bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Reliability of Potential Fatigue-Monitoring Measures in Elite Youth Soccer Players
Authors: Fitzpatrick John F. , Hicks Kirsty M. , Russell Mark , Hayes Philip R.
Published: September 2019

Fitzpatrick, JF, Hicks, KM, Russell, M, and Hayes, PR. The reliability of potential fatigue-monitoring measures in elite youth soccer players. J Strength Cond Res 35(12): 3448–3452, 2021—Monitoring fatigue is of vital importance to practitioners; however, logistics and concerns about reliability may impede the use of certain measures. This study aimed to quantify the reliability of potential measures of fatigue; a subjective wellness questionnaire, jump performance tests, and tri-axial accelerometer variables derived during submaximal shuttle running in elite youth soccer players. A secondary aim was to establish the minimum test duration that could be used for the submaximal shuttle run while maintaining good reliability. Seventeen male youth team players (age: 17.4 ± 0.5 years) were assessed on 2 occasions, spaced 7 days apart. Typical error, coefficient of variation (CV%), interclass correlation (ICC), and minimum detectable change were calculated for a subjective wellness questionnaire, countermovement jump (CMJ), squat jump (SJ) and drop jump contact time (DJ-CT), drop jump height (DJ-JH), and reactive strength (DJ-RSI). A novel submaximal shuttle running test was also used to assess tri-axial accelerometer data reliability. Results suggest that CMJ, SJ, DJ-CT, and DJ-RSI have good test-retest reliability (CV% = 4.5–7.7; ICC = 0.80–0.88); however DJ-JH did not show acceptable reliability (CV% = 6.0; ICC = 0.76). Good reliability was found for all tri-axial accelerometer variables during a 3-minute (2-minute analysis) submaximal shuttle run (CV% = 2.4–8.0; ICC = 0.81–0.95), except for % PlayerLoad anterior-posterior (%PLAP) (CV% = 7.2; ICC = 0.63). The subjective wellness questionnaire demonstrated poor reliability for all items (CV% = 11.2–30.0; ICC = 0.00–0.78). The findings from this study provide practitioners with valuable information about the reliability of a range of potential fatigue-monitoring measures. This can be used to help make accurate decisions about the magnitude of change in these assessments when used in practice.
Training Progression in Recreational Cyclists: No Linear Dose-Response Relationship With Training Load
Authors: Vermeire Kobe M. , Vandewiele Gilles , Caen Kevin , Lievens Maarten , Bourgois Jan G. , Boone Jan
Published: September 2019

Vermeire, KM, Vandewiele, G, Caen, K, Lievens, M, Bourgois, JG, and Boone, J. Training progression in recreational cyclists: no linear dose-response relationship with training load. J Strength Cond Res 35(12): 3500–3505, 2021—The purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between training load (TL) and performance improvement in a homogeneous group of recreational cyclists, training with a self-oriented training plan. Training data from 11 recreational cyclists were collected over a 12-week period. Before and after the training period, subjects underwent a laboratory incremental exercise test with blood lactate measurements to determine the power output associated with the aerobic threshold (PAT) and the anaerobic threshold (PANT), and the maximal power output (PMAX) was also determined. Mean weekly TL (calculated using the training impulse (TRIMP) of Banister, Edwards TRIMP, Lucia TRIMP and the individualized TRIMP) were correlated to the progression in fitness parameters using Pearson Correlation. Training intensity distribution (TID) was also determined (% in zone 1 as ANT). No significant correlations between mean weekly TRIMP values and the improvement on PMAX (r = −0.22 to 0.08), PANT (r = −0.56 to −0.31) and PAT (r = −0.08 to 0.41) were found. The TID was significant in a multiple regression with PANT as dependent variable (y = 0.0088 + 0.1094 × Z1 − 0.2704 × Z2 + 1.0416 × Z3; p = 0.02; R
2 = 0.62). In conclusion, this study shows that the commonly used TRIMP methods to quantify TL do not show a linear dose-response relationship with performance improvement in recreational cyclists. Furthermore, the study shows that TID might be a key factor to establish a relationship with performance improvement.
Factors Affecting Intensity Whistleblowing of Employees on The Potential Fraud of The National Health Insurance Program
Authors: Triastuti Akyuning , Jati Sutopo Patria , Warsono Hardi
Published: September 2019

The National Health Insurance Program (Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional /JKN) is an effort by the Government to fulfillment of the basic needs  of public health. However, this program is also susceptible to fraud. Hospital as the Secondary Level Reference Facility that collaborates with the Social Security Agency (Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial/ BPJS) should establish a fraud prevention system in the JKN implementation. Employees’ positions are at the forefront to reveal various forms of fraudulence including those related to JKN by means of whistleblowing. The ‘Planned Behavior Theory’ analyzes the attitude, subjective norms and behavior control perception factors that affect the intention of JKN-claim related employees' to whistleblow. The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the influence of attitudinal factors, subjective norms and perceptions of behavioral control on the intention of employee whistleblowing behavior on JKN fraud programs in Hospital X Central Java Province

This study is a mixed-method study with a ‘sequential explanatory design’ approach. The study was started by using a quantitative method and then continued by means of qualitative method in order to produce a hopefully more complete study result.

The results of the study prove attitudes (p-value 0.038), subjective norms (p-value 0.040) and perceptions of behavioral control (p-value 0.005) jointly influence the intention of employee whistleblowing. From the results of the OR it can be seen the order of the three independent variables that have the largest to the smallest influence on employee whistleblowing intentions, namely perceptions of behavior control, attitudes and subjective norms. This can be a reference to the management priority scale to make efforts to increase the intention of employee whistleblowing in Hospital X and is expected to be able to change the "silent culture" into and "culture of openness”.

Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian mixed method dengan pendekatan sequential explanatory design. Diawali menggunakan metode kuantitatif dilanjutkan dengan metode kualitatif sehingga diharapkan diperoleh hasil penelitian yang lebih lengkap.

Hasil penelitian membuktikan persepsi kontrol perilaku, sikap, norma subyektif secara berurut paling berpengaruh terhadap intensi whistleblowing pegawai. Namun masih perlu dilakukan upaya untuk meningkatan persepsi kontrol perilaku, sikap, norma subyektif agar intensi whistleblowing dapat menjadi perilaku whistleblowing pegawai sehingga dampak negatif adanya fraud JKN bagi organisasi dapat dicegah.
CARTESIANISMO E STORIA: Dal Rifiuto del passato alla "Histoire Critique"
Authors: Piaia Gregorio
Published: September 2019

SÍNTESE - No Discurso sobre o método e em outros textos Descartes vê uma oposição entre verdade e história e, por isso, recusa metodologicamente qualquer relação com o passado filosófico. Nisto é seguido por muitos de sua época, sendo que Malebranche o supera nesta reivindicação. Entretanto, a "astúcia da razão" mostra que coube exatamente à filosofia anti-histórica de Descartes o mérito de haver dado uma nova fisionomia à história filosófica que se desenvolveu no século XVI como gênero literário, e que se encontra na raiz da transformação da "história dos filósofos" em "história da filosofia".
RIFORMA DEL METODO E FINI MORALI IN CARTESIO
Authors: Piaia Gregorio
Published: September 2019

SÍNTESE - Facilmente lê-se Descartes como autor de um projeto de reforma do conhecimento, estranhando- se mesmo a presença da moral, na parte terceira do Discurso. Uma análise aprofundada do projeto cartesiano mostra, entretanto, que na economia complessiva intelectual projetada por ele, a moral representa ao mesmo tempo o pressuposto e o ponto alto de tal reforma.
EL CONCEPTO V LA CLASIFICACION DE LA CIENCIA EN EL MEDIOEVO (SS. VI-XV)
Authors: Mendoza Celina A. Lértora
Published: September 2019

SÍNTESE - Durante a Idade Média, são inúmeras as classificações das ciências, variando entre si. O que se constata nelas é que, à medida que se modifica o caráter do conhecimento religioso, modifica-se também a compreensão de ciência, a fim de se poder salvar o valor científico da Teologia.
LA CONFIGURACION DE LA CIENCIA TEOLOGICA: de Hugo de San Victor a Tomas de Aquino
Authors: Reinhardt Elisabeth , Saranyana Josep Ignasi
Published: September 2019

Nos séculos XII e XIII surgiram as sumas teológicas, nas quais distingue-se uma forma literária externa, com a ordenação da matéria e o desenvolvimento do discurso, e, de outro, a forma interna, como uma ideia sistematizadora. Os autores analisam as obras da época para descobrir nelas aspectos comuns e diferenças.
MARSÍLIO DE PÁDUA SOBRE A TRANSLAÇÃO DO IMPÉRIO
Authors: Souza José Antônio de C. R. de
Published: September 2019

O primeiro capítulo versa a respeito do objetivo do que há de ser tratado.

O segundo mostra de que modo o Império Romano permaneceu sem alteração durante trezentos e cinqüenta e quatro anos e cinco meses, governado por trinta e três imperadores.

O terceiro aborda porque os Orientais, a saber, os Persas, os Árabes, os Caldeus e outras nações limítrofes se subtraíram do domínio do Império Romano.

O quarto capítulo discorre sobre quais foram os principais povos que se rebelaram por causa das mencionadas circunstâncias.

O quinto trata do princípio e da àisposição relativa à transferência do Império dos Gregos para os Francos.

O sexto aborda de que modo Pepino, no tempo de Zacarias, papa romano, foi elevado de mordomo a rei dos Francos.

O sétimo capítulo discorre de que maneira Pepino, rei dos Francos, por solicitação da Igreja Romana, veio à Itália lutar contra Astolfo, rei dos Lombardos, o venceu e restituiu à Igreja Romana seus bens temporais.

O oitavo trata do modo como, no tempo do papa Adriano, Carlos Magno foi estabelecido patrício da cidade, e como lhe foi concedido o controle sobre a Sé Apostólica.

O nono mostra de que maneira foi efetuada a translação do Império Romano dos Gregos para os Francos.

O décimo considera como o Império foi transferido dos Francos ou Gauleses para os Germânicos.

O décimo primeiro discorre acerca do modo como foram estabelecidos os eleitores do Império Germânico.

