bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Internal Control and Crisis Management: Insights from State- and Privately-Owned Enterprises in Ghana
Authors: Agboga Richard Selase , Nwachukwu Chijioke , Vu Hieu Minh
Published: February 2021

The paper examines the level of adherence to internal control measures and the relationship between internal controls and crisis management. Internal control, an essential tool for crisis management, has received less attention from scholars and practitioners in Ghana. The authors employed a survey and cumulative percentage research approach. Twenty enterprises from five sectors, namely: transport, service, energy, financial, and manufacturing, with 120 respondents from both state- and privately-owned enterprises in Ghana, were used in this study. The results indicate that less than a quarter of the respondents agree that both state- and privately-owned enterprises perform excellently in adhering to the 2013 COSO internal control model. However, the performance of privately-owned enterprises is better than that of state-owned ones. The study also finds a weak positive correlation between internal controls and crisis management in both state- and privately-owned enterprises in Ghana. The study recommends internal controls to be taken seriously with special attention on board members and management’s appointment, which should be based on their competence rather than political and other social ties. The authors conclude that an effective internal control system is crucial for overcoming a crisis in organizations.
Regarding Religion and Work Culture: Fishermen of Jepara 1998-2013
Authors: Romadi  , Rochwulaningsih Yetty , Susilowati Endang
Published: February 2021

This research is intended to analyze the relationship patterns between Jepara's fishers community's religious ethics and work culture from 1998 to 2013 when the Regional Autonomy Policy is implemented in its inception phase. This research is a qualitative project with a historical design. This research is done in Jepara, the northern coastal region of Java Island, Indonesia. The research involves 15 research informants. Other data are sourced from documents on the life of fishers in Jepara. The data is gathered via text study and interview and verified using the triangulation method and member check. The analysis utilizes the "Historical Discourse Analysis." The results: (i) Religious ethics of the Jepara fishermen community are more ritualistically oriented than realistic. Religion does not become the rational foundation in fishermen's work culture development; (ii) Due to unrealistic religious ethics practice, fishers live bound in poverty with incapability of financial management, being tied in debt, living in a rented house, and hanging on subsistence pattern to survives; and (iii) Religion does not make fishers more optimistic in facing reality. Instead, it prompts them to be more "permissive" because the religious patterns are vertical, not horizontal. The intensity of religious practice concerning reality and humanity is minuscule. This research concludes that fishers' religious ethics in Jepara reinforce the assumption that easterner's society tends to separate religious practice and socio-economy affairs so that orientation to gather material wealth and improve work culture would be very difficult to be realized.
Perfil profesional del egresado de ingeniería de sistemas e informática por competencias
Authors: Sarmiento Alvarado Marisol Josefina , Brito Garcías José Gregorio
Published: February 2021

Esta investigación se desarrolló en el marco del diseño de perfiles profesionales por competencias en el área de estudios de la Informática, cuyo objetivo fue construir el perfil profesional del egresado de la Carrera Profesional de Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática de la Universidad Santo Domingo de Guzmán. Esta investigación surgió de la necesidad de revisar el diseño actual del perfil profesional del egresado en este programa de estudio y compararlo con las exigencias laborales competitivas de esta nueva sociedad peruana, a través del análisis ocupacional y teniendo como principio la visión del profesional afín a esta carrera. El estudio se ubicó dentro de una visión postpositivista de la realidad, enfocándose en la Teoría Fundamentada, con el método comparativo continuo y apoyo de la hermenéutica. En relación con los sujetos informantes se trabajó con los estudiantes del último ciclo, docentes especialistas y diversas empresas relacionadas con Sistemas e Informática, a fin de conocer la demanda laboral actual. Como instrumento para la recolección de la información se utilizó la entrevista semiestructurada, se construyeron los textos protocolares de donde emergió la categoría sol de la investigación y sus subcategorías, ello permitió diseñar la matriz de análisis ocupacional que decantó en el perfil profesional del egresado. A partir de los resultados se presenta una propuesta apegada a las demandas del mundo moderno, transdisciplinario y fundamentado en la formación integral del estudiante y cuyo proceso educativo está centrado en el estudiante, en una sociedad permeada por la tecnología.
Editorial
Authors: Aguirre Chávez Felipe
Published: February 2021

La maravillosa aventura educativa y espiritual” de los Hermanos Maristas, nacida el 02 de enero de 1817 en La Valla -Francia-, se concretó en nuestra tierra con la partida de nacimiento de la Universidad Marcelino Champagnat, el 05 de enero de 1990. La Ley No. 25180 permitió materializar este anhelo de comprometerse con el país en la misión de formar profesionales competentes, comprometidos con una sociedad justa y fraterna y en la visión de ser una comunidad universitaria marista reconocida como líder en la formación de profesionales con alto nivel académico y de investigación, que se comprometen en la construcción de una sociedad solidaria y justa, dentro de la libertad para pensar, crear, educar y servir al desarrollo humano.
Aprendizajes basados en retos en la formación previa y continua de estudiantes de pedagogía para educación básica alternativa
Authors: Rodríguez de los Ríos Luis Alberto , Pumayauli Zavaleta Héctor Juan , Delgado Herencia César Hildebrando
Published: February 2021

