bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
DEPENDENCE OF АPRICOT YIELD ON ECOLOGICAL FACTORS
Authors: Nozdracheva R. G. , Ratkina К. G.
Published: February 2019

The article provides an overview of domestic and foreign studies on the apricot cultivation, its national economic significance, the spread of culture abroad and on the Russian Federation territory. The role of positive and negative temperatures, precipitation on the condition of fruit trees, the safety of generative buds, yield and quality of fruits is considered. Special attention is paid to the work of plant breeders of fruit growing and vegeculture department of Voronezh State Agricultural University to make large-fruited, winter-hardy apricot varieties, enhanced studying of their biological characteristics and suitability for cultivation in the conditions of the Voronezh region. An agro-ecological justification of apricot cultivation in industrial gardens is also given. The agro-climatic conditions of the Voronezh Region and certain territories: the southern, central and northern parts are studied. The areas with soil and climatic conditions for the apricot cultivation on an industrial scale are identified. The possible reasons causing the death of apricot generative buds in winter are determined: a decrease in air temperature to -30 ° C with a rate of decline of 5 ºС per hour and prolonged thaws and sudden changes in air temperature to -28 ° C The southern regions are less favorable for fruiting apricot, because of spring frosts. According to long-term data, the correlation between yield and environmental factors has been revealed using the example of Apricot cultivar Triumf northern. The dependence of flowering and fruiting on the complex influence of negative weather manifestations in the spring and winter periods has been determined. The favorable areas, whose conditions correspond to the biological characteristics of apricot cultivars of Voronezh State Agricultural University selection, have been identified. Based on statistical calculations, mathematical models were obtained and it is possible to predict the apricot yield, depending on the combination of environmental factors with a high degree of accuracy.
Prevalence of elimination stomas in a microregion in the north of Minas Gerais
Authors: Barros Elisangela , Borges Eline , Oliveira Célia ,   654
Published: February 2019

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of people with elimination stoma and to characterize them for sociodemographic and clinical aspects. Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study with a sample of 27 patients with elimination stomas residing in a microregion in the north of Minas Gerais, who met the inclusion criteria. The data collected were recorded in an instrument used in previous studies and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Study approved by the Ethics Committee. Results: The prevalence of people with stoma was 2.16/10.000, the sample contained 55.6% of men, 40.7% were married, mean age 59.1 years, 59.2% were literate and 74.0% had low income; 59.3% of the stomas were cancerous, more frequent colon and rectum tumours, 70.4% of the stomas were deﬁnitive, and 74.0% were colostomies. Dermatitis was the main complication and 68.2% of the patients presented eﬄuent of pasty consistency and performed self-care. Conclusion: The prevalence of people with stoma was like that of other municipalities in Minas Gerais and below that expected by the National and International Ostomized Associations. The characterization of the people, of the stomas and the management of these, will contribute for health professionals and managers to review the assistance protocols used in the studied microregion.
Análisis de factores de riesgo asociados con anomalías congénitas en recién nacidos de la zona de la cuenca del río Matanza-Riachuelo
Authors: Bidondo María Paz , Groisman Boris , Gili Juan Antonio , Liascovich Rosa , Martin María Cecilia , Tocci Ana , Flores Romina , Pus Barraza Andrea , Barbero Pablo
Published: February 2019

Introduction: Matanza-Riachuelo basin is one of the most polluted sites in Argentina, with 4,885,000 inhabitants. This study evaluated risk factors associated with congenital anomalies (CA) and low birth weight. Methods: case-control study in three hospitals belonging to the National Network of Congenital Anomalies (RENAC) for one year. We evaluated the association of socioeconomic level, reproductive factors, and distance between place of residence to industrial pollution places and from watercourses of the river, with low birth weight and CA. Results: The prevalence of congenital anomalies in newborn was 1.93% (95% CI:1.64 - 2.25). There were associated risk factors such as acute maternal diseases and consumption of drugs. Cases had weight and gestational age significantly lower and higher maternal age than the controls. We did not find association between low birth weight and prevalence of congenital anomalies with distance from the housing of pregnant women to sources of contamination. Conclusions: This study is the first research in Argentina with geo-referenced data and newborn with CA. It has shown the feasibility of carrying out this type of research to evaluate risk factors in the RENAC. Future research to assess specific type of CA should be conducted to corroborate the results of this study
Estrategias para fomentar un adecuado compromiso del farmacéutico con respecto a la publicidad de medicamentos de venta libre
Authors: Armando Pedro Domingo , Tenllado María Isabel , Martínez Patricia , Uema Sonia Andrea
Published: February 2019

