bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
STUDY ON INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AGILE MANUFACTURING	SYSTEMS
Authors: Lü Baozhan , Li Zhangdong , Liu Kun
Published: November 2024

System integration has two meanings: enterprise integration and information system integration. As one new type of enterprise integration, agile manufacturing is the means of production and management in industrial enterprise for the 21 st century, emphasizing an enterprise's capacity for rapid response and efficient reengineering when facing market opportunity. Current approaches to the design and construction of enterprise systems has lead to fixed interdependences between valuable resources. This constrains resource reuse and the agility of systems, often preventing close alignment between system behaviour and business process requirements. This paper describes the need for agile manufacturing systems, in addition to requirements of manufacturing integration infrastructure. These components are likely to become common building blocks of next-generation agile manufacturing systems. At the same time, the reference model of System Integrated Infrastructure Based on Current Agile Manufacturing is put forward in this paper.
YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE! PROBLEMS AND SOME POTENTIAL	SOLUTIONS IN DEVELOPING NEW CLASSES OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Authors: Hinchey Michael G. , Rash James L. , Truszkowski Walter F. , Rouff Christopher A. , Sterritt Roy
Published: November 2024

The explosion of capabilities and new products within the sphere of information technology (IT) has fostered widespread, overly optimistic opinions regarding the industry, based on common but unjustified assumptions of quality and correctness of software. NASA faces this dilemma as it envisages advanced mission concepts that involve large swarms of small spacecraft that will engage cooperatively to achieve science goals. Such missions involve levels of complexity that beg for new methods for system development far beyond today's methods, which are inadequate for ensuring correct behavior of large numbers of interacting intelligent mission elements. New system development techniques recently devised through NASA-led research will offer innovative approaches to achieving correctness in complex system development, including autonomous swarm missions that exhibit emergent behavior, as well as general software products created by the software Industry.
FORENSIC BIOMECHANICS – TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH IN THE COURT OF	LAW
Authors: Engin Ali Erkan
Published: November 2024

The judicial systems of the United States and Canada very frequently utilize expert witnesses in engineering as well as most disciplines of science. Only in the last three decades biomechanists have been recognized and admitted to the courts as expert witnesses to provide opinions in the forensic biomechanics field. Thanks to the efforts of a few individuals, the science of biomechanics is now well accepted by the officers of the court systems of North America. Biomechanists possess the combined knowledge of engineering mechanics, biology, human anatomy, and physiology that makes it possible for them to reconstruct and analyze accidents of all kinds. In spite of the fact that the most obvious utilization of forensic biomechanics is in the area of analyses of injury mechanisms associated with motor vehicle accidents, there are other areas such as occupational, sports and recreational, slip/trip and fall accidents, and various product liability cases where forensic biomechanics expertise is required. In this paper, one litigation case is presented with some technical details and several other cases from different areas are briefly outlined. Because of obvious reasons, cases are presented in a generic format without referring to a particular company or organization.
A NEW TRANSDISCIPLINARY PARADIGM IN RELATION TO THE LATEST	DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Naini Majid M.
Published: November 2024

This paper presents a new transdisciplinary paradigm in relation to human development and modern science. When we carefully analyze the data that we have gathered through the latest discoveries in the fields of science and technology along with discoveries in the field of medicine and psychology, particularly about the human brain and mind, it is possible to see the beginnings of a new worldview in the same way as scientific discoveries produced a paradigm shift from Newtonian mechanics to Einsteinian quantum physics. Life in the human being is the combination and interaction of biological, mechanical, chemical, electrical, and electromagnetic phenomena. It is proposed that the blueprint of human health is actually a pattern of vibrational frequencies. In much the same way as biofeedback has been designed to control heart rhythms, extraordinary individuals throughout history have been able to enhance and regulate this human energy system and take advantage of their higher senses. The integration of the sciences leads to a new way of thinking and understanding of the abilities with which we have been born and the possibility of developing tools to facilitate recognition and mastery of those inherited skills.
PETRI NET TOOLS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF COLLABORATIVE TASKS
Authors: Gonsalves Tad , Kawabata Ryo , Tabata Shunya , Itoh Kiyoshi
Published: November 2024

This paper proposes an analysis process and tools for analysing collaboration task. In order to analyse the collaboration task, it is important to grasp not only the workflow in the entire system, but also the flow of the personnel who are engaged in collaboration. The general workflow and the flow of personnel in collaborative systems are usually distributed and concurrent. Petri nets are ideal modelling tools for the description and analysis of concurrent systems. However, the flexibility in the Petri net constructs can at times lead to the introduction of the analyst's subjectivity in the description and analysis of a system. This fact, particularly in the case of collaborative systems, fails to depict their client-server feature. We propose disciplined client-server Peri nets and a suit of tools that aid the description, analysis and performance evaluation of collaborative systems. The Petri net Editor serves as a drawing board to sketch the system diagram; the Petri net Visualizer gives a visual display of the system operation and the Petri net Simulator simulates the system operation. By using these tools, the behaviour of the Petri net can be captured and the system performance can be estimated. We also present Petri net models of two practical collaborative systems with distributed and concurrent service and estimate their performance by using the tools that we have designed.
THE DESCRIPTION AND RETRIEVAL OF DIAGRAMS BASED ON CASE	GRAMMAR
Authors: Kawabata Ryo , Kasahara Toshiharu , Itoh Kiyoshi
Published: November 2024

