bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
EXPRESSÃO DO VIGOR DE SEMENTES E DESEMPENHO INICIAL DE PLANTAS DE CANOLA: EFEITO DA PROFUNDIDADE DE SEMEADURA
Authors: Koch Felipe , Gehling Vania Marques , Pedó Tiago , De Tunes Lilian Vanussa Madruga , Villela Francisco Amaral , Aumonde Tiago Zanatta
Published: April 2020

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a influência da profundidade de semeadura sobre a expressão do vigor de sementes e desempenho inicial de plantas de canola. Os tratamentos constaram de cinco níveis de profundidade de semeadura, sendo 10; 20; 30; 40 e 50 mm. A influência da profundidade foi avaliada pela emergência, índice de velocidade de emergência, matéria seca de parte aérea e de raízes, razão de área e de massa foliar e razão parte aérea e raiz. Para emergência, índice de velocidade de emergência, matéria seca de parte aérea e raízes e, razão entre parte aérea e raízes, os resultados foram superiores na profundidade de 10 mm, decrescendo a partir dos 20 mm. A razão de área e de massa foliar diminuiu após a profundidade de 40 mm. A profundidade de 10 mm possibilitou condições mais favoráveis, permitindo maior expressão do vigor de sementes e desempenho inicial plantas.
QUALIDADE FISIOLÓGICA DE SEMENTES DE ALGODOEIRO TRATADAS COM REGULADORES DE CRESCIMENTO
Authors: SOARES LEONARDO CIRILO DA SILVA , Lorençoni Rogério , Da Silva Adilson Nunes , Raphael Juan Piero Antonio , Chiavegato Ederaldo José , Neto Durval Dourado
Published: April 2020

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o efeito de reguladores de crescimento, aplicados via tratamento de sementes, na qualidade fisiológica de sementes de algodão. Foram testados três reguladores de crescimento (cloreto de mepiquate; cloreto de mepiquate + ciclanilida; cloreto de clormequate) em cinco doses (0; 1,5; 3,0; 4,5; 6,0 g de ingrediente ativo por kg de sementes). Realizou-se avaliações de condutividade elétrica, comprimento de radícula, comprimento de hipocótilo, comprimento total de plântulas, envelhecimento acelerado, germinação de sementes, e índice de velocidade de emergência de plântulas. Com os resultados obtidos, conclui-se que o tratamento de sementes com reguladores de crescimento interfere na qualidade fisiológica de sementes, reduzindo a germinação de sementes e a emergência de plântulas; e há diferença entre os efeitos dos reguladores de crescimento.
Compressive Properties of Expanded Perlite Based Particulate Composite for the Application in Building Insulation Board
Authors: Adhikary Partho , Arifuzzaman Md , Kabir Emamul
Published: April 2020

In this paper, expanded perlite based particulate composites for the application in building insulation board are studied for compressive behaviour. Composites with a density range from 0.452 to 0.640 g/cm3 are manufactured using floatation method by varying binder content (sodium silicate solution and corn starch as binder) and the degree of compaction. Compressive strength and modulus are investigated based on two manufacturing parameters (i.e. Compaction ratio and Water/SSS ratio) and the density of the composites. Compressive strength and modulus were found to be linearly dependent on the density however the trend for compressive strength and modulus were found to be different. The change of compressive modulus with respect to increasing density is found to be different for different compaction ratio which is not significant in the case of compressive strength. The range of specific compressive strength of the composites from 4.27 to 5.08 MPa/(g/cm3) was found to be suitable for the building insulation board application when compared with existing literature.
Comparative Study on Mechanical Properties of Bamboo Strip and Bamboo Strip-glass Fiber Reinforced Hybrid Composites
Authors: Asif Mahir , Rahman Kazi Adnan , Faisal Mohammad Omar , Islam Md. Shariful
Published: April 2020

In this paper, mechanical properties of bamboo strip and bamboo strip-glass fiber reinforced hybrid composite were investigated. Composites were manufactured by using hand lay-up technique and bamboo strips were made from locally available bamboo. Four layers of bamboo strip composite were manufactured and in case of hybrid composite, two layers of glass fiber one at the top and the other at the bottom were used with the aim was to observe the effect of adding glass fiber layer on the mechanical properties of bamboo strip composite. Tensile and flexural properties were studied and it was found that adding the glass fiber layer doesn’t have any significant effect on tensile properties but flexural strength and modulus have increased by 22.49 % and 15.02 % respectively.
Red Blood Cell Analysis by Hyperspectral Imaging
Authors: KURTULDU Hüseyin , OKTAN Aynur Didem , CANDAN Hatice , CİHANGİROĞLU Beste Sahra
Published: April 2020

Hyperspectral imaging is a new technology that aims to use the spectral
information of each pixel in different spectral bands to find, identify and
classify objects in an image. The hyperspectral imaging system, which is
frequently used in the field of remote sensing, is becoming a new imaging model
for medical applications and non-invasive disease diagnosis. In this study, a
hyperspectral microscope system capable of capturing images of biological
samples at different range of spectral wavelengths was developed. With this
system, red blood cells in the blood sample were analyzed at various
wavelengths and image classification was performed to determine the locations
of red blood cells (erythrocytes). Subsequently, the detection of cytoplasm,
cell edge, extracellular fluid, and pale area in the cell center of each
erythrocyte was successfully performed.
Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Carbonyls [M(CO)6(M = Cr,Mo,W)] with Indole -3-carboxyaldehydemethanesulfonylhydrazone
Authors: Sert Sema
Published: April 2020

