bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Guarantee of Good Governance: Full compliance of Pañcaśīla
Authors: Maharjan Anirudra
Published: March 2023

शाक्यमुनि बुद्धबाट आजभन्दा २६०० बर्ष अगाडि राजाको काम कारवाहीबाट जनताले दुःख पाएको सन्दर्भमा शासन गर्ने जो कोहीले पनि नैतिक आचरणमा शुद्धता एवं काम कारवाहीमा जनताप्रति बफादार रही इमान्दारीपूर्वक राज्य सञ्चालन गर्नुपर्नेमा जोड दिएर पञ्चशीलको पालनाद्वारा राज्यमा सुव्यवस्था कायम भएको धर्मदेशना दिएका धेरै उदाहरणहरु त्रिपिटकमा भेटिन्छ । जवकी वर्तमान विश्वमा सुशासनको लागि अनेकौं प्रयास तथा थालनी भएका छन त अर्कोतर्फ विश्वमा झन एक पछि अर्को विसंगति तथा विकृतिले जकडिएर मानव समाजमा तनावको कुचक्रले सताईरहेका छन । यसै सन्दर्भमा वर्तमान विश्वका आधुनिक सुशासनको आठ अवयवहरु (सहभागिता, विधिको शासन, पारदर्शिता, जिम्मेवारीपन, सहमति उन्मुख, समता र समावेशी, प्रभावकारिता तथा निपुणता र जवाफदेहिता)लाई पञ्चशीलसँग तुलनात्मक विश्लेषण गरी त्यसको महत्वलाई समेत दर्शाई राज्यमा सुशासन तथा सुव्यवस्था कायम गर्न बुद्ध शिक्षाको महत्व रहेको यथार्ततालाई मध्यनजर राखी पञ्चशील मात्रको पालनाले पनि राज्यमा सुशासन कायम गरेका सन्दर्भ र ज्ञान वर्तमान अवस्थामा पनि उतिक्कै महत्त्वपूर्ण, सान्दर्भिक र उपयोगी रहेको छ भनी यो लेखले प्रकाश पार्न खोजिएको छ ।
Denial and Lack of Unconditional Hospitality
Authors: Shrestha Arun
Published: March 2023

Denial and Lack of Unconditional Hospitality in Gibb’s Sweetness in the Belly The novel, Sweetness in the Belly, is a picture-perfect example of impossibility to hospitality to the refugees, namely, Lily, Amina, Yusuf, and Dr. Aziz by the people and state in Harar, and the major character Lily’s denial to hospitality in different places offered by different characters in the novel.Critics depict Camilla Gibbs Sweetness in the Belly as a catastrophic side effect of dictatorship, civil war, colonial impact, and poor living conditions in the 1980s and 1990s Ethiopia. The novel ends up in the psychopathic refugee status of the characters and the premature tragic death of the lover of the protagonist. The novel may present dictatorial effects, deprivation of human rights, and state dominance on its citizens resulting in refugee status, but in my reading, the novel is a strong exhibition of complete denial to hospitality by the states as well as the individuals segregating the humans from humans. The firsts and foremost identity of individuals as humans are denied. The state dominance using repressive state apparatus results in the loss of characters around the protagonist and the denial of hospitality, especially unconditional hospitality, as proposed by Jacques Derrida, makes the life chances of the characters of the novel vulnerable. I, therefore, argue that the novel is a picture-perfect example of impossibility to hospitality to the refugees, namely, Lily, Amina, Yusuf, and Dr. Aziz by the people and state in Harar, and the major character Lily’s denial to conditional hospitality in different places offered by different characters in the novel.
‘Isolation(s)’, ‘Unevent’, and ‘Prosthetic Memory’: A study on Digital Archives in Post-Pandemic India
Authors: C P Greeshma
Published: March 2023

With the onset of covid-19 in India, the digital and the memory associated with the digital-visual reached yet another perplexing phase. Visual complexity (Jay 95) and ‘tacit knowing’ (Polanyi 34) that we seem to have transcended-crystallised into digital chaos, reinforcing and restructuring ‘the macula’ especially with the onset of Covid 19 in India. The "bio-bubble" fundamentally warped and validated our perception of reality in relation to digital screen time- shifting ‘meaning- making’ immediately online. The pandemic further condensed what Shoshana Zuboff calls the ‘behavioural surplus’, where our already broadcasted privacy into the global data ecosystem determining our ‘everyday’ transformed into inevitable structures of security and sustenance. This ‘architecture of oppression’ nullifies the chaos and deconstructs ‘event-oriented sense of time’, essentially locating us in a historical ‘moment of danger’ where we are trapped in a targeted, polarized, manipulated, pandemic-reconfigured urban digital space. This sudden and induced economies of isolation(s) further question the boundaries and reception of individual digital space in the global village. The "eventful" that happened outside of the digital world swiftly dissolved into a series of "unprecedented happenings" that we had to access online, gradually liquefying into numerous far-off "unevents." The paper therefore intends a textual study of these isolation(s) through a few journalistic photographs and digital archives of the pandemic in India and enquire into the possibilities of utilizing them as tools of ‘microhistory’ in ‘the uneventful’ digital milieu. An attempt to examine the mediation between individual digital mobility, digital archives, and collective prosthetic memory in reclaiming ‘the oppressed past’ from ‘homogenous empty time’ is also being made.
Making of the Self through Spiritual Striving and Material Quest in the Pursuit of Happyness
Authors: GC Saroj
Published: March 2023

