bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
How People Prioritize Health Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic:
Evidence from Seven Developing Countries
Authors: Whittington Dale , Carson Richard , Hanemann Michael , Köhlin Gunnar , Adamowicz Wiktor , Sterner Thomas , Amuakwa-Mensah Franklin , Alpizar Francisco , Khossravi Emily , Jeuland Marc , Bonilla Jorge , Tan-Soo Jie-Sheng , Nam Pham , Ndiritu Simon , Wadehra Shivani , Chegere Martin , Visser Martine , Chukwuone Nnaemeka
Published: November 2022

We provide estimates of health priorities during the COVID-19 pandemic based on web-surveys administered in seven developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in 2022. Using the best-worst scaling method, respondents ranked the importance of seven health problems, including COVID-19 (the others were alcohol and drugs, HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, other respiratory diseases, and water-borne diseases). Respondents in most countries considered COVID-19 a serious problem but ranked other respiratory illness as more serious. Respondents’ rankings were generally consistent with relative disease prevalence when it can be reasonably well measured (i.e., malaria and TB). Differences in priorities across countries were generally larger than within-country differences. The importance respondents assigned to COVID-19 was associated with their knowledge of COVID-19. These results have implications for the allocation of health resources: policymakers may face resistance if their actions are viewed as focusing too much on COVID-19 while neglecting other, potentially serious health problems.
Who are Prison Healthcare Service Users in Northwestern Ethiopia? And what factors are associated with use? A cross sectional study
Authors: Yesuf Yassin Mohammed , Birhan Amlaku Alemu , Birara Addisu Gedlu , Adimas Bewket Dereje , Bezabh Abebe Bahiru , Agmase Nega Gedefaw
Published: November 2022

Background: Studies on inmates’ Health Care Service (HCS) utilization are scarce and findings about the factors associated with HCS utilization are inconsistent. Studies over inmates’ use of HCS and associated factors are unavailable in Ethiopia. The present study, therefore, examined inmates’ HCS utilizations and associated factors in Northwestern Ethiopia.
Methods: The study employed institution-based cross sectional research design and data is collected using questionnaire from 422 inmates in three prisons. The questionnaire collects data about prisoners’ demography, imprisonment related information and HCS utilization. Descriptive statistical techniques as well as bivariate and multiple logistic regressions were used to analyse the data.
Results:The study found that 72.5%, 66.1% and 13.3% of the inmates, respectively, use medical services, guidance and counseling services and psychiatric services. Inmates with primary education (AOR=2.256, p<0.05, 95% CI= 1.155, 4.408), with secondary education (AOR= 1.955, p<0.05, 95% CI=1.012, 3.779), know the availability of the services (AOR=8.103, p<0.01, 95% CI= 4.405, 14.903) were more likely to use medical services. Inmates with accused status (AOR=.386, p<0.05, 95% CI= .183, .811) were less likely to use medical services than inmates with convict status. Divorced marital status (AOR= 7.015, p<0.05, 95% CI=1.524, 32.290) and knowledge of the service availability (AOR= 4.169, p<0.01, 95% CI=2.224, 7.817) are associated with high guidance and counseling service use. An increase in the length of stay in the prison is associated with a decrease in psychiatry service use (AOR= .455, p<0.01, 95% CI=.311, .665) while knowledge of service availability is associated with higher odds of psychiatry service use (AOR= 29.028, p<0.01, 95% CI= 12.363, 68.159).
Conclusions: There are high medical care service utilizations while low mental health care service utilizations in among inmates in Northwestern Ethiopia. Based on the results of the study, it can be recommended that there is a critical need for nationwide study to better understand inmates HCS utilization and immediate health care service promotion and education measures need to be in place.
Predictive value for advanced lung cancer inflammation index within short- /long-term outcomes of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after minimally invasive esophagectomy cases： a propensity score matching study
Authors: Xu Shao-jun , Chen Rui-qin , Chen Chao , You Cheng-xiong , Zhang Zhi-fan , Chen Shu-chen
Published: November 2022

Introduction: Advanced lung cancer inflammation index (ALI) within esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) importance is unclear. We aimed to investigate whether ALI is linked to poor short-term outcomes and long-term prognosis within cases of ESCC after minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE).
Methods: Kaplan-Meier survival assessment was applied for comparing cancer-specific survival (CSS) across different cohorts. Clinicopathological features across the two cohorts were eliminated by propensity score matching (PSM). We established a new model for predicting CSS by combining ALI and tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging according to Cox multivariate results. Time-dependent area under the curve (t-AUC) and decision curve analyses (DCA) evaluated predictive /clinical relevance capacities for this model.
Results: Severe postoperative complication manifestations within low ALI cohort were significantly elevated compared to within high ALI cohort (25.3% vs 16.7, P=0.01), nil variations were identified across both cohorts after PSM (25.3% vs 18.3%, P = 0.06). Both, within overall cohort and the matched cohort, low ALI only significantly reduced the 5-year CSS in locally advanced ESCC patients (all P < 0.05) relative to high ALI. Further analysis demonstrated that patients within high ALI cohort were at increased risk for adverse postoperative CSS in most clinicopathological subgroups. Cox multivariate analysis demonstrated that TNM staging and ALI were variables that independently influenced adverse CSS in both cohorts (P < 0.05). Therefore, a new prediction model was established by combining these two factors. The t-AUC and DCA demonstrated that this model had a more accurate prediction effect and better clinical use value than the TNM stage alone.
Conclusion: ALI proved to be an effective biological indicator of CSS after MIE in locally advanced ESCC patients. The combined application of the ALI and TNM model can thus improve the clinical prediction ability.
Isolated plasmacytoma of the sternal stalk: a case report and review of the literature
Authors: Zhang You-Qiang , Yan Ling , Shen Yu-guang , Wang Guang , Zhang Lun-You
Published: November 2022

