bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Blinded SAPS-PD Assessment After 10 Weeks of Pimavanserin Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis
Authors: Isaacson Stuart H. , Coate Bruce , Norton James , Stankovic Srdjan
Published: July 2020

Background: Parkinson’s disease psychosis (PDP) is a common nonmotor symptom that affects up to 60% of patients. Pimavanserin, a selective 5-HT2A inverse agonist/antagonist, is approved for treating hallucinations and delusions associated with PDP. Objective: Evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of pimavanserin in an open-label extension (OLE) study. Methods: Patients completing a pivotal 6-week placebo-controlled trial (Core Study) could enroll in the OLE. All patients pimavanserin 34 mg once daily, blinded to previous treatment allocation. Prespecified blinded assessments at Week 4 were the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS) PD version and SAPS H + D scales, Caregiver Burden Scale (CBS), and Clinical Global Impression (CGI) Improvement and Severity scales. Results: Of 171 who entered the OLE, 148 (87%) completed Week 4. Among patients who received placebo in the Core Study, mean (SD) change from OLE baseline to OLE Week 4 for the SAPS-PD was – 3.4 (6.3); p < 0.0001. Mean change from Core Study baseline to OLE Week 4 for SAPS-PD was similar among prior pimavanserin- and placebo-treated patients (–6.9 vs. –6.3). Improvement was similar with CGI-I, CGI-S, CBS, and SAPS-H + D in patients previously treated with placebo. Adverse events occurred in 92 (53.8%) patients during the 4-week OLE. Conclusion: Improvements at OLE Week 4 from pretreatment baseline were similar with placebo and pimavanserin in the Core Study. The beneficial effects observed with pimavanserin in the 6-week Core Study were maintained for 4 weeks in the blinded OLE, supporting the durability of response with pimavanserin 34 mg for PDP over 10 weeks.
Psychological intervention for partners post-stroke: A case report
Authors: Yasmin Natasha , Riley Gerard Anthony
Published: July 2020

BACKGROUND: Following a brain injury, caregiving spouses/partners differ in their perceptions of relationship continuity/discontinuity (i.e. whether the relationship is experienced as similar or different to the pre-injury relationship). Perceptions of continuity are associated with better psychological wellbeing and a better relationship. OBJECTIVE: To conduct a pilot test of an intervention aimed at exploring the possibility of supporting caregiving partners to experience greater continuity within their relationship post-stroke. METHODS: A post-stroke couple was provided with integrated behavioural couples therapy for three months, which aimed to increase relationship continuity alongside addressing individual goals identified by the couple. Before and after measures were taken using a battery of six questionnaires evaluating changes in perceptions of continuity, relationship quality, and stress. RESULTS: Quantitative and qualitative data showed post-therapy improvement in all the measures. CONCLUSIONS: The study suggested that perceptions of relationship continuity can be improved by therapy, and that such an improvement might have a beneficial impact in terms of relationship quality and psychological wellbeing. The intervention is currently being further developed and evaluated.
Factors related to interrupted inpatient stroke rehabilitation due to acute care transfer or death
Authors: Pongratanakul Rinlada , Thitisakulchai Poungkaew , Kuptniratsaikul Vilai
Published: July 2020

OBJECTIVES: To identify factors that are independently related to interrupted stroke rehabilitation due to acute care transfer or death. METHODS: Medical records of stroke inpatients admitted from 2012 to 2017 were reviewed. Stroke inpatients with interrupted stroke rehabilitation due to acute care transfer or death were enrolled into the case group. Those without interruption admitted in the same month were randomly selected into the control group (case to control ratio of 1 : 5). Ten clinical factors were studied. RESULTS: Among stroke inpatients, 3.2% were transferred to acute care facilities and 0.2% died. The most common causes of acute care transfer were respiratory tract infection, intracranial hemorrhage, recurrent ischemic stroke, ischemic heart disease, and seizure. Three factors were found to be significantly associated with interrupted stroke rehabilitation, i.e. presence of feeding tube, presence of anemia and age. Our results also revealed significant association between presence of feeding tube and respiratory tract infection (p = 0.005). CONCLUSION: Feeding tube, anemia and old age were identified as independent predictors of interrupted stroke rehabilitation due to acute care transfer or death. Interventions to reduce severe complications should be implemented in order to prevent interruption of rehabilitation process and to reduce the patient transfer rate.
In search of the data revolution: Has the official statistics paradigm shifted?
Authors: MacFeely Steve
Published: July 2020

What distinguishes revolution from evolution? What events or movements in the world of official statistics have been sufficiently disruptive or transformational to deserve being called revolutionary? Using the definitions of data revolution put forward by the Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development in their report A World that Counts to identify potential data revolutions and then deriving a framework to evaluate those definitions from Thomas Kuhn’s work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this paper investigates, through the lens of official statistics, whether there has been a data revolution or not.
Resomer C212© in vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty: A feasibility study on artificial bones with biomechanical and thermal evaluation
Authors: Greiner Axel , Bongartz Anne , Woiczinski Matthias , Befrui Nima , Pieske Oliver , Suero Eduardo M. , Bruder Jan , Kammerlander Christian , Böcker Wolfgang , Becker Christopher A.
Published: July 2020