Four new complexes, [M(CO)5(msh4)](Cr(1),Mo(2),W(3)),and Re(CO)4Br(inmsh)(4),were synthesized by the photochemical reaction of metal carbonyls with indole-3 carboxyaldehydemethanesulfonyl hydrazone(inmsh) and characterized by using elemental analysis, 1H NMR, EI-MS and IR spectra. The spectroscopic studies show thatinmsh behaves as a monodantate ligand coordinating via imine N donor atom in [M(CO)5(inmsh)](M = Cr,Mo,W) and Re(CO)4Br(inmsh). The sulfonamides (−SO2NH−) are used widely as antibacterial agents because of their lower cost, lower activity and most activity against bacterial diseases[1]. Sulfo drugs are used as chemotherapeutic agents with large spectrum of activity and they are used today for various bacterial, protozoal and fungal infections[2a,b]. Methane sulfonamide derivatives possess DNA-binding ability and show cytostatic effects which have usage in cancer chemotherapy. Sulfonylhydrazones derived from sulfonamides have pharmacological properties as antibacterial, antitumor, divretic, antiviral, antinociceptive activity and enzym inhibition especially to carbonic anhydrase species[3,4]. Many of the physiologically active hydrazones have applications in the treatment of illness like tuberculosis, leprosy and mental damage
Comparison of CNNs and SVM for Detection of Activation in Malaria Cell Images
Authors: BEKTAŞ Jale
Published: April 2020

Malaria is a disease caused by parasites that are transmitted through the enzymes of Anophele mosquito and cause symptoms in fatal danger. Thick and thin film microscopic examination of smears taken from blood is the most reliable method for diagnosis. In the manual examination of the smears, the expertise of examiner and the quality of the smear significantly affect the accuracy of the diagnosis. Malaria's automatic diagnosis of pattern recognition and classification techniques on blood smear images is among the subjects of research. In this study, well-known Convolutional Neural Networks include InceptionV3, GoogLeNet, AlexNet, Resnet50, Vgg16 networks and six-fold cross validation was applied and performance evaluations were performed with a Machine Lerning method, Support Vector Machine. It was found that Deep Learning methods achieved at least 10.08% of accuracy difference performance compared to SVM based on the features of the input sample images. This difference has been 0.07 for F-Score, 0.06 for sensitivity.
Serebral Palsi’de Kranial Antropometrik Değerlendirme: Bir Pilot Çalışma
Authors: ATKIN İlknur , KINALI Gülşah
Published: April 2020

Amaç: Kranial asimetri günümüzde
pediatrik fizyoterapi alanında önemli bir değerlendirme parametresi olmaya
başlamıştır. Fizyoterapistler, vücut fonksiyonları ile bağlantılı olan kranial
bölge hakkında daha fazla çalışma yapmaktadırlar. Ancak halen kanıta dayalı
çalışmalara ihtiyaç vardır. Kranial asimetri ayrıca, bir tamamlayıcı terapi
metodu olan osteopati’nin de önemli bir değerlendirme yöntemidir.

Yöntem: Bu
çalışma bir fizik tedavi ve rehabilitasyon hastanesine gelen 1-12 yaş
arasındaki 24 Serebral Palsi ve aynı yaş grubundaki 22 sağlıklı çocuk üzerinde
yapıldı. Kranial antropometrik değerler standart pozisyonlarda kranial kaliper
kullanılarak ölçüldü.

Bulgular:
Serebral Palsili bireylerin kafa çapı ortalama (48 mm), uzunluğu (136 mm) ve
genişliği (123 mm) ve sağlıklı bireylerin kafa çapı (53 mm) , uzunluğu (152 mm)
ve genişliği (133 m) idi. Serebral palsili bireylerin değerleri, sağlıklı
bireylerden anlamlı derecede düşüktü (p=0.00,p=0.00,p=0.00).

Sonuç: Araştırma
sonuçlarına göre, kranial asimetri ile ilgili antropometrik ölçümlerinin
Serebral Palsili çocukların fiziksel değerlendirmeleri içinde rutin bir
protokol olarak uygulanması ve kranial anomalilerin fizyoterapistler tarafından
göz önüne alınması gerektiği kanısına varılmıştır. Kranial asimetrilerin
sıklığı ve karşı önlem olarak kranial mobilizasyonların etkinliği konusunda
daha fazla çalışmaya ihtiyaç vardır.
Beslenme ve Gıda Alanlarında Metabolomik Uygulamalar: Genel Bir Değerlendirme
Authors: YILMAZ İlkay , ÖZPINAR Haydar
Published: April 2020

