bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Climatic Condition Suitability for Elderly Care Industry Development in Prefecture-Level Cities in China
Authors: Wang Mengyuan , Qi Xiaoming , Li Zehong , Hu Maogui
Published: November 2020

The demand for elderly care in China is growing, and the elderly care industry has great development prospects. Climatic conditions are important factors that affect the health of elderly individuals and the development of the elderly care industry. This study will have important guiding significance for the layout of China’s elderly care industry. This paper utilizes ArcGIS and the spatial fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to analyze the climatic suitability for the development of the elderly care industry in China’s four municipalities, the Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions, and 333 prefecture-level administrative regions based on six factors: temperature, humidity, airflow, air pressure, sunshine, and precipitation. In addition, development suggestions are proposed. The results show the following. (1) The areas with highly suitable climatic conditions for the development of the elderly care industry in China are concentrated in the eastern and southern areas of Southwest China and the southern areas of Central and East China, mainly in the Yangtze and Pearl River Basins. Slightly suitable areas are distributed around highly suitable areas, concentrated in the central and southern regions of China. Low-suitability areas are clustered, including an area spanning northern North China and East China, southern Northeast China, and central Northwest China, and there is another cluster in Xinjiang. The non-suitable area resembles a strip extending from Northeast China along the Inner Mongolia Plateau to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. (2) In Central and Southwest China, there are 57 prefecture-level administrative units with highly suitable temperature conditions that can develop an elderly care industry for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Twenty-eight prefecture-level administrative regions with comprehensively suitable temperature and humidity conditions scattered throughout the country can develop an elderly care industry for elderly patients suffering from rheumatic and respiratory diseases.
Children’s Engagement with Brands: From Social Media Consumption to Brand Preference and Loyalty
Authors: Núñez-Gómez Patricia , Sánchez-Herrera Joaquín , Pintado-Blanco Teresa
Published: November 2020

Digital content consumption provides a new scenario for children’s relationships with brands. The objective of this research is to study the process by which children interact with social media networks and the effect on brand preference and loyalty generated by this interaction. Specifically, the objectives of this research are focused on empirically verifying the process of consumption, contribution, and creation of children in social networks, and confirm the effect they can have on the relationship between children and brands. A great amount of research has focused on adult consumers and has projected the methodology onto children. This paper will take into account the particularities of children who are one of the most important groups in the purchase decision process of many categories (travel, food, toys, technology, fashion, etc.). For this reason, a theoretical model was built and validated with a sample of boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 14. The results show that the interaction of children with digital media (social networks) has a very important effect on increasing and generating brand preferences and loyalty. Although the effect is general and is not dependent on the age of the child, a more intense effect was observed in children between the ages of 12 and 14.
Molecular Differentiation of Mycoplasma gallisepticum Outbreaks: A Last Decade Study on Italian Farms Using GTS and MLST
Authors: Matucci Andrea , Stefani Elisabetta , Gastaldelli Michele , Rossi Ilenia , De Grandi Gelinda , Gyuranecz Miklós , Catania Salvatore
Published: November 2020

Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) infects many avian species and leads to significant economic losses in the poultry industry. Transmission of this pathogen occurs both horizontally and vertically, and strategies to avoid the spread of MG rely on vaccination and the application of biosecurity measures to maintain breeder groups as pathogen-free. Two live attenuated MG vaccine strains are licensed in Italy: 6/85 and ts-11. After their introduction, the implementation of adequate genotyping tools became necessary to distinguish between field and vaccine strains and to guarantee proper infection monitoring activity. In this study, 40 Italian MG isolates collected between 2010–2019 from both vaccinated and unvaccinated farms were genotyped using gene-targeted sequencing (GTS) of the cythadesin gene mgc2 and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) based on six housekeeping genes. The discriminatory power of GTS typing ensures 6/85-like strain identification, but the technique does not allow the identification ts-11 strains; conversely, MLST differentiates both vaccine strains, describing more detailed interrelation structures. Our study describes MG genetic scenario within a mixed farming context. In conclusion, the use of adequate typing methods is essential to understand the evolutionary dynamics of MG strains in a particular area and to conduct epidemiological investigations in the avian population.
Isolation and Histopathological Changes Associated with Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria in Lymph Nodes Condemned at a Bovine Slaughterhouse
Authors: Hernández-Jarguín Angélica M. , Martínez-Burnes Julio , Molina-Salinas Gloria M. , de la Cruz-Hernández Ned I. , Palomares-Rangel José L. , López Mayagoitia Alfonso , Barrios-García Hugo B.
Published: November 2020

