bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Desarrollo de habilidades sociales básicas y avanzadas en adolescentes y jóvenes con discapacidad visual
Authors: Aguilar Verdugo Mayra , Rogel Díaz Edinson , Ochoa Guerrero María , Urías Arbolaez Graciela
Published: June 2021

El estudio constituye las acciones que tienen lugar en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de adolescentes y jóvenes con discapacidad visual en Unidad de Educación Especial “Claudio Neira Garzón”, de la ciudad de Cuenca-Ecuador. Se fundamentó en el paradigma cualitativo a través del método el estudio de caso grupal, el objeto de estudio fue potenciar las habilidades sociales básicas y avanzadas en el grupo de estudiante que integraron la muestra de la investigación. Las técnicas utilizadas fueron: la observación participante, entrevista semiestructurada y escala de habilidades sociales, con sus respectivos instrumentos. La investigación derivó al diseño de un sistema de actividades dividida en tres fases, siguiendo un orden secuenciado, basadas en estrategias didácticas tales como; trabajo cooperativo y el juego de roles. La propuesta fue evaluada mediante el criterio de especialistas, obteniéndose resultados positivos, debido principalmente a que está contextualizada a la escuela, familia y comunidad, con recursos y estrategias didácticas accesibles considerando potencialidades, intereses y necesidades de los educandos.
Ansiedad por el aislamiento domiciliario producto del coronavirus y el afrontamiento en el estudiante universitario
Authors: Del Carpio Delgado Fabrizio , Vera Barrios Bertha Silvana , Huacasi Machaca Rómulo
Published: June 2021

Las universidades de todo el mundo han estado inseguras sobre cuánto tiempo durará la crisis del coronavirus y cómo podría afectar la salud mental de los estudiantes y la facultad. El impacto psicológico ha sido crítico para el aislamiento forzado, creando ansiedad e incertidumbre. Los datos se recolectaron mediante la plataforma virtual de cada estudiante y se evaluó la recolección de información en la Universidad Nacional de Moquegua. Comprender el estado de salud mental de los estudiantes producto del covid-19 durante la epidemia a 397 estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional de Moquegua, el método utilizado fue el cuestionario Carver para observar los modos de afrontamiento al estrés, para obtener el comportamiento del individuo ante situaciones difíciles, el coronavirus afecta la salud mental: estos son temas prácticamente inexplorados. Estas son circunstancias sin precedentes, y entendemos que crean estrés, favorecen la angustia y la búsqueda feroz de la adquisición de nuevos conocimientos.
Exam Management System at Notre Dame University Bangladesh
Authors: Saiful Islam A. H. M. , Khan Ishan Md. Harun Aur Rashid , Ahmed Nilima , Chakraborty Manabendra Kishore
Published: June 2021

Exam Management System (EMS) at Notre Dame University Bangladesh (NDUB) is an effective system for man- aging exam and course-related activities for NDUB. EMS auto- mates the conventional system of managing exams. EMS helps NDUB faculties, students, and other academic officers to manage the exam processing very easily and effectively and EMS can maintain mobility of these activities better than conventional manual systems. The main intentions of EMS are to conduct the exam and course-related activities very easily and rapidly. Comprehensively EMS has many interesting features altogether situated in a fair intended web application. EMS is designed using recent technologies like ‘Laravel 7.0’, ‘Bootstrap’, ‘JavaScript’, ‘jQuery’, ‘MySQL’. EMS’s working speed is very rapid and its database can take a massive user load at a time. EMS can be very useful for the exam and course-related operations of Notre Dame University Bangladesh.
Financial Development and Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh: Evidence from the ARDL Bound Testing Approach
Authors: Uddin Ahamad Kazi Mezbah , Shaon Shakil Mahmood , Chowdhury Noushin Farjana Huda
Published: June 2021

This paper investigates how financial development is related to poverty reduction in a developing nation such as Bangladesh. Employing the ARDL bound testing approach to cointegration, the study finds that the variables representing poverty reduction and financial development are cointegrated. The long-run and the short-run estimations indicate that financial development reduces poverty. In particular, on average, a 1 percent increase in financial development reduces poverty by 0.6 percent in the long run, and in the short run, the rate is 0.4 percent. The results are robust even when controlling for military expenditure and macroeconomic stability variables. The study also discovers that even though military expenditure may seem innocuous in the short run, it hurts poverty reduction in the long run.
Counting the Invisible Working Hands in India
Authors: Balaji M.
Published: June 2021

This paper enquires into the problem faced by migrant labors in the informal sector in India. It argues for the registration and tracking of migrants, particularly interstate migrants, as they constitute a significant proportion of the labour force. The mobility of labor is the natural mechanism for infusing inclusive and faster growth across the globe, and tracking the poor migrants would lead to investment in human and social capital, paving the way for integrating poverty alleviation policies and development strategies for overall better outcomes.
Implementation of an Associative Memory using a Restricted Hopfield Network
Authors: Yeap Tet
Published: June 2021