Metabolomik, küçük moleküllü metabolitlerin lipitler, karbonhidratlar, vitaminler, hormonlar ve dokularda, hücrelerde ve fizyolojik sıvılarda bulunan diğer hücre bileşenlerinde belirli bir sürede yüksek verim teknolojilerini kullanarak belirlenmesi, nicelendirilmesi ve tanımlanmasıdır. Metabolomik uygulaması, biyobelirteçlerin tanımlanmasını, enzim-substract etkileşimlerini, ilaç aktivitesi çalışmalarını, metabolik yol analizini ve sistem biyolojisi ile ilgili diğer bazı çalışmaları içerir. Yani metabolomik, NMR, GC-MS ve LC-MS gibi yüksek verimli teknolojilerle hücrelerde, dokularda veya biyolojik sıvılarda bulunan tüm metabolitlerin kısa sürede ucuz ve doğru ayrılması, tanımlanması ve ölçülmesidir. Beslenme paternleri ve toksinlere maruz kalma gibi çevresel faktörler, obezite, tip 2 diyabet gibi birçok hastalığın önlenmesinde/ gelişmesinde ve dolayısıyla kişilerin sağlık durumlarında önemli bir rol oynar. Sağlıklı olmak, iyi genetik, iyi yaşam tarzı ve iyi beslenmenin bir birleşimidir. Metabolomik, metabolit konsantrasyonlarını izleyerek fizyolojik işlemlerin analizini sağlar, büyük ölçüde yiyeceğin moleküler içeriğine ve sağlık özelliklerine göre değişebilen ve gıda işlemesinin bir sonucu olarak oluşan kimyasal değişiklikleri karakterize eder. Günümüzde bilim insanarı obezite, diyabet, kardiyovasküler ve kronik hastalıkların önlenmesi ve yaşamı uzatan, kilo verdiren, fiziksel ve zihinsel sağlığı geliştiren ve kalp krizi ve kanser gibi hastalıkları önleyen yeni biyoaktif gıda bileşenleri bulmak için çalışmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, metabolomik tekniklerin kullanımı, gıda tüketim modellerinin geliştirilmesi, herhangi bir diyetin faydaları ve fizyolojik tepkilerin iyileştirilmesine yönelik çalışmalara katkı sunmaktadır. Bu konuda gıda bilimi ve beslenme, gıda kalitesi ve gıda güvenliği, gıda işleme alanında birçok çalışma vardır. Özetle, hücre seviyesindeki genlerin, proteinlerin, enzimlerin, metabolitlerin ve mikro ortamların etkilerinin daha iyi anlaşılması, hücre fonksiyonlarını ve genel sağlığı geliştirmek için beslenme programlarının tasarımına metabolik yaklaşımlar yardımcı olabilir, sağlık ve hastalık, beslenme ve besinlerin rolünü anlayışımızı geliştirebilir. Bu çalışmanın amacı; gıda ve beslenme araştırmalarında metabolomic uygulamalar konusunda genel bir değerlendirme yapmak, bazı potansiyel uygulamaları vurgulamak, metabolominin gıda ve beslenme üzerindeki etkilerini araştırmak ve bu konularda bilimsel literatürü sunmaktır.
An Investigation into the Role of IGF-1 and IGFBP3 in the Diagnosis and Treatment Response in Esophageal Cancer
Authors: BADEMLER Süleyman , ÜÇÜNCÜ Merve Müge , SERİLMEZ Murat
Published: April 2020

Aim: Esophageal cancer (EC) is the eighth most common cancer among all cancers worldwide. It constitutes 1.5-2% of all cancers and 5-7% of gastrointestinal cancers. Mortality reduction by early diagnosis, early treatment, and close follow-up is possible in esophageal cancer. However, reliable markers that rapidly provide results for early diagnosis are necessary in order to make such a diagnosis. In our study, it is aimed to investigate the role of IGFBP3 and IGF-1 in the early diagnosis of esophageal tumors. Method: 37 patients with a histopathologically confirmed diagnosis of EC and 41 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were included in our study at Istanbul University Institute of Oncology. Serum IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 levels were determined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).Findings: The mean age of the patients included in this study was 54.51±13.69 years. Based on the comparison between the groups, there was no difference in terms of gender and age (p=0.675 and 0.094). There was a statistically significant difference between the control group and the patient group in terms of IGF-1 and IGFBP3 levels. Both levels were higher in the control group (p=0.006, p<0.001). 22 patients had a recurrence. There was no significant difference between the IGF and IGFBP3 levels in those who had a recurrence. 32 patients died. There was no significant difference in terms of the histological subtype, T and pathologic stage of the disease, and IGF-1 and IGFBP3 levels. Conclusion: Our study showed that IGF-1 and IGFBP3 markers could be used in the diagnosis of esophageal tumors. We think that it is necessary to conduct further studies with larger series in order to draw a clear conclusion.
A Classification Algorithm for Time-domain Novelties in Preparation for LSST Alerts. Application to Variable Stars and Transients Detected with DECam in the Galactic Bulge
Authors: Soraisam Monika D. , Saha Abhijit , Matheson Thomas , Lee Chien-Hsiu , Narayan Gautham , Vivas A. Katherina , Scheidegger Carlos , Oppermann Niels , Olszewski Edward W. , Sinha Sukriti , DeSantis Sarah R. ,   (ANTARES collaboration)
Published: April 2020

With the advent of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, time-domain astronomy will be faced with an unprecedented volume and rate of data. Real-time processing of variables and transients detected by such large-scale surveys is critical to identifying the more unusual events and allocating scarce follow-up resources efficiently. We develop an algorithm to identify these novel events within a given population of variable sources. We determine the distributions of magnitude changes (dm) over time intervals (dt) for a given passband f,

