bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Carbohydrate-electrolyte ingestion enhances cognitive performance during a cross-country mountain biking race
Authors: Pomportes  , HAYS arnaud , gajdos thibault , BRISSWALTER Jeanick , Davranche Karen
Published: March 2021

To assess the influence of carbohydrate-electrolyte (CHO-E) intakes on cognitive and physical performances, we carried out an ecological protocol simulating the load variations of a biking race. Eight well-trained athletes completed an outdoor mountain biking time-trial race (TT) (19.6 ± 0.40 km length; 81 min ± 15 min) interspersed with three 10 min varied-load cycling exercises while performing a Simon task and a Critical Flicker Fusion task in laboratory. A splitted drink of 1150 ml of either 7% CHO-E solution (fructose 89%, maltodextrin 11%) or placebo (PL) was administered. Results suggest that the TT induces a decrease of cortical arousal (p = 0.28) and an impairment of efficiency (p < .001) during a decision-making task in the PL condition, while the reverse was observed with CHO-E ingestions. Furthermore, a better accuracy (p = .05) and a lower perceived effort (p = .05) were also observed with CHO-E intakes whatever the TT duration. As a conclusion, ingestion of a 7% CHO-E solution during a pro-longed outdoor TT decreases perceived effort and restricts exercise-induced cognitive performance impairment. CHO-E ingestion appears to be an effective means of delaying the central nervous system fatigue during high-intensity intermittent exercise per-formed in an ecological context.
Kitap İncelemesi: Yeniden Doğu: Asya Çağında Küresel Ekomomi (Frank 2010)
Authors: Kuran İbrahim
Published: March 2021

Andre Gunder Frank, Yeniden Doğu: Asya Çağında Küresel Ekonomi adlı eserinde, iktisat tarihi yazımında onlarca yıldır hâkim olan "Avrupa-merkezci" paradigmaya karşı, “küresel tarih” perspektifi içerisinden bir eleştiri geliştirir. Frank, Batılı beşeri ve sosyal bilimler geleneği karşısında, dünyanın tüm bölgelerine, eş zamanlı bakan, yatay olarak bütünleştirilmiş, bir tarih anlayışı geliştirmeyi önerir. Bu inceleme yazısında, Frank'in Yeniden Doğu kitabını, Saidyen ve postkolonyal düşüncenin iktisat tarihindeki bir yansıması olarak değerlendireceğiz.
Characterisation and comparative analysis of metallic inclusions in dry, paste and wet ground maize (zea mays) forms and its health implication on human
Authors: Daniel T. O. , Azaki D. , Nwosu C.N. , Olaoye A.O. , Sule G.E.
Published: March 2021

This study investigates metallic inclusions in ground maize forms of dry, paste and wet using domestic grinding machine and its health implications to human. With progressive maize processing using the grinding machine, metals are introduced as contaminants into ground maize due to wear and tear of the grinding discs and other machine parts. Maize samples of 1 kg each were grinded in wet, paste, and dry forms. The metallic inclusions were extracted from the ground maize forms using magnetisation, sedimentation and decantation. The extractions were quantified using an Electronic weighing balance and were characterised using, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Optical Emission Microscopy and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy. Iron fillings were discovered to be the dominant metallic inclusion present in the various food forms and also in the grinding disc with 88.48% by weight in the grinding disc. The extracted metallic inclusions is 0.157g/kg, 0.196g/kg and 0.268 g/kg for dry, paste and wet ground maize forms which exceeded the World Health Organisation limit of 15 mg/kg. The EDS result show that the wet form has the highest amount of metallic inclusions of 95.97 at. %, the paste form with 91.39 at. % and dry form with 83.35 at. %. From the SEM analysis of particle size, the dry, paste and wet ground maize had 17μm, 27μm and 36μm particle sizes respectively. When in excess the Iron filling metallic inclusions from the ground maize accumulates in body organs since there is no physiological mechanism to eliminate excess iron thereby leading to health complications. The accumulated iron in the heart causes increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, siderosis and hemochromatosis in the liver leading to hepatoma-the primary cause of cancer of the liver among others. Elevated levels of free iron also predisposed individuals to high risk of bacterial and viral infections leading to death.
Structural, electronic, and elastic properties of Tetragonal Sr0.5Be0.5TiO3: Ab-initio calculation.
Authors: Tedjani M.
Published: March 2021

