante da transcendência e da natureza; ele é reconhecido como um verdadeiro símbolo de Deus e um participante da vida divina em um contexto de desvalorização e desumanização que vinha se formando desde os primórdios da modernidade. Em diálogo com alguns pensadores contemporâneos, neste artigo propomos refazer os caminhos conceituais e práticos que levaram este rabino a pensar e agir energicamente em favor da reconstrução da natureza humana, e apontar o pathos divino como elemento de solidariedade, e o resgate da ética e da sacralidade humana. Nossa proposta de reflexão está estruturada em torno de três pontos fundamentais: o problema do simbolismo religioso humano em relação a Deus; o pathos divino como ponte para Deus; e o ser humano que é Homem e, ao mesmo tempo, um apelo à ética.
Will Mergers and Acquisition Vacillate the Performance of Banks? A Case Study of Public Sector Banks in India
Authors: Roopesh Roopesh , Sandhya Sandhya
Published: November 2022

The recent change that the banking sector sees is the mergers and acquisitions occurring among the public sector banks. Merger and acquisition in the banking sector are part of the reform strategies to improve financial stability and gain smooth operational flow and synergy advantages. The research focused on the aspects of the banks' profitability, solvency, investment, and liquidity in the pre-and post-merger period. The research attempted to understand the varied reasons behind their mergers, acquisition, and success rate.  The main objective was to understand the impact of synergy on the performance and profitability of banks. It was an exploratory research to understand the various objectives of mergers and to map the outcome of those objectives.  The analysis was done through ratio analysis and paired t-test to gauge the impact of the pre-and post-merger scenario. The results find that the merger and acquisition are a positive move for some banks. However, there are certain banks which are coping at a slow pace with the synergy. The research also discovers that the synergy amongst the banks reacts in a varied way based on the objective of the mergers. The results indicate that the banks cope with the merger and acquisition at a varied pace due to various factors like Non-Performing Asset (NPA), debts, assets, and market share variabilities amongst the banks. The recent pandemic that the world faces can also be considered a factor for slower coping.
Modified Multi-Kernel Support Vector Machine for Mask Detection
Authors: Athoillah Muhammad , Purnaningrum Evita , Putri Rani Kurnia
Published: November 2022

Indonesia is one of the countries most affected by the Coronavirus pandemic with millions confirm cases. Hence, the government has increased strict procedures for using face masks in public areas. For this reason, the detection of people wearing face masks in public areas is needed. Face mask detection is a part of the classification problem. Thus Support Vector Machine (SVM) can be implemented. SVM is still known as one of the most powerful and efficient classification algorithms. The research aims to build an automatic face mask detector using SVM. However, it needs to modify it first because it only can classify linear data. The modification is made by adding kernel functions, and a Multi-kernel approach is chosen. The proposed method is applied by combining various kernels into one kernel equation. The dataset used in the research is a face mask image obtained from Github. The data are public datasets consisting of faces with and without masks. The results present that the proposed method provides good performance. It is proven by the average value. The values are 83.67% for sensitivity, 82.40% for specificity, 82.00% for precision, 82.93% for accuracy, and 82.77% for F1-score. These values are better than other experiments using single kernel SVM with the same process and dataset.
Integrated Information System of Material Resource Planning and Supply Chain Procurement: A Case Study of XYZ Company
Authors: Wijaya Santo , Sari Marta Hayu Raras Sita Rukmika , Supriatna Yeyeh
Published: November 2022

Human errors are inevitable due to the mass customization and complex supply chain, which must be considered in the Material Resource Planning (MRP) explosion calculation and the Supply Chain Procurement (SCP) distribution of sales orders. Such errors lead to SCP problems with the subject company. The research presents the design and implementation of an integrated information system of MRP and SCP. The objective is to solve the issues in the subject company by designing and implementing an Integrated Information System (IIS) framework with an open-source software platform, which utilizes a generic Bill-of-Materials (BoM) explosion algorithm to calculate the MRP of customers’ sales orders. Then, an algorithm is also proposed to calculate SCP distribution to enable the framework in the implementation stage. The research subject is the process business in Indonesia’s local Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for automotive components. The name of the company is concealed to be XYZ Company. The calculation is introduced in the testing phase to illustrate the algorithm’s mechanism. This approach ensures a valid calculation of efficient supply chain processes. The combined approaches in the subjected business process yield satisfactory results. It reduces significant issues to 12.5% for the stated problems. Hence, the design objective is achieved.
Car Wash Ordering App for Better Queue
Authors: Purwanto Eko Setyo , Efendi Mohamad Gandi , Tohpati Raditya , Marionatha Patrick
Published: November 2022

