bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Gestational diabetes: screening uptake, current challenges and the future – a focused review
Authors: Vounzoulaki Elpida , Khunti Kamlesh , Tan Bee K , Davies Melanie J , Gillies Clare L
Published: June 2020

The increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in women with a history of previous gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been established and is well recognised. Post-partum screening for T2DM is essential to identify those at higher risk and allow for the implementation of preventative interventions. However, attendance rates for post-partum glucose screening in women with previous GDM remain substantially low, with only half of them attending screening. This review aimed to outline the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) post-partum screening recommendations and compare them with the guidelines being used worldwide, provide information on post-partum screening uptake and possible determinants of uptake in the UK, and to briefly discuss both patient health implications and the financial burden associated with T2DM progression in the context of the National Health Service (NHS).
AGP in daily clinical practice: a guide for use with the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system
Authors: Gibb Fraser W , Jennings Peter , Leelarathna Lalantha , Wilmot Emma G
Published: June 2020

As real-time continuous glucose monitoring and flash glucose monitoring systems become more widely prescribed in the daily management of diabetes, it is important that the ambulatory glucose profile (AGP) methodology for reviewing and interpreting trends in glucose control is effectively applied. In this article we look at the essential features of the AGP and provide systematic and practical guidance on how the AGP can be interpreted in daily diabetes care with confidence. Using examples taken from glucose data captured by the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system, we show how each aspect of the AGP can be used to understand daily patterns in glucose control for a person with diabetes, including the importance of time in range and adjunct use of individual daily logs. Using these elements collectively, we show how and why treatment adjustments can be made, with the goal of improving glycaemic control and diabetes outcomes.
Clinical considerations for the treatment of secondary differentiated thyroid carcinoma in childhood cancer survivors
Authors: van Santen Hanneke M , Alexander Erik K , Rivkees Scott A , Frey Eva , Clement Sarah C , Dierselhuis Miranda P , Lebbink Chantal A , Links Thera P , Lorenz Kerstin , Peeters Robin P , Reiners Christoph , Vriens Menno R , Nathan Paul , Schneider Arthur B , Verburg Frederik
Published: June 2020

The incidence of differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) has increased rapidly over the past several years. Thus far, the only conclusively established risk factor for developing DTC is exposure to ionizing radiation, especially when the exposure occurs in childhood. Since the number of childhood cancer survivors (CCS) is increasing due to improvements in treatment and supportive care, the number of patients who will develop DTC after surviving childhood cancer (secondary thyroid cancer) is also expected to rise. Currently, there are no recommendations for management of thyroid cancer specifically for patients who develop DTC as a consequence of cancer therapy during childhood. Since complications or late effects from prior cancer treatment may elevate the risk of toxicity from DTC therapy, the medical history of CCS should be considered carefully in choosing DTC treatment. In this paper, we emphasize how the occurrence and treatment of the initial childhood malignancy affects the medical and psychosocial factors that will play a role in the diagnosis and treatment of a secondary DTC. We present considerations for clinicians to use in the management of patients with secondary DTC, based on the available evidence combined with experience-based opinions of the authors.
Evaluation Model of the Integrational Relationship between Knowledge Management Processes and Business Processes
Authors: Ulbinaitė Aurelija , Gribovskis Justas
Published: June 2020

In a contemporary organization, knowledge management is rarely assumed to be a supportive activity. Knowledge management processes are rather assessed as being inseparable from other main organizational processes. Considering the up-to-date research, there are no doubts about the benefits of knowledge management. However, because of its wide internal and external dissemination, it is challenging to identify and assess its value both in its entirety and in its value created by its individual processes. In the interdisciplinary context of literature analysis of information and communication and management research, in this article, the authors present the integrative evaluation model of the relationship between knowledge management processes and business processes. The model is characterised by its wide organizational applicability and allows measuring the value created by knowledge management processes in a real business environment. The model integrates the processes of product development, manufacturing and sales, including their constitutional dimensions, metrics and indexes, respectively. All this enables determining the impact of knowledge management processes on the main business processes and the resulting organizational added value.
The Problems and Challenges of Modern Publishing and Printing Industry of Ukraine
Authors: Korinko Mykola , Zhelikhovskyi Gnat
Published: June 2020

In this article the author examines the main problems of the prospects of development and some questions of operation of publishing and printing industry within the frameworks of global digitalization and growth of digital publications. The author pays special attention to the priority of the objects of activity of the publishing and printing complex of Ukraine. The purpose of this work is to determine the possible ways of development of the publishing and printing industry of Ukraine on the basis of state regulation of their activities. The results of this work may be used by public institutions in predicting the effective development of the economy and national legislation to support publishing and printing industry.
Value Created by Culture in the Context of Sustainable Development: a Case Study of the Baltic States
Authors: Kiaušienė Ilona , Mikalauskienė Asta
Published: June 2020