Background: non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infect humans and animals and have a critical confounding effect on the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis. The Official Mexican Standard (Norma Oficial Mexicana, NOM-ZOO-031-1995) for food safety regulates Mycobacterium bovis in cattle, but not the NTM species. The study’s objective was to isolate and identify the NTM present in condemned bovine lymph nodes in a slaughterhouse, characterize the histological lesions, and correlate bacteriological and microscopic findings with the antemortem tuberculin skin test. Methods: from 528 cattle, one or two pooled samples of lymph nodes from each animal were cultured for Mycobacteria spp. and processed for histopathology. Results: mycobacteria were isolated from 54/528 (10.2%) of the condemned lymph nodes; 25/54 (46.2%) of these isolates were NTM; 4 bacteriological cultures with fungal contamination were discarded. Granulomatous and pyogranulomatous inflammation were present in 6/21 (28.6%) and 7/21 (33.3%) of the NTM-positive lymph nodes, respectively. The species of NTM associated with granulomatous lymphadenitis were M. scrofulaceum, M. triviale, M. terrae, and M. szulgai, while those causing pyogranulomatous lesions were M. szulgai, M. kansasii, M. phlei, and M. scrofulaceum. Conclusions: the NTM infections can cause false-positive results in the tuberculin test because of cross immune reactivity and interference with the postmortem identification of M. bovis in cattle.
Physiopathologiecardiovasculaire intégrative : apports et enjeux de l'imagerie moléculaire
Authors: Canet-Soulas Emmanuelle
Published: November 2020

La prise en charge des accidents vasculaires ischémiques cardiaques (syndromes coronariens aigus ou SCA) et cérébraux (AVC) est un enjeu de santé publique majeur. Pour restaurer le flux sanguin, le traitement mécanique endovasculaire est systématique pour le SCA, et révolutionne actuellement le traitement de l’AVC. Le rétablissement de l’apport sanguin est la première ligne d’action thérapeutique, mais des dégâts secondaires à l’épisode d’ischémie-reperfusion interviennent, qui mettent en jeu le pronostic des patients. Aucun traitement efficace n’existe et leurs mécanismes physiopathologiques comme leur évolution spatio-temporelle sont encore mal circonscrits. Parmi ceux-ci, la réaction inflammatoire est un acteur clé, mais nul à ce jour ne peut en prédire l’issue tant son rôle peut se révéler à l’échelle individuelle bénéfique ou délétère. Dans ce contexte, quelles en seront les approches translationnelles diagnostiques et thérapeutiques ? Aujourd’hui, quels sont les acteurs de ces avancées médicales et comment former ceux de demain ?
STRATEGY FOR HUMAN TALENT AND JOB SKILLS IN AN AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPANY
Authors: Morisaki Mego Jesús Daniel , Chávarry Ysla Patricia del Rocío , Morisaki Mego Francisco Pedro
Published: November 2020

The present research aimed to determine how deficiencies in the management of administrative human talent influence the levels of development of labor competencies in an agro-industrial company, theoretically based on the process of development of human talent and its dynamics, at the same time it diagnosed the current state of the competences of administrative collaborators. The methodology was mixed, descriptive, using the survey with its structured questionnaire validated by Cronbach's alpha, whose population was made up of 40 administrative collaborators and the sample was 27. At the consolidated level, the attitude dimension reached an average mean of 2, 76, knowledge competence 2.46 and skill competence an average mean of 2.47. The results reveal that there are deficiencies in various competencies of human talent, which correspond to the three operationalized dimensions: attitude, knowledge, ability. It was concluded that the collaborators of the agroindustrial company presented deficiencies in their labor competencies in the 3 dimensions addressed, since a human talent development strategy is urgently needed to improve the levels of labor competencies in the collaborators.
God beyond the Boundary-Stones of Thought
Authors: Ahsan Abbas
Published: November 2020

In this paper, I make the case for epistemic relativism: the radical view that all human knowledge/truth is relative. I extend the application of epistemic relativism to include necessary laws such as the laws of logic. I argue that the truth of such laws are relative to human thought, which are ultimately instances derived from our experiences. These experiences act as limitations to which we are conceptually bound. As a result of this, we cannot apprehend God’s omnipotence. This includes God’s maximal power in being able toperform logically impossible actions. Our epistemic inability to conceive of such logically impossible actions is therefore testimony that God transcends the laws of logic.
Propaedeutics in Practice: Islamic Legal Studies and the Public Sphere
Authors: Gutmann Timothy
Published: November 2020

In this paper, I outline a propaedeutics of Islamic legal studies. I am using the term “propaedeutic” to refer to scholarship and pedagogy that introduces audiences to new material in a way that structures their curiosities and asks them to rethink commonplace familiar situations and assumptions. Those who teach about Islamic law in North American Islamic studies are working in an environment shaped by distinctive anxieties and preconceptions. Engaged scholarship informed by thinkers such as Wael Hallaq and Talal Asad seeks to disentangle conceptions of law from modern expectations of law enforcement, codification, and the supervisory neutrality of the state to consider other deliberations and practices of justice. Such propaedeutic scholarship should suggest how religious legal authority deals with more than just “spiritual” and “personal” matters. Imprecise introduction to the idea that Islamic legal opinion is non-binding can unintentionally imply that such opinion makes only moral suggestion that one chooses to follow or not. Scholarscritical of Max Weber’s judgment that Islamic jurisprudence amounts to little more than arbitrary invocations of authority should be careful not to present Islamic jurists as merely creatively “free” to be unsystematic and their decisions inconsequential if following them is not coerced. Drawing on the work of Hussein Agrama, I explore the idea of fatwa discernment as guiding counsel directed not at adversarial procedure but at ethical self-formation. Finally, I consider Saba Mahmood’s account of religious difference to suggest how Islamic legal traditions might complicate liberal ideas of jurisdiction.
منهج المؤسسات البحثية في بناء الفكر المقاصدي
Authors: نواسة يوسف
Published: November 2020