This paper describes methods of description and retrieval of diagrams based on case grammar that describes relations between verb and the other components. In systems analysis, analysts describe diagrams of a target system by using similar diagrams of the other systems. It is effective for analyzing systems to reuse the diagrams but it requires many experiences. The authors apply the case grammar to accumulate and retrieve diagrams in systems analysis. The terms described in diagrams are different depending on the domain, but the combination of two or more cases in diagrams of generic tasks such as trading task, monitoring task, etc. are semantically identical in different domain. For example, two activities "Guest makes a reservation for a room in hotel domain." and "Passenger makes a reservation for airplane in ticket domain." are identified as same kinds of task. Accumulating these synonymous combinations enables analysts to retrieve and to reuse diagrams across several domains. In the same domain, diagrams can be reused by replacing terms for the target system. In different domains, analysts can retrieve similar diagrams from the viewpoints of generic task and modify them. The authors propose a method to accumulate and retrieve diagrams based on case grammar. In our method, components in the diagram are accumulated with eight cases and conditional clause.
PROCEDURAL STUDY ON THE APPLICATION OF TAILORED CUSTOMIZATION ON	USERFIT DESIGNS OF ASSISTIVE DEVICES
Authors: Wu Fong-Gong , Chen Rain , Chang Eva
Published: November 2024

There are a large number of studies about the designs of assistive Devices, but there is a serious lack of studies on the design procedures for assistive Devices. Most existing assistive Devices conduct pure customization for specific cases, but assistive Devices with pure customization creates even heavier economic burdens upon the disabled, who are already at an economic disadvantage. This study introduces the concept of tailored customization to USERfit design procedures for assistive Devices. By using expert evaluations from different fields, this study allows the same types of assistive Devices to be designed using tailored customization rather than pure customization. Results of the study show that the introduction of tailored customization to USERfit design procedures for assistive Devices would allow other disabled cases to have a lessened economic burden without compromising the usage needs. This study will make USERfit design procedures for assistive Devices more comprehensive, allowing more disabled people to acquire suitable assistive Devices.
ONTOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS FOR THE	INTELLIGENT HOSPITAL WARD
Authors: Kataria P. , Macfie A. , Juric R. , Madani K.
Published: November 2024

We have designed and implemented a Context-aware ONTOlogical (C-ONTO) schema for pervasive computing environments in hospitals. The schema contains semantics for situation awareness, which has been drawn from sensor-derived information about patients, called local contexts; changes to these contexts, and users involved in, and actions taken as a result of, these context changes. We have modeled and implemented situation awareness in C-ONTO through the transitive relationship between its ontological classes.
ABOUT A NEW KIND OF AUTONOMOUS, SELF-ADAPTING AGENTS AND THE	LIBRARY GAME ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Unger Herwig , Berg Daniel
Published: November 2024

Different problems from several areas like network routing, traffic control in urban environments or economic optimization problems seem to have a similar theoretical background, especially in case, that somebody looks on strategies to solve them. Due to a high amount of input data and the high complexity of most of these tasks, it usually is very difficult or even impossible to find optimal solutions. Humans may be able to solve those problems still faster and better by using their intuition and by their ability to learn from their experience. The authors intend to show that a new approach to let an individual find sufficient solutions in a human-like manner is to rely on incremental exploration and on the adaptation of processes. Such a solution is not necessarily optimal but although it may satisfy the needs of the individual or a group of them. The individuals' decisions on what activities have to be performed to reach a certain goal are derived from previously successfully applied activity-sequences in combination with a trial-and-error-approach. Like the brain of a growing child, our algorithm is able to become more intelligent during time, i.e. the kept activity-sequences may consider more conditions by getting longer when the individual gains more experience. That also includes, that partial mistakes are made, learnt and that sequences must be erased after they have been identified to be inefficient in comparison to other strategies. The Library Game, introduced in this article, is a model related to the above-cited problems. It provides an environment to analyze and to proof the practicability and efficiency of our suggested solution.
EXTRACTION OF PROCESS TYPES AND REMARKABLE STEPS ON BEHAVIOR BASED DIAGRAMS
Authors: Kamimura Manabu , Kawabata Ryo , Itoh Kiyoshi
Published: November 2024

We propose a method of highlighting and separating process patterns by using structure information in various diagrams which define the behavior of the system. This method enables reusing the knowledge of the previous system in behavior in systems analysis and design. Our method first breaks the whole process into the collection of small processes and then focuses on the special step on each small process. The special step is decision or waiting for other processes to end, which may sometimes be difficult for the system to run and cause the system to stop or the performance to delay. Our method can be applied to the analysis diagrams without design constraints in the implemented system. This enables the designer or analyzer to classify whether the problem is due to the business process or to the implemented system. We use state transition diagram, Petri Nets, IDEF0, and Data Flow Diagrams in this paper, as each diagram defines the behavior of the system from different viewpoints and can be used as existing analysis information.
SERVICE COST AND UTILIZATION RATE OPTIMIZATION IN SERVICE SYSTEMS
Authors: Yamagishi Kei , Gonsalves Tad , Itoh Kiyoshi
Published: November 2024