Se presenta el avance de un proyecto de investigación, en su fase de trabajo de gabinete sobre el aprendizaje basado en retos (ABR) a experimentarse con estudiantes de un programa de formación universitaria en educación básica alternativa (EBA), asimismo en talleres sobre de ciudadanía plena en docentes de la modalidad en servicio. La pedagogía como ciencia de la educación acoge de otras disciplinas prácticas exitosas, una es la técnica de ABR, que cambia las sesiones de aprendizajes frentistas actualmente dominantes en EBA. Como tal, puede aplicarse a diversas situaciones educativas en las instituciones, para el caso al proceso de enseñanza/aprendizaje de formación profesional previa y continua de docentes para esa modalidad. La idea principal de la técnica, los estudiantes construyan un reto/problema relevante en la comunidad, avanzan a su investigación y comunican los resultados mediante medios digitales, así como utilizan los protocolos para futuras aplicaciones, esto se logra en las jornadas de cuatro fases: el reto, la investigación, los resultados y la comunicación. La técnica tiene bondades como limitaciones.
Avaliação Nacional da Alfabetização em Matemática (ANA): relações com a formação de professores do PNAIC e o currículo dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental
Authors: Machado Alessandro Alves , Brandalise Mary Ângela Teixeira , Moraes João Carlos Pereira de
Published: February 2021

Este artigo objetiva analisar os resultados da Avaliação Nacional da Alfabetização (ANA) de Matemática e suas possíveis relações com o currículo dos anos iniciais e a formação dos professores alfabetizadores, realizada no Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa (PNAIC) no município de Ivaiporã, Paraná. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo com base documental a partir do currículo de Matemática dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, das Diretrizes Curriculares para o Ensino Fundamental, da Matriz de Referência de Matemática da ANA, da formação de Matemática do PNAIC e dos resultados dos índices alcançados na ANA no âmbito municipal, estadual e federal. Buscou-se, em Sacristán (1998, 2000), a compreensão dos processos de desenvolvimento curricular com base nos níveis de objetivação curricular: currículo prescrito, apresentado aos professores, em ação, realizado e avaliado. Os resultados analisados apresentam oscilações nos índices alcançados em âmbito municipal, mas com melhores resultados em comparação aos níveis estadual e federal, indicando que há indícios de que a formação em Matemática realizada pelos professores municipais no PNAIC pode ter contribuído sobremaneira para a qualificação das práticas docentes e da aprendizagem dos estudantes.
Dense array of floating water droplets aligned to an assembly of tubular wells
Authors: Shimazaki Yuzuru , Shiratori Akiko , Harada Kunio , Nakagawa Tatsuo , Tanaka Junko , Uematsu Chihiro
Published: February 2021

A dense array of surfactant-stabilized water droplets (20 μm in diameter) floating on the surface of fluorinated oil was prepared. More than 30000 droplets were planarly arrayed in an 8 mm squared area using the “droplet guide”, an assembly of tubular wells located on the top wall of the fluidic channel. Parallel measurement of the melting temperatures of digitally partitioned KRAS DNAs hybridized with molecular beacons was demonstrated using the array of floating droplets.
HISTÓRIA DO ABUSO FÍSICO E SEXUAL EM MULHERES COM DOR PÉLVICA CRÔNICA
Authors: Araújo Júnior Orlando Moreira de
Published: February 2021

HISTÓRIA DO ABUSO FÍSICO E SEXUAL EM MULHERES COM DOR PÉLVICA CRÔNICA  de A. J. Rapkin e cols; resumo e comntários de Orlando Moreira de Araújo Júnior.
O que é normal em sexualidade
Authors: Vitiello Nelson
Published: February 2021

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SERGANČIŲJŲ ARTERINE HIPERTENZIJA GYVENIMO KOKYBĖS SĄSAJOS SU LIGOS SUVOKIMU IR ŽINIOMIS APIE JĄ
Authors: Sąlyga Jonas , Šakalytė Gintarė , Kazlauskienė Laimutė , Motužytė Vaida , Žiliukas Geriuldas
Published: February 2021

Tikslas – išanalizuoti sergančiųjų arterine hipertenzija su sveikata susijusios gyvenimo kokybės sąsajas su ligos suvokimu ir žiniomis apie ją.
Metodika. Naudota apklausos anketa sudaryta iš 3 klausimynų: Arterinės hipertenzijos žinių lygio skalė; Ligos suvokimo klausimynas; Su sveikata susijusios gyvenimo kokybės klausimynas. Imtį sudarė 389 respondentai – 180 vyrų, 209 moterys. Duomenų analizė atlikta statistinių programų paketu SPSS 17.0.1 for Windows. Tyrimas atliktas laikantis etikos principų.
Rezultatai. Nustatyta, kad tiriamieji gerai suvokė ligos kontrolę ir jos riziką sveikatai. Moterų žinios buvo reikšmingai (p<0,001) geresnės, nei vyrų. Gyvenimo kokybę neigiamai veikia ligos keliami sunkumai, teigiamai – geresnis ligos kontrolės būtinumo suvokimas. Visose gyvenimo kokybės srityse, susijusiose su fizine sveikata ir energingumu (gyvybingumu), geresni vertinimai susiję su geresnėmis žiniomis apie arterinę hipertenziją. Išvada. Žinios ir suvokimas apie ligą skirtingai veikia su sveikata susijusią gyvenimo kokybę. Pacientai, turintys daugiau žinių apie ligą, geriau vertina su sveikata susijusią gyvenimo kokybę, o turintys geresnį suvokimą apie ligą – blogiau.
SUNKI DIFUZINIO ATOPINIO DERMATITO FORMA SU DAUGINĖS ALERGIJOS MAISTUI SINDROMU IR PIRMINIU IMUNODEFICITU. KLINIKINIS ATVEJIS
Authors: Bučionytė Evelina , Čibirkaitė Agnė , Bubnaitienė Vilija
Published: February 2021

