bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF LABORATORY CADAVERIC AND BIOMECHANICAL STUDIES: THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A NEW BASIC SCIENCE QUALITY SCORE
Authors: Hohmann Erik , Paschos Nikolaos , Keough Natalie , Molepo Maketo , Oberholster Abrie , Erbulut Deniz , Tetsworth Kevin , Glat Vaida , Gueorguiev Boyko
Published: November 2023

The purpose of this study was to develop a quality appraisal tool for the assessment of laboratory basic science biomechanical studies.

Materials andScore development comprised of the following phases: item identification/development, item reduction, content/face/criterion validity, weighting, test-retest reliability and internal consistency. For item identification/development, the panel was asked to independently list criteria and factors they considered important for cadaver study and generate items that should be used to appraise cadaver study quality. For content validity, the content validity ratio (CVR) was calculated. The minimum accepted content validity index (CVI) was set to 0.85. For weighting, equal weight for each item was 6.7% [15 items]. Based on these figures the panel was asked to either upscale or downscale the weight for each item ensuring that the final sum for all items was 100%. Face validity was assessed by each panel member using a Likert scale from 1–7. Strong face validity was defined as a mean score of >5. Test-retest reliability was assessed using 10 randomly selected studies. Criterion validity was assessed using the QUACS scale as standard. Internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach's alpha.

Five items reached a CVI of 1 and 10 items a CVI of 0.875. For weighting five items reached a final weight of 10% and ten items 5%. The mean score for face validity was 5.6. Test-retest reliability ranged from 0.78–1.00 with 9 items reaching a perfect score. Criterion validity was 0.76 and considered to be strong. Cronbach's alpha was calculated to be 0.71 indicating acceptable internal consistency.

The new proposed quality score for basic science studies consists of 15 items and has been shown to be reliable, valid and of acceptable internal consistency. It is suggested that this score should be utilised when assessing basic science studies.
Low-cost Calibration Method for the Infrared Camera
Authors: Uemura Derek Koji , Shah Sanjay B. , Regmi Prafulla , Grimes Jesse , Wang-Li Lingjuan
Published: November 2023

Highlights

Simple, low-cost infrared camera calibration method proposed.

Calibration equation can improve accuracy for a narrower range of surface temperature.

Infrared camera moderately sensitive to both emissivity and reflected air temperature.

Abstract. Infrared (IR) or thermal cameras are being increasingly used in livestock research and management. An IR camera’s accuracy is specified over its entire surface temperature measurement range, whereas in livestock research and management, a narrower range suffices. A camera’s accuracy could be higher in a narrower range of temperatures. Hence, a novel low-cost method was used to calculate the FLIR E8 camera’s accuracy in a range of 24°C to 37°C, representative of surface temperature of poultry birds. Sensitivity analyses were also performed to evaluate the impact of three user specified parameters, namely, emissivity (e), distance between camera and surface (d), and reflected air temperature (tair). A linear regression model was used to correct the camera’s absolute error of 2.8°C (greater than its published error). However, the camera possessed precision and hence, repeatability. The IR camera was moderately sensitive to e, and slightly sensitive to tair and d, but its error could increase with the difference between the measured and assumed tair values. Attention is required to accurately characterize e and tair. This simple calibration method can reduce cost and could improve accuracy in a narrower temperature range than the IR camera’s published range, which could be useful for applied research. Keywords: Absolute error, Accuracy, Emissivity, Heat stress, IR, Precision, Reflected air temperature, Sensitivity analysis.
RISCO DE SUICÍDIO ENTRE UNIVERSITÁRIOS DA ÁREA DA SAÚDE E OS FATORES ASSOCIADOS
Authors: Tinti de Andrade Maria Betânia , Vieira Coelho Ferreira Luana , Da Cruz Sequeira Carlos Alberto , Olímpia Barbosa Felipe Adriana , Guidorizzi Zanetti Ana Carolina , Alves Nogueira Denismar , Marilda Rodrigues Resck Zélia , Graziani Giacchero Vedana Kelly
Published: November 2023

INTRODUÇÃO: O suicídio é apontado como a quarta causa de morte entre jovens na faixa etária de 15 a 29 anos. Nesta faixa etária encontram-se os universitários, que podem vivenciar em sua vida acadêmica um período marcado por angustias, incertezas, desafios e sofrimentos que somados a outros fatores podem favorecer o risco de suicídio. OBJETIVO: Identificar os fatores de risco para o suicídio em estudantes universitários da área da saúde. MATERIAIS E MÉTODO: Estudo de abordagem quantitativa, desenvolvido com estudantes universitários matriculados a partir do 5° período nos cursos de graduação em Biomedicina, Enfermagem, Farmácia, Fisioterapia, Medicina, Nutrição e Odontologia de uma instituição de ensino superior localizada no Sul de Minas Gerais. Foram autoaplicados cinco instrumentos: Questionário sociodemográfico, educacional e clínico; Avaliação do Risco de Suicídio; Escala de Esperança de Herth; Inventário de Depressão Maior e Escala de Autoestima de Rosenberg.  RESULTADOS: Participaram do estudo 747 universitários, 27,6% apresentavam risco de suicídio. Os preditores de risco de suicídio foram ter sintomas depressivos, baixa autoestima, diagnóstico de transtorno mental, uso de psicofármacos e insatisfação com o apoio social. CONCLUSÃO: O estudo poderá subsidiar referencial para intervenções, investigações e políticas públicas para o apoio aos estudantes universitários e para a prevenção do suicídio nessa população.
LAS RELACIONES ENTRE LA HISTORIA Y EL CINE Y SUS CONDICIONANTES PARA LA VISIÓN DEL PASADO
Authors: ROSICH ARGELICH RICARD
Published: November 2023