This study aims to create a booking application that is applied in a car wash. Seeing the very rapid development of technology, one of which is the booking application There are so many business people who take advantage of this booking application, for example, hotel booking applications, ticket bookings, etc. But there is some business that has not taken advantage of this booking application, one of which is the car wash business. Most car wash businesses still use manual methods in the process, from recording customer data and payments. In using this manual method, many problems occur. for example, recording incorrect data, counterfeiting money, etc. Therefore, a study was conducted using the system development method, namely Waterfall. The waterfall method includes Analysis, Design, Coding, and Testing. The results obtained from this study are a Car Wash booking application by utilizing the IoT topic which is expected to help problems that occur in the car wash business.
Form, Function, and Meaning of Bebasan: The Orality of the Samin in Bojonegoro
Authors: Khasanah Ismatul , Tabiati Sri Endah , Mauliddian Khilmi
Published: November 2022

The research aimed to describe the form, function, and meaning of bebasan as a cultural orality spoken by the Samin in Bojonegoro. The Samin community was a community group residing in Bojonegoro, East Java. Aside from their distinguished language, the Samin was also well-known for its unique orality called bebasan, representing its culture and society. It was deemed significant to document this national tradition as a form of expression spoken based on the habits and behaviours of the Samin community. In a society that upheld the culture of oral traditions, the Samin community had placed bebasan as one of the rules of life that they subconsciously needed to obey. The research employed folklore theory in order to explore and observe the meaning of bebasan as a part of traditional folklore. Folkore was inseparable from the conditions of society and the culture that encompassed it, so it was necessary to comprehend and give meaning to the folklore. A descriptive qualitative method was applied in the research. Data was obtained by recording and documenting the orality spoken within the Samin community. The results reveal that there are six forms of Bebasan which include directives and teachings on how to conduct oneself well in life. It is also observed that bebasan functions as a medium for advice, reminders, and teachings of life, all ingrained in the Samin community.
Pedagogic Interaction in an Online EFL Class at a Junior High School in Depok
Authors: Dewi Fitria Azifah , Halimi Sisilia Setiawati
Published: November 2022

The research was conducted to investigate how the teacher built pedagogic interactions with the students in an online EFL class in Depok, including how the teacher used speech structures, language shifts, and how the students perceived the interactions. The shift to online learning in the pandemic era had affected the quality of learning. Due to the complexity of online learning, interpersonal interactions between teachers and students were frequently overlooked in an online class. Applying exploratory sequential mixed methods, the research was meant to provide findings that could be used to improve the quality of online learning. It began with a qualitative research phase, and then the results of the qualitative phase were used to build into the quantitative phase. Classroom observations, stimulated recalls, and a questionnaire were used to collect the data. The results indicate that the EFL teacher builds his/her interactions by prioritizing pedagogical functions and targeting the students' cognitive domains. The dominant learning cycle is the focus phase with a pedagogical role as an information provider. Intramove is identified as the most frequently occurring code-switching type used for pedagogical, managerial, and technical functions. Translanguaging is also identified which gives rise to productive bilingualism. Overall, the pedagogic interactions that are established by the EFL teacher are well perceived by the students, and they give some suggestions for the quality improvement of EFL online learning so that future classes will be more interactive. More research on the aspects of class interactions during online learning should be carried out to help teachers improve the quality of their online teaching.
Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and Indonesian Nominal Sentences
Authors: Trihardini Ayu
Published: November 2022