Atopinis dermatitas (AD) yra lėtinė, banguojančios eigos odos liga, dažniausiai sukelianti stiprų odos niežėjimą ir vientisumo pažeidimą. AD serga 20 proc. kūdikių ir vaikų iki 2 metų, iš kurių maždaug trečdalio simptomai siejami su alergija maistui. AD kartais pasireiškia su pirminiu imunodeficitu, o AD sergančių vaikų odą neretai kolonizuoja Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). AD gali būti sunki liga, kurią gali sukelti su IgE susijusios arba nesusijusios bei mišrios imuninės reakcijos. Nuo AD sukėlusio mechanizmo priklauso diagnostinių tyrimų pasirinkimas bei simptomų kontrolei naudojamų vaistų paskyrimas. Esant sunkiai AD formai su dauginės alergijos maistui sindromu ir pirminiu imunodeficitu, gyvenimo kokybę gerina tinkamas kompleksinis gydymas. Darbo tikslas – remiantis mokslinės literatūros šaltinių analize, išnagrinėti ir pristatyti sunkios formos atopinio dermatito atvejį, kuris pasireiškė kūdikiui kartu su dauginės alergijos maistui sindromu bei pirminiu imunodeficitu.
VAIKŲ EVANSO SINDROMAS. KLINIKINIS ATVEJIS
Authors: Čibirkaitė Agnė , Kairytė Beata , Bučionytė Evelina , Radavičiūtė Rūta , Kiudelienė Rosita
Published: February 2021

Evanso sindromas (ES) yra reta, gyvybei grėsmę kelianti autoimuninė būklė, kurios tikslus paplitimas pasaulyje nėra žinomas. Šis sindromas manifestuoja pasikartojančiais imuninės trombocitopenijos (ITP) ir autoimuninės hemolizinės anemijos (AIHA) epizodais. Kiek rečiau pacientams pasireiškia imuninė neutropenija. Ši būklė gydoma, skiriant intraveninį imunoglobuliną, sisteminius kortikosteroidus, mononuklearinius antikūnus (rituksimabą) ar kitus, rezervinius, gydymo metodus. ES prognozė priklauso nuo sindromo etiologijos bei atsako į gydymą. Šiame straipsnyje pristatomas ES klinikinis atvejis. Pacientei sindromas pasireiškė dviem ITP epizodais, po kurių trečiąjį kartą pacientė atvyko manifestavus AIHA epizodui. Diagnozuotas ES. Taikytas gydymas intraveniniu imunoglobulinu (IVIG), gliukokortikoidais bei rituksimabu. Pasiekta remisija.
ALERGINIS RINITAS: DIAGNOSTIKA IR GYDYMAS
Authors: Saulytė Rasa , Jasinskaitė Monika , Valid Ajaj Vassim
Published: February 2021

Tikslas – atlikti mokslinių šaltinių, nagrinėjančių alerginio rinito klinikinę reikšmę, sisteminę analizę, apibendrinti diagnostiką ir gydymą. Duomenys rinkti iš kompiuterinių bibliografinių medicinos duomenų bazių PubMed, Science Direct ir Medscape. Apžvalgai naudoti 2015-2020 metais spausdinti straipsniai anglų kalba, atitinkantys tyrimo temą. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad alerginis rinitas (AR) yra nosies gleivinės uždegimas, kurį sukelia alergenų ir imunoglobulinų E (IgE) poveikis. Kliniškai jam būdingi keturi pagrindiniai simptomai – rinorėja, čiaudulys, nosies niežėjimas ir nosies užgulimas. AR gali būti siejamas su gretutinėmis ligomis, tokiomis kaip astma, atopinis dermatitas ir nosies polipai. AR diagnozė ir gydymas turėtų atitikti naujausias gaires. AR gydymas turėtų apimti alergenų vengimą (kai tik įmanoma), farmakoterapiją ir alergenų imunoterapiją. Efektyviausias alerginio rinito gydymas yra intranazaliniais kortikosteroidais.
VOLFO-PARKINSONO-VAITO SINDROMAS IR FENOMENAS
Authors: Zieniūtė Viktorija , Daleckytė Liveta
Published: February 2021

Remiantis naujausios mokslinės literatūros duomenimis, straipsnyje apžvelgiamas Volfo-Parkinsono-Vaito sindromo paplitimas, etiologiniai veiksniai, klinikinė reikšmė, diagnostikos ir gydymo galimybės. Atlikta sisteminė mokslinė apžvalga, į kurią įtrauktos 25 Volfo-Parkinsono-Vaito sindromą ir (ar) fenomeną nagrinėjančios publikacijos, atrinktos PubMed ir UpToDate mokslinėse duomenų bazėse.

