bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Methodological recommendations " Anatomy-anthroponutrition methods for assessing the physical and nutritional status of the child and adult population with different levels of physical activity”
Authors:   Federal State Scientific Institution “Federal Research Centre of Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food Safety” (V. A. Tutelyan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor,   D. B. Nikityuk, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor,   K. V. Vybornaya,   A. K. Baturin , Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, E. A. Burlyaeva, Candidate of Medical Sciences, K. M. Gapparova, Candidate of Medical Sciences, N. V. Zhilinskaya, Ph.D. M. Zainudinov, MD, I. V. Kobelkova, MD, M. M. Korosteleva, MD, I. A. Lapik, MD,   A. V. Pogozheva, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor,   G. A. Puzyreva, PhD,   R. M. Radzhabkadiev,   M. M. Semenov,   A. I. Sokolov, Ph.D. A. G. Sokolova, A. V. Starodubova, Doctor of Medical Sciences, M. A. Strutynskaya, I. Yu. Tarmaeva, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, A. N. Timonin, PhD, Kh. Kh. Sharafetdinov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor)
Published: June 2022

Methodological recommendations " Anatomy-anthroponutrition methods for assessing the physical and nutritional status of the child and adult population with different levels of physical activity” are devoted to several sections of human morphology - anthropometric and bioimpedancemetric approaches to the study of body composition, as well as the study of the somatotypological profile of a person. Methodological recommendations are intended to assess the physical and nutritional status of different population groups when conducting anatomical and anthropometric studies to assess the quality of health and the risk of developing non-specific, including alimentary-dependent, diseases, as well as when conducting large-scale screening population studies to assess the nutritional status of the population. Methodological recommendations can be used in sports practice in assessing the risk of developing alimentary-dependent pathology, for monitoring body weight and composition, for studying and evaluating the individual morphological characteristics of athletes in order to track the physical condition and conduct sports selection. The methods and examples discussed in this paper will be relevant for both scientists and specialists in the field of sports medicine, sports doctors, coaches of sports teams, general practitioners, specialists in the field of nutrition and dietetics, clinical anthropologists, clinical residents, students and graduate students.
Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini dalam Keluarga di Era Disrupsi Berdasarkan 2 Timotius 3:15-17
Authors: Meilani Meilani , Fernando Andreas
Published: June 2022

Abstract: Technological developments that occur massively have made children grow up in a different pattern from the previous generation who lived in the past. Children from an early age have been acquainted with technology that affects their cognitive development and behavior patterns. The purpose of writing this article is to find out the theory and practice of family education that is appropriate for early childhood in facing challenges in this era of disruption by looking at the content of the context of 2 Timothy 3:15-17. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data collection technique was by examining the theological descriptions of 2 Timothy 3:15-17 from the Bible, as well as digging up information from various literatures, in the form of journals, commentaries, and books on early childhood development and the era of disruption. Through this research, it was found that based on 2 Timothy 3:15-17, the best way to educate children in today's families is to educate them as early as possible to study and explore the contents of the Holy Scriptures so that children have wisdom in overcoming problems and challenges, especially those that can shake faith as a result. the impact of current technological advances.
 
Abstrak: Perkembangan teknologi yang terjadi secara pesat saat ini telah membuat anak-anak bertumbuh dengan pola yang berbeda dari generasi yang hidup pada masa sebelumnya. Anak sejak usia dini telah berkenalan dengan teknologi yang memengaruhi perkembangan kognitif dan pola tingkah laku mereka. Tujuan dari penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk mengetahui teori dan praktik pendidikan keluarga yang sesuai bagi anak usia dini dalam menghadapi tantangan di era disrupsi ini dengan melihat isi konteks dari 2 Timotius 3:15-17. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif deskriptif. Teknik pengumpulan data dengan mengkaji uraian teologis dari 2 Timotius 3:15-17 dari Alkitab, juga menggali informasi dari berbagai literatur, berupa jurnal, buku-buku tafsiran, dan buku-buku mengenai perkembangan anak usia dini dan era disrupsi. Melalui penelitian ini ditemukan bahwa berdasarkan   2 Timotius 3:15-17, cara terbaik pendidikan anak dalam keluarga masa kini adalah dengan sedini mungkin mendidik mereka untuk mempelajari dan mendalami isi Kitab Suci sehingga anak memiliki hikmat dalam mengatasi masalah dan tantangan terutama yang dapat menggoyahkan iman akibat pengaruh kemajuan teknologi saat ini.
MODEL PEMBERITAAN INJIL MELALUI POLA DIALOG KEHIDUPAN SEHARI-HARI DITINJAU DARI YOHANES 4:4-42
Authors: Laia Kejar Hidup
Published: June 2022

The conversation of Lord Jesus with the Samaritan woman as recorded in the Gospel of John 4:4-42 is one of the models of preaching the gospel with a daily life dialogue pattern. After conducted an investigation based on qualitative research methods with an exegesis study approach, the researcher confirmed that the model of preaching the gospel carried out by Jesus to the Samaritan woman was a model of living dialogue in the preaching of the gospel. This pattern of dialogue is a very effective model of preaching the Gospel in this age.
EFIKASI DIRI SISWA DAN IMPLIKASINYA DALAM BELAJAR DI RUMAH BELAJAR YAYASAN CINTA BANGSA (YLBC) SUKU TA WANA, WATU BAMBANG MOROWALI UTARA, SULAWESI TENGAH
Authors: Alouw Rudy Aldri , Sangkianti Meidy Widiastuti
Published: June 2022