BACKGROUND: Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are now well-established methods for treating compression fractures of vertebral bodies (AO type A) as well as vertebral body metastases [1, 2, 3]. However, polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) augmented vertebrae show fractures of subsequent vertebral bodies due to the increased stability of the augmented vertebral body [4]. Resorbable cements are currently only used experimentally. Many commercially available resorbable calcium phosphate cements do not exhibit sufficient biomechanical stability to treat vertebral body fractures [5]. Resomer C212© (Evonik Industries AG, Essen, Germany) is a slow resorbable poly-ε-caprolactone that has low melting temperatures and good biomechanical properties. OBJECTIVE: This is a feasibility study on how the poly-ε-caprolactone Resomer C212© can be used for kypho- or vertebroplasty, what temperatures are used in the argumentation and how differences in load capacity are measurable compared to conventional PMMA cement. METHODS: 23 Sawbones© blocks (7.5 Open Cell Foam, SKU: 1522-09, laminated on both sides, 4 × 4 × 2.9 cm, Sawbones, Vashon Island, USA) were divided into three groups: 7 without augmentation, 8 augmented with PMMA cement Traumacem V+© (DePuy Synthes, West Chester, USA) and 8 augmented with Resomer C212©. Temperature measurements were made in a 37∘C water bath centrally in the block and on the top and bottom plates. This was followed by a maximum load of up to 2000 N using a universal testing machine (Instron E 10000, Instron Industrial Products, Grove City, USA). RESULTS: In the Resomer C212© test group, the maximum average increase in temperature was 4.15 ± 4.72∘C central, 0.3 ± 0.31∘C at the top and 0.78 ± 1.27∘C at the base. In the cement test group, the average increase in temperature was 9.80 ± 10.65∘C centrally in the test block, 1.50 ± 0.73∘C at the top plate and 1.42 ± 0.66∘C and the base plate. In the axial compression test, the 7 non-kyphoplasted test blocks showed a first loading peak on average at 275.23 ± 80.98 N, a rigidity of 238.47 ± 71.01 N/mm2. In the Traumacem V+© group, the mean peak load was 313.72 ± 46.26 N and rigidity was 353.45 ± 77.23 N/mm2. The Resomer C212© group achieved a peak load of 311.74 ± 52.05 N and a stiffness of 311.30 ± 126.63 N/mm2. A compression to 50% could not be seen in any test block under the load of 2000 N. At 2000 N, Traumacem V+©’s average height reduction was 9.26 ± 2.16 mm and Resomer C212© was 10.93 ± 0.81 mm. CONCLUSIONS: It has been shown that the application of Resomer C212© in kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty is well feasible. Thermal analysis showed significantly lower temperatures and shorter temperature application in the Resomer C212© group. In the biomechanical load up to 2000 N no significant differences could be observed between the individual groups.
Automatic classification of regular and irregular capnogram segments using time- and frequency-domain features: A machine learning-based approach
Authors: El-Badawy Ismail M. , Singh Om Prakash , Omar Zaid
Published: July 2020

BACKGROUND: The quantitative features of a capnogram signal are important clinical metrics in assessing pulmonary function. However, these features should be quantified from the regular (artefact-free) segments of the capnogram waveform. OBJECTIVE: This paper presents a machine learning-based approach for the automatic classification of regular and irregular capnogram segments. METHODS: Herein, we proposed four time- and two frequency-domain features experimented with the support vector machine classifier through ten-fold cross-validation. MATLAB simulation was conducted on 100 regular and 100 irregular 15 s capnogram segments. Analysis of variance was performed to investigate the significance of the proposed features. Pearson’s correlation was utilized to select the relatively most substantial ones, namely variance and the area under normalized magnitude spectrum. Classification performance, using these features, was evaluated against two feature sets in which either time- or frequency-domain features only were employed. RESULTS: Results showed a classification accuracy of 86.5%, which outperformed the other cases by an average of 5.5%. The achieved specificity, sensitivity, and precision were 84%, 89% and 86.51%, respectively. The average execution time for feature extraction and classification per segment is only 36 ms. CONCLUSION: The proposed approach can be integrated with capnography devices for real-time capnogram-based respiratory assessment. However, further research is recommended to enhance the classification performance.
Analysis of the information transfer between brains during a conversation
Authors: Ahamed Mohamed Rasmi Ashfaq , Babini Mohammad Hossein , Namazi Hamidreza
Published: July 2020

BACKGROUND: The interaction between people is one of the usual daily activities. For this purpose, people mainly connect with others, using their voice. Voices act as the auditory stimuli on the brain during a conversation. OBJECTIVE: In this research, we analyze the relationship between the brains’ activities of subjects during a conversation. METHODS: Since human voice transfers information from one subject to another, we used information theory for our analysis. We investigated the alterations of Shannon entropy of electroencephalography (EEG) signals for subjects during a conversation. RESULTS: The results demonstrated that the alterations in the information contents of the EEG signals for the listeners and speakers are correlated. Therefore, we concluded that the brains’ activities of both subjects are linked. CONCLUSION: Our results can be expanded to analyze the coupling among other physiological signals of subjects (such as heart rate) during the conversation.
"Cristianos por el socialismo" en España
Authors: García Nieto Juan N.
Published: July 2020

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Panorámica actual de la reforma sindical española
Authors: Pérez Leñero José
Published: July 2020

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Sobre la Militancia de cristianos en el Partido: Hacia un estado de la cuestión
Authors: Comín Alfonso C.
Published: July 2020

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Apéndice documental sobre orientaciones políticas de los obispos españoles
Authors: García Matías
Published: July 2020

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Apéndice documental sobre cristianismo y partidos Marxistas
Authors: García Matías
Published: July 2020

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Kebebasan Berkomunikasi Dalam Perspektif Islam
Authors: Rusli
Published: July 2020