El presente artículo trata de ofrecer algunas notas interpretativas para historiadores sobre la hermenéutica que requiere una rigurosa investigación con films, sean cuales sean sus tipologías. Del mismo modo que la literatura, la memoria o la oralidad ofrecen sus particulares métodos para comprender el pasado, la cinematografía también aporta su propio relato al conocimiento histórico de una comunidad humana, solo que sujeto a un procedimiento aproximativo de un cariz distinto. Tras caracterizarlo con reflexiones teóricas, se termina por abordarlo en su aplicación práctica con el análisis crítico de dos films ficcionales de reconstitución histórica: Senderos de gloria (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) y Feliz Navidad (Christian Carion, 2005), resultando posible identificar los condicionantes que ambos productos han aportado para el conocimiento de la I Guerra Mundial y de las sociedades coetáneas a su creación.
IMAGOLOGÍA DE COLÓN EN LA PANTALLA: UNA MIRADA TRANSATLÁNTICA
Authors: GONZÁLEZ LUIS M.
Published: November 2023

Luego de explorar las relaciones entre imagen audiovisual e historia, este artículo analiza tres películas que giran en torno a la figura de Cristóbal Colón y su empresa ultramarina: Cristóbal Colón o La grandeza de América (1943), rodada en México bajo la dirección del exiliado republicano español José Díaz Morales; una película colombiana de animación, Cristóbal Colón (Fernando Laverde, 1983), que me permitirá hacer una cala en las representaciones cinematográficas latinoamericanas de Colón y su aventura transatlántica; y También la lluvia (2010), en la que la española Iciar Bollaín reflexiona sobre las implicaciones de la conquista.
SITGES 2022. 55 FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE FANTÁSTICO DE CATALUNYA
Authors: VALENCIA JAVIER J.
Published: November 2023

Crónica de la 55 edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de Catalunya - Sitges 2022, edición cuyo tema central giró  en torno al Metaverso y a los multiversos digitales. El artículo centra su atención en algunas de las películas más destacadas, como la sorprendente ganadora del premio a la mejor película "Sisu,"del finalndés Jalmari Helander, la excelente "Pearl" de Ti West, comedia negra filmada como si se tratara de un melodrama del "viejo Hollywood" protagonizada por una imponente Mia Goth, o la enigmática y atmosférica "Enys Men" de Mark Jenkin. Además se comentan algunas de las películas presentadas en las diferentes secciones retrospectivas o en la semana de la crítica, "Seven Chances", así como algunas de las películas españolas más remarcables.
ALEMANIA EN OTOÑO. LA IMPOTENCIA COMO ALTERNATIVA
Authors: ALMEIDA DÍEZ ADRIÁN
Published: November 2023

El presente ensayo busca realizar una crítica a la obra cinematográfica Alemania en Otoño (1978). Explicando los orígenes históricos del Nuevo Cine Alemán y la ideología de la segunda generación del grupo armado de la Fracción del Ejército Rojo (RAF), el texto plantea que el filme referenciado reproduce miméticamente los postulados de esta hornada de militantes de esta organización armada. Es decir, Alemania en Otoño, buscaría, en la impotencia por hacer perceptible el antagonismo social entre la población germana, visualizar, en el dolor de la represión contra la izquierda radical y los militantes de la RAF, la posibilidad de establecer espacios para la constitución de una sociedad diferente y alternativa al capitalismo.
EL CINE DE LA PERESTROIKA: LA CONTRACULTURA JUVENIL FRENTE AL SISTEMA
Authors: GARRIDO CABALLERO MAGDALENA
Published: November 2023

El artículo aborda los cambios promovidos durante la perestroika en el sector cinematográfico, que se concretaron en una apertura y renovación artística, y ahonda en una selección de filmes de época protagonizados por jóvenes, que figuran en la gran pantalla, abanderando la contracultura, mostrando las barreras existentes en el modelo soviético y anhelando libertades, evidenciando las contradicciones de un sistema cuyo metraje se va agotando. Para narrar en imágenes y con testimonios estos años se emplea bibliografía y revistas especializadas en el celuloide como Films Soviéticos.
LA SOMBRA DE STALIN EN LA PANTALLA OCCIDENTAL
Authors: ALONSO GUTIÉRREZ JUAN MANUEL
Published: November 2023