Culture is playing an increasingly important role in achieving sustainable development goals in countries. The value created by culture is important and an integral part of each country’s economy. The article is designed to establish the relationship between the value created by culture and the implementation of countries’ sustainable development goals through a detailed conceptualization of culture as an integral part of sustainable development. Conceptualization seeks to integrate culture into the concept of sustainable development by giving it three distinct roles in the process of evaluating sustainable development. The paper examines in detail the goals of sustainable development and their links with culture, highlighting the indicators that have been further used in the research. To assess the contribution of culture to the national economy, the number of cultural enterprises, value added in the cultural sector and turnover were estimated in order to compare employment in the cultural sector in different EU28 countries, and Min / Max indices were calculated. The study identified the relationship between the goals of sustainable development and the value created by culture, using a measure of connection strength. Statistical analysis of the data undoubtedly confirms that cultural contribution to the achievement of the SDGs is significant as there is a very strong positive relationship between the cultural value index and the SDGs achieved in all three case studies.
Long-term Social Outcomes After Congenital Heart Surgery
Authors: Raissadati Alireza , Knihtilä Hanna , Pätilä Tommi , Nieminen Heta , Jokinen Eero
Published: June 2020

BACKGROUND:

Patients are surviving decades after congenital heart surgery (CHS), raising the importance of postoperative quality of life as an outcome measure. We determined the long-term social outcomes after CHS performed during childhood.

METHODS:

Between 1953 and 2009, 10 635 patients underwent surgery for congenital heart defects at <15 years of age in Finland. We obtained 4 control subjects per patient, matched by age, sex, birth time, and hospital district, from Statistics Finland, which also provided data on the highest education level, employment status, marital status, and progeny for both patients and control subjects. We included patients who were alive and ≥18 years of age at the end of the follow-up on December 31, 2017.

RESULTS:

A total of 7308 patients met inclusion criteria. Patients had on average similar high school or vocational education rates as the general population but lower undergraduate or higher education rates (female patients: risk ratio [RR] 0.8 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.8–0.9]; male patients: RR 0.8 [95% CI 0.7–0.9]). Patients were less likely to be married or have progeny compared with the general population. The rate of employment was significantly lower (female patients: RR 0.8 [95% CI 0.8–0.9]; male patients: RR 0.8 [95% CI 0.8–0.9]) and the rate of retirement (female patients: RR 2.1 [95% CI 2.0–2.3]; male patients RR 3.1 [95% CI 2.9–3.5]) significantly higher among patients.

CONCLUSIONS:

Patients who undergo CHS at childhood age are, on average, more disadvantaged from both an educational and professional standpoint compared with the general population, regardless of the severity of the defect.
Why, When and How Should Clinicians Use Physiology in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes?
Authors: Scarsini Roberto , Terentes-Printzios Dimitrios , De Maria Giovanni Luigi , Ribichini Flavio , Banning Adrian
Published: June 2020

Current data support the use of coronary physiology in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). In patients with ST-elevation MI, the extent of myocardial damage and microvascular dysfunction create a complex conundrum to assimilate when considering clinical management and risk stratification. In this setting, the index of microcirculatory resistance emerged as an accurate tool to identify patients at risk of suboptimal myocardial reperfusion after primary percutaneous coronary intervention who may benefit from novel adjunctive therapies. In the context of non-ST-elevation ACS, coronary physiology should be carefully interpreted and often integrated with intracoronary imaging, especially in cases of ambiguous culprit lesion. Conversely, the functional assessment of bystander coronary disease is favoured by the available evidence, aiming to achieve complete revascularisation. Based on everyday clinical scenarios, the authors illustrate the available evidence and provide recommendations for the functional assessment of infarct-related artery and non-culprit lesions in patients with ACS.
Review Essay: Once More on Religion and Magic: Daniel Dubuisson's Religion and Magic in Western Culture
Authors: Durdin Andrew
Published: June 2020

Daniel Dubuisson, Religion and Magic in Western Culture. Leiden: Brill, 2016. viii + 201 pp. Cloth, ebook $134, €101. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317567
Diagnosis of the nutritional status of ‘Paluma’ guava trees using leaf and flower analysis
Authors: Oliveira Cibelle Tamiris de , Rozane Danilo Eduardo , Amorim Daniel Angelucci de , Souza Henrique Antunes de , Fernandes Beatrice Santana , Natale William
Published: June 2020

Abstract The present study aimed to compare the use of leaf and flower analysis and to verify the most appropriate organ for the diagnosis of the nutritional status of guava trees. The evaluation was carried out using the CND (Compositional Nutrient Diagnosis) methodology, using yield and nutritional contents of the leaf and flower of ‘Paluma’ guava trees in 48 plots of an irrigated orchard. The contents of flower and leaf nutrients were submitted to variance analysis, by the Tukey test at 5%, and the nutrient sufficiency ranges in organs were calculated, as well as the correlations between multi-nutrient variables and yield. Significant differences between contents of nutrients in flower and leaf, as well as greater variability in the nutritional contents in leaf, were observed. The sufficiency ranges of flower proved to be shorter compared to leaf. The number of correlations between nutrients and yield was higher in the flower. The greater sensitivity of the leaf analysis in expressing interactions between nutrients and yield indicates that this organ can also be used for the nutritional diagnosis of guava trees.
Stability of encapsulated and non-encapsulated anthocyanin in yogurt produced with natural dye obtained from Solanum melongena L. Bark
Authors: Barretto Flavia Jamille de Figueiredo Paes , Clemente Heleni Aires , Santana Andrea Lopes Bandeira Delmiro , Vasconcelo Margarida Angélica da Silva
Published: June 2020