O décimo segundo capítulo recapitula o que foi anteriormente abordado.
TRADUÇOES DE FILOSOFIA MEDIEVAL EM PORTUGAL: boletim de publicações recentes
Authors: Meirinhos J. F.
Published: September 2019

A tradução de textos filosóficos constitui um elemento central, embora geralmente negligenciado, da constituição do campo filosófico em cada época e dentro de uma determinada tradição lingüística. As traduções, antes de tudo, contribuem para a formação e a renovação do corpo de conceitos sem os quais não há pensamento articulado, nem especulação, nem a emergência do novo. A Idade Média, especialmente com as traduções arabo-latinas e greco-latinas dos séculos XII-XIII, fornece-nos uma poderosa ilustração do contributo das traduções para. a formação do léxico filosófico e sobretudo para a renovação literária e científica da filosofia. Nesses séculos não assistimos apenas à recepção de uma biblioteca até aí desconhecida em latim, mas sobretudo à constituição de uma rica e dinâmica reserva de conceitos. É sob o impulso das traduções que se abre e se constitui no final da Idade Média outra tradição filosófica, no interior da qual germinarão, também por via de tradução para as novas línguas latinas e anglo-saxónicas, as múltiplas linhagens filosóficas modernas e contemporâneas.
A AMPLIAÇÃO DO TEMA DO CONHECIMENTO EM RAIMUNDO LÚLIO
Authors: Jaulent Esteve
Published: September 2019

Após afirmar que os dois sentidos aristotélicos do ato são insuficientes para dizer o ente tal como este se encontra na realidade, o trabalho mostra como o novo sentido que Lúlio atribuiu à noção de ato permitiu-lhe superar a limitação própria dos conhecimentos obtidos mediante as operações da faculdade cognoscitiva e alcançar, com ajuda de sua Ars, o ato de ser dos entes.
COERÇÃO EM KANT E SCHELLING. FUNDAMENTAÇÃO E CONSEQÜÊNCIAS
Authors: Vieira Leonardo Alves
Published: September 2019

Tomando como ponto de partida a discussão sobre a coerção em Kant e Schelling, tenho a intenção de explicar como eles provam a possibilidade da liberdade em conexão com a coerção. Comparando ambas teorias da liberdade e da coerção, . duas formas diferentes de conceber o Direito e a Moralidade serão identificadas.De acordo com Kant, as leis jurídicas são leis morais ou leis da liberdade, de · tal forma que há uma mediação entre Direito e Moralidade. Schelling se opõe radicalmente ao pensamento de Kant. O Direito tem seus próprios princípios de conhecimento e ele não depende de imperativos morais. Por um lado, esta oposição caracteriza uma controvérsia dentro do próprio Idealismo alemão, entre Hegel, que concorda com a tese kantiana, e Fichte, que segue a concepção schellinguiana. Por outro lado, esta discussão não está limitada à filosofia kantiana ou ao Idealismo alemão. Lançando mão do legado kantiano, Habermas crítica a interpretação weberiana do poder legítimo nas sociedades ocidentais modernas. De acordo com Weber, o poder nestas sociedades está baseado na racionalidade interna e formal do Direito. Ao contrário, Habermas tem a intenção de mostrar que a ideia do estado democrático deve sua legitimidade à ligação entre Direito e Moral.
A POLÍTICA NO TEMPO: a encenação da dialética
Authors: Borges Maria de Lourdes
Published: September 2019

Neste artigo pretendo mostrar que o desenvolvimento temporal da política na história mundial deve ser considerado como uma encenação da dialética hegeliana. Encenação deve ser aqui tomado como uma apresentação na efetividade de um texto pressuposto. Tal texto é a Ciência da Lógica. Minha intenção é mostrar a utilização, não deste texto na sua totalidade, mas de algumas sequências preferenciais da lógica. Tal será mostrado: 1) na figura do senhor/servo; 2) na relação eticidade e moralidade. Neste segundo momento, procurarei mostrar como a política e seu julgamento encenam essas categorias. Por fim, indicarei em que medida a ideia de encenação resolve algumas aporias referentes a necessidade e acaso da filosofia hegeliana.
A LÓGICA COMO DIÁLOGO
Authors: Soares Marly Carvalho
Published: September 2019

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a Lógica do Discurso na obra de Éric Weil, bem como relacionar os diversos discursos já feitos na história da filosofia na tentativa de apresentar um a nova maneira de ser, de compreender, de falar e de agir. Estes discursos se manifestam como aceitação do absoluto - optando pela racionalidade, ou como recusa ao diálogo - optando pela violência. Esta lógica pretende superar as demais lógicas articuladas na história.
NOTÍCIAS BIBLIOGRÁFICAS
Authors: Pelizzoli Marcelo L.
Published: September 2019

SOUZA, Ricardo Timm de, Totalidade e Desagregação - sobre as fronteiras do pensamento e suas alternativas. EDIPUCRS, 1996. Uma obra no "espírito do tempo" e que, segundo o autor e especialista no pensamento e cultura do século XX, parte da intuição profunda de um "espírito de urgência". Para isto, assume a radicalidade da desinstalação epistemológica atual, fruto da ruptura de toda uma vontade otimista de Sistema, de posturas iluministas, e denuncia as peripécias teóricas e violências da Totalidade. Crise do grande Sistema de sentido do ocidente grego, crise da sua totalização efetiva a nível político-econômico, em tempos de sufocamento global. Tempo de desagregação, o que não quer restar mera ação pós-moderna, mas intertísticos às voltas com as fronteiras do pensado e as suas alternativas radicais - filosofia como crítica e não tautologia legitimadora. Esta pretensiosa proposição, inspirada no pensamento de Ernmanuel Levinas, esboça- se em todos os cinco artigos da primeira parte crítica, cristalizando-se melhor nos seis artigos da segunda parte - "fronteiras e alternativas". No primeiro bloco, do status crucial da fundamentação do pensamento no século XX, se passa pela "Escola de Frankfurt'', Nietzsche, Sartre, para desembocar nas análises concretas do "fim da história" dentro da nova "ordem" neoliberal. No segundo bloco, se percorre a ética da economia, filosofia da natureza e questão ecológica, alteridade e Estética, desembocando no "traumatismo e Infinito" - pequeno e arrojado esboço do tema de tese de doutorado do autor. Estamos aqui não menos que diante de um mesmo desafio em onze momentos.
CIDADANIA EM CONSTRUÇÃO: a proposta do pão dos pobres
Authors: Madruga Ana Paula Brasil Vaz
Published: September 2019