Tras el comienzo de la guerra en Ucrania, desencadenada por el líder ruso Vladimir Putin, se hace necesario revisar la naturaleza del poder en Rusia tal y como la ha retratado el cine de ficción occidental. En este artículo queremos aproximarnos a la figura del líder soviético Iosif Stalin, tal y como se retrata en dos películas separadas por más de veinte años. Apoyándonos inicialmente en el telefilme norteamericano Stalin (Passer, 1992), que repasa los principales episodios de la vida del dictador, pasaremos a comentar también la película británica La muerte de Stalin (Iannucci, 2017), una comedia de humor negro sobre su muerte que desnuda las relaciones e interioridades de los personajes del Kremlin. Se pretende así ofrecer una reflexión sobre los mecanismos del poder, el totalitarismo y la influencia que Stalin ha tenido en Rusia.
江西吉水方言连-介词“做(伴)” 的功能和语义演变
Authors: 兰 李桂
Published: November 2023

江西吉水方言的“做”有普通话“和”的介词和连词功能，可引出协
同对象、言谈对象、比较对象和并列对象。连-介词“做”的功能一般
可以用“做伴(/嘙/得)”替换。文章以“做”为代表观察“做”及双音
节形式的功能后指出，“做”是“做伴”语音弱化的结果，伴随介词“做
伴[ʦɿ 31-51 p h on 512-20 ]”源于相伴义动词“做伴[ʦɿ 31-33 p h on 512 ]”，即在突
显协同对象的连谓结构中，动词前的“做伴”发展出伴随介词功能，
并发展出其他功能。考察发现，连-介词“做”及双音节形式也见于吉
水周边的赣方言、吴方言和徽语，汉语方言中广泛存在相伴义动词发
展出连-介词功能这种现象。
Reducing optical loss of dual-ion beam sputtered HfO2 films via optimization of coating and annealing parameters
Authors: Ma Chong , Chen Gang , He Junbo , Fang Shaobo , Wang Cheng , Cai Qingyuan , Duan Weibo , Liu Dingquan , Zhang Rongjun
Published: November 2023

HfO2 films are widely used for optical coatings due to the high refractive index and low absorption, especially in the ultraviolet (UV) band. In this work, HfO2 film samples were prepared with the optimized assistant source power and deposition temperature by dual-ion beam sputtering (DIBS), followed by annealing treatments in vacuum and atmosphere, respectively. For samples with different annealing temperatures from 200 to 450 °C, the microstructure, morphology, film stress and optical properties from 200 to 1000 nm were systematically investigated. A monoclinic phase, a refractive index inhomogeneity along the film thickness and an absorption of shoulder-shape in the 250-300 nm band were found in the as-deposited samples. For samples annealed in vacuum, 400 °C annealing leaded to more oxygen defects, which in turn caused aggravated UV absorption. For samples annealed in atmosphere, the shoulder-shaped absorption weakened obviously above 300 °C annealing, which was suspected due to the reduction of oxygen defects during the crystallization process with sufficient oxygen. Scattering loss was investigated and found negligible for as-deposited and annealed samples. Additionally, film stress varied from compressive state to tensile state with increasing annealing temperature, and the zero-stress temperature is between 300-350 °C, which is due to the obvious crystallization behavior. Production methods and physical mechanisms for low absorption and scattering loss DIBS deposited HfO2 films were proposed and discussed in detail.
Data-driven epidemiologic approach to conducting site feasibility for a global phase III tuberculosis vaccine clinical trial
Authors: Mui Wai-Ling , Parekh Falgunee K. , Tseng Ashley S. , Toro Joy , Craig Taylor , Ndugga Maggwa , Schmidt Alexander C. , Dagnew Alemnew F. , Penz Craig , Belai Ghiorghis
Published: November 2023

An efficacious tuberculosis (TB) vaccine is critical to reducing the global burden of TB. TB vaccine trials require the identification of multiple sites globally that have both a high incidence of TB and the capacity to conduct a clinical trial. To expand the diversity of potential phase III TB vaccine trial sites to be considered for inclusion, we describe a novel epidemiologic method that incorporates approaches from a variety of public health practices. Our approach incorporates analytic methodology to enable quantification and validation of qualitative information from disparate data sources, and epidemiologic analysis to systematically assess site-specific TB epidemiology. The integration of robust data-driven practices, and more quantitatively focused analysis, allowed for the objective evaluation of sites, which resulted in the identification of sites and catchment areas with high TB burden that may not have been previously considered. This suggests that an integrated epidemiologic methodology, not traditionally utilized for clinical trial site evaluations, could be integrated into site feasibility assessments as it results in more rapid site identification and reduces unintended bias.
From multimodal features to behavioural inferences: A pipeline to model engagement in human-robot interactions
Authors: Joshi Soham , Malavalli Arpitha , Rao Shrisha
Published: November 2023

Modelling the engaging behaviour of humans using multimodal data collected during human-robot interactions has attracted much research interest. Most methods that have been proposed previously predict engaging behaviour directly from multimodal features, and do not incorporate personality inferences or any theories of interpersonal behaviour in human-human interactions. This work investigates whether personality inferences and attributes from interpersonal theories of behaviour (like attitude and emotion) further augment the modelling of engaging behaviour. We present a novel pipeline to model engaging behaviour that incorporates the Big Five personality traits, the Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC), and the Triandis Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour (TIB). We extract first-person vision and physiological features from the MHHRI dataset and predict the Big Five personality traits using a Support Vector Machine. Subsequently, we empirically validate the advantage of incorporating personality in modelling engaging behaviour and present a novel method that effectively uses the IPC to obtain scores for a human’s attitude and emotion from their Big Five traits. Finally, our results demonstrate that attitude and emotion are correlates of behaviour even in human-robot interactions, as suggested by the TIB for human-human interactions. Furthermore, incorporating the IPC and the Big Five traits helps generate behavioural inferences that supplement the engaging behaviour prediction, thus enriching the pipeline. Engagement modelling has a wide range of applications in domains like online learning platforms, assistive robotics, and intelligent conversational agents. Practitioners can also use this work in cognitive modelling and psychology to find more complex and subtle relations between humans’ behaviour and personality traits, and discover new dynamics of the human psyche. The code will be made available at:https://github.com/soham-joshi/engagement-prediction-mhhri.
Can bone scintigraphy reflect the progression of osteoarthritis after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty?
Authors: Lim Sumin , Kim Tae Hun , Park Do Young , Lee Jong Min , Chung Jun Young
Published: November 2023