Abstract This research evaluated the stability of non-encapsulated and spray-dried encapsulated anthocyanin from Solanum melongena L. bark as a natural dye in yogurts. Anthocyanin was extracted using 70% cereal alcohol acidified with citric acid at pH 2.0. Extract spray-drying was defined using the experimental design (22), with drying temperature (°C) and carrier concentration (Gum arabic) as independent variables. The response variable adopted was the total monomeric anthocyanin content. The following analyses were performed: color; total monomeric anthocyanins; total phenolic contents; antioxidant activity using the DPPH• (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl) radical; pH; and acidity. Yogurt degradation constant, half-life, and color retention percentage of anthocyanin added to yogurt were calculated. The total monomeric anthocyanin value found in the extract was 67.21 mg 100g-1 of bark. Natural non-encapsulated and encapsulated dye extract were added to yogurt at concentrations of 1.0; 1.5; and 2 g extract/100 mL yogurt. Average pH values after addition of anthocyanin extract ranged from 3.60 to 3.87. Acidity was 1.04% in natural yogurt (time zero), while 1%; 1.5%; and 2% samples showed 1.4; 1.7; and 2.05% and 1.18; 1.29; and 1.47% acidity in non-encapsulated extract added to yogurt and encapsulated extract added to yogurt, respectively. Anthocyanin content decreased during storage using non-encapsulated extract, remaining constant in encapsulated extract added to yogurt. The three formulations showed increased L* at thirty days, with discoloration being related to decreased anthocyanin content. DPPH• radical scavenging activity decreased during the 30 days of storage. The content of phenolic compounds ranged from 106.01 to 239.90 mg GAE 100 g-1 of yogurt in non-encapsulated extract added to yogurt, and from 225.17 to 291.98mg GAE 100 g-1 of encapsulated extract added to yogurt. Extract encapsulation is indicated because it provides high anthocyanin stability.
ATUALIDADE DA REIFICAÇÃO DE MARX COMO INSTRUMENTO DA ANÁLISE DE RELAÇÕES JURÍDICAS E SOCIAIS
Authors: Lima Martonio Mont’Alverne Barreto , Rego Walquíria Gertrudes Domingues Leão
Published: June 2020

Resumo Este artigo procura investigar a reflexão de Karl Marx sobre a reificação das relações sociais no desenvolvimento econômico e político do sistema capitalista, a partir da noção de reificação - Verdinglichung - estabelecida no Livro III de O Capital. Trata-se de uma tentativa de reinserir o assunto no atual debate sociológico-jurídico, que se desenvolve em muitos lugares do mundo. Consideramos o conceito de reificação como um conceito-diagnóstico, ou pelo menos um elemento indispensável de diagnose de uma época histórica. Isto se deve, na verdade, ao fato de tal debate tratar de um fenômeno ligado às formas de consciência e dos conjuntos de práticas sociais inspirados nela, e que podem singularizar um determinado tempo histórico. Semelhante campo temático foi abandonado por anos, ao menos desde os anos de 1980, pelas ciências sociais e jurídicas. Contudo, deve ser dito que tal temática foi central nos debates na Alemanha, na Áustria e na América Latina nas décadas de 1920 e 1930. Assim, o texto do artigo parte desta necessidade histórica para propor uma atualização do conceito de reificação, o qual pode ser atualizado para os tempos modernos, o que confere ao Direito uma preciosa ferramenta ontológica de explicação de suas formas fenomênicas da modernidade.
REVISITANDO A RECEPÇÃO DE FRANTZ FANON: O ATIVISMO NEGRO BRASILEIRO E OS DIÁLOGOS TRANSNACIONAIS EM TORNO DA NEGRITUDE
Authors: Faustino Deivison Mendes
Published: June 2020

Resumo Neste artigo apresento parte dos resultados obtidos em minha pesquisa de doutorado, intitulada Por que Fanon? Por que agora? Frantz Fanon e os fanonismos no Brasil. Neste estudo, dialogo criticamente com a hipótese de um possível contato ou influência entre Fanon e alguns intelectuais ligados à Associação Cultural do Negro (ACN) no final da década de 1950 e início da década de 1960. Argumento que a factibilidade de um possível encontro presencial entre eles - nos marcos do II Congresso de Artistas e Escritores Negros, em Roma, em 1959 - não seria suficiente para inferir uma afinidade de ideias ou mesmo influência, haja vista as diferentes posições que ocupavam no espectro do movimento de negritude. Por fim, discuto o contexto de circulação das ideias de Fanon e os seus reflexos e particularidades na recepção brasileira.
Fatores associados ao comportamento da população durante o isolamento social na pandemia de COVID-19
Authors: Bezerra Anselmo César Vasconcelos , Silva Carlos Eduardo Menezes da , Soares Fernando Ramalho Gameleira , Silva José Alexandre Menezes da
Published: June 2020

