bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Post-stroke depression, obstructive sleep apnea, and cognitive impairment: Rationale for, and barriers to, routine screening
Authors: Swartz Richard H , Bayley Mark , Lanctôt Krista L , Murray Brian J , Cayley Megan L , Lien Karen , Sicard Michelle N , Thorpe Kevin E , Dowlatshahi Dar , Mandzia Jennifer L , Casaubon Leanne K , Saposnik Gustavo , Perez Yael , Sahlas Demetrios J , Herrmann Nathan
Published: April 2016

Stroke can cause neurological impairment ranging from mild to severe, but the impact of stroke extends beyond the initial brain injury to include a complex interplay of devastating comorbidities including: post-stroke depression, obstructive sleep apnea, and cognitive impairment (“DOC”). We reviewed the frequency, impact, and treatment options for each DOC condition. We then used the Ottawa Model of Research Use to examine gaps in care, understand the barriers to knowledge translation, identification, and addressing these important post-stroke comorbidities. Each of the DOC conditions is common and result in poorer recovery, greater functional impairment, increased stroke recurrence and mortality, even after accounting for traditional vascular risk factors. Despite the strong relationships between DOC comorbidities and these negative outcomes as well as recommendations for screening based on best practice recommendations from several countries, they are frequently not assessed. Barriers related to the nature of the screening tools (e.g., time consuming in high-volume clinics), practice environment (e.g., lack of human resources or space), as well as potential adopters (e.g., equipoise surrounding the benefits of treatment for these conditions) pose challenges to routine screening implementation. Simple, feasible approaches to routine screening coupled with appropriate, evidence-based treatment protocols are required to better identify and manage depression, obstructive sleep apnea, and cognitive impairment symptoms in stroke prevention clinic patients to reduce the impact of these important post-stroke comorbidities. These tools may in turn facilitate large-scale randomized controlled treatment trials of interventions for DOC conditions that may help to improve cardiovascular outcomes after stroke or TIA.
Luxury Lines
Authors: Nickel Patricia Mooney
Published: April 2016

In its materialization of regard and disregard, the 2015 introduction of the Starbucks luxury line prompts new questions about the impact of an emergent app ascetic on the everyday practice of order. In this article, I build on previous studies of time and power, while simultaneously exploring the material practice of luxury narrated by, but practiced in contrast to, promises of community and social consciousness. I argue that time is made luxurious through the power to redistribute how one is positioned in relation to others and that this materialization reveals the role of disregard in luxury relations more generally. I examine how the formation of luxury lines that involve inserting oneself in spatial and temporal relation to others exposes the underlying disregard involved in the practice of ordering and consuming in time and space. I then explore the ways in which this practice exposes how consumption of luxury lines of material goods—particularly those goods produced by companies that make a claim to benevolence—has involved a false sense of accord narrated by tales of community-producing luxury that purport to be practicing regard for others in the practice of rewarding oneself.
Fatalist Luxuries
Authors: Kuldova Tereza
Published: April 2016

This article, grounded in long-term ethnographic research among producers of contemporary luxurious embroideries and fashions in Lucknow, a North Indian city famous for its golden age as a powerful cultural center of opulence and excess, shows how anthropological knowledge can enrich current critical discussions of luxury and inequality. Since the 1990s, anthropology has seen a boom in consumption and material culture studies coterminous with the rise of identity politics and its celebration of diversity. In anthropological theory, as well, linking consumption to identity has stolen the limelight. In the process, questions of production, inequality, and reproduction of social structures have been overshadowed. Critical reappraisal of luxury in anthropological theory can paradoxically show us a way out of this identity trap, since luxury, unlike other consumer goods, demands that we think about inequality. Luxury also forces us to think beyond luxury brands, goods, and commodified experiences, pushing us toward more fundamental questions about what constitutes a good life, morality, and social order. The ethnographic case presented here, which reveals how structural violence can go hand-in-hand with paradoxical luxuries facilitated by fatalist attitudes, points to what such an anthropology of luxury might look like. In a village near Lucknow, women embroider luxury pieces for fashion ramps and celebrities, while being fed meritocratic dreams of individual progress and success by fashion designers and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who try to convince them to work ever harder in the name of empowerment. But the women laugh at luxury goods, designers, and middle-class activists and, instead, insist on an antiwork ethic and a valorization of leisure—on wasting time over working; they prefer to “luxuriate” rather than indulge in luxury goods. However, this perception of luxury is connected to hierarchical inequality and a sense of social fatalism that has been reinvigorated through new experiences with competitive inequality, neoliberal pollution, and the false promises of meritocracy.
Socio-Psychological Determinants of Organizational Change Projects Success: a Literature Review
Authors: ������  , Volkov Oleg , �������  , Tishchenko Olga , ��������  , Kamysheva Sofya
Published: April 2016

This article is devoted to a problem of resistance to organizational changes

in projects in general and its socio-psychological aspect in particular. During

the literary review the points of view on interrelation of project management

and organizational change management are revealed, types and models

of organizational changes introduction are allocated. Besides, the review

includes the works devoted to socio-psychological aspect of change

management, and the conflicts as to a consequence of these changes, and

their influence on project success.
Mercury isotopes of atmospheric particle bound mercury for source apportionment study in urban Kolkata, India
Authors: Das Reshmi , Wang Xianfeng , Khezri Bahareh , Webster Richard D. , Sikdar Pradip Kumar , Datta Subhajit
Published: April 2016

