bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Building the 'Boris' bloc: angry politics in turbulent times
Authors: Clarke John
Published: April 2020

The 2019 Conservative election victory has been attributed to different causes: Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn or Labour's loss of the working class. Instead, this article suggests the need to attend to multiple causes, working across widely differing time scales that came together to make this
moment. These include the long trajectory of deindustrialisation and financialisation, the British troubles with post-colonialism, and the historical context of the complexities of class in the UK. These underpinned a series of public moods - anger, loss, frustration and popular fiscal realism
- that became fertile ground for Conservative politics. Thinking about these multiple forces and their different temporalities enables us to see the election as part of a wider conjuncture (in temporal and spatial terms). Such a view might also allow us to think about the contingent political
bloc assembled around 'Brexit and Boris' and to see its potential lines of fracture and failure.
Stéphanie Lemieux, l’acrobate qui repousse sans cesse les limites
Authors: Auger Claudine , Girard Martin
Published: April 2020

Avec ses règles strictes et complexes ainsi que ses exigences financières gigantesques, l’industrie aéronautique n’est pas un univers facile à conquérir. Pourtant, Stéphanie Lemieux n’a jamais douté de parvenir à s’y frayer un chemin. Après avoir peaufiné sa stratégie d’entreprise avec détermination et assurance, elle a réussi à imposer sa firme, Libellule Monde . Voici son histoire.
Les femmes sortent de l’ombre
Authors: Venne Jean-François
Published: April 2020

Au Canada et au Québec, l’entrepreneuriat s’accorde de plus en plus au féminin. Malgré l’augmentation de leur nombre, les femmes entrepreneures continuent toutefois de se heurter à certains obstacles, particulièrement en matière de financement.
Qui est la femme entrepreneure ?
Authors: Auger Claudine
Published: April 2020

Le profil des femmes qui rêvent d’un projet entrepreneurial et qui le réalisent avec succès se démarque de celui de leurs homologues masculins, tant dans leur manière de l’imaginer et de le concrétiser que dans la façon dont elles le dirigent à long terme. Reconnue internationalement pour ses recherches en entrepreneuriat féminin, la professeure Dafna Kariv trace le portrait de ces femmes.
L’escalier de glace : la dure ascension des femmes
Authors: Cisneros Luis , Genin Émilie , Saba Tania , Gril Emmanuelle
Published: April 2020

Imaginez un escalier extérieur recouvert de neige et de glace l’hiver. La montée de chaque marche constitue une aventure périlleuse. C’est l’équivalent de ce que doivent affronter toutes les femmes qui s’aventurent dans l’entrepreneuriat.
De père en fille
Authors: Lemieux Sylvie
Published: April 2020

L’entrepreneuriat féminin connaît un essor considérable. Ce phénomène s’observe aussi à la tête de certaines entreprises familiales. Rencontre avec trois femmes qui ont pris le relais de leur père et qui ont su trouver leur propre voie.
Les courriels : un frein à la productivité ?
Authors: Pinsonneault Alain , Addas Shamel , Gril Emmanuelle
Published: April 2020

Qu’il soit utilisé à des fins personnelles ou professionnelles, le courriel est un moyen de communication simple, rapide et pratique, tant et si bien que nous en recevons et en envoyons plusieurs dizaines par jour, ce qui nous oblige chaque fois à interrompre nos activités. Mais quels sont les effets de ces interruptions constantes sur notre productivité ?
Le leadership d’habilitation : une clé pour motiver les équipes
Authors: Rousseau Vincent , Aubé Caroline
Published: April 2020

Le rôle des responsables d’équipe s’avère de plus en plus exigeant en raison des nombreux changements qui s’opèrent dans l’organisation du travail, des ressources qui se raréfient et des pressions financières qui s’accroissent. Le leadership d’habilitation suscite un intérêt grandissant compte tenu de ses avantages. Tour d’horizon.
Investigation of a measles transmission with vaccination: a case study in Jakarta, Indonesia
Authors: Fakhruddin Muhammad ,   Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung 40132, Indonesia, Suandi Dani , Sumiati  , Fahlena Hilda , Nuraini Nuning , Soewono Edy ,   Jakarta Provincial Health Office, Jakarta 10160, Indonesia
Published: April 2020