This Paper examines how the protagonist, Chris Gardner, an African American, in Gabriele Muccino's film the Pursuit of Happyness grapples with underlying identity crisis in first decade of 21st century while pursuing his happiness. The film nowhere claims that the color of skin is an operative social component that is detrimental to pursuit of dream, the American Dream. However, the amnesiac picture of racial history is undercut by the choice of protagonist, Chris Gardner, an African American makes and grapples to accomplish it. In the light of this situation, the paper tries to tests one of the important notions of critical race theory, double consciousness, a putatively collective African American socio-historical conditions as characterized and postulated by Du Bois, and explore the dilemma inherent in Chris Gardner's pursuit of happiness. More significantly, the paper analyzes the liminal space the protagonist lives, experiences, undergoes and wrestles, and tries to come out of it if possible. Pointedly, it traces the protagonist's spiritual striving to the past, and explores the material need of the present. The paper concludes that how his dream has been subject to racialized ascription, and how and what the dream means for Chris Gardner. The paper clearly demonstrates the philosophical shift— the spiritual striving to the material quest in Gardner's pursuit of the dream.
Toni Morrison's Home: an Ecolingustic Analysis
Authors: Das Shruti
Published: March 2023

Since the publication of Arran Stibbe's critically acclaimed book Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology, and the Stories We Live By (2015), a new approach to ecolinguistics has emerged, one that focuses on how much ecologically constructive or destructive views are included in the discourses contained in the "stories" that people "live by" every day. Toni Morrison, expanding the possibilities of African American ecological writing, explores the healing impact of nature that is reflected in the "stories" the characters "live by" in her novels. Her writings build a narrative frame in which nature is the benefactor and healer. On the one hand the narratives poignantly and painfully expose the psychological or emotional wounds suffered by the African- Americans and on the other depict nature as a healer of these wounds. Our concern in this paper is Morrison’s novel Home (2012). It is a story of a veteran soldier, Frank Money who returns home, with traumatic war memories deeply entrenched into his mind, to rescue his sister Cee from the clutches of a doctor who was abusing her body. The siblings  are ultimately healed by associating themselves with and communicating with other members of their community and nature. This paper will apply Stibbe’s theory of ecolinguistics and look at the stories and narrative discourses in Morrison’s Home to see how the ecology of language in the narrative posits that living in harmony with nature produces a healing effect.
Women's Narratives in Reading Multicultural Subjectivities: An Academic Discourse
Authors: Talukdar Susmita
Published: March 2023

‘Difference’ in multicultural America is confusing to me as its concept determines some visible physiological features of people, and ‘knowledge’ of their history/culture, which is naturalized, circulated, and practiced through cultural institutions. Identity politics plays crucial role in its deliberate categorization and hierarchization of American subjects, which continues the historical process of separation through racism, sexism, and homophobia. As a university teacher, I have found how through the cultural institutions of university a mono-cultural population of American subjects is produced through multicultural demographic. If the primary object of multiculturalism is celebration of ‘difference,’ what ‘differences’ are celebrated most, and based on what criteria? For better understanding of ‘difference’ we should go beyond the academically sanctioned ‘Knowledge’ that disqualifies some ‘other’ knowledges, and it is by exploring some marginalized narratives of women we can reformulate the notion of ‘difference,’ that would add to the richness of ‘difference’ in multicultural discourse. Moreover, in traditional academic discourse, women’s narratives, particularly on motherhood, are less explored to finding out how they contribute to the varieties of multicultural subjectivities. My paper is based on Mahasweta Devi’s “Breast-Giver” (Standayini in original) in re-formulating a different concept of mother in its investigation on how discourses, being practiced as ‘ideologies’ through institutions, affect individuals. I propose different teaching-learning classroom activities in encouraging students to develop new perspectives of the world to modify the notion of multiculturalism that would accommodate any 'difference.'
Rosenberg, Joseph Elkanah. Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-century Fiction and the Ruins of Print
Authors: Adhikari Megh Raj
Published: March 2023

With new means of communication related to recorded voices and mass-produced images aggressively coming to the forefront, modernist writers remained obsessed and haunted by their alienated, estranged, and disjunct selves reflected in meta-textual forms. Destroyed images of paper in modernist fiction and their connection to growing anxieties about the material form of textual matter provide the focus of Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg’s book Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print. The book explores premonitions of the ‘death of the paper’ debates well before the invention of the high-tech gadgets that fascinate, and some would say vex contemporary readers via virtual technologies in the digitized e-books and audio books. Having traced its roots to the late nineteenth century, Rosenberg connects anxieties about the imminent breakdown of print and printed matter to the epitome of high-modernist literary experimentation such as typified by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
Later Gestational Age Abortion in Canada: A Scoping Review
Authors: Demont Carly , Dixit Anvita , Foster Angel M.
Published: March 2023