In service systems, service cost is the cost associated with the employment of service-providing personnel, while utilization rate is the proportion of the system's resources which are used by the incoming traffic for service. Service cost and server utilization rate are conflicting objectives in service systems. In this paper, we cast the problem as a multi-objective optimization problem and use the Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) algorithm to minimize the two conflicting objectives simultaneously. MOPSO is a fairly recent swarm intelligence meta-heuristic algorithm known for its simplicity in programming and its rapid convergence. The multi-objective optimization procedure is illustrated with the example of a practical service system. MOPSO produces a well-spread Pareto front for the two conflicting objective functions in the practical service system.
EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO CURVE RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON HUMAN	VISUAL PERCEPTION
Authors: He Guang Qing , Nguyen Thanh An , Zeng Yong
Published: November 2024

Curve reconstruction is the problem of constructing polygonal curve(s) from a set of sample points. Among all the research to solve this problem, visual perception based algorithms, DISCUR and VICUR, come up in recent years as intuitive methods. DISCUR and VICUR connect points into patterns that agree with human visual perception by applying two major Gestalt laws: nearness and smoothness. In this paper, the work in DISCUR and VICUR is extended by conducting an experiment to quantify how these two laws underlie human vision. DOE and ANOVA are used to test the hypotheses about how a connection may be influenced by its neighboring points whereas the multivariable nonlinear regression model is adopted to formulate the influence of Gestalt laws on point connectivity. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective.
A VISION BASED GRAPHICAL PASSWORD
Authors: Nguyen Thanh An , Zeng Yong
Published: November 2024

Graphical password is an authentication means alternative to textual password and biometric password. Graphical passwords are classified into two groups: picture based password and user-drawn based password. To pass the authentication, in the picture based graphical password, users have to choose right photos whereas in the user-drawn based graphical password, users have to draw correct pictures. In this paper, we propose a new user-drawn based graphical password. The proposed scheme requires users to create their secret by selecting individual points or by connecting points into curves from a given set of points. Compared to textual password and existing graphical password such as DAS, our proposed password gives larger memorable password space with sufficiently large number of given points.
INTEGRATED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT APPROACH FOR CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS	UTILIZING STANDARDIZED MODELING LANGUAGES AND METHODOLOGIES
Authors: Rauniyar Deep , Tanik U. John
Published: November 2024

Systems development has often resulted as a hit-or-miss proposition before the advent of standardized analysis and design languages providing blueprints understood by both software and systems engineers. This paved the way for modeling cyber-physical systems using established, yet evolving standardized notation widely accepted by industry. In the past, system analysts would try to assess the needs of their clients, generate a requirements analysis in some notation that the analyst understood (but not always the client), give that analysis to a programmer or team of programmers, and hope that the final product was the system the client wanted (Schmuller, 2003). However, advances in UML and SysML have created new pathways to the design process when combined with Concurrent Object Modeling and Architectural Design Method (COMET) methodology that can assist in the realm of complex embedded system design for next generation cyber-physical systems (Rajhans, 2009). In order for product development to meet a desired need, communicating the vision to the developers is of utmost importance. The UML is a visual modeling language that enables system builders to create blueprints that capture their design intentions in a standardized format for effective communication of engineering detail. The paper reviews some key benefits of using UML and SysML during the product development process with COMET. The UML process steps are briefly described, followed by an introduction to the SysML language which is an extension of the UML. The paper provides a process review of embedded system development using SysML for systems engineering that can be useful for modeling aspects of cyber-physical system development during integrated product development. Realizing the fact that SysML may be considered too generic to address embedded and real-time system design, the paper provides a brief review of COMET, a UML based method for the development of concurrent applications, in particular distributed and real-time applications (Gomaa, 2008). The Artificial Intelligence Design Framework introduced as part of the thesis work supported by NASA (Tanik, 2006) can be adapted to cyber-physical system design. The published book detailing the AIDF called Architecting Automated Design Systems is based on this thesis work (Tanik, 2008) and is being used as a basis for supporting cyber-physical system design using artificial intelligence decision support with many application areas, including complex safety-critical medical and space systems design. This journal paper establishes the link between the conference paper on integrated product development (Tanik, 2010), and the previous work on the PhD thesis completed in 2006 that relates to cyber-physical system design frameworks.
A RULE-BASED DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE FOR FAULT MANAGEMENT
Authors: Kaya Ozgur , Hashemikhabir Seyedsasan , Togay Cengiz , Dogru Ali Hikmet
Published: November 2024

