bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Associations between Anxiety, Depression, and Poor Quality of Sleep on the Risk of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis
Authors: Mulianda Cendekia Airedeta , Murti Bhisma , Prasetya Hanung
Published: March 2023

Background: Risk factors for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) are mental disorders such as anxiety and depression, while sleep disorders affect 50% of patients with IBS. The condition of IBS if it is chronic can have a negative impact on quality of life and work productivity. The purpose of this study was to estimate the relationship between anxiety, depression and poor sleep quality with the risk of irritable bowel syndrome by means of a systematic review and meta-analysis study.Subjects and Method: This article was prepared using systematic review and meta-analysis studies. This study uses the PICO Model. Meta-analytic studies were conducted by searching for articles from databases in electronic form using Google Scholar, PubMed, Springerlink, Sciencedirect, and the Cochrane Library. An article search was conducted on 15-30 October 2022. The keywords used were “irritable bowel syndrome” or “IBS” or “Functional gastrointestinal disorder” or “Anxiety” or “Depression” or “Mental Disorders” or “Psychological stress” or “Sleep quality” or “Sleep disturbances” or “Cross-Sectional”. The inclusion criteria for this study were complete articles using a Cross-Sectional study, with the year of publication 2009-2022. Analysis of the articles in this study used RevMan 5.3 software.Results: A total of 30 cross-sectional studies from Asia were selected for systematic review and meta-analysis. The data collected shows that anxiety increases 1.53 times and depression 1.29 times with the risk of IBS while poor sleep quality increases the risk of IBS by 1.80 times. This data is considered statistically significant. The results showed that Anxiety (aOR=1.53; 95% CI=1.23 to 1.90; p=0.001), Depression (aOR=1.29; 95% CI=1.05 to 1.59; p=0.02), Poor sleep quality (aOR=1.80; 95% CI=1.48 to 2.19; p<0.001).Conclusion: The relationship between anxiety-depression mental disorder and poor sleep quality is felt to be statistically significant in causing irritable bowel syndrome.
Keywords: irritable bowel syndrome, risk factors, anxiety, depression, sleep quality
Correspondence:Cendekia Airedeta Mulianda. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret. Jl. Ir. Sutami 36A, Surakarta 57126, Central Java, Indonesia. Email: c.airedeta@gmail.com. Mobile: +6282336712311.
Effectiveness of Telehealth in Improving Quality of Life and Lowering Depression in Post-Stroke Patients: A Meta-Analysis
Authors: Ni'mah Siti Luluk Khamidahtun , Tamtomo Didik , Murti Bhisma
Published: March 2023

Background: People who have a stroke are generally more likely to have difficulty managing daily activities such as walking, bathing, dressing, and participating in activities in the community and showing symptoms of depression that affects the quality of life. Telehealth is here to help people communicate with health workers without having to come directly to health facilities. The study aims to analyze how much effect telehealth has in improving the quality of life and reducing the risk of depression in post-stroke patients.Subjects and Method: This was a meta-analysis study using PICO. Population: post-stroke patients. Intervention: telehealth. Comparison: no telehealth. Outcome: quality of Life and depression. This study used articles from several databases namely Pubmed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, and Cochrane Library using the keywords "Stroke" AND "telehealth" OR "Telerehabilitation" OR "Tele-medicine" OR "Mobile health" OR "mHealth " OR "eHealth" AND "Quality of Life" OR "Health-Related Quality of Life" AND "Depression" AND "Randomized Controlled Trial" OR "RCT" to identify relevant studies. The articles included in the study were articles in English with RCT study design, published between 2012 and 2022. Steps in the systematic review were carried out based on guidelines from PRISMA flow diagram. Quantitative analysis was performed using Revman 5.3.Results: 8 RCTs article from America, Asia, and Europe showed that post-stroke patients who obtained telehealth services on average had 0.87 units higher quality of life than those without telehealth (SMD=0.87; 95% CI =0.30 to 1.44; p=0.003). 8 RCTs article from America and Europe showed that post-stroke patients who obtained telehealth services on average had 0.44 units lower depression than those without telehealth (SMD= -0.44; 95% CI=-0.79 to -0.09; p= 0.010).Conclusion: Telehealth can improve quality of life and lower the risk of depression in post-stroke patients.
Keywords: telehealth, post-stroke, quality of life, depression
Correspondence:Siti Luluk Khamidahtun Ni'mah. Master’s Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret. Jl. Ir. Sutami 36A, Surakarta 57126, Central Java, Indonesia. Email: lulupanma@gmail.com. Mobile: +628562563503.
Dos teorías filosóficas de la divagación mental intencional
Authors: Agudelo Berrío Santiago
Published: March 2023