The advertisement has a great influence on the public and, in over the counter medicines (OTC), it can generate health risks on the population if it is misregulated. The aim of this work is to analyze and disclose strategic viable actions emerged from a forum debate during an online course for fostering the pharmacist’s compromise related to OTC advertisement. Methods: A content analysis was carried on, grouping by themes and categories the opinions of community pharmacists participating in a forum debate about OTC advertisement. Two audiovisual advertisement pieces were analyzed as triggers of discussion. Results: Sixty-five professionals participated in 3 groups of debate, and 103 opinions were collected. Among individual strategies, to guarantee the attention by a pharmacist was highlighted when health conditions or the use of medicines are consulted about. Other strategies include denouncing to the ANMAT the advertisements that do not comply with the norms, procuring a better regulation and assuming a critical posture. Within the collective strategies, including pharmacists in the evaluation committee of advertisement of ANMAT and furthering norms to reassess the role of the pharmacist and the community pharmacy in minor illnesses were stressed. Conclusion: The contribution of the community pharmacists allows disposing a set of professional strategies, both individuals and collectives, to promote a rational use of OTC for the patients and the community.
Influence of Fluid Charge Rate on Gravity Assisted Heat Pipe Performance at Low Temperatures
Authors: YILDIRIM Ragıp , YILDIZ Abdullah , ÖZSOY Ahmet
Published: February 2019

The heat pipe is an effective heat transfer device. Thermosyphon is a closed, vacuumed, fluid
contained and generally pipe shaped heat transfer device. It ensures high heat transfer even at
very low temperature differences. Heat pipes have very wide utilization fields. Therefore, many
studies have been carried out to improve the thermal performances of heat pipes. In this study,
the effect of the fluid charge rate on the operation of the heat pipe was examined. To do this, a
heat pipe model with a diameter of 25 mm was created. The heat pipe's evaporator, condenser
and adiabatic lengths are 2m, 1m and 0.1m respectively. The heat pipe has been examined for
various fluid charge rates and different heat source temperatures. The increase in fluid charge
rate has been seen to have a negative impact on the operation of the heat pipe, particularly at
low temperatures. In addition, at low temperatures the acetone performed better heat transfer
than the methanol. At high temperatures, the methanol performed better heat transfer than the
acetone.
Unification of the Maxwell-Einstein-Dirac Correspondence
Authors: Vegt Wim
Published: February 2019

The Light we see in our daily world has the Power to open Doors that have never been openened before.Albert Einstein, Lorentz and Minkowski published together in 1905 the Theory of Special Relativity and Einstein published in 1915 his field theory of general relativity based on a curved 4-dimensional space-time continuum to integrate the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field in one unified field. Since then the method of Einstein’s unifying field theory has been developed by many others in more than 4 dimensions resulting finally in the well-known 10-dimensional and 11-dimensional “string theory”. String theory is an outgrowth of S-matrix theory, a research program begun by Werner Heisenberg in 1943 (following John Archibald Wheelers 1937 introduction of the S-matrix), picked up and advocated by many prominent theorists starting in the late 1950’s.Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza (1885-1954), was a German mathematician and physicist well-known for the Kaluza–Klein theory involving field equations in curved five-dimensional space. His idea that fundamental forces can be unified by introducing additional dimensions re-emerged much later in the “String Theory”.The original Kaluza-Klein theory was one of the first attempts to create an unified field theory i.e. the theory, which would unify all the forces under one fundamental law. It was published in 1921 by Theodor Kaluza and extended in 1926 by Oskar Klein. The basic idea of this theory was to postulate one extra compactified space dimension and introduce nothing but pure gravity in a new (1 + 4)-dimensional space-time. Klein suggested that the fifth dimension would be rolled up into a tiny, compact loop on the order of 10-35 [m]The "New Theory" represents the "4-dimensional Unification of De Broglie Waves and Electromagnetic Waves". The "New Theory" demonstrates that the propagation of light is fully consistent with Newton's famous 3 laws of motion. That the speed of light is fully controlled by a prefect equilibrium between the inertia of the electromagnetic radiation energy (electromagnetic mass) and the electromagnetic "Radiation Pressure" at the front of the "Beam of Light". That, in the application of a laser beam, the outward oriented radiation pressure at the sides of the laser beam has been fully compensated by the inward oriented forces of electromagnetic interaction according Newton’s third law "Action = Reaction".
AUDIT TATA KELOLA TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI PADA PERGURUAN TINGGI SWASTA DI SURAKARTA (Studi Kasus: Politeknik Indonusa Surakarta)
Authors: aldian slamet
Published: February 2019

AUDIT TATA KELOLA TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI PADA PERGURUAN TINGGI SWASTA DI SURAKARTA (Studi Kasus: Politeknik Indonusa Surakarta)
LEGAL PROTECTION EFFORTS FOR PATENT HOLDERS IN INDONESIA
Authors: Zulkarnaen Astin
Published: February 2019

Patent Law Aspects.
THE TERMS ARE CARRIED OUT IN THE FILING OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TO GET A PATENT
Authors: ristianti Eka mei
Published: February 2019