Measles is a contagious disease caused by the measles virus of genus Morbillivirus, which has been spreading in many affected regions. This infection is characterized by the appearance of rashes all over the body and potentially cause serious complications, especially among infants and children. Before measles immunization was promoted, it is one of the endemic diseases that caused the most fatalities each year in the world. This paper aims to analyze and to investigate measles transmission in Jakarta via an SIHR epidemic model involving vaccination from January to December 2017. Jakarta Health Office collected the observed data of measles incidence. We then derived the basic reproduction number as a threshold of disease transmission and obtained the local as well as global stability of the equilibria under certain conditions. The unobserved parameters and initial conditions were estimated by minimizing errors between data and numerical results. Furthermore, a stochastic model was developed to capture the data and to accommodate the randomness of the transmission. Sensitivity analysis was also performed to analyze and to identify the parameters which give significant contributions to the spread of the virus. We then obtained simulations of vaccine level coverage. The data is shown within a 95% confidence interval of the stochastic solutions, and the average of the stochastic solutions is relatively close to the solution of the deterministic model. The most sensitive parameter in the infected compartment is the hospitalized rate, which can be considered to be one of the essential factors to reduce the number of cases for policymakers. We hence proposed a control strategy which is providing treatment accesses easier for infected individuals is better than vaccinating when an outbreak occurs.
Prisciliani Feminae
Authors: Mandianes Castro Manuel
Published: April 2020

L'auteur démontre que Priscilien a pu prêcher un certain doualisme théorique, mais il a vecu comme un vrai galicien, pour qui l'homme et la femme sont deux moitiés, et l'une a besoin de l'autre.
Jerarquía social y desigualdad alimentaria en el Mediterráneo Noroccidental en la Baja Edad Media. La cocina y la mesa de los estamentos populares
Authors: Riera Melis Antonio
Published: April 2020

Comme conséquence de l'expansion économique et de l'établisse­rnent du système féodal, l'Occident a éprouvé, pendant la période centrale du Moyen Age, toute une série de changements alimentaires. Le pain de­vint, donc, l'aliment primordial pour les couches les plus basses de la société. Étant donné que la croissance des sociétés féodales avait atteint son plus haut point vers la fin du XIIIe siècle, l'équilibre -toujours précaire­entre la population et les ressources s'est finalement rompu et la faim appa­raît de nouveau. La ville et la campagne étaient, dépuis 1200, deux domaines écono­miques complémentaires, mais les cuisines de leurs subalternes respectifs n'étaient tout à fait égales vers la fin du Moyen Age. Or, les différences principales étaient une conséquence des mécanismes d'approvisionnement: ainsi les campagnards produisaient la plupart de leurs invariables nourritures, tandis que les classes inférieures urbanes dépendaient du marché dans lequel le changement alimentaire fut done plus rapide.
La Casa de Haro en León y Castilla durante el siglo XII. Nuevas conclusiones
Authors: Canal Sánchez-Pagín José Mª
Published: April 2020

Dans l 'histoire de la Seigneurie de Viscaya, ou de la Maison de Haro, quelques points qui restent encore obscures ont besoin d'être éclaircis au moyen de la documentation que l'on découvre peu à peu. Pendant le XIII siècle, trois personnages de cette famille noble rendirent des services particuliers à la Couronne de Castille et Léon. Dans lea premières décennies du siècle, le comte Diego López, marié à la Navarraise María Sánchez, défendit les intérêts de la reine Urraca contre les incursions d'Alphonse I le Batailleur. Il mourut en 1124 devant son château de Haro. Son fils, le comte Lope Díaz, servit avec courage Alphonse VIII et Sanche III, dont il fut sous-lieutenant. Il était marié à une noble dame Gallicienne, Aldonza González de Traba, dont on avait dit jusqu’à présent qu'elle appartenait à la Maison de Castro. Son fils, le magnat Diego López, servit également les rois Alphonse VIII de Castille et Alphonse IX de León. Il se distingua à la bataille de las Navas de Tolosa. Il fut en désaccord avec Alphonse VIII. Dans l'article on discute du pourquoi de celui-ci.
Importance of HIV Care Continuum
Authors: Taukeni Simon George , Kalomo Eveline Ndinelao
Published: April 2020

This chapter seeks to create further awareness and public health education on the importance of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care continuum as one of the key policy focal areas to significantly reduce the HIV epidemic. Specific efforts were directed into the need to implement comprehensive HIV care continuum. The chapter argues that rolling out HIV counseling and testing, enrolled and linked patients to care, prescribing antiretroviral therapy, viral load testing and monitoring are key to achieve viral load suppression. Recommendations and future research direction have put much emphasis on an effort to address psychosocial factors such as stigma, inadequate healthcare facilities, laboratory testing equipment, social and cultural barriers to testing and treatment, to improve access and overall implementation of HIV care continuum.
Elderly Grandparents as Caregivers of Children Affected or Infected by HIV and AIDS in Namibia
Authors: Kalomo Eveline N. , Taukeni Simon George
Published: April 2020