, and use these distributions to compute the likelihood of a test source being consistent with the population or being an outlier. We demonstrate our algorithm by applying it to the DECam multiband time-series data of more than 2000 variable stars identified by Saha et al. in the Galactic Bulge that are largely dominated by long-period variables and pulsating stars. Our algorithm discovers 18 outlier sources in the sample, including a microlensing event, a dwarf nova, and two chromospherically active RS CVn stars, as well as sources in the blue horizontal branch region of the color–magnitude diagram without any known counterparts. We compare the performance of our algorithm for novelty detection with the multivariate Kernel Density Estimator and Isolation Forest on the simulated PLAsTiCC data set. We find that our algorithm yields comparable results despite its simplicity. Our method provides an efficient way for flagging the most unusual events in a real-time alert-broker system.
The BUFFALO HST Survey
Authors: Steinhardt Charles L. , Jauzac Mathilde , Acebron Ana , Atek Hakim , Capak Peter , Davidzon Iary , Eckert Dominique , Harvey David , Koekemoer Anton M. , Lagos Claudia D. P. , Mahler Guillaume , Montes Mireia , Niemiec Anna , Nonino Mario , Oesch P. A. , Richard Johan , Rodney Steven A. , Schaller Matthieu , Sharon Keren , Strolger Louis-Gregory , Allingham Joseph , Amara Adam , Bahé Yannick , Bœhm Céline , Bose Sownak , Bouwens Rychard J. , Bradley Larry D. , Brammer Gabriel , Broadhurst Tom , Cañas Rodrigo , Cen Renyue , Clément Benjamin , Clowe Douglas , Coe Dan , Connor Thomas , Darvish Behnam , Diego Jose M. , Ebeling Harald , Edge A. C. , Egami Eiichi , Ettori Stefano , Faisst Andreas L. , Frye Brenda , Furtak Lukas J. , Gómez-Guijarro C. , Remolina González J. D. , Gonzalez Anthony , Graur Or , Gruen Daniel , Harvey David , Hensley Hagan , Hovis-Afflerbach Beryl , Jablonka Pascale , Jha Saurabh W. , Jullo Eric , Kneib Jean-Paul , Kokorev Vasily , Lagattuta David J. , Limousin Marceau , von der Linden Anja , Linzer Nora B. , Lopez Adrian , Magdis Georgios E. , Massey Richard , Masters Daniel C. , Maturi Matteo , McCully Curtis , McGee Sean L. , Meneghetti Massimo , Mobasher Bahram , Moustakas Leonidas A. , Murphy Eric J. , Natarajan Priyamvada , Neyrinck Mark , O’Connor Kyle , Oguri Masamune , Pagul Amanda , Rhodes Jason , Rich R. Michael , Robertson Andrew , Sereno Mauro , Shan Huanyuan , Smith Graham P. , Sneppen Albert , Squires Gordon K. , Tam Sut-Ieng , Tchernin Céline , Toft Sune , Umetsu Keiichi , Weaver John R. , van Weeren R. J. , Williams Liliya L. R. , Wilson Tom J. , Yan Lin , Zitrin Adi
Published: April 2020

The Beyond Ultra-deep Frontier Fields and Legacy Observations (BUFFALO) is a 101 orbit + 101 parallel Cycle 25 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury program taking data from 2018 to 2020. BUFFALO will expand existing coverage of the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) in Wide Field Camera 3/IR F105W, F125W, and F160W and Advanced Camera for Surveys/WFC F606W and F814W around each of the six HFF clusters and flanking fields. This additional area has not been observed by HST but is already covered by deep multiwavelength data sets, including Spitzer and Chandra. As with the original HFF program, BUFFALO is designed to take advantage of gravitational lensing from massive clusters to simultaneously find high-redshift galaxies that would otherwise lie below HST detection limits and model foreground clusters to study the properties of dark matter and galaxy assembly. The expanded area will provide the first opportunity to study both cosmic variance at high redshift and galaxy assembly in the outskirts of the large HFF clusters. Five additional orbits are reserved for transient follow-up. BUFFALO data including mosaics, value-added catalogs, and cluster mass distribution models will be released via MAST on a regular basis as the observations and analysis are completed for the six individual clusters.
Update of the Solar Lyα Profile Line Model
Authors: Kowalska-Leszczynska Izabela , Bzowski Maciej , Kubiak Marzena A. , Sokół Justyna M.
Published: April 2020

We present a modification of a model of solar cycle evolution of the solar Lyα line profile, along with a sensitivity study of interstellar neutral hydrogen to uncertainties in radiation pressure level. The line profile model, originally developed by Kowalska-Leszczynska et al., is parameterized by the composite solar Lyα flux, which recently was revised. We present modified parameters of the previously developed model of solar radiation pressure for neutral hydrogen and deuterium atoms in the heliosphere. The mathematical function used in the model, as well as the fitting procedure, remain unchanged. We show selected effects of the model modification on interstellar neutral H properties in the heliosphere, and we discuss the sensitivity of these quantities to uncertainties in the calibration of the composite Lyα series.
La mise en péril du réseau sous-marin international de communication
Authors: Morel Camille
Published: April 2020

Le réseau international de câbles sous-marins représente, depuis le milieu du XIX e siècle, une cible régulière des États dans le cadre d’actions hostiles réticulaires (coupures, pratiques de renseignement, censures…). Au fil du temps, les modes d’actions employés et les acteurs à l’origine de ces opérations ont cependant évolué, au regard du contexte international comme des technologies disponibles. À l’ère de la fibre optique, alors que l’importance de cette infrastructure pour l’économie mondiale et pour la société ne cesse d’augmenter, son endommagement volontaire entraîne une symbolique et des effets systémiques toujours plus forts. Cet article cherche ainsi, d’une part, à caractériser les atteintes portées jusqu’à ce jour au réseau, de l’autre, à identifier les enjeux politiques et stratégiques soulevés par la mise en péril de cette infrastructure et de son contenu.
Transforming Students' Educational Experience Through Cultural Mindedness, Peer Mentoring, and Student Input
Authors: Latham Christine L. , Ringl Karen , Hogan Mikel
Published: April 2020

Background:

Increasing student diversity within schools of nursing requires a shift in the educational environment to consider student challenges, need for support, and other cultural variances.