El rompecabezas de la divagación voluntaria plantea que la divagación mental intencional implica la contradicción de dos modos opuestos de pensamiento: dirigido y no-dirigido a un objetivo o tarea. Sin embargo, existe evidencia empírica que respalda los casos de divagación mental intencional. ¿Cómo es esto posible? En el presente trabajo abordaré dos teorías filosóficas de la divagación mental intencional: la teoría del meta-control y la teoría de la omisión intencional. Mi principal objetivo es analizar cómo podrían articularse para superar el rompecabezas. Además, mostraré que tal articulación es una teoría fuerte, ya que propone una explicación promisoria a dos de los problemas más generales sobre el tema en la filosofía y las ciencias cognitivas: la agencia en la divagación mental intencional y la opacidad definicional del concepto de divagación mental.
Fourth year student’s workbook (Individual and Independent work in professional English) for Law students.
Authors: Yatsyshyn Nataliia , Suprun Maia , Gordun Svitlana
Published: March 2023

Навчально-методичні рекомендації у вигляді робочого зошита призначені для виконання самостійної та індивідуальної роботи студентами-правознавцями, орієнтовані на забезпечення здобувачів освіти необхідним матеріалом для такого виду робіт відповідно до кредитно-модульної системи навчання та Силабусу. З метою оптимізації навчального процесу та ефективного використання часу, відведеного на вивчення нормативного освітнього компонента, а також особливо в умовах дистанційного та змішаного навчання, пропоновані завдання можна виконувати відразу у робочому зошиті, який здається викладачеві для перевірки та оцінювання. Видання призначається також для магістрів, аспірантів, вчителів середніх загальноосвітніх шкіл, учнів старших класів, а також для тих, хто самостійно вивчає англійську мову та цікавиться правознавством.
Characteristics of hollow glass microspheres and design of light polymer composite materials of different composition and dispersed structure
Authors: Trofimov A. N. , Simonov-Emelyanov I. D. , Shalgunov S. I. , Sokolov I. V. , Kharlamova X. I. , Dergunova E. R. , Pykhtin A. A.
Published: March 2023

Currently, to obtain light polymer composite materials with high strength characteristics, hollow microspheres of various nature (glass, quartz, polymer, etc.) are used as fillers. Hollow glass microspheres of different grades (manufactured by JSC «SIO Stekloplastik») were studied by various methods, the disperse structure was described using the generalized parameters model, the light dispersion-filled polymer composite materials (DFPCM) were classified according to the structural principle, generalized and reduced parameters were calculated, and the structure, compositions of light CMs on polymer matrices of various nature were designed.
In-hospital clinical course, outcome and complications among patients vaccinated against COVID-19
Authors: Kalenchic T. I. , Kabak S. L. , Losevich O. V. , Glazkina M. A.
Published: March 2023

This retrospective case-series analysis evaluated 403 fully vaccinated with Vero Cell or Sputnik V vaccines patients hospitalized in the 6th City Clinical Hospital of Minsk in the period between January 01 and February 28, 2022 with the main diagnosis of “coronavirus infection (COVID-19)”. The diagnosis was confirmed by PCR or SARS-CoV-2 virus antigen tests, as well as chest computed tomography data.

The study revealed higher prevalence of older patients (over 65 years) infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and hospitalized in early 2022, at the height of the wave of the pandemic due to the spread of the Omicron variant. Most patients (91.8 %) had moderate symptoms. More than half of them received oxygen support. A relatively small number of inpatient, only 8 persons (1.9 %), were hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) and four of them needed mechanical ventilation. Comorbid conditions and high incidence of mortality (63.5 %) were common in ICU patients. Hypertension and obesity prevailed in the structure of comorbid pathology of all inpatient persons (74.2 and 24.3 %, respectively). Patients of therapeutic departments had relatively short length of stay in the hospital, as well as low in-hospital mortality (0.5 %) and low incidence of complications (5.3 %).
Character of wound microflora and resistance to antibiotics: monitoring results 2012–2020
Authors: Titov L. P. , Gorbunov V. A. , Kharkhal A. N. , Yanovich O. O. , Levshina N. N. , Blyga E. G. , Sudak S. Yu. , Bukhantsova A. N. , Bonda N. V. , Tkach L. M. , Voitik S. B. , Botina T. N.
Published: March 2023

The aim of the study was to improve the microbiological diagnosis of surgical infections, collect and analyze the data on the spectrum of surgical microflora and monitoring of antibiotic resistance in the period from 2012 to 2020.

The research material was the separation of surgical wounds of patients, cultures of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria isolated from the biological material of patients by the bacteriological method, the results of testing the sensitivity of bacterial cultures to antibiotics by diffusion into agar and using semi-automatic analyzers VITEK-2.

A 9-year multicenter monitoring of the species composition of bacteria associated with wound infections revealed a high frequency of isolation of a number of conditionally pathogenic microorganisms – Escherichia spp., Klebsiella spp., Pseudomonas spp., Acinetobacter spp., Enterococcus spp., Streptococcus spp., Staphylococcus spp., Citrobacter spp., Proteus spp. In the period from 2012 to 2020, the amount of information entered into the computer database about these bacterial strains increased 1.4–2.0 times. Monitoring of bacterial resistance to antibiotics during this period showed a high level and dynamics to 3rd generation cephalosporins, carbapenems, and other classes. The lowest levels of resistance were found among the strains of Escherichia and the highest – Klebsiella, Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter. Staphylococci are characterized by high percentage of methicillin-resistant strains.