The term "patent" we often hear used by the wider community, and even not uncommon in understand as equivalent of the term "intellectual property" itself. But behold, the patent is just one of the many forms of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY protection. The patent is protection of intellectual COPYRIGHT for works that are technology, also known by the term invention, and the contain the solution/technical solution to the problem of the existing technology.
DESIGN OF INTEGRATED ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM ON WINDOW BUILDING USING SOLAR PV
Authors: Asri Rishal , Friansa Koko
Published: February 2019

The current building is expected to provide physical comfort, such as room comfort, temperature, sound and lighting. Some equipment is needed that requires electrical energy to provide physical comfort. Like a room cooling device to provide thermal comfort, a room lamp to provide lighting comfort. The ITERA building built by the City Government of Bandar Lampung has high solar energy potential. While the electricity source still uses diesel fuel. The potential for solar energy radiation is used to become electrical energy by using glass windows as the foundation for installing solar energy harvesting systems using solar PV.
Ten Years On: What Have We Learned? What Have We Done? What Must We Do?
Authors: Hockett Robert C.
Published: February 2019

Ten years after the financial dramas of Autumn 2008, I take stock of what we have learned, what we have done, and what we have yet to do if we would avoid a repeat performance. The primary lessons I draw are that income and wealth distribution, the endogeneity of credit-money, and finance system structure all matter profoundly not only where justice, but also where systemic stability is concerned. The longer-term tasks still before us include a much broader and financially engineered diffusion of capital ownership over our population, citizen central banking, a permanent national investment authority, continuous public open labor market operations, debt-free or low-debt education and health insurance, and an updated form of segregating capital-raising primary from asset-trading secondary markets in the financial sector. Shorter-term tasks include debt-forgiveness, a restoration of labor rights and countercyclical progressive taxation, and restored citizen-ownership of our secondary market makers in home mortgage and higher education debt. These measures will restore the nation to its erstwhile status as a productive middle class ‘yeoman republic,’ and in so doing will restore both justice and efficiency to our social and economic arrangements.
Money's Past is Fintech's Future: Wildcat Crypto, the Digital Dollar, and Citizen Central Banking
Authors: Hockett Robert C.
Published: February 2019

I argue that crypto-currencies will soon go the way of the ‘wildcat’ banknotes of the mid-19th century. As central banks worldwide upgrade their payments systems, the Fed will begin issuing a ‘digital dollar’ that leaves no licit function for what I call ‘wildcat crypto.’ But the imminent change heralds far more than a shakeout in ‘fintech.’ It will also make possible a new era of what I call ‘Citizen Central Banking.’ The Fed will administer a national system of what I call ‘Citizen Accounts.’ This will not only end the problem of the ‘unbanked,’ it also will simplify monetary policy. Instead of working through private bank ‘middlemen’ that it hopes will lend QE money to borrowers during a downturn, the Fed will be able to do ‘helicopter drops’ directly into Fed Citizen Accounts. And rather than rely solely on interbank lending rate hikes or countercyclical capital buffering during periods of froth, the Fed will be able to impound money through the more ‘carrot-like’ measure of interest credited to those accounts. We are at last on the verge of establishing a true ‘Fed for the People.’
A Suggestion for a New Interpretation of Dreams: Dreaming Is the Inverse of Anxious Mind-Wandering
Authors: Eichler-Summers Joshua
Published: February 2019

Mind-wandering is associated with the simultaneous activation of a network of different brain regions known formally as the default mode network. Forward looking anxious mind-wandering (or worry) occurs when activity in this network is coupled with a biological fear response in the brain. The fear response constrains the con-tent of anxious mind-wandering, with imagined catastrophised scenarios pushing the mind-wanderer towards avoidant behaviours. There is an established relationship between dreaming and mind-wandering. During rapid eye moment (REM) sleep, where dreams most commonly occur, many of the brain regions within the default mode network are activated. This paper presents a novel argument that during REM sleep the brain is in a bio-logically relaxed state, and that this state acts as a constraint to the content of dreams, which in turn presents a possible function of dreaming. In direct contrast to anxious mind-wandering, dreams present imagined situations which demand confrontational, or un-avoidant, behaviours. Though the situations in dreams call for un-avoidant behaviour, dreamers act with avoidance. This difference between the in-dream behaviour (avoidant) and the behaviour the in-dream situation demands (un-avoidant) highlights an anxiety present in the dreamer which can then be used to direct the focus of therapeutic treatment. Fourteen examples of dreams are presented, including seven examples of interpretation, three examples of successful dream content prediction (a first for an interpretive theory of dreams), and four examples of dreams which demonstrate how in-dream behaviour changes during successful therapy, three of which are my own. Dreams focusing on anxieties developed during infancy as well as in adult moments of trauma (such as post-traumatic stress disorder) are discussed, with a focus on the former.
Psychological profiles of people who justify eating meat as natural, necessary, normal, or nice
Authors: Hopwood Christopher James , Bleidorn Wiebke
Published: February 2019