كان للمعهد العالمي للفكر الإسلامي اهتمام بارز بمقاصد الشريعة وبحث قضاياها وتفعيلها وتجديد النظر فيها، ظهر ذلك جليّا في إصدارات المعهد عامة، والبحوث المنشورة في مجلة (إسلامية المعرفة: مجلة الفكر الإسلامي المعاصر) التي يصدرها خاصة. وإذا كانت المؤلفات الصادرة عن المعهد في الغالب لقيت الاهتمام المقبول واللائق بها نقداً وتحليلاً، فإنّ البحوث المنشورة في مجلته لم تلق مثل ذلك الاهتمام. وحري بدراسة هذه المقالات، واستعراض مضمونها الفكري والمعرفي وتحليله ونقده، وقراءته قراءة تركيبية تكاملية، أن تشكّل تصوّراً عامّاً لجهودهم المشتركة في تجديد وتقصيد مقاصد الشريعة، وبيان جوانب الإصابة فيها تثميناً، وجوانب الاختلال تصحيحاً وتقويماً. ومن ثَمَّ مراجعتها وبيان قيمتها وأهميتها وإضافاتها.
AUGUST AHLQVIST’S “CULTURAL WORDS”: EXCERPTS ON THE HISTORY OF FINNO-UGRIC LANGUAGE STUDY DURING THE 1860S-1880S
Authors: Zagrebin Aleksei Egorovich , Sadykova Marina Alexandrovna
Published: November 2020

Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist (literary pseudonym A. Oksanen) was a Finnish scholar, philologist and patriot who worked hard to create the Finnish standard language. The authors of the paper turn to some milestone facts from A. Ahlqvist’s academic biography. His meetings with some outstanding scholars, scientific expeditions to the kindred Finno-Ugric peoples, gathering of the unique field data as well as his educational activity were among those events. So-called “cultural words” became the main research topic of the paper. A. Ahlqvist classified “cultural words” according to human endeavors, locating genuine Finnish words among the loanwords. Having come to the conclusion that proper Finnish vocabulary comprised words which defined historically early, not specialized kinds of labour, A. Ahlqvist got firmly convinced that this fact witnessed the people’s historic youth period rather than its backwardness. Doing his research the scholar came to another important conclusion that the most part of the linguistic methodology was outdated then and needed updating. Thus A. Ahlqvist can be called a forerunner of the Neogrammarian turn. A. Ahlqvist became a pioneer in the Finno-Ugric language etymology study as well as in interdisciplinary approach in science, using the opportunities of “cultural words” analysis in the framework of the comparative historical method and as a means to reconstruct the Finnish ethnic history and culture.
THE STUDY OF THE HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE USE IN SLOVAK SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Authors: Gál Angelika
Published: November 2020

The variety of Hungarian spoken in Slovakia is widely used in elevated functions, since it is the language of culture, and several areas of education [Lanstyák 1996; Šenkár 2019; Tóth 2019; Németh 2020; Vančo 2020] despite the fact that the curricula are based on the Hungary Hungarian standard [Kozmács-Vančo 2016]. István Lanstyák conducted a study in 2000 to explore the differences between the use of the Hungarian language in Slovakia and Hungary. The aim of the present paper is to examine how language use in Slovakia and Hungary has changed over the past two decades: it updates the previous data and investigates to what extent Hungarian language use has changed and what the reasons for these changes are. Empirical data were collected using a questionnaire. In order to provide data comparable to earlier findings, it was put together based on a previous questionnaire by István Lanstyák and Gizella Szabómihály [1997], which they compiled at the end of the 1990’s to collect the linguistic data they later analyzed in a monograph entitled A magyar nyelv Szlovákiában (‘The Hungarian language in Slovakia’) [Lanstyák 2000]. This original questionnaire was revised and updated according to the cultural and communicational changes which have taken place since then.
SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MARKERS IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE ERZYAN VILLAGE HILLSIDES BOLSHEBEREZNIKOVSKIY DISTRICT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MORDOVIA
Authors: Rogachev Vladimir Ilich , Vaganova Elena Nikolaevna , Karabanova Nadezhda Valerievna
Published: November 2020

The article deals with the spatial and temporal markers that exist in the language and folklore of residents of the Erzya-Mordovian village of Kosogory in the Bolshebereznikovsky district of the Republic of Mordovia. The article examines the main spatial vectors, time cycles and categories used in speech, their role in the organization of life of farmers, considers calendar, daily, linear, sacred time, its functions, purpose, ways of fixing and using it in speech, and the close connection of this category with the daily economic activities and life of farmers. Based on the research, the authors of the article came to the conclusion that space in the form of geographical location, climate and landscape affects the material and spiritual culture of Mordva-Erzi, changes over time within certain limits and accumulates the deep ethnic meanings of the people.
“BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA.” ORIENTALIST NARRATIVES OF ALEXANDRA FUCHS: THE RHETORIC OF WRITING AND THE AUTHOR’S POSITION
Authors: Sozina Elena Konstantinovna
Published: November 2020