In this theoretical study, we presents  for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the structural, electronic and elastic properties of perovskite Sr0.5Be0.5TiO3 type structure (Tetragonal), P4/mmm, space group, 123.using full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method on the basis of density functional theory (DFT) integrated in the Wien2k code . The generalized gradient approximation (GGA-PBEsol) and local density approximation has been used for the exchange correlation potential .The electronic properties represented by the band structure (BS) and DOS as well as the (PDOS) partial density of states, allowed to obtain  semiconductor compound, which have been calculated with mBJ approximation. The elastic constants were reported and we verified the stability conditions of our materials elastically. These theoretical results open the way for experimental and other theoretical studies of this compound.
A new scheme of coupling and synchronizing low-dimensional dynamical systems
Authors: Legorreta U. Uriostegui , Hernández E. S. Tututi , Arroyo-Correa G.
Published: March 2021

A different manner of study synchronization between chaotic systems is presented. This is done by using two different forced coupled nonlinear circuits. The way of coupling the systems under study is different from those used in the analysis of chaos in dynamical systems of low dimensionality. The study of synchronization and how to manipulate it, is carried out through the variation of the couplings by calculating the bifurcation diagrams. We observed that for rather larger values of the coupling between the circuits it is reached total synchronization, while for small values of the coupling it is obtained, in the best of the cases, partial synchronization.
Non-surgical management of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: A systematic review by Cancer Care Ontario
Authors: Meyers Brandon M , Knox Jennifer J , Cosby Roxanne , Beecroft JR , Chan Kelvin KW , Coburn Natalie , Feld Jordan J , Jonker Derek , Mahmud Aamer , Ringash Jolie
Published: March 2021

BACKGROUND: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a global health problem, accounting for 4.7% of all new cancer cases and 8.2% of all cancer deaths worldwide in 2018. Resection and transplantation are the only modalities that offer a cure for HCC; however, most patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage, precluding these curative treatments. A number of local (ie, ablative therapies) and/or local-regional therapies (ie, chemo-embolization) are used and followed by systemic therapy for advanced or progressive disease. Other treatments are available, but their efficacy compared with these standards is not well known. METHODS: Literature searches (1/2000 to 1/2020 or 1/2005 to 1/2020, depending on the specific systematic review question) were conducted, including MEDLINE, Embase and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. RESULTS: Over 30,000 articles were identified. In total, 49 studies were included in the systematic review. CONCLUSIONS: There is no evidence to support the addition of sorafenib to any local or regional therapy. First-line systemic therapy options for unresectable or metastatic HCC include sorafenib, lenvatinib, and atezolizumab + bevacizumab. Regorafenib or cabozantinib provide survival benefits when given as second-line treatment.
Periculum animarum: Bishops, Gender, and Scandal
Authors: Bryan Lindsay
Published: March 2021

Scandal was defined in the medieval church as the sin of causing another's fall by providing a bad example in word or deed. The theology of scandal was developed particularly by Peter the Chanter (d1197) and his early thirteenth-century followers Robert Courson, Stephen Langten, and Thomas of Chobham, and it was crystallized by Thomas Aquinas into the doctrine which survives in the Catholic Church today. Scandal was a sin against charity, since it endangered the souls of others, and most thirteenth-century writers on the subject agreed that it could be a mortal sin, depending on the kind of sin it provoked in another. It was so serious that it was to be avoided at all costs, except where the truths of life (the Christian way of living to attain eternal life), doctrine (Christian teaching), and justice (Christian law and order, and rectitude) were concerned.
Chaucer's "Cosyn to the dede": Further Considerations
Authors: Pelen Marc M.
Published: March 2021

Few Chaucerians today would doubt that Chaucer's little critical "essay" at the close of the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales has a significance well beyond the brief annotation of Robinson's second edition, and the annotation of the Riverside edition:
Coconuts in Camelot: Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the Arthurian Literature Course
Authors: Neufeld Christine M.
Published: March 2021