In this article, we propose a domain specific language for the "fault management for mission critical systems" domain that also supports rule-based operation. Variability management for a software product line, hence configuration of specific products will be achieved by programming various nodes in a "Software Factory Automation" based architecture, through this language. The architecture suggests a distributed set of interconnected "Domain Specific Engines" that interpret specific languages. Those engines and their corresponding languages assume different fault management capabilities, therefore suggest the design of different languages for fault monitoring, detection, prevention, diagnosis, and repair. The overall fault management capabilities should be supported by the composition of those languages. A high-level definition of the language is presented. The objective of the study is to provide an infrastructure that is more predictable for the development success of fault management systems for families of complex embedded mission critical applications.
APPLICATION OF PROBABILITY THEORY TO ANALYZE IMPACT OF DISEASE ON	HUMAN LIFE EXPECTANCY
Authors: Imam S.T. , Ekwaro-Osire S. , Chyu M.-C.
Published: November 2024

Aging is a phenomenon that can be observed in biological and mechanical systems. The quest for a general explanation of aging invites us to consider the underlying theory of systems failure known as reliability theory. The objective of this paper is to probabilistically investigate the trends of human aging in different age groups based on their annual mortality rate due to certain disease. Data of two leading causes of death from 2005 to 2008 were analyzed, to determine the significance of the mortality decrease in individual age group, and the sensitivity of each disease with respect to age.
INVESTMENT CRITERIA FOR ACHIEVING BUDGET CONSIDERING EMPLOYEES'	SATISFACTION AND ASSET EFFICIENCY - QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CRITERION	BEHAVIOR
Authors: Ichikura Nobuyoshi , Kumagai Satoshi
Published: November 2024

What supports the development of companies is the competitiveness created by the wits and energy of employees. Therefore, employees should be treated well in order to achieve long-term development of companies. In addition, managers must also focus on asset efficiency, which is deteriorating among companies in Japan. In this research, we will present a process to create a budget that improves asset efficiency while caring for employees, as well as the investment decision criterion for achieving such budget. We will also analyze how increasing the wage distribution rate while maintaining asset efficiency will affect the maximum limit of the investment decision criterion.
ON-ROAD ELECTRIFICATION FOR OPTIMIZED POWER SUPPLY IN OLEV®	APPLICATION
Authors: Suh In-Soo
Published: November 2024

As a solution to the battery issues in EV (Electric Vehicles) introduction to the market, KAIST has introduced the new concept of electric charging technology, an OLEV? (On-Line Electric Vehicle) system. The magnetic resonance phenomena with optimized inductive magnetic shape has been applied to maximize the power transmission efficiency with enough power capacity to drive the traction motors, so that EVs can be charged while the vehicle is in motion or at stationary. Optimized construction of road electrification is required to implement this technology in view of minimizing the road infrastructure investment while maintaining enough charged energy storage for continuous operation of EVs. The design variables for OLEV? applications includes the battery energy capacity, powered track length and traction motor size under given operation conditions of closed operation travel route, vehicle specification, battery specification and traction motor performance etc. In this paper, an algorithm and program development process is presented focused on optimizing the design variables in road electrification as well as the EV specification in closed route application. The optimization process is to minimize the road electrification so that EVs are capable of operating continuously and can have enough instantaneous required power by applying simulation on several standard driving cycles. Considered factors includes required instantaneous power, collected power from on-road power supply, required vehicle performance, battery charge and discharge rates, and battery SOC (State Of Charge). Locations and distances of the powered tracks have been determined in the view of required electric energy and instantaneous required power for a normal vehicle operation in an actual road application and on a standard driving cycle.
CONTROL ALGORITHM OF HVAC SYSTEM POWER MANAGEMENT IN OLEV®	APPLICATION
Authors: Suh In-Soo , Shin Eun Gyeong
Published: November 2024

Battery issues like weight, cost, charging time and infrastructure have been major obstacles to Electric Vehicle (EV) introduction to the market. As a solution, KAIST introduced the new concept of on-road wireless charging technology, called OLEV® (On-Line Electric Vehicle). In applying the technology, efficient power management, especially with Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system in electric vehicles remains as yet to be solved, in view of continuous and efficient energy management especially when operating on the electrified road. In this paper, unique feature of power control algorithm of HVAC system for OLEV® is introduced. The main purpose is to control the amount of power and energy consumed by HVAC system so that it does not affect any key performances of an electric vehicle in view of driving distance and speed. Specifically, the algorithm makes sure that HVAC consumes no more than 20% and 25% of instantaneously available power for air-conditioning and heating respectively by controlling the output of heating or cooling power from HVAC system, while maximizing the HVAC performance in customers' perspective. A proper set of dynamic models and control algorithms for a HVAC system is developed linked together with OLEV® system operation. With these models, simulations have been carried out to verify that the algorithm leads to optimized and improved performance of an OLEV®.
ONTOAPP: AN ONTOLOG APPLICATION ON SOLVING SOME HETEROGENEOUS	PROBLEMS OF HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SHARING AND INTEROPERABILITY
Authors: Wei Ching-Song Don , Doong Jiann-Gwo , Ng Peter A.
Published: November 2024