Kinship care is one of the most prevalent forms of placement that is used for children affected and/or infected by HIV and AIDS in Namibia. However, the literature lacks a systematic theory-informed understanding with respect to what is currently known about caregivers generally and specifically, elderly caregivers of orphans, and vulnerable children (OVC) in sub-Saharan Africa. This foundational chapter attempts to provide readers with content to assist in their understanding of the characteristics, role, and experiences of kinship elderly caregivers of children affected and/or infected by HIV and AIDS. In addition, the chapter highlights what is known about children living with HIV in Namibia. Finally, the chapter offers suggestions for policy and practice.
IoT Applications to Cure TTH Using Different Biofeedback
Authors: Rastogi Rohit , Chaturvedi Devendra Kumar
Published: April 2020

The most common type of primitive headache is the tension type headache (TTH). The focus of complete research work was to compare the impression of EMG, GSR and EEG integrated biofeedback on stress due to headache and quality-of-life of the subjects under consideration. EMG biofeedback (BF) and galvanic skin resistance (GSR) are considered effective therapy for headaches. There are no such comparative effects of visual and auditory EMG biofeedback for headaches. Twenty subjects were subjected to EEG therapy. The variables for stress (pain) and SF-36(Quality of life) scores were recorded at starting point, 30 days and 90 days after the starting of GSR and EMG-BF therapy.
Pharmacology and Phytochemistry of Coriander
Authors: Singh Sonia , Agrawal Nitin , Mishra Isha
Published: April 2020

Coriander, named as Coriandrum sativum Linn, belongs to the family Umbelliferae and is one of the most popular and well-known spices/condiments and herbal medicines. The essential oils and fatty oils are the two major active chemical constituents present in the plant. The other minor ingredients found to be present are monoterpenes hydrocarbons i-e limonene, γ-terpinene, α-pinene, p-cymene, borneol, citronellol, camphor, geraniol, and geraniol acetate and abd heterocyclic components such as pyrazine, pyridine, thiazole, furan and tetrahudrofuran derivatives, isocoumarins, coriandrin, dihydrocoriandrin, coriandrons A-E, flavonoids. The volatile oil from the leaf contains aromatic acids such as 2-decenoic acid, E-11-tetradecenoic acid, undecyl alcohol, tridecanoic acid, capric acid, undecanoic acid, and more. The current pharmacological research reveals the application of coriander has antibacterial and antifungal activity.
Emerging Technologies and Educational Requirements in Engineering Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Authors: Alghatrifi Issa , Al Musawi Ali S.
Published: April 2020

Higher education institutions and their engineering departments have a vital role in fulfilling the new requirements and opportunities of the information and communication technologies (ICT). Therefore, understanding the guidelines to adapt to the new ICT innovations in relation with the Fourth Industrial Revolution such as the internet of things, cloud computing, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence is vital to determine the emerging patterns in their development, delivery, implementation, and assessment. This study aims to define the new educational requirements in engineering education based on the developments of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Conducting an in-depth analysis of the current literature revealed that although these emerging technologies have been widely used, there are some challenges being faced for their effective use in engineering education. Therefore, the authors provide some guidelines and discuss possible research directions for the use of these technologies in near future.
Using Gamification and Serious Games to Design a New Curriculum
Authors: Tinç Kutay , Karadayı Meltem Gülçin
Published: April 2020

Using game elements in class to support the participation of students in learning or designing games that can help educators teach certain subjects more efficiently has been a popular topic in recent years. The former is a matter of gamification, which refers to the application of game elements to other activities so that the activity becomes more engaging or interesting. On the other hand, the latter is about designing a serious game, which can be defined as a game with an explicit and carefully thought out educational purpose. In this study, focused on merging the use of gamification and serious games for a specific engineering course, the authors discuss how the curriculum for this course should be designed so that both sides of the spectrum are facilitated. An application of this union is given with a survey showing the reaction of students to the gamified curricula integrated with a serious game.
Nkuho Institution and Marital Conflict Prevention Among the Efik People
Authors: Eyo Ubong Ekpenyong
Published: April 2020

The marriage institution with its complexity is not exempted from conflict. In the world where emphasis is on conflict resolution, the Efik people speak of marital conflict prevention more than conflict resolution and management. Marital conflict if not prevented or resolved can become inimical to both present and future generation apart from its fire engulfing the entire community. Though female circumcision (which is associated with Nkuho) has been abolished, it is the opinion of this chapter that the educational spirit behind this institution is still a veritable too in preventing marital conflict. The chapter made use of ethno-methodological approach with content analysis to aver that in preventing marital conflict among Efik people, Nkuho institution can be a veritable tool of conflict prevention and peace building. This work has shown that Nkuho institution has something positive to offer to the modern world, especially as it concerns marital conflict prevention.
Towards Nonviolent Gender Relations in Africa
Authors: Udo Effiong Joseph , Orioha John
Published: April 2020