Kebebasan berkomunikasi dalam perspektif Islam adalah suatu sistem komunikasi yang dibangun atas nilai-nilai etika dan prinsip-prinsip yang berlandaskan kepada Al-Quran dan Hadis. Kebebasan berkomunikasi dalam Islam, yaitu bebas menyampaikan pesan-pesan Islami, baik secara lisan, pikiran, dan tulisan kepada khalayak demi kemaslahatan, khususnya bagi umat Islam dan manusia secara umum. Demi tercapainya kebahagiaan di dunia dan akhirat, pesan yang disampaikan kepada komunikan harus benar, jujur, dan dengan cara yang baik, lemah lembut, dan bisa dipertanggung jawabkan baik kepada diri sendiri, masyarakat luas maupun kepada Allah SWT.
Komunikasi Massa Sebagai Media Dakwah
Authors: Safrizal
Published: July 2020

Sejarah media penyiaran dunia dimulai ketika ahli fisika Jerman bernama Heinrich Hertz pada tahun 1887 berhasil mengirim dan menerima gelombang radio. Upaya Hertz itu kemudian dilanjutkan oleh Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) dari Italia yang sukses mengirimkan sinyal morse berupa titik dan garis dari sebuah pemancar kepada suatu alat penerima. Sinyal yang dikirimkan Marconi berhasil menyeberangi Samudra Atlantik pada tahun 1901 dengan menggunakan gelombang elektromagnetik. Stasiun radio pertama muncul ketika seorang tehnik bernama Frank Conrad di Pittsburgh AS, pada tahun 1920 secara iseng-iseng sebagai bagian dari hobi, membangun sebuah pemancar radio di garasi rumahnya. Conrad menyiarkan lagu-lagu, mengumumkan hasil pertandingan olahraga dan menyiarkan instrumen musik yang dimainkan putranya sendiri. Dalam waktu singkat, Conrad berhasil mendapatkan banyak pendengar seiring dengan meningkatnya penjualan pesawat radio ketika itu. Stasiun radio yang dibangun Conrad itu kemudian diberi nama KDKA dan masih tetap mengudara hingga saat ini, menjadikannya sebagai stasiun tertua di Amerika dan mungkin juga didunia. Di Provinsi Aceh perkembangan siaran radio saat ini berkembang dengan pesat mengikuti perubahan zaman dan aturan yang berlaku. Sampai saat ini program-program pada siaran Radio Swasta masih banyak diminati oleh pendengarnya disetiap lapisan masyarakat mulai dari kalangan anak-anak, remaja, hingga dewasa. Program-program siaran Radio Swasta di Aceh khususnya kabupaten Aceh Tamiang banyak menyiarkan siaran-siaran yang berbau Islami hingga siaran-siaran umum dan Pemerintahan, sehingga berbagai program radio menjadi lebih baik dan sesuai. Program Penyiaran tentang Ke-Islaman tersebut disiarkan pada Radio Birama Indah 103,7 FM untuk disiarkan di wilayah Aceh Tamiang guna mendukung terciptanya ketentraman dan kesejahteraan berdasarkan ajaran Islam yang diajarkan oleh baginda Rasulullah SAW sebagai suri tauladan bagi kita semua khususnya umat Islam diseluruh penjuru dunia.
Karakteristik Manusia Komunikan
Authors: Marhaban Nawawi
Published: July 2020

Pemeran utama dalam proses komunikasi adalah manusia. Jika fokus psikologi adalah manusia yang terlibat dalam komunikasi, maka yang harus diketahui adalah karakteristik manusia sebagai komunikan yaitu faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi tingkah laku mereka dalam berkomunikasi. Hakikat manusia terletak pada hidup kejiwaannya (rohaniahnya) juga didukung oleh hidup jasmaniahnya agar terwujud kesehatan lahir dan batin. Oleh karena itu, secara psikologi pendekatan yang dilakukan ialah secara interdiciplinary approach (pendekatan antar ilmu), dimana manusia dilihat dari segala aspeknya kemudian dipadukan menjadi satu ilmu pengetahuan yang padu dan lengkap. (Faizah, Lalu Muchsin Effendi,2006:42)
Makna Interaksi Dalam Komunikasi (Teori Interaksi Simbolik dan Teori Konvergensi Simbolik)
Authors: Suheri
Published: July 2020

Berkembanganya konsep interaksi dan komunikasi sering dipergunakan tetapi mungkin diartikan secara berbeda-beda. Pada kenyataanya konsep interaksi akan berkembang menjadi interaksi sosial dan berujung pada aktivitas berupa komunikasi dan melalui komunikasi individu akan merasakan kepuasan, kesenangan atau mendapatkan pengetahuan (informasi) yang akan menunjang terhadap perkembangan individu. Selanjutnya interaksi simbolik juga tidak bisa dilepaskan dari proses komunikasi, karena awalnya makna itu tidak ada artinya, sampai pada akhirnya di konstruksi secara interpretif oleh individu melalui proses interaksi, untuk menciptakan makna yang dapat disepakati secara bersama dimana asumsi-asumsi itu adalah sebagai berikut: Manusia bertindak terhadap manusia lainnya berdasarkan makna yang diberikan orang lain kepada mereka serta konvergensi simbolik didasarkan pada gagasan bahwa para anggota dalam kelompok harus bertukar fantasi dalam rangka untuk membentuk kelompok yang kohesif artinya individu terlibat dalam berkomunikasi untuk bertukar pengalaman-pengalaman.
Komunikasi Perempuan Jamaah Tabligh Sebagai Agen Dakwah Di Kota Langsa
Authors: Sembiring Masdalifah
Published: July 2020