Resumo O artigo apresenta resultados da pesquisa de opinião realizada no Brasil sobre a percepção do isolamento social durante a pandemia de COVID-19. O questionário foi elaborado no Google Forms, disseminado por redes sociais, com questões sobre o perfil socioeconômico e fatores associados ao isolamento. Obteve-se uma amostra com 16.440 respondentes. Os dados foram analisados no software Stata 13. O convívio social foi o aspecto mais afetado entre pessoas com maior escolaridade e renda 45,8%, para pessoas de baixas renda e escolaridade, problemas financeiros provocam maior impacto 35%. Os que praticam atividade física revelaram menores níveis de estresse 13%, bem como uma maior normalidade no sono 50,3%. Pessoas que referiram residir em piores condições de habitabilidade, informaram disposição a permanecer menos tempo isoladas 73,9%. Dentre as pessoas que não estão isoladas (10,7% do total), 75,8% acredita que o isolamento social reduzirá o número de vítimas da COVID-19. Concluímos, que a percepção das pessoas quanto ao isolamento social como medida de mitigação da pandemia, varia conforme a renda, escolaridade, idade e sexo, porém a maior parte acredita que se trata da medida de controle mais indicada e estão dispostas a esperar o tempo que for necessário para contribuir com o enfrentamento à COVID-19.
Impact of COVID-19 on mental health in a Low and Middle-Income Country
Authors: Castro-de-Araujo Luís Fernando Silva , Machado Daiane Borges
Published: June 2020

Abstract Mental disorders (MD) are commonly comorbid with cardiovascular, metabolic, and some infectious diseases. Since the current SARS-CoV-2 epidemic is affecting the most multimorbid individuals, we might expect that the epidemic will be particularly problematic for people with MD. Understanding the burden of an outbreak on mental health is fundamental to effective action towards containing the spread of the disease, as psychopathology might reduce endurance during the lockdown. This can potentially reduce adhesion to ongoing treatment resulting in avoidable recurrence of a disorder. Additionally, there is the stress caused by the eminent risk of infection or economic uncertainty, especially in low-middle income settings. This is an overview on the expected influence of the COVID-19 on mental health from a research group that has not long ago been involved in the Zika epidemic. It aims to discuss the effects of the pandemic on a Low and Middle-Income country (LMIC), Brazil.
Worldwide differences in COVID-19-related mortality
Authors: Hallal Pedro Curi
Published: June 2020

Abstract Mortality statistics due to COVID-19 worldwide are compared, by adjusting for the size of the population and the stage of the pandemic. Data from the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, and Our World in Data websites were used. Analyses are based on number of deaths per one million inhabitants. In order to account for the stage of the pandemic, the baseline date was defined as the day in which the 10th death was reported. The analyses included 78 countries and territories which reported 10 or more deaths by April 9. On day 10, India had 0.06 deaths per million, Belgium had 30.46 and San Marino 618.78. On day 20, India had 0.27 deaths per million, China had 0.71 and Spain 139.62. On day 30, four Asian countries had the lowest mortality figures, whereas eight European countries had the highest ones. In Italy and Spain, mortality on day 40 was greater than 250 per million, whereas in China and South Korea, mortality was below 4 per million. Mortality on day 10 was moderately correlated with life expectancy, but not with population density. Asian countries presented much lower mortality figures as compared to European ones. Life expectancy was found to be correlated with mortality.
Preservação da privacidade no enfrentamento da COVID-19: dados pessoais e a pandemia global
Authors: Almeida Bethania de Araujo , Doneda Danilo , Ichihara Maria Yury , Barral-Netto Manoel , Matta Gustavo Correa , Rabello Elaine Teixeira , Gouveia Fabio Castro , Barreto Mauricio
Published: June 2020

Resumo Dados ganham cada vez mais importância e valor na busca de respostas para enfrentar a COVID-19 tanto para a ciência quanto para as autoridades sanitárias. Em virtude da dificuldade de realizar diagnóstico da infecção na população em geral, iniciativas apoiadas em tecnologias digitais vêm sendo desenvolvidas por governos ou empresas privadas para possibilitar rastreamentos de sintomas, contatos e deslocamentos de modo a apoiar estratégias de acompanhamento e avaliação na vigilância de contágios. A despeito da importância e necessidade dessas iniciativas, questionamentos acerca da quantidade e tipos de dados pessoais coletados, processados, compartilhados e utilizados em nome da saúde pública, bem como os concomitantes ou posteriores usos desses dados, suscitam questionamentos éticos, legais e técnicos. Desafios que apontam para a necessidade de novos modelos de governança de dados e de tecnologias, responsáveis e transparentes, para controlar o Sars-Cov2 e as futuras emergências de saúde pública.
A Psicanálise em face à política: uma postura e uma análise
Authors: Costa Maico Fernando , Costa-Rosa Abílio da
Published: June 2020

RESUMO: O artigo tem como proposta abordar o posicionamento de uma determinada compreensão da Psicanálise face à política econômica capitalista, na forma como esta se apresenta na sociedade. Desse modo, o objetivo do artigo foi expor as considerações da Psicanálise a respeito da política e os seus agenciamentos no âmbito da produção de subjetividade, utilizando a estética como brecha para ampliação das suas possibilidades singularizantes na direção da cura. Realizou-se uma pesquisa procurando tecer considerações vinculadas ao que alguns psicanalistas contemporâneos têm comentado e refletido sobre o assunto. Por fim, acompanhando Freud e Lacan, empreendemos uma interlocução com Marx e a estética para melhor vislumbrarmos o alcance dessas questões. Estamos de acordo com Lacan, no posicionamento de que apenas será um progresso subverter o discurso do capitalista se as oportunidades de condição à palavra e ao desejo não forem somente para alguns.
A psicanálise nas políticas sociais públicas
Authors: Marino Adriana Simões
Published: June 2020