Since the decriminalization of abortion in Canada in 1988, there have been no legal restrictions on when in pregnancy an abortion can take place. However, abortion care is only consistently available in Canada up to 23 weeks and 6 days; women, transgender men, and gender non-binary individuals who need abortion care after 24 weeks typically obtain services in the United States. Furthermore, abortion care beyond 16 weeks is unavailable in some regions of the country. The authors undertook this scoping review to explore what is currently known about later gestational age abortion in Canada. Using a six-stage framework, they identified 32 relevant sources that were published in the last 30 years, and they consulted with seven topic experts to validate the findings from our document synthesis. The limited body of literature on abortion after 16 weeks in Canada sheds light on the safety of both medical and instrumentation procedures, the type and training of abortion-providing clinicians, the characteristics of those obtaining abortion care after the first trimester, and geographic disparities in service availability. These topic experts emphasized the need for future research on patient experiences and developing and implementing strategies to help provinces and territories expand abortion care to later gestational ages and improve comprehensive reproductive health services.
USE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF HEALTH ORIENTATION IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES
Authors: Ivanyuta N. , Kachalov O. , Zakharova I. , Burlaka I.
Published: March 2023

The article analyzes the peculiarities of using the principle of health orientation during physical education classes in institutions of higher education. It was found that the principle of health orientation obliges physical education teachers to organize classes in such a way that they ensure the performance of preventive and developmental functions. The main requirements of the principle of health orientation are determined. It has been proven that when using the principle of health- oriented orientation, the means of physical education are of great importance, so, among the means of health-recreational physical culture, the main types are conditionally distinguished (exercises from sports of a cyclic and acyclic nature, mass physical culture and health-improving and sports events, non-traditional means of health-improving, health-improving systems) and additional types (medical-biological and psychological means of recovery, natural factors). In the structural method, programs are designed in advance, using specially prepared musical soundtracks and developed choreographic combinations consisting of combinations of various aerobic steps that are repeated in a combination of exercises in a certain order, with a given frequency, number of movements and in exact accordance with musical accompaniment. Such standardized programs are repeated during a certain cycle of classes, sufficient to solve specific tasks.

The constant need for improvement is provided by a wide variety of exercises and conditions for their performance, a favorable emotional background, an individual approach, encouragement of activity, adequate criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of classes, a choice in accordance with individual characteristics of forms of criticism and methods of encouragement. Stimulation of interest in systematic classes with health-improving exercises and regular loads is achieved by the formation of a state of satisfaction with classes, awareness of their benefit and necessity.
Rehabilitation of the upper limb functioning in patients with post-stroke by the physical therapy methods
Authors: Baryshok T. , Romanova D.
Published: March 2023

The article is devoted to the problem of rehabilitation of the upper limb functioning with the help of physical therapy in patients after stroke. The upper limb as a result of stroke loses in function, and as a consequence in the activity and participation of the patient, this leads to a significant impairment in the quality of life and significantly affects the social adaptation.

The aim of the study was to test the effectiveness of the developed physical therapy program to rehabilitation of the upper limb of patients after stroke in the acute period.

The methods used were the analysis of scientific literature, mathematical analysis, methods of assessing the functioning of patients: muscle strength (MMT), Barthel activity of daily living (ADL), pain assessment (VAS).

The study was conducted on the basis of the Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine of the City Clinical Hospital №4 in Dnipro. The study involved 12 patients with a clinical diagnosis of stroke.

Patients had physical therapy sessions that included exercises to increase muscle strength, neuromuscular training, improve selective control, improve balance, coordination and reduce the risk of falling. The program was not static and changed based on positive changes in the patient's functional state.

The proposed physical therapy program proved to be effective in restoring the functioning of patients after stroke. There are prospects for continuing research on the impact on the functioning of physical therapy at an early stage after a stroke.
Analytical review of the technical preparation of highly qualified athletes who specialize in Sambo wrestling, finalists of the 2022 World Championship
Authors: Galimskyi V. , Molnar M. , Olenchenko V. , Merdov S. , Trifan O. , Lunhu D.
Published: March 2023

Based on the results of the monitoring of specialized Internet resources (analysis of scientific and methodological and reference literature), the members of the scientific research group determined that the urgent issue of conducting an analytical review of the technical and tactical preparedness of athletes who specialize in wrestling sports based on the results of their participation in competitions of the highest ranks - the insufficient amount of research is devoted, this in turn emphasizes the relevance and practical component of the chosen direction of scientific research.

The main goal of the study is to conduct an analytical and statistical analysis of the technical readiness of highly qualified Sambo wrestlers, finalists of the 2022 World Championship (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). Research methods: abstraction, measurement, expert evaluation, survey, comparison, observation.

As a result of the theoretical research, the members of the research group conducted an analytical and statistical analysis of the technical readiness of highly qualified Sambo wrestlers, finalists of the 2022 World Championship (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan).