Project funded by Animal Charities Evaluators to identify correlates of ethical eating to help advocacy groups target their campaigns.
Threat-induced Impulsivity in Go/Nogo Tasks: Relationships to Task-relevance of Emotional Stimuli and Virtual Proximity
Authors: Gladwin Thomas Edward , Möbius Martin , Vink Matthijs
Published: February 2019

Threatening stimuli are thought to induce impulsive responses, but Emotional Go/Nogo task results are not in line with this. We extend previous research by comparing effects of task-relevance of emotional stimuli and virtual proximity. Four studies were performed to test this in healthy college students. When emotional stimuli were task-relevant, threat both increased commission errors and decreased RT, but this was not found when emotional stimuli were task-irrelevant. This was found in both between-subject and within-subject designs. These effects were found using a task version with equal go and nogo rates, but not with 90%-10% go-nogo rates. Proximity was found to increase threat-induced speeding, with task-relevant stimuli only, although effects on accuracy were less clear. Threat stimuli can thus induce impulsive responding, but effects depend on features of the task design. The results may be of use in understanding theoretically unexpected results involving threat and impulsivity and designing future studies.
One Experiment to Start Them All: The Missing Foundation of Consciousness Science
Authors: Rosseinsky Nicholas Martin
Published: February 2019

Are there scientifically-reliable experiments about conscious experience? It *seems* obvious we can reliably report e.g. our visual experience. But standard physics says that brain-dynamics, not contents-of-experience, drive report. Despite numerous attempts to make this observation consistent with reliable collection of data about experience, what's really needed for reliability is for our Universe to be consistent with a certain kind of non-standard physics. An experiment to identify the science-of-consciousness-relevant physical-basis-of-reality is identified.
Stop, Frisk, and Assault? Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force During Investigatory Stops
Authors: Kramer Rory , Remster Brianna
Published: February 2019

Black civilians are more likely to be stopped by police than White civilians net of relevant factors. Less is known about whether or not racial inequalities exist in police use of force during stops. Using data on over two million police stops in New York City from 2007-2014 and drawing on literatures on race, policing, and the Black Lives Matter movement, we test hypotheses regarding the associations between race, civilian behavior, age, and police use of force. We also investigate whether recent reforms reduced any observed inequality in police violence during stops. Findings show that Black and White civilians experience fundamentally different interactions with police. Black civilians are particularly more likely to experience potential lethal force when police uncover criminal activity and this disparity is greatest for Black youth compared to White youth. Overall, if there were no racial disparities in police use of force, we estimate that approximately 61,000 fewer stops of Black civilians would have included police use of force and 1,000 fewer stops would have included potential lethal force from 2007-2014. Further, while reform efforts substantially reduced the number of stops annually, inequalities in police use of force persist.
Antagonist Innovation: technologies, practices and innovation in the War on Drugs
Authors: Guerrero-C Javier
Published: February 2019

Since the early 1990s, maritime routes are the primary method used by Colombian smugglers to transport illicit drugs to consumer or transshipment countries. Smugglers have developed their kind of artifacts, the narcosubs. The Colombian Navy has adopted several strategies and adapted several technologies in their attempt to control the flows of illicit drugs. In the so-called War on Drugs (WoD), law enforcement, military, and drug smugglers have engaged in the production, modification, and maintenance of technological artifacts. Based on documentary material, observations and interviews I present the process of innovation by antagonism in the War on Drugs in Colombia. I present an overview of the co-evolution of drug trafficking technologies and the techniques and technologies used by the Colombian Navy to counter the activities of drug smugglers. I emphasize on the process of self-building artifacts by smugglers, explained as a bricolage of local knowledge of traditional boat building with off-the-shelf technologies and in the localized character of the responses by the Navy personnel. Explanations aiming to account for the process of innovation in outlaw contexts in which antagonistic relationships shape the actions of players must take into account the paradoxical and symbiotic relationship between players in the two sides
Agrarnaia nauka: vyzovy i perspektivy
Authors: Antoeva Anis'ia Spartakovna
Published: February 2019

The collection includes materials of the regional conference "Agrarian Science – сhallenges and prospects", held on November 30, 2018 in Yakutsk. The collection summarizes the results of scientific research and methodological developments in the field of agricultural education, agricultural production, engineering and technical support of the agro-industrial complex and the forest complex. Materials are published in the author's edition. The collection is intended for heads and specialists of agricultural production, teachers, graduate students and students of higher educational institutions, employees of scientific institutions.
Description of four new species of the genus Phytodietus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tryphoninae) from the Eastern Palearctic region
Authors: Kasparyan D.R.
Published: February 2019

Four species of the genus Phytodietus are described from material in the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences: Ph. belokobylskii sp. nov. and Ph. melanopus sp. nov. from South Korea, Ph. intermedius sp. nov. from south of the Russian Far East and Ph. dauricus sp. nov. from Russian Transbaikal Territory. Key to 4 new and 6 related species is given.
Big Choanae, Larger Face: Scaling Patterns Between Cranial Airways in Modern Humans and African Apes and Their Significance in Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominin Facial Evolution
Authors: Bastir M.
Published: February 2019