Resumo: Aborda a inserção da psicanálise nas políticas sociais públicas, ressaltando as primeiras considerações freudianas sobre o assunto. Discute sua pretensão como direito no contexto de sua não regulamentação profissional e concepção de formação. Trabalha o tema por meio dos desdobramentos da segunda tópica freudiana e da crítica lacaniana aos desvirtuamentos da análise em termos de educação, adaptação à realidade e conscientização. Por fim, chama atenção para uma direção na qual se mantém o rigor e o caráter não tendencioso da psicanálise no âmbito dessas políticas.
Dizer a verdade em psicanálise: uma abordagem genealógica a partir de Foucault
Authors: Martins Luiz Paulo Leitão
Published: June 2020

Resumo: Este artigo aborda a problemática da relação entre sujeito e verdade em psicanálise por uma perspectiva genealógica. Se Lacan recolocou na tradição psicanalítica o antigo problema da espiritualidade, perguntando-se sobre o trabalho do sujeito consigo mesmo e as condições de acesso à verdade, é preciso se perguntar como essa modalidade de dizer a verdade se constituiu historicamente e de que tecnologias é formada. A partir dos estudos de Foucault, examina-se o lugar da sexualidade na enunciação da verdade em psicanálise e de que maneira a relação do sujeito consigo mesmo nessa experiência pode ser atravessada por uma hermenêutica.
Monogamia e identidade: considerações psicanalíticas
Authors: Amorim Patrícia Mafra de , Reis Daniel Bruno dos
Published: June 2020

Resumo: Entendendo a monogamia como dispositivo contingencial, analisa-se sua capacidade de influenciar os processos de constituição da identidade e as formas de identificação dos sujeitos. A partir das elaborações de Heinz Lichtenstein sobre as origens da identidade humana, incluímos a monogamia, ou alguns traços presentes neste arranjo, na unidade mãe-bebê, supondo que o estatuto hegemônico da monogamia revela algo de sua ligação com a situação antropológica fundamental descrita por Laplanche. Assim, traços do arranjo monogâmico seriam transmitidos à criança em seu estado de “órgão” da mãe e, enquanto pontos constitutivos da identidade, seriam compulsivamente repetidos com o objetivo de manter a coesão desta identidade.
O ato de nomear o bebê internado em uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal: uma aposta no advento do sujeito?
Authors: Espíndola Vanessa Barros , Carvalho Isalena Santos
Published: June 2020

Resumo: O artigo trata das possíveis consequências da passagem de bebês por uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal (UTIN), tomando o conceito de nome próprio como ponto norteador. Consiste em escrita de relato de experiência profissional orientado a partir da Psicanálise, com recortes de trabalho realizado em UTIN com os bebês e suas famílias. A prática suscitou a consideração de que a aposta, advinda do desejo dos que cercam o bebê de que nele há um sujeito, é a via de possibilitar-lhe uma vida, o que comparece na convocação que lhe é feita a partir do nome que lhe é atribuído.
Internal construct validity of the Brazilian version of a tool for assessing the population’s knowledge of human papillomavirus
Authors: Trevisol Fabiana Schuelter , Nunes Rodrigo Dias , Parma Gabriel Oscar Cremona , Manoel André Luciano , Zapelini Clávison Martinelli , Trevisol Daisson José , Traebert Jefferson
Published: June 2020

ABSTRACT: Objective: To verify the internal construct validity of the Brazilian Portuguese version of a tool for measuring the general population’s knowledge of human papillomavirus (HPV). Materials and methods: A cross-culturally adapted Brazilian Portuguese version of a measurement tool originally designed for English speaking populations was administered to 330 adults in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil. After examining the overall suitability of the method, we performed investigations based on the item response theory and exploratory factor analysis. Results: Ten of the 29 items presented a low contribution to the construct and were excluded from subsequent analysis. The factor analysis yielded three factors, which explained approximately 51% of the variance variability. A different arrangement from the original measurement tool was found: general HPV knowledge, with six items; HPV vaccination knowledge, with five items; HPV transmission and testing knowledge, with eight items. Conclusion: The Brazilian Portuguese version under study presented a different behavior from the original measurement tool, but proved to be a reliable and valid instrument in assessing the Brazilian population’s knowledge about HPV.
Mulheres e avaliação das desigualdades na distribuição de fatores de risco de doenças crônicas, Vigitel 2016-2017
Authors: Malta Deborah Carvalho , Bernal Regina Tomie Ivata , Carvalho Quéren Hapuque de , Pell Jill P. , Dundas Ruth , Leyland Alastair , Vasconcelos Leda Lúcia Couto de , Cardoso Lais Santos de Magalhaes , Stopa Sheila Rizzato , Barreto Mauricio Lima
Published: June 2020