We consider it expedient to take the results of the theoretical research into consideration by leading coaches who specialize in Sambo wrestling (sports section). Taking into account the above, it is advisable to focus the attention of coaches on increasing the indicators of activity and efficiency of competitive actions of Sambo wrestlers, namely on: 1) thorough study of the current Rules of Sambo wrestling; 2) development and improvement of technical and tactical preparation of fellow wrestlers; 3) expanding the arsenal of "crown technical actions" in the rack and parterre; 4) development of individual tactical schemes for conducting a competitive fight on the ground floor with the use of pain techniques on the arms and legs after holding the opponent; 5) improving indicators of the subsystem of biological control of highly qualified Sambo wrestlers.

Prospects for further research in the chosen field of scientific research include an analytical and statistical analysis of the technical readiness of highly qualified (female) Sambo wrestlers, finalists of the 2022 World Championship (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan).
Adaptation of athletes to execution of specific sports loads
Authors: Derevenets S. , Litovshenko V.
Published: March 2023

The article provides a theoretical understanding of the nature of multi-level adaptation of subjects of sports activities to specific physical and psychological loads in the field of sports of the highest achievements. In particular, the outstanding features and characteristics of sports activity as a special type of human activity were revealed, a detailed analysis of the specific features of sports of the highest achievements as the area of the occurrence of extreme loads for a person was implemented, the phenomenon of adaptation in sports and the factors affecting it were operationalized, the main characteristics of specific loads in sports activities.

Sport was considered as a specific human activity that has the structure of game activity, in particular, is subject to artificially created rules and contains an element of competition, which is based on the assessment and comparison of the physical and intellectual abilities of its subjects. The characteristics and factors of sports activity that provoke the emergence of extreme loads on the physical and mental apparatus of athletes and require the intensification of adaptation processes, in particular, high requirements for sports achievements, its publicity, social significance, a limited number of attempts to demonstrate the result, a constant change in the conditions of its implementation, are determined and their objective severity, the need to make operational decisions. Attention is focused on the fact that the key specificity of loads in sports of the highest achievements is their extremely high duration and intensity.

It is proposed to distinguish such gradations of professional functioning of athletes as physical, psycho-emotional and cognitive levels, which made it possible to eliminate excessive focus only on their physical adaptation to sports activities. It has been proven that the proper level of adaptation of a sportsman is the basis of his high professional qualification and self- realization. The result of the theoretical review was the formation of a list of the most effective methods and techniques for ensuring the adaptation of athletes at various levels of their professional functioning. Among the methods and techniques for ensuring the proper level of adaptation of athletes, regular physical exercises are highlighted, the use of which is based on the principles of weight gain, consistency, regularity and cyclicity; psychotechniques for increasing the level of self-regulation and general stress resistance; ideomotor training as a means of ideal modeling of sports actions.
Distance education of physical education under the conditions of marital state
Authors: Zabiako Y.
Published: March 2023

The article analyzes the methods of teaching physical culture to students during military operations in Ukraine on a remote basis. Educational institutions of Ukraine take care of the life and health of their students, so learning continues remotely, in such a way as to ensure not only the acquisition of knowledge, but also, most importantly, safe and comfortable learning in general. In particular, I drew attention to the fact that physical education lessons should be aimed at rest and health of the body, and not at overloading students and their bodies.

Therefore, these programs are aimed at unloading. The main consequences of the sedentary lifestyle of student youth on their bodies have been revealed. Since students spend most of their time working with tools, a tendency to decrease motor activity of students has been revealed.

Ways and methods of involving student youth in physical exercises in the conditions of distance education are proposed.

The role, place and possibilities of distance education in the physical education of students and teachers are defined.

The concept of "distance education technology" appeared.

Since the full-scale invasion, distance learning has become an integral part of the educational process in Ukraine. Online training allows students to gain knowledge in war zones and abroad, including training in physical education. The complexity of this subject is due to the seemingly mandatory offline presence, but, fortunately, modern technologies allow classes to be conducted through camera lenses. All participants in the educational process are currently experiencing excessive psychological stress, which leads to apathy of children, fatigue and exhaustion of teachers, and it is this discipline that allows you to distract yourself from the events that are happening outside the window of every Ukrainian and bring your mental health to order.
Pedagogical Conditions for the Formation of the readiness of Future Officers to use the latest models of high-precision weapons with an emphasis on the use of Special Physical Training
Authors: Samsonov Yu. , Bielashov Yu. , Khatsaiuk O. , Zadorozhnyi K. , Toloknieiev V. , Shabatura S. , Povar O. , Magmet T.
Published: March 2023