Teaching Arthurian literature affords a perhaps rare opportunity for medieval specialists to use the medium of film to interest undergraduate students in a period that is otherwise often considered foreign to their cultural world or concerns. The significant number of Arthurian films in the twentieth century reflects the continuous appeal of the Arthurian legend, a legend whose survival can be attributed to its adaptability, shifting throughout the centuries between elite and popular cultures, and disseminated in different forms through visual, oral and textual traditions. While there has always been a ludic dimension to Arthurian tradition, one postmedieval comedic portrayal of Arthur and his knights, Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, has had a significant impact on how Arthurian material has been adapted on the silver screen. One possible consequence of Twain's comic vision and its early transposition into the newly emerging film medium is that, while Bresson's brooding tale of Arthurian ennui may be the hallmark of the twentieth-century cinematic Arthurian corpus, the film that has come to represent the Round Table's cinematic incarnation in the minds of the generations that now fill the postsecondary classroom is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a comic masterpiece that embodies the spirit of Twain's dismissive coinage, "holy grailing." Student enthusiasm for Monty Python's film contrasts with the noticeably more restrained stance of scholarly opinion which, while rarely omitting to mention the film's existence in discussions of cinematic Arthuriana, has relatively little to say about the actual film. Part of the reason Monty Python's medieval film has not received as much scrutiny as it deserves from medievalists is because it can be perceived as being preoccupied with its own cinematic form. The ubiquity of Kevin J. Harty's comment that Python's film is "not so much a send-up of the Arthurian legend, as it is a send-up of other film versions of that legend" has perhaps refracted scholarly attention away from precisely how Monty Python does deal with a legend which the film itself presents as distinctly literary. By redirecting our attention to the literary scaffolding around which Monty Python and the Holy Grail is built, Arthurian scholars can encounter the hermeneutic dynamism of this film, a quality which also recommends the film as a pedagogical tool.
The Textual Community of Syon Abbey
Authors: Grisé C. Annette
Published: March 2021

Brian Stock's definition of textual community describes the process by which—in the face of growing levels of literacy and the rise of heretical movements in eleventh- and twelfth-century France—religious communities (from heretical sects to orthodox monastic communities) came to understand their identities through the mediation of written texts, which often were interpreted for them by key individuals. The text, the written word, became central to communal identity, affecting even the non-literate through its dissemination and acceptance by the members of the community. The relationship between the oral and the written, and the relationship developed between text and life, word and deed, in the interpretive models that developed out of texts and came to be applied to the lives of the readers or auditors, are two areas which are not the exclusive preserve of eleventh- and twelfth-century France, but are continuing concerns throughout the Middle Ages. Furthermore, the tendency to develop textual communities can also be found in the later medieval period, but with a different perspective on the question of literacy. For women religious in late-medieval England, for example, literacy usually did not denote Latinity but rather vernacularity; as a result, vernacular texts comprised the means by which these female religious came to understand their communal identity. While Bernard of Clairvaux's sermons on the Song of Songs addressed his male monastic community in Latin, women's religious rules formed a different kind of textual community that relied not on Latin exposition of mystical experience but on vernacular instruction concerning certain daily activities and proper conduct. The parallels between Stock's examples and the situation of medieval English female religious are still useful, because both highlight literacy, textuality, ritual, and activity as central to how communities define themselves.
“In a Twelfth-century Hand, in Latin, with Abbreviations”: The Independent Scholar as a Mirror for the University
Authors: Fanger Claire
Published: March 2021

The Professor was as poor as a church mouse, and he lived by himself in one of the Ridings in what had once been a gamekeeper’s cottage....
Some Reflections on Medieval Studies in Canada
Authors: Osborne John
Published: March 2021

In June 1987, at a large international conference in Rome organised by Canadian art historians to honour both Richard Krautheimer and Leonard Boyle, Roger Reynolds delivered a tribute to one of the two honorees entitled "Leonard Boyle and Medieval Studies in Canada." In the published version of this essay, Reynolds documented the role of those many scholars—among them Etienne Gilson, Raymond Klibansky, Philippe Verdier, John Leyerle, and of course Leonard Boyle, to name but a few—who had brought their vision of a new discipline of “medieval studies” to this country, and had subsequently worked hard to promote it, primarily although by no means exclusively through the vehicle of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto. And of course one must add to that distinguished list the name of Roger Reynolds himself, whom I was very privileged to have first encountered as an undergraduate student at Carleton University in the early 1970’s. Indeed, I still have the notes which I took at his lectures! Canadians should be very proud that the notion of “medieval studies,” as we understand it today—in other words, a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the Middle Ages that encompasses not only the intellectual territory of many traditional disciplines but also the large spaces between them, along the lines of Classical Studies—should have been largely created and matured in this country, and that we continue to produce a number of significant journals in this field, including the flagship Mediaeval Studies. As Reynolds explained in his paper, the spinoffs have been huge: the subsequent development of programs in medieval studies at many Canadian universities, and significant international projects such as The Dictionary of Old English or Records of Early English Drama, to name but two.
University of Regina
Authors: Louis Cameron
Published: March 2021

Medievalism at the University of Regina is characterised by strong student interest at the mid-undergraduate level, but also by limited student interest at the graduate level and limited faculty resources. The faculty in the medieval area are mostly in the Departments of History and English, as well as the Faculty of Fine Arts.
King’s College, University of Western Ontario
Authors: Small Susan
Published: March 2021

