bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Not only decibels: Exploring human judgments of laughter intensity
Authors: Rychlowska Magdalena , McKeown Gary John , Sneddon Ian , Curran Will
Published: April 2020

Paper presented at the 5th Laughter Workshop, Paris, 27-28 September 2018. While laughter intensity is an important characteristic immediately perceivable for the listeners, empirical investigations of this construct are still scarce. Here, we explore the relationship between human judgments of laughter intensity and laughter acoustics. Our results show that intensity is predicted by multiple dimensions, including duration, loudness, pitch variables, and center of gravity. Controlling for loudness confirmed the robustness of these effects and revealed significant relationships between intensity and other features, such as harmonicity and voicing. Together, the findings demonstrate that laughter intensity does not overlap with loudness. They also highlight the necessity of further research on this complex dimension.
(Core Trust) Seal your repository!
Authors: Ernst Doris , Novotny Gertraud , Schönher Eva Maria
Published: April 2020

Eine Arbeitsgruppe, die im Rahmen des Netzwerks für RepositorienmanagerInnen (RepManNet) entstanden ist, hat sich mit gängigen Zertifizierungen für Repositorien beschäftigt. Weiters wurden aktuelle Vorgaben der Forschungsförderer FWF und EU herangezogen. Das Core Trust Seal wurde genauer betrachtet. Hierfür wurde jenen Organisationen, die in Österreich bereits mit CTS zertifiziert sind, ein Fragebogen übermittelt. Die Antworten wurden anonymisiert zusammengefasst und ausgewertet. Plädiert wird für eine Zertifizierung von Repositorien und die Entwicklung einer DINI-Zertifizierung in Österreich.
МЕСТО И РОЛЬ СССР ПО РАЗРЕШЕНИЮ ВОЕННО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОГО КОНФЛИКТА В ИСПАНИИ (1936–1939)
Authors: Макарин А. В. , Рац С. В.
Published: April 2020

Nowadays, there is a strong need for the multidimensional socio-political comprehension of the Russia’s modern stage development. This stage allows us making a research on the reforms’ results in the context of the state institutions. The process of the certain results and meaning rethinking of these changes both on the post-soviet space en bloc and in Russia in particular. This article in this sense is aimed at the investigation of the state’s role and place in the historical dimension. The permanent interest to the state’s role and place as well as the variety of its interactions with other countries is caused in the modern world by the modern states’ crisis. The article in this case is very topical and does cover the military political conflict in Spain and the participation of the USSR in it throughout 1936–1939. The main reason of the republicans’ defeat, according to the authors’ opinion, was the change in the USSR’s foreign policy line and as a result the cease of the economic and military help to the republicans government, the remoteness of the civil war combat fields in Spain and also the all-round military and economic help of the fascist coalition which did take part in the direct intervention on the Iberian peninsula. Alongside with this during the period since august 1939 until march 1939 USSR by lending the military and economic help to Spain did clearly demonstrate its priorities which were the fight against the international fascism and trotskyism, militarism and the unhidden aggression against the republic. The military counselors under the conditions of the modern state war did gain the experience in the planning and participation in the big-scale strategic operations. Lastly, on the threshold of the World War ΙΙ the civil war in Spain is considered to be the largest military political conflict of the mid-30s in the 20th century. The subjects of this conflict was from one side the Spanish republic and from the other one the united forces of the coupists and their allies whereas the object of the conflict was all the absoluteness of the political power.
МОЛОДЕЖНЫЙ ПРОТЕСТ: РИСКИ, ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ, ПОСЛЕДСТВИЯ
Authors: Безрукова Е. Ю.
Published: April 2020

The article is devoted to the possibilities and directions of youth participation in politics. The text criticizes the approach when an engagement in an opposition's protest considered as a destructive phenomenon at all. An author used conception of agonistic democracy by Chantal Mouffe to show the importance of the different ways of including youth people in politics throughout the different ideological pole. The article provides examples of protest behaviour of youth people who caused a resonance in the media. The main question raised by the author are there enough legal channels in modern Russian society for citizens to be involved in politics and to order to avoid the radicalization of public sentiment? In addition, an attempt is being made to highlight the problem of the special distinction between the “young people” category when analyzing protest actions. The phrase “Protest students” is often used in the context of the failure of the protest itself to show that its members were victims of alien influence, and in the administrative legislation of the Russian Federation appeared the wording “engaging minors” in participation in unauthorized actions. The author uses the approach of T. R. Garr, trying the importance of having social elevators and ways to influence the political system to avoid rising protest sentiment. The author refers to a some surveys conducted by the Center for Economic and Political Reforms, the Levada Center, the State Institute of Management. According to these surveys, young people in Russia have little involvement in politics and little interest in political processes. According to a survey by the Levada Center “Planning Horizon of the Future”, the majority of Russians do not plan their future, due to the unstable social situation, that is shown grows up the deprivation level. Based on the analysis of a number of reports of the DIA-info portal, which check detentions during public events. The author concludes that in recent years participation in public events has become much more difficult, starting from coordinating an application for a public event, ending with an increase in fines for participating in an unauthorized action. In addition, tightened control over statements on the Internet. Finally, the author concludes that modern youth may not have enough channels for constructive dialogue with the government, which contributes to its radicalization. To solve this problem, the author suggests that it is necessary to increase the involvement of young people in politics, and not to rely on repressive and prohibitive measures.
The time course of genital response cue-specificity among androphilic women
Authors: Sawatsky Megan L. , Lavrinsek Sofija , Dawson Samantha J. , Lalumière Martin L.
Published: April 2020