The particle bound mercury (PBM) in urban-industrial areas is mainly of anthropogenic origin, and is derived from two principal sources: Hg bound to particulate matter directly emitted by industries and power generation plants, and adsorption of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) and gaseous oxidized mercury (GOM) on air particulates from gas or aqueous phases. Here, we measured the Hg isotope composition of PBM in PM10 samples collected from three locations, a traffic junction, a waste incineration site and an industrial site in Kolkata, the largest metropolis in Eastern India. Sampling was carried out in winter and monsoon seasons between 2013–2015. The objective was to understand whether the isotope composition of the PBM represents source composition. The PBM collected from the waste burning site showed little mass independent fractionation (MIF) (Δ199Hg = +0.12 to -0.11‰), similar to the signature in liquid Hg and Hg ores around the world with no seasonal variations. Samples from the industrial site showed mostly negative MDF and MIF (δ202Hg = -1.34 to -3.48 ‰ and Δ199Hg = +0.01 to -0.31‰). The MDF is consistent with PBM generated by coal combustion however, the MIF is 0.15‰ more negative compared to the Hg isotope ratios in Indian coals. The traffic junction PBM is probably not produced in situ, but has travelled some distances from nearby industrial sources. The longer residence time of this PBM in the atmosphere has resulted in-aerosol aqueous photoreduction. Thus, the MIF displays a larger range (Δ199Hg = +0.33 to -0.30‰) compared to the signature from the other sites and with more positive values in the humid monsoon season. Different Hg isotopic signature of PBM in the three different sampling locations within the same city indicates that both source and post emission atmospheric transformations play important roles in determining isotopic signature of PBM.
Assessment and management of orbital cellulitis
Authors: Amin Nikul , Syed Irfan , Osborne Sarah
Published: April 2016

Orbital cellulitis is a medical emergency requiring multidisciplinary team involvement. Early diagnosis and intervention is imperative to avoid serious complications. This article provides an evidence-based approach to the assessment and management of patients with orbital cellulitis.
Oral malignancy and premalignancy
Authors: Hegarty Anne M , Hunter Keith D
Published: April 2016

This article increases awareness of the presentation, diagnosis and management of potentially malignant and malignant oral lesions and conditions and reviews the referral process.
Infinitely Many Nodal Solutions for Nonlinear Nonhomogeneous Robin Problems
Authors: Papageorgiou Nikolaos S. , Rădulescu Vicenţiu D.
Published: April 2016

We consider a nonlinear Robin problem driven by a nonhomogeneous differential operator which incorporates the p-Laplacian as special case. The reaction

f
⁢

(
z
,
x
)

${f(z,x)}$

is a Carathéodory function which need not satisfy a global growth condition and is only assumed to be odd near zero. Using variational tools, we show that the problem has a whole sequence of distinct nodal (that is, sign-changing) solutions.
Study of the Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer Coefficient in a 2D Mimicked FT Slurry Bubble Columns for Alternative Clean Energy and Chemical Production
Authors: Abdulkareem Hiba A. , Gheni Saba A. , Yacoup Rafi’ J.
Published: April 2016

Bubble columns are widely used for contacting gas–liquid and gas–liquid–solid mass transfer/chemical reactions. Gas distributor is the most important accessory because it decides the bubble size/rise velocity and gas distribution. In this study, the effect of distributor design on hydrodynamics and mass transfer coefficient are studied at different operating conditions of height to diameter ratio, solid loading, and superficial gas velocity The overall gas holdup, is studied experimentally using a rectangular slurry bubble column operating at ambient temperature and pressure, using liquid paraffin (C9–C11), three heights to diameter ratios (6, 7.5 and 10) and silica as a solid phase (0 %, 9 % and 25 %) with oxygen as gas phase. Two types of distributor were used, perforated plate and ring type. The results showed that the overall gas holdup increased by increasing gas velocity and decreased by increasing height to diameter ratio and solid loading. Also, it is found that the perforated plate distributor gave a higher gas hold up than ring distributor at gas velocity higher than 0.03 m/sec. The following correlations are obtained:

Plate distributor at presence of silica particles:

ε

g

=

1.343

U

g

0.0612

−
0.00891

ε

s

−
0.374

−
0.702

L

D

0.041

4.904

−
0.0251

$$\eqalign{{{\rm{\varepsilon}}_{\rm{g}}} =& {\left({1.343{\rm{U}}_{\rm{g}}^{0.0612} - 0.00891{\rm{\varepsilon}}_{\rm{s}}^{- 0.374} - 0.702{{\left({{{\rm{L}} \over {\rm{D}}}} \right)}^{0.041}}} \right)^{4.904}}\cr& - 0.0251}$$

Ring distributor at presence and absence of silica particles:

ε

g

=

0.216

U

g

0.297

−
0.354

ε

s

1.4671

−
0.127

L

D

0.147

1.1206

+
0.058

$$\eqalign{{{\rm{\varepsilon}}_{\rm{g}}} = &{\left({0.216{\rm{U}}_{\rm{g}}^{0.297} - 0.354{\rm{\varepsilon}}_{\rm{s}}^{1.4671} - 0.127{{\left({{{\rm{L}} \over {\rm{D}}}} \right)}^{0.147}}} \right)^{1.1206}} \cr&+ 0.058}$$

There is a good agreement between experimental and predicted values with a percent of error less than 2 %.