Volfo-Parkinsono-Vaito (VPV) sindromas yra įgimta širdies laidžiosios sistemos patologija – dažniausia kliniškai pasireiškiančios skilvelių preeksitacijos priežastis. VPV sindromui būdingas papildomas laidumo pluoštas (Kento pluoštas), tiesiogiai sujungiantis prieširdžių ir skilvelių laidžiąsias sistemas. Etiologija siejama su PRKAG2 geno mutacija. VPV sindromas gali sukelti gyvybei pavojingas būkles: prieširdžių virpėjimą ir staigią mirtį. Pagrindinis diagnostinis tyrimo metodas – elektrokardiografija (EKG), kurioje stebimi skilvelių preeksitacijos požymiai. Pagrindinis gydymo metodas – transkateterinė radiodažnuminė abliacija (TRA), indikuotina simptominiams arba asimptominiams pacientams, esant didelei staigios mirties rizikai.
ЗООМОРФНЫЕ ОБРАЗЫ В ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЯХ ВИКТОРИИ ТОКАРЕВОЙ
Authors: DVORYASHINA Victoria
Published: February 2021

Творчество известного прозаика и сценариста В.С. Токаревой популярно и любимо благодаря присущей автору обращенности к внутреннему миру простого человека, находящегося в поисках гармонии и счастья. Психологически убедительному изображению внутреннего мира героев служат включаемые в тексты произведений образы животных, среди которых первенство по частотности принадлежит кошке и собаке. Не лишенные символического значения, которое особенно заметно проявляется в малой форме — рассказе, являясь элементом развития внутреннего (психологического) сюжета, эти образы играют важную роль в формировании нравственной оценки и самооценки героя. На основе анализа отдельных известных произведений В. Токаревой можно сделать вывод, что благодаря образам диких и домашних животных (тигренка, медведя, кошки, собаки, птицы) герой получает возможность переосмыслить свои жизненные принципы, дать оценку своим поступкам, утвердиться как личность. Таким образом, можно говорить о психологическом и личностном коде героев В. Токаревой, крайние границы которого представляют, с одной стороны, кошка как животное, связанное с домом, и собака как животное, связанное с хозяином. В различных произведениях эти два полюса образуют основу психологического конфликта, на которую накладываются конкретные детали и обстоятельства. Сделанные в ходе анализа образов животных выводы позволяют внести уточнения в художественную картину мира, созданную В. Токаревой.
ISOLATED TUBERCULOSIS OF THE EPIDIDYMIS
Authors: Kata Harish Kumar Reddy , K Nitish , Pingale Nitin , Shinde Sudhir
Published: February 2021

Tuberculous epididymitis is one of the causes of chronic epididymal lesions. It is difficult to diagnose in the absence of renal involvement.All 3 patients underwent biopsy or excision of epididymal lesion. Histopathological report confirmed the diagnosis.Isolated tuberculous epididymitis commonly develops in sexually active young men. In the early phases, tuberculous epididymitis is not discernible from bacterial epididymo-orchitis. The treatment of tuberculous epididymitis consists of epididymectomy in patients with chronic forms and constitutes a diagnostic confirmation procedure.
RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF MAMMOGRAM, SONOMAMMOGRAM AND ITS HISTOPATHOLOGICAL CORRELATION AS AN AID FOR DIAGNOSIS OF BREAST LESIONS
Authors: babu Sathish , Sainudeen Arifkhan , Eksana Abdul
Published: February 2021

INTRODUCTION: Breast cancer is the most common cancer impacting 2.1 million women each year and also relates to the most cancer related deaths in women. In 2018, it was estimated that 627,000 women died from breast cancer which approximates to 15 % of all cancer related deaths among women [1]. The triple test– clinical examination, mammography and core biopsy helps in differentiating benign and malignant lesions. Histopathological examination is considered being the gold standard test for confirming malignant lesions and forms the basis of management.

AIM: To assess sensitivity of mammogram with ultrasonography in diagnosing various breast lesions and to correlate the categorized breast lesions (BI-RADS) with histopathology reports and thereby obtain specificity and NPV of evaluation using Mammogram and ultrasonography.

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective analytical study. Study Period: July 2018 – July 2019.

METHODS: The results of ultrasonography and mammography of 72 cases diagnosed clinically with breast lesions over the period of one year in tertiary health care hospital were compared with histopathology reports.

RESULTS: The mean age of the patients was 45.65 ± 3.19. Our results showed that in histopathology reports in 20 patients (27.78%) were malignant, 51 cases (70.83%) had benign disease and 1 case 1.39% was borderline malignant. Fibroadenoma was the commonest benign lesion whereas infiltrating ductal carcinoma was the most common malignant lesion. Breast Imaging – Reporting and Data System (BIRADS) by mammogram revealed category II in 54.1%, III in 20.8%, IV in 16.6% and V in 8.3%. The specificity of mammography alone in diagnosing malignant breast lesions was 90.1%. When combined (ultrasound and mammogram), the specificity in diagnosing malignant breast lesion was 98.5%

CONCLUSION: Mammography and sono-mammogram plays an important role in the diagnostic and surgical management of breast lesions with correlative histopathology evaluation. The diagnostic accuracy shows significant improvement when mammogram was combined with ultrasound correlation and thereby improving sensitivity and specificity of diagnosing malignant breast lesions.
TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE IN SELF CARE PRACTICE AMONG PATIENT SEEKING HEMODIALYSIS WITH ARTERIVENOUS FISTULA
Authors: Dubey Asha , Thakur Rajni
Published: February 2021

People with failed or damaged kidneys may have difficulty in eliminating waste and unwanted water from the blood. Dialysis is an artificial way of carrying out this process. Dialysis substitutes the natural work of the kidneys. Hemodialysis is the most common and durable treatment for ESRD patients. However, this changes patient’s life completely by imposing certain constrains on their routine activities affecting the compliance to therapy, so they need assistance to continue treatment. A proper vascular access is the key for effective hemodialysis. The results of the descriptive study is very less number of the patient having knowledge about self-care practices of fistula. After the completion of this study researcher planned for the enhance of the knowledge about the self-care practices of fistula by pamphlet and learning programme etc.
EFFICACY OF INTRATHECAL BUPRENORPHINE WITH BUPIVACAINE 0.5% AND FENTANYL WITH BUPIVACAINE 0.5% IN LOWER ABDOMINAL SURGERIES – A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Authors: R Jobitta , K Harshavardhan
Published: February 2021