Women’s genital responses measured with a vaginal photoplethysmograph (VPP) demonstrate relatively low cue-specificity for gender/sex cues—the difference in genital responses between sexual stimuli with male or female content is relatively small compared to that of men. Cue-specificity for gender/sex cues is particularly low for androphilic women. It is common practice to compare responses to sexual stimuli (typically 60–120 s film clips) using a mean or peak (highest) value. This approach overlooks the continuous and dynamic nature of sexual responding during a stimulus. Recent results suggest that cue-specificity of genital response may increase throughout the duration of a sexual stimulus. We tested this possibility in a sample of 18 androphilic women. Sexual stimuli consisted of 240 s audiovisual film clips depicting male and/or female partnered sex or solitary masturbation. Gender/sex cue-specificity, assessed using VPP, did not vary across time: The degree of cue-specificity and the magnitude of genital response were established by approximately 60–90 s and were consistent throughout the stimulus duration. Low cue-specificity for genital response was observed despite variation in self-reported sexual arousal across stimulus categories. The findings are discussed within the context of initial- and later-occurring aspects of the sexual response, according to the information processing model of sexual arousal. The results also suggest that 90–120 s stimuli are of sufficient duration to capture vaginal photoplethysmographic responses to audiovisual stimuli in sexual psychophysiological research.
Problemmanagement in Werker-Assistenz-Systemen
Authors: Rupp Stephan , Müller Rainer , Kerker Sebastian , Faltus Florian , Franke Jörg
Published: April 2020

Kurzfassung

Durch die Nutzung von virtuellen Planungsmethoden und Tools sind heute bereits in frühen Phasen der Fahrzeugentwicklung erste Planstände der Serienmontageabläufe verfügbar. Dies ermöglicht es, für die Prototypenmontage vergleichbare Assistenz-Systeme zu nutzen, wie sie für die Serienproduktion bereits verbreitet sind, um diese Montageabläufe frühzeitig zu erproben. Da während der Entwicklung jedoch mit unreifen Prozessen und kontinuierlichen Änderungen gearbeitet werden muss, sollten diese Systeme auch mit auftretenden Problemen umgehen können. Für diesen Zweck wurde ein Problemmeldeprozess entwickelt und in ein Assistenz-System integriert, der den effizienten Wissenstransfer aus der Prototypenproduktion in der Planung und Entwicklung und damit letztendlich in die Serie gewährleistet.
Chancen und Risiken von Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung
Authors: Zürn Siegfried , Lücken Hermann
Published: April 2020

Kurzfassung

Die zunehmende Komplexität von Produkten sowie der Trend zu individualisierten Produkten stellen enorme Anforderungen an die Fertigungsindustrie dar, die nur durch Industrie 4.0 bewältigt werden können. In diesem Rahmen hält die Digitalisierung vermehrt auch Einzug in die Qualitätssicherung und ermöglicht dabei eine signifikante Steigerung der Produkt- und Prozessqualität. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt den Stand der Digitalisierung sowie die Chancen und bestehenden Herausforderungen aus Sicht der Fachkräfte und Entscheidungsträger aus Unternehmen der Fertigungsindustrie.
Wettbewerbsstrategie Mass Customization
Authors: Piller Frank , Gülpen Christian
Published: April 2020

Kurzfassung

Ziel von Mass Customization ist, von Unterschieden zwischen Kunden zu profitieren, indem bestimmte Prinzipien die effiziente Bereitstellung von Waren und Dienstleistungen ermöglichen, die den persönlichen Bedürfnissen der Kunden entsprechen. Auch in der aktuellen Diskussion um Industrie 4.0 ist Mass Customization ein häufig genanntes Wertversprechen, wenn es darum geht, Kleinserien bis “Losgröße 1“ durch Automation und Vernetzung wirtschaftlich sinnvoll industriell zu fertigen.
МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЕ ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКОЙ НЕОПРЕДЕЛЕННОСТИ НА ОСНОВЕ Z-ЧИСЕЛ В СИСТЕМАХ МНОГОКРИТЕРИАЛЬНОГО ПРИНЯТИЯ РЕШЕНИЙ
Authors: Салимов Вагиф Гасан
Published: April 2020

The article is devoted to the problem of multi criteria decision making under linguistic uncertainty. Information of different approaches for modelling linguistic uncertainty have been analyzed. The concept of z- numbers proposed by L. Zadeh have been presented. Z-number is presented as cortege of two fuzzy number A and B, where A is analyzed factor, B is reliability of an assessment. The method of conversion z- numbers into generalized fuzzy numbers have been applied. As test problem have been used supplier selection problem. As decision making model have been used group weighted average method. All calculations and results were presented.
DYNAMICS OF CELLULAR IMMUNE RESPONSE IN SHIGELLOSIS IN CHILDREN INFECTED WITH CYTOMEGALOVIRUS
Authors: Bukiy S. M.  , Olkhovska O. M.
Published: April 2020