O presente artigo tem como objetivo verificar as principais concepções relativas à construção das dimensões de cidadão e cidadania desenvolvidos pelo Orfanotrófio Pão dos Pobres, na década de 20, através da análise do impresso da escola - Boletim Pão dos Pobres -· bem como a sua relação com a realidade social da época, a fim de demonstrar como essas iniciativas procuravam atender às necessidades do novo contexto social emergente.
FORMAÇÃO: uma responsabilidade social
Authors: Arruda Marina Patrício de
Published: September 2019

O presente artigo busca tecer algumas considerações sobre o desenvolvimento de uma dissertação de mestrado que se propõe a estudar como o periódico vem garantindo a construção de concepções e práticas relativas à formação do cidadão e do trabalhador. Essa investigação volta-se para a extensa divulgação de cursos de formação para o trabalho que mostram as ações e estratégias desencadeadas pela sociedade, comprometida com a inserção profissional.
O MOVIMENTO OPERÁRIO E A FORMAÇÃO DO TRABALHADOR
Authors: Gaiger Luiz Inácio , Oliveira Daniela de
Published: September 2019

O artigo tem como foco a participação das organizações operárias na formação educacional do trabalhador rio-grandense. Com base na análise de obras repertoriadas sobre o tema, identifica, de um lado, os aspectos em destaque na bibliografia e, de outro, as experiências operárias mais significativas para a formação do trabalhador. Centra-se na Primeira República, revisando a literatura e caracterizando as práticas pedagógicas e a influência das correntes anarquistas.
Prevalence of depressive symptoms and factors associated in the elderly of the city of Pelotas-RS
Authors: Heidemann Regiane Da Silva , Vilela Luziane Fonseca , Da Cunha Gabriela Kurz , Caldas Renan Garcia , Salerno Pâmela Silva Vitória , Lorenzet Isabel Clasen , Ferrúa Camila Perelló , De Matos Mariana Bonati , Ghislene Gabriele Cordenonzi , Bast Rachel Krolow Santos Silva , Nedel Fernanda
Published: September 2019

AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of depressive symptoms and factors associated in the elderly of the city of Pelotas, southern Brazil. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, the variables of interest were investigated with instruments about the socio-economic profile, aspects of physical and professional activities, eating and sleeping habits. RESULTS: 312 elderly people were interviewed, with a prevalence of depressive symptoms of 30.5%. A higher prevalence of depressive symptoms were found in women, individuals older than 81 years, from the low class, living alone, physically inactive, and retired. In the adjusted analysis, the non-practice of physical activity, low sleep quality, and daily sleeping medication were statistically associated with the outcome. In contradiction to the literature, our results refute the well-established gender roles that preconize that males are more affected by physical impairment, while the females are more affected by psychological and psychiatric disorders. CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, it is important to identify the prevalence of depressive symptoms in a population commonly affected by other diseases. In addition, characteristics associated with depression were detected, which can help prevent or improve depression in this age group.
Desprescrição
Authors: Sgnaolin Vanessa , Engroff Paula
Published: September 2019

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Estructura genética poblacional del pez Brycon henni (Characiformes: Characidae) en la región andina de Colombia utilizando marcadores microsatélites
Authors: Muñoz Luz Elena , Carranza Jaime Andres , Arredondo Julia Victoria
Published: September 2019

Las especies de peces en Colombia están sujetas a procesos de sobrepesca, introducción de especies exóticas, deterioro de hábitat y fragmentación de ecosistemas, con la consecuente pérdida de conectividad que limita el flujo genético y pudiera llevar a las poblaciones a la extinción. En el presente trabajo se analizó la estructura genética poblacional de Brycon henni, un pez de importancia económica y ecológica, en cuatro cuencas de la región Andina colombiana, mediante el uso de diez marcadores microsatélites en 60 muestras de los ríos Risaralda (RR), Campoalegre (RC), Riofrío (RRf) y Chinchiná (RCh). Se encontró un total de 136 alelos. Con excepción del marcador BoM12, todos fueron altamente informativos y polimórficos y en todos se presentó desviación significativa (P < 0.05) del equilibrio Hardy Weinberg. En RC se observó el mayor número de alelos (81), Número promedio de alelos (8) y alelos privados (34), además una HE de 0.689 ± 0.05. En general, hubo un marcado déficit de heterocigotos con respecto a la población total (FIT = 0.562), dentro de las subpoblaciones (FIS = 0.526) y moderada, pero altamente significativa estructura genética (FST = 0.07). Según la distancia estándar de Nei, la población más divergente fue la del RC con un k = 4, se encontró tendencia a cuatro poblaciones ancestrales. Los resultados sugieren que el flujo genético entre poblaciones naturales de B. henni es limitado, lo cual puede tener efectos negativos sobre su conservación. Los resultados sugieren que las poblaciones pueden estar alcanzando valores críticos de baja densidad, lo cual pone en riesgo su conservación.
New polymorphism in the sodium channel gene of Rhipicephalus microplus tick (Ixodida: Ixodidae) resistant to pyrethroids
Authors: RIVERA EDGAR DIAZ , Holguin Cespedes Gisella , Urrea Montes Daniel A.
Published: September 2019