Background:Isolated plasmacytoma of bone is a malignant neoplasm of haematologic origin with a low incidence and a tendency to progress to multiple myeloma, and surgical treatment may improve patient survival.Case presentation:We review the case of a 77-year-old man with isolated plasmacytoma of the sternal stalk whose main symptom was pain in the anterior chest wall, which was severe and severely interfered with life. He was treated through extended radical resection of the sternal stalk tumour, including bilateral partial rib cartilage resection, bilateral clavicle head resection, cervical lymph node dissection, and thoracic reconstruction. He recovered well after surgery and was satisfied with the outcome.Conclusion:Extended radical sternoplasty and rib plate reconstruction in the thorax is an effective surgical method for the treatment of isolated plasmacytoma of the sternal stalk and can effectively relieve painful symptoms and improve quality of life; moreover, this approach may improve the survival rate of such patients.
Enterococcus faecalis ameliorates hyperuricemia and maintains the epithelium barrier in a hyperuricemia mouse model
Authors: Liu Xin , Han Chunhua , Lei Ke , Mao Tao , Yu Qian , Li Changgui , Ke Leyong , Wu Jie , Guo Yingjie , Zhang Wenqing , Tian Zibin
Published: November 2022

Background
Hyperuricemia (HUA) is a major risk factor of gout and many other metabolic syndromes and shows a rapidly increasing incidence worldwide. Previous found that the gut microbiota and intestinal tract play important roles in the pathogenesis of HUA. However, most studies only revealed the association of gut microbiota and HUA without exploring the mechanistic causality, it remains unclear which gut microbiota play crucial roles in HUA.
Results
In the present study, we aimed to investigate key members of the gut microbiota in HUA and validate their effects on uric acid (UA) regulation. To this end, we deleted parts of the gut microbiota with antibiotics (NC-Ab group) and found that the abundance of Enterococcususwas significantly increased and the serum UA was significantly higher in antibiotic-fed mice (NC-Ab group) than no-antibiotic-fed mice (NC group). Subsequently, E. faecalis, the most important enterococcal species, was isolated and applied to HUA model mice for 2 weeks. We found E. faecalissupplementation could effectively alleviate HUA. Additional mechanistic investigation discovered that E. faecalis treatment could decrease the generation of UA and increase the excretion of UA through inhibition of xanthine oxidase (XO) activity and upregulating the expression of urate transporters (Abcg2, Glut9). Additionally, oral gavage with E. faecalis resulted in improvements in inflammation, restoration of impaired gut barrier, and amelioration of hepatic and renal function.
Conclusions
Our study demonstrated that E. faecalis plays a key role in regulating the UA balance and maintaining the intestinal barrier. E. faecalis could decrease UA level and protect gut barrier through inhibiting XO activity and increasing intestinal excretion. These findings may hold promise for developing intervention strategies for HUA.
Environmental Sustainability at the Nexus of Energy Consumption Preferences and Economic Growth
Authors: ÖZPARLAK GERÇEK
Published: November 2022

The energy demand of national economies is increasing, with a substantial portion driven by non-renewable energy (NRE) sources. Increased consumption of NRE causes an increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emission rates. Therefore, climate change is one of the serious issues worldwide. On the other hand, renewable energy (RE) sources are the best alternative clean energy sources to NRE sources. After leaving NRE, is it possible to deal with global warming by only using RE? To find an answer to the question, we investigated the long and short-term impact on the CE of the energy preferences of the analyzed. Therefore, we analysed the causality relationship between the rates of CO2 emissions (CE), use of RE and NRE sources, along with economic growth (EG) rates of various countries. The G-20 countries consume the most FF worldwide, and 19 of these nations were responsible for an average of 73.8% of the increase in global CE from 1966 to 2020. The G-20 countries were considered during 1966–2020 using the fully modified ordinary least square and dynamic ordinary least square methods. Additionally, the existence of cointegration between variables was examined by Pedroni, Johansen Multivariate Co-integration and Kao tests. According to the cointegration test results, in the long term, a 1% increase in the use of fossil fuels (FF) caused an increase in CE rates between 0.40% and 0.57%, whereas a 1% increase in the use of RE sources contributed to a 0.03% decrease in CE. Moreover, a 1% increase in EG caused an increase in CE rates ranging from 0.10 to 0.14%. According to the panel causality test, it is clear that RE sources alone are not sufficient to deal with climate change in the short term. Therefore, in addition to reducing the use of FF to zero, the protection and development of natural carbon sinks such as forests, oceans, and soils are mandatory to control climate change in the short and long term.
A conditional machine learning classification approach for spatio-temporal risk assessment of crime data
Authors: Rodrigues Alexandre , González Jonatan A. , Mateu Jorge
Published: November 2022