Knowledge representation using ontology has been proposed to resolve the issues of semantic heterogeneity in data interoperability and data sharing among heterogeneous systems because ontology is a powerful expressive language to represent the required knowledge about data of a specific domain and has been applied in many fields, such as Semantic Web, e-commerce and information interoperability, etc. However, building ontology for information source manually is not only hard and error-prone, but also very personal if there is no common guideline. We had proposed a framework for data interoperability using semantic Web service to resolve the semantic heterogeneity in healthcare environment. We found that learning ontology from existing information resources is a good solution to explicitly express the semantics of an information source, but some semantics may be missing during the ontology learning process. Since relational database is widely used for storing source data, in this paper a new approach of learning OWL ontology from a relational database and information embedded in an application is proposed. In order to acquire the complete conceptual information, a group of learning rules are used to obtain OWL ontology, including classes, properties, property characteristics, cardinalities and instances. A semi-automatic application called OntoApp that implemented all proposed learning rules has been developed and tested; the results show promising in knowledge learning from information source.
REGIA NAVE PUGLIA: A Torpedo Ram Around the World (1901-1923)
Authors: Cianci Bruno
Published: November 2024

Conceived and built to provide assistance to the Italian overseas colonies, the Regia Nave Puglia belonged to the Regioni-class torpedo rams of the Royal Italian Navy. She is the first ever naval vessel to have been laid and launched at the Taranto Naval Arsenal, which was inaugurated by King Umberto I in 1889. While in commission, the Puglia (named after Apulia, the region to which Taranto belongs) travelled extensively around the world in order to fly the ensign of the recently unified Italy on distant seas, completing two full circumnavigations and calling at hundreds of ports on all continents. The history of this ship and her crews has been meticulously de-scribed thanks to the sources studied. Among these are documents preserved in the archives of the Italian Navy in Rome (USMM, Ufficio Storico Marina Militare), in the archives of the Vittoriale degli Italiani (AdV, the museum which houses the remains of the ship), not to mention an unpublished logbook compiled by a naval officer named Galeazzo Sommi Picenardi (ASP) who was involved in the naval operations in the Read Sea. From all these origi-nal and largely unpublished papers emerge unknown aspects of the life on board, the encounters at sea, the inter-national relations, as well as the war-time events that the Regia Nave Puglia witnessed in the period that saw her in commission (1901-1923): from the aftermath of the Boxer rebellion in China to the First World War; from the Italian-Ottoman war (1911-1912) to the unrest that tormented the region of Dalmatia in the post-war period, to mention but a few.
Naumachia and Scientific Research in the Shade of the Trees: Experiments on Hulls in the Park of a Royal Palace
Authors: Ruggiero Maria Elisabetta
Published: November 2024

The research illustrates the singular bivalence of the construction of the Grand Canal in the Palace of Versailles, in the seventeenth century: this body of water, more commonly interpreted as the design axis of the grandiose composition of the park and as the scene of celebrations of court splendor, was, in a sort of double life, the basin necessary for the attempt to develop checks and tests for war and merchant hulls. This peculiarity, especially if placed in relation to the tradition of the naumachia of the classical and Renaissance periods, constitutes an important testimony to the importance of naval culture and development which, precisely in the following century, will find its full evolution and scientific expression. If at the time of Louis XIV the Science of Naval Architecture, in fact, had not yet reached a complete methodological structure, in these episodes of empirical studies we can read the prodromes of thought and organization that would follow and of which Gaspard Monge and Duhamel de Monceau would be protagonists.
Innovative Approach to Evaluate Ship Resistance in a Transitional Mode Using the Length/Displacent Ratio
Authors: Kanifolskyi Oleksandr , Ruggiero Valerio
Published: November 2024

The article aims at give a different approach to the study of the transitional mode of ship, in order to have a criteria to make a preliminary evaluation of the resistance based on the ratio Length/Displacement and on the Froude number calculated on the volume. This approach is consequent to the definition for the HSSC for vessel, and aims at provide an other element to evaluate the behaviour of the ship, especially in what is called “transitional mode” according to literature.The paper examine some case study of HSC vessel, of different categories: yacht, patrol, fast ferry, each with tank test to provide a robust set of data, in order to express a formula for an easy evaluation of the residual resistance and compare the results.The formula take in consideration the change in the residuary resistance displacement ratio, when the Froude numbers and the length displacement ratio of the vessel are changed. The final results were compared with the results of statistical calculations and with the results of calculations according to the proposed scheme.
The relationship between a waist-to-height ratio and cardiovascular diseases according to the ESSE-RF2 study in the Omsk Region
Authors:   Omsk State Medical University, Omsk, Russian Federation, Viktorova I.A. , Moiseeva M.V. ,   Omsk State Medical University, Omsk, Russian Federation, Stasenko V.L. ,   Omsk State Medical University, Omsk, Russian Federation, Shirinskaya N.V. ,   Medical Information and Analytical Center, Omsk, Russian Federation, Shirlina N.G. ,   Omsk State Medical University, Omsk, Russian Federation, Ivanova D.S. ,   Omsk State Medical University, Omsk, Russian Federation
Published: November 2024

