bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Advance directives of patients: process of implementation by palliative care teams
Authors: Nogario Aline Carniato Dalle , Barlem Edison Luiz Devos , Tomaschewski-Barlem Jamila Geri , Silveira Rosemary Silva da , Cogo Silvana Bastos , Carvalho Deciane Pintanela de
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT Objectives: to investigate the process of implementing advance directives in palliative care teams in southern Brazil. Methods: an exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative approach conducted with 51 professionals from seven palliative care teams from December 2018 to April 2019. Data were collected through semi-structured online interviews and submitted to discursive textual analysis. Results: the implementation process starts on approach of the advance directives with patients, so that their wishes and desires are the guiding axis for planning care and conduct. Final Considerations: the palliative philosophy is important with regard to advance directives, due to the preparation of these professionals in the search for dignity, quality of life and respect for patient autonomy, in addition to reducing suffering and offering dignified death, based on the understanding of human finitude as a natural process that belongs to life.
Quality management in Human Milk Banks: a scope review
Authors: Fogliano Rosana Rodrigues Figueira , Bohomol Elena , Schveitzer Mariana Cabral , Coca Kelly Pereira , Abrão Ana Cristina Freitas de Vilhena
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify the main quality management interventions used by professionals working at Human Milk Banks. Methods: a scope review conducted at PubMed, VHL, Scopus, SciELO, CAPES thesis and Google Scholar databases. Primary studies were included that address quality improvement strategies to improve Milk Bank processes in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Results: search totaled 192 scientific studies, 17 of which met the objective of the study and inclusion criteria. The main quality management interventions used in the Human Milk Bank addressed tools for continuous improvement. Six were aimed at improving processes, one to prevent errors and failures and two to achieve continuous monitoring. Final Considerations: the tools used by professionals working in Human Milk Banks have demonstrated effectiveness in managing the quality of services.
Perception of nursing in Primary Health Care about patients with hypertension: does King explain?
Authors: Bezerra Sara Taciana Firmino , Guedes Maria Vilaní Cavalcante , Silva Lúcia de Fátima da
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT Objectives: to understand nurses’ perceptions about Imogene King’s concepts on CMIOS and its association with caring for patients with hypertension in Primary Health Care. Methods: a qualitative interventionist research with Family Health Strategy nurses who care for patients with hypertension at Primary Health Care in Maracanaú-CE. A focus group was held with seven nurses, in two audio-recorded and transcribed meetings, to analyze the production of meanings based on discursive practices. Results: the categories personal system, interpersonal system, and social system emerged referring to the potentialities and difficulties found both for understanding concepts, but also in the interaction with oneself, with hypertensive patients and health organization, with a view to adequate care for hypertensive patients. Final Considerations: it was verified the understanding of nurses’ knowledge in relation to King’s concepts, associating its application in the context of care for patients with hypertension.
Nurses and physicians’ perception of the care of oncology patients in the emergency department
Authors: Cogo Silvana Bastos , Reisdorfer Ariele Priebe , Beck Jéssica Luíza , Gomes Tais Falcão , Ilha Aline Gomes , Leon Pâmela Barros de , Girardon-Perlini Nara Marilene Oliveira
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT Objectives: to understand nurses’ and physicians’ perceptions of the care of people with cancer admitted to an emergency department of a general hospital. Methods: descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Data collection took place from September to November 2017 through semi-structured interviews in which participated 12 professionals from the emergency department, including nurses and physicians. The data were analyzed using Minayo’s operative proposal. Results: three categories emerged: 1) The person with cancer from nurses and physicians’ perspective; 2) Comprehensive care of people with cancer or deconfiguration in the emergency department?; and 3) The context of the emergency department and the repercussions on the care of people with cancer. Final Considerations: we identified that the care provided to people with cancer in the emergency department is carried out differently regarding the overall population due to the disease’s particularities, which lead us to reflect on the quality and humanization of care.
Structuring a philosophical and theoretical framework in the pedagogical project to teach nursing care
Authors: Bitencourt Julia Valeria de Oliveira Vargas , Martini Jussara Gue , Léo Marcela Martins Furlan de , Conceição Vander Monteiro da , Maestri Eleine , Biffi Priscila , Luzardo Adriana Remião
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the philosophical, theoretical and methodological conceptions of the Theory of Praxic Intervention in Nursing in Collective Health by professors at a federal university, aiming at structuring a reference proposal for teaching nursing care. Methods: Convergent Assistance Research, with 17 teachers, gathered in convergence groups for instrumentalization and production about the referential. Results: the focus was primarily on issues considered preliminary to the theoretical and philosophical deepening of theory; and then a theoretical-methodological essay on historicity and dialectics was developed for teaching in nursing care. Final Considerations: when electing Theory of Praxic Intervention in Nursing in Collective Health, the potential of the referential to make operational, in the teaching of assistance, the assumptions of historicity and dialectics operational, founding new conceptions for care. This decision represents a paradigmatic challenge exposing weaknesses in the formation related to its Cartesian origin and its limitations regarding intrinsic philosophical complexity.
Knowledge and practices of nursing professionals in caring for ostomates
Authors: Dalmolin Angélica , Girardon-Perlini Nara Marilene Oliveira , Beuter Margrid , Gomes Eduardo da Silva , Moraes Juliano Teixeira , Niestsche Elisabeta Albertina
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the knowledge and practices of nursing professionals in caring for people with colostomy bag. Method: a qualitative and descriptive study conducted with 21 nursing professionals from a General Surgery Unit. Data collection used triangulation of techniques, based on non-participant observation, analysis of nursing records, and semi-structured interviews. Analysis followed the spiral technique assumptions. Results: it was possible to comprehend the theoretical and scientific knowledge that subsidize practice; identify contradictions related to statement and care in the profession’s daily work and the intervening factors, which can facilitate and/or make the nursing care process difficult. Final Considerations: knowledge and practices of professionals in caring for ostomates occur within work experiences, in which socialization of knowledge makes it possible to expand the perspectives of care.
“Muitos como Um”: políticas curriculares, justiça social, equidade, democracia e as (im)possibilidades de diferir
Authors: Frangella Rita de Cássia Prazeres
Published: December 2020