Crime data analysis is an essential source of information to aid social and political decisions makers regarding the allocation of public security resources. Computer-aided dispatch systems and technological advances in geographic information systems have made analysing and visualising historical spatial and temporal records of crimes a vital part of police operations and strategy. We look at our motivating crime problem as a spatio-temporal point pattern. Using a conditional approach based on properties of Poisson point processes, we transform the spatio-temporal point process prediction problem into a classification problem. We create spatio-temporal handcrafted features to link future and past events and use machine learning algorithms to learn behavioural patterns from the data. The fitted model is then used to carry out the reverse transformation, i.e. to perform spatio-temporal risk predictions based on the outcomes of the classification problem. Our procedure has theoretical formalism from point process theory and gains flexibility and computational efficiency inherited from the machine learning field. We show its performance under some simulated scenarios and a real application to spatio-temporal prediction and risk assessment of homicides in Bogota, Colombia.
Association of High Fat Diet with Bone Mineral Density in the General American Population
Authors: Li Na , Cheng Yuan , Jin Tao , Zhu Xiong , He Qing
Published: November 2022

Background
The effect of a high-fat diet on bone mineral density is still controversial. The present study is to evaluate the relationship between a high-fat diet and bone mineral density in the American adults.
Methods
We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the US population aged 50 years or older based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017-2018. The primary outcome measure was the femur bone mineral density by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) of osteoporosis or osteopenia. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the effect of high-fat diet on the presence of osteopenia and osteoporosis.
Results
The prevalence of total femur, femoral neck, trochanter and intertrochanter osteopenia or osteoporosis respectively was 22.8%, 51.3%, 22.6% and 19.4% in men and 43.5%, 66.9%, 39% and 38% in women. Multivariable logistic regression analysis after adjustment for confounders showed that a high-fat diet was significantly associated with higher odds of total femur and trochanter osteopenia or osteoporosis in men and intertrochanteric osteopenia or osteoporosis in women. However, a high-fat diet was negatively associated with the occurrence of osteopenia or osteoporosis in male femoral neck and total femur and femoral neck in female. There were no significant associations between high-fat diet and osteopenia or osteoporosis in male intertrochanteric and in female trochanter. The subgroup analyses found that compared with normal fat intake, the highest fat intake levels were only significantly and negatively associated with femoral neck osteopenia or osteoporosis in men and total femur, trochanter and intertrochanteric in women.
Conclusions
The effects of a high-fat diet as a separate contribution to the incidence of osteopenia or osteoporosis were biphasic with both positive and negative effects that varied by femoral sites and were not gender-related. In addition, higher levels of dietary fat intake did not increase subject's the odds of osteopenia or osteoporosis.
Follicular thyroid carcinoma with intramedullary spinal cord metastasis: case-report
Authors: Shafiekhani Paria , Shahmohammadi Mohammadreza , Moradi Afshin , Zandpazandi Sara
Published: November 2022

Metastatic carcinomas are more prevalent in the vertebrae and epidural spaces than in the intradural and intramedullary spinal cord. Although thyroid carcinomas seldom induce intramedullary spinal cord metastases, no evidence has been presented to prove that pure follicular thyroid carcinomas can generate these metastases. In this case, a man in his late 30s who had undergone lymphadenectomy, thyroidectomy, and radioactive iodine therapy developed spastic paraparesis and urine retention. Owing to the patient's aggressive clinical presentation with intramedullary metastasis, an initial tumor biopsy was performed to determine the histology of the tumor. Following an unexpectedly negative first biopsy, the patient underwent thorough tumor excision, the histopathology of which revealed a metastatic pure thyroid follicular carcinoma. Hence, it is imperative that all patients with pure follicular thyroid cancer who have developed acute neurological symptoms, regardless of how long they have been in remission, be immediately evaluated for intramedullary spinal cord metastases.
Safety, reactogenicity, immunogenicity, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant persons: A protocol for a living systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Ciapponi Agustín , Berrueta Mabel , Ballivian Jamile , Bardach Ariel , Mazzoni Agustina , Anderson Steven , Argento Fernando J. , Bok Karin , Comandé Daniel , Goucher Erin , Kampmann Beate , Parker Edward P. K. , Rodriguez-Cairoli Federico , Maria Victoria Santa , Stergachis Andy , Voss Gerald , Xiong Xu , Zaraa Sabra , Munoz Flor M. , Karron Ruth A. , Gottlieb Sami L. , Buekens Pierre M.
Published: November 2022