Indikasi pertumbuhan Jama’ah Tabligh di Indonesia secara jelas bisa dilihat dari semakin maraknya aktivitas mereka di tengah-tengah kaum muslim negeri ini, hingga anggota Jama’ah Tabligh sekarang dengan mudah dapat ditemukan di berbagai pelosok daerah di tanah air termasuk di Aceh. Kegiatan pada Jama’ah tabligh ini salah satunya dikenal dengan istilah Ta’lim. Ta’lim merupakan bagian dari komunikasi antarpribadi. Bentuk khusus dari komunikasi antarpribadi ini adalah komunikasi yang melibatkan dua orang atau lebih secara tatap-muka, yang memungkinkan setiap pesertanya menangkap reaksi orang lain secara langsung, baik secara verbal ataupun nonverbal, seperti suami-isteri, dua sejawat, dua sahabat dekat, seorang guru dengan seorang muridnya, dan sebagainya. Tulisan ini akan melihat bagaimana bentuk komunikasi  para anggota ta’lim dari kalangan perempuan.
Perspektif Makna Komunikasi Islam
Authors: Haslinda
Published: July 2020

Salah satu hal yang sangat berpengaruh dalam perkembangan Islam pada saat itu adalah kemampuan komunikasi Rasulullah dan para sahabat yang tidak diragukan lagi, dimana Rasulullah dan para sahabat menerapkan seluruh prinsip-prinsip komunikasi yang ada didalam al-Quran dengan konsisten, sehingga manusia yang secara kodrati adalah makhluk sosial yang pasti akan saling berinteraksi antara satu dan lain serta saling membutuhkan sangatlah tertarik dengan sistem komunikasi yang digunakan karana mudah diterima serta dipahami. Komunikasi selain bersifat informatif, yakni agar orang lain mengerti dan paham, juga persuasif, yaitu agar orang lain mau menerima ajaran atau informasi yang disampaikan, melakukan kegiatan atau perbuatan sesuai dengan yang dikomunikasikan, dan lain-lain. Al-Quran telah mengajarkan kita tentang bagaimana cara berkomunikasi dengan baik, walaupun tidak menjelaskannya secara rinci, namun kita dapat menemukannya dalam beberapa ayat yang membaahas tentang itu dan akan kami bahas dalam tulisan ini dan hal itu juga telah dicontohkan oleh Rasulullah dan sahabat-sahabatnya, sehingga kita dapat mengikuti jejaknya dan tentunya agar dakwah yang kita lakukan sesuai dengan yang kita harapkan.
Graphene-Coating for Efficient Electronics Cooling
Authors: Al-Baghdadi Maher
Published: July 2020

Abstract
Thermal management is essential in electronics, as it improves reliability and enhances performance by removing heat generated by the devices. Thermal management of handheld systems such as laptops is becoming increasingly challenging due to increasing power dissipation. The power dissipated per unit area on the laptop electronic chips is increasing while the area of the chips itself it decreasing, resulting a high heat flux that causes an increase in temperature. The increasing temperature adversely affects the performance of laptops and in many cases leads to failure through such modes as thermal fatigue and dielectric breakdown. In this work, three dimensional steady state CFD model of a laptop motherboard is presented. The model accounts for heat transfer for both natural convection and radiation to the ambient air temperature. The present CFD study allow accurate, rapid, physical modelling to make decisions on materials, components and layout beside power control feedback to achieve performance and target lifetime with reduced testing requirements. An alternative design for the cooling of laptop microprocessor using only passive cooling is proposed. The results showed that the assembled a thin plate of a copper material coated with graphene and use it as a heat sinks with the microprocessor of the laptop providing an efficient and economical solution in thermal management. Considerable drop in microprocessor temperature is obtained through the heat dissipation path suggested in the new design. The proposed passive cooling solution has the advantages of fanless operation compared to the existing active cooling solutions such as the noise-free operation, lower energy consumption and higher reliability. We hope this work may open the way for huge boost in the technology of electric cooling by innovative manufacturing techniques.
Application of the Non-Hermitian Singular Spectrum Analysis to the Exponential Retrieval Problem
Authors: Nicolsky D. J. , Tipenko G. S.
Published: July 2020

Introduction. In practical signal processing and its many applications, researchers and engineers try to find a number of harmonics and their frequencies in a time signal contaminated by noise. In this manuscript we propose a new approach to this problem. Aim. The main goal of this work is to embed the original time series into a set of multi-dimensional information vectors and then use shift-invariance properties of the exponentials. The information vectors are cast into a new basis where the exponentials could be separated from each other. Materials and methods. We derive a stable technique based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) of lagcovariance and cross-covariance matrices consisting of covariance coefficients computed for index translated copies of an original time series. For these matrices a generalized eigenvalue problem is solved. Results. The original time series is mapped into the basis of the generalized eigenvectors and then separated into components. The phase portrait of each component is analyzed by a pattern recognition technique to distinguish between the phase portraits related to exponentials constituting the signal and the noise. A component related to the exponential has a regular structure, its phase portrait resembles a unitary circle/arc. Any commonly used method could be then used to evaluate the frequency associated with the exponential. Conclusion. Efficiency of the proposed and existing methods is compared on the set of examples, including the white Gaussian and auto-regressive model noise. One of the significant benefits of the proposed approach is a way to distinguish false and true frequency estimates by the pattern recognition. Some automatization of the pattern recognition is completed by discarding noise-related components, associated with the eigenvectors that have a modulus less than a certain threshold.
Trichoderma spp antagonisme aux phytopathogènes causant la pourriture des racines de manioc dans les alagoas
Authors: Silva Izael Oliveira , Amorim Edna Peixoto da Rocha , Junior Nelson Augusto Nascimento , Peixinho Georgia Souza , Carnaúba Juliana Paiva , Neto Vicente Ferreira de Araujo
Published: July 2020