Aim: to determine a relationship between cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and a waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) in a representative population
sample aged 25–64 years of the Omsk Region according to the ESSE-RF2 study.
Patients and Methods: in terms of a prospective follow-up in 1,637 responders (of these, 736 [44.96%] males) enrolled in the ESSE-RF2 study, their life status, all the lethal outcomes and CVD cases (including all types of revascularization) were monitored from 2017 to 2023.
Results and Discussion: during the follow-up, 55 subjects died, and cardiovascular events caused the fatal outcome in 20 (36%) of them; 66 non-fatal cardiovascular events were reported in 55 responders. 1,021 subjects (of these, 527 females) demonstrated WHtR of more than 0.5 (Mе [Q1; Q3]:
0.53 [0.47; 0.59]) in 67% of men — 0.53 [0.49; 0.58], and in 55% of women — 0.53 [0.46; 0.59]. Significant WHtR differences were revealed between
living and dead subjects (U=3.5973, p=0.0003), as well as between living and diseased subjects (U=3.9839, p=0.0000) along with absence of significant differences between dead and diseased ones (U=1.0058, p=0.3145). WHtR was 0.50 [0.44; 0.55] in 830 non-CVD responders. Moreover, the value was ≥ 0.5 in 412 (49.63%) of them. At the same time, the ratio was 0.56 [0.50; 0.62] in CVD subjects (n=807). In majority of them (n=609; 75%), it exceeds 0.5. The differences are significant between CVD and non-CVD responders (U=13.8366, p=0.0000). It was found that a CVD risk is 3.1 times higher in a subject with a WHtR ≥ 0.5 than in one whose WHtR is <0.5 (odd ratio=3.12 [95% CI, 2.528–3.850], p<0.001).
Conclusion: the waist-to-height ratio may be a much better predictive indicator of a CVD risk than other anthropometric measures of general and central obesity.
KEYWORDS: waist-to-height ratio, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, obesity, prognosis.
FOR CITATION: Viktorova I.A., Moiseeva M.V., Stasenko V.L., Shirlina N.G., Shirinskaya N.V., Ivanova D.S. The relationship between a waist-
to-height ratio and cardiovascular diseases according to the ESSE-RF2 study in the Omsk Region. Russian Medical Inquiry. 2024;8(9):508–
512 (in Russ.). DOI: 10.32364/2587-6821-2024-8-9-1
Deteksi dini kanker serviks dengan metode pulasan papsmear pada wanita aktif secara seksual di Kecamatan Gandus
Authors: Dewi Citra , Kartika Ika , Fauziah Nyiayu , Ulfa Maria , Desmaradd Soraya Sagita , Ramkita Nora , Sari Pratia Mega , Suzena Yayuk , Seda Andi , Sandria Sandria , Septa Fadly , Libel Eduwardo , Noprianti Vivin , Fitri Eka
Published: November 2024

Kanker serviks masih merupakan salah satu kanker yang banyak dijumpai pada wanita di seluruh dunia setelah kanker payudara. Infeksi Human Papillomavirus (HPV) terutama tipe 16 dan 18 yang persisten diketahui merupakan penyebab utama dari kanker serviks. Saat ini program preventif seperti pulasan papsmear lebih diutamakan untuk mengurangi angka kejadian dan kematian dari kanker serviks. Kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk melakukan penapisan kanker serviks pada wanita aktif secara seksual serta meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat mengenai pentingnya pemeriksaan pulasan papsmear. Kegiatan ini berlokasi di RSUD Gandus, Sumatera Selatan, melibatkan sebanyak 31 partisipan, dengan hasil pemeriksaan didapatkan normal pada 10 orang responden (32,2%), atrofik smear pada 2 orang responden (6,4%), servisitis kronik pada 18 orang responden (58,1%) dan LGSIL pada 1 orang responden (3,2%). Karakteristik responden pada kegiatan ini diantaranya, wanita usia kurang dari 40 tahun dengan latar pendidikan umumnya adalah perguruan tinggi atau sederajat. Usia menikah atau usia aktivitas seksual pertama responden dan usia melahirkan anak pertama pada usia 16-25 tahun. Jumlah anak responden terbanyak adalah kurang atau sama dengan 2 anak. Pengunaan alat kontrasepsi responden terbanyak yang dipakai adalah kontrasepsi spiral. Hasil pemeriksaan penapisan ditemukan 1 responden dengan LGSIL, sehingga diperlukan penanganan medis yang tepat dan lesi prakanker tidak berlanjut menjadi kanker serviks.
Penerapan respiratory fit test pada kader tuberkulosis dalam pencegahan penularan tuberkulosis di Palembang
Authors: Pasaribu Rouly , Fathurrachman Alif , Wirdah Aisyah , Andriani Linda , Sudarto Sudarto , Rasyid Ahmad , Ahmad Zen
Published: November 2024