It has been found that the mass transfer coefficient is higher for ring distributor than the perforated plate and growing higher for heterogeneous flow regime and higher solid loading.
Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactors for Thermomechanical Pulping Pressate Treatment
Authors: Zheng M. R. , Liao B. Q.
Published: April 2016

A comparative study on the treatment of thermomechanical pulping (TMP) pressate between thermophilic (55 °C) and mesophilic (30 °C) membrane aerated biofilm reactors (MABRs) was conducted under different cycle lengths (CLs) for over 114 days. The performance of the MABRs was evaluated in terms of soluble chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal and biofilm detachment. With a total influent COD of 3,700–4,100 mg/L, the soluble COD removal efficiency of thermophilic MABR (40–65 %) was slightly lower than that of mesophilic MABR (50–80 %) under different CLs. The level of effluent suspended solids (ESS) in treated effluent of the thermophilic MABR was generally higher than that of the mesophilic MABR, suggesting a more significant biofilm detachment from membrane surfaces in the thermophilic MABR. The performance of COD removal improved at the time five to ten days after each significant biofilm detachment. The results suggest that MABR is a promising technology for TMP pressate treatment and biofilm thickness control is important for achieving better performance.
The Self-Organization of Digital Volunteers across Social Media: The Case of the 2013 European Floods in Germany
Authors: Kaufhold Marc-André , Reuter Christian
Published: April 2016

For almost 15 years, social media have been regularly used during emergencies. One of the most recent, and instructive, examples of its widespread use during a large scale scenario in Europe were the 2013 European floods. Public reporting during the event indicated, and our analysis confirms, that Twitter, Facebook (FB), Google Maps and other services were frequently used by affected citizen and volunteers to coordinate help activities among themselves. We conducted a qualitative analysis of selected emergent volunteer communities in Germany on FB and Twitter among others, and subsequently conducted interviews with FB group founders and activists. Our aim was to analyze the use of social media during this particular event, especially by digital volunteers. Our study illustrates the relevance of social media for German citizens in cases of disaster, focusing especially on the role of the moderator. Our specific emphasis was the embedding of social media in the organizing work done by said volunteers, emphasizing both the patterns of social media use and the challenges that result. We show that different social media were used in different ways: Twitter was used in the main for status updates while FB-pages were mostly intended to provide an overview. FB-groups also coordinated a multitude of activities.
Code-Switching in Lower-Class Writing: Autobiographies by Patients from Southern German Psychiatric Hospitals (1852–1931)
Authors: Schiegg Markus
Published: April 2016

This paper examines intra-speaker variation in historical writing. Its purpose is to show that lower-class people were able to consciously switch between language forms of conceptual orality and distance in their texts. To test this hypothesis, the article focuses on code-switching phenomena in autobiographic writing by patients from the Southern German psychiatric hospitals in Irsee and Kaufbeuren (1852–1931). The corpus of this paper consists of c. 98,300 tokens by 22 writers, of whom 11 use code-switching. First, I develop a method to distinguish code-switching from code-mixing phenomena in written texts by combining structural with functional approaches. In the article’s empirical part, I analyse the writers’ different communicative repertoires and the structures and functions of code-switching. Writers use linguistic variants of both conceptual orality and distance for code-switching. Thereby, they often use dialect, regional, or Southern German language forms that are outside of their regular linguistic repertoires. This leads to a re-evaluation of diatopically marked variants as not necessarily reflecting a writer’s lack of standard competence, but on the contrary being his or her deliberate linguistic choices.
Der Einfluss der DIN EN ISO 15189 auf die Ergebnissicherheit in der Virusdiagnostik
Authors: Späth Patricia M. , Hoffmann Dieter , Spitzenberger Folker
Published: April 2016

Derzeit sind über 400 medizinische Laboratorien in Deutschland nach der Norm DIN EN ISO 15189 (Medizinische Laboratorien – Anforderungen an die Qualität und Kompetenz) akkreditiert. Diese in der deutschen und novellierten Fassung im Jahr 2014 publizierte Norm enthält horizontal übergreifende, d. h. für alle Bereiche der medizinischen Laboratoriumsdiagnostik relevante Anforderungen, jedoch keine spezifischen Kriterien für die einzelnen Fachdisziplinen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde untersucht, welchen Einfluss die Umsetzung der technischen Anforderungen der DIN EN ISO 15189, insbesondere der Anforderungen zu Untersuchungsverfahren und zur Qualitätssicherung, auf die Ergebnissicherheit in der Virusdiagnostik hat. Zum Vergleich wurden für die in dieser Arbeit dargelegte Studie innerhalb Deutschlands Experten aus klinisch-virologischen Instituten, Vertreter der In-Vitro-Diagnostika-Industrie, Vertreter der Deutschen Akkreditierungsstelle (DAkkS) sowie der Normung befragt. Aus der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse der Interviews ergab sich, dass durch die Umsetzung der Anforderungen die Ergebnissicherheit erhöht und damit Risiken für die Patientenversorgung minimiert werden. Des Weiteren beschäftigte sich die Studie damit, welchen Einfluss die gemäß DIN EN ISO 15189 empfohlenen Qualitätskontrollen auf die Ergebnissicherheit im HIV-Combo-Test und im Anti-HBs-Nachweis haben. Die normativ empfohlenen, zusätzlichen Kontrollen („Run-Kontrollen“) offenbarten Insuffizienzen in der HIV-Antigenmessung, die durch Herstellerkontrollen nicht aufgedeckt wurden. In den vorgegebenen Bereichen befindliche Ergebnisse von testinternen Kontrollen garantierten nicht durchgängig korrekte Untersuchungsergebnisse, was am Beispiel der Anti-HBs-Bestimmung dargestellt wird. Schlussfolgernd wirkt sich die Anwendung der DIN EN ISO 15189, in der Regel bestätigt durch eine Akkreditierung, positiv auf die Ergebnissicherheit in der Virusdiagnostik und damit auch positiv auf die Patientenversorgung aus.
Animal models of colorectal peritoneal metastasis
Authors: Gremonprez Félix , Willaert Wouter , Ceelen Wim
Published: April 2016