RESUMO: Objetivo: Comparar a distribuição de indicadores de doenças crônicas não transmissíveis (DCNT) entre mulheres adultas beneficiárias e não beneficiárias do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) nas capitais brasileiras. Métodos: Análise de dados do Sistema de Vigilância de Fatores de Risco e Proteção para Doenças Crônicas por Inquérito Telefônico (Vigitel) em 2016 e 2017. Foram estimados as razões de prevalência (RP) brutas e ajustadas e seus respectivos intervalos de confiança usando o modelo de regressão de Poisson. Resultados: Mulheres do PBF tem menor escolaridade, são mais jovens e vivem com maior frequência nas regiões Nordeste e Norte do país. Prevalências mais elevadas de fatores de risco foram encontradas nas mulheres beneficiárias do PBF. A RP ajustada por idade das mulheres com BF foram: fumantes (RP = 1,98), excesso de peso (RP = 1,21), obesidade (RP = 1,63), frutas e hortaliças (RP = 0,63), consumo de refrigerantes (RP = 1,68), consumo de feijão (RP = 1,25), prática de atividade física no lazer (RP = 0,65), atividade física no domicílio (RP = 1,35), tempo assistindo à TV (RP = 1,37), autoavaliação do estado de saúde ruim (RP = 2,04), mamografia (RP = 0,86), Papanicolau (RP = 0,91), hipertensão (RP = 1,46) e diabetes (RP = 1,66). Quando comparadas as mulheres entre estratos de mesma escolaridade, as diferenças entre os fatores de risco foram reduzidas. Conclusão: Piores indicadores entre mulheres que recebem BF refletem desigualdades sociais inerentes a esse grupo mais vulnerável. O estudo evidencia também que o PBF está sendo destinado às mulheres mais vulneráveis.
Estudantes de Medicina em Roda: os Diálogos da Extensão Popular com os Indígenas Potiguara
Authors: Luna Willian Fernandes , Nordi Aline Barreto de Almeida , Rached Karolina Saad , Correia Marcella Barros Alencar , Carvalho Alice Ribeiro Viana de , Morais Lenildo Filho Dias De
Published: June 2020

Abstract: Introduction: University extension projects with socially excluded populations can be a strategy for the training of professionals in the cultural and social diversity of the Brazilian population. The practice of Popular Health Education (PHE) through university extension is one of the possibilities to foster dialogic interactions between teaching and the community and has been a space for the development of health education with social commitment. The Îandé Gûatá Extension Project was created in Paraíba in 2013, based on the principles of PHE and Popular Extension, focusing on the meeting between Potiguara indigenous people and Medical students. This study aimed to evaluate the learning built by this project students’ for their medical education. Method: Therefore, a qualitative approach research was developed through the analysis of discursive practices, using the talking circle technique at the end of the project cycle. To analyze the material, linguistic repertoires were identified from the subjects’ speech and three sets of meanings were built: extension university as a counter-hegemonic space of medical education; building skills for the future doctor; relations between health and culture in care. The linguistic repertoires were discussed based on theoretical references, such as popular health education, indigenous health and competences in medical education. Results: According to the students, this project allowed them gains in the attributes of: knowledge, as it allowed reflections, identification of gaps and greater understanding about the health-disease process in the context of the indigenous population; allowed gains in the ability of making and receiving criticism, teamwork and dialogue between different cultures; and allowed gains in attitudes, broadening the attitude of professionalism, the comprehension and performance on ethical issues and the construction of social commitment. Conclusion: Therefore, they highlight both the development of general competences for the future doctor, but also more specific ones, such as cultural competence. Moreover, the challenge of dialoguing in the polarity: aiming to reduce the distances within the same institutional space; cultural conflicts; and understanding and acting in an emancipatory education. This group of students wished, with the indigenous community, that these distances would be lessened, in a collective commitment aimed at producing change and social transformation.
La fiesta de la Mama Negra, uno de los patrimonios culturales intangibles de la ciudad de Latacunga, Ecuador
Authors: Herrera Sylvia , Cáceres Nataly
Published: June 2020

Nuestros antepasados desarrollaban celebraciones que respondían al culto a los astros en la necesidad de cumplir con la ritualidad de su credo. Con la llegada de los españoles, la Iglesia incluyó, en el repertorio cultural de los pueblos, lo cristiano, adaptándolo a estos mismos festejos. De allí, que las fiestas, -en algunos casos- son producto de la mixtura entre las creencias locales y las tradiciones españolas fundamentadas en la fe. En este trabajo se expone una temática relacionada con el folklore social, las fiestas y personajes típicos, a partir del estudio de la fiesta de la Mama Negra, en Latacunga, provincia de Cotopaxi; organizada en honor a la virgen de la Merced o de la Santísima Tragedia. La fiesta se desarrolla en los meses de septiembre y noviembre, por lo que, fue indispensable utilizar la investigación descriptiva y de campo, en primera instancia para caracterizar a cada personaje - definir funciones- y en segunda, para confirmar diferencias y semejanzas en ambos periodos de celebración -observación directa-. Se utilizaron fuentes bibliográficas que incluyeron libros, artículos y otros documentos relacionados con el tema, con el objetivo de analizar y determinar el hecho folklórico de la fiesta, comprendiéndola como un atractivo turístico del Ecuador.
Síndrome de Burnout en médicos/as y enfermeros/as ecuatorianos durante la pandemia de COVID-19
Authors: Vinueza-Veloz Andrés Fernando , Aldaz-Pachacama Nelson Renato , Mera-Segovia Carlota Mónica , Pino-Vaca Dipaola Pamela , Tapia-Veloz Estephany Carolina , Vinueza-Veloz María Fernanda
Published: June 2020