The analysis of the cellular immune response indicators in shigellosis in 90 children aged four to ten years infected with cytomegolovirus. It was found that in the acute period of the disease in children with mixed infection, the content of CD3 +, CD4 + and CD8 + cells of peripheral blood decreases, and by the period of early reconvalescence, the full recovery of cellular immunity indicators in these children does not occur. The revealed features of cellular immunity in shigellosis in children infected with CMV may be the cause of an unfavorable course of the disease and require further research.
HUMAN CORONAVIRUSES. CURRENT STATUS OF THE ISSUE (LITERATURE REVIEW)
Authors: Varkhomii P. T.  , Mikheev А. А.
Published: April 2020

In the 21st century, when medicine seemed to be steadily progressing and developing, studying and applying new methods of diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in order to prevent the occurrence of epidemics, a new infectious agent (virus) of the respiratory system appears, which has the ability of emergence, causes a rather high mortality rate among the population and triggers experts' concern about the unpredictability of the evolution of the virus. This article provides a brief analysis of the literature on coronaviruses and the diseases they can cause in humans, in particular the clinical features in childhood.
ПРОЕКТИ ВИЩОЇ ПЕДАГОГІЧНОЇ ОСВІТИ В УКРАЇНІ ПЕРШОЇ ПОЛОВИНИ ХІХ ст.
Authors: Дем’яненко Н. М.  , Бойко А. М.
Published: April 2020

The period of the first half of the nineteenth century is characterized by a significant number of the pedagogical education projects development, which can be divided into two main groups: the author’s (M. Demkov, V. Ivanovsky, G. Kollontay, M. Pirogov, М. Troitsky, K. Ushinsky, T.Chacky, etc.) and official (authorized by the Ministry of Public Education). Among them are the projects of Pedagogical Institute in the "Prior Rules of Public Education" (1803), the General Regulations of the Russian Imperial Universities in 1804 and 1835, the Pedagogical Courses Principles (1860, 1865); the draft of the Teaching Institute Regulations (1862) and a number of others. It`s considered that author's approaches significantly influenced the content of the official group and even served as their basis.The analysis of the projects content is allowed to group them into two divisions. The first is the projects of educational institutions for the primary school teachers training (teachers' seminary, teacher's institutes), and the second one is educational institutions for the secondary school teachers training (pedagogical faculties, pedagogical institutes, pedagogical courses, pedagogical seminaries). At the same time, the first projects were planned as an independent, exclusively closed educational institutions of the residential type. Their curricula had to provide the detailed learning of the primary schools disciplines and the teaching methods. A compulsory condition for the existence of the second group was their opening on the basis of universities, which according to the authors of the projects had to provide a broad compulsory education and special training for advanced teaching. The dominant for university teaching institutions was the viewpoint of their open type, which is slightly allowed to reduce the cost of teacher training, providing teacher applicants with scholarships rather than complete public funds.The common requirement for both types of projects was the requirement for compulsory in-depth pedagogical training, which, as a rule, reflected the need to follow the principle of theoretical pedagogical courses unity (pedagogy, didactics, knowledge about upbringing, history of pedagogical currents, etc.) and pedagogical training.Thereby the pedagogical institute on this basis was opened in the structure of the University of St. Volodymyr in Kyiv in 1834. Having passed the difficult historical path, today is known in the world educational space by a large-scale innovative activity as National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, it is still the custodian of the university pedagogical institute idea of the 1830s, traditions of teacher training.
Single-Dose Pembrolizumab Achieving Remission in Patient with Refractory Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Authors: Findakly Dawood , Moazez Carmel , Findakly Dawood , Amar Surabhi
Published: April 2020

Background: Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is a hematopoietic tumor that is distinguished by the presence of
Reed-Sternberg cells in a background of inflammatory cells. Advancements in cancer research have driven
significant motions in cancer-related overall survival outcomes, which has led to higher rates of developing
secondary neoplasms.
Case Presentation: A 22-year-old-woman with a past medical history of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)
who presents to the hospital for respiratory manifestations and unintentional weight loss. Chest Computed
Tomography (CT) scan showed left axillary lymphadenopathy; biopsy proved nodular sclerosing stage IVB
HL. The patient started an anthracycline free regimen, but unfortunately, she developed an acute kidney
injury, and thus, cisplatin was discontinued and switched to brentuximab therapy with hemodialysis. After
the second cycle of salvage brentuximab therapy, the patient was admitted to the hospital for post obstructive
pneumonia-causing acute hypoxic respiratory failure, and the decision was made to start the patient on
immunotherapy with pembrolizumab. However, during administering pembrolizumab, the patient
developed acute respiratory distress, and she ended up requiring emergent intubation and was admitted to
the medical intensive care unit. Therefore, it was decided that pembrolizumab will not be given again. The
patient later stabilized, and surprisingly, upon follow-up, the patient was found to have negative
fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT scan, which indicates the remission of her HL.
Conclusion: Recognize the critical role of the anti-programmed cell death protein-1 monoclonal antibodies
in patients with chemo-resistant Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL).
Hidden Factors in Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease
Authors: Maguire Linda , Kreps Gary L. , Maguire Linda
Published: April 2020