Introduction : Spinal anesthesia is one of the commonest and preferred mode of anesthesia for lower abdominal and lower limb surgeries because of its safety and faster post-operative recovery. Bupivacaine is the commonly used anesthetic for intrathecal administration. Drugs such as Fentanyl, Buprenorphine, Clonidine, Dexmeditomedine have been tried as adjuvants to increase the duration of Analgesia and decrease post-operative pain, but addition of these drugs is wrought with side-effects like hypotension and bradycardia. This study aims to compare the efficacy of Fentanyl and Buprenorphine as adjuvants to intrathecal Bupivacaine in lower abdominal surgeries. Methodology : A total of 112 patients undergoing lower abdominal surgeries where administered either the combination of Buprenorphine with Bupivacaine (56 patients, Group B) or Fentanyl with Bupivacaine (56 patients, Group F). Intraoperatively, patients’ vitals HR, NIBP, SpO2, ECG were monitored every 2 minutes once for the first 10 minutes, every 10 minutes once for the next 50 minutes, and 15 minutes once till the end of surgery. Motor and Sensory blockade, duration of Analgesia and Post-operative pain were also recorded. Results : There was no significant difference in the baseline characteristics and intra-operative vitals between the groups. Patients in Group B had a faster Motor and Sensory blockade, longer duration of analgesia and lesser post-operative pain as compared to Group F. None of he patients included in the study had significant intra-operative hypotension or respiratory depression.
Conclusion : The addition of Buprenorphine to Bupivacaine is more efficacious than the addition of fentanyl to Bupivacaine and leads to better intra-operative and post-operative analgesia withourt significant side-effects.
THE STUDY ON ASSOCIATION BETWEEN URIC ACID AND ALBUMINURIA IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS
Authors: Yusuf Sk. Adnan , Jana Debarshi
Published: February 2021

Introduction: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized by the presence of chronic hyperglycemia accompanied by greater or lesser impairment in the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins resulting from defects in insulin secretion, action or both.
Aims & objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the association between serum uric acid & urinary Albumin to Creatinine Ratio (ACR) among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Material and Methods: 83 patients aged between 40 to 80 years was selected from Medicine OPD and indoor wards, Department of General Medicine, KPC Medical College & Hospital, West Bengal from 1august 2019 to 1august 2020. Type 2 Diabetics Melitus (T2DM) patients, Age: between 40 to 80 years. Age, Body weight, Height, BMI, serum uric acid, urinary albumin to creatine ratio (ACR), Fasting Blood Glucose (FBG), HbA1C, lipid profile, serum creatinine.
Conclusion: Present study found that positive correlation between serum uric acid with DBP, FBS, HB1AC, Serum Createnine, TG and LDL. There was negative correlation between serum uric acid with GFR and HDL, which were statistically significant.
A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF TOOTH STRUCTURE LOSS WHILE REMOVAL OF OLD COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH AND WITHOUT USING METHYLENE BLUE DYE: AN IN-VITRO STUDY.
Authors: Hadwani Krupali , Arora Ankit , Hirani Anoli , Shah Nimisha
Published: February 2021

Aims: A comparative evaluation of tooth structure loss while removal of old composite material with and without using methylene blue dye.
Materials and Methods: 50 sound, non-carious permanent molar teeth extracted for periodontal reasons were collected and standard class II cavities (two-thirds of facio-lingual width, 1.5 mm pulpal depth and 0.5 mm inside the DEJ) were prepared and teeth were subjected to rehydration and dehydration. Tooth mass were recorded using digital analytical balance. Teeth were restored with composite resin and stored in distilled water at 37°C and thermocycled for simulating ageing process (5°C-55°C/5000 cycles). Samples were then assigned into 2 groups: Removal of composite restoration was carried out without and with using methylene blue dye in respective groups. Tooth mass was recorded again. Teeth were dissolved in 65% nitric acid for 6 days and weight of remaining composite material was assessed.
Results: Loss of tooth structure was calculated using a structured formula. Loss of tooth structure was higher in GROUP A group with a t value of 1.408 but statistically not significant with a p value of 0.172. Comparison of the Remaining composite between the two groups showed that Remaining composite was higher in GROUP A group with a t value of 2.221 and is statistically significant with a p value of 0.039.
Conclusion: loss of tooth structure and remaining composite was lower when methylene blue dye was used. This can help in preserving the natural tooth structure during replacement of failed composite restoration.
A RANDOMIZED COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PROPOFOL INFUSION VERSUS SEVOFLURANE AS THE SOLE AMBULATORY ANAESTHETIC MAINTENANCE AGENT IN VARICOSE VEINS FOAM SCLEROTHERAPY.
Authors: Krishnamurthy Aduru , Nithianandam Seetharaman , G Sakthi Vignesh
Published: February 2021

Foam sclerotherapy as a surgical procedure for varicose vein has increased in popularity because it is easier, minimally invasive, early ambulation, less post operative morbidity and mortality and less complications. It can treat superficial veins, small and great saphenous vein varicosities as well as incompetent perforators, advanced varicosities with skin lesions and ulcers, by sclerosant agent injection directly with or without the help of vascular ultrasound in obese individuals, in thin veins and in difficulty to access the veins during injection of foam. Study was performed by the anaesthesiology department using general anaesthesia for patient comfort, early ambulation and discharge, avoiding regional anaesthesia.
FoodSQRBlock: Digitizing food production & supply chain with blockchain & QR code in the cloud
Authors: Dey Somdip , Saha Suman , Singh Amit , Mcdonald-Maier Klaus D.
Published: February 2021