This study aimed to understand the ontogenetic and allometric relationships in scaling between the anterior and posterior openings of the cranial airways and facial size, in order to shed light on the mechanisms that might underlie the evolution of a large face and large airways in Middle Pleistocene hominins and Neandertals. Sizes were calculated from 3D landmarks measured on the facial skeleton and airway structures of 403 skulls from two ontogenetic series ofH. sapiensandP. troglodytes, an adult sample of gorillas and 11 Middle Pleistocene hominins and Neandertals. RMA regression models were used to compare the patterns in scaling between the anterior and posterior airways in relation to overall facial size. Our results show that the size of the anterior airways correlates more positively with facial size than the size of the posterior airways. This ontogenetic mechanism could explain the large faces and noses in the Neandertal lineage despite the adverse effects of such a phenotype for respiratory air-conditioning in cold climates. A large facial size could be a developmentally constrained consequence of generating airways large enough to provide the necessary oxygen for high energy demand in this large-brained and heavy-bodied hominin lineage.
Why Anthropology Doesn’t Matter Much to Law
Authors: Peletz Michael G.
Published: February 2019

Jeremy Kingsley and Kari Telle’s provocation article raises several
important issues. The thrust of their argument as I understand it is that
anthropology does not matter much to the field of law in many parts
of the world. They are quick to point out, however, that this is a relative
point and that their comparative frame takes as its point of departure
the much greater degree of intellectual engagement that obtains
between schools of medicine and public health on the one hand and the
field of anthropology on the other. I concur with their overall argument
but will phrase it in slightly different terms: despite the robust collaborations
that sometimes involve legal scholars and anthropologists (e.g.
in legal clinics at New York University and elsewhere; see Merry, this
issue), faculty in law schools are much less likely to embrace the work
of anthropologists than are their colleagues who specialise in medicine
and public health. In this brief comment, I offer tentative hypotheses as
to why this situation exists in the North American context. I approach
the relevant issues from a historical perspective, focusing on hierarchies
of legitimacy and prestige, shifts in both academia and the job market
for anthropologists, and the rise of neoliberal doctrines in academia
and beyond.
“Undoing” Gender
Authors: Arora Neha , Resch Stephan
Published: February 2019

Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001) and Darren Aronofsky’s
Black Swan (2010) are films about women directed by men. Both films unorthodoxly
chart women artists’ struggle with the discipline imposed on them by
the arts and by their live-in mothers. By portraying mothers as their daughters’
oppressors, both films disturb the naïve “women = victims and men = perpetrators”
binary. Simultaneously, they deploy audiovisual violence to exhibit the
violence of society’s gender and sexuality policy norms and use gender-coded
romance narratives to subvert the same gender codes from within this gender
discourse. Using Judith Butler’s and Michael Foucault’s theories, we argue
that Haneke and Aronofsky “do” feminism unconventionally by exposing the
nexus of women’s complicity with omnipresent societal power structures that
safeguard gender norms. These films showcase women concurrently as victim-products
and complicit partisans of socially constructed gender ideology to
emphasize that this ideology can be destabilized only when women “do” their
gender and sexuality differently through acts of subversion.
IMPLEMENTATION OF BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT CONVENTION – A STEP IN SAVING THE BLACK SEA ECO SYSTEM
Authors: Belev Blagovest
Published: February 2019

Marine ecosystems are under increasing anthropogenic pressures from marine and terrestrial activities. Shipping forms a network that spans the globe and introduces many economically and environmentally harmful invasive species, including human diseases such as cholera. Ship traffic, the major cause of change in the open ocean, and its temporal evolution are still largely unknown.
Since the 1960s the Black Sea has undergone dramatic environmental changes. These changes are considered as result from a complex interaction of different pressures, the most important being eutrophication, overfishing and introduction of alien species.
Some nations, and the International Maritime Organization, are moving towards requirements for managing ballast water to reduce the number of alien species transported and released.
THE BULGARIAN MOUNTAIN FOREST RESOURCES
Authors: Alexandrov Alexander
Published: February 2019

39 mountains are situated on the territory of Bulgaria, 8 of which have peaks higher than 2000 m a.s.l. Mountain areas refer hypsometrically to territories above 600 m altitude (from 600 m up to 2925 m) with a total area of 30,608 km2 or 27.6% of the country. Within this range are situated the resources of forests, pastures, spring waters, game, mountain agriculture and livestock-breeding, as well as tourism and sport facilities. Some small towns, villages and hamlets in the mountains are however depopulated due to migration processes.
Mountain forest resources are spread all over the following vegetation belts: 1. Carpinus betulus L.-Quercus petraea Liebl. belt, 2. Fagus sylvatica L. belt, 3. Coniferous forests belt, 4. Sub-alpine thin forests, Pinus mugo Turra and Juniperus sp. formations belt. The forests by-products include the returns of hay, foliage, forest fruits, different kind of nuts, lime-blossoms, medical herbs and mushrooms. The national parks, the bigger part of nature parks and reserves are distributed mainly in the mountains, where they preserve the biodiversity and the genetic resources of plants and animals. Mountain agriculture and livestock-breeding are directed to traditional bio-products and food security. Many monasteries, churches and mosques, as part of the cultural-historical heritage, are situated in mountain regions.
TOXIC METALS EXTRACTION DURING POTATO FERMENTATION
Authors: Sioma I. , Tashyrev А. , Govorukha V. , Prekrasna Y.
Published: February 2019