Rhipicephalus microplus, garrapata común de los bovinos, transmite patógenos que afectan la producción ganadera en áreas tropicales. Para su control se han utilizado compuestos piretroides cuyo uso inapropiado ha generado resistencia en esta especie de garrapata. El estudio de los mecanismos de resistencia hacia piretroides en R. microplus, ha demostrado la presencia de mutaciones en genes relacionados con su acción, ya sea de enzimas que inactivan el compuesto o de los canales del sodio, sitio blanco del acaricida. En Colombia, la primera fase del presente proyecto encontró una mutación en una esterasa hidrolizante en poblaciones de campo de R. microplus resistentes a piretroides. Como se ha demostrado que la resistencia a químicos en esta garrapata es multigénica, en su segunda fase el proyecto tuvo como objetivo principal detectar un polimorfismo en la posición 2134 del gen del canal del sodio. Esta mutación sustituye una timina por una adenina, T2134A, y ha sido relacionada previamente en otros países con resistencia a piretroides en los individuos portadores. Para ello se colectaron 182 garrapatas R. microplus en dos fincas con historial de resistencia a este tipo de acaricidas y se sometieron a una prueba de inmersión de hembras en una solución de cipermetrina preparada a la dosis recomendada por uso en campo, obteniendo seis individuos susceptibles, 92 resistentes y 84 medianamente resistentes. Se extrajo el ADN de todos los especímenes mediante el método fenol–cloroformo y se proceso por PCR convencional empleando cebadores alelo específicos para amplificar un segmento del dominio IIIS6 del gen del canal del sodio. Los amplicones resultantes se detectaron por electroforesis en geles de agarosa al 2% teñidos con GelRed® y se visualizaron con luz ultravioleta. De igual manera se efectuó el secuenciamiento de 20 muestras obtenidas en los tres fenotipos susceptible, medianamente resistente y resistente y las secuencias resultantes fueron alineadas mediante el programa Mega 7 y comparadas con secuencias almacenadas en el GenBank®. Los análisis mostraron que la población de R. microplus estudiada no presentaba la mutación esperada sino una mutación diferente en el sitio 2134. En el ADN de garrapatas resistentes y medianamente resistentes se observó la sustitución de una timina por una citosina, T2134C, que a la traducción genera el cambio de una fenilalanina por una leucina, a diferencia de la mutación previamente identificada, que genera el cambio de una fenilalanina por una isoleucina. Esto demuestra la presencia de un polimorfismo que no ha sido reportado en otros estudios con esta especie de garrapata y que generaría un nuevo marcador molecular de resistencia a piretroides para poblaciones de este acaro.

Palabras clave: garrapatas; resistencia a químicos; pesticidas; mutaciones; reacción en cadena de la polimerasa.
Entheogens in Christian art: Wasson, Allegro, and the Psychedelic Gospels
Authors: Brown Jerry B. , Brown Julie M.
Published: September 2019

In light of new historical evidence regarding ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson’s correspondence with art historian Erwin Panofsky, this article provides an in-depth analysis of the presence of entheogenic mushroom images in Christian art within the context of the controversy between Wasson and philologist John Marco Allegro over the identification of a Garden of Eden fresco in the 12th century Chapel of Plaincourault in France. It reveals a compelling financial motive for Wasson’s refusal to acknowledge that this fresco represents Amanita muscaria, as well as for Wasson’s reluctance to pursue his hypothesis regarding the entheogenic origins of religion into Christian art and artifacts. While Wasson’s view – that the presence of psychoactive mushrooms in the Near and Middle East ended around 1000 BCE – prevailed and stymied research on entheogens in Christianity for decades, a new generation of 21st century researchers has documented growing evidence of A. muscaria and psilocybin-containing mushrooms in Christian art, consistent with ethnobotanist Giorgio Samorini’s typology of mushroom trees. This article presents original photographs, taken during fieldwork at churches and cathedrals throughout Europe and the Middle East, that confirm the presence of entheogenic mushrooms in Christian art: in frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, sculptures, and stained glass windows. Based on this iconic evidence, the article proposes a psychedelic gospels theory and addresses critiques of this theory by art historians, ardent advocates, medieval historians, and conservative Catholics. It calls for the establishment of an Interdisciplinary Committee on the Psychedelic Gospels to independently evaluate the growing body of evidence of entheogenic mushrooms in Christian art in order to resolve a controversial question regarding the possible role of entheogens in the history and origins of Christianity.
Research of Dust Environmental Pollution during Construction Works
Authors: Trokhimchuk Marina , Postnova Margarita , Trokhimchuk Katerina
Published: September 2019

The results of studies on the concentration of fine dust concentrations during construction work are presented. A method developed by the authors for modeling the dynamics of air flow and the zone of distribution of impurities, taking into account external non-stationary factors during construction work on the basis of a specialized GIS application, is considered. It is proposed to use in contaminated areas after construction and repair and emergency work of a dust collector, which is aimed at reducing pollution. The main element of the dust-harvesting machine is designed for cleaning hard surfaces, namely from debris, sand and gravel masses, dust particles, estimates and liquid waste. The use of solar collectors in the dust collecting unit allows the dust collecting machine to have a long operating mode, it does not require additional energy resources when the machine is running.
The role of calcium metabolism dysregulation in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases
Authors: Mailian D. E. , Kolomiets V. V.
Published: September 2019