Background

Bone scintigraphy (BS) has been reported to be a useful predictor of osteoarthritis (OA) progression in primary knee OA. However, no previous studies have explored the relationship between BS and OA progression in the retained compartments after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA). Thus, we evaluated whether OA progresses to other compartments in patients who undergo UKA and if increased uptake on BS is associated with OA progression in other compartments after UKA.

Methods

A total of 41 patients with knee BS at least five years after UKA were included. Radiographic OA progression in other compartments was assessed by grading and comparing OA severity in each patient using the Kellgren–Lawrence grading system (K-L grade) and Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) atlas score. After UKA, the correlation between BS uptake and radiographic OA progression was analyzed in each retained compartment. A correlation analysis was also performed to evaluate the association between BS uptake and OA progression grades.

Results

A significant progression of OA was observed in both contralateral tibiofemoral and patellofemoral compartments after UKA at 98.5 ± 26.0 months of follow-up (all p<0.001). No correlation was found between BS uptake and radiographic OA progression nor between BS uptake and radiographic OA progression grade in the contralateral and patellofemoral compartments.

Conclusions

Following UKA, OA progresses in the retained contralateral tibiofemoral and patellofemoral compartments over a minimum five-year follow-up period. Thus, BS is ineffective in assessing the progression of OA in these compartments.
Poor attention: The wealth and regional gaps in event attention and coverage on Wikipedia
Authors: Ruprechter Thorsten , Burghardt Keith , Helic Denis
Published: November 2023

Wikipedia is an important source of general knowledge covering a wide range of topics. Moreover, for many people around the world, it also serves as an essential news source for major events such as elections or disasters. Although Wikipedia covers many such events, some events are underrepresented and lack attention, despite their newsworthiness predicted from news value theory. In this paper, we analyze 17 490 event articles in four Wikipedia language editions and examine how the economic status and geographic region of the event location affects the attention and coverage it receives. We find that major Wikipedia language editions have a skewed focus, with more attention given to events in the world’s more economically developed countries and less attention to events in less affluent regions. However, other factors, such as the number of deaths in a disaster, are also associated with the attention an event receives. Overall, this work provides a nuanced understanding of attention and coverage on Wikipedia through event articles and adds new empirical analysis to news value theory.
Clinical manifestations and outcome of patients with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in Pakistan. A single-center experience
Authors: Rehman Shakeel Ur , Farooq Salman , Tariq Muhammad Bilal , Nasir Nosheen , Wasay Mohammad , Masood Sobia , Karim Musa
Published: November 2023

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a rapidly progressing central nervous system (CNS) infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, a free-living amoeba found in warm freshwater. The disease progression is very rapid, and the outcome is nearly always fatal. We aim to describe the disease course in patients admitted with PAM in a tertiary care center in Karachi, Pakistan between the periods of 2010 to 2021. A total of 39 patients were included in the study, 33 males (84.6%). The median age of the patients was 34 years. The most frequent presenting complaint was fever, which was found in 37 patients (94.9%) followed by headache in 28 patients (71.8%), nausea and vomiting in 27 patients (69.2%), and seizures in 10 patients (25.6%). Overall, 39 patients underwent lumbar puncture, 27 patients (69.2%) had a positive motile trophozoites on CSF wet preparation microscopy, 18 patients (46.2%) had a positive culture, and 10 patients had a positive PCR. CSF analysis resembled bacterial meningitis with elevated white blood cell counts with predominantly neutrophils (median, 3000 [range, 1350–7500] cells/μL), low glucose levels median, 14 [range, 1–92] mg/dL), and elevated protein levels (median, 344 [range, 289–405] mg/dL). Imaging results were abnormal in approximately three-fourths of the patients which included cerebral edema (66.7%), hydrocephalus (25.6%), and cerebral infarctions (12.8%). Only one patient survived. PAM is a fatal illness with limited treatment success. Early diagnosis and prompt initiation of treatment can improve the survival of the patients and reduce mortality.
Exploring the mediating effect of personality traits in the relationship between entrepreneurial intentions and academic performance among students
Authors: Panda Smita , Arumugam Vasumathi
Published: November 2023