The comparative study aimed to describe the characteristics of Chinese and Indonesian nominal sentences. The research contributed to teaching Chinese as a second language and the field of translation as well. Chinese was being studied all over the world, and Indonesia was no exception. Nevertheless, contrastive analysis between Chinese and Indonesian in the field of syntax were still limited. Nominal sentences are one of the classifications of sentences based on the predicate form. Accordingly, Chinese and Indonesian nominal sentences have similar definitions but differed in the words or phrases that form the predicate. The data in the contrastive analysis study were Chinese and Indonesian nominal sentences from short stories, novels, other literary works, and examples of related grammatical works. The data were analyzed using the James procedure and the contrastive analysis method with four steps described by Di Pietro. The finding of the contrastive analysis indicates that in both languages, nominal sentence usage is limited under certain conditions; some Chinese nominal sentences will become verb sentences when translated into Indonesian. Also, Chinese and Indonesian nominal sentences differ in their negative forms. The error analysis indicates that Indonesian students still lack knowledge of Chinese nominal sentences and characteristics.
Social Discourse of Fake News in French and Its Digital Social Media Literacy
Authors: Andriani Merry , Kalsum Annisa Fitriani , Elloianza Gabriele Nadina
Published: November 2022

The research explored the social discourse of fake news in the French language and the French government’s efforts to overcome it with digital media literacy through social media. Fake news was getting more intense with the existence of social media as an instrument of dissemination. The fake news data were observed first, then selected according to the intensity of its distribution, and taken through social media platforms with the most users in France, namely Facebook and Twitter. Then this data set was verified and confirmed through the official fact-checking platform to ensure that the data text was fake news. This data verification method also practiced techniques socialized by the French government through a digital media literacy program. All data were analyzed qualitatively using a critical paradigm, particularly critical sociolinguistics, and post-truth theory. The analysis results show a relationship between language practice through fake news texts circulating on social media and the practice of government propaganda discourse through digital media literacy. These two practices also give rise to certain social practices and movements in French society. This also shows that digital media literacy efforts alone are ineffective enough to overcome the problems caused by fake news in society.
Psychological Capital dan Innovative Work Behavior pada Perusahaan Tenun Ikat
Authors:   Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis, Universitas Airlangga, Jalan Airlangga 4-6, Surabaya, Indonesia 60285, Mahendra Baharudin Radhif Dimas , Ekowati Dian ,   Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis, Universitas Airlangga, Jalan Airlangga 4-6, Surabaya, Indonesia 60285
Published: November 2022

This study aims to examine and analyze the influence of Psychological Capital and other variables as a mediation that is thought to encourage Innovative Work Behavior, namely Employee Creativity and Employee Engagement, at two weaving companies. Respondents in this study were employees of the “Medali Emas” ikat weaving company totalling 120 people and the “Kodok Ngorek 2” ikat weaving company totalling 26 people. Tests in this study used data processing software, namely SmartPLS version 3.3.7. After testing, the results obtained that Psychological Capital has a positive and significant effect on Innovative Work Behavior, Employee Creativity and Employee Engagement. In addition, the test results also show a positive and significant influence between Employee Creativity and Employee Engagement in Innovative Work Behavior. Thus, Employee Creativity and Employee Engagement partially mediate the influence of Psychological Capital on Innovative Work Behavior in the employees of 2 ikat weaving companies in Bandar Kidul, Kediri.
Projektowanie wsparcia na rzecz osób z niepełnosprawnościami w perspektywie działań komunikacyjnych. W stronę miejskich warsztatów dialogu
Authors: Rutkowski Jarosław
Published: November 2022

Osoby z niepełnosprawnościami pozostają często w wydzielonych przestrzeniach życia społecznego, często nie mając warunków do bycia-u-siebie w mieście. Jednocześnie brak widoczności i słyszalności osób z niepełnosprawnością w przestrzeni publicznej stanowi wyzwanie dla współczesnego miasta. Dlatego w ramach projektowania różnych form wsparcia dla osób zależnych, znaczącą rolę przypisać należy działaniom komunikacyjnym. W tekście wskazano, że w mieście uważnym na potrzeby osób z niepełnosprawnościami łatwiej o wzmocnienia aktywności i emancypację tych osób w ramach działań komunikacyjnych. Porozumienie nadaje sens działaniu komunikacyjnemu i w tym znaczeniu przedstawiono wybrane warsztaty dialogu. To w nich tkwi siła rozwoju różnorodnych form wsparcia dla osób zależnych oraz praktyk partycypacyjnych mieszkańców uczące się miasta. Artykuł przedstawia refleksje na temat wsparcia osób z niepełnosprawnościami w perspektywie ich sprawczego działania, aktywności kreacyjnych w mieście. Podkreślono, że w warunkach miasta czułego, w ramach budowania różnorodnych warsztatów dialogu możliwe jest projektowanie w mieście rozwiązań, służących transformacji umniejszonej kondycji życiowej osób z niepełnosprawnościami.
Historia i kierunki rozwoju badań jakościowych za granicą i ich wymiar rozwojowy
Authors: Bocharova Olena , Kamińska Aneta
Published: November 2022

Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu ukazanie zarówno historii badań jakościowych, jak i współczesnego kierunki ich rozwoju. Metody jakościowe przeszły dość długa drogę ich ewolucji i nadal ulegają przeobrażeniom. W pierwszej części zostały ukazane fazy ich rozwoju, począwszy od okresu wczesnych badań klasycznych, poprzez okres tworzenia się oryginalnych tradycji i okres sprawdzenia podstaw i paradygmatu badań, aż do okresu nowej systematyzacji metod, procedur i standardów. Taki podział jest stosunkowo mało znany i stanowi pewna nowość. Przez to jest cenny. Ta część zawiera szczegółowy przeglądowy materiał. Druga cześć zawiera ustalenia metodologiczne. Ukazano czym są w swojej istocie badania jakościowe na podstawie literatury przedmiotu, zwracając baczna uwagę na ich charakterystyczne cechy stanowiące o ich niepowtarzalnym charakterze oraz dokonana klasyfikacji metod jakościowych, według mniej znanego autora. W artykule podkreślono również role badacza metod jakościowych, różniąca się znacznie od tej w przypadku wyboru metod ilościowych. Całość zachęca do przyjrzenia się dorobkowi metodologicznemu perspektywy jakościowej i docenienie ich unikatowych walorów.
Inclusive research with people with intellectual disabilities. Current research status analysis
Authors: Parchomiuk Monika
Published: November 2022

The widespread interest in inclusive research justifies the need to establish its added value and scientific merit. We analysed recent studies following the analyses by Walmsley, Strnadová, and Johnson aiming to assess the relevance of such projects from the perspective of the involved people and to assess their scientific value. We conducted a systematic analysis of studies produced between 2016 and 2021. We designed our own tools for assessing added and scientific value based on available research and commonly used criteria. The significance of inclusive research for persons with intellectual disability was confirmed. The analysed studies met the criteria for scientific validity to a varying degree. Adhering to the principles applied in the scientific community is key, considering first ethics, careful choice of the method, and activating people involved in the research.
Gastric Cancer and Circulating microRNAs: An Updated Systematic Review and Diagnostic Meta-Analysis
Authors: Aalami Amir Hossein , Aalami Farnoosh , Sahebkar Amirhossein
Published: November 2022

Background:

Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs, miRs) are now used as noninvasive diagnostic indicators in various malignancies.

Objective:

Our objective is to use a meta-analysis to assess the diagnostic performance of circulating miRNAs in gastric cancer.

Methods:

We reviewed databases and methodically obtained papers for analysis until October 15th, 2021. The random-effect meta-analysis was performed to construct pooled diagnostic parameters. To detect the causes of heterogeneity, spearman threshold effect analysis and subgroup analysis were performed. The I2 and Chi-square tests were also used to examine the heterogeneity. The subgroup analyses were conducted based on sample types (serum/plasma/blood), normalized genes (U6, miR-16, and miR-39), qPCR mastermix (SYBR and Taqman), and country. Finally, the publication bias was estimated using Egger's funnel plot asymmetry test.

Results:

A total of 40 articles covering 73 studies (59 microRNAs) were included, containing 11,022 participants (6,324 cases and 4,698 controls). The overall pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and area under the curve (AUC) were 0.75 (95% CI: 0.74-0.77), 0.79 (95% CI: 0.78-0.80), 4.081 (95% CI: 3.43-4.85), 0.28 (95% CI: 0.25-0.32), 16.08 (95% CI: 12.34-20.95), and 0.877 (CI: 0.84-0.90), respectively. We conducted a subgroup analysis of diagnostic values, which revealed that serum type, U6 reference gene, SYBR mastermix, and East Asian Countries (China and Japan) had better diagnostic value.

Conclusion:

Circulating miRs can serve as diagnostic biomarkers for gastric cancer. However, specific miRNAs still need to be discovered in diagnosing gastric cancer, especially early screening.
Influencing Factors in Tunisian Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients’ Quality of
Life: Burden and Solutions
Authors: Boussaid Soumaya , Jeriri Sarra , Rekik Sonia , Hannech Emna , Jammali Samia , Cheour Elhem , Sahli Hela , Elleuch Mohamed
Published: November 2022

Background:

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a disease with a heavy functional, psychological, and socioeconomic impact. The management of Quality of Life (QoL) as a therapeutic objective is a fairly recent notion, especially in Tunisia. We aimed to evaluate QoL in RA patients and to identify its affecting factors.