Despite global efforts, gender-based violence continues to be witnessed in varying degrees around the world. The use of dialogue as an effective tool in mitigating violence and conflict situations around the world provides an inspiration to conceive the need to extend the scope of dialogue to the domain of male-female relationship, which is fast becoming too complex, sensitive, strained, and tempestuous. In this study, the relevance of dialogue for a violent-free culture in the context of gender relations is interrogated. This study maintains that a dialogic mode of male-female relationship would go a long way to mitigate the persistent cases of gender-based violence. In an exploratory approach, Leonard Swidler's understanding and principles of dialogue are used as a framework to demonstrate what an inter-gender dialogue would look like. It concludes that, as dialogue offers an interactive framework for mutual understanding of one another, an inter-gender dialogue is constitutive of the social intercourse, which the very concept of dialogue represents.
The Cultural Question in the Third World Development and Underdevelopment
Authors: Usoro Ubongabasi Itoro
Published: April 2020

An average third world country strives after development. Yet, culture, being the total way of life of the people, has exerted great impact both in the development and underdevelopment of the third world countries. Culture forms the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society. However, where the culture adopted from antiquity opposes the present changing world realities, it becomes a problem of contemporary concerns. Using a descriptive and analytical method, and cultural determinism theory, this chapter examines the role of culture in the development of underdevelopment of the third world countries (a sketch study of Africa). It argues that the cultures that lead to the development of the third world countries will gradually lead to conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Culture and development are essential notations to be reconsidered and re-enforced in the third world. Hence, to attain relevance, both must be complemented. The chapter therefore helps to harness and foster the complementation between culture and development in the third world countries.
Religion, Culture, and Educational Development in Nigeria
Authors: Ekong Obot Uko
Published: April 2020

Various religions teach their adherents to imbibe and live out sound, moral, and ethical values that go a long way to create harmony in the human society, which is necessary for societal development. Religion cannot be practiced successfully without the teachings of its core ideas, principles, scriptural truths, etc. to its adherents. This study is hinged on the fact that the three religious traditions as practice in Nigeria have affected the way of lives of the people, thus giving Nigeria a unique religious identity. Religion, therefore, cannot thrive in any society without the culture of the people and that of the religion mixing. Every religion is borne out of a culture of the people. The study is an attempt to reveal that religious culture and tradition laid the foundation of educational development in Nigeria, for example, the establishment of mission schools and the development of Nigerian indigenous language.
Religious and Cultural Conflicts
Authors: Akpanika Ekpenyong Nyong
Published: April 2020

Culture and religion are two important parts of human life that are highly emotional. People do everything to protect, defend, and keep their cultural and religious heritage no matter how primitive others may think it is. Failure to recognize the religious and cultural worldview of a people in the evangelization of such society often leads to a conflict of allegiance. This study is a critical appraisal of the Scottish missionary activities among the Efik people of Old Calabar, Nigeria. The effect of neglecting these cultural elements that would have acted as a bridge to the full acceptance of Christianity among the people was neglected. This rigid attitude was challenged by the emergence of some Independent African Churches that came as a substitute for the mission churches. The need for a new perspective on the interaction of culture and religion is therefore required if the world is to survive the current global religious conflicts.
Higher Education Institutions as Viable Systems
Authors: Zlatanović Dejana , Babić Verica , Nikolić Jelena
Published: April 2020

In a knowledge-based economy, higher education institutions (HEIs) are a key factor in fostering innovation and play a central role in sustainable economic growth and development. Growing complexity of HEIs and their environments requires systemic, i.e. cybernetic approach to innovation. The chapter highlights the importance of introducing a cybernetic framework for innovativeness of higher education institutions by their examination in conceptual framework of organizational cybernetics (OC). The purpose is to demonstrate how viable system model (VSM) as a key methodological tool of OC can help understanding the viability and innovativeness of HEIs. In addition, higher education institutions are investigated in a conceptual framework of VSM through the case of the public higher education institution (HEI) in Serbia. The main contribution of the chapter is related to practical implications of presented framework including the strengths and weaknesses of a VSM application.
The Role and Importance of Innovations for Higher Education
Authors: Kusio Tomasz
Published: April 2020

The contents of the chapter refer to innovations in organizations and particularly as their perception processes are implemented. At this point, the role and importance of academic institutions is more likely to be discussed as the internal initiatives for academia are concerned. The main objective of the work was to obtain the systematic approach to the issues of university transformation to such a point that the need of innovativeness at universities is discussed. This is compared against the requirements of stakeholders. The need for solutions is a normative issue, as expected by stakeholders. However, the issue of implementing innovative solutions is a topic of scientific discussion that is closely related to innovation, and which at the same time outlines a new dimension of perception of innovation in both business units and scientific units. Considerations can be made that implementation is the internal function of innovation that verifies in proportion to the radicalism of innovation the possibilities of their practical application.
The Importance of HEIs and Firm Relationships in Innovation-Driven Models
Authors: Slavković Marko , Veselinović Petar
Published: April 2020