This research aimed to evaluate self-efficacy of the students of Yayasan Cinta Lentera Bangsa due to lower study interest. Subject of research is 8 teenager students from Ta Wana tribe in Watu Bambang village, Mt. Takaloka, north Morowali , central Sulawesi. Methods of research used are observation, limited interviews, and House-Tree-Person projective test. From the research, we may conclude that most subjects has low self-efficacy influenced by their internal emotions, family parenting and social connection related to sexual factor.
Implementasi Kombinasi Algoritma Rinjdael dengan Caesar Cipher pada Pengamanan Dokumen Digital
Authors: Pasaribu Rido Maruli Tua , Dewi Rafiqa , Parlina Iin
Published: June 2022

Keamanan file dokumen digital merupakan hal yang sangat penting sejalan dengan perkembangan teknologi informasi saat ini. Ada banyak metode dalam mengamankan data digital, salah satunya adalah Kriptografi. Algoritma Rinjdael atau Advanced Encryption Standart adalah metode yang dapat digunakan untuk mengamankan file dokumen digital. Algoritma Rinjdael ditetapkan sebagai AES sebagai pengganti Algoritma DES dengan lebih banyak kunci, yakni kunci 128-bit, 192-bit dan 256-bit. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengamankan file dokumen dengan menggunakan kombinasi dua algoritma, yaitu Algoritma Rinjdael dan Caesar Cipher. Kombinasi kedua algoritma tersebut akan mengembangkan proses enkripsi file menjadi lebih kompleks sehingga file dokumen digital menjadi lebih terjamin keamanannya. Proses enkripsi yang lebih kompleks dapat meminimalisir potensi serangan eksternal seperti ancaman Brute Force, dan lain-lain.
Environmental Management System and Pro-Environmental Behavior in Realizing Sustainable Industry Performance: Mediating Role of Green Marketing Management
Authors: Rainanto Bambang Hengky , Bon Abdul Talib , Purba Jan Horas V.
Published: June 2022

Growth in the number of tourist destinations encourages the number of tourists and other fields that support it. The hotel industry that is increasing in number in an area will impact the environment, both the natural, social and economic environment. We analyze the influence of Green Marketing Management as a mediator of the Environmental Management System and Pro-Environmental Behavior to achieve Sustainable Industry Performance in the hospitality industry. This study was conducted with 135 respondents with the position of manager or general manager. There are 17 hypotheses built on indicators of 4 main parameters. The analysis uses Smart-PLS to examine the relationship between the dimensions tested. The results of this study are: (1) Environmental Management System and Pro-Environmental Behavior have a significant and positive influence on the Green Marketing Mix; (2) Only the Green Marketing Mix has a significant and positive influence on Economic Sustainability; (3) Only the Green Marketing Mix has a significant and positive influence on Environmental Sustainability; (4) The Environmental Management System and Green Marketing Mix have a significant and positive influence on Social Sustainability, with the strongest influence being given by the Green Marketing Mix (which has the greatest path coefficient); (5) The effect of Pro-Environmental Behavior on Sustainability is entirely dependent on mediation relationships through the Green Marketing Mix.
Sentiomics: the identification and analysis of dynamical patterns that characterize sentience
Authors:   State University of São Paulo Júlio Mesquita Filho (UNESP/Botucatu) Botucatu, SP - Brazil., Pereira Junior A. , de Aguiar V. J. ,   Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL), Lisbon - Portugal.
Published: June 2022

Sentience, defined as the capacity of feeling, for example,
to experience basic sensations such as hunger, thirst and
other types of qualitative mental states, is a
psychobiological phenomenon that involves dynamic
patterns of electrochemical (below 1Hz) and
electromagnetic (above 1Hz) waves in living systems. The
science we have called Sentiomics studies unconscious
dynamic patterns in the brain that define the capacity for
feeling. This paper discusses the explanation of creative
processes based on unconscious patterns that combine and
constructively interfere, generating a conscious output
experienced in the living system's first-person perspective.
We claim that the Sentiomics approach to wave
interferences helps to explain creative intuition, artistic
creativity, the formation of dreams, and related phenomena.
We raise a hypothesis – based on available evidence, to be
experimentally tested – that the dominance of slower
synchronized oscillatory frequencies (such as Delta, Theta
and Alpha bands) in scalp electroencephalogram spectra
makes more room for constructive electrochemical
interferences supporting creativity. This research points
to the dynamism of the unconscious mind, since such
interferences happen without the need of conscious control
but are influenced by the degree of attention focusing. Once
those dynamic processes are understood, they can be used
to enrich mental life, boost creativity in general, and
improve decision-making processes.
What a feeling - the underpinnings of physical feelings as molecular level holonomic effects.
Authors:   Integrative Neuroscience Group, http://www.intneuroscience.org, Poznanski R.R. , Cacha L.A.
Published: June 2022