Colorectal cancer remains an important cause of mortality worldwide. The presence of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) causes significant symptoms and is notoriously difficult to treat. Therefore, informative preclinical research into the mechanisms and possible novel treatment options of colorectal PC is essential in order to improve the prognostic outlook in these patients. Several syngeneic and xenograft animal models of colorectal PC were established, studying a wide range of experimental procedures and substances. Regrettably, more sophisticated models such as those giving rise to spontaneous PC or involving genetically engineered mice are lacking. Here, we provide an overview of all reported colorectal PC animal models and briefly discuss their use, strengths, and limitations.
Silicon-on-insulator for spintronic applications: spin lifetime and electric spin manipulation
Authors: Sverdlov Viktor , Osintsev Dmitri , Selberherr Siegfried
Published: April 2016

With complementary metal-oxide semiconductor feature size rapidly approaching ultimate scaling limits, the electron spin attracts much attention as an alternative to the electron charge degree of freedom for low-power reprogrammable logic and nonvolatile memory applications. Silicon, the main element of microelectronics, appears to be the perfect material for spin-driven applications. Despite an impressive progress in understanding spin properties in metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), spin manipulation in a silicon channel by means of the electric field–dependent Rashba-like spin–orbit interaction requires channels much longer than 20 nm channel length of modern MOSFETs. Although a successful realization of the spin field-effect transistor seems to be unlikely without a new concept for an efficient way of spin manipulation in silicon by purely electrical means, it is demonstrated that shear strain dramatically reduces the spin relaxation, thus boosting the spin lifetime by an order of magnitude. Spin lifetime enhancement is achieved by lifting the degeneracy between the otherwise equivalent unprimedsubbands by [110] uniaxial stress. The spin lifetime in stressed ultra-thin body silicon-on-insulator structures can reach values close to those in bulk silicon. Therefore, stressed silicon-on-insulator structures have a potential for spin interconnects.
No solo de pan vive el hombre / Not by bread alone does man live
Authors: Fernández Mojica Nohemí , Barradas Alarcón María Esther
Published: April 2016

En el  cuarto pilar de la educación: aprender a ser, está escrito  que: […]”la educación debe contribuir al desarrollo global de cada persona: cuerpo y mente, inteligencia, sensibilidad, sentido estético, responsabilidad individual, espiritualidad.  “Todos los seres humanos deben […] dotarse de un pensamiento autónomo y crítico y de elaborar un juicio propio, para determinar por sí mismos qué deben hacer en las diferentes circunstancias de la vida”. (Delors, 1994).  Alexander (2013: 115, 120), autor del libro: La prueba del cielo,  escribió que […]”el hecho de tomar decisiones correctas frente al mal y la injusticia en la Tierra sería menos significativo si recordáramos toda la belleza y la luz de lo que nos espera cuando salgamos de aquí.” […] todos deberíamos  hacer cuanto esté en nuestra mano por ponernos en contacto con esa parte milagrosa de nosotros mismos, a fin de cultivarla y sacarla a la luz. Porque es un ser que está adentro de nosotros mismos ahora mismo y, de hecho, es el ser que Dios espera que seamos”. Por su parte, Torralba (2010:51) desde el punto de vista religioso, escribió que ésta […] es una manifestación, un desarrollo de la inteligencia espiritual […] que son objeto de fe….da sentido a la vida humana y permite comprender los grandes momentos de la existencia: eventos como el nacimiento, la muerte, el amor y el sufrimiento.” En la UV se forma al  estudiante   en cuatro aspecto, uno de ello es la formación humana entendida desde las dimensiones: emocional, espiritual y corporal.
Perspectiva de género en la investigación urbana / Gender perspective in urban research
Authors: Hernández Rejón Elda Margarita , Treviño Hernández Raúl
Published: April 2016

Para el año 2030 más del 60% de la población mundial será urbana, por lo tanto se incrementaran los problemas en los espacios urbanos, problemas de servicios, de vivienda, de medio ambiente, de vialidad, habitabilidad y pobreza. El crecimiento de las ciudades, la pobreza urbana y su impacto en el espacio, son por tanto uno de los grandes problemas a los que se enfrenta el mundo. En México, muchas ciudades se encuentran en total desequilibrio o en crisis, debido a diversos factores como  contaminación ambiental, pobreza urbana, desorden en los asentamientos humanos, problemas de tráfico, pérdida de la calidad de vida, ocupación incontrolada, ausencia de orden para el transporte público, entre otros. Además de la escases de instrumentos de planeación. Es evidente pues, la imperante necesidad de seguir avanzando en la investigación urbana, incorporando diversas perspectivas que profundicen en el conocimiento de la problemática del territorio. Con respecto a  la inclusión de la perspectiva de género en el tema territorial y urbano, ésta se ha hecho evidente con la esperanza de minimizar la desigualdad.  Este artículo, presenta una revisión introductoria a los problemas y retos actuales en la cuestión territorial, desde una perspectiva de género, que sin ser exhaustiva, involucra los temas que consideramos prioritarios. Los autores, Profesores de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas,  integrantes del Cuerpo Académico en Consolidación, Planificación Territorial y Desarrollo Sustentable en áreas metropolitanas, CA-UAT-89.
Mujeres en medio(s). Propuestas para analizar la comunicación masiva con perspectiva de género / Women in the media. Proposals to analyze mass communication with a gender perspective
Authors: Padilla Castillo Graciela
Published: April 2016