A trainable analog restricted Hopfield Network is presented in this paper. It consists of two layers of nodes, visible and hidden nodes, connected by weighted directional paths forming a bipartite graph with no intralayer connection. An energy or Lyapunov function was derived to show that the proposed network will converge to stable states. The proposed network can be trained using either the modified SPSA or BPTT algorithms to ensure that all the weights are symmetric. Simulation results show that the presence of hidden nodes increases the network’s memory capacity. Using EXOR as an example, the network can be trained to be a dynamic classifier. Using A, U, T, S as training characters, the network was trained to be an associative memory. Simulation results show that the network can perform perfect re-creation of noisy images. Its recreation performance has higher noise tolerance than the standard Hopfield Network and the Restricted Boltzmann Machine. Simulation results also illustrate the importance of feedback iteration in implementing associative memory to re-create from noisy images.
Bilecik İlindeki Şehirleşmenin Taşkın Riski Üzerindeki Etkilerinin Araştırılması
Authors: BAYAZIT Yıldırım
Published: June 2021

Taşkınlar, son yıllarda doğal dengenin giderek bozulması sonucu, şiddetini ve yıkıcılığını arttırmakta ve daha sık meydana gelmektedir. Taşkınların yaşanmasındaki en önemli nedenlerden biri şehirleşmeyle meydana gelen arazi kullanımındaki değişimlerdir. Bu çalışmada, ilk olarak uzaktan algılama ile şehirleşmedeki değişimin bulunması hedeflenmiştir. Daha sonra, coğrafi bilgi sistemlerinden yararlanarak şehirleşmedeki bu değişimin taşkın riski üzerindeki etkisinin ortaya konulması hedeflenmiştir. Çalışmada, Bilecik ilinin 2000 ve 2018 yıllarına ait CORINE arazi kullanımı haritaları kullanılarak arazi sınıflarındaki değişim incelenmiştir. Bölgedeki taşkın riskini etkileyebilecek yağış, eğim, yükseklik ve arazi kullanımı ve akarsulara uzaklık gibi parametrelerin modellemeye eklenmesiyle birlikte Çok Kriterli Karar Verme Analiziyle taşkın risk haritası modellemeleri yapılmıştır. Yapılan çalışma sonucunda, 2000 yılından 2018yılına kadar bölgenin arazi yapısı değişiminin taşkın riski üzerindeki etkisi ortaya konmuştur. 2000 yılında taşkın riski altında olan alan 12250 ha iken 2018 yılında bu alan 13547 ha olmuştur. Bu durum şehirleşmenin taşkın riski üzerindeki negatif etkisini açık bir şekilde ortaya koymaktadır.
The pre-Christian religions of the north, research and reception, vol. 1: From the middle ages to c. 1830 [Book Review]
Authors: Kennedy John
Published: June 2021

Review(s) of: The Pre-Christian Religions of the North, Research and Reception, vol. 1: From the Middle Ages to c. 1830, by Clunies Ross, Margaret (ed.), (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018) hardcover, xxxiv + 637 pages, 37 b and w + 24 colour illustrations, RRP euro130; ISBN: 9782503568799.
The baptism of duke Mieszko I in medieval history-writing
Authors: Dobosz Józef
Published: June 2021

The baptism of Mieszko I was a defining event in the history of the Poles and the emergent monarchy established by Mieszko's forebears. There are not many extant sources that enable the establishment of the chronology of the chain of events that led to Mieszko's conversion to Christianity. The extant annals contain very limited information and the later medieval authors' reconstructions of events offer an ornamented image of the key participants. What seems to be certain is that the baptism of Mieszko and his court commenced a long process of Christianisation of his subjects and that the key enabler of Mieszko's conversion was his marriage to the daughter of the ruler of Bohemia, Dobrava. This article will argue that it is impossible to provide the precise dating of the actual baptism of Mieszko beyond an estimate that it happened somewhere in Wielkopolska between 965 and 968.
The Social Experiment of Remote Work Forced by the Pandemic from a Qualitative Research Perspective
Authors: Binder Piotr
Published: June 2021

This paper has two principal goals. The first is reflection over the available source literature, indicating the scant interest in it in the Polish social sciences, and in sociology in particular. The second goal is to present the findings from the first round of qualitative research conducted during lockdown, focusing on the experiences of people working remotely. The analyses of the material accumulated focused on how remote work was imagined prior to the pandemic, on the shock of transition to working remotely, on how a new rhythm took shape in the context of lifestyles, and on a comprehensive appraisal of the remote work experience, including prospects for the future. The findings indicate that despite the dramatic circumstances behind the imposition of remote working and the enormous difficulties experienced by the respondents, they are openminded regarding various options for continuing work in a remote mode. At the same time it proved pertinent to supplement boundary theory as the theoretical interpretative framework with a perspective of the respondents’ lifestyles and current place in life (the life-cycle effect), allowing for a better understanding of the respondents’ experiences and outlining prospects for rewording the schematic representations of this social phenomenon.
Social Solidarity during the Pandemic: The “Visible Hand” and Networked Social Movements
Authors: Chwat Olivia
Published: June 2021