This paper proposes biophysical principles for why geometric
holonomic effects through the geometric vector potential are
sentient when harmonized by quantized magnetic vector
potential in phase-space. These biophysical principles are based
on molecular level electromagnetic resonances in partially
holistic molecules where nonintegrated information acts as the
consciousness process’s conduit—using the informational
structure of physical feelings as a transition into subjectivity.
The transformation of internal energies from potential to kinetic
as ‘concealed’ motion may measure the causal capacity
required to bridge causality for conscious experience.
Conformational transitions produce bond-breaking, resulting in
boundary conditions and limiting the molecular wavefunction
to a partially holistic molecular environment with molecular
holonomic effects. The van der Waals energy increases protein
conformational activity (re-arrangement of bonds), causing
energy transfer and information in protein-protein interactions
across the cerebral cortex through the energy transduction
process. Energy transitions predetermine molecular level
electromagnetic resonances in aromatic residues of amino
acids. The energy sharing between various nested molecular
level electromagnetic resonances interacting with the
intermolecular adhesion of London forces at the nexus between
phospholipids and the lipophilic proteins has a key role in
constraining the release of energy resulting in a vast array of
information-based action through negentropic entanglement.
Such information structure, passing from the objectivity of
holonomic effects stemming from molecular level
electromagnetic resonances, has an inherent ambiguity since
meaning cannot be related to context, which constitutes
preconscious experienceability. The transition from potentiality
to actuality where Coulombic force is expressed as a smear of
possible experiences where carriers of evanescent meanings
instantly actualize through intermittent dispersion interactions
as conscious experiences and return to potentiality in
preconscious experienceabilities.
XÂY DỰNG PHƯƠNG PHÁP XÁC ĐỊNH HÀM LƯỢNG CURCUMIN TRONG THỰC PHẨM BẢO VỆ SỨC KHỎE BẰNG SẮC KÝ LỎNG HIỆU NĂNG CAO
Authors: Nguyễn Văn Sỹ , Lê Hống Dũng , Lê Danh Tuyên
Published: June 2022

Mục tiêu: Phát triển phương pháp xác định hàm lượng curcumin trong thực phẩm bảo vệ sức khỏe bằng sắc ký lỏng hiệu năng cao với detector màng diod. Phương pháp: Curcumin được chiết ra khỏi nền mẫu bằng cách siêu âm trong methanol trong 30 phút và được tách bằng cách sử dụng cột sắc ký pha đảo C18 với pha động gồm đệm, methanol và acetonitril. Tốc độ dòng là 1mL/phút, bước sóng của detector được cài đặt 426 nm. Kết quả: Khoảng tuyến tính của phương pháp từ 0,02 đến 5,0 µg/ml với hệ số tương quan (R2 = 0,9999). Giới hạn phát hiện và giới hạn định lượng tương ứng trong khoảng từ 0,26-0,37µg/g hoặc µg/ml và 0,88-1,22 µg/g hoặc µg/ml. Phương pháp có độ đúng nằm trong khoảng từ 75-95,0%, với hệ số biến thiên (RSD%) từ 0,4 – 8,4%. Kết luận: Các thông số thẩm định của phương pháp đạt yêu cẩu theo AOAC. Đây là phương pháp đơn giản, đáng tin cậy và có thể sử dụng để nghiên cứu và kiểm soát hàm lượng curcumin trong thực phẩm bảo vệ sức khỏe.
TÌNH TRẠNG DINH DƯỠNG CỦA TRẺ EM 6-36 THÁNG TUỔI TẠI PHƯỜNG PHÚ HOÀ THÀNH PHỐ THỦ DẦU MỘT TỈNH BÌNH DƯƠNG NĂM 2019
Authors: Huỳnh Văn Dũng , Trương Thanh Hải
Published: June 2022

Nghiên cứu này được tiến hành với mục tiêu là đánh giá tình trạng dinh dưỡng (TTDD) của trẻ em 6-36 tháng tuổi tại phường Phú Hoà thành phố Thủ Dầu Một tỉnh Bình Dương. Nghiên cứu áp dụng phương pháp cắt ngang mô tả, với sự tham gia của 573 trẻ em khỏe mạnh tại thành phố Thủ Dầu Một tỉnh Bình Dương. Tất cả trẻ em được đánh giá TTDD theo hướng dẫn của WHO. Kết quả cho thấy tỷ lệ suy dinh dưỡng (SDD) thể nhẹ cân của trẻ tham gia nghiên cứu là 7,9%, tỷ lệ SDD thể thấp còi là 12,9%, tỷ lệ gày còm là 3,5% và tỷ lệ thừa cân béo phì (TC-BP) khá cao (14,3%) trong đó có 3,8% trẻ bị béo phì. Tỷ lệ SDD nhẹ cân ở trẻ nam cao hơn trẻ nữ và tỷ lệ trẻ lớn TC-BP cao hơn trẻ nhỏ. Kết luận: Tỷ lệ TC-BP ở trẻ em 6 - 36 tháng tuổi tại phường Phú Hoà, thành phố Thủ Dầu Một cao hơn mức chung của cả tỉnh, cao hơn tỷ lệ TC-BP chung của thành phố Hồ Chí Minh.
XÁC ĐỊNH METHANOL TRONG RƯỢU TRẮNG LƯU THÔNG TRÊN ĐỊA BÀN MỘT SỐ TỈNH KHU VỰC PHÍA BẮC NĂM 2017-2018
Authors: Nguyễn Văn Sỹ , Lê Hồng Dũng , Lê Danh Tuyên
Published: June 2022