According to the results of the monitoring of Internet sources (analysis of Scientific and methodological, Special and reference literature), the members of the Research Group established, that the urgent issue of developing pedagogical Conditions for the Formation of readiness of representatives of institutions of the security and defense sector of Ukraine (SDSU) to the use of the latest high-precision weapons in extreme Conditions of service and combat activity (SCA) with an accented use of means of Special Physical Training (SPT) – dedicated to the insufficient number of Scientific works, this in turn emphasizes the relevance and practical component of the chosen Research area. The main goal of the study is to develop pedagogical Conditions for the Formation of the readiness of Future Officers of the National Guard of Ukraine to use the Javelin FGM-148 anti-tank missile system (ATMS) in extreme Conditions of service and combat activity with an emphasis on the use of Special Physical Training. Research methods: abstraction, measurement, expert evaluation, survey, comparison, observation, etc. During the theoretical study, the members of the Scientific Research Group developed pedagogical Conditions for the Formation of the readiness of Future Officers of the National Guard of Ukraine to use ATMS "Javelin FGM-148" in extreme Conditions of service and combat activity with an emphasis on the use of Special Physical Training. The pedagogical Conditions proposed by us provide for the following blocks (with the appropriate set of educational and material support) for the representatives of the studied category: organizational-diagnostic, corrective and constant. Prospects for further Research in the chosen direction of Scientific intelligence include the organization of a pedagogical experiment to test the pedagogical Conditions for the Formation of the readiness of Future Officers (on the example of cadets of the National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine and the Kyiv Institute of the National Guard of Ukraine) to the use of an ATMS «Javelin FGM-148» in extreme Conditions of service and combat activity with an accented use of means of Special Physical Training.
Sustained Release Floating Matrix Tablets of Ciprofloxacin Using Combination of Different Polymers
Authors: Kanakagiri Divakar
Published: March 2023

Drug delivery to the exact site of action become the key to the overall effectiveness of the drug, but when it comes to gastric ulcers it is a rate determining parameter and most crucial factor to play in the treatment of ulcers.More often, drug absorption is unsatisfactory and highly variable among and between individuals, despite excellent in vitro release patterns. The reasons for this are essentially physiological and usually affected by the GI transit of the form, especially its gastric residence time (GRT), which appears to be one of the causes of the overall transit time variability. Over the past three decades, the pursuit and exploration of devices designed to be retained in the upper part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract has advanced consistently in terms of technology and diversity, encompassing a variety of systems and devices such as floating systems, raft systems, expanding systems, swelling systems, bioadhesive systems and low-density systems. Gastric retention will provide advantages such as the delivery of drugs with narrow absorption windows in the small intestinal region. Also, longer residence time in the stomach could be advantageous for local action in the upper part of the small intestine, for example treatment of peptic ulcer disease .The present research work aims to formulate and evaluate sustained release floating matrix tablets of Ciprofloxacin using combination of different polymers.
Psycho-Social Reflections of Demographic Change: A Sociological Appraisal
Authors: Taghi Sheykhi Mohammad
Published: March 2023

The present article appraises how population increase affects psychology, manners and social behavior of the people in a society. One of the most important reflections of demographic change is aging people being caused by the development of science and technology in various contexts. The atmosphere created has highly affected the psychology of the people. Therefore, the changing behavior of the present generation also affects the next generation's behavior, and the change will continue in a vicious circle manner leading to a great social change. In this way, the whole lifestyle is exposed to an enormous change in the future. Overall, psychological reflection of demographic change is crystallized in the form of a generation gap which is ever continuing.
Knowledge of the Doctors in Attention Primary on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Teenagers and Young
Authors: Cortes Alfaro Alba
Published: March 2023

Introduction: the problem of sexual and reproductive health during youth is linked to risky sexual practices. It is up to primary care to carry out promotional actions. The Ministries of Public Health and Education have created methodological guidelines for comprehensive sex education, so the basic health team must be prepared to carry them out. Objective: to identify the knowledge that family doctors who provide services in primary care have on sexual and reproductive health in adolescents/youth. Method: descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective study with a quantitative- qualitative approach developed at the Luis Augusto Turcios Lima Polyclinic , San José de las Lajas municipality. Mayabeque, during March - May 2018. With a sample of 14 young doctors who carry out care work in family medical offices. Primary source of data collection: survey. Results: 86% Doctors with stable partners (92%), between 24-26 years of age (57%) with inadequate knowledge about the ages of youth (79%), with wrong concepts and opinions about them (79 and 71% respectively), with inadequate responses about the factors that contribute to the increase in maternity and sexually transmitted infections (86%) and those that cause problems in sexual and reproductive health as well as strategies to reduce them (86 and 57%), the level obtained was low: 79%. Conclusions: Primary care physicians require interdisciplinary preparation with a social, pedagogical, philosophical, and psychological approach that equips them with skills to work on sexuality in adolescents and young people.
Hansen’s Disease- Lepromatous Type
Authors: Kothari Rohit
Published: March 2023

A 36-year-old male presented with multiple skin-colored nodules involving both the ears and madarosis for last one year. There was no history of any other lesion elsewhere. Examination revealed lesions over the ear, ala of nose and diffusely infiltrated superciliary region (Panel A, B) and a normal sensory and motor system. Slit skin smear from the ear nodules revealed multiple acid-fast bacilli with globi formation and bacillary index of 6+ and morphological index (MI) of 35% (Panel C). He was diagnosed as Hansen’s disease-lepromatous type (LL) which is usually characterized by infiltrative lesions and nodules especially over face and edema of hands and feet.
Rehabilitasyon Robotlarının Kontrolü için Bulanık Mantık ve PID Denetleyicinin Karşılaştırılması
Authors: SEVGİ Abdulhamit , GÜNEŞ Mustafa
Published: March 2023