Gram-negative (Escherichia, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter) and gram-positive (Enterococci, Streptococci, Staphylococci) are detected in the surgical patients with UTI with a high frequency. Surgical pathogens are characterized by a high level of resistance to 3rd generation cephalosporin, carbapenems, and other antibiotics. Long-term monitoring of bacterial resistance to antibiotics makes it possible to increase the effectiveness of laboratory diagnostics of surgical infections, to assess a resistance level of pathogens, an antibacterial therapy strategy and a medical aid quality.
Management of material resources in the context of ensuring the sustainability of the agroindustrial complex
Authors: Makrak S. V.
Published: March 2023

Substantiated are approaches to improving the processes of managing material resources, focused on the formation of an integrated management system in the context of increasing the efficiency of agricultural production. The provisions of the scientific and theoretical (the target model of material resources management in agriculture, taking into account the interrelation of the subjects of the national economy, the evolution of the national economy and the conditions for making managerial decisions in terms of material resources; the general scheme of ordinal factors of state regulation of direct and indirect influence on the effectiveness of the use of material resources in agriculture) and methodological (improvement blocks the current practice of managing material resources in the context of ensuring the financial and investment stability of the agroindustrial complex) character.
Regional peculiarities of sugar beet cultivation in Belarus
Authors: Shundalov B. M.
Published: March 2023

The article presents the regional results of a comprehensive ranking assessment of the functioning of the sugar beet industry. It was revealed that the farms of the Minsk region turned out to be the undisputed leader in terms of the complex of production and dynamic indicators. The Grodno region took the second ranking place, and the farms of the Mogilev region took the third.

The study of the economic and financial performance of the Belarusian sugar production showed that over a five-year period (2016–2020), the final performance of the industry has significantly decreased: the total cost of 1 ton of root crops in 2020. compared to 2016, it was higher than the selling price of products, and the level of profitability of commodity root crops fell by almost 31 percentage points. In conclusion, the article provides a set of measures to improve the regional production, economic and financial performance of the sugar beet industry.
PELATIHAN PEMBUATAN SOAL DENGAN MEDIA APLIKASI KAHOOT DAN QUIZIZZ BAGI GURU MGMP MATEMATIKA SMA DI KOTA PALU
Authors: Meinarni Welli , Ismaimuza Dasa , Idris Mustamin , M Bakri , Nurhayadi Nurhayadi , Lefrida Rita
Published: March 2023

Pemanfaatan teknologi informasi dalam pelaksanaan pembelajaran sebagai aktivitas evaluasi pembelajaran. Guru dapat memanfaatkan kemajuan teknologi untuk merancang soal berbasis aplikasi yang bisa dijadikan media untuk pelaksanaan penilaian. Penggunaan penilaian yang berbasis aplikasi merupakan salah satu alternatif untuk mengatasi kelemahan penggunaan penilaian tradisional yang sifatnya offline. Terdapat berbagai aplikasi yang dapat digunakan untuk mendukung kesuksesan proses penilaian di masa pandemic covid-19 seperti Kahoot dan Quizizz. Permasalahan mitra adalah: a) Guru belum optimal dalam memahami makna, manfaat, dan cara penggunaan teknologi informasi dalam kegiatan pembelajaran, b) Pengetahuan tentang teknologi informasi yang belum memadai menjadikan kemampuan guru dalam mengembangkan soal berbasis teknologi untuk kepentingan evaluasi pembelajaran perlu ditingkatkan, c) Pihak sekolah belum menyediakan media atau software komputer yang mendukung dalam pembuatan soal dengan aplikasi Kahoot dan Quizizz, d) Kurangnya narasumber yang bisa ditempati bertanya jika guru mengalami kesulitan untuk membuat soal dengan aplikasi Kahoot dan Quizizz. Berdasarkan analisis situasi yang terjadi pada saat pelaksanaan kegiatan pengabdian, tim pengabdi dapat menyimpulkan bahwa secara umum kegiatan pengabdian ini berjalan lancar dan baik. Namun tak dapat dipungkiri, ada beberapa kondisi yang menyebabkan hasil yang dicapai belum optimal. Hal tersebut disebabkan oleh waktu pelaksanaan pengabdian yang singkat serta kemampuan beberapa guru yang memang masih perlu bimbingan intensif. Selain itu kendala juga terdapat pada jaringan internet yang kurang stabil. Hal ini menyebabkan banyak waktu yang digunakan untuk menunggu proses selanjutnya.