The article discusses ethnographic essays and novellas in the poems by Alexandra Andreevna Fuchs. The wife of a famous professor Karl Fuchs, she was resident of Kazan, hosted a literary salon, which was frequented by many local and visiting writers and poets, and met with Alexander Pushkin during his stay in the town. Alexandra Fuchs became the first Russian ethnographer writer; she purposefully traveled to places where the Chuvash, Mari (Cheremis), and Udmurts (Votyaks) lived, and wrote essays about the life, daily routine, manners and customs of these peoples drawing on her personal observations. Her essays took the form of letters and were often accompanied by response letters from her husband. They were published in the Kazan magazine Zavolzhsky Muravey [Zavolzhsky Ant], in the regional newspaper Kazanskie gubernskie vedomosti [Kazan Provincial Gazette], as well as in a number of separate books. The article analyzes the rhetorical peculiarities and author’s position of Alexandra Fuks’ essay writing. The analysis also involves ethnographic-fiction novellas (poems) by A. Fuchs, taken, according to her, “from the Tatar tradition”: ‘Princess Habiba’, ‘Founding of the city of Kazan’, a comment to which was written by her husband. These works fit into the tradition of the “Eastern novella”, popular in Russia since the eighteenth century. Depicting the exotic life of ancient Tatars and the peoples neighboring Kazan, Alexandra Fuchs sought to reconcile the orientation of the region to the East with the Orthodox-Imperial ideology which (in her view) was more advanced and progressive. Her sympathies as the author lay with female characters who contradicted traditional Muslim customs. Alexandra Fuchs’ essays and tales played a considerable role in awakening the interest of a Russian reader to the peoples of the empire, which preceded the mid-19th century rise of ethnography in science and literature.
“ETERNITY SMELLS OF OIL”. THE OIL AND THE KHANTY: RESISTANCE OR OPPORTUNISM?
Authors: Zoltán Nagy Zoltán x
Published: November 2020

The author of the paper shows how differently oil mining affects the Khanty who live in different Western Siberia state administrative districts. According to the opinion taken in the international anthropology, extraction of raw materials within the Russian “mining course” is able to give rise to conflicts and create “crude domination”. The author agrees with Florian Stammler’s opinion that the concept of conflict cannot describe the current situation in the West Siberian region (the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area or “Yugra”; the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area) for a number of reasons. The examples given by the author show that oil-industry workers’ presence did not result in conflicts for the Khanty of the Tomsk region. The reason is that mentioning oil industry in the local discourses means, first of all, a possibility to survive, and secondly, because the forced migration the Khanty’s “lost generations” met with the oil miners as early as Stalin era. Oil industry did not cause any fundamental changes for the Khanty, it just became another manifestation of the dominant society majority. Thus the relationship between the majority and the minority in the Tomsk region is not a conflict one in spite of oil industry dominance in the region’s life.
IN MEMORY OF THE FOUNDER OF THE MARI NATIONAL CARTOGRAPHY AND THE TEACHER OF THE TARTU UNIVERSITY YURI GORDEEV (1973-2020)
Authors: Tóth Szilárd Tibor
Published: November 2020

On 19.07.2020 died a geographer and terminologist, a graduate and lecturer at the University of Tartu and the founder of the Mari national cartography Yuri Vitalievich Gordeev (Estonian: Jüri Gordejev). Regional, national and linguistic aspects were main in his activities in geography and cartography. In his master’s thesis, Gordeev dealt with the problems of the national identity of the Eastern Mari. He worked as a lecturer at the Narva College of the University of Tartu and as a teacher of geography at the Narva Pähklimäe gymnasium. During the Narva period were completed his projects started in Tartu. The most important work of Yuri Gordeev is the map of the Republic of Mari El published in 2008, which consists only of Mari toponyms. A year later in 2009 Yuri Gordeev published a map of the Mari pagan groves. Gordeev took part in the projects of the Finnish Finno-Ugrist Seppo Lallukka. He was also involved in the compilation of terminological textbooks.
Rebuilding After a Pandemic, the Place of Engineering Education in Nation Building
Authors:   Institute for Systems Science, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa., Fomunyam Kehdinga George
Published: November 2020

Engineering education was defined as a field, discipline, practice and profession that has ties with the development, acquisition and the application of technical, scientific and mathematical principles to understand, design, implement and invent materials, machines, structures, systems and processes for specific activities. This typifies that engineering education has the drive to make things better. Engineering education is vital for national development and competitiveness. Issues of health are vital to humans and humans are key elements in nation building. At the termination of the year 2019, series of pneumonia cases were discovered in Wuhan China. The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an RNA virus with a crown like appearance when viewed under an electron microscope as a result of the presence of glycoprotein spikes on its envelope. The study looked at the place of engineering education to ensure rebuilding after a pandemic. Findings from the study revealed that engineering is important for nation building and various evidences that supports this were considered in this study. The Impetus of engineering education for rebuilding after the pandemic to contribute to nation building was also considered in the study. The study therefore recommended that effort must be made at leveraging on engineering education because of its import for rebuilding after a pandemic.
Women as Canons in Engineering Theorizing their Experiences and Exploits
Authors: Fomunyam Kehdinga George
Published: November 2020