The review presents data on the causes of dysregulation of calcium metabolism and its association with the main elements of the cardiovascular continuum. Particular attention was paid to its role in the regulation of endothelial function, systemic inflammation, myocardial contractility, lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, the disruption of which determines the initiation and progression of diseases such as essential hypertension and chronic heart failure. We also systematized data on the role and methods of calcium dysmetabolism correcting in the prevention and treatment of these pathologies.
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of calcific aortic valve disease
Authors: Shcheglova E. V. , Baykulova M. Kh. , Boeva O. I.
Published: September 2019

The review provides current data on the pathogenesis of calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) — a widespread disease with unfavorable prognosis. Currently, there are no effective therapeutic methods for the prevention and treatment of this pathology with the exception of valve replacement surgery. The role of genetic and hereditary factors in the occurrence of CAVD is considered, the leading pathogenetic mechanisms are described taking into account the stage of the disease. In particular, in the initiation phase of calcification, deposition of oxidized lipoproteins in the cusps and local inflammation plays the leading role. In the progression phase, active ectopic calcification dominates, similar to the process of bone formation. The study of the pathogenesis of CAVD seems appropriate taking into account the prospect of developing new effective therapeutic and prophylactic approaches.
RGBD Based Gaze Estimation via Multi-Task CNN
Authors: Lian Dongze , Zhang Ziheng , Luo Weixin , Hu Lina , Wu Minye , Li Zechao , Yu Jingyi , Gao Shenghua
Published: September 2019

This paper tackles RGBD based gaze estimation with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we propose to decompose gaze point estimation into eyeball pose, head pose, and 3D eye position estimation. Compared with RGB image-based gaze tracking, having depth modality helps to facilitate head pose estimation and 3D eye position estimation. The captured depth image, however, usually contains noise and black holes which noticeably hamper gaze tracking. Thus we propose a CNN-based multi-task learning framework to simultaneously refine depth images and predict gaze points. We utilize a generator network for depth image generation with a Generative Neural Network (GAN), where the generator network is partially shared by both the gaze tracking network and GAN-based depth synthesizing. By optimizing the whole network simultaneously, depth image synthesis improves gaze point estimation and vice versa. Since the only existing RGBD dataset (EYEDIAP) is too small, we build a large-scale RGBD gaze tracking dataset for performance evaluation. As far as we know, it is the largest RGBD gaze dataset in terms of the number of participants. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms existing methods by a large margin on both our dataset and the EYEDIAP dataset.
Human Motion Prediction via Learning Local Structure Representations and Temporal Dependencies
Authors: Guo Xiao , Choi Jongmoo
Published: September 2019

Human motion prediction from motion capture data is a classical problem in the computer vision, and conventional methods take the holistic human body as input. These methods ignore the fact that, in various human activities, different body components (limbs and the torso) have distinctive characteristics in terms of the moving pattern. In this paper, we argue local representations on different body components should be learned separately and, based on such idea, propose a network, Skeleton Network (SkelNet), for long-term human motion prediction. Specifically, at each time-step, local structure representations of input (human body) are obtained via SkelNet’s branches of component-specific layers, then the shared layer uses local spatial representations to predict the future human pose. Our SkelNet is the first to use local structure representations for predicting the human motion. Then, for short-term human motion prediction, we propose the second network, named as Skeleton Temporal Network (Skel-TNet). Skel-TNet consists of three components: SkelNet and a Recurrent Neural Network, they have advantages in learning spatial and temporal dependencies for predicting human motion, respectively; a feed-forward network that outputs the final estimation. Our methods achieve promising results on the Human3.6M dataset and the CMU motion capture dataset, and the code is publicly available 1.
Lipper: Synthesizing Thy Speech Using Multi-View Lipreading
Authors: Kumar Yaman , Jain Rohit , Salik Khwaja Mohd. , Shah Rajiv Ratn , Yin Yifang , Zimmermann Roger
Published: September 2019

Lipreading has a lot of potential applications such as in the domain of surveillance and video conferencing. Despite this, most of the work in building lipreading systems has been limited to classifying silent videos into classes representing text phrases. However, there are multiple problems associated with making lipreading a text-based classification task like its dependence on a particular language and vocabulary mapping. Thus, in this paper we propose a multi-view lipreading to audio system, namely Lipper, which models it as a regression task. The model takes silent videos as input and produces speech as the output. With multi-view silent videos, we observe an improvement over single-view speech reconstruction results. We show this by presenting an exhaustive set of experiments for speaker-dependent, out-of-vocabulary and speaker-independent settings. Further, we compare the delay values of Lipper with other speechreading systems in order to show the real-time nature of audio produced. We also perform a user study for the audios produced in order to understand the level of comprehensibility of audios produced using Lipper.
Preference-Aware Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing
Authors: Zhao Yan , Xia Jinfu , Liu Guanfeng , Su Han , Lian Defu , Shang Shuo , Zheng Kai
Published: September 2019