According to the thermodynamical prognosis developed by us the investigation of the interaction of Bacillus-Clostridium community and six representative metals was performed. To representative metals we refer: oxidisers (CrO42-), substitutes (Ni2+, Co2+) and combined action metals that combine the characteristics of both oxidizers and substitutes (Cu2+, Hg2+, Fe3+).
The natural soil hydrogen-producing microbial communities appeared to be resistant to the metals in their high total concentration of 120 mg/l and also able to extract these metals from the solution (up to 96%).
The obtained regularities are the base for the development of new combined biotechnologies, allowing to neutralize ecologically hazardous food wastes, treat metal contaminated sewages and simultaneously obtain environmentally friendly energy source – hydrogen.
BIOPREPARATIONS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE FOOD – Part I
Authors: Nugmanova Tatiana
Published: February 2019

Russian biopreparations cover almost all aspects of the problem of growing plants. The history of development and implementation of industrial large-scale production of biopreparations in Russia goes back more than 40 years. Biopreparations have a purposeful action and are divided into the following main types: bioinsecticides, biofungicides, biofertilizers, immunomodulators and regulators of plant growth and development, as well as land-fertilizing biopreparations. The variety of Russian biopreparations can fully ensure the implementation of the potential varietal properties of agricultural plants, minimize damage from adverse weather conditions, reduce the cost of chemicals, restore soil humus and obtain environmentally friendly food.
Older inpatients’ experience and insights into fear of falling: A feasibility study
Authors: Beh Soot Yee , McCullagh Ruth , O’Neill Emer , Healy Liam , Timmons Suzanne
Published: February 2019

BACKGROUND:

Fear of falling (FOF) is often reported post-hospitalization and has been associated with functional decline. Identifying the determinants of FOF during hospitalization and patients’ perception of FOF can help guide their managements. To inform a planned future intervention study, this study aimed to evaluate (1) the effects of acute hospitalization on FOF among older adults, (2) older adults’ perception of risk factors, interventions and coping strategies for FOF.

METHODS:

Thirty-two older inpatients were recruited in an acute teaching hospital. This was a mixed methods study. FOF was measured quantitatively using the Single-item question “Are you afraid of falling?” and Fall-Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I), self-reported for premorbid status (retrospectively), on admission and again at discharge. Patients with FOF completed a questionnaire exploring their perception of FOF, possible coping strategies and interventions they believed may help.

RESULTS:

No significant changes in FES-I scores were detected over time, suggesting acute hospitalization did not change FOF in this cohort. A change in FOF (FES-I) score was associated with the history of falls in previous year. Perceived risk factors included balance problems ( n = 10), breathlessness ( n = 5), reduced lower limb muscle strength ( n = 5) and history of falls ( n = 4). To cope with FOF, most would avoid activity, seek help and slow their pace. Exercises and education were perceived as effective interventions to reduce FOF.

CONCLUSIONS:

Fear of falling did not appear to develop or change during hospitalization. Patients had faith in education and exercise prescription as effective treatments for FOF post-hospitalization.
Opaque hemithorax (whiteout): A literature review exploring its causes, potential use of thoracic ultrasound and the role of physiotherapy
Authors: Hayward Simon , Hayward Lisa
Published: February 2019

PURPOSE:

Complete whitening of one half of the thorax on a chest radiograph (CXR) is termed an opaque hemithorax. It often indicates the presence of significant pathology resulting in respiratory compromise. There are numerous causes of an opaque hemithorax, but these are not immediately apparent on CXR. Thoracic ultrasound (TUS) has a higher accuracy to differentiate between opacities on CXR and may help to correctly identify underlying pathologies. The purpose of this literature review is to report the causes of an opaque hemithorax, identify how TUS can assist diagnosis and explore the role physiotherapy has opaque hemithorax management.

METHODS:

A systematic search was conducted (PubMed, Medline, Embase, CINAHL, AMED and BNI) up until March 2018. Inclusion: Adults. Primary research reporting a complete opaque hemithorax on CXR.

RESULTS:

1117 papers were identified in search. Following inclusion and exclusion criteria: 58 papers were selected. 54 papers were case reports and four were observational studies. The causes of the opaque hemithorax were collated and divided into 16 categories. Eight studies included the use of TUS to differentiate the cause of the opaque hemithorax. Two studies reported the involvement of physiotherapy in opaque hemithorax.