Background
Numerous vaccines have been evaluated and approved for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since pregnant persons have been excluded from most clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines, sufficient data regarding safety of these vaccines for the pregnant persons and their fetus have rarely been available at the time of product licensure. However, as COVID-19 vaccines have been deployed, data on the safety, efficacy or effectiveness, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant persons and neonates are becoming increasingly available. A living systematic review (LSR) of the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant persons and newborns could provide information necessary to help guide vaccine policy decisions.
Methods
We aim to conduct a LSR based on biweekly searches of medical databases (e.g., MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL) and clinical trial registries to systematically identify relevant studies of COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant persons. Pairs of reviewers will independently select, extract data, and conduct risk of bias assessments. We will include randomized clinical trials, quasi-experimental studies, cohort, case-control, cross-sectional studies, and case reports. Primary outcomes will be the safety (i.e., impacts on obstetric and neonatal outcomes), efficacy or effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant persons. Secondary outcomes will be immunogenicity and reactogenicity. We will conduct paired meta-analyses, including pre-specified subgroup and sensitivity analyses, and will use the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach to evaluate the certainty of evidence.
Conclusion
This will be the first living systematic review (LSR) and meta-analysis assessing the safety, reactogenicity, immunogenicity, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant persons. An online interactive dashboard for data visualization using Microsoft Power BI will be developed to regularly update and disseminate the latest findings (an in-progress version is available at https://safeinpregnancy.org/lsr/). In addition, the findings will be disseminated through publications and presentations.
Prognostic value and mechanism of EPHB2 overexpression in cervical cancer
Authors: Zhao Mengli , Cong Hui , Li Zhen , Gao Zhongrong , Wang Shanshan , Wang Yudong , Fu Jie
Published: November 2022

Background
Cervical cancer (CC) still represents an important challenge for female malignant tumors. In recent years, increasing evidence has indicated that EPHB2 plays a significant part in the origin and progression of many types of cancer in humans. Nevertheless, the mechanism of EPHB2 in CC remains inexplicable. The purpose of this study is to determine the prognostic value and related regulatory mechanism of EPHB2 in CC.
Methods
The basic clinical information and transcriptome data related to CC patients were downloaded from TCGA database and conducted standardization processing. TIMER2.0 was used for analyzing the EPHB2 expression differences of between 38 cancer types and corresponding normal tissues. The expression and prognostic value (including OS and RFS) of EPHB2 in different cancer types were determined by GEPIA2. And the starbase database was used for exploring the upstream miRNAs and lncRNAs of EPHB2. Then, The correlation analysis of EPHB2, miRNA and lncRNA and the exploration of prognostic value and expression of miRNAs in CESC was conducted using the R language packages. We also analyzed the prognostic value and expression difference of 187 lncRNAs based on the UALCAN database. Finally, we performed the correlation analysis between EPHB2 and multiple immune cells using the R language package.
Results
In our study, the AC073957.3/hsa-miR-150-5p axis was found to be the most potential upstream ncRNA-related regulator of EPHB2 in CC. And the results of immune correlation infiltration analysis suggest that as EPHB2 copy numbers fluctuate in CESC there is an obvious difference in immune cell infiltration levels, and EPHB2 was markedly positively correlated with Th2 cell, NK cell, Eosinophils, Tgd, Mast cell, NK CD56bright cells and Tem while negatively correlated with Tcm and B cell in CC.
Conclusion
Our study shows that EPHB2 is a potential prognostic marker, and its overexpression is related to poor prognosis of CC, which is expected to be a new therapeutic target for CC.
Universal Values as Predictors for Career Identity Indicators and Academic Major Satisfaction in Hong Kong Tertiary Students
Authors: Guo Yizhe , AU Winton Wing-Tung , HO Jessie Ching-sze , TAI Andy Chi-lok , Chan Sarah
Published: November 2022

The formation of career identity is an important coming-of-age issue in both developmental and vocational psychology. This paper introduces universal values (under Schwartz’s theory of basic human values) in addition to the popularly used career interest congruence as predictors of three career identity indicators (commitment making, identification with commitment and self-doubt). Meanwhile, satisfaction with academic major was investigated both as direct influenced by values and as a secondary outcome of having a more established career identity. As a set of factors that have received less attention in career development research, universal values are important internalized beliefs and criteria that deeply influence one’s goal setting and decision making. In the current study, they are hypothesized to influence one’s career identity indicators and academic major satisfaction through their career decision making and self-evaluation processes. We surveyed 562 students from a community college and a public university in Hong Kong and formulated linear regression and structural models that showed significant associations among values, career identity indicators and academic major satisfaction. Openness to change and self-transcendence values were significant positive predictors of identification with career commitment, and self-enhancement values positively predicted career self-doubt. Academic major satisfaction was found to be positively influenced by commitment making and negatively influenced by career self-doubt. Career interest congruence, however, only showed a significant negative slope coefficient when used to predict career self-doubt in linear regression. Implications for career counselling practice were discussed.
The value of a group of serum miRNAs in screening prostate cancer
Authors: Sun Chen , Li Xinji , Li Rongkang , Lu Chong , Wen Zhenyu , Ge Zhenjian , Chen Wenkang , Li Yingqi , Sun Suolei , Yang Qingshan , Tao Lingzhi , Li Hang , lai yongqing
Published: November 2022