Asunción Bernárdez RodalEditorial Fundamentos, Madrid, 2015
“Este es el mejor argumento que se puede esgrimir contra las mujeres”: la película surcos (1951) como herramienta pedagógica para el estudio de la violencia de género / “That’s the best argument I know for convincing women:” the film surcos (1951)
Authors: Álvarez San Román Mercedes
Published: April 2016

La violencia de género es una de las consecuencias más extremas de la desigualdad entre hombres y mujeres en la sociedad. En ese sentido, el cine, como medio de comunicación social, tiene la capacidad de transmitir discursos que pueden estimular determinadas ideas sobre la feminidad o la masculinidad. Con el fin de poder estudiar en el aula los mecanismos que perpetúan esta jerarquía y avalan la violencia, este artículo se propone analizar la película Surcos (Nieves Conde, 1951). A partir de los personajes femeninos del filme y su relación con el contexto histórico, político y social de la dictadura franquista se pretende fomentar la incorporación de estrategias que permitan la identificación por parte del alumnado de los discursos que amparan las agresiones. En esta cinta, la violencia contra las mujeres se presenta como un espectáculo aleccionador que funciona como instrumento represor de los comportamientos que no se adhieren a los roles tradicionales de género fomentados por el Estado y la Iglesia. La obra se presenta como una herramienta pedagógica ideal para abordar la responsabilidad del cine en la transmisión de valores y creencias.
Sentence length and structure in the modern spoken Lithuanian
Authors: Balčiūnienė Ingrida , Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė Laura
Published: April 2016

Syntactic features of spoken Lithuanian still lack of studies due to insufficient data basis and limited technologies and research methodologies. During the last years, the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian (developed at Vytautas Magnus University) has been syntactically annotated and this has enabled for complex automatized syntactic analysis. In this paper, one of the first such studies is presented and its results are discussed. After a comparative analysis of different data samples (e.g., public vs. private speech; monologues vs. dialogues; spontaneous vs. prepared speech), the following can be stated. In the public speech (and, particularly, in the academic speeches), the mean length of utterances are much higher and the syntactic structures are rather simpler than those in the private conversations. Some syntactic features (e.g., the mean length of utterance) of the spoken Lithuanian might partially correlate to those typical for some genres of the written Lithuanian; however, some specific of an oral speech influences a frequency of some particular types of utterances (e.g. asyndetic sentences). The results still have to be verified by the means of statistical analysis, but preliminary two-side correlation between the sentence length and structure of the Modern Spoken Lithuanian might be emphasized.
Depression and Suicidal Ideation among College Students with and without Learning Disabilities in Nigeria
Authors: Oladele Adetoun Olubanke , Oladele Isaac Taiwo
Published: April 2016

This study investigated depression and suicidal ideation in students with and without learning disabilities in two Colleges of Education in Nigeria. The students in this study were between 18 and 24 years old, numbering 391 in total. The number of male students was 165, while female students were 226. Five valid and reliable instruments were used to carry out the study. The study adopted a descriptive research design, and purposive sampling technique was used to select the population. Data was analyzed using mean, standard deviation and Pearson product moment correlation. In this study, students with learning disabilities experienced more depression and were more prone to suicidal ideation when compared to their mates without learning disabilities. One of the recommendations in the study is that mental health experts need to address mental health issues and suicidality affecting students in tertiary institutions.
The Significance of Playing Dress Up Games on Children’s Materialism
Authors: Surayya Nurist , Setyabudi Djoko
Published: April 2016

Concerns about materialism among children are strengthening. Media, especially television and advertising, are acknowledged to be an extensive channel that promotes materialism. Recently, dress up role-playing games, which are mushrooming in online space and mostly played by girls and female adolescents, facilitate active experiences of bountiful consumption simulations. The present study identifies the influence of dress up games on socializing materialism in children. Based on a survey of 144 young girls aged 7 to 13 in Semarang, Indonesia, the findings indicate that the frequency of dress up gameplay influences children to become materialistic. However, the effect of dress up gameplay is not significant when age and motivation to play are included in the analysis.
Chronic Illness and Developmental Vulnerability at School Entry
Authors: Bell Megan F. , Bayliss Donna M. , Glauert Rebecca , Harrison Amanda , Ohan Jeneva L.
Published: April 2016

OBJECTIVE:

This study examined the association between chronic illness and school readiness, by using linked administrative population data.

METHODS:

The sample included children born in 2003–2004 who were residing in Western Australia in 2009 and had a complete Australian Early Development Census record (N = 22 890). Health and demographic information was also analyzed for 19 227 mothers and 19 030 fathers. The impact of child chronic illness on 5 developmental domains (social, emotional, language, cognitive, and physical) at school entry was analyzed. Analyses examined the association between child developmental outcomes and chronic illness generally, single or multiple chronic illness diagnosis, and diagnosis type. Logistic regression models estimated odds ratios for each outcome, adjusted for child, parent, and community sociodemographic variables.