The author poses the following questions: (1) What forms are social movements adopting today, particularly in response to the epidemic crisis? (2) Are we observing the practice of grassroots solidarity reaching beyond the charitable model of support? She seeks answers taking the Facebook group Visible Hand [Widzialna Ręka] as an example; it was established shortly after lockdown had been announced in the first quarter of 2020, as a form of social organisation aiming to provide mutual aid during the difficult time of the pandemic. She asserts that communities organising themselves in a manner similar to Visible Hand are an example of how external crises highlight problems existing within societies and contribute to their destabilisation. While deliberating over whether the initiative in question is one of ad-hoc episodes of non-organised collective activity, a discussion-and-contact forum, or perhaps a contemporary social movement, she reaches for Manuel Castells’ concept of networked social movements—and asserts that Visible Hand may be acknowledged as a social movement. In closing her paper, she considers the connections between moral bond and solidarity.
Everyday Life in (Post-)Pandemic Homes
Authors: Sztop-Rutkowska Katarzyna
Published: June 2021

The article presents the results of research conducted in March and April 2020 on changes in everyday life during the general quarantine in Poland. The analysis was based on entries and visual data (photos, drawings, memes) collected at that time in a group specially established for research on Facebook named Pandemia Stories PL. The article focuses on the observed changes in the use of houses/apartments in the context of physical space and changes affecting interpersonal relationships. The summary contains theses about the likely changes after the end of the Covid 19 pandemic: increasing the role of technology and nature in the home space.
Pożegnanie nomady. Antropologiczne pomyślenia Wojciecha Burszty (1957–2021)
Authors: Czubaj Mariusz
Published: June 2021

The author limns an intellectual portrait of the cultural specialist and anthopologist Wojciech Józef Burszta (1957–2021), who died at the beginning of 2021. Burszta’s reflections centered on the “post-anthropological” shape of contemporaneity. Such thinking involved, on the one hand, relinquishing the idea of culture as a cohesive, harmonious system (ideas close to the symbolic anthropology of Clifford Geertz), and on the other, the increasing awareness of “being in culture,” of the possession and appropriation of culture by the community, individuals, and institutions (Burszta described these processes as “metaculture”). In addition to popular culture and pop nationalism, another important area of interest for Burszta was literature—an essentially anti-systemic reverse of anthropological reflections on reality.
Wprowadzenie: Westlessness czyli zmierzch Zachodu 2.0?
Authors: Cianciara Agnieszka K.
Published: June 2021

This article introduces the special section entitled Westlessness or the  Decline of the West 2.0? Whereas the concept of the West remains a moving target and requires the Other – the Rest to exist and thrive, it does organize both global power relations and the way we think about them. Thus the ‘decline of the West’ is not only about material realities, but also about de-legitimizing practices and discourses produced by strategically-acting actors both outside and within the West itself. Whereas Westlessness in the World refers to the weakening ability of shaping the Rest, Westlessness in the West denotes contestation and hollowing-out of the liberal rules of the game in the very centre of the West: the us and the European Union. The question remains as to whether COVID-19 pandemic brings “more of the same”, while amplifying existing trends, or whether it provides for a transformation impulse and possibly Western revival.
Automated Dimension Measurement System
Authors: Kakirde Shubham , Jain Shubham , Kaondal Swaraj , Kumbhare Reena , Das Rita
Published: June 2021

In this fast-paced world, it is inevitable that the
manual labor employed in industries will be replaced by their
automated counterparts. There are a number of existing solutions
which deal with object dimensions estimation but only a few of
them are suitable for deployment in the industry. The reason being
the trade-off between the cost, time for processing, accuracy and
system complexity. The proposed system aims to automate the
mentioned tasks with the help of a single camera and a line laser
module for each conveyor belt setup using laser triangulation
method to measure the height and edge detection algorithm for
measuring the length and breadth of the object. The minimal use
of equipment makes the system simple, power and time efficient.
The proposed system has an average error of around 3% in the
dimension estimation.
Development of Qgis Plugin to Monitor the Health Condition of a Lake
Authors: K Shibu , Ayoob S.
Published: June 2021

Monitoring the quality of surface water is an
important step towards sustainability of water resources.
Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) is an opensource desktop application which is used for editing and
analysing geospatial data. This study aims to develop a QGIS
plugin named Lake Ecosystem Tool to monitor the health
condition of a lake in terms of water quality index, trophic state
index, hazard quotient, aerial water spread and volumetric
change and the same can be used as a planning tool for the
sustainable management of existing water bodies.
Design and Implementation of an Automated Hotel Management System
Authors: S. Priyadharshini , Joy R.Catherine
Published: June 2021

The aim of an automated hotel management system
is to handle all aspects of the hotel's information and booking
system. This application attempted to cover all operations that
occur in residential hotels. It is all identified, from employee
management to booking, floors, offices, and room type
management, among other things. We sought to demonstrate how
data/information is processed in hotels in our project, automated
Hotel Management System. The hotel management overview was
achieved by splitting the project into different modules.
Customers are offered various facilities such as check-in, checkout, and entry editing, as well as advance payments. Customer
has the option to cancel his or her reservation if he or she so
desires. Customer Id or customer name may be used to search for
any customer or employee. It is also possible to inquire about
available spaces. It will produce reports for customers, employees
(who work in the hotel), and a bill for the customer when the
customer checks out. We've only included a few modules because
our aim is to get an idea or learn more about how hotels are
managed. With the addition of several more components, this
type of project may be used in a variety of hotels. The efficiency
of any hotel is determined by the method used to obtain and
prevent information from customers' personal data for use in the
hotel's various services. It has been a complex and difficult
operation to manage their outcome revealed, particularly when
information flow is consistent. This project focuses on creating a
client-side and user interface in Java Script, as well as a backend
in Java Spring to support panorama data and images.
A Proposal for Sleep Scoring Analysis Designed by Computer Assisted using Physiological Signals
Authors: Farooq Hemu , Jain Anuj , Sharma V.K.
Published: June 2021