Method:

This article describes a three-pronged process of instilling cultural mindfulness training to faculty, staff, and administrators, augmenting student support through peer mentoring and a new method of sharing student perspectives of the educational environment with administration to co-design new approaches to support students.

Results:

The entire process resulted in an increased sensitization to the importance of student perspectives as key players in the pursuit of a culture of inclusion for nursing education.

Conclusion:

A sustainable model was created for ongoing cultural humility education of school of nursing personnel and a new structure for student peer mentoring and student input to ensure appropriate support, recognition, and respect for diversity.[J Nurs Educ. 2020;59(4):194–202.]
Event Management and Terrorism in a Global Order
Authors: Korstanje Maximiliano Emanuel
Published: April 2020

Over the recent years, the public spectacle and media events have become fertile grounds for terrorist attacks. Particularly, media events play a leading role enhancing the social cohesion as well as revitalizing the psychological frustrations that happened during the working days. Paradoxically, terrorism needs to maximize its gains while the costs are minimized. The spectacularisation tourism and events offer a double-edge sword. The same attractiveness that makes global cities a safer place to live are employed by the terrorist cells to cause chaos and uncertainty. The chapter theoretically explores the difficult interrelation between terrorism and event management as well as the conceptual limitations of Western rationality to understand the “undesired Other.”
Political Economy of Communication
Authors: Yaylagül Levent
Published: April 2020

There are different approaches and schools in the field of mass communication. Political economy, in itself, is divided into a liberal or classical political economy and a critical—Marxist—political economy. According to the Marxist-oriented critical political economy approach, the economic basis of a society determines the superstructure of that society such as state, politics, culture, and ideology. Since media is very important in producing and reproducing existing relations of property and power in capitalist societies, it is important to analyze the media with a political economy approach. Briefly, in the context of the system of political economy of communication, the effects of capital and state on media contents are explained. In this section, after examining the origins and historical development of the field of political economy as a critical social science, the characteristics of contemporary critical political economy are put forward.
Working to Produce Consensus
Authors: Figueiredo Carlos
Published: April 2020

This chapter presents an interdisciplinary model involving journalism studies and political economy of communication to understand why news published in mass media reproduces hegemonic values. From this interdisciplinarity approach, the author raises what he calls the critical theory of journalism that has, as its core, the Marxist category of labor. The chapter presents a brief exposition of the epistemological ground of the critical theory of journalism and then demonstrates the specificities of journalistic work under monopoly capitalism. The author then criticizes phenomenological sociology and its use in journalism studies, and concludes his argument by criticizing the ideology of professionalism among newsworkers and its influence on the hegemonic character of news values.
Critical Political Economy and Content Analysis
Authors: Bergman Tabe
Published: April 2020

The analysis of media content is not an integral part of the critical political economy of communication. The reasons can be understood in their historical contexts. Nonetheless, there is a case to be made that there exists an urgent need to remedy this state of affairs. Given existential threats to the planet, especially global warming and the possibility of nuclear war, it is more urgent than ever that critical political economists engage in one of the main characteristics of their subfield, praxis, and find ways to connect to citizens and stimulate them to become active in the public arena. This chapter argues that one way to do so is to produce content analyses of media coverage of current important political issues. By showing citizens evidence of the many problems with mainstream, often commercial media, citizens will be more likely to become involved in movements that aim at radical reform of media and politics.
The Process of Acute and Chronic Inflammation
Authors: Demir Sedat
Published: April 2020

Inflammation is a physiopathological process that has been known for a long time but its relation with acute and chronic diseases and its role in the development of disease is becoming better understood. Diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, various organ cancers, rheumatologic diseases, the most common diseases of the liver, lungs and kidneys are either closely related to inflammatory processes or are caused by direct inflammatory processes. In one aspect, the aging process is a progressive inflammatory process. The understanding of what inflammation is and the mechanisms by which the inflammation occurs in the organism and by accurately identifying and following the clinical markers that show the course of inflammation. In this section, basic issues related to inflammation is examined.
In Inflamation Dietary Inflammatory Index and the Role of Different Diet Types
Authors: Atan Ramazan Mert , Günşen Uğur
Published: April 2020

Inflammation usually occurs as a result of imbalances between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Diet is one of the factors that play a role in their development and prevent them from developing. Therefore, it is important to determine the pro- and anti-inflammatory properties of foods. Diet is an important and modifiable determinant of chronic diseases. There is a lot of scientific evidence to support the fact that foods consumed have positive and negative effects on individuals' health. In addition to being effective whole of diet, it is seen that the food groups contained in the diet affect the inflammatory biomarkers separately. This section provides information about dietary inflammatory index (DII) and diets that are effective on inflammation.
Moral Alchemy
Authors: Hitch Leslie P.
Published: April 2020