RESULTS:

In the adjusted models, children with a chronic illness had an increased risk of being classified as developmentally vulnerable on all domains, compared with children without a chronic illness (20%–35% increase in risk). There was no increased risk for children with multiple chronic illness diagnoses over those with a single diagnosis (all Ps > .05). There was no evidence of a disease-specific effect driving this risk.

CONCLUSIONS:

Regardless of the number or type of conditions, chronic illness in young children is a risk factor for reduced school readiness. These effects were seen for health conditions not traditionally considered detrimental to school readiness, such as chronic otitis media. Thus, the implications of a broader range of chronic health conditions in early childhood on school readiness need to be considered.
Historia narrativa de la toma y ocupación peruana de Leticia (Colombia, río Amazonas, septiembre de 1932)
Authors: Camacho Arango Carlos
Published: April 2016

Con base en archivos peruanos, colombianos y británicos, este artículo reconstruye los inicios del Conflicto de Leticia entre Perú y Colombia (1932-1933) en los niveles local y regional. Los hechos se disponen en tres series cronológicas que se superponen parcialmente: la toma y ocupación de Leticia; las reacciones colombianas desde la cuenca del río Putumayo y Bogotá; y las reacciones peruanas desde Iquitos y Lima. El artículo muestra cómo se desarrollaron los acontecimientos y compara implícitamente las relaciones triangulares entre sociedad local, gobierno central y fuerzas armadas en la frontera entre ambos países.
Balance historiográfico de la novela histórica en Colombia. Una aproximación al ámbito regional
Authors: Rueda Enciso José Eduardo
Published: April 2016

El artículo ofrece un balance bibliográfico de las novelas históricas publicadas en Colombia entre 1844-2014. Luego de caracterizar que es novela histórica y su desenvolvimiento en el país, y plantear ciertas especificaciones de la narrativa regional, se destacan los autores y novelas del género consideradas como representativas, así como las que abordan el ámbito regional. Se muestran los cambios, desde el romanticismo decimonónico al posmodernismo, producidos a lo largo de 160 años. Se señalan algunos hechos y circunstancias que han influido en esta producción literaria, y se lanzan algunas conclusiones preliminares.
Religion and Diversity Project
Authors: Campeau Tess
Published: April 2016

The following report has been produced in order to provide a summary of the facts and figures related to the Religion and Diversity Project including its objectives, research goals, team member activities, events, funding opportunities, website, and more.
Fifty consecutive pancreatectomies without mortality
Authors: Amico Enio Campos , Barreto Élio José Silveira da Silva , Alves José Roberto , João Samir Assi , Guimarães Priscila Luana Franco Costa , Medeiros Joafran Alexandre Costa de
Published: April 2016

Objective: to report the group's experience with a series of patients undergoing pancreatic resection presenting null mortality rates. Methods: we prospectively studied 50 consecutive patients undergoing pancreatic resections for peri-ampullary or pancreatic diseases. Main local complications were defined according to international criteria. In-hospital mortality was defined as death occurring in the first 90 postoperative days. Results: patients' age ranged between 16 and 90 years (average: 53.3). We found anemia (Hb < 12g/dl) and preoperative jaundice in 38% and 40% of cases, respectively. Most patients presented with peri-ampullary tumors (66%). The most common surgical procedure was the Kausch - Whipple operation (70%). Six patients (12%) needed to undergo resection of a segment of the mesenteric-portal axis. The mean operative time was 445.1 minutes. Twenty two patients (44%) showed no clinical complications and presented mean hospital stay of 10.3 days. The most frequent complications were pancreatic fistula (56%), delayed gastric emptying (17.1%) and bleeding (16%). Conclusion : within the last three decades, pancreatic resection is still considered a challenge, especially outside large specialized centers. Nevertheless, even in our country (Brazil), teams seasoned in such procedure can reach low mortality rates.
Effect of Hevea brasiliensis latex sap gel on healing of acute skin wounds induced on the back of rats
Authors: Penhavel Maria Vitória Carmo , Tavares Victor Henrique , Carneiro Fabiana Pirani , Sousa João Batista de
Published: April 2016

Objective : to evaluate the effect of topical delivery of latex cream-gel in acute cutaneous wounds induced on the back of rats. Methods : we subjected sixteen rats to dermo-epidermal excision of a round dorsal skin flap, with 2.5cm diameter. We divided the animals into two groups: Latex Group: application of cream-gel-based latex throughout the wound bed on postoperative days zero, three, six and nine; Control group: no treatment on the wound. Photographs of the lesions were taken on the procedure day and on the 6th and 14th postoperative days, for analyzing the area and the larger diameter of the wound. We carried out euthanasia of all animals on the 14th postoperative day, when we resected he dorsal skin and the underlying muscle layer supporting the wound for histopathological study. Results : there was no statistically significant difference in the percentage of wound closure, in the histopathological findings or in the reduction of the area and of the largest diameter of the wounds among the groups studied on the 14th postoperative day. Conclusion : according to the experimental conditions in which the study was conducted, latex cream-gel did not interfere in the healing of acute cutaneous wounds in rats.
Determinantes da Distribuição da (Des)igualdade de Gênero entre os Estados Brasileiros
Authors: Bortoluzzo Adriana Bruscato , Matavelli Ieda Rodrigues , Madalozzo Regina
Published: April 2016