Mục tiêu: Xác định hàm lượng methanol trong 268 mẫu rượu không nhãn mác trên địa bàn 9 tỉnh phía Bắc năm 2017-2018. Phương pháp: Các mẫu được thu thập ngẫu nhiên tại các cửa hàng bán lẻ ở khu vực trung tâm các tỉnh. Methanol trong các mẫu thử được xác định bằng phương pháp sắc ký khí với detector ngọn lửa (FID). Kết quả: Có 129/268 mẫu rượu chứa methanol chiếm 48,1%. Hàm lượng methanol nằm trong khoảng từ 7,0 đến 651,3 mg/lít cồn 1000. Có 8 mẫu vượt quá quy định cho phép theo TCVN 7043:2013. Kết luận: Nghiên cứu này giúp các nhà quản lý có thêm thông tin để tăng cường các biện pháp đảm bảo an toàn thực phẩm, phòng chống ngộ độc rượu chứa methanol.
PERFIL NUTRICIONAL DE IDOSOS HOSPITALIZADOS
Authors: Ribeiro Ludmila Pantaroto Lima , Esteves Larissa Sapucaia Ferreira , Lenquiste Sabrina Alves , Azevedo Bianca Depiere Balmant
Published: June 2022

This study aimed to know the nutritional profile of elderly patients hospitalized in a public hospital. A retrospective survey of 250 nutritional assessment sheets of elderly people admitted to the hospital service was carried out, where anthropometric data, nutritional diagnosis and laboratory tests were collected. Prevalence of low weight and lean mass depletion was detected among the oldest old, as well as a significant correlation between the levels of albumin and creatine with the muscular depletion measured by the calf circumference (CP). Regarding food intake, it was observed that 14% ingested a lower amount than prescribed, and the long-lived elderly people needed more food intervention. It is concluded that the incidence of nutritional risk and malnutrition among hospitalized elderly people is higher among long-lived elderly people, and that in this group there is a negative correlation between serum albumin levels with body mass index and CP.
MASTECTOMIA BILATERAL COM USO DE PICO™ SOFTPORT – SISTEMA DE TERAPIA DE PRESSÃO NEGATIVA DE FERIDAS
Authors: Bueno Caique Montanholi , Almeida Angelo Cesar Pereira de , Sá Rafael da Silva
Published: June 2022

Currently, the main form of malignancy among women is breast cancer. With the advent of radiotherapy, conservative breast surgery (lumpectomy) has become a possible technique. However, radical mastectomy still maintains its indications in the face of a more advanced pathology or in patients with deleterious BRCA 1 / BRCA 2 mutations. Unfortunately, complications of the surgical wound exist. Faced with this problem, PICO ™ Softpor - Negative pressure wound therapy system, is a unique device that has been used in the negative pressure wound therapy system to improve wound healing, this includes improved perfusion, removal of excess fluid and edema leading to less tension in the surgical wound. The study aimed to report the experience of using the Wound Negative Pressure Therapy System through PICO ™ Softport in the surgical treatment of breast cancer through a case report. Patient M. R. V., female, 57 years old, G2P2A0, asymptomatic with a diagnosis of T4BN0M0 in the right breast and T1N0M0 in the left breast was submitted to bilateral modified radical mastectomy. We used bilateral dressings with the Wound Negative Pressure Therapy System in the form of PICO ™ Softport, which made it possible to reduce the incision healing complications. After surgical recovery, the patient underwent adjuvant radiotherapy, presenting himself until the moment of this stable report using anastrozole, being completely satisfied with the dermal healing result that the device provided.
Exploring deep learning for the analysis of emotional reactions to terrorist events on Twitter
Authors: G. D. Harb Jonathas , Ebeling Régis , Becker Karin
Published: June 2022

Terrorist events have a substantial emotional impact on the population, and understanding these effects is very important to design effective assistance programs. However, investigating community-wide traumas is a complex and costly task, where most challenges are related to the data collection process. Social media has been used as a relevant source of data to investigate people’s sentiments and ideas. In this article, we study the emotional reactions of Twitter users regarding two terrorist events that occurred in the United Kingdom. The contributions are twofold: a) we experiment two deep learning architectures to develop an emotion classifier, and b) we develop an analysis on tweets related to terrorist events to underst and whether there is an emotional shift due to a terrorist attack andwhether the emotional reactions are dependent on the event, or on the demographics of the users. Both models, based on convolutional and recurrent neural architectures, presented very similar performances. The analyses revealed an emotion shift due to the events and a difference in the reactions to each specific event, where gender is the most significant factor.
Western Esotericism and Islamic Mysticism
Authors: Maltabarova Makhabbad
Published: June 2022

This book offers a comprehensive study of the works of the Greek-Armenian spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff, with a particular focus on Sufism and its place in his teaching.

Gurdjieff remains an important figure in the history of Western esoteric thought, while also enjoying both academic interest and popularity in modern spiritual environment. Makhabbad Maltabarova examines his magnum opus, “Beelzebub’s Tales”, by focusing on the topic of the self and its development, leading to an innovative approach to the study of Sufism in Gurdjieff’s system.