RESUMO O artigo põe sob exame os sentidos de justiça social e equidade que vem norteando as políticas curriculares brasileiras nos últimos anos, pondo em destaque a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BRASIL, 2017). Analisa-se como esse sentido de justiça alinha-se as proposições de John Rawls (2000) em sua formulação de justiça como equidade, problematizando os princípios de sua teorização a partir do diálogo com Bhabha (2001), Derrida (2010), Laclau e Butler (2008) e Mouffe (1999, 2015), que compõem o referencial téorico que sustenta as argumentações feitas, numa perspectiva pós-estrutural discursiva. Argumenta-se que as significações de justiça e equidade, tomadas como igualdade/universalidade/homogeneidade, funcionam como tentativas de regulação e controle, e assim expulsam de suas formulações a “diferença”; a tomada da equidade como igualdade esvazia as lutas políticas pela significação, na refutação de múltiplas e diferentes perspectivas. Defende-se, a partir do diálogo com Mouffe, um outro sentido de justiça, assentado no pluralismo agonístico.
Disputas en torno al carácter de la educación pública en Uruguay: de la privatización latente a la privatización impuesta
Authors: Martinis Pablo
Published: December 2020

RESUMEN El artículo aborda, desde una perspectiva vinculada al análisis político del discurso, los procesos de privatización educativa en desarrollo en Uruguay en la última década. A través del análisis de materiales documentales se muestra como durante los gobiernos de centro izquierda del Frente Amplio (2005 - 2019) se generaron condiciones para una incipiente privatización. Se analiza que un primer paso dado por los sectores favorables a la privatización fue el de generar en la opinión pública una visión fuertemente crítica de la educación pública uruguaya. Estos sectores, integrados por actores empresarios, políticos y académicos, hicieron uso de la modalidad de “donaciones especiales” para financiar proyectos educativos definidos como “públicos de gestión privada”. Estos proyectos educativos fueron presentados como alternativas frente a la educación pública. A través de la información analizada se muestra como estas iniciativas han ganado espacios en la ciudadanía uruguaya. Finalmente se presenta como estas propuestas son retomadas y profundizadas por el gobierno de derechas instalado el 1 de marzo de 2020. Se deja abierta la necesidad de continuar profundizando en investigaciones sobre estos temas a los efectos de comprender de mejor forma los procesos en curso.
Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi: Radical Wanderings, Gestures of Terror and Fugitivity in Flesh*
Authors: Lopes Fabiana
Published: December 2020

Abstract In this essay, I provide a brief overview of Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi’s artistic output (works created between 2012 and 2018), focusing on some of her performances, ephemeral live actions, and writings. At the same time, I read Mattiuzzi’s practice in dialogue with a few other black woman artists from Brazil, thus offering one provisional and short mapping of the current output from black Brazilian artists. Through this mapping, I attempt to provide an expanded understanding of contemporary artistic production in Brazil and offer some insights on particular interventions to the field that have been made by black Brazilian artists. I also argue that, through what I am naming radical wanderings, Mattiuzzi stretches and deepens the tension created by her body and presence (and by art) in the public sphere, thus making a radical expansion on the discussion proposed by some of her contemporaries about black womanhood in Brazil. Moreover, I argue that Mattiuzzi’s aesthetic procedures (re)present a theoretical feminist intervention.
Mujeres Creando: militantes feministas e a arte de habitar o contraditório*
Authors: Oliveira Alessandro José
Published: December 2020