Background
Prostate cancer remains a worldwide public health problem that poses a serious threat to the health of men worldwide. Many studies have found that miRNA in serum has the possible to be a biomarker for cancer. Our study was conducted to investigate the valuation of serum miRNAs in prostate cancer screening.
Methods
We selected 12 miRNAs from past studies associated with prostate cancer. We checked the expression levels of these miRNAs in the serum of 112 prostate cancer patients and 112 healthy controls in a two-stage experiment. We plotted the receiver operating characteristic curve of miRNAs in the validation stage and constructed a four-miRNA panel with the highest diagnostic value using stepwise logistic regression. We also predicted the target genes for these four miRNAs through online databases and performed Gene Ontology functional annotation and pathway analysis.
Results
The results showed that 6 miRNAs (miR-429, miR-10a-5p, miR-183-5p, miR-181a-5p, miR-1231, miR-129-5p) were abnormally expressed in the serum of prostate cancer patients. We used four of these miRNAs including miR-1231, miR-10a-5p, miR-429 and miR-129-5p to construct a combination of miRNAs with high specificity and sensitivity in screening prostate cancer (area under the curve (AUC) = 0.878). Bioinformatic analysis has shown that the genes targeted by these miRNAs can be linked to the development of cancer.
Conclusions
Our study detected and identified a set of miRNAs that serve as screening markers for prostate cancer, which may assist in early diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
Increased D-Neopterin biosynthesis in gut microbiome promoted colonic carcinogenesis after ampicillin or amoxicillin treatment
Authors: zhang yuhang , Dong Yuan , Wang Wen-Yu , Zhou Hang , Cui Yi-Min
Published: November 2022

Background:Emerging data have manifested that antibiotic-induced perturbations can potentially increase susceptibility to colorectal cancer (CRC), while the underlying mechanism is still unclear.Results:Herein we established the humanized microbiome mice transplanted with feces and hematopoietic stem cells from CRC patients to explore how ampicillin or amoxicillin contributed to colorectal cancer progression. Metagenomics and untargeted metabolomics analyses have suggested the effect of ampicillin or amoxicillin on colonic tumorigenesis is correlated with an alteration of gut microbiota and increased levels of the microbiota-derived metabolite D-Neopterin (P< 0.05). Then D-Neopterin is evidenced to activate the expressions of IGF2BP1 and ARG1 in myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) by scRNA-seq. Moreover, IGF2BP1 was determined to maintain the stability of ARG1 transcript by binding to three m6A sites of ARG1‐3’UTR in the sorted MDSCs.Conclusion:In essence, this study has identified the important role of ampicillin or amoxicillin-induced increase of D-Neopterin in enhancing colorectal cancer proliferation. It thus implicates that therapeutic regimen of CRC patients should eliminate the application of ampicillin or amoxicillin.
CNN-BiLSTM model for English Handwriting Recognition: Comprehensive Evaluation on the IAM Dataset
Authors: Kizilirmak Firat , Yanikoglu Berrin
Published: November 2022

We present a CNN-BiLSTM system for the problem of offline English handwriting recognition, with extensive evaluations on the public IAM dataset, including the effects of model size, data augmentation and the lexicon. Our best model achieves 3.59% CER and 9.44% WER using CNN-BiLSTM network with CTC layer.Test time augmentation with rotation and shear transformations applied to the input image, is proposed to increase recognition of difficult cases and found to reduce the word error rate by 2.5% points. We also conduct an error analysis of our proposed method on IAM dataset, show hard cases of handwriting images and explore samples with erroneous labels. We provide our source code as public-domain, to foster further research to encourage scientific reproducibility.
PopNode-PopCom: Identifying The Popular Nodes to Predict the Popular Communities in Dynamic Social Networks
Authors: Khafaei Taleb , Taraghi Alireza Tavakoli , Patil Nitin P.
Published: November 2022

Social networks play an important role in human life, and the study of communities within them is of particular importance. In this research, sustainable communities called popular communities have been introduced and studied. In this regard, the life of social networks was considered in time snapshots. Then, the communities that which at least 45% of their members were present the next time snapshot were considered popular communities. In the next step, the structure of popular communities and their distinguishing features from other communities as well as some of their structural features along with the other centrality features were introduced. Finally, using the theory of rough set, the importance of the structural features was examined to predict popular communities using the rules derived from this theory. Also, the importance of popular nodes introduced in this study in terms of, Integrated Value of Influence (IVI), Collective Influence (CF) and Spreading Score was compared with the maximum nodes of these values in each of the popular communities. In this study, we tested the performance of our proposed model on the actual Facebook database. We used rough set theory to generate the rules and model learning. Leader-Node, Popular-Node, Closeness, Eigen Centralization, Betweenness and Community Density were used as features and Popular Community was used as a label. In the experiment, 10-Fold Cross-Validation was used for model learning and Standard Voting was used as a classifier in the ROSETTA toolkit environment. The experiment has shown that if the average of an entire community is low on closeness, betweenness, and eigenvector centrality but with a high number of popular nodes, the chances of the community remaining popular increase. In addition, the high density of the community is not a good criterion for the community to remain popular at all. It was also shown that with the help of these features, the popular communities were predicted with almost 84% accuracy. On the other hand, the nodes with the maximum values of IVI, CF and Spreading Score were a subset of popular nodes. This shows the importance of popular nodes in social networks which introduced in this study.
Printed Ottoman Text Recognition Using Synthetic Data and Data Augmentation
Authors: Tasdemir Esma F. Bilgin
Published: November 2022