Objetivo: Determinar la ocurrencia e intensidad de Síndrome de Burnout (SB) en médicos y enfermeros/as ecuatorianos/as durante la pandemia del COVID-19.Materiales y métodos: Estudio observacional de corte transversal. Participaron 224 médicos/as y enfermeros/as de establecimientos de la red integral de salud ecuatoriana, a quienes se administró el Inventario de Burnout de Maslach. Se analizaron los datos a través de modelos deregresión lineal usando R.Resultados: Más del 90% del personal médico y de enfermería presento SB moderado-severo, el cual se asoció de manera estadísticamente significativa a función (médico vs. enfermera/o),edad y género. El personal médico es afectado con mayor frecuencia que el personal de enfermería, tanto a nivel global como en las subescalas de agotamiento emocional y despersonalización.Conclusión: Durante la pandemia de COVID-19 más del 90% del personal médico y de enfermería presentó SB moderado a severo, siendo el personal médico el afectado con más frecuencia.
Balancing Spreads of Influence in a Social Network
Authors: Becker Ruben , Corò Federico , D'Angelo Gianlorenzo , Gilbert Hugo
Published: June 2020

The personalization of our news consumption on social media has a tendency to reinforce our pre-existing beliefs instead of balancing our opinions. To tackle this issue, Garimella et al. (NIPS'17) modeled the spread of these viewpoints, also called campaigns, using the independent cascade model introduced by Kempe, Kleinberg and Tardos (KDD'03) and studied an optimization problem that aims to balance information exposure when two opposing campaigns propagate in a network. This paper investigates a natural generalization of this optimization problem in which μ different campaigns propagate in the network and we aim to maximize the expected number of nodes that are reached by at least ν or none of the campaigns, where μ ≥ ν ≥ 2. Following Garimella et al., despite this general setting, we also investigate a simplified one, in which campaigns propagate in a correlated manner. While for the simplified setting, we show that the problem can be approximated within a constant factor for any constant μ and ν, for the general setting, we give reductions leading to several approximation hardness results when ν ≥ 3. For instance, assuming the gap exponential time hypothesis to hold, we obtain that the problem cannot be approximated within a factor of n−g(n) for any g(n) = o(1) where n is the number of nodes in the network. We complement our hardness results with an Ω(n−1/2)-approximation algorithm for the general setting when ν = 3 and μ is arbitrary.
Norm-Explicit Quantization: Improving Vector Quantization for Maximum Inner Product Search
Authors: Dai Xinyan , Yan Xiao , Ng Kelvin K. W. , Liu Jiu , Cheng James
Published: June 2020

Vector quantization (VQ) techniques are widely used in similarity search for data compression, computation acceleration and etc. Originally designed for Euclidean distance, existing VQ techniques (e.g., PQ, AQ) explicitly or implicitly minimize the quantization error. In this paper, we present a new angle to analyze the quantization error, which decomposes the quantization error into norm error and direction error. We show that quantization errors in norm have much higher influence on inner products than quantization errors in direction, and small quantization error does not necessarily lead to good performance in maximum inner product search (MIPS). Based on this observation, we propose norm-explicit quantization (NEQ) — a general paradigm that improves existing VQ techniques for MIPS. NEQ quantizes the norms of items in a dataset explicitly to reduce errors in norm, which is crucial for MIPS. For the direction vectors, NEQ can simply reuse an existing VQ technique to quantize them without modification. We conducted extensive experiments on a variety of datasets and parameter configurations. The experimental results show that NEQ improves the performance of various VQ techniques for MIPS, including PQ, OPQ, RQ and AQ.
Preserving Ordinal Consensus: Towards Feature Selection for Unlabeled Data
Authors: Guo Jun , Chang Heng , Zhu Wenwu
Published: June 2020

To better pre-process unlabeled data, most existing feature selection methods remove redundant and noisy information by exploring some intrinsic structures embedded in samples. However, these unsupervised studies focus too much on the relations among samples, totally neglecting the feature-level geometric information. This paper proposes an unsupervised triplet-induced graph to explore a new type of potential structure at feature level, and incorporates it into simultaneous feature selection and clustering. In the feature selection part, we design an ordinal consensus preserving term based on a triplet-induced graph. This term enforces the projection vectors to preserve the relative proximity of original features, which contributes to selecting more relevant features. In the clustering part, Self-Paced Learning (SPL) is introduced to gradually learn from ‘easy’ to ‘complex’ samples. SPL alleviates the dilemma of falling into the bad local minima incurred by noise and outliers. Specifically, we propose a compelling regularizer for SPL to obtain a robust loss. Finally, an alternating minimization algorithm is developed to efficiently optimize the proposed model. Extensive experiments on different benchmark datasets consistently demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method.
Semi-Supervised Multi-Modal Learning with Balanced Spectral Decomposition
Authors: Hu Peng , Zhu Hongyuan , Peng Xi , Lin Jie
Published: June 2020