Diagnoses of Alzheimer’s, dementia and other mental health conditions using the “family history method”
can often be inaccurate, biased and possibly ill-motivated. Definitive clinical testing and/or biological tests
rarely exist for most mental illnesses. Even when tests (such as PET scans or excess Abeta42 in cerebral
spinal fluid indicating presence of neuronal plaques, for example) and other suggestive biomarkers are
"positive", there are often no outward cognitive-behavioural symptoms or symptomatic evidence associated
with the alleged mental illness (and vice-versa). Furthermore, environmental stressors, dehydration and
other fully curable illness and treatable issues such as urinary tract infections, delirium, drug interactions
and insomnia can quickly create outward ‘false’ symptoms of mental illnesses, often mistaken for true
mental health diagnoses. Therefore, a comprehensive consideration of ex parte narratives, experience,
familiarity and also possible underlying motivations, of even the most well-meaning family members in the
“family history method” of mental illness diagnoses, currently used by doctors and other professionals,
should be revisited.
Hat-Trick: On a Case of Hip Replacement Complicated by Dislocation and Infection and Periprosthetic Fracture
Authors: Solarino Giuseppe , Virgilio Antonio , Moretti Biagio , Maruccia Francesco , Solarino Giuseppe , Belviso Vito
Published: April 2020

Case Presentation: A 79-year-old man with several general medical comorbidities referred to our
orthopaedic Unit with dislocation, infection and periprosthetic fracture of a long-stem hip hemiarthroplasty.
Results: A one-stage revision was performed using a dual mobility cup and a standard modular-neck stem,
both fixed with antibiotic-loaded cement.
Conclusion: Hip replacement is a common treatment for femoral neck fractures in the elderly population
with a significant improvement in the quality of life of patients. Local complications can lead to poor
outcomes. The simultaneous presence of dislocation, infection and periprosthetic fracture is a challenge of
treatment for the surgeon and the frailty of the patients get this scenario even worse. Every attempt must be
driven toward a safe and time-preserving “single-shot” procedure.
BALANCED SCORECARD: UTILIZAÇÃO DA PERSPECTIVA DO CLIENTE NA AVALIAÇÃO DO SUPERMERCADO X
Authors: Sgarbossa Maira , Muraro Mirna
Published: April 2020

Diante do cenário econômico em constante desenvolvimento decorrente do processo da globalização e concorrência, as empresas necessitam de uma gestão que possibilite o atendimento de seus objetivos e metas. A controladoria através do uso do Balanced Scorecard (BSC) permite uma visão balanceada e integrada dos processos, garantindo que os esforços da organização se direcionem para a criação de valor. Assim, o objetivo desse estudo consiste em avaliar o desempenho financeiro e organizacional do supermercado X através da perspectiva do cliente, uma dentre as quatro abordadas pelo BSC. Metodologicamente, trata-se de um estudo aplicado de caráter descritivo, com abordagem quantitativa, realizado através de um levantamento junto aos clientes do estabelecimento. Ao final, percebe-se a gestão organizacional do supermercado que visa ampliações, criação de novos departamentos e principalmente qualidade dos produtos vendidos, refletiu na sua lucratividade e na fidelização de clientes. Identificou-se que 53% dos clientes entrevistados realizam suas compras a mais de dez anos no Supermercado X; 44% destes clientes reconhecem a qualidade dos produtos do supermercado e os adquirem mesmo que o preço seja superior aos outros estabelecimentos da cidade; e 50% dos clientes destacam a padaria como o melhor departamento do mercado, pela qualidade dos produtos produzidos e comercializados.
APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY (AHP) PROCESS FOR EVALUATING STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE (SRC) LEADERSHIP CRITERIA
Authors: Saaludin Nurashikin , Ismail Mohd Hafizul , Zainal Abidin Ira Syazwani , Che Mat Basyirah
Published: April 2020

Higher learning institutions play an important role in producing future talents as it does not only equip the students with knowledge but also inculcates value-added skills such as leadership skill. The skills are needed to prepare themselves for the overcoming challenge after graduated.  The involvement as a Student Representative Committee (SRC) is a good starting point for producing future leader as students get involved in various activities and decision-making process. The SRC is responsible for representing the voice of students community, especially related to the academic, welfare and co-curricular activities. Thus, the right selection of the SRC candidates is crucial as it will reflect universities’ good governance. This study wishes to gather the perceptions of students community towards SRC leadership criteria and look into the dominant criteria through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. The study was conducted at Universiti Kuala Lumpur. The results revealed that the students community hope for the SRC members who have leadership talents such as good in Communication, Well-organised, Passionate, Creative, Commitment, Team-player and Visionary. By using AHP, Commitment, Passionate and Well-organised contributed to the highest weightage that indicated such criteria are important to be considered in the SRC selection process.
Application of the response surface method (RSM) to optimize of the conditioning of primitive rye grain krzyca (Secale cereale var. multicaule) before milling
Authors: Konopka Stanisław , Piłat Beata
Published: April 2020