Sleep is utterly regarded as compulsory component
for a person’s prosperity and is an exceedingly important element
for wellbeing of a healthy person. It is a condition in which an
individual is physically and mentally at rest. The conception of
sleep is considered extremely peculiar and is a topic of discussion
and researchers all over the world has been attracted by this
concept. Sleep analysis and its stages is analyzed to be useful in
sleep research and sleep medicine area. By properly analyzing
the sleep scoring system and its different stages has proven
helpful for diagnosing sleep disorders. As it’s seen, sleep stage
classification by manual process is a hectic procedure as it takes
sufficient time for sleep experts to perform data analysis. Besides,
mistakes and irregularities in between classification of same data
can be recurrent. Therefore, the use of automatic scoring system
in order to support reliable classification is highly in greater use.
The scheduled work provides an insight to use the automatic
scheme which is based on real time EMG signals and Artificial
neural network. EMG is an electro neurological diagnostic tool
which evaluates and records the electrical activity generated by
muscle cells. The sleep scoring analysis can be applied by
recording Electroencephalogram (EEG), Electromyogram
(EMG), and Electrooculogram (EOG) based on epoch and this
method is termed as PSG test or polysomnography test. The
epoch measured has length segments for a period of 30 seconds.
The standard database of EMG records was gathered from
various hospitals in sleep laboratory which gives the different
stages of sleep. These are Waking, Non-REM1 (stage-1), NonREM2 (stage-2), Non-REM3 (stage-3), REM. The collection of
data was done for the period of 30 second known as epoch, for
seven hours. The dataset obtained from the biological signal was
managed so that necessary data is to be extracted from
degenerated signal utilized for the purpose of study. As a matter
of fact, it is known electrical signals are distributed throughout
the body and is needed to be removed. These unwanted signals
are termed as artifacts and they are removed with the help of
filters. In this proposed work, the signal is filtered by making use
of low-pass filter called Butterworth. The withdrawn
characteristics were instructed and categorized by utilizing
Artificial Neural Network (ANN). ANN, on the other hand is
highly complicated network and utilizing same in the field of
biomedical when contracted with electrical signals, acquired
from human body is itself a novel. The precision obtained by the
help of the procedure was discovered to be satisfactory and hence
the process is very useful in clinics of sleep, especially helpful for
neuro-scientists for discovering the disturbance in sleep.
Fingerprint Authentication
Authors: Rajasingh J Paul , Yaswanth D Sai
Published: June 2021

Biometrics refers to the automatic identification of a
living person based on physiological or behavioural
characteristics for authentication purpose. Among the existing
biometric technologies are the face recognisation, fingerprint
recognition, finger-geometry, hand geometry, iris recognition,
vein recognition, voice recognition and signature recognition,
Biometric method requires the physical presence of the person to
be identified. This emphasizes its preference over the traditional
method of identifying what you have such as, the use of password,
a smartcard etc. Also, it potentially prevents unauthorized
admittance to access control systems or fraudulent use of ATMs,
Time Attendance Systems, cellular phones, smart cards, desktop
PCs, Workstations, vehicles and computer networks. Biometric
recognition systems offer greater security and convenience than
traditional methods of personal recognition.
Mental Health Quantifier
Authors: Gupta Daksh , Markale Aashay , Kulkarni Rishabh
Published: June 2021

The definition of mental disorders describes them as “health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking or behavior or a combination of these”. Contemporary societies of 2020 still fall short in recognizing some of the most common afflictions as actual problems in people. Some of those are depression, anxiety and stress disorders. This paper proposes a Machine Learning based approach wherein the analysis of the multiple-choice inputs along with a neatly curated questionnaire based on feature extraction will be done and then supervised classification algorithms will be used to generate a mental health score as well as a detailed report based on responses the user gives.
COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF CALCIUM HYDROXIDE AND SILVER NANOPARTICLES AS INTRACANAL MEDICAMENT: AN IN-VIVO STUDY
Authors: Kohli Aditi , Mittal Rakesh , Tandan Monika
Published: June 2021

The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the antimicrobial activity of calcium hydroxide and silver
nanoparticles as an intracanal medicament in patients with necrotic/infected pulp.
Materials And Methods– 30 single rooted permanent teeth diagnosed clinically and radiographically with necrotic/infected pulp were included.
After complete disinfection, access opening was done and working length was determined. The rst microbiological pre-treatment sample (S1)
was collected by paper points. After completion of instrumentation, a post-instrumentation sample (S2) was taken and the teeth were divided into
two groups: Group 1: calcium hydroxide, Group 2: Silver nanoparticles. The intracanal medicaments were left in place for 7 days. Post 1 week, S3
was taken. Samples collected were cultured on BHI agar and colony forming units were counted after 24 hours.
Results- Intergroup comparison was done using Mann Whitney U test & intragroup comparison was done using Friedman test & Wilcoxon test. It
was observed that the percentage reduction was better with Group 2 (Silver nanoparticles), however, it was not statistically signicant when
compared to Group 1 (Calcium hydroxide).
Conclusion – It was concluded that silver nanoparticles showed signicant antimicrobial activity and can be used as an effective root canal
medicament as an alternative to calcium hydroxide dressing.
CUTANEOUS SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA- A CASE REPORT
Authors: K.S. Suprajha , Manimaran Manimaran , Barathiraja Barathiraja
Published: June 2021