Food safety is an important issue in today’s world. Traditional agri-food production system doesn’t offer easy traceability of the produce at any point of the supply chain, and hence, during a food-borne outbreak, it is very difficult to sift through food production data to track produce and origin of the outbreak. In recent years, blockchain based food production system has resolved this challenge, however, none of the proposed methodologies makes the food production data easily accessible, traceable and verifiable by consumers or producers using mobile/edge devices. In this paper, we propose FoodSQRBlock (Food Safety Quick Response Block), a blockchain technology based framework, which digitizes the food production information, and makes it easily accessible, traceable and verifiable by the consumers and producers by using QR codes. We also propose a large scale integration of FoodSQRBlock in the cloud to show the feasibility and scalability of the framework, and experimental evaluation to prove that.
Star Topology Convolution for Graph Representation Learning
Authors: Wu Chong , Feng Zhenan , Zheng Jiangbin , Zhang Houwang , Cao Jiawang , YAN Hong
Published: February 2021

We present a novel graph convolutional method called star topology convolution (STC). This method makes graph convolution more similar to conventional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in Euclidean feature space. Unlike most existing spectral methods, this method learns subgraphs which have a star topology rather than a fixed graph. Due to the good properties of a star topology, STC is graph/subgraph free. It has fewer parameters in its convolutional filter and is inductive so that it is more flexible and can be applied to large and evolving graphs. Similar to CNNs in Euclidean feature space, the convolutional filter is learnable and localized and maintains a good weight sharing property. To test the method, STC was compared to state-of-the-art spectral methods and spatial methods in a supervised learning setting on five benchmark datasets: Cora, Citeseer, Pubmed, Ogbn-Arxiv, and Ogbn-MAG. The experiment results show that STC outperforms other methods especially on large graphs. In an essential protein identification task, STC also outperforms state-of-the-art essential protein identification methods.
OUTLIER-ROBUST KERNEL HIERARCHICAL-OPTIMIZATION RLS ON A BUDGET WITH AFFINE CONSTRAINTS
Authors: Slavakis Konstantinos , Yukawa Masahiro
Published: February 2021

This paper introduces a non-parametric learning framework to combat outliers in online, multi-output, and nonlinear regression tasks. A hierarchical-optimization problem underpins the learning task: Search in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) for a function that minimizes a sample average $\ell_p$-norm ($1 \leq p \leq 2$) error loss on data contaminated by noise and outliers, subject to side information that takes the form of affine constraints defined as the set of minimizers of a quadratic loss on a finite number of faithful data devoid of noise and outliers. To surmount the computational obstacles inflicted by the choice of loss and the potentially infinite dimensional RKHS, approximations of the $\ell_p$-norm loss, as well as a novel twist of the criterion of approximate linear dependency are devised to keep the computational-complexity footprint of the proposed algorithm bounded over time. Numerical tests on datasets showcase the robust behavior of the advocated framework against different types of outliers, under a low computational load, while satisfying at the same time the affine constraints, in contrast to the state-of-the-art methods which are constraint agnostic.

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The Model-less Neuromimetic Chip and its Normalization of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Hales Colin
Published: February 2021

The conceptual basis of a novel neuromimetic chip
is described. Based on an existing computational bioelectrodynamics study and
adaptive brain signaling biophysics knowledge from neuroscience, the chip is,
in effect, a form of inorganic artificial brain tissue. This ‘physics
replication’ approach involves no abstract models of brain tissue physics or
function. Instead of the physics of a general-purpose computer or the physics
of abstract models of the brain on the chip (analogue or digital), this
neuromimetic chip has an inorganic version of natural adaptive brain signaling
physics. As a result of using the native brain physics, the chip has functionally
relevant endogenous quasistatic electric and magnetic field systems of the form
known to be expressed by excitable cell tissue. Fully developed at macroscopic
scales it can be expected to produce an EEG/MEG-like electromagnetic signature.
This article does an extended analysis to understand an observed generalized lack
of the physics-replication approach and its implications for the neuroscience
of natural and artificial intelligence. This is achieved through a technical
comparison with the neuromimetic chip’s closest relative, the neuromorphic chip
(of the class of general-purpose computers). The results indicate that the
physics-replication approach is a possible but neglected option. It also
reveals that the neuromimetic chip contributes empirical science, in contrast
to the theoretical science conducted using general-purpose computers. Because
of the chip’s novelty and proximity to foundational issues, the article
contributes necessary background information in anticipation of the arrival of
the first prototyping results over the coming years.
Learning From How Humans Correct
Authors: Guo Tong
Published: February 2021

In industry NLP application, our manually labeled data has a certain number of noisy data. We present a simple method to find the noisy data and relabel them manually, meanwhile we collect the correction information. Then we present novel method to incorporate the human correction information into deep learning model. Human know how to correct noisy data. So the correction information can be inject into deep learning model. We do the experiment on our own text classification dataset, which is manually labeled, because we need to relabel the noisy data in our dataset for our industry application. The experiment result shows that our learn-on-correction method improve the classification accuracy from 91.7% to 92.5% in test dataset. The 91.7% accuracy is trained on the corrected dataset, which improve the baseline from 83.3% to 91.7% in test dataset. The accuracy under human evaluation achieves more than 97%.
Learning From How Human Correct
Authors: Guo Tong
Published: February 2021