Offering a critical examination of both the content and the context of Gurdjieff’s teachings, this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of religious and Islamic studies.
Fouling in Industrial Heat Exchangers: Formation, Detection and Mitigation
Authors: Jradi Rania , Marvillet Christophe , Razak Jeday Mohamed
Published: June 2022

Heating or cooling of a fluid by another is made in a heat exchanger with heat dissipation from surfaces of the equipment. Over time, the abundant quantity of impurities promotes fouling in a heat exchanger. This equipment has extensive domestic and industrial applications. The concepts of design, operation, and maintenance of heat exchanger are available in the form of complete technical literature, but this literature is extensively distributed throughout the industrial bulletins, industrial design codes and standard, technical journals, etc. Thus, the aim of this book chapter is to reveal the concepts design, operation, cleaning, and maintenance of heat exchanger closely related to the industrial practices.
Comparative Study between Herbal and Synthetic Antidepressant Drugs
Authors: Bee Rizwana , Ahmad Mohammad , Kishore Maheshwari Kamal
Published: June 2022

According to the WHO report approximately 450 million people suffer from mental and behavioural disorder. Depression is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders which arise due to the imbalance of neurotransmitters release at the synaptic cleft. A large number of synthetic drugs are being used as standard treatment for depression, they have many adverse effects that a limit the therapeutic treatment. Traditionally herbs are used for the treatment of depression which may offer advantage in terms of safety and tolerability, possibly by improvement in patient compliance. Herbal drugs are more commonly used because these have small amount of chemicals, these produced less side effects than standard drugs. Overall, this chapter presented an overview of the research that has been done on the many herbs, Mechanism of action involving monoamine reuptake, neuroreceptor binding and channel transporter function, and neural communication or HPA modulation. Several pharmaceutical companies are working on “triple” reuptake inhibitors that stop all three monoamines from being reabsorbed. Studies into the interplay of monoamine systems with other neurotransmitters (e.g., CRF, neurokinins, glutamate, and GABA etc.) will aid in the development of realistic, integrated neurochemical models of depression.
Non-Invasive Approach for Glucose Detection in Urine Quality Using Its Image Analysis
Authors: Yudhana Anton , Yusrina Sabila Liya , Cahya Subrata Arsyad , Helda Pratama Hendriana , Syahrul Akbar Muhammad
Published: June 2022

Human health can be detected through urine content, where metabolic waste in the body is excreted through urination. Glucose in the urine is caused by high levels of glucose in the blood, which can cause poor kidney function. This study aims to detect glucose in urine using non-invasive image analysis. The three measurement parameters in this research consist of Hue (H) is the color portion of the model that is expressed as a number from 0°C to 360, saturation (S) is the amount of gray in a particular color from 0% to 100%, and value/brightness (V) is the intensity of the color from 0% to 100%. Reagent strips for urinalysis with 10 variables are applied in this research, including glucose, bilirubin, ketone, specific gravity, blood, pH, protein, urobilinogen, nitrite, and leukocytes. All reading data from the system is sent to the monitor layer, which uses the python platform with the additional library Open-cv. The results obtained that the urine color is getting dimmer with the addition of 1 g of glucose in each test. This study was able to detect glucose in urine using image analysis.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Manifestations
Authors: Irene Pascual Mathey Luz
Published: June 2022

The prostate secretes 20% of the seminal fluid. One of its main pathologies is benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), the most common benign disease in older men. It has an 8–10% prevalence in men 40 years of age and older, increasing to more than 90% in men over 90 years, with lower urinary tract symptoms being one of its main complications. Although the etiology of BPH is not still fully known, testosterone and estradiol have shown a permissive role. Likewise, other factors have emerged, such as inflammation, growth factors, and prolactin, which influence the development of BPH. These factors act through binding to specific receptors, intervening in BPH and prostate cancer development. Existing treatments significantly reduce clinical symptoms, including lower urinary tract symptoms. However, it is a nonpreventable disease; some factors can reduce its incidence: diet, physical activity, and moderate consumption of alcohol and tobacco, some of which have been proposed to have a protective role. Therefore, this chapter aims to update the preclinical and clinical evidence on the etiology of this disease, briefly describing the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and therapeutic and preventive modalities in managing BPH.
Value-Added Foods: Characteristic, Benefits, and Physical Properties
Authors: Hlaváčová Zuzana , Ivanišová Eva , Hlaváč Peter , Kubík Ľubomír , Kunecová Daniela , Božiková Monika , Vozárová Vlasta
Published: June 2022

The growth of diet-related diseases (obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular diseases) is becoming an important societal concern and a challenge for a more sustainable society. This has developed important trends in food consumption, including the increasing demand for innovative food with natural attributes and with health claims (foods with added value, enriched foods, and functional foods). The physical properties of food are essential for scientists and engineers at solving the problems in food preservation, processing, storage, marketing, consumption, and even after consumption. In this chapter, we introduce the utilization of physical properties in enriched foods evaluation. The correlations were found between physical properties and other characteristics of foods.
Alteration of the Cultural, Religious and Architectural Heritage from Lăpuș Land, in the Context of Climate Change
Authors: Țenter Ancuța , Burghele Bety , Cotețiu Marin , Rauca Adrian , Schroder Verginica , Vasile Pop Florin , Săsăran Patricia
Published: June 2022