The aim of the current study is to optimize the conditioning process of a primitive rye called (in Polish) krzyca which has recently been reintroduced to farming. The experiment was conducted according to the Box-Behnken model with three independent variables: the temperature of water used for grain conditioning (10, 15, 20 oC), the duration of the conditioning process (4, 10, 16 h) and the final grain moisture (13, 14, 15 %). In the obtained flours, four dependent variables were determined (time of grain milling, yield of extraction flour, ash content of flour and falling number value). The obtained polynomial equations and response surface method showed on significance of the used ranges of independent values, with the highest impact noted for flour ash and falling number values.
Higher education in the paradigm of speed
Authors: Sarauw Laura Louise , Madsen Simon Ryberg
Published: April 2020

Studies often highlight how standardisation and consent are manufactured through the European Bologna Process (Brøgger 2019; Gibbs et al. 2014; Lawn and Grek 2012). This article shows how students’ conduct is still governed by multiple logics and dilemmas. The context for the article is the Bologna Process and the way it has been applied by the Danish government in the 2014 reforms that sought to fast-track the completion of student degrees. It analyses the impact of changes on students’ conduct through a series of focus group interviews with students who were confronted with the new demands to speed up their progress through their degrees. To illustrate the complexity of this standardisation, the analyses are framed within theoretical ideas of ‘risk’ (Beck 2006) and ‘translation’ (Latour and Callon 1986).
Evaluating English Teacher Education Programs in Indonesian Tertiary Education: A Proposed Model
Authors: Hidayat Didin Nuruddin
Published: April 2020

Numerous research studies on language program evaluation in many countries, for instance, Turkey (Uysal, 2012), Taiwan (Chang, 2010), Bangladesh (Rahman, 2007), Saudi Arabia (Liton, 2013) have yielded valuable ideas and insights in improving the quality of language programs. Those research studies have also expanded the plethora of discussion and have tested many ‘untested’ thoughts in the area of language program evaluation. Nonetheless, similar studies have not been researched much far in the Indonesian education context. The present study aims to describe the importance of English teacher education program evaluation. Also, the study aims to explore a suitable evaluation model in evaluating English teacher education programs, particularly in the Indonesian tertiary education context. The findings of the study found Peacock's (2009) model as a potential evaluation model to apply in evaluating English teacher education programs. These are based on at least three following grounds: suitable to the needs and environment of English teacher education in Indonesia, reliable and informative evaluation, and thorough involvement of the inner circle stakeholders. The study concludes that if an evaluation is conducted properly, then it has the potential to improve the quality of English language teachers training programs.
The Suitability of Word Games for Teaching English Vocabulary Based on Curriculum 2013
Authors: Yusuf Kamal , S. Cici Dwi
Published: April 2020

Digital game becomes more familiar in this young generation. Most of the people particularly young generation love to play game using their personal mobile phone and it seems like to be their habits. In addition, digital games are free for everyone to play as long as they connect to the Internt connection. To exploit this situation, teacher uses it as teaching and learning media to improve students vocabulary in the matter of stduents problem to improve their vocabulary. There are lot of studies which is experimented by digital games to improve vocabulary for their students but only a little talk about the kind of digital game able to be used for improving it. This study is aimed to analyse the digital game especially word game which is available in the play store that suitable for teaching based on the basic competence for seventh grade in curriculum 2013. This study found that only 58,20% of the sutability between the word game and the basic competence.
Monopoly Science as a Medium of Biological Learning (Kingdom Animalia Material) in Disruption Era
Authors: Hidayah Vika Rachmania
Published: April 2020

The background of this research is the emergence of an era of disruption which is a phenomenon when society shifts the acarity-activity that was originally done in the real world, into cyberspace. The research methods used are literature and Research and Development (R&D). Researchers compiled a game formula for monopoly SCIENCE that will be used as a media learning Kingdom Animalia material. This game is composed because there are still many students who struggle to learn Animalia Kindom material because of its many and very complex material. The Media is very much needed for students to understand the material presented by the teacher. In order to achieve the learning objectives that correspond to the present era, the era of disruption. Then it takes a method of learning with the media that establishes the values of Indonesian traditions as well as mutual cooperation, please help, sense of empathy, not individualist etc. Thus, researchers have been able to identify the learning media that is antractive by using a monopoly game with a not boring design and foster the tradition of the nation's cultural values that began to be displaced by the development of the era of disruption.
Literature Study on The Influence of Mathematics Basic Skills to Work Out Physics Problems
Authors: Murni Murni , Mirdayanti Rina , AG Burhanuddin
Published: April 2020

This research aims to describe the correlation of mathematics skills as the basic skills that students need in order to solve physics problems that seem complicated and difficult to understand. Physics describes the order of nature in mathematical equations thus the ultimate goal of physics in finding other sequences and making use of it in real life can be achieved more easily. This research was conducted using literature study approach. The data were collected by means of documentation with secondary data obtained from several references. The data were then analyzed using content analysis technique. A relevant summary of the correlation between proper mathematical understanding and complex physics problem-solving ability was attained from this research. These results were confirmed by the data gained from a range of references in the form of books, both online and offline journals as well as prior conferences that have been read, reviewed and analyzed by focusing on the mastery of mathematics skills in developing students' critical thinking to work out physics problems.
Nutritional Status with Infant Motor Development
Authors: Saputri Nurwinda , Prahasti Eriska
Published: April 2020