This study explores the mediating effect of personality traits in the relationship between entrepreneurial intentions and student academic performance. The sample comprised 175 students from a top-ranked Tamil Nadu, India university. Data was collected using a survey questionnaire as the research instrument. A descriptive research design was employed to understand the variables under investigation comprehensively. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and SPSS v25 was utilized as the statistical analysis tool. This study used the Theory of Planned Behaviour as a theoretical framework to explore the mediating effect of personality traits in the relationship between entrepreneurial intentions and academic performance among university students. The study’s findings revealed essential insights into the relationship between entrepreneurial intentions, personality traits, and academic performance. The results showed that personality traits significantly mediate the relationship between entrepreneurial intentions and academic performance. This finding suggests that a student’s personality traits influence the impact of entrepreneurial intentions on academic performance. Furthermore, the study found that while entrepreneurial intentions did not have a significant direct effect on academic performance, they did have a substantial indirect effect through personality traits. This indicates that personality traits act as a crucial mechanism through which entrepreneurial intentions can influence academic performance among students.
Writing in the Science Classroom: Dissecting in the Ideal Environment (Reprint)
Authors: Snoddy Kristen
Published: November 2023

In the more than two decades since this article was published, those who facilitate and evaluate student writing have found their task increasingly challenging. Helping students determine the credibility of online resources in addition to maintaining the integrity of student writing in the age of artificial intelligence are two key challenges. Despite these factors, I remain committed to my recommendations outlined in the article. Engaging students in the work of the classroom—both course content and the accompanying writing that confirms our students’ understanding of that content—should be what drives our interactions with them.
The Hoosier Science Teacher, Volume 46, Issue 1
Authors: Editorial Board THST
Published: November 2023

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An examination of public discourse about teachers’ collective bargaining rights in a portfolio school district
Authors: Noble Anna L.
Published: November 2023

Employing an institutional logics framework and critical discourse analysis, this study examines the discourse of participants in a stakeholder-feedback meeting about a proposal by the Denver Public School board to extend collective bargaining rights to teachers in the district's innovation schools. The findings provide insight into the logics that control how teacher unions and collective bargaining agreements are understood by proponents of autonomous schools and portrayed to the general public through media. The analysis explores how connections to power and status allowed some stakeholder groups to influence the board to revise the policy to one more favorable toward market-oriented school reform. In this case, the dominant narrative that emerged from the stakeholder feedback cycle was one in which the collective bargaining rights of teachers were positioned as a threat to autonomous schools’ ability to provide “what's best for kids” in their classrooms.
Costs of Growing Coffee (Coffea Arábiga L.) Production, Profits and Unit Cost in the Municipality of Amatepec, State of México. 2023
Authors: Hernández José Luis Morales , Reyes Claudia Janeth Gómez , Razo Felipe de Jesús González , Ramírez Ma del Carmen Domínguez
Published: November 2023

The vast majority of coffee producers in the different states of the Mexican Republic, when asked how much it costs to produce cherry, parchment or roasted coffee per unit area, do not know and do not keep records of their costs. This leaves them unable to budget effectively and allocate resources during the year, putting them in a vulnerable situation in the face of changing markets and the supply and demand of national and international coffee. With the objective of presenting an overview of coffee costs, profit and unit costs, in the Municipality of Amatepec, a comparative field study was carried out with the producing states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Chiapas, during 2023. To obtain the costs A survey was applied to representative producers of the region chosen in a completely random sampling, then the FIRA methodology was used to determine total production costs in coffee cultivation. The results indicate that for the production season the activity of cultural work 25%, harvest with 24%, then fertilization with 21% and pest control contributes with 14%. As a result of prices and costs, the profits obtained in coffee cultivation are safer in parchment and roasting both for the Municipality of Amatepec, and in the states of Veracruz, Puebla and Chiapas with which the comparisons were made.
Uniqueness of asymptotically conical higher codimension self-shrinkers and self-expanders
Authors: Khan Ilyas
Published: November 2023

Let 𝐶 be an 𝑚-dimensional cone immersed in

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+
m

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.
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→

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is a properly immersed mean curvature flow self-shrinker which is smoothly asymptotic to 𝐶, then it is unique and converges to 𝐶 with unit multiplicity.
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and

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and

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coincide.
The Prussian Army’s First Spymaster: Colonel Heinrich von Brandt and the Nachrichtenbüro, 1866–1876
Authors: Stone James
Published: November 2023

Heinrich von Brandt was the father of German military intelligence. He was responsible for conducting espionage operations for the General Staff in the period of the foundation of the German Empire and made a significant contribution to Prussia’s victory over France in 1871. Yet his important role has been completely neglected in histories of the Prussian army during this period. This study uses source material believed to have been lost during the Second World War to reconstruct the life and work of the first chief of the Nachrichtenbüro from 1866 to 1876.
Impact of medically supervised fasting on the vitamin D, glycemic control, quality of life and need for medication among type 2 diabetes mellitus: Protocol for a randomized control trial (FAVIT Trial)
Authors: Nair Pradeep M. K. , Silwal Karishma , Kodali Prakash Babu , Sharma Hemanshu , Tewani Gulab Rai
Published: November 2023

Objective

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of prolonged medically supervised fasting (PMSF) for 6 months on vitamin D levels and diabetes-related clinical outcomes in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients.