CONCLUSIONS:

Numerous pathologies can cause an opaque hemithorax on CXR making differential diagnosis difficult. Even when mediastinal shift is present it does not appear to be a reliable way to identify the underlying cause. Thoracic ultrasound has the potential to much more accurately differentiate between pathologies. This would assist physiotherapists to identify patients amenable to physiotherapy treatment techniques.
Proprioceptive training after ACL reconstruction: Standard versus stump preservation technique
Authors: Faggal Mona S. , Abdelsalam Mohammed S. , Adel Elhakk Sahar M. , Mahmoud Noha F.
Published: February 2019

BACKGROUND:

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are considered to be among the most disabling knee injuries. The proprioception function affected due to ACL injuries results in functional instability as neuromuscular control is altered in consequence.

PURPOSE:

To compare proprioceptive training outcomes following ACL reconstruction with and without stump removal.

METHODS:

Thirty male patients received a three months rehabilitation program, including an integral proprioceptive training component, after having autogenous hamstring tendon ACL reconstruction. Fifteen patients had done stump shaving technique (group A), and fifteen patients with stump preservation (group B). Mean age was (32.87±7.51 years) for group A and (31.53±6.46 years) for group B. Clinical evaluation included functional performance measured by Lysholm scale, dynamic balance measured by Biodex balance system test (overall stability index), and sense of position measured by active and passive repositioning tests (absolute angular error) on Biodex system 3 isokinetic dynamometer.

RESULTS:

No significant differences were detected for active and passive repositioning tests and overall stability index of affected and non-affected legs between groups. Moreover, Lyshlom scores between both groups revealed no significant difference. Pairwise comparisons of affected and non-affected legs within either groups were also non- significant ( p < 0.05).

CONCLUSION:

Proprioceptive training after arthroscopic ACL reconstruction showed similar effects on function, dynamic balance, and sense of position in patients operated by stump shaving or preservation techniques.
Structure tensor total variation for CBCT reconstruction
Authors: Tan Xi , Xiang Kai , Liu Liang , Wang Jing , Tan Shan
Published: February 2019

The total variation (TV) regularization has been widely used in statistically iterative cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) reconstruction, showing ability to preserve object edges. However, the TV regularization can also produce staircase effect and tend to over-smooth the reconstructed images due to its piecewise constant assumption. In this study, we proposed to use the structure tensor total variation (STV) that penalizes the eigenvalues of the structure tensor for CBCT reconstruction. The STV penalty extends the TV penalty, with many important properties maintained such as convexity and rotation and translation invariance. The STV penalty utilizes gradient information more effectively and has a stronger ability to capture local image structural variation. The objective function was constructed with the penalized weighted least-square (PWLS) strategy and the gradient descent (GD) method was used to optimize the objective function. Besides, we investigated whether the norms involved in the STV penalty affected the reconstruction performance and found that the l1-norm gave the better performance than the l2-norm and l ∞-norm. We also examined performance of the STV penalties constructed using different kernel functions and found that the STV with the Gaussian kernel had the best performance, and the STVs with Uniform, Logistic, and Sigmoid kernels had similar performance to each other. We evaluated our reconstruction method with the STV penalty on computer simulated phantoms and physical phantoms. The results demonstrated that STV led to better reconstruction performance than TV, both visually and quantitatively. For the Catphan 600 physical phantom, the STV1 penalty was 175% and 623% better than the low-dose FDK and the high-dose FDK, and 14% better than the TV penalty at the matched noise level, according to the average contrast-to-noise ratio ( CNR); while for the Compressed Sensing simulation phantom, the peak signal to noise ratio ( PSNR) of reconstructed results using STV1, STV2, and STV ∞ were 40.67 dB, 38.72 dB, and 37.40 dB, respectively, all being significantly better than 36.84 dB using TV.
PERAN PEMERINTAH KOTA DEPOK DALAM PENANGANAN MANTAN ANGGOTA GAFATAR
Authors: Noorbani M. Agus
Published: February 2019

One of the the policy directions of the government in order to strengthen harmonious life of religious communities is to protect religious minority groups and religion-based trauma healing. This qualitative descriptive-designed research is an evaluative study to the local unit force of Depok City which has authority to deal with ex-Gavatar members and other citizens who were recorded as ex-Gavatar members. The research discovers that in dealing with ex-Gavatar members, the government of Depok City is still limited in picking up, data collecting, sheltering, psychological consulting, and returning them home. In addition, the post-returning action is limited in the observation and supervision of state-national insight. There has not been a policy to provide personal training and mentoring to the ex-Gavatar members. Some of their civil rights are still ignored. This includes services of population administration, education, and return on their assets in Kalimantan. The obstacle factor in dealing with ex-Gavatar members is mainly in the inflexible budget when facing social dynamics, especially when dealing with victims of social conflicts.
BEYOND MOSLEMS PANICS:AN EXPLORATION UPON INSTAGRAM MATCHMAKER IN INDONESIA
Authors: Saifullah Muhammad
Published: February 2019