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is a malignant neoplasm of the skin characterized by an aberrant
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proliferation of keratinocytes.
The usual presentation of skin malignancies include ulceration, growth, a change in mole, unusual form or bleeding due to various etiological
factors. There exists a diagnostic challenge, as many benign conditions present similarly, thereby altering the treatment strategy.
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Although Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma usually display a benign clinical behaviour, it can be both locally invasive and metastatic
Here we report a case of an elderly female who presented with a proliferative growth in right forearm for the past 1 year, from a pre-existing mole,
which on examination had features of all the three cutaneous malignancies resulting in a diagnostic uncertainty and which on further workup was
diagnosed as a well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma
DOES CHLORHEXIDINE WIPE HELP IN REDUCING HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS (HAIS) AMONG CRITICALLY ILL CHILDREN ADMITTED TO A PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT?
Authors: Kumar Madhan , Chandran Jolly , Pragathesh Pragathesh , Gnananayagam Ebor Jacob , Paul Hema , Ebenezer Kala
Published: June 2021

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of chlorhexidine wipes in reducing the incidence of hospital acquired infections
(HAIs) among critically ill children admitted in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
METHODS: An interventional study, wherein enrolled children were wiped with chlorhexidine after routine bath. The incidence of HAIs were
noted and compared with data from historical controls of previous year during the same period (pre-intervention).
RESULTS: One hundred and ninety nine children in the intervention period were compared with 271 children from pre-intervention period. The
numbers of ventilator-days were 777 and 696 respectively for the intervention period and pre-intervention periods. Incidence of ventilator
associated pneumonia (VAP) reduced from 12.9/1000 ventilator-days in the pre-intervention period to 6.4/1000 ventilator-days in the
intervention period (p=0.1). VAP prevalence was 3.3% in the pre-intervention period as compared to 2.5% in the intervention period (p=0.6).
The incidence of CLABSI was 3.6/1000 catheter-days (catheter days: 1377) with prevalence of 2.5% in the intervention period, whereas among
the historic controls of the previous year it was 4.2/1000 days (catheter days 1432) with a prevalence of 2.2% (p= 0.8). No untoward effect was
reported.
CONCLUSION: The use of chlorhexidine wipes in ICU was feasible but did not signicantly decrease HAIs.
PROBLEMS OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN NIGERIA: LESSONS FOR THE THIRD REPUBLIC
Authors: Sa’ad AbduI-Mumim
Published: June 2021

The administration of criminal justice all over the world is infested with problems. The problems are undoubtedly more in number and seriousness in a Third World country such as ours, Nigeria. This paper identifies and 1 explains in some details only some of the more serious of the problems in Nigeria. It does so within the context of the five major stages involved in the administration of criminal justice which includes: charges and pleas; bail and remand; trial and legal representation; judgment and sentencing; as well as appeals. The paper then concludes by offering some useful solutions to each of the problems identified and explained in the paper, calling upon the Third Nigerian Republic to implement those recommendations for a better administration of justice in the country.
LOCAL REVENUE AND SERVICES IN NIGERIA: THE CASE OF OGUN STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Authors: Okafor S.I.
Published: June 2021

This paper examines the links between the financial resources of local governments and the availability of local services. It also examines the ‘equalisation effect’ of grants from higher levels of government on resource disparities between local government areas. It was found that intergovernmental (financial) transfers do not necessarily eliminate need-resource gaps in local government areas. The existence of these gaps, in spite of grants from higher levels of government, implies that the allocation of grants negates an important objective of intergovernmental transfers, viz. to adjust for disparities in fiscal capacity among local jurisdictions caused by variations in resources, tax bases and population.
RETHINKING WORKER-CONSCIOUSNESS: Work, Class and Culture
Authors: Adesina Jimi O.
Published: June 2021

This paper re-examines current thinking on worker-consciousness, and criticizes the prevailing reluctance to accommodate non-class identities in class subjectivity. Much of the problem with the discussion of worker-consciousness, the paper argues, is epistemological. Consciousness is both experiential and defined by ‘preconstituted’ knowledge. It is contradictory as much as it is a contested terrain of individual and group engagement with ‘reality1. The experience of work, and class, is mediated by non-work and non-class experiences and identities, otherwise we miss the territoriality of class. Understanding workers as producers of knowledge allows an appreciation of how language, is itself, constitutive of identity and consciousness.
La impunidad en Guatemala producto de la mora judicial
Authors: Hernández Morales Cynthia Melissa
Published: June 2021