In industry NLP application, our manually labeled data has a certain number of noisy data. We present a simple method to find the noisy data and relabel them manually, meanwhile we collect the correction information. Then we present novel method to incorporate the human correction information into deep learning model. Human know how to correct noisy data. So the correction information can be inject into deep learning model. We do the experiment on our own text classification dataset, which is manually labeled, because we relabel the noisy data in our dataset for our industry application. The experiment result shows that our method improve the classification accuracy from 91.7% to 92.5%. The 91.7% baseline is based on BERT training on the corrected dataset, which is hard to surpass.
Secondary Network Throughput Analysis Applying SFR in OFDMA-CR Networks
Authors: Ghosh Joydev
Published: February 2021

In OFDMA femtocell networks, the licensed spectrum of the macro users (MUs) are available to the femto users (FUs), on the condition that they do not spark off notable interference to the MUs. We contemplate wireless data for femto user (FU) / secondary user (SU) in cognitive radio (CR) networks where the frame structure split up into sensing and data transmission slots. Moreover, we consider soft frequency reuse (SFR) technique to improve secondary network throughput by increasing the macrocell edge user power control factor. SFR applies a frequency reuse factor (FRF) of 1 to the terminal located at the cell centre for that all base stations (BSs) share the total spectrum. But for the transmission on each sub-carrier the BSs are confined to a certain power level. However, more than 1 FRF uses for the terminals near to the macrocell edge area. In this context, we conceptualize the cognitive femtocell in the uplink in which the femtocell access point (FAP) initially perceive by sensing to find out the availability of MU after that FAP revamps its action correspondingly. Appropriately, when the MU is sensed to be non-existent, the FU transmits at maximum power. In other respect, the FAP make the best use of the transmit power of the FU to optimize the secondary network throughput concern to outage limitation of the MU. Finally, effectiveness of the scheme is verified by the extensive matlab simulation.
GAMBARAN EPIDEMIOLOGI DAN STIGMA SOSIAL TERKAIT PANDEMI COVID-19 DI KOTA TANGERANG SELATAN TAHUN 2020
Authors: Sari Astri Kurnia , Febrianti Thresya
Published: February 2021

In December 2019, a case of peneumonia of unknown etiology was found in Wuhan, Hubei, China with clinical symptoms that closely resemble pneumonia, which is named COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic can cause feelings of fear of infection, anxiety, stigma, prejudice and marginalization of disease in patients, people at risk and healthy people to health workers. This study aims to describe the epidemiology  and social stigma associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in South Tangerang City in 2020. This research is a type of quantitative research with a descriptive method with a cross sectional approach. The study was conducted in July 2020. The population in this study were the people of South Tangerang City. The sample used was 107 respondents with purposive sampling technique. Retrieval of data using a questionnaire via google form. Based on the results of the study, 73.8% of the respondents were 17-25 years old, 70.1% of the respondents were female. , the occupational status of the respondents is mostly students as much as 60.7% and the sub-districts where the respondents are mostly residing in Pamulang is 29.0%. People who do not have a stigma on COVID-19 patients are 56.1%. It is hoped that the public will remain vigilant and carry out health protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic and avoid stigmatizing COVID-19 patients in order to avoid someone hiding their health status.
KESESUAIAN PENGELOLAAN DAN GAMBARAN PENGGUNAAN LOGISTIK FARMASI TROLI DI RUANG ICU RSUD ULIN BANJARMASIN
Authors:   Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan ISFI Banjarmasin, Wahyuni Amaliyah , Husnul Khotimah Alifa
Published: February 2021

Emergency medicine is life saving, so emergency management is important to improve emergency services. The implementation of emergency pharmaceutical logistics management must use an effective, coordinated and multidisciplinary process. The purpose of this study was to determine the percentage of suitability of emergency trolley management and the type of emergency pharmacy logistics with the highest frequency percentage of using emergency trolleys in the ICU room of RSUD Ulin Banjarmasin. This research is a non-experimental descriptive study, data were collected prospectively using observation sheets based on SPO and use sheets for emergency pharmacy logistics in the ICU room at RSUD Ulin Banjarmasin. The population and sample of this study were all observation data of emergency trolley management in the ICU Room. The sampling technique used is saturated sampling technique all populations as samples. Data analysis was performed by calculating the percentage of suitability and the data were presented in tabular form. The results showed that the overall percentage of suitability for emergency trolley on SPO was 43.4% and 56.6% unsuitable. The highest frequency of use of emergency drugs was Vascon (norefinephrine) 73.33%, while the highest medical equipment was at Surflo 20,22,24 86.67% and Spuit NGT 50cc / Spuit 50cc 86.67%.
FORMULASI DAN UJI SIFAT FISIK SEDIAAN GEL EKSTRAK ETANOLIK GANGGANG HIJAU (Ulva Lactuca LINN.)
Authors:   universitas alma ata, emelda emelda , Nada Septiawan Azizah , Ayu Pratiwi Dinda
Published: February 2021