Methods

This is an open-label, parallel arm, randomized control trial; 170 T2DM patients from a complementary medicine setting, aged between 20 and 70 years, with a body mass index >25 kg/m2 and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C) levels >6% and <12%, treated with lifestyle advice and/or oral hypoglycemic drugs, will be randomized to receive PMSF or a diabetic diet (DD), along with their usual care. The patients will be initially trained in PMSF and DD for a duration of 10 days in the study setting, followed by 5 months of practice at their respective residences. The PMSF will fast for five days a month for three consecutive months after the initial exposure, whereas the DD group will follow the same diet for 6 months. Other than fasting days, the PMSF group will follow the same DD as the control group. The primary outcome is an improvement in vitamin D levels, and the secondary outcomes include serum calcium, insulin levels, insulin resistance, blood cell counts, anthropometrics, quality of life, medication score, compliance rate, and disease perception.

Discussion

In this study, we hypothesize that PMSF would gradually increase vitamin D levels, which would increase calcium levels, which would promote insulin secretion and upregulate its function. This may help reduce the need for diabetic medication and result in diabetic remission.
The city as memory in contemporary Polish women's literature
Authors: Gaál Gabriella
Published: November 2023

The research is based on the hypothesis that geographical spaces reflect the imprint of social, political, historical and cultural life. Spatial representations of settlements are the projections of social crisis and historical periods. The city has its own vocabulary and language, reflected in its buildings and spaces. These 'speaking' cities are open in space and time, and become theatres of self-writing, as the spaces of the city try to find forms of expression to see unspoken traumas, that is, theories of the city are also theories of the subject.

The main question of the investigation is: what are the specific possibilities and challenges for Polish contemporary women's literature to mobilise social memory and to create possibilities for confronting the traumatic past? Using examples from Olga Tokarczuk's novels Dom dzienny, dom nocny (Day House, Night House) and Joanna Bator's Piaskowa Góra (Sand Hill), I will present the relationship between memory and coming to terms with the past in the historical context of East-Central Europe in Poland. In particular, I will focus on the ways of reflecting on historical events of the Second World War and the regime change of 1989.

A further aim of the research is to explore how Polish women's literature after 1989 attempts to come to terms with the great social traumas of the twentieth century. In the following, I intend to examine the fictional representation of the culture of memory of the 1989/90 regime change in the body of contemporary Hungarian and Polish women's literature in order to find a common intersection of Central and Eastern European literatures.
The Generation of ‘The Wandering Years’ – Traveling culture in Europe and in Hungary between the World Wars
Authors: Németh Ákos
Published: November 2023

In my article, I try to offer a comparative view of Western European and Hungarian travel literature between the World Wars. First, I examine the changes of Western traveling culture in the post-war era, then I analyze the narrato-poetic features of the travelogue, as a popular literary genre of the 1920s and 1930s. In the second chapter of my study, I introduce the Hungarian contemporaries of Waugh, Green, or Orwell. They were the generation of ‘the wandering years’, as it was called by one of them, Antal Szerb. I argue, that the main questions of the Hungarian travelers and narrative characteristics of their works not just simply resemble to the Western authors’, but they could give a relevant contribution to the contemporary European travel literature, emphasizing the integration of the thinking of Hungarian intellectuals to the European stream.
Individual vs community resilience: Case of Georgia
Authors: Tavberidze Zakaria , Margvelashvili Anna , Zurabishvili Tamar
Published: November 2023

Present Paper examines the concepts of individual and community resilience in Georgia. The goal of the present paper is to investigate the interplay between individual and community resilience in the context of donor-funded initiatives at the local rural level through the creation and strengthening of Community-Based Organizations (CBO).

Present findings are based on ample fieldwork conducted in Georgia in 2022 among the active rural CBOs, using a mixed-method approach: 1) a quantitative phone survey of CBOs; 2) Focus group discussions with beneficiaries of the CBOs’ activities (both online and face-to-face); 3) in-depth interviews with the leaders of the CBOs; 4) in-depth interviews with the representatives of the local self-government, and 5) expert interviews with representatives of donor organizations working to increase the resilience of local communities.

Based on the data analysis and triangulation, the paper argues that resilience building in Georgian communities is mainly undertaken by the development partners using the top-down approach, and while on an individual level, these interventions do increase resilience, on a community level the impact is much less evident, and in some cases, non-existent. The theoretical and practical implications of our findings are extremely relevant since this is the first attempt to analyze the concept of resilience in the Georgian context and the findings contribute to further future analysis in this regard. On a practical level, our findings could be instrumental for the developmental partners, working in this area in Georgia, to adjust their programming to achieve more sustainable results not only on the individual but community levels.
La razón histórica del anticlericalismo ante la cuestión religiosa: reflexiones sobre los debates parlamentarios de los artículos 24 y 130 constitucionales en el Constituyente de 1916-1917
Authors: Albor Guzmán Saúl Manuel
Published: November 2023

El principio histórico de la separación del Estado y las iglesias establecido en el artículo 130 de la Constitución mexicana, orienta al bloque constitucional en materia religiosa. El Congreso Constituyente de 1916-1917 forjó el paradigma de la supremacía del Estado sobre las iglesias y sobre los actos religiosos. El presente artículo reconstruye el debate parlamentario en torno a los proyectos de los artículos 24 y 130, demostrándose, en dicho proceso constitucional del Poder Constituyente, la influencia de la ideología del anticlericalismo que utilizaba, como mecanismo político, el discurso histórico
¿Qué es una teoría realista del derecho?
Authors: Leiter Brian
Published: November 2023