Children under the age of five (toddler) Indonesia experience nerve development and brain disorders ranging from mild to severe. Every 2 out of 1,000 babies experience motor development disorders. Factors affecting motor development in toddlers, such as hereditary, prenatal environment, postnatal environment. Nutritional status plays an important role in motor development. The purpose of this research is to know the relationship of nutritional status with the development of coarse motor toddler This research is an analytical survey research with cross sectional approach. Sampling techniques used are total sampling. Sample as much as 60 toddlers. This data is collected using checklist and observation sheets. Hypothesis test using Chi square correlation analysis. Data analysis results show the value of P value (0.000) < α (0.05) which means there is a significant relationship as well as the relation of relationships belonging to the strong category with the frequency value of the coefficient of (0.625). In conclusion there is a relationship of nutritional status with the infant motor development, and the relationship of these two variables is significant.
Simplified binary cat swarm optimization
Authors: Siqueira Hugo , Santana Clodomir , Macedo Mariana , Figueiredo Elliackin , Gokhale Anuradha , Bastos-Filho Carmelo
Published: April 2020

Inspired by the biological behavior of domestic cats, the Cat Swarm Optimization (CSO) is a metaheuristic which has been successfully applied to solve several optimization problems. For binary problems, the Boolean Binary Cat Swarm Optimization (BBCSO) presents consistent performance and differentiates itself from most of the other algorithms by not considering the agents as continuous vectors using transfer and discretization functions. In this paper, we present a simplified version of the BBCSO. This new version, named Simplified Binary CSO (SBCSO) which features a new position update rule for the tracing mode, demonstrates improved performance, and reduced computational cost when compared to previous CSO versions, including the BBCSO. Furthermore, the results of the experiments indicate that SBCSO can outperform other well-known algorithms such as the Improved Binary Fish School Search (IBFSS), the Binary Artificial Bee Colony (BABC), the Binary Genetic Algorithm (BGA), and the Modified Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (MBPSO) in several instances of the One Max, 0/1 Knapsack, Multiple 0/1 Knapsack, SubsetSum problem besides Feature Selection problems for eight datasets.
Penalized logistic regression based on L1/2 penalty for high-dimensional DNA methylation data
Authors: Jiang Hong-Kun , Liang Yong
Published: April 2020

BACKGROUND:

DNA methylation is a molecular modification of DNA that is vital and occurs in gene expression. In cancer tissues, the 5’–C–phosphate–G–3’(CpG) rich regions are abnormally hypermethylated or hypomethylated. Therefore, it is useful to find out the diseased CpG sites by employing specific methods. CpG sites are highly correlated with each other within the same gene or the same CpG island.

OBJECTIVE:

Based on this group effect, we proposed an efficient and accurate method for selecting pathogenic CpG sites.

METHODS:

Our method aimed to combine a [Formula: see text] regularized solver and a central node fully connected network to penalize group constrained logistic regression model. Consequently, both sparsity and group effect were brought in with respect to the correlated regression coefficients.

RESULTS:

Extensive simulation studies were used to compare our proposed approach with existing mainstream regularization in respect of classification accuracy and stability. The simulation results show that a greater predictive accuracy was attained in comparison to previous methods. Furthermore, our method was applied to over 20000 CpG sites and verified using the ovarian cancer data generated from Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation 27K Beadchip. In the result of the real dataset, not only the indicators of predictive accuracy are higher than the previous methods, but also more CpG sites containing genes are confirmed pathogenic. Additionally, the total number of CpG sites chosen is less than other methods and the results show higher accuracy rates in comparison to other methods in simulation and DNA methylation data.

CONCLUSION:

The proposed method offers an advanced tool to researchers in DNA methylation and can be a powerful tool for recognizing pathogenic CpG sites.
A study of a fetal heart rate calculation system based on R-R interval
Authors: Zhang Yisong , Zhang Song , Yang Lin , Yang Yimin , Li Xuwen , Hao Dongmei , Xu Mingzhou , Shao Jing
Published: April 2020

BACKGROUND:

Fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) can be obtained in a non-invasive manner to monitor fetal growth status.

OBJECTIVE:

In this study, a fetal heart rate (FHR) calculation system was proposed, which consists of the FECG recorder (MF-HOLTER) and the FECG monitoring software (FECG-MS). The abdomen electrocardiogram (AECG) of pregnant woman is acquired through the MF-HOLTER. The FECG-MS packs the AECG data and calls the FECG separation algorithm to obtain the separated FECG and the fetal QRS (FQRS) position. The FHR is further obtained by calculating the R-R interval value. At the same time, this study proposed a FQRS position correction algorithm to calculate the correct FHR values.

METHOD:

In order to verify the accuracy of the FHR calculation, the ECG signal of FLUKE’s PS320 FETAL SIMULATOR and clinical data were simultaneously tested.