With the ubiquity of smart devices, Spatial Crowdsourcing (SC) has emerged as a new transformative platform that engages mobile users to perform spatio-temporal tasks by physically traveling to specified locations. Thus, various SC techniques have been studied for performance optimization, among which one of the major challenges is how to assign workers the tasks that they are really interested in and willing to perform. In this paper, we propose a novel preference-aware spatial task assignment system based on workers’ temporal preferences, which consists of two components: History-based Context-aware Tensor Decomposition (HCTD) for workers’ temporal preferences modeling and preference-aware task assignment. We model worker preferences with a three-dimension tensor (worker-task-time). Supplementing the missing entries of the tensor through HCTD with the assistant of historical data and other two context matrices, we recover worker preferences for different categories of tasks in different time slots. Several preference-aware task assignment algorithms are then devised, aiming to maximize the total number of task assignments at every time instance, in which we give higher priorities to the workers who are more interested in the tasks. We conduct extensive experiments using a real dataset, verifying the practicability of our proposed methods.
Unbounded Orchestrations of Transducers for Manufacturing
Authors: Alechina Natasha , Brázdil Tomáš , De Giacomo Giuseppe , Felli Paolo , Logan Brian , Vardi Moshe Y.
Published: September 2019

There has recently been increasing interest in using reactive synthesis techniques to automate the production of manufacturing process plans. Previous work has assumed that the set of manufacturing resources is known and fixed in advance. In this paper, we consider the more general problem of whether a controller can be synthesized given sufficient resources. In the unbounded setting, only the types of available manufacturing resources are given, and we want to know whether it is possible to manufacture a product using only resources of those type(s), and, if so, how many resources of each type are needed. We model manufacturing processes and facilities as transducers (automata with output), and show that the unbounded orchestration problem is decidable and the (Pareto) optimal set of resources necessary to manufacture a product is computable for uni-transducers. However, for multitransducers, the problem is undecidable.
Certifying the True Error: Machine Learning in Coq with Verified Generalization Guarantees
Authors: Bagnall Alexander , Stewart Gordon
Published: September 2019

We present MLCERT, a novel system for doing practical mechanized proof of the generalization of learning procedures, bounding expected error in terms of training or test error. MLCERT is mechanized in that we prove generalization bounds inside the theorem prover Coq; thus the bounds are machine checked by Coq’s proof checker. MLCERT is practical in that we extract learning procedures defined in Coq to executable code; thus procedures with proved generalization bounds can be trained and deployed in real systems. MLCERT is well documented and open source; thus we expect it to be usable even by those without Coq expertise. To validate MLCERT, which is compatible with external tools such as TensorFlow, we use it to prove generalization bounds on neural networks trained using TensorFlow on the extended MNIST data set.
Querying Attributed DL-Lite Ontologies Using Provenance Semirings
Authors: Bourgaux Camille , Ozaki Ana
Published: September 2019

Attributed description logic is a recently proposed formalism, targeted for graph-based representation formats, which enriches description logic concepts and roles with finite sets of attribute-value pairs, called annotations. One of the most important uses of annotations is to record provenance information. In this work, we first investigate the complexity of satisfiability and query answering for attributed DL-LiteR ontologies. We then propose a new semantics, based on provenance semirings, for integrating provenance information with query answering. Finally, we establish complexity results for satisfiability and query answering under this semantics.
Qualitative Spatial Logic over 2D Euclidean Spaces Is Not Finitely Axiomatisable
Authors: Du Heshan , Alechina Natasha
Published: September 2019

Several qualitative spatial logics used in reasoning about geospatial data have a sound and complete axiomatisation over metric spaces. It has been open whether the same axiomatisation is also sound and complete for 2D Euclidean spaces. We answer this question negatively by showing that the axiomatisations presented in (Du et al. 2013; Du and Alechina 2016) are not complete for 2D Euclidean spaces and, moreover, the logics are not finitely axiomatisable.
On Structured Argumentation with Conditional Preferences
Authors: Dung Phan Minh , Thang Phan Minh , Son Tran Cao
Published: September 2019

We study defeasible knowledge bases with conditional preferences (DKB). A DKB consists of a set of undisputed facts and a rule-based system that contains different types of rules: strict, defeasible, and preference. A major challenge in defining the semantics of DKB lies in determining how conditional preferences interact with the attack relations represented by rebuts and undercuts, between arguments.

We introduce the notions of preference attack relations as sets of attacks between preference arguments and the rebuts or undercuts among arguments as well as of preference attack relation assignments which map knowledge bases to preference attack relations. We present five rational properties (referred to as regular properties), the inconsistency-resolving, effective rebuts, context-independence, attack monotonicity and link-orientation properties generalizing the properties of the same names for the case of unconditional preferences.

Preference attack relation assignment are defined as regular if they satisfy all regular properties. We show that the set of regular assignments forms a complete lower semilattice whose least element is referred to as the canonical preference attack relation assignment. Canonical attack relation assignment represents the semantics of preferences in defeasible knowledge bases as intuitively, it could be viewed as being uniquely identified by the regular properties together with the principle of minimal removal of undesired attacks. We also present the normal preference attack relation assignment as an approximation of the canonical attack relation assignment.
Cost and Utilization of Lung Cancer End-of-Life Care Among Racial-Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States
Authors: Chen Yufan , Criss Steven D. , Watson Tina R. , Eckel Andrew , Palazzo Lauren , Tramontano Angela C. , Wang Ying , Mercaldo Nathaniel D. , Kong Chung Yin
Published: September 2019

Background

The end-of-life period is a crucial time in lung cancer care. To have a better understanding of the racial-ethnic disparities in health care expenditures, access, and quality, we evaluated these disparities specifically in the end-of-life period for patients with lung cancer in the U.S.

Materials and Methods

We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database to analyze characteristics of lung cancer care among those diagnosed between the years 2000 and 2011. Linear and logistic regression models were constructed to measure racial-ethnic disparities in end-of-life care cost and utilization among non-Hispanic (NH) Asian, NH black, Hispanic, and NH white patients while controlling for other risk factors such as age, sex, and SEER geographic region.