Resumo Este trabalho toma o coletivo feminista Mujeres Creando , da Bolívia, e suas atividades criativas de rua para tratar da arte da performance feminista. A partir da problematização da linguagem desenvolvida por algumas teóricas feministas, cunho a noção de “habitar o contraditório” para pensar a presença das mulheres nesta linguagem artística. O artigo está dividido em três momentos. O primeiro discute a recusa do coletivo Mujeres Creando em definir suas atividades expressivas de rua como arte performática e de sua participação artística em algumas galerias. O segundo propõe uma reflexão do corpo feminino em ação performática e o dilema que o inscreve simultaneamente no espaço do protesto e do desejo e o terceiro discute as polêmicas em torno da obra “Espaço para Abortar”, apresentada pelo coletivo na 31ª Bienal de Arte de São Paulo.
SAFETY IN EQUIPMENT AND DRESSING CHANGES FOR CENTRAL VASCULAR CATHETERS: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
Authors: Llapa-Rodríguez Eliana Ofelia , Linhares Sineide Souza Maia , Cunha Jéssica Oliveira da , Lopes Neto David , Oliveira Julian Katrin Albuquerque de , Lima Nicole Rebeca Silva
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the compliance of the nursing team's care practice in handling the central vascular catheter when changing dressings and equipment in an intensive care unit. Method: a descriptive, prospective, and observational research study. Data collection was conducted from January to March 2016 in an Intensive Care unit of a public hospital in Sergipe, northeastern Brazil. Direct observation of the professionals was conducted using a safe checklist. Descriptive statistics was used to determine the process indicators, and inferential statistics to determine the association between the variables, using the chi-square and Fisher's tests, with a 5% significance level. Results: 534 procedures corresponding to the exchange of equipment and dressings were observed, corresponding to 5,073 actions. As for the change of equipment, 2,136 actions were evaluated, most of them carried out by nursing technicians. Of the eight actions evaluated in each procedure, only two (25%) reached the desired compliance, with a positivity index between 90% and 99%. Regarding the dressing change, 2,937 actions were evaluated, all of which were performed by nurses. Of the eleven evaluated actions, eight (72%) achieved desired compliance, with a positivity index between 80% and 100%. Conclusion: the results analyzed are far from the desired compliances, demonstrating the need to implement strategies to ensure the safety culture during the care provided.
“CONHECE AQUELA DO DELEGADO?”: PIADAS SOBRE OS HOMENS DA LEI NO JORNAL SANTUARIO DA TRINDADE (1922-1931)
Authors: Galvão Andréia Márcia de Castro , Oliveira Eliézer Cardoso de
Published: December 2020

Resumo O artigo analisa a representação sobre autoridades policiais e jurídicas em Goiás, nas primeiras décadas do século XX, por meio de anedotas presentes no jornal católico Santuario da Trindade, em circulação de 1922 a 1931. Alguns subsídios teóricos oferecidos por Mikhail Bakhtin, como a ideia de carnavalização do mundo e realismo grotesco, são essenciais para pensar o humor presente nesse jornal, uma vez que tais anedotas ridicularizavam a atuação da força policial, demonstrando o que o autor caracterizou como a irreverência da cultura popular em relação às instituições sérias. Nesse sentido, essas piadas são percebidas como produções discursivas das camadas populares goianas, e passíveis de variadas interpretações: podem ser compreendidas não apenas como instrumentos de humor, grande amenizador das tensões cotidianas, mas também como expoentes de uma mentalidade coletiva, revelando certos modos de pensar da cultura sertaneja em relação à atuação jurídica e policial em Goiás.
NOVO ENSINO MÉDIO: DERIVA DE SENTIDOS EM UMA PROPAGANDA TELEVISIVA DO GOVERNO FEDERAL
Authors: Souza Carlos Fabiano de
Published: December 2020

Resumo Este artigo, à luz de um viés discursivo, parte da materialidade linguística presente em sete quadros recortados de um vídeo de propaganda televisiva do Novo Ensino Médio pelo Governo Federal para investigar a deriva de sentidos postos em circulação acerca da enunciabilidade inscrita nos discursos sobre trabalho e formação integral. A análise ancora-se na sociologia do discurso do Círculo de Bakhtin, tomando por base especialmente a concepção de material ideológico sígnico (VOLÓCHINOV, 2017 [1929; 1930]), e na AD de base enunciativa, a partir de fundamentos da semântica global proposta por Maingueneau (2008). Os resultados reforçam o efeito de silenciamento (ORLANDI, 2007) que atravessa essa medida do Governo, na qual a educação em nível médio tende a não contemplar a dimensão humana (integral), não concebendo o trabalho em sua dimensão educativa, ontológica, como constitutivo do homem, por meio do qual o indivíduo dá sentido ao mundo em que vive.
NACIONALIDADE NA IMPRENSA E NO RÁDIO: UMA POLÍTICA DE LÍNGUAS NA ERA VARGAS
Authors: Weber Andréa Franciéle
Published: December 2020

Resumo Este artigo estuda a regulação da nacionalidade no rádio e nos jornais, buscando interpretar seu efeito sobre a política de línguas nesses veículos. Para tanto, ancora-se na Análise de Discurso de linha francesa e na História das Ideias Linguísticas no Brasil. O corpus de análise envolve a legislação para os meios de comunicação promulgada durante a Era Vargas (1930-1945). O trabalho discute como a política para as nacionalidades resultou em uma política para as línguas na imprensa escrita e no rádio, ao favorecer ou limitar o direito à voz de brasileiros natos, brasileiros naturalizados e estrangeiros. Mostra, também, que a regulação do direito à palavra constituiu uma tentativa de controle da produção do discurso, provocando a interdição do estrangeiro nesses veículos.
The Significance of the Banda Sea: Tectonic Deformation Review in Eastern Sulawesi
Authors: Titu-Eki Adept , Hall Robert
Published: December 2020

DOI:10.17014/ijog.7.3.291-303The geology of eastern Sulawesi is widely known for its complexity due to multiple deformation stages.The geology on land has been studied excessively, but little assessment has been made on the offshore geology, thus the geological evolution of the area remains a subject of controversy. A thorough observation of high multibeam bathymetry dataset offshore and SRTM dataset onshore provides an understanding on the geological features relating to the tectonic deformation. Exquisite morphological features include carbonate buildups and gravitational collapse dominating the shelf areas whereas distinct form of ridges and seamount exists in the offshore. Structural features in this area including the major Tolo Thrust and South Sula Fault varied structural lineations on land with several polygonal extensional faulting and accretionary wedge on the west of the North Banda Sea. The existence of these features may indicate that the area was majorly deformed during Neogene, specifically relating to the opening of the Banda Sea due to the subduction rollback of Banda.
Pan-Demon, Emergency Reconfiguration. Pedagogy, Art, Humanity
Authors:   National University of Arts ”George Enescu” Iasi, Romania, Bălăiţă Vasilica , Darie Andreea ,   National University of Arts ”George Enescu” Iasi, Romania
Published: December 2020

The new pandemic times reveal, besides the dysfunctions of the health system, a profound and prolonged shortage of material and human resources, as well as psychical blockages, fears and all kinds of weaknesses that we are now forced to confront, being alone with ourselves and inside ourselves. And what is it that causes these meetings, these long adjourned encounters? If it is true that being political means integrating into the superstructure of political consciousness of a state, then solidarity can be considered the first political gesture of the Academic Artistic Community in Iasi. At the end of the pandemic, the main function of this facility will be to recover the memory of an event that took place on a global scale. Equally, it could be the beginning of the study in a new type of theatrical performance, addressing post-pandemically people massively affected mentally, emotionally, physically, and cognitively.
The Correlation Between Non-Speech Oral Motor Exercises (NSOME) and Speech Production in Childhood Apraxia of Speech Treatment. A Wide Clinical Retrospective Research
Authors:   DPT, clinician, Yaelcenter institute director, Vashdi Elad , Avramov Amit ,   Senior MDT and VML consultant, Yaelcenter, Falatov Špela ,   Center ZA zdravljenje avtizma Director, Yi-Chen Huang ,   MSPA-CPSP, Beyond speech pathology clinic director, Pei-Ru Jiang ,   BSpPath, Sunny Speech Pathology Clinic director, Mamina-Chiriac Paula Teodora ,   BS-Psych, Psychology Office
Published: December 2020

Purpose: The use of Non speech Oral Motor Exercises (NSOME) for motor speech sounds disorder treatment has been discussed in the literature in the last three decades, with most of the research presenting poor results for using NSOME. The purpose of this article was to add evidence related to that debate and show the correlations between NSOME and sound production among children diagnosed with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS). Another goal is to clarify the misuse of the term in clinical settings and literature, while presenting solutions to the debate. Method: 256 VML entry evaluations and 89 long term treatment processes were analysed retrospectively. The correlations between Single Sound Pronunciation (SSP) and NSOME variables (i.e. blowing, oral motor imitation and tongue movements) were calculated using the entry evaluation group, as well as the correlations between the changes in SSP and NSOME variables using the long-term group. Results: High correlations were found between NSOME variables and SSP in both groups tested. Conclusions: The results confirmed the relationship between oral motor skills and sound production. Theoretical explanations and practical implications are further discussed.
A Tale of Two Frontal Lobes. Clinical Perspectives of Cortical Interconnectivity
Authors:   LAS CT, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, St. Albans, United Kingdom, Voinea Alina – Ioana , Dobri Mirona Letitia ,   IIIrd Year Psychiatry Resident, “Socola”Institute of Psychiatry, Iasi, Romania, Moraru Codrina ,   IInd Year Psychiatry Resident, “Socola”Institute of Psychiatry, Iasi, Romania, Nechita Petronela ,   MD, PhD, Senior Psychiatrist, “Socola”Institute of Psychiatry, Iasi, Romania, Ciubara Anamaria ,   MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, “Dunarea de Jos” University
Published: December 2020

Even through centuries passed, while neurosciences were mistaken only for phrenology, and neuronal mapping did not exist as a self-sustained science, structural changes of the brain were associated, at various degrees, with reoccurring activities or behavioural patterns of the patient. An extraordinary neuroplasticity was therefore described, meant to complete the cerebral network, which sustained superior cognitive functioning and played an essential role in adapting to the environment. Most of this web of electrical impulses has its nodes inside the frontal system, in such a way that no one lobe can be identical to another, structurally or when considering informational content. Cortical interconnectivity observed in frontal lobes may be a measure of physiological variety, but also an aid in understanding linked psychopathology. The first case we will focus our attention on is Phineas Gage, the railway worker who marked the history of neuroscience through his bizarre accident and unexpected outcome. Beyond the myth, this famous patient amended the understanding of the brain’s organization and revolutionized functional cerebral mapping. From here on, we will follow the evolution of neuronal connectivity studies and their implications in psychiatric pathology, as they are known today. Neuroimaging studies on obsessive compulsive disorders, cerebral lesions masked by different psychiatric phenomena, as well as correlations between certain affected tracts and symptoms of psychotic disturbances, are all scientific events which may offer new directions in clinical psychopathology and can invoke different therapeutic resources. In conclusion, to follow studies of neuronal mapping and use the understanding we already have, might be the answer to more complex case management, improving a patient’s outcome and helping us choose treatment plans more effectively. As a story unfolding from two opposing perspectives, the science behind cortical interconnectivity stands witness to different principles acting in conjunction for better results, should one only use it.
Quality Assurance of Higher Education Governance and Management: An Exploration of the Minimum Imperative for the Envisioned African Common Higher Education Space
Authors: Nabaho Lazarus , Turyasingura Wilberforce , Kiiza Alfred Kenneth , Andama Felix , Beinebyabo Adrian
Published: December 2020

In 2018, as part of the African higher education harmonisation drive, the African Union Commission (AUC) issued the African Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ASG-QA). Within the ASG-QA, the AUC commits to promoting good governance and management in higher education institutions and provides governance and management as the second standard. However, there is a dearth of knowledge about the governance and management architecture for higher education institutions in the African higher education landscape that is either implicit or explicit in the ASG-QA. Against the above backdrop—using the ASG-QA as a source of data and content analysis as a data analysis method—the paper examines the governance and management imperative for higher education institutions in the African higher education landscape from the perspective of the AUC. Six themes relating to Africa’s higher education governance and management landscape emerged from the data: the role of the state (or government) in higher education, the internal governance framework, focus on quality and quality enhancement, observance of values of higher education, adherence to the principles of good governance, and capable leadership. The findings suggest that the governance and management architecture under the ASG-QA leans more towards providing common standards for quality assessment of governance and management than creating an identical national higher education governance and management ecosystem across Africa.
X-Band/C-Band-Comparison of Ship Wake Detectability
Authors: Tings Björn , Jacobsen Sven , Wiehle Stefan , Schwarz Egbert , Daedelow Holger
Published: December 2020

Recent studies investigated the detectability of ship wake signatures on SAR imagery using a large number of SAR images collocated with Automatic Identification System data for training machine learning models. These detectability models are in agreement with oceanographic expectations from preceding studies and can therefore be used for comparing the performance of different SAR sensors in terms of wake detectability. Previous model comparisons showed better wake detection performance of TerraSAR-X (TS-X) than of RADARSAT-2 (RS2) and Sentinel-1 (S1). A comparison between CosmoSkymed (CSK) and RS2 is performed here, to examine the hypothesis that X-Band is generally better for wake detection than C-Band. Finally, this hypothesis is not confirmed, as the detectability models for TS-X, CSK and RS2 reveal similar performances. A comparison of wake detection performance should take the individual wake components into account separately.
Non-invertible Public Key Certificates
Authors: Lizama-Pérez Luis , López J. Mauricio
Published: December 2020

Post-quantum public cryptosystems introduced so far do not define an scalable public key infrastructure for the quantum era. We demonstrate here a public certification system based in Lizama’s non-invertible Key Exchange Protocol which can be used to implement a public key infrastructure (PKI), secure, scalable, interoperable and efficient. We show functionality of certificates across different certification domains. Finally, we discuss that non-invertible certificates can exhibit Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS).
Potential Distribution of Aedes (Ochlerotatus) scapularis (Diptera: Culicidae): A Vector Mosquito New to the Florida Peninsula
Authors: Campbell Lindsay P. , Burkett-Cadena Nathan , Miqueli Evaristo , Unlu Isik , Sloyer Kristin , Medina Johana , Vasquez Chalmers , Petrie William , Reeves Lawrence
Published: December 2020

Aedes scapularis is a neotropical mosquito known to transmit pathogens of medical and veterinary importance. Its recent establishment in southeastern Florida has potential public health implications. We used an ecological niche modeling approach to predict the abiotic environmental suitability for Ae. scapularis across much of the Americas and Caribbean Islands. Georeferenced occurrence data obtained from the Global Biodiversity Inventory Facility and recent collection records of Ae. scapularis from southern Florida served as input for model calibration. Environmental layers included bioclimatic variables provided in 2000 to 2010 average Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications climatic (MERRAclim) data. Models were run in the software program Maxent. Isothermality values found often in costal environments contributed strongest to model performance. Model projections suggested areas predicted suitable for Ae. scapularis across portions of the Amazon Basin, the Yucatán Peninsula, the Florida Peninsula, and multiple Caribbean Islands. Additionally, model predictions suggested connectivity of highly suitable or relatively suitable environments spanning the United States Gulf Coast, which may facilitate geographic expansion of this species. At least sixteen Florida counties were predicted highly suitable for Ae. scapularis, suggesting vigilance is needed by vector control and public health agencies to recognize further spread of this vector.
Entangled Particles Spinning on the Black Hole Horizon
Authors: Bousder Mostafa
Published: December 2020

In this paper, we present a technique to unify the Reissner–Nordstr¨om metric and the Kerr–Newman metric. We construct a specifific model and calculate the entanglement entropy of black horizon. We are interested in the entangled particle and antiparticle spinning on the black hole horizon. The two Reissner-Nordstr¨om horizons r±, are the results of the rotation of several entangled particle-antiparticle on the real horizon. The energy absorbed by a black hole is transformed into a kinetic energy of the entangled particle-antiparticles. This study provides a new type of black hole metric. We show that the rotation of an entangled system of a particle and an antiparticle can create a extremal black hole. We also explore some of the implications of this point of view for the black hole entanglement.
Offline-Online Change Detection for Sentinel-1 InSAR Time Series
Authors: Hussain Ekbal , Novellino Alessandro , Jordan Colm , Bateson Luke
Published: December 2020

Traditional applications of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data involved inverting an interferogram stack to determine the average displacement velocity. While this approach has useful applications in continuously deforming regions, much information is lost by simply fitting a line through the time series. Thanks to regular acquisitions across most of the the world by the ESA Sentinel-1 satellite constellation, we are now in a position to explore opportunities for near-real time deformation monitoring. In this paper we present a simple statistical approach for detecting offsets and gradient changes in InSAR time series. Our key assumption is that 5 years of Sentinel-1 data is sufficient to calculate the population standard deviation of the detection variables. Our offset detector identifies statistically significant peaks in the first, second and third difference series. The gradient change detector identifies statistically significant movements in the second derivative series. We exploit the high spatial resolution of Sentinel-1 data and the spatial continuity of geophysical deformation signals to filter out false positive detections that arise due to signal noise. When combined with near-real time processing of InSAR data these detectors, particularly the gradient change, could be used to detect incipient ground deformation associated with geophysical phenomena, for example from landslides or volcanic eruptions.
Nueva Ecija’s Philippine Lime (Citrofortunella microcarpa) Agribusiness Industry: Marketing Disputes and Economic Outlooks
Authors: Quijano Ma. Florisa , Quijano Gerald , Diaz Rowell
Published: December 2020

Philippine Lime or Calamansi is considered one of the Philippine high-value crops in Nueva Ecija province. This article presents some issues and problems of the calamansi industry in terms of marketing. The study used a descriptive survey of 56 farm-owners or calamansi growers. Findings revealed that lime production could be a stable income source if the growers can provide the necessary production inputs on a sustainable basis. Calamansi farmers in the province some often confronted with the following problems: the high cost of farm inputs, price fluctuations, price manipulation of big-time traders, and other intermediaries. The study also found out that the existing actors in the chain were limited to growers, laborers, agri-supply shops, nursery owners, intermediaries, and traders. In terms of trading, there is a high degree of competition among traders in the market. The findings and results from this study may have important factors in developing and designing effective agricultural marketing program and startegic development plan by the authorities in the region.
Cryptococcal Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome: From Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers to Treatment Approaches
Authors: Brienze Vânia Maria Sabadoto , André Júlio César , Liso Elisabete , Louis Irina Vlasova-St.
Published: December 2020

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) presents as an exaggerated immune reaction that occurs during dysregulated immune restoration in immunocompromised patients in late-stage HIV infection who commenced antiretroviral treatments. Virtually, any opportunistic pathogen can provoke this type of immune restoration disorders. In this review, we focus on recent development in the identification of risk factors for Cryptococcal IRIS and on advancements in our understanding of C-IRIS immunopathogenesis. We overview new findings in blood and cerebrospinal fluid which can potentially be useful in the diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis IRIS. We assess the utility of these biomarkers to identify putative host-based targets, which may justify a clinical need for improvement in monitoring a patient’s laboratory results and adjusting treatment modalities in AIDS patients co-infected with Cryptococcus.
A Peptide-Based Neoantigen Vaccine for Patients With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Refractory to Standard Treatment
Authors: Chen Zheling , Zhang Shanshan , Han Ning , Jiang Jiahong , Xu Yunyun , Ma Dongying , Wang Huimin , Guo Xiaojie , Luo Kai , Qiu Min , Huang Qinxue , Liang Liu , Mo Fan , Chen Shuqing , Yang Liu
Published: December 2020

Background: Tumor-specific neoantigens are considered as personalized and potential ultimate targets for cancer immunotherapy. Recently, neoantigen cancer vaccines have been designed to train the patient's immune system to specifically target and kill tumor cells. However, the safety and efficacy of neoantigen vaccines in pancreatic cancer treatment remain poorly understood. Methods: Personalized peptide neoantigen cancer vaccines were successfully designed and manufactured for pancreatic cancers with low tumor mutation burden. Seven patients with advanced pancreatic cancer refractory to standard treatments were enrolled and treated with personalized peptide neoantigen vaccine, iNeo-Vac-P01. Besides the evaluation of the safety and clinical efficacy of iNeo-Vac- P01, pre- and post-vaccination peripheral blood samples were collected to analyze the vaccine’s immunogenicity.Results: For all 7 patients, none sever vaccine-related adverse effects was witnessed. The mean progression free survival, overall survival (OS) and OS associated with vaccine treatment were 3.1, 24.1 and 8.3 months, respectively. For Patient P01, who had a 21-month OS associated with vaccine treatment, the abundance of the TCR clone remarkably increased after vaccination, indicating the potential of iNeo-Vac-P01 to specifically induce a subset of T cells to kill tumor cells. This study also demonstrated that the quantity of IFN-γ in peripheral blood might be a potential biomarker for OS.Conclusions: We believed that it was the first tentative study focused in the application of peptide-based neoantigen cancer vaccine in advanced pancreatic cancer. Promisingly, personalized peptide neoantigen vaccine might provide a new strategy to improve the limited clinical efficacy for pancreatic cancer.Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03645148. Registered August 24, 2018 - Retrospectively registered, https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03645148?term=neoantigen&cond=Pancreatic+Cancer&cntry=CN&draw=2&rank=1
Retos y oportunidades del diseño participativo en tecnología educativa
Authors: Gros Begoña , Durall Eva
Published: December 2020

El diseño participativo está teniendo una importante incidencia en el diseño de entornos de aprendizaje mediados por tecnología. Cada vez es más frecuente utilizar los enfoques participativos y de codiseño para involucrar a docentes y a estudiantes en el diseño de la tecnología para generar soluciones centradas en las necesidades de las personas que se verán afectadas al utilizarlas. El diseño participativo pretende involucrar a los grupos afectados desde el inicio del diseño, lo que implica tener en consideración la complejidad que supone dar voz a personas con conocimientos, necesidades y roles diferentes. El objetivo principal de esta contribución es analizar el papel actual del diseño participativo con relación a la investigación e innovación en tecnología educativa.  Se analiza el origen de este tipo de enfoque y las aplicaciones más habituales en el ámbito educativo. Posteriormente,  se describen los métodos que facilitaran la comunicación y colaboración entre las diseñadoras y participantes, se analizan los principios clave en el diseño participativo, y, finalmente, se exponen las implicaciones del diseño participativo para la investigación e innovación en tecnología educativa.
Codiseño educativo haciendo uso de las TIC en educación superior una revisión sistemática de literatura
Authors: Santana Martel Jennifer Saray , Perez-i-Garcias Adolfina
Published: December 2020

Esta revisión sistemática de literatura (RSL) presenta el análisis bibliométrico de los documentos seleccionados, la forma en que los profesores y los estudiantes co-diseñan dentro del currículo de una asignatura haciendo uso las tecnologías de la información y del conocimiento (TIC) en la educación superior (ES), así como los beneficios y desafíos que surgen en este proceso.  Para filtrar los artículos se seleccionaron cuatro criterios de inclusión: fuente (bases de datos Scopus y Redalyc), idioma (español e inglés), periodo de tiempo (2014-2019) y contexto (co-diseño entre profesores y estudiantes haciendo uso de la tecnología dentro del marco de una asignatura en instituciones de ES). Los resultados muestran que no existe un proceso unificado para co-diseñar haciendo uso de las TIC en ES. Además, el co-diseño educativo (CE) muestra varios desafíos, sin embargo, son esos mismos, los que hacen que la asociación entre profesor y alumnado sea beneficiosa. No obstante, para superar estos obstáculos, se sugirieron algunos requisitos a cumplir para el buen funcionamiento del CE. Se recomienda, diseñar un modelo de CE mediado por tecnología educativa que establezca secuencias didácticas, así como, indagar sobre cómo co-diseñar la evaluación entre profesor y estudiante haciendo uso de las TIC.
The Endocannabinoid System as Modulator of Exercise Benefits in Mental Health
Authors: Amatriain-Fernández Sandra , Budde Henning , Gronwald Thomas , Quiroga Carla , Carreón Cristina , Viana-Torre Gerardo , Yamamoto Tetsuya , Imperatori Claudio , Machado Sérgio , Murillo-Rodríguez Eric
Published: December 2020

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 47 million people display mental
health disorders Worldwide. In addition, epidemiological studies have shown that the extension of life
expectancy and the increase in aged population will significantly impact the prevalence of several
mental impairments. Although there are strategies for preventing and alleviating mental illnesses, such
as pharmacological and psychological approaches, limited results have been observed. Thus, the search
for new therapeutics for managing psychiatric disorders has explored multiple roads. In recent years, it
has been demonstrated that physical activity and exercise promote health benefits. On the other hand,
among the neurobiological systems that participate in the genesis and development of mental disruptions,
the endocannabinoid system has been suggested as an active player. Supporting this hypothesis,
data suggest that the elements comprising the endocannabinoid system, such as the CB1/CB2 cannabinoid
receptors, endogenous ligands (N-arachidonoylethanolamine [anandamide, AEA] and 2-
arachidonoylglycerol [2-AG]), transporters and the enzymes involved in the biosynthesis and degradation
of the AEA and 2-AG, modulate mental diseases. In this review, we discuss that the endocannabinoid
system might be considered as a modulator for the positive outcomes of exercise in the management
of mental disorders. Clinically, this promising field might be exploited by targeting the elements
of the endocannabinoid system aimed to increase the exercise benefits applied to patients with
mental illnesses.
Strategy for the Alignment of Singapore Flight Information Region Over Indonesian Airspace
Authors: Supriyadi A.A. , Gultom RAG. , Manessa MDM. , Setyanto A.
Published: December 2020

Introduction:

The violation of the Flight Information Region (FIR) over Indonesian airspace is one of the strategic issues related to the sovereignty of Indonesia.

Methods:

It requires a strategy for the alignment of the Indonesian FIR. One of the difficulties associated with the alignment process is managing the FIR, which is completely determined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) owing to safety reasons.

Results and Discussion:

It is necessary to examine the preparedness and strategy of the Indonesian government to convince the ICAO and the international community that Indonesia is capable of controlling, managing, and securing Indonesian FIR airspace.

Conclusion:

This study proposes a roadmap for this FIR alignment strategy in an effort to maintain the integrity and sovereignty of the Indonesian region.
Organic Carbon and Particle-Size Distribution in the Littoral Bottom Sediments of the Laspi Bay (the Black Sea)
Authors: Orekhova N. A. ,   Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, Russian Federation, Ovsyany E. I. ,   Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, Russia
Published: December 2020

Purpose. The work is aimed at estimating the organic carbon abundance in the bottom sediments of the littoral zone in connection with the state of macrozoobenthos in the Sevastopol region coastal waters with different levels of the anthropogenic pressure (by the example of the Laspi Bay). Methods and Results. The samples were taken in the dynamically active coastal-shelf zone (up to the depths ~ 20 m) of the Laspi Bay in September, 2017. Two samples were taken during the 103rd cruise of R/V "Professor Vodyanitsky" (September, 2018). The geochemical composition of bottom sediments was investigated. The bottom sediments of natural humidity were analyzed in accordance with the requirements of the regulatory documents. In the sediments containing the aleurite fraction in the central part of the Laspi Bay (station 4), the organic carbon content (Сorg) increased its natural course up to 0.46 %, but did not exceed its maximum values characteristic of the similar lithological sediments in the shallow-water part of the Crimea Southern Coast (1.14 %). In the deep part of the bay occupied with the aleurite-pelitic silt, the Сorg content exceeded 2 %. Absence of the Сorg accumulation within the depths under study is conditioned primarily by the grain-size composition of the bottom sediments, the hydrodynamic factor and the morphometric features of this coastal site. Presence of a small portion of the aleurite-pelitic fraction in the bottom sediments also does not promote the organic carbon accumulation. Thus, spatial distribution of the carbon organic and inorganic forms is conditioned by the features of the matters’ lateral migration, which, in its turn, is governed by dependence of the bottom sediments’ chemical and dispersion structure upon the environmental morphodynamic conditions. Conclusions. The littoral sediments were found to be characterized by a low organic content (Сorg = 0.16 %) not exceeding the geochemical background values of the surface bottom sediments in the Black Sea shelf zones. At present, the organic matter accumulation is determined by the features of the environmental morphodynamic conditions (transition of fine particles to the deep zones) and by the dispersed composition of the bottom sediments.
A hundred years of Milutin Milankovic's climate change theory-geological implications
Authors: Radivojevic Dejan
Published: December 2020

Milankovic?s cycles theory published hundred years ago is the most important theory in climate science and had great influence on Earth disciplines. Nevertheless, his work waited for more than fifty years for confirmation. It could be said that Milankovic?s work had most influence in creation of Astronomic Time Scale, supporting of continental drift hypothesis and palaeoclimatology implications. Positive results of the implementation of the astronomic time scale to the Neogene stratigraphy initiated the application of this method within the Mesozoic, and lately also to the Paleozoic sediments. Milankovic?s manuscript of astronomical forcing of climate changes led to fruitful cooperation with Alfred Wegener who was searching for additional arguments to validate his continental drift hypothesis. The factors that cause climate changes enable insight to the geological past, but also the possibility to model the climate conditions which await us in the future. Climate change prediction allowed people, as only being aware of its influence, to act preventively and take all measurements needed to reduce greenhouse gasses emission.
Spillover impact of the US unconventional monetary policy and uncertainties on stock-bond correlations
Authors: Hadood Abobaker , Gokmenoglu Korhan
Published: December 2020

This paper investigates the spillover impact of US unconventional monetary policy and uncertainty factors on the time-varying co-movements between the US stock market and 14 advanced countries? bond markets, as based on monthly data from January 2002, to October 2015, and utilising the conditional nonlinear quantile regression approach. The empirical results reveal that US unconventional monetary policy has an asymmetric positive effect on stockbond market co-movements, with a nonlinear effect in France and Denmark and a strong effect in the UK and Finland. Further, US bond market uncertainty has heterogeneous effects on stock-bond market co-movements, with a nonlinear effect in France and Denmark and a strong effect in Finland and Sweden. In addition, default risk spread positively influences stock-bond market co-movements across most countries for all quantiles. In contrast, stock-bond market comovements negatively and symmetrically respond to the US stock market uncertainty in most countries. Finally, stock-bond co-movements exhibit mixed responses to US economic policy uncertainty across countries. Our results have valuable implications for international investors who allocate capital across developed countries? stock and bond markets. Our findings provide important information for financial communities with regard to diversification and hedging.