Just before the newest decade of the 21st century, ethical and moral issues, some flagrant such as a nationwide admissions scandal and some such as the removal of a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, reverberate with national moral divisiveness and angst. While these and other moral and ethical dilemma seem to be increasing, this chapter looks both backward and forward through the academic literature, by relying heavily on popular media, to determine whether the proverbial moral high ground expected of and attributed to higher education for centuries is actually just moral alchemy.
Not Possible to Destroy Opinions by Force
Authors: Jimenez Christian
Published: April 2020

This chapter surveys the influence and thinking of Hannah Arendt and Che Guevara regarding education. Despite their many differences, both thinkers are surprisingly similar in seeing authority in an ideal community as self-justifying and therefore authorizing a certain amount of repression by the state. The essay turns to the later thinking of Michel Foucault and his theory of a utopian liberalism to provide individuals a way to both join in but not be subjugated by larger collectivities. The chapter concludes that universities can embrace a form of Foucault's utopianism and allow the left and right to debate their respective positions and not need to censor views except in the most extreme cases. The goal in free speech should be to make students into thinking subjects.
Design Thinking as a Paradigm to Support the Ethical Revival in Higher Education
Authors: Torrisi-Steele Geraldine
Published: April 2020

The recent surge of unethical behaviour throughout all levels of higher education institutions across the world leaves little doubt of the problematic nature of ethics in higher education. The current state of ethics in universities must be seen as a call to action and must be considered a catalyst for an ethical revival in higher education leadership and administration. In the present chapter, against the background understanding of design thinking, ethics, and leadership in higher education, an argument is made for the usefulness of design thinking in moving towards the much-needed ethical revival of higher education. The fundamental premise of the present chapter is that design thinking with its emphasis on empathy is a useful paradigm for supporting the growth of an ethical mindset throughout the higher education.
Ethical Challenges
Authors: Gökçe Asiye Toker , Durante Regina
Published: April 2020

A whistleblower might be considered as trying to help or cause trouble for an organization. Although whistleblowing seems to be a threat to organizational authority structures, it can improve long-term organizational effectiveness when leaders encourage whistleblowing in their organizations to improve their organization's effectiveness and efficiency. Further, the assurance of an ethical organizational system of procedures to frame behavior coupled with individuals who hold similar values can aid organizations in reducing wrongdoing. Without a framework of aligned values, a lack of consensus occurs causing ethical dilemmas. To better understand the motives and reasoning behind whistleblowing and whistleblowers when perceiving wrongdoing, this chapter examines the influence organizational and personal values have on perceptions of misconduct and the factors and characteristics of whistleblowers. In doing so, it will aid leaders and managers in understanding and solving issues of conflict within their sphere of influence.
Teaching for Critical Thinking
Authors: Brookfield Stephen
Published: April 2020

This chapter reviews the core process of critical thinking—hunting assumptions—and explains how this process differs according to the context of what is being taught and the different intellectual traditions that inform teachers' own backgrounds. It outlines a basic protocol of critical thinking as a learning process that focuses on uncovering and checking assumptions, exploring alternative perspectives and taking informed actions as a result. Three different categories of assumptions—paradigmatic, prescriptive, and causal—are defined, and the teaching methods and approaches that most help students to think critically are explored. The chapter examines in detail the fact that critical thinking is best experienced as a social learning process and how important it is for teachers to model the process for students.
Emotional Intelligent Leadership and Its Imperative for Governing Developmental Universities in the 21st Century
Authors: Tshishonga Ndwakhulu Stephen
Published: April 2020

The developed nations compared to their counterparts (developing ones) have managed to invest in education and are able to benefit from the globalized economy and take advantage of their highly competitive higher education systems. Most (South) African universities are led by administrators such as Vice Chancellors, people with high qualifications obtained from prestigious universities, locally and abroad. However, such institutions failed to yield academic and administrative outcomes due to emotional intelligence leadership deficits. This chapter therefore examines the potential impact of adopting emotional intelligence leadership in growing capable, developmental, and people-centred universities. The chapter uses secondary data to argue that above managerial and professionalism skills and competencies, the higher education sector needs emotional intelligence leadership and competencies among its administrative and academic leaders.
Electro-Chemical Deposited Cu-Ni Binary and Cu-Ni-Mn Ternary Alloys from Sulphate Bath for Anti-Corrosive Coating Applications in Brine Environment: Effect of Corrosion Behaviour, Polarization Studies, Morphological and Structural Characterizations
Authors: Sharma Shubham , Dong Xiao Nan , Wei Peng , Long Chen
Published: April 2020

Electrochemical preparation of binary alloy of Cu-Ni from acid sulphate bath containing citric acid using Potentiostatic method. The effects of alloy composition were monitored. Copper is widely used in industry, because of its good thermal conductivity and mechanical characteristics. The accumulation of Nickel & Manganese to Copper enhances itspotency, vigour, toughness, endurance, permanence&also the corrosion-resistanceas well asattrition. Corrosion controls of metal have technical environmental and economical importance. The Cu-Ni-Mn alloyswere used commercially for decorative and protective purpose and also in marine applications. The thin film coating characterized by SEM, EDAX and XRD shows morphological, compositional and structural properties of alloys respectively.
Evaluation Compressive Strength of Cement-Limestone-Slag Ternary Blended Concrete Using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Gene Expression Programming (GEP)
Authors: Wang Xiao Yong
Published: April 2020