Plusieurs sont des phytopathogènes qui limitent la production de manioc (Manihot esculata Crants) étant la pourriture des racines auxquelles ils épousent la plus grande perte dans la culture atteignant 70%. Cette culture est d’un grand intérêt pour la région du nord-est du Brésil, fournissant de grandes pertes. Les difficultés de gestion ont orienté la recherche d’alternatives, parmi lesquelles les biocontrôleurs ont donné des résultats significatifs. Cette revue de littérature visait à recueillir des informations liées à la pourriture de la racine de manioc cv Rosinha, les principaux phytopathogènes et les activités antagonistes de Trichoderma dans le contrôle des maladies dans l’état d’Alagoas. Une enquête bibliographique a été réalisée dans les bases de données Scielo, Google Acadêmico, Capes portail (thèses et thèses), revues et livres. Pour obtenir des informations sur: la pourriture des racines du manioc de table, Trichoderma spp., comme un agent de biocontrôle de phytopathogènes.
PENGEMBANGAN PEMBALUT KAIN YANG RAMAH LINGKUNGAN SEBAGAI ALTERNATIF PILIHAN UNTUK KESEHATAN REPRODUKSI PEREMPUAN
Authors: Diiniyati Diniyati , Kusmaryati Pauline
Published: July 2020

Penelitian ini mengenai pengembangan pembalut kain dengan menggunakan kain diadora, kaon fleece dan kain parasut milky. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Poltekkes Kemenkes Jambi Jurusan Kebidanan tahun 2019. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkannya produk pembalut kain yang nyaman untuk dipakai pada setiap kesempatan dan tidak bocor saat digunakan pada saat menstruasi. Pengembangan dilkaukan melalui Model  3-D tersebut memiliki tahapan antara lain: pendefinisian, perancangan, pengembangan.
       Produk penelitian ini berupa pembalut kain yang ramah lingkungan. Pembalut kain ini di uji coba terbatas pada mahasiswa Poltekkes Kemenkes Jambi dan di uji coba dilapangan. Subjek pada penelitian ini berjumlah 33 orang mahasiswa Poltekkes Kemenkes Jambi Jurusan Kebidanan dilakukan pada bulan Januari sampai November 2019
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Training of Trainers Metode Qiraah
Authors: Sampurno Bambang
Published: July 2020

Tujuan yang ingin dicapai dalam program pengabdian ini adalah untuk memberikan kecakapan dalam mengajarkan Al-Quran bagi segenap imam dusun dan imam rawatib masjid se desa Kapita. Target khusus yang ingin dicapai adalah meningkatnya pengetahuan dan kecakapan dalam ilmu Al-Quran sehingga dapat ditularkan kepada anggota keluarganya masing-masing. Permasalahan dalam mempelajari Al-Quran adalah kurang tepat dan efektifnya metode belajar yang digunakan. Olehnya itu, permasalahan pada masyarakat sasaran ini perlu diatasi dengan peningkatan pengetahuan dan kecakapan melalui metode Qiraah yang mudah, sederhana dan menyenangkan. Metode yang dipakai dalam program pengabdian ini adalah metode partisipasi. Peserta diberikan pelatihan dan bimbingan intensif mengenai tatacara pembelajaran metode Qiraah bagi kaum muslimin-muslimat. Hasil dari kegiatan ini adalah peserta mampu memahami metode Qiraah dan mempunyai skil mengajar di lingkungannya masing-masing.
Značajke nekih mješavina za ukrasni travnjak poslije druge godine rasta
Authors: Gselman Anastazija , Kapun Stanko , Čeh Tatjana , Horvat Dominik
Published: July 2020

Od svibnja do listopada 2011. godine na području sjevernoistočne Slovenije (Rakičan, 46°65‘21‘‘ s.g.š., 16°19‘13‘‘ v.g.d., 188 m n.v.) izveli smo pokus u kojem smo istraživali značajke tri vrste trava i četiri mješavine trava na srednje intenzivno uzgojenom travnjaku poslije dvije godine rasta. Pokus je bio postavljen u rujnu 2009. godine po metodi slučajnog redosljeda pokusnih jedinica u četiri ponavljanja. Veličina osnovne pokusne jedinice bila je 10 m2. Količina sjemena za sjetvu bila je 250 kg na hektar. Pokus smo gnojili s 200 kg N na ha (u 7 prihrana), 60 kg P2O5 na ha i 120 kg K2O na ha. U pokusu smo ocjenjivali i određivali: boju travnjaka, brzinu rasta, prazna mjesta, gustoću trave, zakorovljenost, otpornost na sušu, otpornost na bolesti, utjacaj vremenskih uvjeta i prinos suhe tvari na ha pojedine mješavine. Analiza rezultata pokusa je pokazala da se mješavina trava 3, sastavljena od trstikaste vlasulje(Festuca arundinacea) – sorta ‚Arid 3‘ (50 %) i dvije sorte engleskog ljulja (Lolium perenne L.) – sorte ‚Panderosa‘ (25 %) i sorte ‚Mondial‘ (25 %) značajno isticala, po ocijenjenim parametrima od ostalih vrsta trava i mješavina trava iz pokusa
Utjecaj sustava držanja i tjelesnih masa crnih slavonskih svinja na mesnatost i kvalitetu mesa
Authors: Senčić Đuro , Samac Danijela , Radić Ivan
Published: July 2020