Globally theorizing women’s experiences and exploits in engineering has attracted a lot of debates. Thus, efforts put in place to address under-representation among women in engineering, have been thwarted to accomplish Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality, in areas of preconception of engineering male-dominated profession, gender gaps in recruitment of women engineers, lack of gender-sensitive curriculum and low female involvement in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) subjects are still lacking in Africa. With much sensitization on equality, yet women engineers are still plagued with gender disparity in Africa; hence the crux of this paper. This paper was guided by Liberal Feminist Theory focusing on gender inequality, exists as a consequence ofstereotypingdivision of labour and sexparity can be realized if vital institutions are re-patterned. This paper takes a broad look at women as canons in engineering alongside theorizing their experiences and exploits in Africa. Specifically, it explores how women engineers have made huge contributions; and to showcase their experiences and exploits, as well as its implications for Africa. Thus, to address these gaps, implementing of gender policies in eliminating all forms of under-representation of women in engineering was advocated.
Gender and Gender Mainstreaming In Engineering Education in Africa
Authors:   Durban University of Technology,, Fomunyam Kehdinga George , Matola Noluthando ,   Durban University of Technology,, Moyo Sibusiso ,   Durban University of Technology,
Published: November 2020

In Africa, a lot of debates on the issues of gender gap and gender inequality has raised concerns in engineering education (EE) and engineering workforce. Thus, gender inequality and equity are significant in realizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in recent years much has been done to address gender gaps, yet women are still excluded, underrepresented, segregated and relegated inengineering profession and academia. With much sensitization on gender equality, Africa is still far from addressing gender gaps in EE; hence the crux of this paper. This paper was guided by Liberal Feminism theory, focusing on women’s freedom as an autonomy to be free from coercive interference, due to‘gender system’ or patriarchal nature of inherited traditions and institutions. This paper takes a broad look at the concepts of gender and gender mainstreaming in EE in Africa. Specifically, it explores gender and inequality in EE and how gender mainstreaming canbe enacted to address gender gaps in EE, as well as its implications in Africa. Thus, to address these gaps, recommendations such as developing gendersensitive curriculum for EE, adopting policies in facilitating women’s access to training and employment opportunities as well as creating gender-sensitive career counselling were advocated
A Low Cost & Efficient Robotic Spraying Machine
Authors:   Assistant Professor, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineringdepartment,Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur, India, Choudhari Anagha , Shrikhande Avinash ,   ,Professor, Civil Engineering department, Kavikulguru Institute of Technology & Science ,Ramtek, Nagpur, India,
Published: November 2020

It is well known fact that India is an agricultural country.It is considered as the lifeline of our Country since it provides the most employment and profit to the nation. But the current state of agriculture in India is not is not upto the mark. The farmers and other agriculture related people are suffering a lot. Considering the problems which are faced by the farmers in the agriculture industry which includes physical strains on the body we as engineers need to design a solution to this. We have seen that due to pesticide spraying the farmers face lot of physical as well as respiratory problems. Our solution to this problem includes designing a machine which helps to reduce manual work of farmers and save them from respiratory problems. The machine is a cost effective solution to help the farmers and can be used even by small scale farmers. Thus, this robotic spraying machine will be of great use. There are various pesticide sprayers available in the market. These spraying techniques are very tediousand time consuming. Purpose is to make an affordable pesticide spraying machine to boost the income of farmers the productivity of crops must be increased. Hence the design tries to improve the pesticide spraying techniques. Through this paper, a real life solution to link agriculture with technology in order to reduce human efforts & boost up the total output is suggested. This paper aims at explaining the working ofa low cost & efficient robotic spraying machine that would be operated by the farmer through remote so that thefarmer is not in direct contact with harmful pesticides. On the command from the remote the spraying action will be controlled. The pesticide sprayer would operate with minimal pollution. The model includes 2 nozzles for spraying purpose along with a DC pump which will help inthe total flow of liquid so that constant spraying will occur.
The Effect of Formalin Addition on the Electrical Impedance of White Shrimp
Authors:   Physics Department, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia., Herwiningsih* Sri , Widodo Chomsin S. ,   Physics Department, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia., Rifqi Fahrizal ,   Physics Department, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia.
Published: November 2020

Shrimp is one of the important protein sources for diet. Shrimp has high water content, causing quick spoilage of the product and degradation of its quality from post-harvesting to end-consumers. The use of formalin to prolong the shelf life of shrimp has become a raised issue in the food safety field as formalin could have negative impacts on human health. Therefore, its use in food products is prohibited. The electrical impedance spectroscopy could be used to detect the food additives such as formalin in shrimp. This paper discusses the impedance of the shrimp after soaked in formalin solution. The shrimp samples were soaked in the different concentrations of formalin solution and stored for five days. The shrimp without formalin was used as a control sample. The electrical properties of the shrimp samples were measured using the electrical impedance spectroscopy method using frequency from 1 Hz to 1 MHz each day. The results show that the impedance of the shrimp decrease with an increase of the storage time. The shrimp with formalin experience a slower degradation compared to the shrimp without formalin. Higher the formalin concentrations (10% - 40%) added to the shrimp causes a slower texture change on the shrimp compared to lower formation concentrations (1%-5%). The impedance of the shrimp decrease with the increase of injected signal frequency. The electrical impedance spectroscopy has the potential to be developed as a tool in food safety field to detect food additives contained in the food to ensure the safety of the food products to the consumers.
Limitations of Small-Signal Modeling of Grid-Connected VSCs under Phase Jumps and Frequency Deviations
Authors: Zhang Hongyang , wang xiongfei , stefan östlund
Published: November 2020