Kata Kunci:  Kahoot; Quizizz; Pelatihan; Teknologi; Matematika
Contributions of Diet and Age to Ulcerative Dermatitis in Female C57BL/6J Mice
Authors: Gozalo Alfonso S , Zerfas Patricia M , Qin Jing , Alves Derron A , Akkaya Munir , Peña Mirna Y , Elkins William R
Published: March 2023

C57BL/6J (B6) mice are commonly affected by ulcerative dermatitis (UD), a disease of unknown etiology with poor response to treatment. To study the possible role of diet in UD, we compared skin changes in B6 female mice fed a high-fat diet with those of mice fed a control diet. In addition,
skin samples from mice with no, mild, moderate, and severe clinical signs of UD were examined by light and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Mice fed a high-fat diet for 2 mo had more skin mast cell degranulation than did mice fed the control diet for the same period. Regardless of diet,
older mice had more skin mast cells and more of these cells were degranulating as compared with younger mice. Microscopic changes in very early lesions were characterized by an increase in dermal mast cells and degranulation with focal areas of epidermal hyperplasia with or without hyperkeratosis.
As the condition progressed, a mixed but predominantly neutrophilic inflammatory cell infiltrate appeared in the dermis, with or without epidermal erosion and scab formation. TEM showed that dermal mast cell membranes had disrupted and released of large number of electron-dense granules, whereas
degranulated mast cells were filled with isolated and coalescing empty spaces due to fusion of granule membranes. Ulceration appeared to occur very quickly, probably as result of intense scratching due to the pruritogenic properties of the histamine released from mast cell granules. This study
showed a direct correlation between dietary fat and skin mast cell degranulation in female B6 mice. In addition, the number of skin mast cells and degranulation rates was higher in older mice. Treatments directed at preventing mast cell degranulation may result in better outcomes when applied
early in UD cases. As noted previously in studies using caloric restriction, lower fat content in rodent diets may help prevent UD.
Kastamonu’da Kurt ve Geyikler ile İlgili İnanışlar (Orhun’dan Kastamonu’ya)
Authors: BEKAROĞLU Ahmet , ÖZDEN Halit
Published: March 2023

Türkistan’dan Anadolu’ya ve Anadolu’dan diğer ülke ve kıtalara fetih ruhuyla yayılan Türkler gerek göç hareketlerinde ve gerekse yurt edindikleri yerlerde tabiat ve içinde yaşayan hayvanları gündelik hayatlarının ayrılmaz bir parçası haline getirmişlerdir. Eğitilebilir düzeydeki geyik gibi sakin mizaçlı hayvanlar özellikle Anadolu’nun ilk fetih dönemlerinde yük taşımacılığında; cami, külliye, han-hamam yapımlarında ziyadesiyle kullanılmıştır. Kastamonu’ya ilk gelen alperenler de geyikleri kullanmışlardır. Geyiklerle ilgili rivayetlerin anlatıldığı Kastamonu’da birçok türbe girişinde ahde vefa örneği olarak geyik boynuzu görmek mümkündür. Kurtlar da tarihi süreçte Türklerin yaşantılarında önemli bir yere sahip olmuştur. Değer atfedilen kurtların önde gelenleri gökbörü ve bozkurtlardır. Bu iki türe güç ve saygınlıkla bağlantılı olarak değer verilmiştir. Makalede saha araştırması, kaynak kişilerle görüşmeler, yerinde tespit ve arşivleme ile alanyazındaki makaleler taranarak Kastamonu’da kurt ve geyik inanışlarının geçmişten günümüze uzantısı araştırılmıştır. Kastamonu’da halen devam eden kurt ve geyiklerle ilgili inanışlar derlenmiş ve anlatılar değerlendirilerek bu inanışların gerçeklik yönü ve halen devam edip etmediği irdelenmiştir. Kadim Türk şehri Kastamonu’da özellikle halen hayatta olan kaynak kişiler başta olmak üzere saha araştırmalarıyla elde edilen anlatı ve görsellerden yola çıkılarak ata yurttan gelen bu inanışlarla ilgili görüş ve kanaat belirtilmiştir.
The WHO Active Aging Pillars and Their Relationship with Quality of Life in Older Adults Indonesian
Authors: Indrawati Lili , Asir Asvi Retty Nurgusmy Yerly , Agustin Dinni , Suratmi Tri , Raharjo Tri Budi W
Published: March 2023

One of humanity’s outstanding accomplishments is population aging, with the elderly offering valuable resources and significantly contributing to the structure of our societies. Concurrently, this aging population poses enormous challenges, as it needs more significant economic and social requirements. This research aims to consider active aging factors to increase the quality of life of older people. The research design was qualitative and quantitative analysis with cross-sectional for the case studies and evaluations in three areas of active aging by collecting data through interviews, focus group discussions with the elderly, caregivers, and direct observation. Geriatric assessment instruments of the Geriatric Division of Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) were used for diagnosis. EQ-5D index score Indonesia version was applied to measure the quality of life, with 0,692 cut-off points for the low and high. From the study results, it was found that routinely carrying out health checks, being grateful, social activities, cooperation, and participating in/out of the environment is significantly related to the quality of life of the elderly. In addition, occupational status and the number of illnesses are also significantly related to the quality of life, while cognitive function tends to be significant. Physical participation, social participation, and experience of falling were significantly correlated with quality of life. Health check-up behavior was also significantly correlated with health quality of life. Based on the resulting study, it is recommended for future studies would be better if they could cover social security, including pensions, as pensions are the most essential source of security that will directly affect the welfare of the elderly.
Encouraging the Use of Masks During Pandemics: What posters said.docx
Authors: Suzuki Seiji
Published: March 2023