Istraživanje je provedeno s po 24 svinje iz otvorenoga (ekstenzivnoga) i poluotvorenoga (poluintenzivnoga) sustava, od kojih su 12 muških kastrata i 12 nazimica. Svinje u oba sustava bile su tovljene do 100 kg (n = 12) i 130 kg (n = 12) tjelesne mase. Svinje iz otvorenoga sustava hranjene su na pašnjaku i na strništima, uz minimalno prihranjivanje kukuruzom (150g/dan) tijekom zime, kada nema zelene mase. Svinje iz poluotvorenoga sustava hranjene su po volji obrokom kombiniranim od krmne smjese i zelene lucerne. Krmna smjesa u prvoj fazi tova (30 - 60 kg tjelesne mase) imala je 14% sirovih proteina i 13,37 MJ ME/kg, a u drugoj fazi tova (60 – 130 kg tjelesne mase) imala je 12% sirovih proteina i 13,34 MJ ME/kg. Disekcija ohlađenih (+4°C) desnih svinjskih polovica obavljena je prema modificiranoj metodi Wenigera i sur. (1963.). Prema ovoj modifikaciji nije disecirana glava. Kvaliteta mesa (Muscullus longissimus dorsi) istražena je u pogledu pH vrijednosti, sposobnosti vezanja vode i boje. Mesnatost svinjskih polovica bila je veća kod svinja manjih tjelesnih masa (100 kg) u odnosu na svinje većih tjelesnih masa (130 kg) u oba sustava držanja, ali su te razlike bile značajne (p<0,05) samo u poluotvorenome sustavu. Svinje iz otvorenoga sustava imale su mesnatije polovice u odnosu na svinje iz poluotvorenoga sustava i pri manjim (100 kg) i pri većim (130 kg) tjelesnim masama, ali ne i statistički značajno (p>0,05) (49,23% i 44.99%; 46,56% i 42,82%). Utvrđen je značajan utjecaj sustava držanja i tjelesne mase svinja na neke pokazatelje kvalitete mesa. Meso svinja manje tjelesne mase iz otvorenog sustava imalo je značajno više (p<0,01) sirovih proteina od mesa svinja istih tjelesnih masa u poluotvorenom sustavu, kao i meso svinja veće tjelesne mase u odnosu na meso svinja manje tjelesne mase u poluotvorenome sustavu.
Reflexiones sobre la violencia intrafamiliar y violencia de género durante emergencia por COVID-19
Authors: López-Hernández Edenia , Rubio-Amores Dominique
Published: July 2020

La violencia es un fenómeno social que se encuentra en todos los ámbitos de la vida humana. Las violencias de género e intrafamiliares siguen siendo un problema de salud pública grave en nuestro contexto latinoamericano y también a nivel mundial.  Este problema sigue siendo foco de interés durante la crisis sanitaria que se vive debido a la pandemia por COVID-19.  En el presente artículo se realiza una revisión bibliográfica que permite reflexionar sobre estos tipos de violencia en la situación actual generada por el COVID-19.
CO-REGULATION PROCESSES WITHIN INTERACTIVE DYNAMICS: INSIGHTS FROM SECOND GRADERS’ COOPERATIVE WRITING
Authors: Lehraus Katia , Marcoux Géry
Published: July 2020

This research aims at analyzing the features of interactive dynamics in second graders’ peer interactions (age 7-8) during cooperative writing in classroom settings. Focused on in-depth qualitative analyses of videotaped data, four pupil pairs’ interactions have been examined in light of three dimensions: social, cooperative and cognitive. Within two main types of dynamics (favoring vs. not favoring learning), conjectures have been drawn about co-regulation processes in peer learning. While negative dynamics have shown to be detrimental for the cognitive processing of the task, thus needing teacher contextual regulation, positive dynamics have revealed three forms of teamwork, labelled self-reliant, autonomous and dependent. The results show that young learners, even when engaged in positive dynamics, are not always able to co-regulate peer learning. These findings call for teacher’s careful observation in order to scaffold learners’ cognitive processing. Keywords: collaborative writing, cooperative learning, interactive dynamics, learning processes, qualitative analysis.
THE TRUE PRIVATE COST OF A “FREE” UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Authors: Ioakimidis Marilou , Papakonstantinou George
Published: July 2020

The ostensibly free university education in Greece actually has several private costs. A comparative research design was used to compare Greek families’ private expenditures for university education in 2014-2015 to families’ costs for the same education in the year 2000 to determine whether there have been any changes during ensuring years. Data were gathered from a 2014-2015 survey of a random sample of over 2.300 Greek first-year university students and compared to results from a similar survey of over 3.000 first-year university students conducted in the year 2000. Income elasticity of demand was the theoretical framework used to examine and compare results. As with the older survey data, it is shown that despite the “free education” supposedly available in Greece, families actually still spend more than the state in preparing students for and supporting them at a university. It is also demonstrated that lower-income families spend a higher share of income on a university education for their children, a discrepancy that has grown over the past 13 years. Finally, it is shown that private expenditures for a university education appear to remain a necessity in Greece, with income elasticity calculated at between 0.2 and 0.3. Results suggest the need to reallocate the Greek university budget to help relieve the financial burden on families of lower-income students. Results also suggest the importance of reducing the Greek emphasis on expensive preparation of secondary students for national university entrance examinations.
Keywords: Greece, higher education, private tutoring, university finance.
LECTURERS’ MANAGERIAL COMPETENCIES IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS AT THE CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES
Authors: Brožová Helena , Horáková Jana , Fiedler Jiří
Published: July 2020