Ottoman script is an Arabic alphabet-basedscript as well. It was a writing system of theTurkish language for several centuries until it was replaced with the modern Turkish script,which is based on the Latin alphabet, in 1928. With the ever increasing digitization campaigns, millions of Ottoman documents are coming to light. But, their contents are not directly accessible, nor they are digitally editable and searchable. OCR and text recognition technologies can bea solution to this problem in the form of auto-mated and semi-automated conversion systems. This study presents a DL-based characterrecognition system for the printed Ottoman script. We first generate a synthetic text image dataset from a text corpus, and then augment it using some image processing methods. We develop a hybrid Convolutional Neural Network-Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory recognizer and train it with the original and the augmented datasets. Finally we apply a Transfer Learning procedure for adapting the system to real image data. The proposed system obtains 0.16 CER on a test set containing line images from a historical printed Ottoman book.
Brain Tumor Detection in Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Deep Learning Approach
Authors: Hussain Altaf
Published: November 2022

In this paper, the design and implementation of a tumor detection system using two CNN models is considered. Digital image processing and Deep Learning technologies enable us to develop an automatic system for the diagnosis/detection of various kind of diseases and abnormalities. The tumor detection system may include image enhancement, segmentation, data augmentation, features extraction and classification; all these steps are discussed in details in the above sections. To work on CNNs, powerful GPU based system are required to speed up the process, lot of processing is carried out and also lot of RAM is required to process the images for testing. CNNs have also some options such as optimization technique selection, Number of Epoch, Batch size, iteration and learning rate. These options are tuned to get the optimal results from the CNN model. Learning rate is used to update the weights and bias in training phase, learning rate changes the weights. One Epoch is when the model see all images in training, as the training data maybe of very big sizes, the data in each Epoch is divided into batch sizes. Every epoch has a training and test session, after each Epoch the weights are updated according to the learning rate, optimization algorithms are used to update the learning of a CNN adaptively. When the best weights for training are computed, the model is said to be trained. All the experimental work is carried out in MATLAB simulation tool.
Inside the black box: do teachers practice assessment as learning?
Authors: YILDIRIM Özen , BİLİCAN DEMİR Safiye
Published: November 2022

The conceptual development of assessment literature in recent years has been remarkable. One of the latest concepts to have emerged in parallel with this development is Assessment as Learning (AsL). This study investigated how AsL pertains to classroom practices within its conceptual framework by examining teacher reports. Case study design, a qualitative research method, was used to collect detailed information about in-class teacher practices. The teachers were interviewed with semi-structured interview forms and the data obtained were then analyzed using content analysis. The results revealed that in-class teacher practices were incapable of supporting AsL and promoting self-regulated behaviors and that many of the activities conducted in class were teacher-centered. Teachers did not apply self-assessment or peer-assessment practices, and the feedback they gave to students was mainly based on measurement scores. The researchers discussed the results in relation to the relevant literature and offered some suggestions for applying AsL in practice.
Formative assessment: Stalled by too few right-size reports
Authors: POPHAM William James
Published: November 2022

After providing key definitions well as substantial supportive evidence for the instructional process under consideration, this analysis identifies a serious shortcoming in the way that many U.S. educators are currently encouraging teachers' adoption of the formative-assessment process--a teaching approach informed by students' en route test performances during instruction. After identifying the basics of the formative assessment process, and the manner in which reports of students' en route assessment performances should be built, it is claimed that formative assessment will attain its much-lauded learning payoffs only when short reports, easily used by both teachers and students, are routinely employed.
Preservasi konten fisik dan digital pada perpustakaan perguruan tinggi
Authors: Marleni Marleni , Rodin Rhoni , Martina Anna
Published: November 2022

Background. The development of information technology encourages university libraries to apply it in library activities. The purpose of this study is to analyze how physical and digital content is preserved in university libraries.Methodology. This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive analysis. Data collection techniques are carried out by literature review / literature study related to the preservation of physical and digital content in college libraries. Data analysis was performed by criticizing, comparing, summarizing, and gathering (synthesizing) some literatures. Thus, the method used in this paper is literature study with an emphasis on peeling, summarizing and collecting literature, then analyzing the data that has been collected.Results and discussion. In university libraries, efforts to preserve the value of information so that information can be used for a relatively longer period of time and avoid damage to digital or electronic collections requires strategies to be carried out in carrying out physical and digital content preservation activities. Strategies that can be carried out by higher education libraries in preserving physical and digital content are 1) Technology Preservation; 2) Refreshing or Updating (Refreshing); 3) Migration and Reformating (Migration and Reformating); 4) Emulation (Emulation); 5) Digital Archeology; and 6) Digital to analogConclusions. College libraries have carried out physical and digital content preservation activities in the current era. Although there are still some things that need to be improved and improved in the future.
Estrategias de gestión en salud pública para la eliminación de la malaria en América Latina en 2010-2021: una revisión sistemática exploratoria
Authors: Martínez-Urzola Fadime , Munar Edgar Fernando , Pimentel Juan Pablo
Published: November 2022