The architectural heritage is considered the most important category of cultural heritage; therefore, it requires special attention in the current state of climate change. The heritage presented in this chapter includes a total of 26 wooden churches located in Lăpuș Land, framed by UNESCO to the national heritage A and B category. Built on the present grounds or relocated, these are between 200 and 400 years old. Their degradation/alteration has been imminent over the decades due to aging and the socio-political conditions of the times. Alteration is a common notion in relation to the passage of time. The changes in environmental physical parameters, however, raise issues of sustainability of the buildings due to degradation. This paper wants to bring to the readers’ attention the importance and vulnerability of murals in wooden churches of Lăpuș County, which are an invaluable treasure, in terms of constructions, objects and traditions that require a civic responsibility for future generations in these difficult geopolitical conditions overlapping climate change.
Anthropometrics in Predicting Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Our Research Work Mathematically Demonstrates that Cardiovascular Sciences Were Always Confused for a Long Time
Authors: Martin Castellanos Angel
Published: June 2022

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDS) mainly heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death globaly. Obesity is a major risk factor for myocardial infarction (MI) and CVD. However, how to measure CVD risk with simple baseline anthropometric characteristics? Besides, association of anthropometrics and CVD may present effects of bias, and in evaluating risk, the lack of balance between simple measurements will be particularly prone to the generation of false-positive results. The purpose of this paper is to provide the key concepts for demonstrating association biases for metrics taken from multiple large-scale studies worldwide. Epidemiologically, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is a confounding variable with respect to waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). This is due to different imbalances between hip circumference (HC)-WC and HC-height, respectively, occurring in a protective overestimation for HC concerning WC and height. Similarly, WC may be a confounding variable with respect to WHtR due to an imbalance in WC-height: This occurs if, and only if, the mean WC > height/2 (WHtR risk cut-off >0.5). This, therefore, overestimates risk in tallest people and lead to underestimations in the shortest people. Anthropometrically, only WHtR is the only measure that is directly associated to a relative risk volume and yields no biases, and it should therefore be the metric used to compare the anthropometrically-measured causal risk.
Voluntary Private Health Insurance Demand by Older People in a National Health Service, the Case of Portugal
Authors: Isabel Tavares Aida
Published: June 2022

The Portuguese health system is mainly described as a National Health Service (NHS). In parallel with the NHS, there are some Bismarkean features, like those arising from the existence of occupation-based health insurance. On top of these two layers of health insurance coverage, there is a market for private health insurance on a voluntary basis, which older people may not be able to access. The purpose of this work is to estimate the main determinants for older people in Portugal to buy private health insurance since no previous studies have been published. We use data collected by the National Health Survey of 2014 and estimate a multivariate probit. The main results are aligned with previous studies relating to income, education, and age. The role of the health status and behavior explaining the demand for private health insurance, in our results are mixed. People benefiting from parallel occupation-based insurance schemes are less likely to have a private voluntary health insurance policy. The results obtained in this work confirm that there is some inequality in health care access, to the detriment of older people.
Retrospective Evaluation of Inborn Errors of Metabolisms in the Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Authors: DEGER Ibrahim , TAŞ Ibrahim , SAMANCI Serhat
Published: June 2022

Objective: Inborn errors of metabolisms (IEMs) are a heterogeneous group of disorders that can occur as a result of inherited or spontaneous mutations, are rare when considered alone, but have many diseases as a group. Although they are generally thought of as diseases of the neonatal period, 50% of these also occur outside the neonatal period, and some are not diagnosed until adulthood. The aim of this study is to examine the frequency, clinical and laboratory features of inborn errors of metabolism in the neonatal period.

Methods: The results of 60 patients who were diagnosed with IEMs as a result of the study, out of 1400 patients who were followed up and treated in the Children's Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit between January 2018 and December 2020, were evaluated.

Results: In this study, it consisted of 60 cases, 30 (%50) of which were girls and 30 (%50) were boys (50%). The median age of the patients included in the study was 3 (1-25) days at admission, median weight was 3100 (1000-4000) g, and gestational week was found to be median 39 (27-40) weeks at admission. The most common complaints were feeding difficulty 43(72%), tachypnea 27 (45%) and vomiting 5 (8.3%). The most common laboratory findings were metabolic acidosis 39 (65%) and 36 (60%) hypoglycemia. There was a history of consanguinity in 46 (76.6%) cases, and a history of sibling death in 30 (50%). The mother had a history of abortion in 5 (8.3%) patients who did not have a history of sibling death. The most common diagnoses were Urea cycle disorder 13 (21.7%), organic acidemia 12 (20%), galactosemia 10 (16.7%) and amino acid metabolism disorders 9 (15%).