The current paradigm of change, which is essentially based on the digitization and greater application of modern ICT, is changing the established patterns of business, not only in firms but also in other industries that are important for the functioning of a society. In the era of rapid change, innovation is qualified as the “key” to comparative advantage. Innovation is certainly a central and decisive factor in current competitive relations and, as such, it seeks a strong link between higher education institutions and firms in the practical field of action. Therefore, the main goal of the article is to map the domains of cooperation between higher education institutions and firms, through the identification of innovative processes, on the basis of which it is possible to determine their character and directions for enhancing innovation capacities, both at the micro and macro level.
Teaching Digitalisation
Authors: Perko Igor , Lebe Sonja Sibila , Basle Nuša
Published: April 2020

In this chapter, we elaborate on effects of recently induced digitalization of teaching, and consequently on innovative learning. A series of workshops on using digital tools in the teaching process—performed by teachers for teachers—was used to conduct a two-level analysis on how digitally supported teaching is performed. In the first level, a teachers Delphi analysis was performed, in the second level, we observed teacher performance in the role of learners, examining the user experience of multiple digitally supported teaching technologies. The study reveals that only some elements of innovative learning, i.e. understanding, commenting and providing feedback, modifying the environment and upgrading the learning content were positively influenced by digital technology. The proposed text can provide value-added for teachers in preparing their on-site and on-line courses; furthermore, it provides educational organization backgrounds on how to deliver adequate support for their staff, and finally: it gives learners an insight into how to participate in an innovative course.
A Problem-Based Learning Technique to Improve Student Engagement in Multidisciplinary Groups in Higher Education
Authors: Agyeman Michael Opoku , Cui Haiping , Bennett Shirley
Published: April 2020

Recently, there has been a rise in the integration of curriculum from different disciplines in higher education (HE) in response to the multidisciplinary nature of the skillset required by the modern job market. In cases where the curriculum is delivered to students from the same discipline, it is intuitive for students to easily identify with its relevance. However, the aforementioned will not be as obvious in situations where a curriculum is taken by multidisciplinary groups of students. Consequently, there is a risk of student disengagement. This chapter evaluates how to enhance student engagement in modules thought to multidisciplinary groups in HE. The chapter presents an action research which uses mixed methods of qualitative and quantitative research to improve student engagement in a real-world module taken by Computing, Electrical & Electronics Eng., and Mechatronics Eng. students at University of Northampton. By using a problem-based learning strategy as an intervention, student engagement has been significantly improved with evidences in grade distribution and satisfaction.
Application of Fingerprint-Matching Algorithm in Smart Gun Using Touch-Less Fingerprint Recognition System
Authors: Khalid Saifullah
Published: April 2020

Fingerprint recognition systems are widely used in the field of biometrics. Many existing fingerprint sensors acquire fingerprint images as the user's fingerprint is contacted on a solid flat sensor. Because of this contact, input images from the same finger can be quite different and there are latent fingerprint issues that can lead to forgery and hygienic problems. For these reasons, a touchless fingerprint recognition system has been investigated, in which a fingerprint image can be captured without contact. While this system can solve the problems which arise through contact of the user's finger, other challenges emerge.
A Robust Image Encryption Method Using Chaotic Skew-Tent Map
Authors: Roy Mousomi , Chakraborty Shouvik , Mali Kalyani
Published: April 2020

Encryption is one of the most frequently used tools in data communications to prevent unwanted access to the data. In the field of image encryption, chaos-based encryption methods have become very popular in the recent years. Chaos-based methods provide a good security mechanism in image communication. In this chapter, chaotic skew-tent map is adapted to encode an image. Seventy-two bit external key is considered (besides the initial parameters of the chaotic system) initially, and after some processing operations, 64 bit internal key is obtained. Using this key, every pixel is processed. The internal key is transformed using some basic operations to enhance the security. The decryption method is very simple so that authentic users can retrieve the information very fast. Every pixel is encrypted using some basic mathematical operations. The values of various test parameters show the power and efficiency of the proposed algorithm, which can be used as a safeguard for sensitive image data and a secure method of image transmission.
An Advanced Approach to Detect Edges of Digital Images for Image Segmentation
Authors: Chakraborty Shouvik
Published: April 2020

Image segmentation has been an active topic of research for many years. Edges characterize boundaries, and therefore, detection of edges is a problem of fundamental importance in image processing. Edge detection in images significantly reduces the amount of data and filters out useless information while preserving the important structural properties in an image. Edges carry significant information about the image structure and shape, which is useful in various applications related with computer vision. In many applications, the edge detection is used as a pre-processing step. Edge detection is highly beneficial in automated cell counting, structural analysis of the image, automated object detection, shape analysis, optical character recognition, etc. Different filters are developed to find the gradients and detect edges. In this chapter, a new filter (kernel) is proposed, and the compass operator is applied on it to detect edges more efficiently. The results are compared with some of the previously proposed filters both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Image Fusion Techniques for Different Multimodality Medical Images Based on Various Conventional and Hybrid Algorithms for Disease Analysis
Authors: Rajalingam B.  , Priya R.  , Bhavani R.  , Santhoshkumar R.
Published: April 2020