RESULTS:

The accuracy rate is over 98% in processing the simulator’s data. In processing clinical data, the FHR values obtained by both the system proposed in this study and Monica AN24 are very close, and the difference is less than 1 bpm.

CONCLUSION:

The results show that the FHR calculation system is accurate and stable, and has a positive application value and prospect.
Clinical evaluation of the effectiveness of a new orthotic device for the non-operative treatment of scoliosis
Authors: Han Kap-Soo , Kim Gi-Wook , Kang Seung-Rok , Ko Myoung-Hwan , Seo Jeong-Hwan
Published: April 2020

BACKGROUND:

Bracing is one of the oldest non-operative treatments for patients with scoliosis. However, a wide variety of braces is used, and some show no effect, while others show conflicting results.

OBJECTIVE:

We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a new orthotic device for the treatment of adult scoliosis.

METHODS:

Twenty adult patients who were diagnosed with scoliosis and qualified for the study were selected and all participants were treated for 12 hours/day for 12 weeks using a new orthotic device. Various efficacy assessments (Cobb’s angle, spine length, pelvic angle, shoulder angle, thoracic angle, lumbar angle, pelvic sacral angle) were performed before and after the 12-week treatment. The values at each time point were compared.

RESULTS:

There were significant treatment effects in a time-dependent manner on every efficacy assessment ([Formula: see text] 0.05) after 12 weeks of bracing.

CONCLUSION:

In this clinical study, it was demonstrated that a new brace that is more comfortable for the wearer reduced scoliosis and may be a useful option for non-operative treatment of scoliosis.
Analysis of physiological data from long- term physical exercise: A basis for improving the health of rural residents of Korea
Authors: Kim Kyong , Kim Tae-Won , Kim Seong Hyun
Published: April 2020

BACKGROUND:

Analysis of the change pattern of a user’s physiological signals collected over a long time and user health information prediction technology based on personal history data can provide the user with accurate health information.

OBJECTIVE:

In this study, we analyzed the change pattern of health information that was altered by performing personal training (PT) at the beginning of the study and subsequently quitting exercise and only performing activities of daily living (ADL).

METHODS:

The subject performed PT for 75 days, and then consistently performed relatively simple ADL, such as standing, sitting, and walking, for 325 days that followed. After 400 days, the health information was analyzed through the change patterns of various physiological signals. Personal exercise information and heart rate data were collected through a smart watch (Apple watch Nike[Formula: see text], Apple Inc.) and the obesity parameters (i.e. information on the weight, body fat fate, and body muscle rate) were measured using a smart scale (PICOOC S1 Pro, EasySolar).

RESULTS:

We found that the weight and body fat rate linearly decreased and the body muscle rate increased for the first 75 days when hard training was performed whereas they repeatedly increased or decreased when only ADL were performed. As the daily exercise distance increased, weight and body fat rate tended to decrease while body muscle rate tended to increase. There was no significant change in the weight, body fat rate, and body muscle rate while daily activities were performed, but continuous exercise is expected to improve cardiac function by increasing the cardiac output of the heart.

CONCLUSION:

We expected that the simple physiological data measured with smart watches and smart scales can be used for the health management of the elderly living in rural areas in the future.
Experimental study on differential diagnosis of cerebral hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke based on microwave measurement
Authors: Wang Feng , Zhang Haisheng , Bao Junlin , Li Huaiqiang , Peng Weihao , Xu Jia , Yang Jun , Zhuang Wei , Ning Xu , Xu Lin , Qiao Liang , Qin Mingxin , Chen Mingsheng
Published: April 2020

BACKGROUND:

Hemorrhagic stroke and ischemic stroke have similar symptoms at the onset of the disease, but their clinical treatment is completely different. The early, effective identification of stroke types can effectively improve the cure rate.

OBJECTIVE:

In this study, an early, noncontact identification of the stroke type, i.e., hemorrhagic or ischemic, based on a microwave measurement technique was investigated.

METHODS:

This study was based on animal models of cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral ischemia and the design of a microwave scattering parameter measurement system.

RESULTS:

The accuracy of the cerebral hemorrhage model with a blood loss interval of 2 ml reached 93.75%. While the accuracy of the cerebral ischemia model with an ischemic interval of 42 minutes reached 91.7%.

CONCLUSION:

The experimental results show that the system for identifying cerebral stroke based on microwaves can distinguish between cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral ischemia models and effectively distinguish between different degrees of cerebral hemorrhage or different durations of cerebral ischemia. This experimental system is inexpensive, portable, noninvasive, simple, and rapid and thus has good potential as a method for identifying the stroke type prior to hospitalization.
A simple method for removing initial irregularity of an electrocardiogram during a transient state of a power supply in a defibrillator
Authors: Yi Jeong-Han , Kim Ki-Han , Ahn Jin-Su , Kim Hyung-Sik
Published: April 2020

BACKGROUND:

The defibrillator is a device that instantaneously discharges the high energy stored in the capacitor to the human body to help revitalize the heart. The circuit for charging the capacitor uses the same power source as the biosignal measurement unit. Therefore, variation in main power supply voltage, ground noise, and electromagnetic interference from the charging circuit can induce distortion into the biosignal at the initial stage of charging.