Nowadays, many Indonesian Moslems youth wielded social media, including instagram, not simply to express their piety or reach life goal, rather also for practical benefit just like marriage. This article focuses upon how they were stunned to gain bride or bridegroom through instagram. It tries to examine why they don’t choose merely their spouse over offline. I particularly discuss a single popular account regarding matchmaker taaruf_nikah (dating marriage) as deemed successful enough to arrange marriages amongst Indonesian Moslems. The account operationally provided service for its followers to post their picture after paying IDR100.000. Still, it opens an advertising services too and often posts pictures/videos portraying how proper Moslem is one who avoid dating and take an immediacy wedding because of god. Standing on thesis that instagram was the ultimate platform to shape public opinion, the article therefore argues that the main factor why it is triumph in taking many Indonesian Moslems youth’s heart lay onto its dissemination of anxieties amongst Moslem youth society through religion commodification notably in respect of who is the pious one and vice versa.
B Cell Regulation in Autoimmune Diseases
Authors: Sokolov A. V. , Shmidt A. A. , Lomakin Y. A.
Published: February 2019

Antibody-independent B cell effector functions play an important role in the development and suppression of the immune response. An extensive body of data on cytokine regulation of the immune response by B lymphocytes has been accumulated over the past fifteen years. In this review, we focused on the mechanisms of inflammatory response suppression by subpopulations of regulatory B cells in health and autoimmune pathologies.
Emotion Detection using Facial expressions with Transfer Learning
Authors: Geetanand Sairama , Basha Shaik Nazeer , Rao Sajja Nageswara , Srinivas Rayudu
Published: February 2019

The use of machines to perform different tasks is constantly increasing in society. Providing machines with perception can lead them to perform a great variety of tasks. Machine perception requires that machines understand about their environment. Recognizing facial emotions will thus help in this regard. We use the TensorFlow library and the Inception model and apply transfer-learning for our dataset to retrain the model. We then identify the facial emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, disgust and neutral.
Circuit Design for Green Communications – Methods, Tools and Examples
Authors: Marinova Galia , Tchobanova Zdravka
Published: February 2019

The paper makes an overview of the existing methods applied for circuit design with low power consumption objective. It considers Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools and modules for power consumption estimation at the design stage. For analog and mixed analog-digital circuit design, the power estimation options in ORCAD Design Suit with PSpice and Analog Filter Wizard are studied. For digital communication systems the study covers the power estimation, analysis and optimization in ISE and Vivado systems, Xilinx Power Estimator (XPE) tool and spreadsheet, the XPower Analyzer, as well as similar tools proposed by ALTERA - PowerPlay Early Power Estimator and QUARTUS II Power Play Power Analyzer. Two examples are developed: Power consumption estimation of a Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP)-based communication system design, based on datasheets and software energy monitoring tools, and power consumption estimation of a Kasami pseudo-random sequence generator circuit design on FPGA using Vivado.
The Influence of Division of Amlodipine Tablets on Their Efficacy and Stability
Authors: Myftari Brunilda , Andrea Enxhi , Myftari Elton , Malaj Ledjan
Published: February 2019

Tablet division is a widespread phenomenon nowadays in Albania, because of different factors such as the absence of small dosages in the pharmaceutical market, financial reasons etc. The purpose of this study is to identify the positive and negative aspects of tablets division by patients. It aims to show experimentally if the division affects or not, in a significant way the percentage of the active substance. It was selected Amlodipine as a drug for analysis, because of two reasons. First it is used in chronic therapy and second it is part of the List of Reimbursement of Medicines in the Republic of Albania.It was used besylate amlodipine as RS, three different productions of Amlodipine tablets bought directly in a community pharmacy, methanol HPLC grade and ammonium acetate. It was selected the method based on the HPLC analysis of the solutions obtained by dissolution of amlodipine in methanol as described in the European Pharmacopoeia 2011. This was an ongoing analysis for four weeks. The divided tablets have been kept in similar conditions as a patient can do.The organoleptic control after division showed no changes for all three productions. Only halves of sample A fulfill the pharmacopoeia criteria for RD ± 7.5%. From the results obtained, it was noted that there was a decrease in the percentage of the active substance, on halves taken randomly for analysis. The concentration of the active substance in sample A at the end of the analysis resulted to be 83.6%, in sample B 84.37% and sample C 83.75%. The level of impurities remain ≤ 2% conform limits in Eur. Ph. Based on these results, it is concluded that tablet division is a process that significantly affects the percentage of the tablet's active substance. Reducing the concentration of the active substance implies that the patient does not receive the required dose for treatment and the success of therapy is in doubt. The division of amlodipine tablets is economically convenient, but is a practice that should be avoided and not advised by the healthcare providers.