Conclusion: Inborn errors of metabolisms, which are a group of diseases that can occur in different spectrums with clinical, biochemical and genetic heterogeneity, should be kept in mind especially in regions where consanguineous marriages are high. In cases such as metabolic acidosis, which presents with nonspecific symptoms such as malnutrition, tachypnea and jaundice in the neonatal period and cannot be explained in laboratory examinations, care should be taken and they should be referred to centers for further investigation.
Clinical Testing for Tumor Cell-Free DNA: College of American Pathologists Proficiency Programs Reveal Practice Trends
Authors: Devereaux Kelly A. , Souers Rhona J. , Merker Jason D. , Lindeman Neal I. , Graham Rondell P. , Hameed Meera R. , Vasalos Patricia , Moncur Joel T. , Lockwood Christina M. , Xian Rena R.
Published: June 2022

Context.—

Clinical testing for tumor cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has evolved rapidly, but no practice guidelines exist.

Objective.—

To summarize cfDNA laboratory practices based on self-reporting and assess preanalytical, analytical, and postanalytical trends that may influence the quality, accuracy, and consistency of cfDNA testing.

Design.—

Data were derived from the College of American Pathologists cfDNA proficiency testing program submitted by 101 participating laboratories from 2018 to 2019.

Results.—

Most laboratories performing clinical circulating tumor DNA testing are commercial/nonhospital (71.2%; 72 of 101) and international (77.2%; 78 of 101) laboratories. Commercial laboratories had higher monthly test volumes than hospital-based laboratories (median, 36 versus 7–8) and tended to have larger gene panels (median, 50 versus 11 genes) when panel-based testing was offered. The main clinical indications include therapy selection and treatment/disease monitoring. Plasma is the most commonly accepted specimen, which is predominantly collected in cell-stabilizing tubes. Equal proportions of laboratories use next-generation sequencing (NGS) and non-NGS methods to assess key genes, including EGFR, BRAF, KRAS, NRAS, and IDH1. Most laboratories reported a lower limit of detection (LLOD) of 0.5%, variant allele frequency or less, which did not differ by method, NGS or non-NGS, except for EGFR. Sixty-five percent (17 of 26) of laboratories using the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved non-NGS EGFR assay report analytical sensitivities higher than 0.5%, as compared to 15% (16 of 104) of laboratories using an alternative NGS or non-NGS method. There is also a wider range in LLODs obtained for the FDA-approved EGFR assay than nonapproved assays.

Conclusions.—

These results highlight emerging practice trends and serve as a foundation to initiate future practice recommendations.
Teachers learning during COVID-19 pandemic: Higher education perspective from Ghana, India and Serbia
Authors: Kyerewaa Ayisi-Addo , Nainwal Rohit , Koruga Nikola
Published: June 2022

The topic of this study is inspired by the conversation and sharing of personal experiences about living, working, and teaching during the pandemic by researchers from Ghana, India, and Serbia. This paper aims to identify higher education teachers' learning experiences that helped them to adjust a new situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We collected stories from nine teachers employed in higher education in Ghana, India, and Serbia. Inductive thematic analysis was employed to identify themes within the stories collected. The common topics were identified in each country and compared with that of others. Silence to active classroom transformation is a common topic among teachers in each country. Other similarities were identified as fear that put more pressure on teachers and students. Differences among the teachers' learning and teaching experiences in researched countries were more of inequality issues related to access to necessary resources for online learning. Conclusively, teaching in online education during the crisis requires constant and multi-directional learning processes and understanding of students' resistance and negative emotions.
Assessing Critical thinking and achievement in foreign language learning at the university level
Authors: Gajić Tijana
Published: June 2022

The aim of this study is to examine the correlation between the critical thinking skills and the success rate of the English language acquisition modelled on similar research conducted in other academic settings. This paper presents an overview of previous research and conclusions on the role of critical thinking in education. The results of the quantitative study confirmed that there was a strong correlation between students' critical thinking skills and their abilities to learn foreign languages, and that better critical thinkers were far more successful in learning foreign languages. The correlation between the success rates of English language learning and the critical thinking test section devoted to deductive reasoning proved particularly significant. Further research should be done to determine the nature of this relationship as accurately as possible so that its practical application in the teaching process is of greater importance.
Case-based product development of a high-pressure die casting injection subset using design science research
Authors: Tojal Matilde , Silva F.J.G. , Campilho R.D.S.G. , Pinto Arnaldo , Pinto Ferreira
Published: June 2022

High pressure die casting is widely used in metalworking industry. Many of the components and devices directly linked to the hot parts are subjected to severe wear. However, some design updates can enlarge the lifespan of these components and devices. This paper proposes to show how a sustainable maintenance can be obtained by focusing resources on the analysis of the critical problem and its consequent mitigation, whereas they are originated on the human, machine/process or supplier level. Design science research (DSR) was the iterative research methodology chosen to integrate this work. The completion of the objective with the implementation of this new injection subset concept brought extremely beneficial results, such as reduction of its consumption, reduction of acquisition cost and waste generated, and reduction of the intervention time during maintenance operations, as well as increase in equipment availability time.
Design and development of robot arm system for classification and sorting using machine vision
Authors: Cong Vo , Hanh Le , Phuong Le , Duy Dang
Published: June 2022