Methods:

This was a cross-sectional study in a Tunisian rheumatology center. To assess QoL, we used the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales Short Form (AIMS2-SF). Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) for psychological disorders, Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS Pain), and for fatigue (VAS Fatigue) were also used. Disease activity was assessed by the Disease Activity Score (DAS28 CRP).

Results:

We enrolled 120 established RA, the mean age of our patients was 56.9±11.4 years, with a predominance of women (83.3%). The mean disease duration was 10.97±7.7 years. According to the HAD scale, 27% of our patients presented anxiety, and 26.7% had depressive disorders. There was significantly impaired QoL in patients with low educational level, dependent financial situation, long disease duration, high disease activity, high pain and fatigue levels, poor therapeutic education, functional disability, and psychological disorders (p<0.001). A strong negative correlation was detected between inflammatory markers, structural damage, and the scores of QoL. Patients under biologics scored significantly higher in the SF36 mental health domain (p<0.001).

Conclusion:

QoL is significantly poor in Tunisian RA. These patients should be managed using a multidisciplinary approach involving the patients themselves.
Neuronutrients and Central Nervous System: A Systematic Review
Authors: Nogueira-de-Almeida Carlos Alberto , Zotarelli-Filho Idiberto José , Nogueirade- Almeida Maria Eduarda , Souza Caio Gonçalves , Kemp Vitorio Luis , Ramos Williams Santos
Published: November 2022

Introduction:

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body, with a high and constant demand for inputs. Adequate nutrition is essential for the complete functioning of the brain, not only due to the energy supply, mainly from carbohydrates, but also due to the adequate supply of other macronutrients and micronutrients for the synthesis of neurotransmitters and protein components. Vitamins, minerals, and other components of the diet also constitute the so-called “neuro-nutrients”.

Objective:

It was to develop a systematic review to highlight key neuro-nutrients and clinical studies that direct strategies for adequate nutritional status.

Methods:

The rules of the Systematic Review-PRISMA Platform were followed. The research was carried out from October 2021 to February 2022 and developed based on Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, Scielo, and Google Scholar. The quality of the studies was based on the GRADE instrument and the risk of bias was analyzed according to the Cochrane instrument.

Results:

A total of 234 articles were found and 167 articles were evaluated in full, and 118 were included and evaluated in the present study. According to the GRADE instrument, most studies (>50%) followed a controlled clinical study model and had a good methodological design. The overall assessment resulted in 54 studies with a high risk of bias to the small sample size. The most important macronutrients in neuro-nutrition are phosphatidylserine and tryptophan. Micronutrients are methyl folate, vitamins B6 and B12, magnesium, arginine, choline, and niacin.

Conclusion:

The areas of neurology and psychiatry have shown great advances regarding the deepening of knowledge in prophylaxis and pathophysiology, as well as in the treatment of established diseases. The recognition of the role of nutrition as an adjunct to these processes is currently growing. The search in scientific bases for neuro nutrients reveals a great growth of publications related to this theme. In the present text, some of these nutrients were explored to verify the current state of knowledge.
Online Seizure Prediction System: A Novel Probabilistic Approach for Efficient Prediction of Epileptic Seizure with iEEG Signal
Authors: Abbaszadeh Behrooz , Teixeira Cesar A. D. , Yagoub Mustapha C.E.
Published: November 2022

Background:

1% of people around the world are suffering from epilepsy. It is, therefore crucial to propose an efficient automated seizure prediction tool implemented in a portable device that uses the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal to enhance epileptic patients’ life quality.

Methods:

In this study, we focused on time-domain features to achieve discriminative information at a low CPU cost extracted from the intracranial electroencephalogram (iEEG) signals of six patients. The probabilistic framework based on XGBoost classifier requires the mean and maximum probability of the non-seizure and the seizure occurrence period segments. Once all these parameters are set for each patient, the medical decision maker can send alarm based on well-defined thresholds.