Resumo A igualdade de gênero é fundamental para um desenvolvimento econômico sustentável. O Brasil, apesar de ser uma das maiores economias do mundo, ainda precisa de um grande avanço no sentido de conquistar uma sociedade mais igualitária entre homens e mulheres quando comparado a países do mesmo porte econômico. O presente estudo faz uma análise da evolução da igualdade de gênero no Brasil entre 1997 e 2012, e quais os impactos da globalização, do desenvolvimento econômico e de medidas de bem-estar sobre a distribuição da igualdade de gênero entre os estados brasileiros. Para isso, foi utilizada a metodologia econométrica de dados em painel. Os resultados mostram que a igualdade de gênero aumentou no período e que, além disso, a globalização, mensurada com base no investimento direto estrangeiro e no acesso da população a aparelhos de televisão, elevou a igualdade entre os sexos no Brasil.
Efeitos do gasto do governo sobre o consumo privado: Evidências de países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento
Authors: Soave Gian Paulo , Gomes Fabio Augusto Reis , Sakurai Sergio Naruhiko
Published: April 2016

Resumo Recentemente, os efeitos dos gastos do governo sobre o consumo privado tem sido analisados por meio de modelos macroeconômicos em que parte dos agentes suavizam seu consumo intertemporalmente, enquanto os demais, restritos ao crédito, consomem baseados na renda disponível. Sob esta abordagem, argumentamos que existe uma relação de cointegração entre consumo privado, gasto do governo e renda disponível que nos permite analisar se o gasto do governo crowds in ou crowds out o consumo privado. Estimamos tal relação para 48 países usando modelos de correção de erros em painel com fatores comuns e, sob a hipótese de que em países em desenvolvimento é maior a proporção de agentes não otimizadores, analisamos a existência de efeitos distintos entre países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento. Os resultados indicam que o gasto do governo crowds in o consumo privado no longo prazo, e que os efeitos são maiores nos países em desenvolvimento relativamente aos desenvolvidos.
Public green areas and urban environmental quality of the city of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
Authors: Bertini M. A. , Rufino R. R. , Fushita A. T. , Lima M. I. S.
Published: April 2016

Abstract Assess the state of public green areas, their importance and influence on environmental quality and living in urban centers is an arduous task considering the conceptual and scientific regarding quantification and data analysis methods divergence. In this study, we aimed to determine two indicators of public green areas relative to the percentage of public green areas (PPGA) and the public green areas index (PGAI) in the urban area of São Carlos, SP. The study area was organized into administrative regions (ARs), using satellite images, topographical maps of 1:10,000 Geographic and Cartographic Institute (1990) and data provided by the Municipality of São Carlos. The results show that public green areas comprise 6.55% of the municipality, with a public green areas index (PGAI) of 18.85 m2/inhabitant, indicating good urban environmental quality when compared to rates of 15 m2/capita for public green areas for recreation, suggested by the Brazilian Society of Urban Forestry. The differences between the administrative regions are concern with situations from 4.16 to 36.30 m2/inhabitant. In this context, it is recommend specific public policies and popular participation in the process of continuous improvement for increasing public green areas in the less favored regions. The Genebrino method applied to indicators of public green areas (GPGA – amount of public green areas divided by population density), showed a commendable goal above 40% for urban environmental quality.
Clinodiplosis agerati (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae), a new galling species associated with Ageratum conyzoides (Asteraceae) from Brazil
Authors: Maia V. C. , Araújo L.
Published: April 2016

Abstract Clinodiplosis agerati, a new galling species that induces stem galls on Ageratum conyzoides (Asteraceae) is described and illustrated (larva, pupa, male, female and gall) based on material collected in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The new species is compared with the other Neotropical species. This is the first record of the Clinodiplosis in Ageratum.
Benthic microalgae community response to flooding in a tropical salt flat
Authors: Masuda L. S. M. , Enrich-Prast A.
Published: April 2016

Abstract This research evaluated the effect of flooding on the microphytobenthos community structure in a microbial mat from a tropical salt flat. Field samples were collected during four consecutive days: on the first three days the salt flat was dry, on the fourth day it was flooded by rain. In order to evaluate the community maintained in flood conditions, samples from this area were collected and kept in the laboratory for 10 days with sea water. The results of total abundance of microphytobenthos varied from 4.2 × 108 to 2.9 × 109 organisms L–1, total density increased one order of magnitude under the effect of water for both situations of precipitation in the salt flat and in experimental conditions, an increase due to the high abundance of Microcoleus spp. Shannon index (H’) was higher during the desiccation period. Our data suggest that changes in the abundance of organisms were due to the effect of water. The dominance of the most abundant taxa remained the same under conditions of desiccation and influence of water, and there is probably a consortium of microorganisms in the microbial mat that helps to maintain these dominances.
Does thermal time for germination vary among populations of a tree legume (Peltophorum dubium)?
Authors: Andrade L. F. D. , Cardoso V. J. M.
Published: April 2016