The main focus of this paper is to design and develop a system of two robot arms for classifying and sorting objects based on shape and size using machine vision. The system uses a low-cost and high-performance hierarchical control system including one master and two slaves. Each slave is a robot controller based on a microcontroller that receives commands from the master to control the robot arm independently. The master is an embedded computer used for image processing, kinematic calculations, and communication. A simple and efficient image processing algorithm is proposed that can be implemented in real-time, helping to shorten the time of the sorting process. The proposed method uses a series of algorithms including contour finding, border extraction, centroid algorithm, and shape threshold to recognize objects and eliminate noise. The 3D coordinates of objects are estimated just by solving a linear equation system. Movements of the robot's joints are planned to follow a trapezoidal profile with the acceleration/deceleration phase, thus helping the robots move smoothly and reduce vibration. Experimental evaluation reveals the effectiveness and accuracy of the robotic vision system in the sorting process. The system can be used in the industrial process to reduce the required time to achieve the task of the production line, leading to improve the performance of the production line.
Fault identification of ball bearings using Fast Walsh Hadamard Transform, LASSO feature selection, and Random forest classifier
Authors: Dave V. , Thakker H. , Vakharia V.
Published: June 2022

To reveal the machinery health condition, time-frequency analysis is an effective tool when signals are non-stationary. To identify bearing faults, numerous techniques have been proposed by various researchers. However, little research focused on image processing-based texture feature extraction for the identification of faults. The time-frequency image contains many sensitive fault information regarding bearing conditions, which can be extracted in the form of features. Therefore, in this paperwork, a methodology is proposed based on Fast Walsh Hadamard Transform (FWHT) time-frequency spectrogram, gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), and machine learning techniques. A feature vector is constructed which consists of one dimension and two-dimension features extracted from Fast Walsh Hadamard Transform coefficients. To identify the fault conditions, LASSO-based feature ranking is applied to determine the suitable features. Finally, classifiers like Support vector machine (SVM), Random forest, and K-nearest neighbors (KNN) are evaluated for identifying bearing faults. Training, Testing, five-fold cross-validation performed on fusion feature vector. Results indicate that ranked fusion features are effective to diagnose bearing faults with good accuracy.
Experimental study of different methods of soil treatment with the purpose of maximum preservation of stubble and pruning of weeds
Authors: Polichshuk Yu , Binyukov Yu , Shayakhmetov A.B. , Bedych T.V. , Laptev N.V. , Komarov A.P.
Published: June 2022

In Northern Kazakhstan, the main task of agrarians is to accumulate and retain the maximum amount of moisture. In this regard, effective agrotechnical moisture conservation methods are high-quality autumn non-moldboard processing of stubble backgrounds with maximum preservation of stubble on the surface and a mechanical method of weed control in a fallow field. The obvious disadvantages of existing tillage machines are the poor deepening ability of flat-cutting working bodies, embedding stubble into the soil, and incomplete cutting of weeds. Machine-tractor units with single-operational specialized machines and their multiple passes over the field recompact about 60% of the cultivated area. The most promising for the implementation of these technological operations are combined tools. However, the technical process of the joint interaction of lancet, disk, and bar working bodies with the soil in the conditions of Northern Kazakhstan has not been sufficiently studied so far. In this regard, the work aims to study the effect of technological schemes of a combined tool on agrotechnical and energy indicators and to test an experimental sample under production conditions.
Assessment of crop farmers' attitude to risk and management methods in Oyo State, Nigeria
Authors: Oladipo Akanbi , Olufemi Adekunle , Mukaila Ridwan , Johnson Isola
Published: June 2022

Agricultural sector faces series of risks which befall at different frequencies. This study examined the crop farmers' attitude to risks and their management methods in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examined the risk attitude of farming households, and analyzed the risk management strategies adopted by farming households in the study area. A four-stage sampling method was adopted to elicit response from selected 150 farming households for this study. The dataset was analyzed with the use of descriptive and inferential statistics. Safety-First-Model (SFM) was employed to analyze the risk attitude among crop farmers. The result revealed that majority of the farming households head was male and married with the mean age of 42 years and a moderately large household size of five persons and inheritance was the prominent means of farmland acquisition. Descriptive statistics showed that high cost of labor input topped the ranking of the risk source in the study followed by high input prices. Lacks of extension advice, low crop prices, were also common. Risk management methods employed to mitigate risk by majority of the farm families was sale of assets followed by income diversification. The SFM result revealed that all the food crop farmers were intermediate risk averse.
Criteria for sustainable supplier selection in agro-industrial complex
Authors: Nedeljković Miroslav
Published: June 2022

The main goal of paper is to rank the criteria that are important for the selection of the most favourable supplier of the agricultural company by applying a multicriteria decision-making model. Subject of the paper is the procurement of mineral fertilizer for sowing certain field crops. As a method of work, the author uses DEMATEL (The Decision making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) method of multicriteria decision making. In order to bring the research as close as possible to human thinking, the fuzzy logic of multicriteria decision-making was applied in the paper. Method is an expert assessment and ranking by experts in the field. In addition to the group of economic and technical criteria, the paper also uses criteria related to sustainable development such as environmental management system, green product, pollution and waste control, recycling and eco-product design. Results of the research show that the criteria that are from the economic group are still assessed as the most important for the decision maker. Importance of the research would be in pointing out the increase in the importance of criteria, especially those from the sustainability group according to their importance in the coming period, and the possibility of applying modern decision-making methods.