Doğrusal olmayan bir sistemin yanıtı genellikle bir doğrusal denetleyici kullanılarak istenen bir modele göre şekillendirilemez. PID denetleyiciler gibi geleneksel model tabanlı doğrusal denetleyicilerle doğrusal olmayan durumların gerçekleştirilmesi zordur ve denetleyicinin düzgün çalışması için sıfırlama önleyici sarma, geciktirilmiş integral eylem vb. gibi birçok ek önlem dahil edilmelidir. Bu nedenle doğrusal olmayan sistemler için genellikle Bulanık Mantık Kontrol gibi kontrol yöntemleri kullanılır. Bulanık Mantık, gömülü kontrol için hem doğrusal hem de doğrusal olmayan sistemlerin geliştirilmesinde uygulanabilen alternatif bir tasarım metodolojisidir. Tasarımcılar, bulanık mantık kullanarak daha düşük geliştirme maliyetleri, üstün özellikler ve daha iyi son ürün performansı sağlayabilirler. Bu sebeple bu çalışmada rehabilitasyon robotlarının kontrolü için MATLAB/Simulink ortamında bir Bulanık Kontrol denetleyici tasarlanmıştır. Daha sonra kontrol etkisi analiz edilip PID denetleyicinin etkisiyle karşılaştırılmıştır. Karşılaştırma sonucunda bulanık mantık denetleyici, PID kontrolünden özellikle yanıt süresi, kararlı durumdaki hata ve aşım gibi çeşitli parametrelerde daha üstün performans sergilemiştir.
Disaggregated Impact Analysis of Trade on Growth: The Role of Financial Openness in Nigeria
Authors: Omo-Ikirodah Beatrice Onawunreyi
Published: March 2023

This paper decomposes and estimates the impact of foreign trade on economic growth and evaluates the relevance of financial openness in the relationship in Nigeria using annual time series data between 1987 and 2020. The key findings of the paper are that although trade positively drives economic growth, the effect is due largely to the contribution of the non-oil export component in the long run and short run. This, however, does not rule out the fact that non-oil import over the long run and short run or the overall value of import in the long run lead to a high economic growth in the economy provided higher degree of financial openness is tolerated. In that, subject to broadening the scope of financial openness, Nigeria’s participation in international trade will result in rapid economic growth both in the long run and short run.
Effect of blanching and convective drying on phytochemical constituents of dried tea from white mulberry (Morus alba) leaf
Authors: MINH NGUYEN PHUOC
Published: March 2023

White mulberry (Morus alba) leaf is highly valued due to its health-promoting attributes. It is specified by a great content of phytochemical constituents with excellent antioxidant properties. This research was conducted at STNanotech Laboratory in 2021 to evaluate the dried tea production from the white mulberry leaf. The total phenolic content, total flavonoid content, DPPH free radical scavenging, FRAP ferric reducing antioxidant and beta-carotene bleaching activity in the raw white mulberry leaf were primarily analyzed. The raw white mulberry leaf was blanched in different conditions (100/5, 95/10, 90/15, 85/20 and 80/25 oC/s) to inactivate enzymes. The blanched leaves were cut into small pieces with dimension of 0.5 × 3.5 cm. The cut mulberry leaves were then convective-dried at different conditions (50/18, 55/15, 60/12, 65/9, and 70/6 oC/h) by a convective dryer. Dried tea was left to cool and ready for testing of total phenolic content, total flavonoid content, DPPH free radical scavenging, FRAP ferric reducing antioxidant and beta-carotene bleaching activity. Results showed that raw mulberry leaves should be blanched in hot water at 95/10 (oC/s) and convective-dried at 60/12 (oC/h) to maintain the highest bioactive contents and antioxidant properties. The dried mulberry leaf tea still retained the most valuable ingredients in raw material.
Yield and yield quality characteristics of two varieties of sweet potato under different watering intervals ​
Authors: . MURGAYANTI , NURAINIANNE ANNE , SOEDJANAATMADJA UKUN , KARUNIAWAN AGUNG
Published: March 2023

Climate change significantly impacts sweet potato production because of the high potential for drought conditions. Understanding the regional impacts of climate change on the irrigation interval is important for effective water resource management. This study aims at determining the influence of the irrigation interval on the drought tolerance responses of two new sweet potato varieties from Universitas Padjadjaran. The experiment was arranged in a randomized block design (RBD) with two factors. The first factor was two varieties of sweet potato i.e. Awachy-1 (Orange-Fleshed) and Biang (Purple-Fleshed); and the second factor was the irrigation interval (1, 3, 5 and 7 days). This research was conducted in a screen house of Ciparanje experimental field station, Universitas Padjadjaran Jatinangor. Experimental results showed no interaction between the irrigation intervals and the varieties on the sweet potato's yield components and nutritional content. Biang provided the most optimal result regarding the number of tubers and dry mass, despite being watered once every three days. Biang also produced a higher number of tubers, shorter sweet potato length and higher dry weight than Awachy-1 in every irrigation interval. Biang also showed a higher value for nutritional content than Awachy 1 on total soluble solids, sugar and carbohydrate content. The optimal water usage to store the root yield of Biang and Awachy-1 is one to three days of irrigation intervals on the sweet potato’s tuber diameter and the plant's dry weight. However, the irrigation interval that most significantly improved the weight of the tuber was one day, while the increased nutritional content of the tuber was three days. Biang and Awachy-1 cultivars could survive under drought conditions, although some yield components had decreased. These results suggested that the varieties or watering interval affected sweet potato growth and yield components.
Effectiveness of predecessors at growing winter rye (Secale Cerealе L.) in the conditions of Northern Steppe of Ukraine
Authors:   State Enterprise Institute of Grain Crops of NAAS, Bezsusidnia Yu. V.
Published: March 2023