Cross-modal retrieval aims to retrieve the relevant samples across different modalities, of which the key problem is how to model the correlations among different modalities while narrowing the large heterogeneous gap. In this paper, we propose a Semi-supervised Multimodal Learning Network method (SMLN) which correlates different modalities by capturing the intrinsic structure and discriminative correlation of the multimedia data. To be specific, the labeled and unlabeled data are used to construct a similarity matrix which integrates the cross-modal correlation, discrimination, and intra-modal graph information existing in the multimedia data. What is more important is that we propose a novel optimization approach to optimize our loss within a neural network which involves a spectral decomposition problem derived from a ratio trace criterion. Our optimization enjoys two advantages given below. On the one hand, the proposed approach is not limited to our loss, which could be applied to any case that is a neural network with the ratio trace criterion. On the other hand, the proposed optimization is different from existing ones which alternatively maximize the minor eigenvalues, thus overemphasizing the minor eigenvalues and ignore the dominant ones. In contrast, our method will exactly balance all eigenvalues, thus being more competitive to existing methods. Thanks to our loss and optimization strategy, our method could well preserve the discriminative and instinct information into the common space and embrace the scalability in handling large-scale multimedia data. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, extensive experiments are carried out on three widely-used multimodal datasets comparing with 13 state-of-the-art approaches.
Deep Match to Rank Model for Personalized Click-Through Rate Prediction
Authors: Lyu Ze , Dong Yu , Huo Chengfu , Ren Weijun
Published: June 2020

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a core task in the field of recommender system and many other applications. For CTR prediction model, personalization is the key to improve the performance and enhance the user experience. Recently, several models are proposed to extract user interest from user behavior data which reflects user's personalized preference implicitly. However, existing works in the field of CTR prediction mainly focus on user representation and pay less attention on representing the relevance between user and item, which directly measures the intensity of user's preference on target item. Motivated by this, we propose a novel model named Deep Match to Rank (DMR) which combines the thought of collaborative filtering in matching methods for the ranking task in CTR prediction. In DMR, we design User-to-Item Network and Item-to-Item Network to represent the relevance in two forms. In User-to-Item Network, we represent the relevance between user and item by inner product of the corresponding representation in the embedding space. Meanwhile, an auxiliary match network is presented to supervise the training and push larger inner product to represent higher relevance. In Item-to-Item Network, we first calculate the item-to-item similarities between user interacted items and target item by attention mechanism, and then sum up the similarities to obtain another form of user-to-item relevance. We conduct extensive experiments on both public and industrial datasets to validate the effectiveness of our model, which outperforms the state-of-art models significantly.
Incremental Fairness in Two-Sided Market Platforms: On Smoothly Updating Recommendations
Authors: Patro Gourab K. , Chakraborty Abhijnan , Ganguly Niloy , Gummadi Krishna
Published: June 2020

Major online platforms today can be thought of as two-sided markets with producers and customers of goods and services. There have been concerns that over-emphasis on customer satisfaction by the platforms may affect the well-being of the producers. To counter such issues, few recent works have attempted to incorporate fairness for the producers. However, these studies have overlooked an important issue in such platforms -- to supposedly improve customer utility, the underlying algorithms are frequently updated, causing abrupt changes in the exposure of producers. In this work, we focus on the fairness issues arising out of such frequent updates, and argue for incremental updates of the platform algorithms so that the producers have enough time to adjust (both logistically and mentally) to the change. However, naive incremental updates may become unfair to the customers. Thus focusing on recommendations deployed on two-sided platforms, we formulate an ILP based online optimization to deploy changes incrementally in η steps, where we can ensure smooth transition of the exposure of items while guaranteeing a minimum utility for every customer. Evaluations over multiple real world datasets show that our proposed mechanism for platform updates can be efficient and fair to both the producers and the customers in two-sided platforms.
Towards Comprehensive Recommender Systems: Time-Aware Unified Recommendations Based on Listwise Ranking of Implicit Cross-Network Data
Authors: Perera Dilruk , Zimmermann Roger
Published: June 2020

The abundance of information in web applications make recommendation essential for users as well as applications. Despite the effectiveness of existing recommender systems, we find two major limitations that reduce their overall performance: (1) inability to provide timely recommendations for both new and existing users by considering the dynamic nature of user preferences, and (2) not fully optimized for the ranking task when using implicit feedback. Therefore, we propose a novel deep learning based unified cross-network solution to mitigate cold-start and data sparsity issues and provide timely recommendations for new and existing users. Furthermore, we consider the ranking problem under implicit feedback as a classification task, and propose a generic personalized listwise optimization criterion for implicit data to effectively rank a list of items. We illustrate our cross-network model using Twitter auxiliary information for recommendations on YouTube target network. Extensive comparisons against multiple time aware and cross-network baselines show that the proposed solution is superior in terms of accuracy, novelty and diversity. Furthermore, experiments conducted on the popular MovieLens dataset suggest that the proposed listwise ranking method outperforms existing state-of-the-art ranking techniques.