This research identifies the lecturers’ competencies which are the most important from the students’ perspective at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and compares students’ opinion and their change over the whole study period. It does not deal with the knowledge competencies of lecturers that students cannot objectively evaluate, but with lecturers’ managerial competencies that affect the organization, forms and ways of teaching. The examined competencies are hierarchically organized into three groups of particular competencies comprising of bipolar characteristics. Based on survey of students at the University, the evaluation of importance of managerial competencies using the Analytic Hierarchy Process was performed. The findings show that Innovative education, Good communication skills, Ability of improvisation, and Democratic way of teaching are the most important lecturers’ competencies from students’ point of view. Surprisingly, Oral based presentation is preferred to IT based one. Knowledge of the most important managerial competencies can help lecturers and universities to increase quality of educational process and attractiveness of the university for students. Keywords. Analytic Hierarchy Process, higher educational institutions, lecturer’s managerial competencies, students’ perception.
The Influence of Leadership and Work Environment toward Organziational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) through Work Satisfaction
Authors: Purwana Dedi , Ahmad Argo , Saptono Ari
Published: July 2020

This article aimed to analyse the influence of leadership on job satisfaction of employees at the Research Agency and Human Resource of Maritime and Fisheries, the influence of the work environment on job satisfaction of employees, the influence of leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB)  of employees, the influence of the Work environment on OCB of employees, the effect of job satisfaction of employees, the influence of leadership on OCB of employees, and the influence of the work environment on OCB of employees through Job Satisfaction as an intervening variable.  This research was quantitative by using the survey method that has character to explain the causal relationship or ordinary correlational, namley  path analysis (pathanalysis). The respondents were 218 employees in the Research Agency and Human Resource of Maritime and Fisheries. The results of the study show that: 1) There were the effect of leadership on job satisfaction among employees of Research Agency and Human Resource of Maritime and Fisheries. 2) There was the influence of the work environment on job satisfaction of employees 3) There were influence of leadership on OCB 4) there was the influence of the work environment on OCB 5) the influence of job satisfaction on OCB 6) the influence of leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) on Research Agency and Human Resource of Maritime and Fisheries through Job Satisfaction as an Intervening variable, and 7) the existence the influence of the work environment on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) through Job Satisfaction as an intervening variable.

Keywords: Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Leadership, Job Satisfaction
Gissing and the Auditory Imagination: Language, Identity, and Estrangement inBorn in Exile
Authors: Mugglestone Lynda
Published: July 2020

An interest in language, and especially spoken language, is a well-established feature of Gissing's work. Born in Exile (1892), however, inscribes a new salience for Gissing's exploration of language as literary device, not least in its relation to the modelling of identity, as well as in the evolutionary tropes of adaptation which mark Godwin Peak's rise and fall. This essay examines Gissing's use of language as a device of exile and socio-cultural estrangement, paying particular attention to his interest in form as semiotic resource, alongside the indexicalities which both standard English and Cockney can be made to reveal. Gissing's auditory imagination emerges as a key tool in his depiction of the anxieties and fault lines of Victorian society.
MicroRNA339 Targeting PDXK Improves Motor Dysfunction and Promotes Neurite Growth in the Remote Cortex Subjected to Spinal Cord Transection
Authors: Xiong Liu-Lin , Qin Yan-Xia , Xiao Qiu-Xia , Jin Yuan , Al-Hawwas Mohammed , Ma Zheng , Wang You-Cui , Belegu Visar , Zhou Xin-Fu , Xue Lu-Lu , Du Ruo-Lan , Liu Jia , Bai Xue , Wang Ting-Hua
Published: July 2020

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a fatal disease that can cause severe disability. Cortical reorganization subserved the recovery of spontaneous function after SCI, although the potential molecular mechanism in this remote control is largely unknown. Therefore, using proteomics analysis, RNA interference/overexpression, and CRISPR/Cas9 in vivo and in vitro, we analyzed how the molecular network functions in neurological improvement, especially in the recovery of motor function after spinal cord transection (SCT) via the remote regulation of cerebral cortex. We discovered that the overexpression of pyridoxal kinase (PDXK) in the motor cortex enhanced neuronal growth and survival and improved locomotor function in the hindlimb. In addition, PDXK was confirmed as a target of miR-339 but not miR-124. MiR-339 knockout (KO) significantly increased the neurite outgrowth and decreased cell apoptosis in cortical neurons. Moreover, miR-339 KO rats exhibited functional recovery indicated by improved Basso, Beattie, and Bresnehan (BBB) score. Furthermore, bioinformatics prediction showed that PDXK was associated with GAP43, a crucial molecule related to neurite growth and functional improvement. The current research therefore confirmed that miR-339 targeting PDXK facilitated neurological recovery in the motor cortex of SCT rats, and the underlying mechanism was associated with regulating GAP43 in the remote cortex of rats subjected to SCT. These findings may uncover a new understanding of remoting cortex control following SCI and provide a new therapeutic strategy for the recovery of SCI in future clinical trials.
Evaluating the Propagation of Uncertainties in Biologically Based Treatment Planning Parameters
Authors: Barry Miriam A. , Hussein Mohammad , Schettino Giuseppe
Published: July 2020