Los derechos humanos representan valores propios de la persona humana, por ello, son considerados inherentes y fundamentales dentro de los postulados básicos de un Estado democrático de Derecho, su reconocimiento permite la erradicación de la tradición histórica de los Estados totalitarios o autoritarios que limitaban su ejercicio y sometían a las personas a sistemas restringidos marcados por la desigualdad y la falta de libertad. En la actualidad, Guatemala pasa por una época democrática donde los derechos humanos se han vuelto parte importante dentro del sistema jurídico nacional, aunque en la materialización del ejercicio de estos derechos, resultan ciertos hechos que ponen de manifiesto la difícil aplicación del orden jurídico a nivel judicial en materia penal, tomando en cuenta que la carga de trabajo y la mora judicial, son fenómenos que afectan los derechos humanos particularmente de las personas sometidas a investigación y que dentro del proceso penal, le fue restringida la libertad personal de manera provisional, dentro de un sistema penitenciario inoperante y violatorio de los derechos de los privados de libertad. Un Estado es protector de los derechos humanos no solo reconociendo los mismos dentro de su contenido jurídico, sino que además debe establecer los medios procesales que garanticen su ejercicio dentro del proceso penal, estimando que los derechos del imputado deben coexistir con el derecho de acción de la víctima, evitando la impunidad al no alcanzar una justicia pronta y cumplida para ambas partes procesales.
La historia de Ixkik y la celebración del miércoles de Chilate en Rabinal, Guatemala
Authors: Mosquera Saravia María Teresa
Published: June 2021

En esta ocasión se presenta una analogía entre la historia de Ixkik del Popol Vuh y la celebración del Miércoles de Chilate en Rabinal, que es un ritual que se celebra un día antes del jueves de Corpus Christi.  Para éste análisis se parte de la relación entre; agricultura, religión y cosmovisión maya que se presenta en una primera parte, posteriormente se sintetiza la historia de Ixkik en el Popol Vuh, para proporcionar algunos de los elementos que se utilizarán en la segunda parte del manuscrito, ya que en esta se hace una etnografía de la celebración del miércoles de chilate y se analizan algunos de los elementos de la cosmovisión maya presentes en ella.
A Standardized Framework for Evaluating Surgical Enhanced Recovery Pathways: A Recommendations Statement from the TDABC in Health-care Consortium
Authors: Etges Ana Paula B.S. , Stefani Luciana Paula Cadore , Vrochides Dionisios , Nabi Junaid , Polanczyk Carisi Anne , Urman Richard D.
Published: June 2021

Background: Innovative methodologies to redesign care delivery are being applied to increase value in health care, including the creation of enhanced recovery pathways (ERPs) for surgical patients. However, there is a lack of standardized methods to evaluate ERP implementation costs.

Objectives: This Recommendations Statement aims to introduce a standardized framework to guide the economic evaluation of ERP care-design initiatives, using the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) methodology.

Methods: We provide recommendations on using the proposed framework to support the decision-making processes that incorporate ERPs. Since ERPs are usually composed of activities distributed throughout the patient care pathway, the framework can demonstrate how the TDABC may be a valuable method to evaluate the incremental costs of protocol implementation. Our recommendations are based on the review of available literature and expert opinions of the members of the TDABC in Healthcare Consortium.

Results: The ERP framework, composed of 11 steps, was created describing how the techniques and methods can be applied to evaluate the economic impact of an ERP and guide health-care leaders to optimize the decision-making process of incorporating ERPs into health-care settings. Finally, six recommendations are introduced to demonstrate that using the suggested framework could increase value in ERP care-design initiatives by reducing variability in care delivery, educating multidisciplinary teams about value in health, and increasing transparency when managing surgical pathways.

Conclusions: Our proposed standardized framework can guide decisions and support measuring improvements in value achieved by incorporating the perioperative redesign protocols.
Analysis of existing diagnostic systems
to control the vibration level of locomotive components
Authors: Gubarev P.V. , Bol'shikh I.V. , Shabaev V.V.
Published: June 2021

The existing installations and systems used in locomotive depots for their diagnosis are analyzed. New devices and
technologies are proposed. The approximate composition of the diagnostic complex is given.
К ВОПРОСУ О РОЛИ И МЕСТЕ ГОСУДАРСТВА В РЫНОЧНОЙ ЭКОНОМИКЕ
Authors: Кагерманов А.-С.С. , Магамаев Х.С. , Идигов З.И.
Published: June 2021

В статье рассмотрены основные аспекты роли государства в рыночной экономике, а также механизмы государственного регулирования, дано определение данной категории. Проводится анализ роли государства в рыночной экономике, а также акцентируется внимание на основные направления деятельности по поддержке развитию экономики страны. Государственное регулирование экономики направлено на изменение и установление определенных экономических процессов, представляющих собой совокупность производства, распределения, об-мена и потребления благ. Законодательное регулирование должно базироваться на достаточно взвешенном, разумном балансе интересов государства и рыночной экономики.
PREDICTION MODEL OF PROBABILITY ESTIMATE OF FATAL CASES IN INFANTS WITH CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS IN SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS
Authors: Vlasov Alexey O. , Holovanova Iryna A.
Published: June 2021