Results:

While finding a unique model for all patients is really challenging, and our modelling results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm can be an efficient tool for reliable and clinically relevant seizure forecasting. Using iEEG signals, the proposed algorithm can forecast seizures, informing a patient about 75 minutes before a seizure would occur, a period large enough for patients to take practical actions to minimize the potential impacts of the seizure.

Conclusion:

We posit that the ability to distinguish interictal intracranial EEG from pre-ictal signals at some low computational cost may be the first step towards an implanted portable semi-automatic seizure suppression system in the near future. It is believed that our seizure prediction technique can conceivably be coupled with treatment techniques aimed at interrupting the process even prior to a seizure initiates to develop.
Optimization of SUV with Changing the Dose Amount in F18-FDG
PET/CT of Pediatric Lymphoma Patients
Authors: Gülaldi Nedim Cüneyt Murat , Cagdas Berkay , Görtan Fatma Arzu
Published: November 2022

Aims:

We aim to reveal an effect of residual activity leftover within the medical materials
other than the empty syringe used for injection of the tracer on SUV measurements and consequently
effect on possible treatment response assessment.

Background:

Staging and follow-up of pediatric lymphoma patients mainly achieved by the help
of PET/CT scans. It is crucial to make an optimal imaging technique for interpreting individual
images and assessing treatment response.

Objective:

Standardized uptake value measurement is an important quantification parameter in
PET/CT scanning of childhood lymphomas. Low dose of activity used in pediatric oncology patients
makes them vulnerable to small changes of input values for subsequent metabolic parameters.

Methods:

Sixty-eight pediatric lymphoma patients below 50 kg were included into the study. SUVmax,
SUVpeak values of the most metabolically active lesions, along with liver and mediastinum,
were recorded. Metabolic parameters of the lesions/lymph nodes, mediastinum and liver parenchyma
were compared before and after counts from medical materials other than empty syringe
were taken into account. Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used for non-parametric paired sampled
tests for the groups.

Results:

There were statistically significant differences between the whole 6 above-mentioned
groups confirming the importance of residual counts on metabolic parameters (p < 0.001).

Conclusion:

Our study demonstrated residual radioactivity in medical materials such as serum
line tubes, i.v. catheters, three-way stopcock and also butterfly needles used during intravenous
injection should also be included for optimum quantitative metabolic parameter values and to minimize
its the adverse effect on treatment response evaluation, especially in borderline lesions.
Nanotechnology in Smart Contact Lenses: Highlights on Sensor Technologies
and Future Prospects
Authors: R Jino Affrald
Published: November 2022

The eye is a complex organ in the body containing a repertoire of metabolite indicators such as glucose, peptides, specialized ions, and many critical biological data such as intraocular pressure (IOP), corneal temperature, and pH. Contact lens research and patient care have progressed substantially throughout the last three decades; hence smart contact lenses were developed with significant advancements in material biocompatibility, better lens layouts, the healthcare system, and more flexible and efficient modalities. Smart contact lenses are adjustable sophisticated visual prosthesis devices that monitor various significant physical and biochemical changes in ocular disorders, which are noninvasive and continuous. Wearable systems that utilize bodily fluids like sweat tears, saliva, and electrochemical interactions with steady physiological state and illness monitoring are currently developing. Because of its ease of access, fabrication, and noninvasiveness, tear fluid is commonly used to assess ocular disorders, blood glucose, and even cancers. Furthermore, the integration of nanotechnology into contact lenses has emerged as a promising platform for noninvasive point-of-care diagnostics. Utilizing nano-based contact lenses for ocular drug delivery is a new study area in bioengineering and innovative medical techniques. Despite all of the research done in this area, new technologies are still in their early stages of development, and more work in terms of clinical trials is required to commercialize nanotechnology-based contact lenses. This article encompasses nanotechnology-based smart contact lens technology, including materials, advancements, applications, sensor technologies, and prospects.
Psy expert evidence in the family courts the potential for corpus-assisted analysis
Authors: Devine Lauren , Parke Stephen , Harrington Leigh , Makouar Nadia
Published: November 2022