This study examines the characteristics of posters that were produced and circulated during the past and present pandemics in order to promote the use of masks among the population. Posters from Japan, the UK and the USA are compared chronologically and contemporaneously. 
Experiment ended
Authors: Evans Isabelle
Published: March 2023

Impact of PhD Training on the Cost and Ethics of Scientific research
Differential expression of ASPA in colorectal cancer.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: March 2023

Cancer is a leading cause of death and colorectal cancer is among the most lethal cancers (1, 2). We mined published microarray datasets (3, 4) to determine in an unbiased fashion and at the level of the transcriptome genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). We found significant differential expression of the gene encoding aspartoacylase, ASPA, when comparing colorectal tumors to the tissue of origin, the colon. ASPA mRNA was present at significantly lower quantities in tumors of the colon as compared to normal colorectal tissue. Analysis of human survival data revealed that expression of ASPA in rectal tumors was correlated with overall survival in patients with rectal cancer. ASPA expression changes may be important for the initiation or progression of human CRC.
Differential expression of PLOD1 in colorectal cancer.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: March 2023

Cancer is a leading cause of death and colorectal cancer is among the most lethal cancers (1, 2). We mined published and public microarray datasets (3, 4) to determine in an unbiased fashion and at the level of the transcriptome genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). We found significant differential expression of the gene encoding procollagen-lysine, 2-oxoglutarate 5-dioxygenase 1, PLOD1, when comparing colorectal tumors to the tissue of origin, the colon. PLOD1 mRNA was present at significantly higher quantities in tumors of the colon as compared to normal colorectal tissue. Analysis of human survival data revealed that expression of PLOD1 in rectal tumors was correlated with overall survival in patients with rectal cancer. PLOD1 expression changes may be important for the initiation or progression of human CRC.
Eating Disorder Treatment Access Climate Assessment in the United States: Perceived Inequities Among Reported Treatment Seekers
Authors: Penwell Taylor E , Spoor Samantha , Eyre Rebecca , Levinson Cheri A
Published: March 2023

Objective: Although eating disorders (EDs) are associated with high rates of psychological and physical impairments and high mortality rates, only 20% of those with EDs will receive treatment. No comprehensive treatment access climate assessment has occurred, and little is known about how barriers to treatment access differ across demographic (e.g., ethnic minorities) and diagnostic groups. The purpose of this study was to comprehensively assess the ED treatment access climate and how this climate might vary in subpopulations. Method: ED treatment seekers (N = 2,018) completed an online assessment of clinical demographics, anthropometrics, barriers to ED treatment access, and ED symptomatology. Analyses were conducted to describe treatment access barriers, to compare rates of barriers to treatment access across demographic groups, and investigate relations among barriers to treatment access and ED symptoms. Results: Financial barriers (e.g., lack of insurance coverage) were the most frequently reported barriers to treatment access. Those with historically underrepresented identities and with an Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder (OSFED) diagnosis reported more financial, geographic, diagnostic, sociocultural, and treatment-quality barriers relative to historically represented identities (e.g., white, cisgender women). Higher frequencies of reported barriers to treatment access were associated with higher ED symptoms and poorer illness trajectories. Conclusions: Financial barriers are the most significant barrier to accessing treatment. Barriers to treatment access disproportionally affect underrepresented groups and those with an OSFED diagnosis.
Differential expression of ITGA2 in colorectal cancer.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: March 2023

Cancer is a leading cause of death and colorectal cancer is among the most lethal cancers (1, 2). We mined published microarray datasets (3, 4) to determine in an unbiased fashion and at the level of the transcriptome genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). We found significant differential expression of the gene encoding integrin, alpha 2 (CD49B, alpha 2 subunit of VLA-2 receptor), ITGA2, when comparing colorectal tumors to the tissue of origin, the colon. ITGA2 mRNA was present at significantly higher quantities in tumors of the colon as compared to normal colorectal tissue. Analysis of human survival data revealed that expression of ITGA2 in rectal tumors was correlated with overall survival in patients with rectal cancer. ITGA2 expression changes may be important for the initiation or progression of human CRC.
Carbon and other environmental footprint food labels: potential and pitfalls
Authors: Garnett Emma Elizabeth
Published: March 2023