Una “teoría jurídica realista” tiene dos elementos: “realismo” y “naturalismo”. El realismo, en la tradición asociada a Tucídides, Maquiavelo y Nietzsche, pretende describir cómo son realmente las cosas sin ilusiones románticas o moralizantes; en el caso jurídico, queremos saber cómo son el derecho y las instituciones jurídicas en la realidad, no cómo desearíamos que fueran. Los realistas no suponen que el modo en que las cosas son tenga un “sentido moral” o resulte moralmente defendible. Los naturalistas ofrecen explicaciones de los fenómenos jurídicos que solo invocan entidades o mecanismos que figuran en las ciencias empíricas exitosas; y, sobre todo, los naturalistas no son fisicalistas. El realismo y el naturalismo sobre el derecho, en el sentido anteriormente descrito, nos llevan al positivismo jurídico de Hart sobre la validez jurídica; a la tesis de que el razonamiento jurídico infradetermina la decisión judicial en una serie de casos; el reconocimiento de que el derecho opera principalmente fuera de los tribunales; y al escepticismo sobre las teorías del derecho natural como quimeras ideológicas.
Los derechos humanos y la axiología en torno a la justicia restaurativa penal en México
Authors: Lamas Meza Saul Adolfo , Cervantes Bravo Irina Graciela
Published: November 2023

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la justicia penal restaurativa en México desde la óptica de los derechos humanos y de la axiología jurídica, analizando la teoría del contrato social, las teorías del abolicionismo penal y la filosofía de la cultura de paz que han incidido en la formación ontológica de nuestro sistema jurídico mexicano en su proceso de transición del modelo retributivo al paradigma restaurativo penal de naturaleza inminentemente garantista.
La agenda de la no discriminación en México: los aportes de Jesús Rodríguez Zepeda
Authors: Sahui Maldonado Alejandro
Published: November 2023

Este texto reconstruye el trayecto de la discusión filosófica sobre la no discriminación que en México ha impulsado de modo sobresaliente Jesús Rodríguez Zepeda. Describe sus diversos temas y problemas, mostrando la interrelación de la filosofía con otras disciplinas académicas como derecho, ciencia política o economía. El propósito del trabajo es destacar la relevancia práctica y pública de la reflexión filosófica. Esta tarea cobra especial interés en el tránsito de nuestras sociedades hacia democracias constitucionales garantes de los derechos humanos de todas las personas.
El principio de igualdad, nervio motor del ejercicio efectivo de los derechos humanos
Authors: Martínez Pichardo Pascacio José
Published: November 2023

Se analiza el principio de igualdad como fundamento de los derechos humanos partiendo de la premisa de que la igualdad es el nervio motor del ejercicio efectivo de los derechos humanos; se examinan las resoluciones jurisdiccionales de tres casos de violación a derechos humanos en los que se tutelan los derechos a la educación, la salud y el acceso al agua y saneamiento, concluyendo que es fundamental atender al principio de igualdad para poner en acción la plena protección de los derechos humanos.
Mobilities and Ethnic Studies
Authors: Ruiz Michelle Vasquez , Toomey Nisha , Katz Irit , Fraga Sean , Carpio Genevieve , Barraclough Laura , Barnd Natchee
Published: November 2023

Following the publication of a 2022 special issue in the journal Mobilities, several of the contributing authors and editors gathered virtually on July 26, 2022. Drawing upon the work included w the collection called “Mobilizing Indigeneity and Race Within and Against Settler Colonialism,” the participants discuss how they came to the subject of mobilities, how this concept impacts their work, and the ways it intersects with the fields of Ethnic Studies and Indigenous Studies. The special issue editors Carpio, Barraclough, and Barnd interview and facilitate the discussion between authors Vasquez Ruiz, Toomey, Katz, and Fraga. This article includes a reading list of scholarship used for the special issue on race, Indigeneity, and mobilities.
Social representations attributed to prostate cancer by men undergoing follow-up at an in-hospital Oncology service
Authors: Peloso-Carvalho Bianca de Moura , Lima Rogério Silva , Silva José Vitor da , Sawada Namie Okino , Dázio Eliza Maria Rezende , Nascimento Murilo César do , Fava Silvana Maria Coelho Leite
Published: November 2023

Objective: to understand the social representations of prostate cancer by men undergoing follow-up at an in-hospital oncology service. Methods: a qualitative study, developed using the Collective Subject Discourse method, with 30 men over the age of 18 undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the Theory of Social Representations. Results: the most shared central ideas in the studied community were as follows: A curable disease; Worry, fear, annoyance and sadness; Loss/Impairment of sex; Nothing, something normal/common; A minor ailment that doesn't shake/shook me, it was faced head on, without fear; Something/Disease that is bad, difficult, serious, intense, dangerous, that ends life and kills. Conclusion: the social representations found in this study denoted intense and difficult experiences in dealing with the disease and treatment, but also showed coping, with potential for overcoming/resilience. Contributions to practice: understanding these representations enables the implementation of integrated and interprofessional education, assistance and management actions.
Into the circle. Animal and human deposits in a new Upper Guadalquivir site from the beginning of the 3rd millennium Cal BC (Grañena Baja, Jaén)
Authors: Martínez Sánchez Rafael M. , Conlin Hayes Elisabet , Delgado Huertas Antonio , Guijo Mauri Manuel , Granados Torres Arsenio , Cámara Serrano Juan Antonio
Published: November 2023