This article introduces corpus-assisted linguistic methods as anexploratory means of analysing expert psychologists’ reports used in public familylaw (child protection) cases. Analysis of this dataset is a new application for corpuslinguistics (CL) and the primary purpose of this article is to explore viability andpotential for its future research using CL as a core method. For this study we havecreated and analysed a 25 single-text-type specialised written corpus consisting of25 expert psychologists’ reports (the Psychology Report Corpus “PRC-25”). Thereports are a random sample selected from a population of all psychologists’reports held in Cafcass files over a 10-year period, representing the first corpusof its kind in a currently under-researched area. Our study uses both an inductive(data-driven) approach to identify significant themes and topics in the reports,and a deductive (legal-intuitive) approach to explore psychologists’ use of legallysignificant terms, especially risk of and significant harm. We also explore thepossibility for using this new methodological protocol to triangulate analysisof a larger and representative corpus of expert psychologists’ reports, and thepossibilities for corpus-driven analysis of the genre of written expert evidence texttypes more generally.
Native Dialect Influence Detection (NDID) differentiating between Mexican and Peninsular L1 Spanish in L2 English
Authors: Mojedano Batel Andrea , Abrams Mitchell , Pęzik Piotr
Published: November 2022

The current investigation addresses a vital lacuna in forensic author-ship studies, and more concretely, in Native Language Influence Detection (NLID)research: narrowing down a speaker’s native dialect instead of only their nativelanguage (L1), which might not be enough when carrying out sociolinguistic pro-filing tasks. Native Dialect Influence Detection (NDID), the focus of our study,can thus greatly aid at the investigative level. We approach this topic by pro-viding a comprehensive analysis of linguistic features that serve to identify twonon-contact dialects of L1 Spanish (i.e., Mexican and Peninsular varieties) whendealing with data written in L2 English, which come from Tripadvisor. Our mainaim is to investigate if an author’s L2 features can point to their L1 native di-alect, rather than only to their native language. Findings point to L1 dialectaltransfer of punctuation signs, adjectives of affect, and intensifiers: these linguisticfeatures, even when expressed in an L2, show a culturally bound use. Addition-ally, we implemented an automatic classifier that achieved an accuracy of 69% incategorizing test data, using only linguistic features that have explanatory powerand can aid linguistic theory. This is key for explainability in the forensic con-text, which Native Language Identification (NLI) studies tend to neglect (Kingston2019). Results show that L1 Spanish dialects can be differentiated by analyzing L2English text, pointing to NDID as a fertile approach for narrowing down candidateL1 dialects of a language when analyzing L2 data.
The role and evidentiary value of information obtained as a result of psychophysiological research in Russian criminal proceedings
Authors:   I. S. Turgenev Orel State University, Bystrova Yuliya V.
Published: November 2022

The use of scientific and technical means in the framework of the disclosure and investigation of a criminal case is focused on obtaining the information necessary for its investigation. Conducting psychophysiological studies using a polygraph is one of the controversial categories in criminal proceedings in Russia. The article analyzes the legal basis for the use of a polygraph, judicial practice on the issue of attributing the conclusions of a polygraph examiner to sources of evidence, the opinions of process scientists.
Some features of the implementation of the local self-government bodies’ powers in the unified public authority system: on the example of preventing the spread of coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV)
Authors:   Alena A. Vicheva Crimean affiliate of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Vicheva Alena A.
Published: November 2022

The article attempts to specify the peculiarities of the implementation of municipal powers in the field of health protection and medical care to the population. Using the example of the implementation of public functions to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus infection, it was detected that local self-government bodies are not yet fully integrated into the system of a unified public authority. The study revealed the limitations of municipal powers exercised in countering the spread of infectious diseases, which in most cases consist in informing the population. Certain issues of the implementation of the powers of local self-government bodies during the in-troduction of a state of emergency as a consequence of the spread of infectious diseases have been studied. It is established that the formation of a system of interaction between various levels of public authorities, organizations and departments involved in the implementation of constitutional guarantees of affordable medical care has begun. The necessity of developing comprehensive municipal programs providing for the implementation of the constitutional powers of local self-government bodies to ensure the availability of medical care for the population is substantiated.
Current issues of the tax administration
Authors:   Elena V. Evsikova The Crimean Branch of the Federal State Education Institution of Higher Education Russian State University of Justice, Evsikova Elena V. , Kolovaylo Svetlana A. ,   Svetlana A. Kolovaylo The Crimean Branch of the Federal State Education Institution of Higher Education Russian State University of Justice, Kravchenko Natalia A. ,   Natalia A. Kravchenko The Crimean Branch of the Federal State Education Institution of Higher Education Russian State University of Justice, Semyhin Igor U. ,   Igor U. Semyhin The Crimean Branch of the Federal State Education Institution of Higher Education Russian State University of Justice
Published: November 2022