The stability of grid-connected voltage source converters (VSCs) is commonly studied by the small-signal model in the synchronous reference (dq) frame. With phase-locked loop dynamic from VSCs, it is inevitable to convert the small-signal model to a common dq frame. When linearizing the frame transformation, the trigonometric functions of the angle are approximated by first-order terms. In this letter, the limitation of such linearization on the dq-transformation is discussed. The accuracy of the model, in presence of phase jumps and frequency variations, are examined. It is found that even under small phase jumps, mismatches are found between the small-signal model (SSM) and a nonlinear model (NM). It is further revealed that during the dynamics of frequency variation, significant mismatches can occur between the SSM and the NM.
Joint Optimisation of Privacy and Cost of in-App Mobile User Profiling and Targeted Ads
Authors: Ullah Imdad , Binbusayyis Adel
Published: November 2020

Online mobile advertising ecosystems provide advertising and analytics services that collect, aggregate, process, and trade a rich amount of consumers’ personal data and carry out interest-based ad targeting, which raised serious privacy risks and growing trends of users feeling uncomfortable while using the internet services. In this paper, we address users’ privacy concerns by developing an optimal dynamic optimisation cost-effective framework for preserving user privacy for profiling, ads-based inferencing, temporal apps usage behavioral patterns, and interest-based ad targeting. A major challenge in solving this dynamic model is the lack of knowledge of time-varying updates during the profiling process. We formulate a mixed-integer optimisation problem and develop an equivalent problem to show that the proposed algorithm does not require knowledge of time-varying updates in user behavior. Following, we develop an online control algorithm to solve the equivalent problem and overcome the difficulty of solving nonlinear programming by decomposing it into various cases and to achieve a trade-off between user privacy, cost, and targeted ads. We carry out extensive experimentations and demonstrate the proposed framework’s applicability by implementing its critical components using POC (Proof Of Concept) ‘System App’. We compare the proposed framework with other privacy-protecting approaches and investigate whether it achieves better privacy and functionality for various performance parameters.
HUBUNGAN PERILAKU MEROKOK DENGAN PENGGUNAAN NAPZA JENIS AMPHETAMIN PADA MAHASISWA PERHOTELAN PERGURUAN TINGGI DI KOTA DENPASAR TAHUN 2019
Authors: Idayani Sri , Putri Ni Luh Nova Dilisca Dwi
Published: November 2020

Salah satu faktor yang mempengaruh penyalahgunaan narkoba adalah kebiasaan merokok. Risiko terhadap penyalahgunaan narkoba cenderung meningkat pada seseorang yang memiliki kebiasaan merokok dan minum alkohol. NAPZA merupakan singkatan dari Narkotika, Psikotropika dan Bahan Adiktif berbahaya lainnya. Salah satu jenis NAPZA yaitu amphetamine. Amphetamine dapat berupa bubuk putih, kuning, maupun coklat, atau bubuk putih kristal kecil dan dapat juga berbentuk sediaan farmasi (tablet). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara perilaku merokok dengan penggunaan NAPZA jenis amphetamin dari urin mahasiswa perhotelan di Perguruan Tinggi Kota Denpasar Tahun 2019. Perilaku merokok dianalisa dari hasil wawancara menggunakan kuesioner dan kandungan amphetamine dari urin di uji dengan menggunakan metode rapid diagnostic test. Jumlah sampel yang urin yang dianalisa sebanyak 27 mahasiswa perhotelan Perguruan Tinggi di Kota Denpasar. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan, uji statistic Chi-Square diperoleh p-value tidak ada data statistik yang dihasilkan karena penggunanan NAPZA jenis amphetamine konstan. Hal tersebut berarti tidak ada hubungan antara perilaku merokok dengan penggunaan NAPZA jenis amphetamin pada urin mahasiswa perhotelan di Perguruan Tinggi Kota Denpasar Tahun 2019.
Izzeldin Abuelaish, I Shall Not Hate: Kisah Seorang Dokter Palestina Memperjuangkan Perdamaian Tanpa Dendam dan Kebencian, Bandung: Qanita/Mizan, 2011, 370 hlm.
Authors: Harun Martin
Published: November 2020

Tragedi perang Palestina–Israel tampak sebagai jalan penderitaan dan kekejian yang tanpa ujung dan tanpa solusi. Di tengah kesuraman seperti itu kisah kehidupan yang diceritakan oleh dokter Abuelaish mengharukan dan membawa harapan. Lahir dalam kamp pengungsi Jabalia di Jalur Gaza pada 1955, tujuh tahun setelah perang 1948 melahirkan negara Israel di tengah tanah Palestina, Abuelaish mengalami kemelaratan sangat ekstrem bersama ayahnya yang kehilangan tanahnya dan ibunya yang berwatak kuat tetapi juga keras serta delapan saudaranya. Sebelas orang ini hidup bertahun-tahun dalam ruang pengungsian sesak dan pengap. Rumah lebih baik yang mereka temukan kemudian, dihancurkan buldoser Israel. Adiknya, Noor, ditangkap dan hilang. Di tengah keadaan gelap seperti itu, sambil terpaksa sebagai anak untuk bekerja keras ikut mencari nafkah, Abuelaish tetap seorang anak yang mau maju dan haus belajar. Semangat itu akhirnya membuka jalan baginya untuk mengambil kuliah kedokteran di Kairo, Mesir.