Aim: To evaluate different types of combined anesthesia in surgical correction of congenital malformations in infants and to develop a prediction model of the association of risk factors and fatal cases in chosen methods of anesthesia care.
Material and methods: The retrospective study included newborns and infants with congenital malformations, who received and continued phased surgical treatment. Determination of risk factors was performed by the method of simple logistic regression with the calculation of the odds ratio (OR), 95% confidence interval (95% CI).
Results: A total of 150 children were included in the study. The risk factors for deaths in the surgical correction of congenital malformations in children have been established, a prognostic model has been created.
Conclusions: To prevent fatal cases in various types of surgery and options for anesthesia care of newborns and infants with CM, it is advisable to more closely monitor the cerebral, peripheral oximetry at all stages of treatment and timely correct the impaired condition of the child.
ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMPONENTS OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME IN POLTAVA REGION OF UKRAINE
Authors: Zhdan Vyacheslav M. , Holovanova Iryna A. , Oksak Grygori A. , Khorosh Maksym V.
Published: June 2021

The aim of our research was to study the structure of patients with acute coronary syndrome and determine the organizational components of medical care for patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome in Poltava region.
Material and methods: For our study was on the one hand statistical reports of health care institutions for 2016-2018, and on the other – a survey of doctors and paramedics of emergency medical care teams on tactics management of patients with AMI. The methodological apparatus used to achieve the set goals was based on the determination of relative values and analysis of time series.
Results: The number of patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome is growing every year: from 82 people in 2012 to 489 in 2018. According to the monitoring conducted in Poltava region, emergency medical care for patients with acute coronary syndrome with ST segment elevation in 2018 in the cities was provided in the amount of 717, while in rural areas – 288.
Conclusions: Data from the analysis of emergency medical care for patients with acute coronary syndrome showed that among patients with ST-segment elevation, urban residents predominate; in 90.6% of cases, the time to the patient’s hospitalization was less than 120 minutes.
THE IMPORTANCE OF CARNITINE AND ITS METABOLISM IN NEWBORN: LITERATURE REVIEW AND CLINICAL CASE
Authors: Znamenska Тetiana , Vorobiova Оlha , Holota Тetiana , Marushko Yurii , Pokhylko Valerii
Published: June 2021

Aim: To analyze the literature on the processes of formation of endogenous and exogenous carnitine, its metabolism and function in the newborn.
Material and methods: The literature data and international clinical recommendations for pathological conditions leading to primary and secondary carnitine deficiency have been retrospectively analyzed. A clinical case of a child with suspected systemic carnitine deficiency is presented.
Conclusions: Depending on the reasons that led to carnitine deficiency, there are primary and secondary carnitine deficiency. Primary carnitine deficiency is a rare condition that can lead to metabolic decompensation, muscular and cardiac myopathy, and sudden death. Secondary carnitine deficiency can be caused by a genetically determined congenital metabolic defect, insufficient substrate intake, acquired disorder, immaturity of the biochemical pathway in premature infants, renal failure or iatrogenic exposure. Familiarization with the main causes of carnitine deficiency in newborns will more effectively detect and correct the clinical manifestations of this condition.
Assessment of changes in air temperature and precipitation in Transbaikalia
Authors:   Zabaikalskoe Northwestern Administration for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Chita, Russia, Smakhtin V.K.
Published: June 2021

Assessment of changes in air temperature and precipitation in Transbaikalia/ Smakhtin V.K. // Hydrometeorological Research and Forecasting, 2021, no. 2 (380), pp. 138-146. The paper analyzes long-term fluctuations in average air temperature and annual total precipitation in Transbaikalia. Between 1951 and 2020, air temperature increased by 2.3 °C according to 40 weather stations. Warming is mainly manifested in the air temperature rise in February, March and April. From 1955 to 2017, the decrease in annual total precipitation was 56 mm in the Amur basin and 39 mm in the Yenisei basin. The trends are reliable at the 5% significance level. In the Lena basin, annual total precipitation during the mentioned period increased by 7 mm, the trend is not reliable at the 5% significance level. The high-water phase has been observed since 2017. Taking into account that two previous high-water phases lasted 16‒17 years, it may be supposed that a risk of precipitation above the normal will be kept in the next 13–14 years. Keywords: climate change, air temperature, precipitation, phases of water content, trendsRef. 81.
Dust storm episodes at the aerodromes in the Asian part of Russia
Authors:   Hydrometeorological Research Center of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, Ivanova A.R. , Skriptunova E.N. ,   Hydrometeorological Research Center of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, Komasko N.I. ,   Hydrometeorological Research Center of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, Zavialova A.A. ,   Hydrometeorological Research Center of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Published: June 2021

Dust storm episodes at the aerodromes in the Asian part of Russia / Ivanova A.R., Skriptunova E.N., Komasko N.I., Zavialova A.A.// Hydrometeorological Research and Forecasting, 2021, no. 2 (380), pp. 20-42. According to 2001-2020 METAR data, episodes of dust storms at 26 international aerodromes in the Asian Russia causing poor visibility are studied. The conditions for issuing reports on dust storms, their correspondence to the definition of a dust storm are discussed. It was found that out of 337 reports describing dust transport by strong wind, only 7 episodes registered at the aerodromes of Irkutsk, Abakan, Omsk, and Blagoveshchensk corresponded to the classical definition. The others detected at 15 of 26 aerodromes may be defined as “dust events” – the episodes of dust transfer causing the nonessential visibility reduction. The seasonal variation in such episodes and its connection with changes in visibility are studied. The characteristics of dusty air masses and the direction of their advection are given. Keywords: dust storm, dust events, aerodromes of Asian Russia, seasonal variation, trajectory analysis
Object-oriented assessment of COSMO-Ru2 precipitation forecast quality for the warm season (May-September) in 2016-2020
Authors:   Hydrometeorological Research Center of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, / Kiselnikova V.Z.
Published: June 2021