Taking into account the trends in the development of public relations, which are characterized by the active introduction of digital technologies, crisis phenomena in the economy, budget deficit, low provision of municipal budgets, etc. It is relevant to analyze the theoretical aspects of tax administration, as well as trends and ways of its development, taking into account international experience. The analysis of approaches to the interpretation of the concept of "tax administration" allowed us to conclude that this category is a system of tax relations management in order to ensure timely and full receipt of tax and other mandatory payments to the budget system with optimal costs for taxpayers. In order to characterize tax administration as a scientific category, the paper analyzes such categories as subject, object, goals, objectives and principles of its implementation. The determination of the essential characteristics of these categories will allow us to further develop a model of tax administration to assess its effectiveness. The analysis of the main trends in the development of tax administration, which are manifested in the introduction of information technologies into the system of control over the turnover of goods at all stages, from production (import) to their final sale, reducing the costs of business entities for the transfer of mandatory payments through the development of electronic document management, the development of a tax monitoring system, the creation of legal bases for the introduction of customs monitoring, etc.
Improving the organization of fire training with certain categories of students in the process of initial training
Authors:   Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Rashidov Murad M. , Yakushev Vadim A. ,   Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Published: November 2022

This article discusses the organizational and legal foundations of fire training as a special type of personnel training for filling positions in the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation. The current regulatory legal acts related to this type of training are analyzed, attention is drawn to certain shortcomings of legal support in terms of regulating the process of fire training of young employees of internal affairs bodies. The most problematic issue of the organization of personnel training in the basics of fire training in the process of profes-sional training under the programs of professional training for the position of an employee of the "Police" in educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which occurs in the practical daily activities of the internal affairs bodies, is touched upon. The authors have proposed their own solution to the problem, which consists in fixing a change in a certain regulatory legal act of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the purpose of which is to improve the activities of the internal affairs bodies in terms of training the personnel of fire readiness, acquiring the necessary skills and abilities.
Special legal regulation of environmental relations: features of the subject of environmental and natural resource law
Authors:   Mikhail M. Brinchuk Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, Brinchuk Mikhail M.
Published: November 2022

The article is written in the context of the needs of society in ensuring, preserving and restoring the favorable state of nature as a public interest. Methodologically, the solution of this civilizational problem can be served by the concept of special legal regulation of environmental relations and the systemic regulation of such relations as the subject of ecological and natural resource law.
Spanish So White
Authors: Schwartz Adam
Published: November 2022

Written specifically for secondary and post-secondary teachers who identify as White, second language learners of Spanish, Spanish So White will support the development of language education that centers a racially dynamic Spanish-speaking world and challenges interpersonal and institutional forms of racism.
Supervivencia en hembras caninas con neoplasia mamaria
Authors: Duque-Velasco Monica , Romero Peñuela Marlyn Hellen
Published: November 2022

Objective. To evaluate selected biological and histological factors associated with the survival of female dogs with mammary neoplasms. Materials and methods. An epidemiological study was performed based on the medical records of 72 female dogs diagnosed with mammary neoplasms. Associations between the characteristics of the female dogs, their reproductive status, the presence of parturition, the post-surgical survival time (m), and the final outcomes of the individual dogs were evaluated. Life tables and a Kaplan-Meier estimator were used for the statistical analysis of survival. Results. The female dogs evaluated were nulliparous (65.28%), with a mean age of 9.53±3.07 years and a weight varying between 1.5 and 49.1 kg (median 10.5 kg). The mortality incidence rate was 0.06 cases/patient/month (50 deaths/827.1 months of follow-up). Of the female dogs with mammary neoplasia, 37.50% survived, 15.28% were euthanized, and 30.56% died. The risk of death was 60.5 cases/1,000 female dogs/month, and the probability of post-surgical survival in months was 30.36%. Overall post-surgical survival was associated with the age, size, and reproductive status of the female dogs, along with size, subtype, malignancy, and TNM classification of the tumor (p<0.05). Conclusions. To ensure the survival of canine females with mammary neoplasia, early diagnosis by thorough physical examination and cytology, surgical removal when necessary, and timely consultation are imperative. Variables that are predictive of survival include the age and reproductive status of the animals and the size of the tumor.