There has been increasing interest in many countries around introducing environmental impact labels onto food products which show quantitative information about metrics such as foods’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, land and water footprints (hereafter “environmental footprint labels”). Such labels have only recently become possible due to research advances in synthesising life cycle analyses (LCAs) of different foods, although important data gaps still exist.However, there has been relatively little critical academic evaluation on whether environmental footprint labels would be effective at bringing about more sustainable diets. How might labels influence the behaviour or consumers, retailers and policy makers in real world settings? Here, I synthesise evidence from relevant systematic reviews and other literature to provide a perspective on this research gap. I re-analysed a systematic review on eco-labels and found that only three studies out of 56 investigated the effects of environmental footprint labels on actual behaviour (not hypothetical) and between (not within) food groups (e.g. beef to beans). Shifting between rather than within food types offers the greatest potential for reducing environmental impacts of food. The three studies show modest and mixed results.As environmental footprint labels have not been widely rolled out there is limited evidence on their effects, I reviewed studies on nutritional and calorie labelling of food products – which have been widespread for many years – as a proxy. Systematic reviews have found that nutritional and calorie labelling on foods can lead to small changes in consumer behaviour but these do not necessarily persist over time. There is some evidence calorie labelling can lead to industry reformulating products; there is also strong evidence some parts of the food industry lobby policy makers to water down nutritional labelling proposals that could disadvantage their products. It is not clear whether introducing environmental footprint labelling would encourage policy makers to introduce additional and more sustainable food policies; or whether the operational effort and political capital spent on labelling could crowd out more effective policies.
Capturing complexity in thinking requires complexity in methods
Authors: Smith Jackson A , Dorfman Anna , Wegenschimmel Neil , Grossmann Igor
Published: March 2023

This study tests three common assumptions in research on complex thought and wisdom: common cause of indicators, cross-situational consistency, and between-within isomorphism. Using a year-long, multi-wave study of 499 North Americans’ event-contingent reflections on autobiographical adversity, we examined intellectual humility, open-mindedness, perspective taking, and search for a compromise/conflict resolution. Network models outperformed factor models, questioning the common cause assumption. Wisdom-related features showed lower stability than personality traits and subjective well-being, challenging cross-situational consistency. Between-person and within-person associations differed, violating the isomorphism assumption. Longitudinal analyses further revealed that within-person change in self-distancing and perceived level of distress, but not other proposed moderators, were associated with within-person growth in several wisdom features three months later. These results call for a revision of approaches to studying complex thought and adversity, highlighting the importance of longitudinal research and more precise temporal claims in psychological science.
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Associations of Personality, Intelligence, and Physical Size with Social Status
Authors: Grosz Michael P. , van Aert Robbie Cornelis Maria , Back Mitja D
Published: March 2023

Theories have proposed diverse reasons for why individual differences such as personality traits lead to social status attainment in face-to-face groups. We integrated these different theoretical standpoints into a model with four paths from individual differences to status: a dominance, a competence, a virtue, and a micropolitics path. To investigate these paths, we meta-analyzed over 100 years of research on bivariate associations of personality traits, cognitive abilities, and physical size with the attainment of status related outcomes in face-to-face groups (1,064 effects from 276 samples including 56,153 participants). The status related outcome variables were admiring respect, social influence, popularity (i.e., being liked by others), leadership emergence, and a mixture outcome variable. The meta-analytic correlations we found were largely in line with the micropolitics path, tentatively in line with the competence and virtue paths, and only partly in line with the dominance path. These findings suggest that status attainment depends on the competence and virtue of an individual but also on how individuals can enhance their apparent competence or virtue by behaving assertively, by being extraverted, or through self-monitoring. We also investigated how the relations between individual differences and status related outcomes were moderated by kind of status related outcome, nature of the group task, culture (collectivism/individualism), and length of acquaintance. The moderation analysis yielded mixed and inconclusive results. The review ends with directions for research such as the need to separately assess and study the different status related outcomes.
Psychological Theories of Autism: Everything, All at Once, In One Place
Authors: Ewen Joshua
Published: March 2023

The goal of this work is to collect psychological causal theories of autism, to review them critically in terms of the strength of their constructs, premises and potential explanatory power, and to identify areas of engagement across theories. We have identified seven "families" of theories within the autism literature: low-level sensory-motor theories, arousal theories, complexity/abstraction/attention theories, predictive-coding theories, language theories, developmental theories and primary-social theories. The first five families are reviewed, and recommendations are made for strategic research planning.
Imagining Risk Taking: The Valence of Mental Imagery Is Related to the Declared Willingness to Take Risky Actions
Authors: Smieja Joanna Malgorzata , Zaleskiewicz Tomasz , Sobkow Agata , Traczyk Jakub
Published: March 2023

The aim of the present research was to investigate the involvement of mental imagery in people’s choices under risk. We tested the general idea that decision makers can use visual mental images (visual mental simulations) to pre-experience how rewarding or threatening future outcomes of risky behavior will be and try out the potential consequences of their risky activities. The paper reports the results of three preregistered studies (including one experiment) showing that the valence of mental imagery is related to the willingness to take risky actions and that people spontaneously use mental imagery as an informative decision input. In Study 1, we found that the more positive mental images people produced when faced with risk, the more willing they were to take risky actions representing different risk domains. Study 2 extended the results of Study 1, indicating that the valence of mental imagery has a causal effect on participants’ risk-taking willingness. Qualitative analysis based on independent judges’ evaluations conducted in Studies 1 and 2 documented that, when requested, participants could easily generate visual mental images illustrating the consequences of their risky choices. Finally, with Study 3, we found that participants declared using mental imagery as a decision input (i.e., a source of information that helps them make choices) even when they were not instructed to do so. However, the frequency of reporting images as decision inputs differed across risky activities.
Retrieval mode switching affects autobiographical memory accuracy and elaboration in ageing
Authors: Melega Greta , Renoult Louis
Published: March 2023