Image fusion is the process of combining two or more images to form a single fused image, which can provide more reliable and accurate information. Over the last few decades, medical imaging plays an important role in a large number of healthcare applications including diagnosis, treatment, etc. The different modalities of medical images contain complementary information of human organs and tissues, which help the physicians to diagnose the diseases. The multimodality medical images can provide limited information. These multimodality medical images cannot provide comprehensive and accurate information. This chapter proposed and examines some of the hybrid multimodality medical image fusion methods and discusses the most essential advantages and disadvantages of these methods. The hybrid multimodal medical image fusion algorithms are used to improve the quality of fused multimodality medical image. An experimental result of proposed hybrid fusion techniques provides the fused multimodal medical images of highest quality, shortest processing time, and best visualization.
An Overview of Biomedical Image Analysis From the Deep Learning Perspective
Authors: Chakraborty Shouvik , Mali Kalyani
Published: April 2020

Biomedical image analysis methods are gradually shifting towards computer-aided solutions from manual investigations to save time and improve the quality of the diagnosis. Deep learning-assisted biomedical image analysis is one of the major and active research areas. Several researchers are working in this domain because deep learning-assisted computer-aided diagnostic solutions are well known for their efficiency. In this chapter, a comprehensive overview of the deep learning-assisted biomedical image analysis methods is presented. This chapter can be helpful for the researchers to understand the recent developments and drawbacks of the present systems. The discussion is made from the perspective of the computer vision, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence. This chapter can help to get future research directions to exploit the blessings of deep learning techniques for biomedical image analysis.
Children at Risk
Authors: Çiçekler Canan Yildiz , Pirpir Devlet Alakoç
Published: April 2020

Children's exposure to many risk factors such as; need for protection, living on the streets, working, abuse and neglected, pushed into crime, exposed to violence, obliged to immigrate due to war, living under socio-economic disadvantageous conditions, having chronic diseases, being a disabled child and living in divorced families can arise from both their families and from the social structure. Throughout the world, many children live at risk due to various reasons. Irrespective of the reasons, which risk group the children enter and the factors causing this situation should be examined. According to the obtained data, the factors causing to such situations should be determined and necessary precautions should be taken. Thus, the negative conditions, under which the children are, can be improved and the children can be reintegrated into society.
Children in Hospital
Authors: Kadan Gül
Published: April 2020

Visiting a hospital for hospitalization or treatment is one of the foremost factors triggering stress for children. Under this stress, lie both the restriction of a child's freedom and independence due to getting into an unknown environment and the rapidly changing events around the child. The child's reactions may become even more aggressive, especially if they feel the fear and anxiety experienced by their parents. Based on this importance, this chapter focuses on the responses of children to hospital life according to their developmental stages and on what can be done regarding their adaptation in hospitals.
Middle Childhood Development
Authors: Yücelyiğit Seçil
Published: April 2020

Child development is segmented into five periods and the bridge between early childhood and adolescence is named as “middle childhood.” One of the milestones of this period is schooling. Middle childhood children start learning about the world; their roles, responsibilities and how to participate in this world by communicating with others besides the family members. These abilities are gained mostly at school with peer relations. In this chapter, the developmental areas of middle childhood children will be discussed with examples from recent studies.
Interactive Story Reading and Language Development in Early Years
Authors: Er Sühendan , Biçakçi Müdriye Yildiz
Published: April 2020

Early childhood is a precious period when children get their most rapid performance in terms of emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. During this period, one of the major indications is how children use their mother tongue. In respect of environmental effects, stories have a crucial role. Interactive story reading is one of the most studied formats for increasing language learning in children. Many research studies have shown that children make significant gains in various areas of development through interactive story reading experiences. Parents can support their children's language development and thereby their children's literacy development by interactive story reading. Interactive story reading is developed by Whitehurst and others and it is a process that leads the children improve their analytical thinking, expressing themselves, problem solving skills and inquiring. Moving from this, in this chapter, the effects of interactive story reading on language development of children is discussed through research done in the area.
Yoga for Babies and Children
Authors: Bilmez Besime , Aral Neriman
Published: April 2020

This chapter describes how yoga is a means to relax the body, slowing breathing, and mentally calming down. Yoga in general includes physical postures / poses, breathing practices and movement meditation to improve self-regulation skills within the body and mind. An examination is made in this chapter of how yoga can be taught to babies and young children.
An Image Forgery Detection Approach Based on Camera's Intrinsic Noise Properties
Authors: Gautam Shikha , Jalal Anand Singh
Published: April 2020