Biologically based treatment planning is a broad term used to cover any instance in radiotherapy treatment planning where some form of biological input has been used. This is wide ranging, and the simpler forms (e.g., fractionation modification/optimization) have been in use for many years. However, there is a reluctance to use more sophisticated methods that incorporate biological models either for plan evaluation purposes or for driving plan optimizations. This is due to limited data available regarding the uncertainties in these model parameters and what impact these have clinically. This work aims to address some of these issues and to explore the role that uncertainties in individual model parameters have on the overall tumor control probability (TCP)/normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) calculated, those parameters that have the largest influence and situations where extra care must be taken. In order to achieve this, a software tool was developed, which can import individual clinical DVH's for analysis using a range of different TCP/NTCP models. On inputting individual model parameters, an uncertainty can be applied. Using a normally distributed random number generator, distributions of parameters can be generated, from which TCP/NTCP values can be calculated for each parameter set for the DVH in question. These represent the spread in TCP/NTCP parameters that would be observed for a simulated population of patients all being treated with that particular dose distribution. A selection of clinical DVHs was assessed using published parameters and their associated uncertainties. A range of studies was carried out to determine the impact of individual parameter uncertainties including reduction of uncertainties and assessment of what impact fractionation and dose have on these probabilities.
3D Cruise Trajectory Optimization Inspired by a Shortest Path Algorithm
Authors: Murrieta-Mendoza Alejandro , Romain Charles , Botez Ruxandra Mihaela
Published: July 2020

Aircrafts require a large amount of fuel in order to generate enough power to perform a flight. That consumption causes the emission of polluting particles such as carbon dioxide, which is implicated in global warming. This paper proposes an algorithm which can provide the 3D reference trajectory that minimizes the flight costs and the fuel consumption. The proposed algorithm was conceived using the Floyd–Warshall methodology as a reference. Weather was taken into account by using forecasts provided by Weather Canada. The search space was modeled as a directional weighted graph. Fuel burn was computed using the Base of Aircraft DAta (BADA) model developed by Eurocontrol. The trajectories delivered by the developed algorithm were compared to long-haul flight plans computed by a European airliner and to as-flown trajectories obtained from Flightradar24®. The results reveal that up to 2000 kg of fuel can be reduced per flight, and flight time can be also reduced by up to 11 min.
Environment Classification for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Authors: Villaseñor Carlos , Gallegos Alberto A. , Gomez-Avila Javier , López-González Gehová , Rios Jorge D. , Arana-Daniel Nancy
Published: July 2020

Environment classification is one of the most critical tasks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Since water accumulation may destabilize UAV, clouds must be detected and avoided. In a previous work presented by the authors, Superpixel Segmentation (SPS) descriptors with low computational cost are used to classify ground, sky, and clouds. In this paper, an enhanced approach to classify the environment in those three classes is presented. The proposed scheme consists of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained with a dataset generated by both, an human expert and a Support Vector Machine (SVM) to capture context and precise localization. The advantage of using this approach is that the CNN classifies each pixel, instead of a cluster like in SPS, which improves the resolution of the classification, also, is less tedious for the human expert to generate a few training samples instead of the normal amount that it is required. This proposal is implemented for images obtained from video and photographic cameras mounted on a UAV facing in the same direction of the vehicle flight. Experimental results and comparison with other approaches are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm.
Cytotoxicity and UV Light Absorption in Biopolymeric Membranes from Native Vegetation of Mexico
Authors: García de Alva Magos Mayela Alhelí , Santa-Olalla Tapia Jesús , Ramos López Miguel Ángel , Molina Maturano Jessica , Jiménez Aparicio Antonio Ruperto , Camacho Díaz Brenda Hildeliza , García Serrano Luz Arcelia
Published: July 2020

Sustainable processing from native vegetation such as agave, nopal and aloe, is mainly centered on the components of lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose, defined generally as lignocellulosic. Cytotoxicity of lignocellulosic biopolymer membranes (LBMs) of mucilages of Opuntia ficus-indica, Aloe barbadensis Miller, fructans, and residual Agave tequilana Weber fibers at different concentrations (30, 50 and 70%), was evaluated in contact with human fibroblast cells (ATCC® PCS-201-010), cultured in vitro. Long and short LMBs were formed from the fibrous material. The interaction showed mild cytotoxicity according to ISO 10993-5: 2009. Cytotoxic activity demonstrated in the presence of fibroblasts implied a maximum cytotoxicity of close to 46% and a minimum of 7% in LBMs. UV light absorption results of the large fiber LMBs showed the highest prevention of passage of light, having a protective effect mechanism of delaying the response of hypersensitivity as a result of exposure to UV radiation. The morphology and structure were characterized using SEM, FT-IR, and image texture analysis. According to the LBMs reactivity measured, the feasible uses of these membranes can be suggested as materials for biomedical applications over a short period of time, with feasibility as a support to provide some beneficial solutions.
Task Planning of Space-Robot Clusters Based on Modified Differential Evolution Algorithm
Authors: Xiao Pengfei , Ju Hehua , Li Qidong , Chen Feifei
Published: July 2020

This study studies the problem of on-orbit maintenance task planning for space-robot clusters. Aiming at the problem of low maintenance efficiency of space-robot cluster task-planning, this study proposes a cluster-task-planning method based on energy and path optimization. First, by introducing the penalty-function method, the task planning problem of the space-robot cluster under limited energy is analyzed, and the optimal-path model for task planning with comprehensive optimization of revenue and energy consumption are constructed; then, the maintenance task points are clustered to reduce the scale of the problem, thus reducing the difficulty of solving the problem; finally, a modified differential evolution algorithm is proposed to solve the problem of space-robot cluster task-planning, improve the performance of space-robot cluster task-assignment and path planning. Simulation results show that the proposed optimal-path model of space-robot cluster and the modified differential evolution algorithm can effectively solve the task-planning problem of spatial robot clusters.