Topicality. Nowadays, the relevant issue is the influence of predecessors on the grain productivity for the modern varieties of winter rye depending on the sowing dates and mineral nutrition, the study of which allows to reveal the biological potential of plants to a fuller extent and to significantly increase the yield of this crop in the Northern Steppe zone of Ukraine. Purpose. To study features for formation of grain productivity of modern winter rye varieties depending on the predecessors against the background of different sowing dates and the level of mineral nutrition in the soil and climatic conditions of the Northern Steppe. Materials and Methods. In the 2018–2021, the studies were conducted on the basis of Experimental Farm “Dnipro” of State Enterprise Institute of Grain Crops NAAS in four-factor field trial. Winter rye of Pamiat Khudoierka and Stoir varieties were sown after spring barley and sunflower against the background of different levels of mineral nutrition of plants in three terms: early (September 5–10), optimal (September 20–25) and late (October 5–10). Results. According to the research results, a significant influence of predecessors on the winter rye yield was established. The highest level of yield was obtained for the Stoir variety, which was sown in the period from 20 to 25 September. At the same time, on average over the years of research, the highest yield was observed in variants with nitrogen feeding plants on freeze-thawed soil: after spring barley – 6.47 t/ha, after sunflower – 5.03 t/ha. The Pamiat Khudoierka variety also provided the highest yield in these variants of the experiment – 6.17 and 4.72 t/ha, respectively. However, the difference in yield between varieties, taking into account the maximum indicator, depending on the predecessors was respectively 0.30 and 0.31 t/ha. Conclusions. Conclusions. According to the results of the research, it was found that sowing of winter rye after spring barley and sunflower in the most optimal terms, namely September 20–25, and the applying 45 kg a.i./ha nitrogen in early spring, ensured the formation of the highest yield in the Stoir variety, which was 6.47 and 5.03 t/ha, respectively. Keywords: winter rye, predecessor, varieties, sowing dates, feeding crops, yield
Ds,2(RN) versus C(RN) local minimizers
Authors: Ambrosio Vincenzo
Published: March 2023

Let [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is the fractional critical exponent and [Formula: see text] is a positive constant. We consider functionals [Formula: see text] of the type [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] is a continuous function with subcritical growth at infinity, and [Formula: see text] is a suitable weight function. We prove that a local minimizer of J in the topology of the subspace [Formula: see text] must be a local minimizer of J in the [Formula: see text]-topology.
A tuberculose esquecida: um relato de caso
Authors:   USF Oceanos, ULS Matosinhos, Amorim M. Francisca , Sousa João Nunes ,   USF Oceanos, ULS Matosinhos
Published: March 2023

Introdução: A articulação entre os cuidados de saúde primários e secundários e os Centros de Diagnóstico Pneumológico reveste-se de particular importância na gestão de uma doença insidiosa e com grande impacto na saúde pública como a tuberculose. O presente caso destaca o papel do médico de família na articulação de cuidados e a importância desta para a identificação e orientação de um possível quadro de tuberculose. Descrição do caso: Adolescente do sexo feminino, 16 anos de idade, com antecedentes de tiroidite autoimune sob levotiroxina, anemia ferropénica sob suplementação e perturbação da ansiedade. Recorre a consulta com a médica de família em 2019 por adenomegalia cervical com duas semanas de evolução, sem sinais de alarme, tendo sido prescrito anti-inflamatório. Referenciação a consulta de cirurgia pediátrica de um hospital central, por indicação do atendimento pediátrico urgente do hospital de referência, por persistência da adenomegalia após tratamento antibiótico empírico e estudo analítico normal. Realizada biópsia aspirativa cinco meses depois, com alta da consulta por ausência de malignidade, sem outras informações relevantes. Observada em contexto de urgência no hospital de referência, seis meses depois, por adenomegalias cervicais de novo, tendo sido feito alerta pela médica de família após deteção de isolamento de Mycobacterium tuberculosis em biópsia ganglionar. Consequente seguimento no Centro de Diagnóstico Pneumológico por tuberculose ganglionar e pulmonar, tendo sido submetida a exérese ganglionar e encontrando-se sob tratamento antibacilar, com evolução clínica favorável. Comentário: A tuberculose constitui um particular desafio clínico pela diversidade de apresentações. Este caso demonstra a complexidade da gestão destes doentes e a importância da criação de alertas em caso de resultado micobacteriológico positivo. O papel do médico de família, dado ser frequentemente o primeiro contacto do doente com os cuidados de saúde e a ponte com os restantes serviços, acarreta uma importante responsabilidade na identificação destes doentes e na prevenção da cadeia de transmissão.
Hipercolesterolemia de difícil controlo: caso clínico
Authors:   USF Cuidarte, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Minho, Cambão Maria Luís , Marques Pedro ,   USF Cuidarte, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Minho
Published: March 2023