 

Dengan pengalaman kerja bertahun-tahun di pelbagai rumah sakit di Gaza dan negara timur tengah lainnya dan belajar di London serta Harvard, juga lewat kerja sama dengan spesialis-spesialis Ginekologi Yahudi di Beersheba dan Tel-Aviv, ia berkembang menjadi seorang ginekolog dan spesialis fertilitas perempuan yang disegani. Namun bukan itu saja yang merupakan keistimewaan kisahnya. Dokter ini meyakini dan menemukan jalan bagaimana di tengah permusuhan antara bangsa Israel dan Palestina karya medis dapat membangun jembatan hidup bersama; juga bagaimana para perempuan yang ia layani sebagai ginekolog, merupakan kekuatan damai tatkala laki-laki suka berperang. Karena itu, ia berjuang bagi perempuan dan pemberdayaan mereka lewat pendidikan, termasuk putri-putrinya sendiri. Ia mau repot membawa pasien-pasiennya yang tak bisa ia tolong di rumah sakit serba terbatas di Jalur Gaza, ke pusat-pusat medis di Israel yang dapat dan mau membantu, kendati segala kesusahan untuk mendapat visa dan segala macam penghinaan yang harus ditelan seorang Palestina di setiap penyeberangan perbatasan.

 

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Terima kasih kepada Penerbit Qanita (PT Mizan Pustaka) yang begitu cepat menyediakan kesaksian kemanusiaan, iman, serta moral tinggi ini (aslinya dari tahun 2010) dalam terjemahan Indonesia yang enak dibaca. Semoga menjadi best-reader. Tak dapat tidak, kisah istimewa ini telah dan akan terus menggetarkan hati banyak orang, bahkan dari mereka yang mengambil posisi bertolak belakang dengan Izzeldin Abuelaish dalam konflik Israel-Palestina dan cara untuk menyelesaikannya. (Martin Harun, Program Studi Ilmu Teologi, Sekolah Tinggi Filsafat Driyarkara, Jakarta)
Investigation of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV) Infection Epidemiology at Dairies in the Province of Afyonkarahisar
Authors: İNCE Ömer Bariş
Published: November 2020

Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV) is a cause of viral disease in cattle, which is observed commonly across the world and leading to significant reproduction problems and economic losses. This study was carried out to investigate BVDV infection epidemiology at the dairies in the Province of Afyonkarahisar. In this study, blood samples of a total of 240 cows were collected at 10 dairy cattle herds between the years of 2017-2019. Sera samples were examined by using commercial ELISA test kits in order to determine the existence of antibody (Ab) and antigen (Ag) against BVDV. According to the test results, 98 (40.83%) of the sera samples were found to be positive and 4 (1.67%) of them were determined to be persistently infected (PI). In addition, samples were found to be seropositive in 18.06%, 44.80% and 67.44% at the age range of 6- 24 months, 24-48 months and over 48 months, respectively. It was determined that the seropositivity among age ranges were statistically significant (P<0.05). It was observed that the age-related seropositivity of animals increased in direct proportion. The data obtained from the results of this study show the existence of BVDV infection at the dairy cattle herds located in the province of Afyonkarahisar and its surrounding. For this reason, voluntary or obligatory eradication program practices are of importance for regional and national economy to prevent further spread of said viral agent.
Safety of Metformin in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
Authors: N Mikhail , S Wali
Published: November 2020

Background: It is unclear whether metformin should be continued or discontinued in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) admitted to the hospital.
Objective: To review metformin safety, particularly its impact on mortality among hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Methods: Review of English literature by PUBMED search until September 11, 2020. Search terms included diabetes, COVID-19, metformin, Retrospective studies, meta-analyses, pertinent reviews, pre-print articles, and consensus guidelines are reviewed.
Results: Retrospective studies suggest that metformin use prior to hospital admission may be associated with decreased mortality in patients with diabetes admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. Continuing metformin use after hospital admission did not have a significant impact on 28-day all-cause mortality. Metformin use after hospitalization of patients with COVID-19 was associated with approximately 4.6 times increase risk of lactic acidosis in patients with severe symptoms of COVID-19, patients taking 2 gm/d of metformin or higher, and patients with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) less than 60 ml/min/1.73 kg/m2. Metformin use in the hospital was associated with a significant decrease in the risk of heart failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Conclusions: In patients with diabetes and COVID-19 admitted to the hospital, metformin should not be used in presence of severe symptoms of COVID-19, kidney dysfunction (eGFR < 60 ml/min/1.73 m2), and with daily doses of 2 gm or more due to increased risk of lactic acidosis.
Post-COVID-19: An Opportunity to Produce Biodegradable Goods & Surgical Masks to Save the Environment
Authors: P Morganti , G Morganti
Published: November 2020