Digital images are found everywhere from cell phones to the pages of online news sites. With the rapid growth of the Internet and the popularity of digital image capturing devices, images have become major source of information. Now-a-days fudge of images has become easy due to powerful advanced photo-editing software and high-resolution cameras. In this article, the authors present a method for detecting forgery, which is detected by estimating camera's intrinsic noise properties. Differences in noise parameters of the image are used as evidence of Image tampering. The method works in two steps. In the first step, the given image is classified as forge or non-forge. In the second step, the forged region in the image is detected. Results show that the proposed method outperforms the previous methods and shows a detection accuracy of 85.76%.
Blind Image Source Device Identification
Authors: Venkata Udaya Sameer , Naskar Ruchira
Published: April 2020

This article describes how digital forensic techniques for source investigation and identification enable forensic analysts to map an image under question to its source device, in a completely blind way, with no a-priori information about the storage and processing. Such techniques operate based on blind image fingerprinting or machine learning based modelling using appropriate image features. Although researchers till date have succeeded to achieve extremely high accuracy, more than 99% with 10-12 candidate cameras, as far as source device prediction is concerned, the practical application of the existing techniques is still doubtful. This is due to the existence of some critical open challenges in this domain, such as exact device linking, open-set challenge, classifier overfitting and counter forensics. In this article, the authors identify those open challenges, with an insight into possible solution strategies.
Forensic Investigation of Digital Crimes in Healthcare Applications
Authors: Ellouze Nourhene , Rekhis Slim , Boudriga Noureddine
Published: April 2020

Healthcare applications are increasingly being used due to the safety and convenience brought to patients' life and healthcare professionals, respectively. Nevertheless, the use of weak authentication techniques and vulnerable communication protocols makes these applications threatened by specific classes of security attacks and e-crimes. The latter threaten the privacy, the safety and even the life of the persons using these applications, due to the fact that they handle sensitive information and implement complex and critical features. This chapter focuses on postmortem investigation of crimes on healthcare applications. After classifying crimes targeting healthcare applications, the requirements for the design of appropriate postmortem investigation system, are discussed. A literature review of proposals related to the investigation of crimes in healthcare applications together with a discussion of the advanced issues are also provided in this chapter.
A Study of Forensic Imaging to Evaluate “Unsanitized” Destination Storage Media
Authors: Carlton Gregory H. , Kessler Gary C.
Published: April 2020

Best practices in digital forensics include a procedure to sanitize media on which forensic images will be stored, thus eliminating potential challenges that contamination of the evidence may occur due to data that exist on the media prior to storing forensic images. This article describes a research project to empirically evaluate the extent to which wiping destination storage media affects evidence. The authors specifically address whether the contents of forensic images differ in any way when written to a freshly wiped and formatted medium when compared to the images being written to a similar medium that had been populated with data and not wiped. They performed these experiments on different types of storage devices.
Tampering Localization in Double Compressed Images by Investigating Noise Quantization
Authors: Mire Archana Vasant , Dhok Sanjay B. , Mistry Naresh J. , Porey Prakash D.
Published: April 2020

Noise is uniformly distributed throughout an untampered image. Tampering operations destroy this uniformity and introduce inconsistency in the tampered region. Hence, noise discrepancy is often investigated in forensic analysis of uncompressed digital images. However, noise in compressed images has got very little attention from the forensic experts. The JPEG compression process itself introduces uniform quantization noise throughout an image, making this investigation difficult. In this paper, the authors have proposed a new noise compression discrepancy model, which blindly estimates this discrepancy in the compressed images. Considering the smaller tampered region, SVM classifier was trained using noise features of test sub-images and its nonaligned recompressed versions. Each of the test sub-images was further classified using this classifier. Experimental results show that in some cases, the proposed approach can achieve better performance compared with other JPEG artefact based techniques.
The brain-heart connection: a multiple sclerosis relapse presenting as Takotsubo Syndrome. A case report and literature review
Authors: Dell'Aquila Andrea , Sciatti Edoardo , Vizzardi Enrico , Metra Marco
Published: April 2020

We hereby report a puzzling case of multiple sclerosis (MS) relapse presenting as Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). Female, 42-years old, who presented herself to the Emergency Room of University Hospital “ASST Spedali Civili” of Brescia, Italy, for a severe headache and a non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome. Coronary angiogram showed no signs of coronary atherosclerosis. Upon further neurological evaluation, a diagnosis of MS relapse, related to TTS, was made, and treatment was started accordingly. The patient was discharged after 12 days after the admission, free of symptoms, and without signs of neurological and cardiological active disease. A hallmark of TTS is its association with a preceding stressful event. It may also be connected to a wide variety of diseases, including neurological ones, such as stroke, intracranial bleeding, head trauma, migraine, and seizures. However, up to our knowledge, only few cases of MS-induced TTS were previously described. Whether it is plausible to consider TTS as an uncommon extra-neurological manifestation of MS is still debated, however all the evidence points in that direction, considering the central role of catecholamines in TTS pathogenesis. With this case report the authors hope to encourage research on this field and on the intricate topic of brain-heart connections.
The effect of cigarette smoking on subjective well-being in South Africa and its implications for tobacco control
Authors: Wilmans Gorton , Rashied Naiefa
Published: April 2020