Menurut laporan tuberkulosis (TB) dunia tahun 2023, Indonesia menempati peringkat 2 di dunia dengan estimasi 1.060.000 kasus. Penularan kuman TB melalui droplet yang masuk ke saluran napas. Kader TB berperan penting dalam pendampingan pasien TB yang menjalani pengobatan, terutama TB resistan obat. Kader TB juga berperan dalam memberikan informasi kesehatan kepada pasien TB guna mencapai pengobatan yang optimal dan mencapai keberhasilan pengobatan. Selama menjalankan perannya, para kader TB yang kontak dengan pasien TB paru aktif sangat rentan untuk tertular.enerapan respiratory fit test kepada kader TB di Palembang dibutuhkan, agar kader TB di Palembang tidak tertular kuman TB. Melalui organisasi kader TB yaitu Masyarakat Sehat Sriwijaya, 15 kader TB diberikan penyuluhan tentang penggunaan respirator yang tepat dan sesuai dengan melakukan fit test terlebih dahulu. Melalui simulasi perorangan dengan respirator fit test, didapatkan penerapan yang sesuai untuk semua kader TB dalam memakai respirator yang sesuai. Melalui kegiatan ini, diharapkan kader TB di kota Palembang selanjutnya akan dapat melakukan tugasnya dengan aman dan nyaman.
Penerapan etika batuk dalam mencegah ISPA pada masyarakat di Kelurahan Sukamaju, Palembang, Sumatera Selatan
Authors: Andriani Linda , Fathurrachman Alif , Indira Dwi , Pasaribu Rouly , Sudarto Sudarto , Rasyid Ahmad , Ahmad Zen
Published: November 2024

Infeksi Saluran Nafas Atas (ISPA) merupakan penyakit yang mudah menular melalui udara dan dapat terhirup ke saluran nafas. Individu dengan sistem kekebalan tubuh yang lemah akan lebih rentan terhadap ISPA yang bersifat berat atau berulang. Peningkatan insiden dan keparahan ISPA pada pasien dapat signifikan mempengaruhi produktivitas mereka, sementara pada anak-anak, hal ini dapat menghambat proses tumbuh kembang mereka. Etika batuk umumnya diterapkan dengan baik oleh tenaga kesehatan di lingkungan profesional. Namun, di kalangan masyarakat, etika batuk sering kali diabaikan, sehingga penyakit yang menular melalui udara seperti ISPA dapat dengan mudah menyebar. Oleh karena itu, perlu dilakukan penyuluhan mengenai praktik etika batuk yang tepat guna mencegah penyebaran ISPA, khususnya di Kelurahan Sukamaju, Palembang. Pada kegiatan penyuluhan ini, yang dihadiri oleh sekitar 200 peserta, terungkap bahwa sebelumnya, 90% dari mereka tidak memiliki pemahaman tentang tata cara etika batuk yang benar. Setelah dilakukan penyuluhan dan simulasi etika batuk, 100% peserta telah memahami dan menerapkan etika batuk dengan benar. Melalui pengabdian masyarakat ini, diharapkan masyarakat akan terus menerapkan etika batuk yang benar, sehingga dapat membentuk kebiasaan positif yang berkelanjutan dalam mencegah penularan penyakit, serta meningkatkan kesehatan dan kesejahteraan masyarakat setempat.
Edukasi penyakit HIV pada masyarakat di Kelurahan Sukamaju, Palembang, Sumatera Selatan
Authors: Hudari Harun , Aprilia Salim Nelda , Fathurrachman Alif , Permata Mega
Published: November 2024

Penyakit Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) merupakan penyakit yang disebabkan oleh virus HIV dan menular melalui kontak seksual. Penyebaran HIV di masyarakat masih terus terjadi. Palembang menjadi kota tertinggi di Sumatera Selatan untuk kasus HIV. Sepanjang Januari sampai Juli 2022 didapatkan sekitar 185 kasus HIV di Kota Palembang. Masyarakat masih banyak yang belum mengetahui tentang penyakit HIV dan penularannya. Banyak berita simpang siur mengenai penyakit HIV, sehingga dapat menimbulkan pemahaman yang salah di masyarakat. Edukasi yang baik dan tepat dapat menjadi sarana agar masyarakat paham tentang bahaya dan penularannya. Oleh karena itu, dibutuhkan peningkatan pengetahuan masyarakat tentang HIV dan penularannya, agar menurunkan kejadian penyakit HIV dan terhindar dari risiko penularannya di masyarakat. Melalui kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat dengan mengedukasi masyarakat mengenai HIV yang dilakukan dengan presentasi materi dan tatap muka serta diskusi. Dilakukan pengukuran tingkat pengetahuan peserta melalui kuesioner sebelum dan sesudah penyuluhan, didapatkan peningkatan pemahaman tentang HIV, dengan rerata skor sebelum 45, dan rerata skor sesudah 85. Kegiatan ini telah berhasil meningkatkan skor pengetahuan masyarakat di kelurahan Sukamaju Palembang tentang pencegahan dan penularan penyakit HIV.
Examining the Structural Model of the Relationship Between God Concept and Mental Health With the Mediating Role of Psychological-spiritual Transformation
Authors:   Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran., Azizimoein Marzieh , Janbozorgi Masoud ,   Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran., Sharifirad Gholamreza ,   Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran.
Published: November 2024