Objetivo: describir la literatura científica existente respecto a las estrategias de gestión en salud pública utilizadas para la eliminación de la malaria en Latinoamérica durante el periodo 2010-2021. Metodología: revisión sistemática exploratoria. Se utilizó la estrategia PRISMA, del grupo Cochrane de la OMS, para hacer seguimiento al proceso de revisión, extracción y análisis de los documentos. Se clasificó la búsqueda en tres categorías: promoción de la salud y prevención de la enfermedad, vigilancia e intervención intersectorial. Fueron utilizadas las bases de datos: PUBMED, LILACS (BVS) Y SCOPUS; se realizó análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo de los documentos recuperados. Resultados: fueron tamizadas 3628 publicaciones, y preseleccionadas 165 por cumplir con los criterios de búsqueda. Finalmente fueron seleccionados 19 referencias, por incluir en su metodología y resultados, estrategias para la erradicación de la malaria. El año de mayor publicación fue 2021 para la categoría promoción de la salud y prevención de la enfermedad. Para las otras dos categorías, se observó igual frecuencia de publicación en el año 2020. El país que más publicó para el periodo de la revisión, fue Brasil, seguido de Colombia y Estados Unidos. Conclusión: la categorización y análisis documental develan que los esfuerzos aislados para contribuir al control de la enfermedad dejan de lado los múltiples factores que dificultan su diagnóstico, tratamiento, prevención y control.
Diversity and dynamics of bacterial communities in the drinking water distribution network of a mid-sized city in Brazil
Authors: Batista Ana Maria Moreira , Siqueira Juliano Curi de , Meynet Paola , Werner David , Garcia Graziella Patricio Pereira , Davenport Russell J. , Pereira Alyne Duarte , Siniscalchi Luciene Alves Batista , Araújo Juliana Calábria de , Mota Filho Cesar Rossas
Published: November 2022

This study assessed the bacterial community composition of a drinking water system (DWS) serving a mid-sized city (120,000 inhabitants) in Brazil. Water samples, including raw and treated water, were collected at seven points throughout the DWS. DNA was extracted and analysed using high-throughput sequencing (Ion Torrent). Free chlorine and turbidity were measured in situ. Results showed that the highest relative abundance of 16S rRNA genes was from phyla Proteobacteria, followed by Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria. The next most abundant phylum was Cyanobacteria, represented by Arthronema, Calothrix, and Synechococcus. An interesting observation was that the DNA-based analysis suggested a bacterial community change in the distribution network, with treated reservoir water being very different from the network samples. This suggests active microbiology within the distribution network and a tendency for bacterial diversity to decrease after chlorine disinfection but increase after pipeline distribution. In raw water, a predominance of Proteobacteria was observed with reduced Cyanobacteria, showing a negative correlation. In treated water, Proteobacteria were negatively correlated with Bacteroidetes. Finally, 16S rRNA genes from Firmicutes (especially Staphylococcus) had a high abundance in the chlorinated water, which may indicate the phylum's resistance to chlorine residuals. Opportunistic pathogens, e.g., Mycobacteria, Legionella, and Staphylococcus, were also observed.
Estratégias educativas e a comunicação da equipe interdisciplinar no contexto pediátrico: uma revisão integrativa
Authors: Nascimento Claudia Bueno de Oliveira , Messias Cláudia Maria
Published: November 2022

Introdução: a segurança ao paciente pediátrico tem sido uma preocupação mundialmente conhecida. Neste sentido, a clientela pediátrica por motivos de serem suscetíveis a doenças desencadeadas pela fragilidade inerente a essa faixa etária, pode-se tornar alvo de danos provocados por possíveis falhas no processo do cuidado em saúde. Objetivo: investigar a produção científica acerca das estratégias educativas utilizadas para melhoria da comunicação para segurança do paciente pediátrico. Materiais e Métodos: trata-se de uma revisão bibliográfica descritiva com abordagem qualitativa, do tipo integrativa, realizada nas bases de dados LILACS, BDENF, PUBMED, IBECS e o Portal de periódico da CAPES. Foram incluídos no estudo artigos publicados entre 2016 e 2021, em português, inglês e espanhol. Resultados e Discussão: da análise dos estudos surgiram os tópicos: “ações de Educação Permanente” (38,5%) e “ações educacionais a partir de treinamentos pontuais” (61,5%) para melhorar a comunicação entre a equipe interdisciplinar na assistência ao paciente pediátrico. Questões relacionadas ao ensino tradicional favorecem a promoção de práticas padronizadas formais no que tange ao processo ensino aprendizagem, em contrapartida, a Educação Permanente em Saúde permite o fortalecimento do trabalho em equipe tendo como resposta a qualificação profissional e, por conseguinte, a melhora do cuidado ao paciente pediátrico hospitalizado. Considerações finais: faz-se necessária a mobilização de profissionais e gestores no reforço das políticas públicas que preconizam mudanças nas práticas diárias relacionadas à temática do estudo, de forma a priorizar ações educativas que tenham por fundamento os aspectos relacionais e a multiprofissionalidade, elementos estes fundamentais para a melhoria da comunicação interdisciplinar.
Palavras-Chave: Educação Interprofissional; Educação Continuada; Comunicação; Pediatria.
Neoliberalismo e o trabalho dos enfermeiros
Authors: Cardoso Thereza Christina dos Santos Figueira , Santos Ronan dos , Souza Mônica Oliveira da Silva e , Tonole Renato , Passos Joanir Pereira
Published: November 2022