Orientation: The effect of cigarette smoking on health and economic well-being has been widely studied. Its effect on subjective well-being measures, such as life satisfaction, has received less scholarly attention.Research purpose: This study tested the effect of cigarette smoking on life satisfaction amongst smokers in South Africa as a precursor to assessing the effectiveness of traditional tobacco control methods.Motivation for the study: Taxation has long been the primary tool for tobacco control in South Africa; however, the psychological effects of cigarette smoking are not considered when selecting tobacco control tools.Research approach/design and method: The study applied an ordered probit regression to a panel of five waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) data to test the relationship between cigarette smoking and life satisfaction in South Africa.Main findings: Smoking was found to negatively affect an individual’s likelihood of reporting higher satisfaction with life relative to non-smokers, a finding that is in line with the limited literature on the subject and with the findings of similar studies that used objective measures of well-being. Furthermore, the current tobacco control framework is not as effective as expected as smoking prevalence is fairly constant, notably amongst the poor, despite large increases in excise duties on cigarettes over time.Practical/managerial implications: The study’s main finding promotes the case for reassessing the approach taken to formulating tobacco control policies and for implementing alternative tobacco control policies that consider the psychological effects of cigarette smoking. As smoking cessation is shown to increase the likelihood of reporting higher life satisfaction, measures aimed at cessation (such as broad-scale smoking bans) could prove more successful than taxation.Contribution/value-add: This study contributes to the limited literature regarding the relationship between subjective well-being and cigarette smoking in the developing world. The study provides insight to whether standard tobacco control policies should be applied generically without accounting for the relationship between cigarette smoking and subjective well-being.
The diagnosis and treatment of the early changes in the rheumatoid wrist and hand
Authors: Solomon L.
Published: April 2020

No abstract available.
Sensory-motor associations in the treatment of stroke patients
Authors: McConnell J. K.
Published: April 2020

No abstract available.
Giving those fibrocytics the bird
Authors: Burr A.
Published: April 2020

No abstract available.
Saying farewell: Presidential Address delivered at the 7th National Council Meeting - Port Elizabeth, May 1968
Authors: Dart R. A.
Published: April 2020

No abstract available.
Derangements of the knee: Their recognition and treatment
Authors: Osmond J. D.
Published: April 2020

No abstract available.
Le mouvement, nouveau paradigme de la santé
Authors: Boissinot Emmanuelle
Published: April 2020

Face au vieillissement de la population et au virage épidémiologique , l’impératif de maîtrise des coûts de santé suppose de repenser l’offre de soins. L’innovation technologique avance à grands pas et des révolutions majeures s’amorcent dans le sens d’une extrême personnalisation et d’une prédictivité possible des diagnostiques. Parallèlement, la recherche de sens est une préoccupation grandissante dans notre société, de sorte qu’être en bonne santé inclut désormais les notions de bien-être et de qualité de vie. Les progrès réalisés par les neurosciences et les sciences comportementales accréditent l’idée que le lien corps-esprit est une voie à explorer pour être en capacité de développer prévention et accompagnement de la maladie chronique - aujourd’hui génératrice de 70 % des dépenses de santé - en aidant les patients à s’autonomiser, développer des capacités d’auto-guérison ou vivre mieux la maladie. La question qui se pose est donc de savoir quels seraient la place et l’impact des interventions non médicamenteuses dans un parcours de soins coordonné où il s’agirait de travail sous forme de médecine intégrative tendant à améliorer l’alliance thérapeutique et éviter à tout prix fuite thérapeutique et perte de chance. En d’autres termes, est-il actuellement possible en France, à l’instar d’autres pays, de mettre en place des organisations de soins alliant médecine conventionnelle et interventions non médicamenteuses afin d’évoluer vers un système de santé durable et humainement satisfaisant ?
Merger control in dynamic markets
Authors: Gouliou Eleni , Raftery Colin , Brassington James , Kapustaite Juste
Published: April 2020

This article considers, with reference to recent cases, the approach of the Competition and Markets Authority in investigating mergers in dynamic markets. It examines the CMA's jurisdictional and substantive tools, sources of evidence, the use of counterfactuals, the assessment of when a merger may result in a substantial lessening of competition and appropriate remedies. The article concludes with a brief discussion on whether existing merger control tools are likely to be sufficient to ensure that merger control is able to continue to adequately protect consumers in dynamic markets in the future.