Background and Objectives: This study determines the mediating role of psychological-spiritual transformation in the relationship between God concept and mental health.
Methods: This descriptive research uses structural equations to investigate the relationship between variables regarding the mediating role of psychological-spiritual transformation. The statistical population of the research were students of the universities of Qom City, Iran. The multi-stage cluster sampling method with an estimated sample size (300 people) was used to select the study participants. To measure psychological-spiritual development, God concept, and mental health in students, psychological and spiritual development scales, a general health questionnaire by Goldberg and Hiller, and a God concept questionnaire by Janbozorgi were employed.
Results: The Pearson correlation coefficient results showed that the correlation between God concept and mental health is 0.659 with a significance level of 0.01. Also, structural equations were used to determine the mediating role of psychological-spiritual development in the relationship between God concept and mental health. The results showed that the standardized factor loading of the God concept component is 0.60 and the β value of this component is 0.71. Therefore, the variable level of psychological-spiritual development predicts 69% of the relationship between God concept and mental health.
Conclusion: The results indicated that God concept will have an increasing or decreasing effect on mental health according to the mediating role of mental-spiritual transformation. Therefore, the effect of the relationship between God concept and mental health is not the same considering the level of mental-spiritual development of people. The results obtained in the present study showed that a higher level of mental-spiritual development indicates higher mental health.
Individual Resilience From a Religious Perspective: A Systemic Approach
Authors:   Social Development and Health promotion Research center, Bagheri Pezhman ,   Health Promotion Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran., Armanmehr Vajihe ,   Social Development & Health Promotion Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran.
Published: November 2024

Background and Objectives: Islam is a lifestyle consistent with world realities that guide humans through difficulties in life. Resilience has been highly recommended in religious doctrine, yet has been less explored within a comprehensive scientific model from a religious perspective. This study proposes a structure and conceptual model of resilience at the individual level based on a religious perspective.
Methods: The present study was a literature review based on Islamic literature within a dynamic graphical model of a system. Firstly, by a detailed study of the theoretical literature of research and analysis of researchers’ studies in the field of resilience with a religious viewpoint, a conceptual model was designed using a system dynamic approach. Secondly, based on the conceptual model and dynamic assumptions made from the action reactions between the factors involved in the resilience system, the modeling was performed as drawing causal diagrams for resilience and its subsets using the Vensim software, version 7.3.
Results: The four components of individual resilience, including belief in the wisdom and will of God, trust in God, piety, and patience as the sub-systems were all interacting with each other within a relatively complex dynamic system.
Conclusion: From an Islamic perspective, for individual resilience reinforcement, it is necessary to pay serious attention to creating and strengthening the resilience subsystems in the individual.
Study of toxicological parameters in laboratory animals under the influence of hypochloritic acid in a chronic experiment
Authors: Brezvyn O. M. , Kotsiumbas I. Ya. , Obrazhei A. F. , Velichenko O. B. , Shmychkova O. B. , Luk'yanenko T. V. , Hyrenko D. V. , Dmitrikova L. V.
Published: November 2024

The article presents materials on studying toxicological parameters in laboratory animals under hypochlorite acid obtained by electrolysis. It was established that the intra-gastric administration of a solution of hypochlorous acid in a concentration of 50 and 150 mg/l does not lead to systemic disturbances in the functional state of the most important organs and systems of the body and does not cause a decrease in the level of physical capabilities in experimental animals. At the same time, using a concentration of 300 mg/l caused a slight reduction in the physical capabilities of the experimental animals; namely, the swimming time decreased by 18.2 % compared to animals of the control group. With repeated administration of hypochlorous acid at a concentration of 300 mg/l, the absence of spontaneous “atypical” behavioral reactions was established, which could serve as important markers of stress or indicate severe behavioral and neurological disorders on the part of the central nervous system. Functional indicators of vertical and especially horizontal activity indicated regular physiological activity and emotional reaction, determined by the number of intersected squares in the center of the field and the time the animals were in the central squares. The experimental rats did not differ from the animals of the control group in terms of general psychophysiological parameters, the level of motor activity, tentative-exploratory reaction, the degree of their aggressive reaction to a change in the environment, and the absence of gait disturbances indicated the absence of changes in skeletal muscle tone. According to the “Straub Test”, the tone of experimental rats' tail muscles” stated a sufficient degree of excitation of the spinal motoneurons responsible for its regulation. The frequency of grooming and the number of fecal boluses in the experimental rats were within the physiological norm in frequency, quantity, and consistency and did not differ from the animals of the control group, indicating the absence of passive fear. The studied solution of hypochlorous acid at a concentration of 1000 mg/l did not cause signs of skin irritation, did not lead to the development of irritant reactions and non-allergic contact dermatitis in laboratory rats, and did not show an irritating, dermonecrotic, and resorptive effect on the skin of rabbits. Installation of a solution of hypochlorous acid at a concentration of 50 mg/l, in a volume of 0.05 cm3, into the conjunctival sac of a rabbit's eye did not cause an irritating effect on the mucous membrane.