Object-oriented assessment of COSMO-Ru2 precipitation forecast quality for the warm season (May-September) in 2016-2020 / Kiselnikova V.Z. // Hydrometeorological Research and Forecasting, 2021, no. 2 (380), pp. 43-51. The results of the object-based verification of COSMO-Ru2 6-hour total precipitation forecasts for warm season (May-September) during 2016-2020 are given. The forecast domain corresponds to the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation. The estimates are divided into two parts (2016-2019 and 2020) essentially differing in the number (8 and 12) of weather radars that are taken in to account. The estimates for the second period were significantly improved as compared to the respective parameters for the first period Keywords: object-based verification, total precipitation forecast, COSMO-Ru2, warm season, Central Federal District
Analysis of the arrival of southern cyclones to the Republic of Bashkortostan
Authors:   Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Volobueva O.V. , Toptunova O.N. ,   Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Drobzheva Y.V. ,   Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Published: June 2021

Analysis of the arrival of southern cyclones to the Republic of Bashkortostan / Volobueva O.V., Toptunova O.N., Drobzheva Y.V. // Hydrometeorological Research and Forecasting, 2021, no. 2 (380), pp. 66-76. The results of the analysis of the arrival of southern cyclones to the territory of the Republic of Bashkortostan for the period of 1993-2018 are presented. Typical trajectories of cyclones, areas of their origin, as well as accompanying adverse weather phenomena are identified according to the observational network of the Bashkir Administration for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. In 70 % of cases, southern cyclones move through the territory of the republic and leave it in the southern direction. About 50 % of the depressions come to the Republic of Bashkortostan from the Black Sea and its coast. The upper-air field for the arrival of southern cyclones is the front part of the pressure trough with high geopotential height gradients. The arrivals of southern cyclones have a significant impact on the study area and are closely related to the formation of severe hydrometeorological events. Keywords: southern cyclone, typical territories, the Republic of Bashkortost
A novel iterative approach for solving common fixed point problems in Geodesic spaces with convergence analysis
Authors: BANTAOJAI THANATPORN , GARODIA CHANCHAL , UDDIN IZHAR , PAKKARANANG NUTTAPOL , YIMMUANG PANU
Published: June 2021

In this paper, we introduce a new iterative method for nonexpansive mappings in CAT(\kappa) spaces. First, the rate of convergence of proposed method and comparison with recently existing method is proved. Second, strong and \Delta-convergence theorems of the proposed method in such spaces under some mild conditions are also proved. Finally, we provide some non-trivial examples to show efficiency and comparison with many previously existing methods.
Ulam-Hyers stability of Darboux-Ionescu problem
Authors: MARIAN DANIELA , CIPLEA SORINA ANAMARIA , LUNGU NICOLAE
Published: June 2021

In his doctoral thesis, D. V. Ionescu has considered Darboux problem for partial differential equations of order two with modified argument. The Darboux-Ionescu problem was studied in some general cases by I. A. Rus. In this paper we study Ulam-Hyers stability and Ulam-Hyers-Rassias stability for this problem considered by I. A. Rus, using inequalities of Wendorff type.
Existence of common best proximity point for single and multivalued non-self mappings
Authors: PRAGADEESWARAR V. , GOPI R.
Published: June 2021

In this article, we introduce a new concept called proximal E. A property for single and multivalued mappings. We prove existence of proximally coincidence point for such class of mappings. We provide interesting example which illustrates our main results. Finally, we provide sufficient condition for existence of common best proximity point for this class of mappings.
Existence of fixed points of weak enriched nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces
Authors: SUANTAI SUTHEP , CHUMPUNGAM DAWAN , SARNMETA PANITARN
Published: June 2021

In this work, we introduce and study a new class of weak enriched nonexpasive mappings which is a generalization of enriched nonexpansive mappings provided by Berinde [Approximating fixed points of enriched nonexpansive mappings by Krasnoselskij iteration in Hilbert spaces], Carpathian J. Math., 35 (2019), No. 3, 293–304]. This class of mappings generalizes several important classes of nonlinear mappings. We prove some fixed point theorems regarding this kind of mappings which extend some important results in [Berinde, V., Approximating fixed points of enriched nonexpansive mappings by Krasnoselskij iteration in Hilbert spaces, Carpathian J. Math., 35 (2019), No. 3, 293–304]. Moreover, some examples, to ensure the existence of these mappings and support our main theorems, are also given.
Variational approach to nonlinear stochastic differential equations in Hilbert spaces
Authors: BARBU VIOREL
Published: June 2021

Here we survey a few functional methods to existence theory for infinite dimensional stochastic differential equations of the form dX+A(t)X(t)=B(t,X(t))dW(t), X(0)=X_0, where A(t) is a non\-linear maximal monotone operator in a variational couple (V,V'). The emphasis is put on a new approach of the classical existence result of N. Krylov and B. Rozovski on existence for the infinite dimensional stochastic differential equations which is given here via the theory of nonlinear maximal monotone operators in Banach spaces. A variational approach to this problem is also developed.