Abstract Few works report the use of degree-days (DD) – used in crops to predict events and schedule management activities – to describe the germination of tropical trees. The cardinal temperatures (base, optimum and ceiling temperature) for germination of the species may vary depending on the seed provenance. Peltophorum dubium (Spreng.) Taub. is an early successional leguminous tree widely distributed in South America, often occurring as cultivated or naturalized trees, thus considered to be a good example for testing DD model in tree species. The main objective of this study was to describe the seed germination response of different populations of P. dubium as function of DD accumulation during germination assays in semi-controlled (fluctuating temperatures) conditions. Germination assays with manually scarified seeds sown in aluminum sheet trays filled with a composed substrate were performed under greenhouse conditions at different times. Three methods were employed in order to describe the accumulation of thermal time throughout the assays and, considering the seed lot and sowing time, a trapezoid area method was relatively more effective in describing the germination. The germination curves of P. dubium seeds from different populations, expressed in degree-days estimated directly from temperature records schedules, tend to be more clustered suggesting little variation among thermal time requirements in different seed provenances. Otherwise, the thermal time requirement can vary depending on the time of sowing, and any increase in DD requirement when the assays were performed under higher mean temperatures can be related to a thermal effect on the germination of scarified seeds.
O caso Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH) e a medicalização da educação: uma análise a partir do relato de pais e professores
Authors: Cruz Murilo Galvão Amancio , Okamoto Mary Yoko , Ferrazza Daniele de Andrade
Published: April 2016

As dificuldades de comportamento na infância têm sido alvo de inúmeras discussões na área médica e educacional, sobretudo nos últimos anos. Com isto, dois fenômenos inter-relacionados se sobressaem: a medicalização e a patologização da infância. A medicina e a psiquiatria são saberes produtores destes processos ao criarem e recriarem categorias diagnósticas que justifiquem inúmeros problemas da rede de relações complexas que caracterizam o ambiente escolar. Nesta perspectiva, pretendemos trazer o relato de pais e professores de uma escola pública do interior de São Paulo sobre alunos, com idade entre sete e 11 anos, diagnosticados com Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH) e relacioná-lo com as discussões acerca do processo de medicalização na atualidade. Considera-se que as crianças que apresentam dificuldades de aprendizagem ou comportamento são categorizadas como um corpo biológico a-histórico desprovido de vida social e afetiva.
ATIVIDADE FÍSICA DE IDOSOS E A PROMOÇÃO DA SAÚDE NAS UNIDADES BÁSICAS
Authors: Sá Paulo Henrique Vilela Oliveira de , Cury Geraldo Cunha , Ribeiro Liliane da Consolação Campos
Published: April 2016

Resumo O estudo teve como objetivo identificar e descrever as ações de promoção à saúde relacionadas à atividade física de idosos nas unidades básicas de saúde, assim como a percepção dos responsáveis sobre essa prática. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa transversal, de abordagem quantitativa, realizada em Diamantina, Minas Gerais, em 2012. Um instrumento com 28 assertivas, organizado na forma de escala Likert, foi utilizado durante as entrevistas com 28 responsáveis por tais ações. Constataram-se 11 ações educativas de promoção da saúde relacionadas à atividade física para idosos, cinco de responsabilidade dos professores e alunos de uma instituição pública de ensino e seis de responsabilidade dos profissionais das equipes de saúde da família. As ações observadas foram ‘grupo de caminhada e exercícios (alongamentos)’, ‘grupo de coluna’ e ‘Qigong’. Os participantes demonstraram seu entendimento sobre os benefícios das atividades físicas para os idosos, o impacto dessas ações na saúde pública e a necessidade de permanente capacitação.
Psicologia e regimes de verdade nas práticas de promoção da saúde
Authors: Bernardes Anita Guazzelli , Hillesheim Betina , Souza Edna de Oliveira , Marques Camilla Fernandes
Published: April 2016

Resumo O presente estudo focaliza as ações em promoção de saúde produzidas pela Psicologia na rede de saúde descritas em periódicos científicos a partir da implantação e implementação da Política Nacional de Promoção de Saúde. Os periódicos, assim como a Declaração de Alma-Ata, a Carta de Ottawa e a própria Portaria 687/06, compõem os materiais analisados. As ferramentas conceituais da análise amparam-se nas discussões foucaultianas sobre regimes de verdade e políticas de subjetivação. A discussão considera as práticas psicológicas, na atenção básica, como um campo de experiência que constitui a figura grupal, forjada pelo testemunho e pela aprendizagem como tecnologias de governo de si e do outro.
Desempenho no Enade de bolsistas ProUni: Modelagem de Equações Estruturais
Authors: Vendramini Claudette Maria Medeiros , Lopes Fernanda Luzia
Published: April 2016

Resumo Esse estudo objetivou investigar o desempenho no Enade de estudantes bolsistas do Programa Universidade para Todos – ProUni da própria instituição e de estudantes com outros tipos de bolsas e, ainda investigar, por meio de Modelos de Equações Estruturais, se este desempenho se mantém para estudantes sob a condição de ingressantes e concluintes. Utilizou-se um banco de dados contendo os resultados de 401.117 estudantes que realizaram o exame do Enade em 2006, composto pelas provas de Formação Geral e de Conhecimento Específico. O mesmo modelo de equações estruturais foi utilizado para analisar os dados de estudantes ingressantes e concluintes. Os resultados obtidos indicaram que o modelo de mensuração dos estudantes bolsistas com relação às notas do Enade apresenta um ajuste razoavelmente bom e permite afirmar que o desempenho do estudante durante a graduação é inferior ao do momento de seu ingresso no Ensino Superior.