Limestone and slag blended concrete is an innovative concrete which belongs to the family of limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) concrete. Strength is an important property of structural concrete. This study shows artificial neural networks (ANN) and gene expression programming (GEP) models for predicting strength development of limestone and slag blended concrete. ANN model consists of an input layer, a hidden layer, and output layer. GEP model consists of the sum of three expression trees. The input parameters of ANN and GEP models are mixtures and ages. The output parameter is a strength. The correlation coefficients of ANN and GEP model are 0.99 and 0.98, respectively. Both ANN and GEP model can produce prediction results of the strength of ternary blended concrete reliably.
Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, Sintering and Fracture Behavior of Ti(C, N) Based Cermets Granules/Ti(C, N) Based Cermets Composite
Authors: Liu Ai Jun , Li Gang , Liu Ning , Chen Ke Bei , Yang Hai Dong
Published: April 2020

Effect of Ti (C,N) based cermets granule on the microstructure, mechanical properties, sintering and fracture behavior of Ti (C,N) based cermets was investigated. Results show that the Ti (C,N) based cermets granules distribute in the matrix homogeneously. A nanoindentation study was performed on hard phase and binder phase in the matrix and granule. With the increase of granules content, sintering properties is worse. With the increase of granules content, transverse rupture strength (TRS) and relative density decrease gradually, while the hardness has an opposite trend. The fracture toughness increases firstly with increasing granule, and then decreases with the further increase of granules. Higher fracture toughness of the cermets is mainly owing to the crack branch and higher fracture energy of coarse granule.
Shape Memory Effect of Polycrystalline Ni54Mn25Ga17.5Ta0.5 High Temperature Shape Memory Alloy with Wide Hysteresis Loop
Authors: Hui Shun Yao , Li Chao Ran , Wang Tong , Xie Jing Wei , Dong Gui Fu
Published: April 2020

Effect of Ta-alloying on microstructure, martensitic transformation, mechanical property and shape memory effect of Ni54Mn25Ga17.5Ta0.5 alloy has been systematically investigated. The results show that the substructure of Ni-Mn-Ga alloy significantly changed, which was converted from the plate martensite to the lath martensite. Compression tests show that a compressive strength of 1380 MPa with a fracture strain up to 21.92% can be achieved in the Ni54Mn25Ga17.5Ta0.5 alloy at room temperature. This is no changed martensite structure with non-modulated T martensite. In addition, the martensitic transition temperature obviously decreases from 350 °C to 208 °Cand hysteresis loop increases about 20 °Cwhen Ta substituted of Ni. The shape memory effect increased with the increase of pre-deformation, nevertheless, the shape recovery ratio appeared firstly increases and then decreases. When the pre-deformation is 10%, 15%, 20%, the shape memory effect of the alloy is 5.1%, 6.8% and 10%, respectively.
A Comparative Study on the Theory of 'Soul' in Christianity and the Doctrine of 'Gandhabba' in Buddhism
Authors: Dhammajoti Rev. Beligalle
Published: April 2020

The whole world speaks of the theory of 'Soul'. It cannot be separated from the human mind and it is deep-rooted. In religion and philosophy, it is considered to be the immaterial, emotional, and spiritual part of a person. Many religions including Christianity have recognized a sort of incorporeal principle of human being and in all other living things. Buddhism, as an atheistic philosophy, does not speak of 'Soul' and it teaches the theory of 'Soullessness'. Buddhism, in explaining life after death, expounds the doctrine of 'gandhabba' which is somewhat an ambiguous and abstruse theory. This paper tries to examine the doctrine of 'gandhabba' as expounded in the fundamental discourses of the Buddha and inspect whether it has somewhat a closer idea to the theory of soul in Christianity. The research method used here depends upon the literature survey. First, the Biblical and other secondary sources have been examined and relevant information is obtained, and then major Buddhist sutras related to the concept of 'gandhabba' were taken into consideration. Finally, doctrinal aspects of the soul theory in Christianity and gandhabba concept in Buddhist tradition have been comparatively examined.
Management of bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) with semiochemicals: letter to a prospective graduate student
Authors: Borden John H.
Published: April 2020

When I accepted the invitation to serve as the lead-off speaker for the symposium Managing Bark and Ambrosia Beetles with Semiochemicals on which this special issue is based, I noted that everything one needed to know was published in Seybold et al. (2018), a really good review of the subject. So, I took another course. About 25 years ago, I gave an oral presentation in the form of a letter to an imaginary graduate student. It seemed to go over well, so I decided to do it again. Here is a version of that letter to Sarah, the latest prospective graduate student conjured up by my imagination.
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE IN A PATIENT WITH PCOS: ANDROGEN-SECRETING GRANULOSA CELL OVARIAN TUMOR IN A VIRILIZED WOMAN WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME (PCOS)
Authors: Harris Ashley A. , Kabadi Udaya M.
Published: April 2020

Objective:

Granulosa cell ovarian tumors are known to secrete estrogen. Herein we report a patient presenting with primary amenorrhea and virilization with markedly high androgen levels, all thought to be disproportional to be attributed to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) alone. Bilateral oophorectomy revealed a rare androgen-secreting granulosa cell ovarian tumor and bilateral cysts (PCOS) both contributing to manifestations.

Methods:

Description of a case and discussion of the literature.