Results

Total costs and hospital utilization were, on average, greater among racial-ethnic minorities compared with NH white patients in the last month of life. Among patients with NSCLC, the relative total costs were 1.27 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.21–1.33) for NH black patients, 1.36 (95% CI, 1.25–1.49) for NH Asian patients, and 1.21 (95% CI, 1.07–1.38) for Hispanic patients. Additionally, the odds of being admitted to a hospital for NH black, NH Asian, and Hispanic patients were 1.22 (95% CI, 1.15–1.30), 1.47 (95% CI, 1.32–1.63), and 1.18 (95% CI, 1.01–1.38) times that of NH white patients, respectively. Similar results were found for patients with SCLC.

Conclusion

Minority patients with lung cancer have significantly higher end-of-life medical expenditures than NH white patients, which may be explained by a greater intensity of care in the end-of-life period.
Near-fault vertical ground motion effects on the response of balanced cantilever bridges
Authors: Bayraktar Alemdar , Kudu Fatma Nur , Sümerkan Soner , Demirtaş Betül , Akköse Mehmet
Published: September 2019

Post-tensioned balanced cantilever reinforced concrete (RC) bridges allow the economic spanning of wide spans using fewer columns than in more traditional bridges. More and more post-tensioned balanced cantilever bridges are constructed every year all round the world. The aim of this study was to investigate numerically the effects of near-fault vertical ground motions (VGMs) on the seismic behaviour of segmentally constructed, balanced cantilever RC bridges. Two long bridges constructed in Artvin, Turkey – the three-span Budan Bridge and the two-span Sengan Bridge – were selected for the application. Three-dimensional finite-element models (FEMs) of the bridges were created to obtain their dynamic characteristics such as natural frequencies and mode shapes numerically. The frequencies calculated from the FEMs of the bridges were then verified using experimental frequencies measured from ambient vibration tests. Acceleration records of near-fault earthquakes (1992 Erzincan (M = 6·69), 1999 Kocaeli (M = 7·51), 1999 Düzce (M = 7·14) and 1989 Loma Prieta (M = 6·93)) were selected for the seismic analyses. The seismic behaviours of the verified FEMs of the bridges with two and three spans were determined by considering horizontal, vertical and combined horizontal and vertical components of the earthquakes. It was found that near-fault VGM significantly affects the seismic response of segmentally constructed, balanced cantilever bridges.
Adhesion-force micro-scale study of desiccating granular material
Authors: Hueckel Tomasz , Mielniczuk Boleslaw , El Youssoufi Moulay Said
Published: September 2019

Experiments on five-, four-, three- and two-wet-hydrophilic-grain clusters were performed to investigate evolution of adhesion of granular media during drying on the micro-scale. The experiments show that the adhesion-force of a cluster initially grows at most to three times the original value before decreasing to zero by the end of evaporation. The adhesion-force is composed of capillary pressure force acting over the liquid/solid contact surface area, and surface tension forces acting over the three-phase contact perimeter length. This is in contrast with most macro-scale phenomenological models, in which the only desaturation process variables affecting strength are suction and saturation. Both the contact surface area and contact perimeter length are reduced to zero upon complete liquid evaporation. The morphology of an evaporating water body evolves through slow flow controlled by evaporation rate, interrupted by various modes of fast air entry, which are non-equilibrium jumps of liquid/gas interfaces (Haines jumps). The instabilities involve large adhesion force discontinuities and substantial water mass reconfiguration with water flow in an extremely short time, which makes the process transient. The reconfigurations can reduce the original multi-grain water clusters to four-, three- and two-grain clusters by way of three different instability modes: of thin-sheet instability, or meniscus snap-through instability, depending on the sign of the Gauss curvature of the liquid surface, or finally, for two-grain bridges only, a liquid wire pinch-off. For larger meso-scale assemblies, however, the global adhesion-force evolution is little affected by the jumps. The air entries are potential sites for drying cracks. The (approximately) calculated capillary pressure for two- and three-grain clusters, in no cases is seen to reach high values, predicted from water retention curves.
Improvement of early age properties of Portland cement by ternary hardening-accelerating admixture
Authors: Liu Jian , Ji Xiaoli , Luo Qi , Xue Junhua , Ma Mengxiao
Published: September 2019

A ternary hardening-accelerating admixture for Portland cement, comprising calcium fluoroaluminate (11CaO.7Al2O3.CaF2), calcium thiocyanate (Ca(SCN)2) and triethanolamine (C6H15NO3), was studied. The cement paste was investigated using compressive strength tests, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, scanning electron microscopy and porous medium surface area analysis. The results showed that the setting time of the cement had been shortened using the ternary admixture; the fluidity and early strength were improved compared with traditional admixtures cured at ambient temperature (20°C). The compressive strength reached 14·5 MPa at 1 d, which was twice that of cement without admixtures and 0·35 times higher than cement with a sodium chloride (NaCl) triethanolamine admixture. Moreover, the total pore volume in the cement with the ternary admixture was much less than the cement with the sodium chloride–triethanolamine admixture. When the ternary admixture was included, not only was the concentration of calcium ions (Ca2+) in the liquid phase increased, but there was also a complexation reaction between the ternary admixture and clinker, which accelerated the cement hydration reaction, and the concentrations of calcium silicate hydrates and ettringite were increased at an early age. The new admixture is a promising non-chloride accelerator and offers more options in hardening-accelerating admixtures for Portland cement systems.