Flexibility in the recall of autobiographical memories, from highly detailed and unique episodes to more abstract and decontextualised personal knowledge, depends on control processes and contextual factors, including the specific task demands. Here, we investigated the costs of switching between different types of autobiographical retrieval in young and older adults. In the task, participants were asked to recall specific (unique events) and categoric events (repeated events) in separate blocks of trials, and were then instructed to switch between specific and categoric retrieval. We analysed autobiographical memory recall in term of accuracy (percentage of memories consistent with instructions), and elaboration (count of different types of details produced). Our results revealed switch costs in memory accuracy, with older adults recalling fewer memories consistent with instructions after a switch occurred, but no age differences in accuracy at baseline, when specific and categoric memories were retrieved in separate blocks. Age difference in memory elaboration were identified, with older adults producing a lower proportion of episodic details when instructed to describe specific past events, as well as a lower proportion of repeated event details and a higher proportion of semantic details when instructed to retrieve categoric memories. Together these results reveal that autobiographical memory retrieval in ageing is highly dependent on the specific task demands, intertwined with a general episodic-to-semantic shift.
Measuring a country’s digital industrial structure: commercial websites and weakly supervised classification to the rescue
Authors: Occhini Giulia , Tranos Emmanouil , Wolf Levi John
Published: March 2023

In this paper we propose the use of commercial websites and a contextualized weak supervision framework as an alternative to industrial taxonomies to identify and classify digital industrial activity. Despite the crucial importance of industrial taxonomies for government and research, their static nature leaves taxonomies unable to accurately capture a country’s industrial structure. This is particularly problematic in the context for firms producing novel, digital outputs, which are nowadays classified into the wrong industrial sectors and thus rendered almost invisible to official statistics. To address this issue we show how commercial websites can complement, or even substitute industrial classification surveys andultimately yield a more complete, up-to-date understanding of a country’s industrial structure evolution. In the process, we compare our classification results using only commercial websites’ landing page versus using full website for classification, finding that a company’s landing page is a better predictor of industrial classes than their full website. We also suggest that our framework could support longitudinal analyses by proposing a pipeline using archival websites. This method can be used by policymakers to identify classes of industries from a bottom-up perspective, while at the same time advocating for the usage of state-of-the art NLP techniques in economics and business research.
Performance Evaluation Of Variations Boosting Algorithms For Classifying Formalin Fish From Photos
Authors: Fadlisyah Fadlisyah , Muhathir Muhathir
Published: March 2023

Fish is one of the foods that are often consumed by humans to complete the protein in the body. Indonesia is rich in animal protein so some rogue traders to avoid losses due to rotten fish, sellers process fish to make it look fresh by fishing with formalin liquids so that buyers think the fish is still fresh, this problem is often found in the market so that it takes the right solution. The solution offered is to apply Machine Learning (Boosting Algorithm) to classify fresh fish and fish that have been planned with formalin by utilizing the extraction of GLCM features. The findings of this study indicate a variation of boosting algorithms can provide solutions to this problem. Accuracy, precision, recall, f1-score, f2-score, and Jaccard score in tilapia fish with a value of 0.95, 0.95, 0.95, 0.95, 0.95, 0.95 this result is obtained by extreme gradient boosting variations with the highest achievements compared to variations Other things are also similar to Tamban fish with a value of 0.78, 0.775, 0.78, 0.825, 0.77, 0.632. The effect of boosting algorithm on the measurement of model performance looks very increased in tilapia fish while in tamban fish do not provide maximum results, but these findings are better
Analysis of End-to-End Delay Video Conferencing Services on a Mobile Ad Hoc Network
Authors: Kango Riklan , Jamal Nurwahidah , Abas Mohamad Ilyas
Published: March 2023

The purpose of this study is to conduct a series of tests on each increase in the number of node-clients on the Mobile Ad hoc Network, while each node performs real-time video conferencing services from the internet cloud which can have a significant impact on the Quality of Service. The quality of service of the Mobile Ad hoc Network that supports video conferencing in real-time is evaluated based on End-to-End Delay. The model offered is in the form of the implementation of an ad hoc network on the zoom cloud meeting service. We assessed the transmission scenario of wireless video conferencing services while changing the number of user nodes. It carried the measurement out 5 times and calculated the average value obtained to be compared against the number of different nodes in this case the data obtained using Wireshark software. The results showed that the end-to-end delay value on the Mobile Ad hoc Network increased by 27% when the scalability of the Mobile Ad hoc network was increased from 2 nodes to 4 nodes. Our proposed model can be helpful in making decisions about aspects of the number of nodes in the Mobile Ad hoc network in real-time communication
Optimization of Support Vector Machine and XGBoost Methods Using Feature Selection to Improve Classification Performance
Authors: Andriansyah Doni - , Eka Wulansari Fridayanthie
Published: March 2023