One of the skin diseases that are often experienced by people is acne. The bacteria found in acne are P. acnes, S. aureus, and S. epidermidis. The preparation was chosen in this formulation because it is more practical and durable in storage. Gel preparations were chosen because it dry easily, can form a film layer that is easy to wash, and gives a cool feeling to the skin. Physical stability tests need to be carried out to ensure the quality, safety, and usefulness of the gel so that it meets the expected specifications and is stable in storage. This study aims to make a gel formulation and determine the physical properties of green algae Ethanolic extract gel. The optimum gel formula is determined based on variations in the concentration of Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose. The Gel that meets the criteria of homogeneity, consistency, pH , and dispersibility is determined as the optimum formula. The physical stability of the optimum formula was tested by organoleptic, homogeneity, pH test, spreadability test, and viscosity test. The gel that met the acceptance criteria was green algae ethanolic extract gel with a concentration of 3% HPMC so that it was determined as the optimum formula.
A Comparative Machine Learning Study on IT Sector Edge Nearer to Working From Home (WFH) Contract Category for Improving Productivity
Authors: Sungheetha Akey , Sharma R Rajesh
Published: February 2021

Many private companies in India offered working from home (WFH) for employees due to COVID’19 lockdown. The WFH has both merits and demerits for the employees as well as employer when it compared within office working environment. Many research works is showing many opinions about increases or decreases of productivity in the real time for any industries. This works talks about WFH impression is leads to edge nearer for the efficient productivity to any employer. In addition, the research article is providing survey of the benefits and demerits of WFH in India. In the view of the higher capacity, ultra very low level inactivity for better security is in the internetwork domain, there are lots of benefits in telework, and internet based work. The predicting development is done by Random Forest, Decision Tree, and Naïve Bayes for future with the help of three datasets. The datasets has taken from three types of general public such as city, town, and village for this research analysis. This research article is weighing up the rate of changes of productivity from the employees. Finally, this research work compares the learning method analysis includes prediction of rate of change of productivity from employees at city region. This prediction is computed by ML algorithm. Based on this prediction employers can improve and plan for their production and control the system in a better way.
The social dimension of the modern legal realities
Authors: Onishchenko Nataliia
Published: February 2021

We would like to note that the experience gained shows that the functioning of the legal system in the “regular mode” and inextreme conditions have, of course, significant differences: including, and perhaps primarily in the protection of rights, freedoms andlegitimate interests man.It is axiomatic, and this has been confirmed in practice, that it is social human rights that are the defining “concern”. A fewremarks are not so much a textbook textbook on the development of these rights, but on the segments that indicate the need for today’sactualization of their provision and protection.Finally: the purpose of social policy is to ensure the material well-being of citizens, to achieve stability and security of life insociety, the integrity and dynamism of its development.

It is known that society remains calm and stable, when the number of dissatisfied or disagree with public policy is not more thantwenty percent of the population.In addition, the implementation of “sound” social policy is impossible today without the following statements: it is important toemphasize that to ensure the practice of social human rights it is necessary to doctrinally develop and implement the category (socialresponsibilities) including social responsibility: state, business, each member civil society. Without proper, corresponding rights to raisethe question of proper social rights, it is neither possible in the theoretical sense nor in the practical sense.
Legal obligation as the legal value
Authors: Popovych Tereziia
Published: February 2021

The article describes some aspects of understanding legal values and legal obligations in modern legal science.To achieve the goal of the study, the author envisaged the performing such tasks as: clarifying the understanding of legal valuesand legal obligations used by legal science; proving the possibility of recognizing a legal obligation as a legal value; formulation of theconcept of legal obligation as a legal value.The author traces the interrelation between legal values and the legal order, emphasizing that without legal values, the rule of lawis ineffective, in turn, – legal values outside the legal order have no practical content.Based on this, the author proposes his own definition of the concept of legal values as ideal legal entities and principles that determinea person’s perception of the importance of law, assessment of phenomena occurring in society through law, form a certain modelof legal person’s behavior and are designed to ensure legal order and discipline in society.Given this understanding of legal values, as well as the position of modern legal science on the essence of legal obligation, theauthor defines the concept of legal obligation as a legal value: this is a legal prescription which is formulated by the state as necessaryto ensure law and order model of individual behavior, established in order to maintain the proper functioning of society as a collectivewhole and to ensure the interests of all its members, and fulfilled on the basis of the perception of certain behavior as fair and sociallyappropriate. The author’s approach to the justification of a legal obligation as a legal value is proposed due to the following factors: theperson’s perception of the relevant behavior as necessary, fair, socially acceptable, which expresses a socially significant benchmark;the formulation by the state through the legal norm the socially significant behavior; realization through such behavior the human socialnature as a part of the collective whole; the implementation of the principle of interdependence and complementarity of the rights andobligations of the individual.
Developing the right to social security: the experience of European countries
Authors: Alisoy Khalida
Published: February 2021

Goal: analysis of the development trend of social security law in the practice of developed European countries.Methods of research: analysis and study of domestic legislation on social security.Results: The article analyzes the legislation on social security of a number of economically developed countries of WesternEurope (Germany, France, Great Britain). The main purpose of the analysis is to identify the consistency of the social security legislationof these countries with international law and to identify opportunities to benefit from the positive experience of these countries ingeneral.A high level of social protection is being established in these countries. Nevertheless, the presence of differences in the internalpolitical situation, national traditions, the level of economic development and the social sphere is noted. It is recognized that the leadingstates of Western Europe, despite their natural differences, have common values that unite them. This is due to the fact that these stateshave long recognized that social justice and social equality contribute to economic development. The European social model providesfor joint actions of states and civil society in this area, aimed at meeting the material needs of all citizens, participation in society,strengthening social cohesion.Discussion: take advantage of the experience of developed European countries in the development of social security legislation.