Consumption of natural raw materials is causing climate changing, by an acceleration of glaciers, oceans, and forests’ depletions with the contemporary accumulation of waste materials. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has further incremented the waste material of plastics because of the obligatory use of surgery masks, made prevalently by the non-biodegradable polypropylene. Thus, the necessity to change the way of producing and consuming transforming the linear economy based on the taking, make, and waste in the circular economy of reducing, reusing, and recycling. Changing the actual way of living, it will be also possible to drastically reduce the increasing plastics waste that, invading lands and oceans are entering into the food chain with negative effects on fauna flora and the human’s wellbeing. Just to remember the global production of plastics exploded from 1.5 million metric tons in 1950 to nearly 350 million metric tons in 2017 and, disposed to the landfill as waste, are producing global greenhouse gas emissions of 2.8 billion tons per year. Being the technology ready, it is proposed to produce natural polymers, such as chitin and lignin which, obtainable from waste materials, may be used to produce biodegradable goods and surgical and beauty masks. By this way it will be possible to maintain the natural raw materials for future generations, saving human wellbeing and the world’s biodiversity.
DIREITO E VIDA: MEDIAÇÕES EM FOUCAULT, AGAMBEN E ESPOSITO
Authors: Gardoni Rennan Klingelfus
Published: November 2020

O presente trabalho visa investigar a pertinência leitura da biopolítica para a compreensão do fenômeno jurídico contemporâneo. A pesquisa teve como objetivo específico analisar as principais contribuições de Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben e Roberto Espósito para o tema. Para tanto tomou-se como metodologia a análise conceitual para a leitura das categorias que abarcam a relação entre direito e vida nas principais obras dos autores, levantando as especificidades das construções teóricas e dos resultados em cada abordagem. Em Michel Foucault é visível uma dimensão das relações de poder que possui pontos de intersecção com o direito: a biopolítica. A análise desta categoria revela o direito em relação indireta com a vida, mediada pelo biopoder. Já em Agamben percebe-se uma relação direta entre direito e vida a partir de conceitos limiares que evidenciam as formas de constituição da dimensão jurídica por elementos extrajurídicos. Por outro lado, Espósito demonstra a imbricação da semântica da autoconservação da vida em algumas das principais categorias jurídico-politicas da modernidade. Finalmente, foram exemplificados sumariamente fenômenos contemporâneos que podem ser cotejados com as categorias analisadas.
O TITULAR DAS POSIÇÕES JUSFUNDAMENTAIS
Authors: Bizinoto Felipe
Published: November 2020

Este artigo objetiva demonstrar a evolução dos direitos fundamentais e os paradigmas que acompanham tais marcos, demonstrando que as bases jusfundamentais superam a figura da personalidade jurídica e conferem direitos essenciais às entidades despersonalizadas.
SURGICAL TACTICS IN RECURRENT INGUINAL HERNIAS AT THE CHILDREN
Authors: Baibakov Volodymyr M.
Published: November 2020

The aim: Is to increase effectiveness of treatment at the children with recurrent inguinal hernias by improving surgical tactics.
Materials and methods: Method of laparoscopic correction of the recurrent inguinal hernias in children. For a period from 2017 to 2020 years in the surgical department of Municipal Establishment «Dnipro specialized clinical center of mother and child named by professor M. F. Rudnev» of Dnipro Regional Council» situated in the city Dnipro were carried out 48 laparoscopic procedures in a case of recurrent inguinal keel in children at the age of 3 years.
Results: We proposed an innovative method of laparoscopic correction the recurrent inguinal hernias, which allows to eliminate a hernial pocket without additional injury structures of the inguinal canal. At the analysis cases of recurrent inguinal hernias was concluded, that recrudescence appeared among young children and more frequently, after surgical interference on the strangulated inguinal hernias, which were operated by traditional ways.
Conclusions: According to the results of our research, it had been proved, that among numerous measures, focused on a restoration drainage system violation in the testicle, in a case of infringement obliteration of vaginal sprouts of a peritoneum in the boys and to keep safe ovarium vascularization in the girls.
THE ROLE OF PET/CT WITH 11C-METHIONINE IN CONTEMPORARY NUCLEAR MEDICINE
Authors: Kołodziej Maciej , Bober Barbara , Saracyn Marek , Kamiński Grzegorz
Published: November 2020

Positron emission tomography (PET/CT) is a non-invasive molecular imaging technique using isotopes with a short half-life usually in combination with chemical compounds. The most commonly used PET/CT tracer is 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose labeled with fluorine (18-FDG). It is used mainly in oncological diagnostics as well as myocardial viability, epilepsy and inflammatory diagnostics. The tracer less commonly used in PET/CT could be carbon-labeled methionine (11C-MET). It is mainly used in the diagnosis of focal lesions in the central nervous system. There are also reports of the use of this tracer in diagnostics of the primary, secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism as well as multiple myeloma. This tracer may also be used in the diagnosis of lymphoproliferative diseases and solid tumors, although there is no clear evidence of its advantage over 18-FDG.
Conclusion: Significant difficulties in the production and transport of this tracer and lack of reimbursement of this type of procedure in Poland limits the use of this tracer for scientific research.