Results:

A 25-year-old female presented with primary amenorrhea, male pattern baldness and hirsutism of the face and chest, clitoral hypertrophy, cystic acne on the chest and shoulders, and type 2 diabetes. Diagnosis of PCOS was made at age 13 years. The concurrent presence of congenital adrenal hyperplasia was also considered. She was receiving metformin, oral contraceptives, and/or spironolactone with no improvement in manifestations at presentation to the endocrine clinic. She reported several elevated serum testosterone and androstenedione levels. Diagnosis of PCOS was established by the presence of enlarged cystic ovaries on ultrasound examination. The patient reported worsening manifestations including progression of diabetes despite therapy with metformin. She shaved her face, chest, and breasts daily for cosmetic reasons. Laboratory testing demonstrated markedly elevated total testosterone level (234 ng/dL), and normal cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone levels. Dexamethasone suppression and human chorionic gonadotropin stimulation indicated ovaries as a probable source of excessive circulating androgen levels. A computed tomography scan of the abdomen and pelvis showed multiple cysts in both ovaries, the largest being 1.9 cm in the right ovary. Due to the severity of manifestations, the patient was counseled to undergo fluoroscopically guided blood sampling of bilateral adrenal and ovarian veins, which confirmed both ovaries to be the source of the excess androgen production with a greater contribution by the right ovary. The patient underwent bilateral oophorectomy. Pathologic examination confirmed the presence of bilateral polycystic ovaries as well as an androgen-secreting granulosa cell tumor in the right ovary which apparently contributed to greater androgen levels in a right ovarian venous blood sample. Peripheral venous androgen levels normalized promptly after bilateral oophorectomy. Gradual resolution of clinical manifestations followed.

Conclusion:

A unique presentation of granulosa cell ovarian tumor with concurrent PCOS contributing to the extremely excessive production of androgens in a young woman manifesting primary amenorrhea and masculinization at the onset of puberty with marked gradual resolution of manifestations following bilateral oophorectomy.
A note on metric-measure spaces supporting Poincaré inequalities
Authors: Alvarado Ryan , Hajłasz Piotr
Published: April 2020

Using a method of Korobenko, Maldonado and Rios we show a new characterization of doubling metric-measure spaces supporting Poincare´ inequalities without assuming a priori that the measure is doubling.
Nonexistence of solutions for elliptic equations with supercritical nonlinearity in nearly nontrivial domains
Authors: Molle Riccardo , Passaseo Donato
Published: April 2020

We deal with nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet problems of the form

\mathrm {div}(|D u|^{p-2}D u )+f(u)=0\quad\text{ in }\Omega,\qquad u=0\ \text{ on }\partial\Omega

where

\Omega

is a bounded domain in

\mathbb R^n

,

n\ge 2

,

p > 1

and

f

has supercritical growth from the viewpoint of Sobolev embedding. Our aim is to show that there exist bounded contractible non star-shaped domains

\Omega

, arbitrarily close to domains with nontrivial topology, such that the problem does not have nontrivial solutions. For example, we prove that if

n=2

,

1 < p < 2

,

f(u)=|u|^{q-2}u

with

q > {2p\over 2-p}

and

\Omega=\{(\rho\cos\theta,\rho\sin\theta)\ :\|\theta|<\alpha,\ |\rho -1| < s\}

with

0 < \alpha < \pi

and

0 < s < 1

, then for all

q > {2p\over 2-p}

there exists

\bar s > 0

such that the problem has only the trivial solution

u\equiv 0

for all

\alpha\in (0,\pi)

and

s\in (0,\bar s)

.
Lipschitz continuity results for a class of obstacle problems
Authors: Benassi Carlo , Caselli Michele
Published: April 2020

We prove Lipschitz continuity results for solutions to a class of obstacle problems under standard growth conditions of

p

-type,

p \geq 2

. The main novelty is the use of a linearization technique going back to [28] in order to interpret our constrained minimizer as a solution to a nonlinear elliptic equation, with a bounded right hand side. This lead us to start a Moser iteration scheme which provides the

L^\infty

bound for the gradient. The application of a recent higher differentiability result [24] allows us to simplify the procedure of the identification of the Radon measure in the linearization technique employed in [32]. To our knowdledge, this is the first result for non-automonous functionals with standard growth conditions in the direction of the Lipschitz regularity.
A variational proof of Nash’s inequality
Authors: Bouin Emeric , Dolbeault Jean , Schmeiser Christian
Published: April 2020

This paper is intended to give a characterization of the optimality case in Nash’s inequality, based on methods of nonlinear analysis for elliptic equations and techniques of the calculus of variations. By embedding the problem into a family of Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequalities, this approach reveals why optimal functions have compact support and also why optimal constants are determined by a simple spectral problem.
Los Alamos High-Energy Neutron Testing Handbook
Authors: Wender Steve , Dominik Laura
Published: April 2020

The purpose of the Los Alamos High-Energy Neutron Testing Handbook is to provide user information and guidelines for testing Integrated Circuits (IC) and electronic systems at the Irradiation of Chips and Electronics (ICE) Houses at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Microelectronic technology is constantly advancing to higher density, faster devices and lower voltages. These factors may increase device susceptibility to radiation effects. The high-energy neutron source at LANSCE/LANL provides the capability for accelerated neutron testing of semiconductor devices and electronic systems and to simulate effects in various neutron environments.