OBJECTIVE:

In this study, a simple method is proposed for removing the initial irregularity of an electrocardiogram due to the transient state of a power supply.

METHODS:

To evaluate the method, a 1-channel electrocardiogram measurement unit and peripheral units were separated from the main control module using galvanic isolation. An isolated push-pull converter was designed to power the secondary side. The method was tested under steady-state and transient conditions.

RESULTS:

The obtained results proved that biosignal distortion can be significantly reduced.

CONCLUSION:

This method could be another simple implementation approach for solving signal distortions due to the transient status of power supplies used in medical devices.
Reading fluency and pitch discrimination abilities in children with learning disabilities
Authors: Lu Haidan , Zhang Kaili , Liu Qiaoyun
Published: April 2020

BACKGROUND:

Pitch perception and pitch matching may link to individual reading skills.

OBJECTIVE:

In this study, we examined pitch perception and pitch matching tasks in children with learning disabilities to determine whether there was any connection between these tests and the reading fluency in these children.

METHOD:

The study used different types of pitch discrimination tests and reading fluency tests to compare the two groups.

RESULTS:

Results indicated that the accuracy of pitch discrimination and reading fluency was significantly different in these children with learning disabilities relative to typically developing children. This study also indicated that they exhibit impaired pitch matching, which linked to their reading skills.

CONCLUSION:

The results indicate that processing and production of speech may be impacted by individuals’ musical pitch perception and matching ability. The results may also give us a piece of evidence that we need further research on how these deficits in musical pitch perception affect our speech and language production in children and adults.
Rehabilitative training system based on a ceiling rail for detecting the intended movement direction of a user
Authors: Kim Kyong , Chong Woo Suk , Yu Chang Ho
Published: April 2020

BACKGROUND:

Accurate detection of the intended movement direction of a patient plays an important role in the development of a training system for gait rehabilitation and enables to increase the effect of gait rehabilitation training.

OBJECTIVE:

This study investigated the detection of the intended movement of a user to operate a ceiling rail-based rehabilitative training system with accurate timing.

METHODS:

To detect the movement direction intention of a user, two potentiometers were used to measure the movement direction in the anterior, posterior, and left and right directions of the user when operating the driving motor of the rehabilitative training system. A simple test mock-up with two potentiometers was fabricated, and the experiments were conducted to determine the effect of the direction of movement on the measured values of potentiometers. A direction measurement algorithm was developed to control the driving motor of the rail-based gait rehabilitative training system.

RESULTS:

The intended movement direction of the user could be predicted for eight directions by combining the “positive value, 0, negative value” of each measured value of the two potentiometers. Further, the developed algorithm was effectively used to control the driving function to assist the walking, sitting–standing, and climbing up–down the step activities in daily life.

CONCLUSIONS:

The movement intention detection function for users developed in this paper can be used to effectively control a rehabilitative training system for patients with hemiplegia to improve gait movement and posture balance, thereby improving their function of activities of daily living.
A coronary artery segmentation method based on region growing with variable sector search area
Authors: Ma Guangkun , Yang Jinzhu , Zhao Hong
Published: April 2020

BACKGROUND:

Coronary artery image segmentation is an important auxiliary method for coronary artery disease diagnosis.

OBJECTIVE:

The classical region growing algorithms, which only consider the intensity of pixels, are noise-sensitive and require manual interaction. To this end, recent methods simultaneously consider the intensity of pixels and multi-scale analysis with the region growing. Nevertheless, these methods are not fully optimized and they suffer from the drawbacks of over- or under-segmentation in many cases.

METHODS:

In this paper, we propose a region growing based coronary artery segmentation method. Different from the existing methods, the variable sector search area is considered in the region growing technique. A growing rule is proposed to segment the vessel, which combines the Hessian vector and the region growing with the variable sector search area. To further improve the quality of segmentation, we propose an optimization of removing some small disconnected regions.

RESULTS:

Our proposed method can search more branches while segmenting the vessel, even the small ones. It keeps an acceptable performance when dealing with stenosis and large curvature of blood vessels.

CONCLUSIONS:

Quantitative evaluations are conducted on coronary angiography and the results show that the proposed method achieves a higher DSC ratio and a more reliable sensitivity ratio.
Representation of Culture in EFL Textbooks and Learners’ Preference
Authors: Alshenqeeti Hamza
Published: April 2020

This research represents the importance of culture in English as Foreign Language (EFL) Textbooks and learners' preference in the English classrooms. The study analyzes the cultural representation in three types of culture: source, target, and international of English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks used in English classrooms at public universities in Saudi Arabia. Through the method of content analysis, it was discovered that a cultural representation balance was not maintained, indeed, as the contents were skewed toward target culture representation. Analyses of the study data, including a survey taken by EFL learners (N= 120), showed that source culture was the least interesting for these participants. The analyses also showed that skill development and target and international cultural training were prioritized by the study subjects. The findings of the current study suggest the need for thoroughness in developing rigorous frameworks for EFL textbooks' cultural integration, and for future experimental trials focusing on culture and foreign language research.