Breast cancer still ranks first in the number of cancers in Indonesia and is one of the contributors to the death rate caused by cancer. Generally occurs in women, but does not rule out it can occur in men. Globocan data in 2020 shows the number of new cancer cases in Indonesia reached 65,858 or 16.6% of the total 396,914 new cancer cases, with the number of deaths reaching 22,430 cases. Early detection can allow patients to get the right therapy and increase their chances of survival. The purpose of this study is to implement a machine learning algorithm to detect breast cancer in women, the algorithms that will be used are Support Vector Machine (SVM) and XBGoost by implementing feature selection to obtain better accuracy. The classification results of the two algorithms will be compared to find out which algorithm has the best performance. The dataset used is from the SEER NCI program in November 2017 involving 4024 patients. The research shows that of the 16 attributes contained in the dataset, there are 3 attributes (features) that have a significant effect on the classification results, namely 6th stage, reginol node positive, and tumor size. XGBoost with feature selection has a better performance of 91.4% compared to SVM which is only 89.8%.
Business Process Reengineering for Red Onion E-Commerce System
Authors: Baihaqi Muhammad Noufal , Irawan Candra , Alzami Farrikh , Sartika Mila , Handayani Sri , Jumanto  , Yusianto Rindra , Andono Pulung Nurtantyo
Published: March 2023

Agriculture is a source of income for the country. One of the most promising agricultural commodities is shallots. Shallots are always found in every traditional market, traditional markets are one of the connecting places between buyers and sellers of shallots to carry out buying and selling activities of shallots. Onion buying and selling activities carried out in traditional markets are still conventional in this case, such as payment processing activities that still use cash, then in traditional markets the price of shallots is still not fixed, aka buyers can still haggle, so these two things are quite time-consuming and personnel in business process activities of shallot sales transactions. For this reason, here the author has the goal of doing business process reengineering to make the business process of buying and selling shallots in traditional markets more effective and efficient. By using the business process reengineering method, shallot transaction activities can be carried out using an e-commerce system, where the aim of this e-commerce system is to produce faster times for shallot transaction activities, process trimming, and reduce human resources in previous business process activities. as well as reducing costs. Thus, it is hoped that e-commerce can make the business process of buying and selling shallots between consumers and shallot traders more effective and efficient.
Analysis Of Variation In The Number Of MFCC Features In Contrast To LSTM In The Classification Of English Accent Sounds
Authors: Sharif Afriandy , Sitompul Opim Salim , Nababan Erna Budhiarti
Published: March 2023

Various studies have been carried out to classify English accents using traditional classifiers and modern classifiers. In general, research on voice classification and voice recognition that has been done previously uses the MFCC method as voice feature extraction. The stages in this study began with importing datasets, data preprocessing of datasets, then performing MFCC feature extraction, conducting model training, testing model accuracy and displaying a confusion matrix on model accuracy. After that, an analysis of the classification has been carried out. The overall results of the 10 tests on the test set show the highest accuracy value for feature 17 value of 64.96% in the test results obtained some important information, including; The test results on the MFCC coefficient values of twelve to twenty show overfitting. This is shown in the model training process which repeatedly produces high accuracy but produces low accuracy in the classification testing process. The feature assignment on MFCC shows that the higher the feature value assignment on MFCC causes a very large sound feature dimension. With the large number of features obtained, the MFCC method has a weakness in determining the number of features.
Development of Interactive Learning Media in Computer Subjects and Basic Networks in Vocational High Schools
Authors: Islapirna Islapirna , Fadhilah  , Yeka Hendriyani  , Wakhinuddin
Published: March 2023

The use of technology in the educational process is one of the aspects that influence or help fulfill a quality learning process in an effort to achieve educational goals. If the use of this technology is not carried out, there will be many difficulties encountered in the learning process which are given directly by the teacher. This will affect many aspects, such as the teacher's explanation which is difficult to accept and understand and the lack of concentration of students during the learning process because the media provided is monotonous. This study aims to develop learning media and produce valid, practical, and effective media in the subject of Basic Computers and Networks for class X Computer Engineering and Basic Networks at YAPIM Vocational School. The method used in this study is the Research and Development (R&D) method, with a four-D development model. The results obtained from this study are web-based interactive learning media. Based on the results of the study it was concluded that the developed media was declared valid on the media aspect of 86%, the material aspect with a yield of 96%. The developed media is practical with the practicality value of the teacher's response with a result of 97.92% and the student's response is 88.29%, and the resulting web-based interactive learning media is effectively used with the posttest results seen from the students' classical completeness of 100% and the gain score of 0.50 in the moderate category.
Classical Mythology and Children's Literature... An Alphabetical Odyssey
Authors: Hale Elizabeth , Riverlea Miriam
Published: March 2023

The book takes readers on a journey through the oceans of children’s books inspired by ancient Greek and Roman mythology. The 26 chapters (arranged alphabetically) discuss elements important in literature for young readers, providing insights into how mythical adaptations, retellings, and allusions connect with aspects of childhood and adolescence.