Trata-se de um artigo de reflexão que se propôs a discutir as modificações impostas ao trabalho de enfermeiros, tendo como cerne as mudanças ocorridas a partir da década de 1990 com a adoção da doutrina socioeconômica neoliberal. Há diminuição gradativa, porém, significativa da intervenção do Estado em diversos setores, especialmente na saúde, assistimos o avanço de entidades privadas para gestão dos serviços públicos. Para a carreira  de profissionais enfermeiros essa condição trouxe um grande impacto, com redução dos quadros de servidores de carreira, diminuição de editais de concursos, contratações frágeis, desrespeito aos direitos trabalhistas, condições que se traduzem em insegurança e instabilidade para os profissionais de forma ampla, prejudicando a gestão no planejamento de suas ações trazendo incerteza aos enfermeiros quanto a permanência no vínculo. A partir de estudos é possível correlacionar a adoção do modelo neoliberal e a crescente precarização do trabalho dos enfermeiros. A temática em questão, aponta ainda a necessidade de introduzir a discussão dos aspectos que envolvem nosso mundo do trabalho desde o período de formação dos futuros profissionais.

Palavras-Chave: Precarização; Enfermeiro; Trabalho.
Evidências científicas na espiritualidade e a formação acadêmica dos estudantes de enfermagem: uma revisão integrativa
Authors: Santos Maria da Conceição Quirino dos , Donha Yarid Sérgio
Published: November 2022

Objetivo: Sumarizar as evidências científicas que abordam a percepção dos estudantes de enfermagem sobre a importância da espiritualidade na formação acadêmica. Método: Trata-se de uma Revisão Integrativa de Literatura de artigos publicados entre 1988 a 2021 com produções disponíveis em periódicos do Brasil. Recorreu-se às bases de dados LILACS, SCIELO e MEDLINE, utilizando os termos “religião”, “espiritualidade”, “estudante de enfermagem”, “estudante” e “conhecimento”. Resultados: foram escolhidos 17 artigos, dos quais somente 11 foram utilizados por atenderem ao objetivo do estudo. Portanto, a necessidade eminente em inserir a disciplina espiritualidade e saúde nos cursos de graduação da área de saúde, uma proposta, que surge como uma alternativa viável ao facilitar a inserção do contingente de espiritualidade nas práticas educacionais em saúde de forma articulada com os demais componentes da grade curricular geral dos cursos de graduação em saúde.
Palavras-Chave: Espiritualidade; Estudante de Enfermagem; Conhecimento; Religião; Estudante.
Editorial
Authors: Mendes João , Mendes Maria do Carmo
Published: November 2022

Editorial.
The Joycean society (2013) van Dora García: Visibiliteit geven of figureren, tijd voor lezen en spreken
Authors: Kesenne Sarah
Published: November 2022

Dit artikel betreft een analyse van de film The Joycean Society  van de kunstenares Dora Garcia, waarin een leesgroep al dertig jaar het boek Finnegans wake (1939) van James Joyce leest. De film biedt de kans om vanuit de filmtheorie van Jacques Rancière te reageren op het debat rond de idee van ‘visibiliteit te geven’ aan maatschappelijk uitgesloten groepen bij participatieve strategieën in de hedendaagse kunst. Dit verkeert in een patstelling: enerzijds ziet men het participatieve proces als gemeenschapsvormend, anderzijds blijft men participatie wel als kunstwerk valideren, en functioneert het als dusdanig binnen de theatraliteit van de kunstwereld.
Rancière’s begrip van ‘a capacity for fiction’ maakt echter een notie van politieke emancipatie mogelijk, die niet zozeer gebaseerd is ‘visibiliteit geven’, maar die eerder te maken heeft met een spanningsverhouding tussen de vermogens van auteur en acteurs bij het fictionaliseren. Film heeft volgens hem niet de weergave van de werkelijkheid als effect, maar is eerder een doorgronding daarvan. Dit artikel introduceert daarop gebaseerd de term van het ‘figureren’,  en zet dit in als een analyse-instrument om binnen The Joycean society een politieke emancipatie te formuleren.
Listening as critique: Towards a methodology of absent presences in research on coloniality
Authors: Van Hassel Marte
Published: November 2022

Only recently I started a PhD at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Theatre and Performance Studies. In this PhD I am investigating the history of the magic lantern, one of the first devices to project images for a broad audience. The magic lantern was frequently used for colonial propaganda by missionaries and social reformers, constituting an image of the Other that still lives on today. This article will not be an introduction into the subject of the magic lantern propaganda. Instead, it is attended to be a first methodological reflection of this research. It serves as an attempt to consider how to engage with the archival material I encounter without reproducing the colonial gaze living on in these photographs. Central to this article will therefore be the question on how to relate to the Other in the image from within a privileged (academic) position. As Theatre and Performance Studies cannot rescind from the discussions on decolonization coming from the African Diaspora in Belgium, I think about a methodology to cope with the recurring gaps in our research field as a precondition to do research on images of the other. I do not seek to map out a fixed methodological plan. I rather try to take some first steps to listen as critique to an alternative history that is always already, absent in its presence. 