In 2014 due to the projected layout of the Madrid – Jaén high-speed railway line, a preventive archaeological intervention was carried out on a hill near the Guadalbullón riverbed within the farmland of Grañena Baja (Jaén). During the work, a multi-sequential Late Prehistory occupation, starting from the mid-5th millennium and reaching the end of the 3rd millennium, was documented. The phase corresponding to the last quarter of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd millennium Cal BC stands out for the presence of circular features containing complete or partial human and domestic animal skeletal remains, in some cases, clearly related. The isotopic values of human collagen are relatively homogeneous (?15N = 9.0 ± 0.6; ?13C = -18.9 ± 0.4) and consistent with a diet based on proteins of animal origin.
Lectura arqueozoológica del fortín emiral del Tossal de la Vila (Castellón): primeros datos
Authors: Pérez-Polo M. , Falomir F. , Negre J. , Aguilella G.
Published: November 2023

Se presenta un estudio preliminar de los restos faunísticos del recinto fortificado de época islámica del Tossal de la Vila (Serra d’en Galceran, Castellón) recuperados durante los trabajos arqueológicos realizados entre 2012 y 2020. El yacimiento está situado en la intersección entre el territorio de Tortosa, Valencia y las últimas estribaciones del Sistema Ibérico, y en época andalusí presenta fases de ocupación desde finales del siglo VIII hasta la primera mitad del siglo X. El estudio revela como la mayoría de los restos identificados provienen de animales domésticos, entre los cuales los caprinos (ovejas y cabras) y las gallinas dominan absolutamente la muestra frente a una meramente testimonial presencia de ganado vacuno y porcino. Los restos de caza por su parte representan un porcentaje ínfimo, con presencia de conejos y ciervos. La proporción equilibrada de ovejas y cabras parece sugerir que ambas especies tendrían el mismo peso en los rebaños locales, en contraste con el dominio generalizado de las ovejas en la mayoría de los contextos andalusíes. Por otra parte, la representación anatómica caprina y la estimación de los perfiles de sacrificio permiten conocer los patrones de consumo de la población asentada en este singular enclave. Además, los resultados brindan la oportunidad de realizar una investigación preliminar del vector ganadero en la economía rural del Šarq al-Andalus.
EDUCAÇÃO “À LA RUSSE”:
Authors: Cubas Caroline Jaques
Published: November 2023

Este artigo apresenta e analisa um conjunto de artigos de opinião, publicados em periódicos impressos de grande circulação entre 1964 e 1969, acerca de eventos considerados subversivos em colégios católicos dirigidos por freiras. Os eventos denunciados iam do desencorajamento à participação na Marcha da Família com Deus pela Liberdade até a indicação de leituras consideradas inadequadas, pelo manifesto conteúdo sexual. Através deles, os articulistas aproximavam de forma bastante imediata a política à moral, a educação progressista à subversão. Dessa forma, contribuíam, com maior ou menor intensidade, para justificar a instauração e, em alguns casos, o recrudescimento do regime militar, via argumentos morais. O foco da análise assenta-se em textos assinados por Assis Chateaubriand, Mario Masagão, Salomão Jorge e Gustavo Corção, publicados majoritariamente em O Estado de São Paulo e na Folha de São Paulo. A análise destes artigos, entendidos como elementos constitutivos de um presente passado (KOSELLECK, 2014), intenta contribuir com o debate sobre as relações entre a imprensa e o regime autoritário  brasileiro no que diz respeito a questões concernentes à educação (progressista) em colégios católicos femininos.
The role of high-resolution ultrasound and MRI in the evaluation of peripheral nerves in the lower extremity
Authors:   Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA, Lee Steven Kyungho , Serhal Ali Mostafa ,   Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA, Serhal Muhamad ,   Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA, Michalek Julia ,   Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA, Omar Imran Muhammad ,   Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
Published: November 2023

Lower extremity peripheral neuropathy is a commonly encountered neurologic disorder, which can lead to chronic pain, functional disability, and decreased quality of life for a patient. As diagnostic imaging modalities have improved, imaging has started to play an integral role in the detection and characterization of peripheral nerve abnormalities by non-invasively and accurately identifying abnormal nerves as well as potential causes of neuropathy, which ultimately leads to precise and timely treatment. Ultrasound, which has high spatial resolution and can quickly and comfortably characterize peripheral nerves in real time along with associated denervation muscle atrophy, and magnetic resonance neurography, which provides excellent contrast resolution between nerves and other tissues and between pathologic and normal seg- ments of peripheral nerves, in addition to assessing reversible and irreversible muscle denervation changes, are the two mainstay imaging modalities used in peripheral nerve assessment. These two modalities are complimentary, and one may be more useful than the other depending on the nerve and location of pathol- ogy. Imaging must be interpreted in the context of available clinical information and other diagnostic stud- ies, such as electrodiagnostic tests. Here, we offer a comprehensive overview of the role of high-resolution ultrasound and magnetic resonance neurography in the evaluation of the peripheral nerves of the lower extremity and their associated neuropathies.