Introdução: A dislipidemia é um dos principais fatores de risco da aterosclerose que, por sua vez, é a principal causa de morte nos países desenvolvidos, incluindo Portugal. Apesar das modificações no estilo de vida e da terapêutica hipolipemiante com estatina e ezetimiba, muitos doentes não atingem os valores recomendados de colesterol‐LDL (c-LDL). Os inibidores da PCSK9 são uma nova opção terapêutica que permite uma redução significativa desses valores (50‐60%). Descrição do caso: Mulher, 66 anos, antecedentes de diabetes mellitus tipo 2, hipertensão arterial, dislipidemia e excesso de peso. Na história familiar a destacar vários familiares com dislipidemia. Apresenta, desde há vários anos, valores de colesterol total, triglicerídeos e c-LDL fora do alvo (c-LDL na ordem dos 230mg/dL), apesar de terapêutica médica otimizada. Por persistência destes valores, e atendendo à história familiar, foi encaminhada para consulta hospitalar de medicina interna para avaliação de indicação para início de tratamento com iPCSK9. Iniciou tratamento com evolocumab, tendo apresentado, ao fim de quatro semanas, c-LDL de 66mg/dL (redução de cerca de 77%). Comentário: Apesar de relativamente recentes, estes novos fármacos têm mostrado uma redução adicional do risco de eventos cardiovasculares, com um bom perfil de segurança. Contudo, devido aos custos elevados, a sua utilização na prática clínica deve ter em conta o seu custo‐efetividade. Deve ser dada prioridade à sua utilização nos doentes de maior risco cardiovascular e que mantêm valores elevados de c‐LDL, apesar da terapêutica hipolipemiante otimizada. A sua administração é subcutânea, a cada duas a quatro semanas, sendo o estado de equilíbrio das concentrações séricas mínimas atingido às doze semanas. Deve ser mantida uma monitorização semestral. Atualmente, a prescrição destes fármacos está limitada aos cuidados de saúde secundários, mas o médico de família deve estar alerta para identificar e referenciar os doentes que possam ter critério para iniciar este tipo de tratamento.
Portugal na OCDE: mortalidade evitável (prevenível e tratável)
Authors:   USF Espaço Saúde, Carneiro José , Brito Daniel ,   Médico de Família
Published: March 2023

Em 2019, na OCDE foram contabilizadas mais de três milhões de mortes que poderiam ter sido evitadas entre pessoas com menos de 75 anos, cerca de um quarto da totalidade das mortes contabilizadas. A principal causa de mortalidade prevenível em 2019 foi o tumor maligno (31%), entre o qual se destaca o cancro do pulmão. As principais causas de morte tratáveis em 2019 foram as doenças do sistema circulatório. Em Portugal, no ano de 2019, as principais causas de morte foram também as doenças do sistema circulatório (29,9%), seguidas pelos tumores malignos (25,4%) e pelas doenças do aparelho respiratório (10,9%). No referido ano, a taxa média de mortalidade padronizada por idade por causas evitáveis ​​foi de 126 mortes por 100.000 pessoas nos países da OCDE. Em Portugal, esta taxa foi de 109, o que nos deixa abaixo da média da OCDE. As taxas de mortalidade por causas tratáveis ​​nos países da OCDE foram mais baixas, com uma média de 73 por 100.000 habitantes; Portugal ficou abaixo da OCDE com 64. As taxas de mortalidade preveníveis nos países da OCDE ​​foram 2,5 vezes maiores entre os homens do que entre as mulheres. Após 2020 e com a pandemia por COVID-19 constatar-se-á, certamente, um grande impacto na mortalidade evitável.
BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND BIOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF ORA-PRO-NOBIS FRUIT: AN OVERVIEW
Authors: Rodrigues da Silva Leirson , De Figueiredo Ana Rosa , Tomaz de Oliveira Milena Maria , Ascari Morgado Cristiane Maria , Resende Rimoli Pedro Augusto , Salgado de Morais Lilia Aparecida
Published: March 2023

Exotic fruit crops, such as ora-pro-nobis, play an important role in human nutrition, making them an excellent base for low-calorie diets. Recent research has shown that ora-pro-nobis fruit is rich in many nutritional and bioactive compounds, making it highly valued for its unique taste, aroma, and color. As the popularity of this fruit grows in economic markets, it is important to have a comprehensive reference for its nutritional and bioactive benefits. This review provides a valuable source for current knowledge about nutritional and bioactive compositions, as well as the relationship of its biologically active components with beneficial and functional effects on human health, through scientifically proven information. By harnessing the rich properties of ora-pro-nobis fruit, we can pave the way for further development of functional foods, as well as its applications in the nutraceutical, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries.