bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
वीरेकी आमा कथामा जातीय शक्तिसम्बन्ध
Authors: पोखरेल गुरुप्रसाद
Published: October 2023

प्रस्तुत लेखमा रमेश विकलको 'वीरेकी आमा’ कथामा आधारित भई वर्णवादी समाजको माथिल्लो जात मानिने ब्राह्मण र तल्लो जात मानिने दलितबिचको श्रेणीक्रममा आधारित जातीय शक्तिसम्बन्ध देखाइएको छ । यस कथामा तत्कालीन नेपाली समाजको वर्णाश्रमयुक्त व्यवस्थामा आधारित कथित उच्च जातीय आर्थिक सम्बन्ध र त्यसका आडमा कथित निम्न जातिमाथि गरिएको विभेदजन्य तथा उत्पीडनकारी जातीय शक्तिसम्बन्ध प्रस्तुत गरिएको छ । सर्वेक्षण, सूक्ष्म पठन तथा पाठविश्लेषणको विधि प्रयोग गरी समग्रमा विश्लेषणात्मक विधिमार्फत सामान्यीकृत निष्कर्ष प्रस्तुत गरिएको यस अध्ययनमा सांस्कृतिक अध्ययनअन्तर्गत जातीय शक्तिसम्बन्धको विश्लेषण गरिएको छ । सीमान्तीकृत समुदायको निम्न जातको कमजोर आर्थिक अवस्था देखाइएको यस कथामा ग्रामीण जीवनका निम्न जातीय समुदायका पीडा, दुःख र जीवनसङ्घर्षको प्रस्तुति छ । यसमा तत्कालीन समाजमा सामन्तवादी विमर्शात्मक संरचना क्रियाशील रहेका कारण उत्पादनका साधनमाथि उच्च जातीयवर्गीय वर्चस्व कायम भएको छ र त्यसबाट निर्मित तथा प्रसारित ज्ञानका कारण जातीय शक्तिसम्बन्ध धमिलिई शत्रुतापूर्ण बनेको देखाइएको छ । तत्कालीन समाजमा उत्पादनका सबै साधनमाथि कथित उच्च जातको वर्चस्व रहेको हुनाले वितरण प्रणाली र सामाजिक प्रभुत्वमा पनि उच्च जात भनिएकाकै आधिपत्य स्थापित भएको देखाइएको यसमा जातीय विभेद, दमन र तत्कालीन समाजमा स्थापित सामन्ती ढाँचाको विमर्शात्मक संरचनाले कथित उच्च जातलाई शासक र निम्न जातलाई शासितको स्थान तय गरिदिएर वर्गीय दमन र शोषणका लागि आधार तयार पारेको देखाइएको छ । स्थानीय सत्तामा कथित उच्च जातकै वर्चस्व रहेको र केन्द्रीय सत्तासम्मको पहुँचसमेत उच्च जातकै भएका कारण श्रमको मूल्य निर्धारण, सामाजिक न्याय, श्रमको अतिरिक्त मूल्यको शोषण जस्ता कार्यमा कथित उच्च जातले छुट पाएको विषयवस्तु यस कथामा छ । तत्कालीन वर्णवादी समाजमा एउटा जातले अर्को जातमाथि गर्ने विभेद, शोषण, दमन र उत्पीडनको स्वरूपलाई निष्कर्षका रूपमा प्रस्तुत गरिएको यस अध्ययनमा सामन्तवादी,पुँजीवादी, वर्णवादी समाज र सामाजिक संरचना भएकै कारणले त्यस बेलाको विमर्शात्मक संरचना नै निम्न जातमाथि सत्ता र शक्तिको पहुँचका कारण शोषण गर्न क्रियाशील थियो भन्ने निष्कर्ष प्रस्तुत गरिएको छ ।
Representasi Wajah Kota Yogyakarta dalam Wacana Meme di Media Sosial
Authors: Zuhdah Daumi Rahmatika
Published: October 2023

Melalui Meme, warganet menciptakan suatu wacana dengan berbagai bentuk tanda-tanda untuk merekonstruksi realitas kehidupan di Yogyakarta. Sehingga masyarakat menyebarluaskan wacana meme berdasarkan pengalaman dan ekspektasi mereka terhadap kota Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan persepsi masyarakat terhadap kota Yogyakarta melalui Meme. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan analisis semiotika Barthes. Data penelitian diambil dari tanda verbal dan nonverbal pada sumber data wacana meme. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan mengamati dan mengarsipkan meme tentang kota Yogyakarta di Twitter. Analisis data dilakukan dengan mengelompokkan isu-isu teratas yang dibicarakan dalam meme, kemudian dianalisis secara deskriptif menggunakan semiotika Roland Barthes. Hasil penelitian menemukan bahwa meme tentang Yogyakarta disampaikan dalam bentuk satir dan balutan humor dengan kesan negatif. Berdasarkan analisis, penggambaran Yogyakarta dikaitkan dengan persoalan-persoalan sosial yang jarang dibicarakan dan diketahui oleh orang luar Yogyakarta. Gelar kota ‘istimewa’ semakin ditanyakan mengingat orang semakin membuka sisi lain dari Yogyakarta.
Remissão diabética de um felino sem raça definida: Relato de caso
Authors: Zauza Bruna Invernizzi , Mattei Antonella Souza
Published: October 2023

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a syndrome characterized by persistent hyperglycemia due to the lack of insulin or the incapacity of exerting its metabolic effects. Along with hyperthyroidism, it is one of the most common endocrine diseases in felines, with obese cats having 3.9 x more chance of developing DM compared to cats with an ideal body condition score. This report describes the case of a feline, female, 5 years old, spayed, mixed breed, with a history of obesity (prior body condition score 8/9), presenting weight loss and polyphagia. The history of obesity associated with the clinical manifestations suggested the possibility of DM, which was confirmed due to hyperglycemia, glycosuria and the increase of fructosamine values. Therapy was instituted using insulin Glargine, a supporting diet for obesity and environmental enrichment, resulting in remission of DM.
PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN CONCEPT SENTENCE BERBANTUAN MEDIA FLASH CARD PADA MATA PELAJARAN BAHASA INDONESIA SISWA KELAS V SD NEGERI 1 LUBUKLINGGAU
Authors: Permata Sari Dwi Alia , Ariani Tri , Sofiarini Andriana
Published: October 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui ketuntasan hasil belajar Bahasa Indonesia kelas V SD Negeri 1 Lubuklinggau setelah diterapkan Model Pembelajaran Concept Sentence Berbantuan Media Flash Card. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan metode eksperimen dengan desain eksperimen one group. Populasi dalam penelitian ini yaitu seluruh siswa kelas V SD Negeri 1 Lubuklinggau. Teknik pengumpulan sampel menggunakan sample jenuh. Sampel dalam penenlitian ini dari seluruh kelas V yang berjumlah 16 siswa. Instrument yang digunakan berbentuk soal essay 14 soal. Pengumpulan data diambil dengan teknik tes. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan rumus uji “t”. berdasarkan hasil uji hipotesis diperoleh thitung = 11,2 dengan derajat kebebasan dk = n-1 = 16-1 = 15 dan  = 5% diperoleh  ttabel = 1,753, maka thitung = 11,2 ttabel 1,753 yang bearti Ho ditolak dan H  diterima. Sehingga disimpulkan bahwa hasil belajar Bahasa Indonesia siswa kelas V SD Negeri 1 Lubuklinggau setelah diterapkan model pembelajaran Concept Sentence Berbantuan Media Flash Card secara signifikan tuntas.
Tarihi seramik objelere uygulanan koruma ve onarım teknikleri
Authors: Timur Serkan , Çakıcı Fatma Zehra
Published: October 2023

Kazılar sırasında ortaya çıkan arkeolojik seramik buluntuları, form bütünlüğünü korumuş olanlarının yanı sıra çoğunlukla parçalar halinde dağınık olarak gün yüzüne çıkarılmaktadır. Sadece kullanım süreci ve kazı esnasında değil müzelerin sergi alanlarında veya depolardaki olumsuz koşullar neticesinde çeşitli deformasyonlara uğrayan seramik eserlerin mevcut durumlarının iyileştirilmesi ve gelecek kuşaklara aktarılması için çeşitli koruma ve onarım yöntemleri uygulanmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, çeşitli seramik obje örnekleri üzerinden koruma ve onarım çalışmalarında takip edilecek uygulama adımlarının yanı sıra bu uygulamalarda kullanılan malzeme, teknik ve uygun paketleme işlemleri araştırılmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında, sadece incelenen objelere uygulanan yöntemler ele alınmış olup, farklı objelerde, farklı malzeme ve tekniklerin kullanılabileceği unutulmamalıdır. Her objede aynı derece bozulma türü ve tahribat meydana gelemeyeceği gibi, uygulanan teknik ve malzemelerin de buna bağlı olarak değişkenlik göstermesi kaçınılmazdır.
Puncture site bleeding complications of peripheral nerve block in patients taking antithrombotic and anticoagulant drugs: An umbrella review
Authors: Rastgarian Ahmad , Dehghani Khatereh , Shafa Shahram , Sanie Jahromi Mohammad Sadegh , Deylami Mansour , Azizi Soha , Zarenezhad Mohammad , Hedayati Emami Kaveh , Rahmanian Vahid , Zarei Tayyebeh , Kalani Navid
Published: October 2023

background: While there are multiple guidelines for the management of bleeding complications and hematoma if being treated with antithrombotic and anticoagulant drugs, these risks are not yet stratified for procedures with regional anesthesia. Materials and Methods: This study was an umbrella review of systematic studies and meta-analysis based on PRISMA guidelines in databases of Scopus, PubMed, Medline, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science databases. Due to heterogeneity in evaluated outcomes and methods of studies, only the qualitative evidence synthesis was performed.  AMSTAR checklist was used to assess the risk of bias in included systematic reviews. Results: After an extensive search of relevant studies, 971 primary cases were identified. Following a thorough screening process, 5 systematic reviews were selected. The evidence suggests that head and neck punctures generally do not result in bleeding complications, except for rare cases of hematoma associated with Infraclavicular brachial plexus block. A deep cervical plexus block is not recommended. Interscalene blocks have varying findings, with some studies reporting hematoma incidence and spinal injury, while others consider them low risk. Supraclavicular brachial plexus block might be associated with hemothorax and infraclavicular blocks are not favored by reviews. Axillary brachial plexus blocks have a minor incidence of hematoma. Abdomen blocks, TAP blocks, ilioinguinal blocks, and rectus sheath blocks carry a higher risk of hematoma. Pectoral nerve (PECS) blocks have a relatively high risk, while paravertebral and intercostal blocks are considered high risk, but further research is needed regarding paravertebral blocks. Conclusion: The available evidence from systematic reviews and studies suggests varying levels of risk for different blocks and procedures that should be considered before decision-making.
The Enchanted North
Authors: Larsson Emelie , Ingridsdotter Jenny
Published: October 2023

The article explores ‘off the grid’ representations in social media, with a focus on how these representations reproduce imaginaries of nature, place and gender. The analysis material consists of content produced by three influencers who left urban life for a simpler lifestyle in northern Sweden. We find that the social media content draws on numerous ideals: neoliberal ideals on digital entrepreneurship, anti-capitalist ideals on ‘escaping’ modern consumerist society and romantic (sometimes colonial) envisioning of northern Sweden as wild and empty land. We conclude that the ‘off grid’ social media representations and the various ideals they incorporate should be understood as expressions of a contemporary era of neoliberal romanticism: a trend that exists both online and offline.
Transvenous embolization for an intraosseous clival arteriovenous fistula via a proper access route guiding a three-dimensional fusion image: illustrative case
Authors: Iida Yu , Suenaga Jun , Shimizu Nobuyuki , Shizawa Kaoru , Suzuki Ryosuke , Miyake Shigeta , Akimoto Taisuke , Hori Satoshi , Tateishi Kensuke , Nakai Yasunobu , Yamamoto Tetsuya
Published: October 2023

BACKGROUND

Intraosseous clival arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), in which the shunt drains extracranially from the posterior and anterior condylar veins rather than from the cavernous sinus (CS), are rare. Targeting embolization of an intraosseous clival AVF is challenging because of its complex venous and skull base anatomy; therefore, a therapeutic strategy based on detailed preoperative radiological findings is required to achieve a favorable outcome. Here, the authors report the successful targeted embolization of an intraosseous clival AVF using an ingenious access route.

OBSERVATIONS

A 74-year-old woman presented with left-sided visual impairment, oculomotor nerve palsy, and right facial pain. A fusion image of three-dimensional rotational angiography and cone-beam computed tomography revealed a left CS dural AVF and a right intraosseous clival AVF. The shunt flow of the clival AVF drained extracranially from the posterior and anterior condylar veins via the intraosseous venous route. Transvenous embolization was performed by devising suboccipital, posterior condylar, and intraosseous access routes. The symptoms resolved after the bilateral AVFs were treated.

LESSONS

Accurate diagnosis and proper transvenous access based on detailed intraosseous and craniocervical venous information obtained from advanced imaging modalities are key to resolving intraosseous clival AVF.
The Unmasking of the “Second Kotzebue”: Background to a Spy Scandal 1831
Authors: Zaichenko Olga
Published: October 2023

In 1818–1819, a high-profile spy scandal broke out in Germany. The renowned German playwright August von Kotzebue was declared a “Russian spy” and murdered as a “traitor to the Fatherland” amidst a tide of rising anti-Russian sentiment. Twelve years later, in 1831, the publicist Harro Paul Harring initiated a similar press campaign against the poet Carl Friedrich von Schweitzer de Schweigrois, also denounced as a “Russian spy”, an “enemy of the German nation”, and a “second Kotzebue”, against the backdrop of the suppression of the Polish Uprising by the Russian Empire. In the present study, the author considers the spy scandal of 1831 not only as an attempt by Harro Harringa to recreate the 1819 scenario in similar political circumstances, but also as an example of purposeful inflaming of anti-Russian sentiments in the wake of the initiation of public hysteria associated with the search for external and internal enemies of the “German nation” in the context of political processes within Germany. To study the subject, which has never been addressed in the historiography before, the author analyses the sources that have not been consulted before, namely the publications for 1830–1831 in the central and regional German press, primarily of the Kingdom of Saxony and the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, which covered the scandal with the exposure of the “Russian spy” von Schweitzer de Schweigrois, eyewitness accounts, correspondence and memoirs of Harro Harring, as well as a number of indirect sources to reconstruct the biography of his opponent, appointed by German society to the role of “the second Kotzebue”.
"I established kingdom on its place": an idea of law and order in the Achaemenid Empire
Authors: Isakova Alina S.
Published: October 2023

The article aims to consider the problem of correlating the concept of “law” in the Achaemenid Empire, expressed by the word dāta-, with the ideological concept of “order”, metaphorically denoted by the word gāϑu-, i.e. “place”. The article examines in detail the word gāϑu-, which denotes not only the imperial world order, but also the royal throne. In Old Persian royal inscriptions, the expression “I established in its place” is often used in those texts that testify of the restoration of political stability after a series of uprisings and turmoil. The return of the kingdom “to its original place” was obviously thought of as the restoration of the power of the Achaemenids over the entire Persian Empire, and the people – as the return of their property. The statement that Darius “put the royal house in its original place” could mean that he restored order in the succession to the throne by removing Gaumata the Magus. The “return to the place” of the rebellious satrapy meant the pacification of this uprising. If in the Elamite version of the Achaemenid inscriptions the word kat in the meaning of “place” was most likely a loanword from the Old Persian gāϑu-, then in the Babylonian version the Akkadian word ašru has its own tradition of use as early as the pre-Achaemenid period in inscriptions from the Mesopotamian region. As for the term dāta-, it refers not only to the judicial and administrative state of affairs in the Achaemenid Empire, but also reflects the religious and political-ideological ideas of the Achaemenids, including those related to their perception of the idea of justice.
‘South Asia’: Construction and Deconstruction of Spaces and Institutions. Part II
Authors: Glushkova Irina P.
Published: October 2023

The term ‘South Asia’ in its present meaning was coined in the late 1940s following a reinterpretation of previous approaches to the study of the (ancient) Orient, which had proved to be ill-suited under the conditions of the Second World War. The concept was created by an American Indologist W. Norman Brown (1892–1975) who defined almost the entire territory of British India as such and founded the Department of South Asia Regional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The consequence of this innovation was the institutionalization – along with traditional Sanskrit – of the modern socio-political spectrum of disciplines essential for the comprehensive understanding of the region where the languages studied are spoken. As the new idea spread beyond the borders of the United States, and changes continued in the geopolitical structure of the decolonized space, ‘South Asia’ as a concept in the educational strategy and post–war world order began to be replaced by ‘South Asia’ as a construct composed of new states and further reinforced by the formation of many new institutions, first of all SAARC. However, unlike Southeast Asia, the construction of which was also facilitated by external actors during the Second World War, ‘South Asia’ has failed to become a distinct region with its own identity, and its nomenclature is maintained for functional convenience while the search for its unifying factors in various spheres keeps going. The example of the latter is the idea of ‘Southasia’ (in one word), coined in Nepal and currently promoted from Sri Lanka.
From the Treatise “Prayers of Seven Days” of al-Makzun al-Sinjari
Authors: Sarabyev Aleksei V.
Published: October 2023

Annotated translation from Arabic of fragment of the treatise “Prayers of the Seven Days” by the medieval Nusayri sheikh al-Makzun al-Sinjari (c. 1188–1240). The introduction provides an overview of the principles of text construction, the basis of the author's approach to the religious weekly cycle, and it describes the problems of the Nusayri heritage study. This hymnographic treatise is built in the form of prayers for each day of the week; it contains the richest symbolism, dogmas, personalities of the Nusayri sacred history, and even internal polemics with opponents. The treatise belongs to the late period of Makzun's work, and his ideas appear in it in a concentrated form. The third of the translated prayers, the Friday prayer, has a powerful polemical charge. It denounces with particular force the internal enemies of this Shiite community, which are spoken of allegorically. An important focus of the prayers was the community spirit of the Nusayris – full of steadfastness in faith. The theme of reason and consciousness, is clearly heard, which makes the problems of these Nusayri prayers related, for example, to the central theme of reason among the Ismailis, another secret confessional community with which the Nusayris were in close contact at different periods of history. Although Makzun's Sufi method includes a passionate comprehension of divine secrets – through love and sensual images, in these later texts of his, the dominant role of reason and prudence is noticeable on the special Islamic path of obedience to God that he adopted.
The phenomenon of late Qara-khitay historiography: Nasir ad-Din Munshi Kermani and his historical work
Authors: Timokhin Dmitriy M.
Published: October 2023

Among the monuments of Muslim historiography several works can be distinguished, the authors of which build in their works a clear continuity between the Qutlugh Khanids dynasty that ruled within Kerman, whose founder was khajib Barak, and the previously existing Qara-Khitay power. In one of the earlier works, the author of this article called these Muslim writings «late Qara-Khitay historiography» and within the framework of the presented research I would like to substantiate the validity of such a statement. To do this, it is necessary to once again understand how and why Muslim historians distinguish the connection between khajib Barak and his successors, whether they label them «Qara-Khitay» and how else the connection between the Qutlugh Khanids and the Gur-Khans is distinguished. In addition, the author of the article intends to demonstrate the evolution of the description of the biography of Barak in several monuments of the XIII – XV in order to demonstrate clearly how Muslim authors cite new elements linking him with the Qara-Khitay, as well as his heirs. Undoubtedly, such a historiographical phenomenon should have an explanation, as well as the origin, that is, the author who initiated such a tradition. The author of this article comes to the conclusion that Nasir al-Din Munshi Kermani could have been the ancestor of this tradition in the historical work, which, «Simt al-'Ula lil-Khadra al-'Uliya», probably for the first time traces most of the markers that make it possible to link the Qutlugh Khanids dynasty with the Qara-Khitay state.
Malay Folk Beliefs and Rituals in the Prose Writings by Muslim Reformist Authors in the First Half of 20th Century
Authors: Kukushkina Evgeniya
Published: October 2023

The study explores texts of Malay literature of 1920-s – early 1940-s focusing on pre-Islamic worldview and magic rituals. These topics were widely represented in Western research, but fiction of the time provides a unique opportunity to contemplate the attitude to traditional beliefs within Malay society itself at the important stage of its historical development. The authors’ evaluation of the whole complex of animistic beliefs and shamanistic practices is studied in the light of Islamic reformist thought. The first decades of the 20th century in British Malaya witnessed the rise of reformism with its preaching of socioeconomic progress based upon the purification of Islam from the remnants of archaic perception of being and upon public education. In the meantime, genres of modern literature were evolving with active participation of the writers who shared reformist ideas. On the one hand, the study reveals negative attitude of these authors towards what they called “dark superstitions”. This position is actualized in the texts of literature aiming to change the reader’s opinion through the revision of his convictions. The authors of early Malay prose aspired to expose the emptiness of traditional beliefs, powerlessness of magic rituals, amorality and deception of shamans. On the other hand, the analysis traces a number of motifs demonstrating the importance of traditional cults and the demand for their practitioners within the Malay community, that made them able to withstand the pressure of reformist thought. The paper specifies factors that contributed to the survival of traditional worldview.
ANALISA PENGARUH IMPLEMENTASI PROGRAM KESELAMATAN KERJA DAN KESEHATAN KERJA (K3) TERHADAP PENINGKATAN PRODUKTIVITAS KERJA
Authors: Nasrullah  , Hidayat Mohamad Adam , Raden Mas Hafizh Swardana Suryo Bintoro  , Muhammad As’ad
Published: October 2023

Perkembangan dalam sektor industri di Indonesia yang mengalami kenaikan pesat, ditandai dengan banyaknya perusahaan yang dibangun. Dengan begitu, perusahaan dituntut untuk meningkatkan perlindungan kerja bagi para pekerja agar terhindar dari kecelakaan kerja. Perlindungan ini dapat dilakukan dengan adanya Program Keselamatan dan Kesehatan Kerja, dimana program tersebut harus dimiliki oleh setiap perusahaan. Dalam  ipembahasan  iini  ipenulis  imemberikan  iinformasi  itentang  iimplementasi  iprogram  ikeselamatan  idan  ikesehatan  ikerja  idalam  ihal  iproduktivitas  ikerja  iserta  ipenjelasan  i ikendala apa saja yang  idialami  iperusahaan  idalam  imenyediakan  iperlindungan  iK3  ibagi  itenaga  ikerjanya. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah dengan penelitian kepustakaan, dengan mempelajari dan menganalisa literatur atau jurnal yang membahas tema ini. Data yang digunakan merupakan data sekunder, kemudian dijelaskan melalui metode deskriptif dengan cara mendeskripsikan hasil penelitian dan pengamatan. Hasil penelitian bahwa perusahaan yang ingin meningkatkan produktivitas perlu serius untuk meningkatkan penerapan program dan melengkapi faktor-faktor pendukung untuk Keselamatan dan Kesehatan Kerja dan kendala yang dialami kurangntya kesadaran, pertolongan dan keterlibatan administrasi operasi terhadap  perjuangan pengendalian ancaman, kemampuan petugas keselamatan kerja  dibidang rekayasa operasi, rekayasa keselamatan kerja, administrasi  pengendalian  ancaman dirasakan sangat kurang.
IoT forensics in ambient intelligence environments: Legal issues, research challenges and future directions
Authors: Sharma Pankaj , Kumar Awasthi Lalit
Published: October 2023

Due to the abundance of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart devices are widely utilized which helps to manage human surroundings and senses inside and outside environments. The huge amount of data generated from the IoT device attracts cyber-criminals in order to gain information from the significant relationship between people and smart devices. Cyber-attacks on IoT pose a severe challenge for forensic experts. Researchers have invented many techniques to solve IoT forensic challenges and to have an in-depth knowledge of all the facts internal as-well-as external architecture of IoT needs to be understood. In this paper, an attempt has been made to understand the relationship between security and forensics incorporating its strengths and weaknesses, which has not been explored till date to the best of our knowledge. An attempt has also been made to classify literature into three categories: physical level, network level, and cloud level. These include evidence sources, areas of IoT forensics, potential forensic information, evidence extraction techniques, investigation procedures, and legal issues. Also, some prominent IoT forensic use cases have been recited along with providing the key requirements for forensic investigation. Finally, possible research problems in IoT forensic have been identified.
Forces of interaction of red blood cells and endothelial cells at different concentrations of fibrinogen: Measurements with laser tweezers in vitro
Authors: Ermolinskiy Petr B. , Maksimov Matvey K. , Muravyov Alexey V. , Lugovtsov Andrei E. , Scheglovitova Olga N. , Priezzhev Alexander V.
Published: October 2023

Blood microrheology depends on the constituents of blood plasma, the interaction between blood cells resulting in red blood cell (RBC) and platelets aggregation, and adhesion of RBC, platelets and leukocytes to vascular endothelium. The main plasma protein molecule –actuator of RBC aggregation is fibrinogen. In this paper the effect of interaction between the endothelium and RBC at different fibrinogen concentrations on the RBC microrheological properties was investigated in vitro. Laser tweezers were used to measure the RBC-endothelium interaction forces. It was shown for the first time that the interaction forces between RBC and endothelium are comparable with the RBC aggregation forces, they increase with fibrinogen concentration and reach the saturation level of about 4 pN at the concentration of 4 mg/ml. These results are important for better understanding the mechanisms of RBC and endothelium interaction and developing the novel therapeutic protocols of the microrheology correction in different pathologies.
Colorectal liver metastases: Correlations of contrast-enhanced ultrasound features with tumor clinicopathological factors and clinical outcomes following conversion therapy
Authors: Zhang Xiao-Long , Wang Hang-Tao , Tang Yang , Lu Qing , Yuan Hai-Xia , Wang Xi , Liu Li-Heng , Zhu De-Xiang , Wang Wen-Ping
Published: October 2023

OBJECTIVE: To explore the prognostic impact of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) features for initially unresectable colorectal liver metastases (CLMs) in a clinical setting of conversion therapy. METHODS: Between March 2015 and November 2020, consecutive patients with CLMs who received conversion treatment were prospectively enrolled. All participants underwent liver CEUS at baseline. The primary endpoint was conversion resection rate (R0 and overall resection). Secondary endpoints were objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and progression-free survival (PFS). RESULTS: 104 participants who completed conversion treatment were included. CEUS enhancement pattern was correlated with index lesion (size and echogenicity), primary (site, differentiation, perineural invasion, and RAS genotype) and serum (CA19-9 level) characteristics (P = <0.001–0.016). CEUS enhancement pattern was significantly associated with R0 resection rate, ORR, PFS, and OS (P = 0.001–0.049), whereas enhancement degree was associated with PFS and OS (P = 0.043 and 0.045). Multivariate analysis showed that heterogeneous enhancement independently predicted R0 and overall resection (P = 0.028 and 0.024) while rim-like enhancement independently predicted ORR and OS (P = 0.009 and 0.026). CONCLUSION: CEUS enhancement pattern was significantly associated with tumor characteristics and clinical outcomes following conversion therapy, and thus might be of prognosis impact for initially unresectable CLMs.
Montreal Cognitive Assessment in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Relationship with Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers and Conversion to Dementia
Authors: Bernardes Catarina , Lima Marisa , Duro Diana , Silva-Spínola Anuschka , Durães João , Tábuas-Pereira Miguel , Baldeiras Inês , Freitas Sandra , Santana Isabel
Published: October 2023

Background:

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is considered a prodromal state of dementia. Abnormal values of cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers (CSF-AD-b) have been associated with a higher risk of conversion to dementia (due to Alzheimer’s disease), but studies evaluating the ability of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in this task are lacking.

Objective:

This study aims to investigate the relationship between MoCA and CSF-AD-b, as well as the ability of those tools to predict conversion to dementia.

Methods:

Taking advantage of our MCI cohort with biological characterization on longitudinal follow-up (180 patients followed for 62.6 months during which 41.3% converted), we computed MoCA and MMSE z-scores, using Portuguese normative data. The performance in MoCA z-score was correlated with CSF-AD-b and the relative time to conversion and risk according to baseline characteristics were analyzed using Kaplan-Meier analysis and Cox regression models.

Results:

MoCA z-scores were correlated with Aβ42 ( p = 0.026), t-tau ( p = 0.033), and p-tau ( p = 0.01). Impaired MMSE ( p < 0.001) and MoCA z-scores ( p = 0.019), decreased Aβ42 ( p < 0.001) and increased t-tau ( p < 0.001) and p-tau ( p < 0.001) were associated with shorter estimated time of conversion. Aβ42 ( p < 0.001) and MMSE z-scores ( p = 0.029) were independent predictors of conversion. For those with at least 9 years of education, MoCA z-score ( p = 0.004) (but not MMSE) was an independent predictor of conversion as well as Aβ42.

Conclusions:

This study confirms the role of CSF-AD-b, namely Aβ42, in predicting conversion from MCI to dementia and suggests the utility of MoCA in predicting conversion in highly educated subjects, supporting its use in the evaluation of MCI patients.
Big data clustering using fuzzy based energy efficient clustering and MobileNet V2
Authors: Dandugala Lakshmi Srinivasulu , Vani Koneru Suvarna
Published: October 2023

Big data analytics (BDA) is a systematic way to analyze and detect various patterns, relationships, and trends in vast amounts of data. Big data analysis and processing require significant effort, techniques, and equipment. The Hadoop framework software uses the MapReduce approach to do large-scale data analysis using parallel processing in order to generate results as soon as possible. Due to the traditional algorithm’s longer execution time and difficulty in processing big amounts of data, this is one of the main issues. Clusters are highly correlated inside each other but are not highly correlated with one another. The technique of effectively allocating limited resources is known as an optimization algorithm for clustering. For processing large amounts of data with several dimensions, the conventional optimization approach is insufficient. By using a fuzzy method, this can be prevented. In this paper, we proposed Fuzzy based energy efficient clustering approach to enhance the clustering mechanism. In summary, Fuzzy based energy efficient clustering introduces a function that measures the distance between the cluster center and the instance, which aids in improved clustering, and we then present the MobileNet V2 model to improve efficiency and speed up computation. To enhance the method’s performance and reduce its time complexity, the distributed database simulates the shared memory space and parallelizes on the MapReduce framework on the Hadoop cloud computing platform. The proposed approach is evaluated using performance metrics such as Accuracy, Precision, Adjusted Rand Index (ARI), Recall, F1-Score, and Normalized Mutual Information (NMI). The experimental findings indicate that the proposed approach outperforms the existing techniques in terms of clustering accuracy.
Modified MABAC for MCGDM with interval-valued neutrosophic sets and application to design quality evaluation of digital cultural and creative products
Authors: Wang Yibo
Published: October 2023

With the development of digital creative industry and the use of more emerging digital technologies, the forms of digital cultural and creative design products are also increasingly diversified. Unlike traditional cultural and creative design products, digital cultural and creative design products are no longer limited to physical products, but appear more in the field of exhibition, virtual reality and product visualization. At the initial stage of the combination of digital information technology and cultural and creative content, digital cultural and creative design products, unlike ordinary cultural and creative design products, opened a new vision for users. The design quality evaluation of digital cultural and creative design products is viewed as a multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM). The single-value neutrosophic sets (SVNSs) concept and its interval-valued version (Interval-valued neutrosophic sets, IVNSs) are within the recent rapid developments for managing the uncertain representation problem in MCGDM. In SVNSs, decision makers (DMs) could portray membership, non-membership and hesitancy. IVNSs expands this useful feature through portraying intervals to these three information decision degrees. In this manner, the uncertainty, ambiguity and vagueness hidden in human judgements could be quantified more efficiently. IVNSs have been widely employed and researched in MCGDM. The main purpose of this paper is to proposed the Interval-valued neutrosophic number MABAC (IVNN-MABAC) technique based on prospect theory (PT) to address the MCGDM. Eventually, an example for design quality evaluation of digital cultural and creative design products and some comparative analysis was employed to demonstrate the superiority of the designed technique.
Methodology for risk assessment of engineering procurement construction project based on the probabilistic hesitant fuzzy multiple attributes group decision making
Authors: Feng Dongmei , Kang Yifan
Published: October 2023

With the continuous development of China’s economic system, the development of the construction industry is becoming more and more rapid, and the number and scale of construction projects are increasing. Due to the characteristics of large projects and long cycles, there are a large number of construction parties involved in construction projects. The increase in the number of participating partners makes it difficult for their projects to be integrated and managed by management departments such as owners, let alone for various parties to collaborate in the construction of projects. In order to effectively solve this problem, the engineering procurement construction (EPC) general contracting model has emerged. The risk assessment of EPC project is classical multiple attributes group decision making (MAGDM). The probabilistic hesitancy fuzzy sets (PHFSs) are used as a tool for characterizing uncertain information during the risk assessment of EPC project. In this paper, the classical grey relational analysis (GRA) method is extended to PHFSs. Firstly, the basic concept, comparative formula and Hamming distance of PHFSs are introduced. Then, the definition of the score values is employed to obtain the attribute weights based on the information entropy. Then, probabilistic hesitancy fuzzy GRA (PHF-GRA) method is built for MAGDM under PHFSs. Finally, a practical case study for risk assessment of EPC project is designed to validate the proposed method and some comparative studies are also designed to verify the applicability.
A stable matching method for technology trading with intuitionistic fuzzy multi-attribute information
Authors: Kong Decai , Tang Yi , Zhang Hao , Bi Aorui
Published: October 2023

Technology trading matching facilitates quicker solution-finding for technology demanders and expedites the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Yet, unstable matchings often lead traders to renounce existing contracts, sidestep trading intermediaries, and resort to private transactions. This results in inefficient trading mechanisms and market disarray. To ensure a stable and mutually satisfactory match for both suppliers and demanders, we propose a stable two-sided matching decision-making method that incorporates intuitionistic fuzzy multi-attribute information. Initially, we introduce an intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS approach to compute the comprehensive satisfaction of both suppliers and demanders by aggregating intuitionistic fuzzy information across various attributes. Subsequently, we design a multi-objective optimization model that weighs both stability and satisfaction to determine the ideal technology trading pairs. We conclude with a real-world example that demonstrates the proposed method’s application, and its effectiveness is corroborated through sensitivity and comparative analyses.
Multi-criteria group decision-making based on dombi aggregation operators under p, q-quasirung orthopair fuzzy sets
Authors: Rahim Muhammad , Tag Eldin ElSayed M. , Khan Salma , Ghamry Nivin A. , Alanzi Agaeb Mahal , Khalifa Hamiden Abd El-Wahed
Published: October 2023

In this study, we introduce The p, q-quasirung orthopair fuzzy Dombi operators, including p, q-quasirung orthopair fuzzy Dombi weighted averaging (p, q-QOFDWA), p, q-quasirung orthopair fuzzy Dombi ordered weighted averaging (p, q-QOFDOWA), p, q-quasirung orthopair fuzzy Dombi weighted geometric (p, q-QOFDWG), and p, q-quasirung orthopair fuzzy Dombi ordered weighted geometric (p, q-QOFDOWG) operators. These operators effectively manage imprecise and uncertain information, outperforming other fuzzy sets like the Pythagorean fuzzy set (PFS) and q-rung orthopair fuzzy set (q-ROFS). We investigate their properties, including boundedness and monotonicity, and demonstrate their applicability in multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems within a p, q-quasirung orthopair fuzzy (p, q-QOF) environment. To showcase the practicality, we present a real-world scenario involving the selection of investment alternatives as an illustrative example. Our findings highlight the significant advantage and potential of these operators for handling uncertainty in decision-making.
Network awareness of security situation information security measurement method based on data mining
Authors: Wang Jia , Zhang Ke , Li Jingyuan
Published: October 2023

Awareness of Network Security Situation (abbreviated as NSS for short) technology is in a period of vigorous development recently. NSS technology means network security situational awareness technology. It refers to the technology of collecting, processing, and analyzing various real-time information in the network to understand and evaluate the current network security status. It can not only find network security threats, but also reflect the NSS in the system security metrics, and provide users with targeted security protection measures. Based on data mining methods, this paper analyzed and models perceived threats and security events with data mining algorithms, and improved information security measurement methods based on association analysis. This paper proposed network security information analysis and NSS based on data mining, and analyzed the experimental results of network awareness of NSS information security measurement. The experimental results showed that when the Timer was 8, the accuracy of the awareness of NSS information security measurement method based on data mining can reach 92.89%. The data mining model had the highest accuracy of 93.14% in situation understanding and evaluation of KDDCup-99 dataset. The results showed that the model can accurately predict the NSS. When Timer was 6, the highest accuracy of the model was 92.71%. In general, the NSS prediction mining model based on KDDCup-99 can better understand, evaluate and predict the situation.
Opt_att-GANC: Fusion of CT and PET images using an optimal attention-based generative adversarial network with classifier for lung cancer classification
Authors: Nandipati Bhagya Lakshmi , Devarakonda Nagaraju
Published: October 2023

Lung cancer incidence and mortality continue to rise rapidly around the world. According to the American Cancer Society, the five-year survivability for individuals in the metastasis phases is significantly lower, highlighting the importance of early lung cancer diagnosis for effective therapy and improved quality of life. To achieve this, it is crucial to combine PET’s sensitivity for recognizing abnormal regions with CT’s anatomical localization for evaluating PET-CT images in computer-assisted detection implementations. Current PET-CT image evaluation methods either run each modality independently or aggregate the data from both, but they often overlook the fact that different visual features encode different types of data from different modalities. For instance, high atypical PET uptake within the lungs is more crucial for identifying tumors compared to physical PET uptake in the heart. To address the challenges of fine-grained issues during feature extraction and fusion, we propose an interpretable deep learning-based solution for lung cancer diagnosis using CT and PET images. This involves building an Optimal Adversarial Network for merging and an Optimal Attention-based Generative Adversarial Network with Classifier (Opt_att-GANC) to augment the classification of the existence and nonexistence of lung cancer based on extracted features. The performance of the Opt_att-GANC is compared with existing methodologies like global-feature encoding U-Net (GEU-Net), 3D Dense-Net, and 3D Convolutional Neural Network Technique (3D-CNN). Results show that the proposed Opt_att-GANC achieves an F1-score of 67.08%, 93.74% accuracy, 92% precision, 92.1% recall, and 93.74% recall. The prospective study aims to enhance the precision degree with reduced duration by incorporating an ensemble neural network paradigm for feature extraction.
ISODF-ENN:Imbalanced data mixed sampling method based on improved diffusion model and ENN
Authors: Lv Zhenzhe , Liu Qicheng
Published: October 2023

In the era of big data, the complexity of data is increasing. Problems such as data imbalance and class overlap pose challenges to traditional classifiers. Meanwhile, the importance of imbalanced data has become increasingly prominent, it is necessary to find appropriate methods to enhance classification performance of classifiers on such datasets. In response, this paper proposes a mixed sampling method (ISODF-ENN) based on iterative self-organizing (ISODATA) denoising diffusion algorithm and edited nearest neighbors (ENN) data cleaning algorithm. The algorithm first uses iterative self-organizing clustering algorithm to divide minority class into different sub-clusters, then it uses denoising diffusion algorithm to generate new minority class data for each sub-cluster, and finally it uses ENN algorithm to preprocess majority class data to remove the overlap with the minority class data. Each sub-cluster is oversampled according to sampling ratio, so that the oversampled minority class data also conforms to the distribution of original minority class data. Experimental results on keel datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms other methods in terms of F-value and AUC, effectively addressing the issues of class imbalance and class overlap.
A hybrid multi-source data fusion for word, sentence, aspect, and document-level sentiment analysis on real-time databases
Authors: Agrawal Monika , Moparthi Nageswara Rao
Published: October 2023

Sentiment analysis (SA)at the sentence, aspect, and document levels determines the sentiment of particular aspect phrases in a given sentence. Due to their capacity to extract sentiment information from text in aspect-level sentiment classification, neural networks (NNs) have achieved significant success. Generally speaking, sufficiently sizable training corpora are necessary for NNs to be effective. The performance of NN-based systems is reduced by the small size of the aspect-level corpora currently available. In this research, we suggest a gated bilateral recurrent neural network (G-Bi-RNN) as a foundation for multi-source data fusion, their system offers sentiment information that several sources. We develop a uniform architecture specifically to include information from sentimental lexicons, including aspect- and sentence-level corpora. To further provide aspect-specific phrase representations for SA, we use G-Bi-RNN, a deep bilateral Transformer-based pre-trained language model. We assess our methods using SemEval 2014 datasets for laptops and restaurants. According to experimental findings, our method consistently outperforms cutting-edge techniques on all datasets. We use a number of well-known aspect-level SA datasets to assess the efficacy of our model. Experiments show that when compared to baseline models, the suggested model can produce state-of-the-art results.
Predicting diabetic macular edema in retina fundus images based on optimized deep residual network techniques on medical internet of things
Authors: Tuyet Vo Thi Hong , Binh Nguyen Thanh , Tin Dang Thanh
Published: October 2023

With the medical internet of things, many automated diagnostic models related to eye diseases are easier. The doctors could quickly contrast and compare retina fundus images. The retina image contains a lot of information in the image. The task of detecting diabetic macular edema from retinal images in the healthcare system is difficult because the details in these images are very small. This paper proposed the new model based on the medical internet of things for predicting diabetic macular edema in retina fundus images. The method called DMER (Diabetic Macular Edema in Retina fundus images) to detect diabetic macular edema in retina fundus images based on improving deep residual network being combined with feature pyramid network in the context of the medical internet of things. The DMER method includes the following stages: (i) ResNet101 improved combining with feature pyramid network is used to extract features of the image and obtain the map of these features; (ii) a region proposal network to look for potential anomalies; and (iii) the predicted bounding boxes against the true bounding box by the regression method to certify the capability of macular edema. The MESSIDOR and DIARETDB1 datasets are used for testing with evaluation criteria such as sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. The accuracy of the DMER method is about 98.08% with MESSIDOR dataset and 98.92% with DIARETDB1 dataset. The results of the method DMER are better than those of the other methods up to the present time with the above datasets.