The presence of Medieval Studies at King’s College is perhaps less evident than at some other institutions, but it is solid and firmly-rooted nonetheless. King's is a small, Catholic liberal arts college affiliated with the University of Western Ontario; it has a history of literary and philosophical interest in the Middle Ages and also shares a tradition of medieval ecclesiastical scholarship with St. Peter’s Seminary, with which it has an academic affiliation.
Carleton University
Authors: Calkin Siobhain Bly
Published: March 2021

Medieval Studies at Carleton University are in a state of change right now. Recent retirements in some departments have meant that some offerings have disappeared, while recent hirings in other departments have led to an increase in the number and variety of courses offered there. A self-directed interdisciplinary B.A. in Medieval Studies is currently on the books, but has not often been taken up in recent years. Students usually study the Middle Ages as part of a more traditional disciplinary degree program (B.A. in History, B.A. in English). In the History department right now, one course on the Middle Ages is offered, a survey of the history of medieval England, and medieval history is listed as one of the supervised fields for the M.A.. In the College of the Humanities, students have the opportunity to take a more general introduction to the history of the Middle Ages, or a survey of medieval philosophy. Offerings in history and philosophy thus consist mainly of survey courses at the undergraduate level. Survey courses of medieval and Renaissance literature are offered by the French and English departments. Students in French may also take a course in History of the French Language and occasionally a fourth-year seminar in medieval French literature. In the English department, undergraduate students may pursue medieval studies beyond the survey level in a 300-level Chaucer course or in a 400-level seminar in medieval literature whose specific topic varies each year. Graduate courses in medieval literature are also offered each year in the English department's M.A. program. Independent reading courses, too, are offered, while courses such as History of the English Language (which has not been offered in recent years) are being revived. Thus, in some disciplines at Carleton the opportunity to study the Middle Ages has declined, but in others that opportunity has increased and will continue to do so.
Dalhousie University
Authors: Furrow Melissa
Published: March 2021

There are only a handful of scholars who have their primary appointments in Dalhousie departments and a primary interest in medieval fields. In French, we have Hans Runte, best known among medievalists for his work on the Seven Sages of Rome, but his more recent publications have been in the field of Acadian letters. In English, we have Hubert Morgan, who works in Middle English, Old Norse, and Old English (romance, saga, and epic are particular interests), and Melissa Furrow, who has finally completed a long labour on reception of romances in medieval England (Expectations of Romance: Drasty Rymyng or Noble Tales, currently under review) and is now returning to an earlier editorial project (Ten Fifteenth-Century Comic Poems) to revise for a new edition with TEAMS. In History, we have Cynthia Neville, well known personally to members of CSM for her extensive work 011 the national and international scene on prize, review, and adjudication committees, and more broadly known through her scholarship on late medieval English legal history and on Scottish social, political, and cultural history. She is the author of Violence, Custom, and Law: The Anglo-Scottish Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh UP, 1998) and the forthcoming Native Lordship in Anglo-Norman Scotland: The Earldoms of Stratheam and Lennox, 1170-1350 (Four Courts Press). A recent and exciting addition is Jennifer Bain in Music, a music theorist who works on Hildegard of Bingen, and on fourteenth-century music. This tiny number and the clearcut disciplinary boundaries proclaimed by departmental organisation might suggest that medieval study at Dalhousie has fallen off steeply from the days when we had a formally recognised honours degree in Medieval Studies and a bigger pool of faculty. It is true, a bigger pool would be helpful, and the priority within English for the next appointment is for a medievalist. But in various ways medieval studies at Dalhousie does better than it looks as if it should.
Editor’s Note
Authors: Harvey Carol
Published: March 2021

This issue owes much to M.J. Toswell, who so ably edited Florilegium for six years and consolidated its reputation as a first-rate journal of Medieval Studies, found in academic libraries in many countries. Not only did she establish rigorous standards for submissions and put in place a strong editorial board, she also designed the journal’s format, enhanced with artwork by Kathryn Finter. By broadening the disciplinary range of articles and including papers on medievalisms, Dr. Toswell made the journal a reflection of current scholarship in the field. The Canadian Society of Medievalists wishes to record its thanks for her dedicated service to the Society.
Chaucer’s Provisions for Future Contingencies
Authors: Ronquist Eyvind
Published: March 2021

In Chaucer’s narratives, people think about the future, and typically they find it uncertain. Quelle surprise! you exclaim ironically, since narrative requires suspense in the steps between beginning and ending, or otherwise it would become the exposition of a static, allegorical, universal grid. The uncertain steps of narrative might only be those of characters within a story, whereas the omniscient narrator would know the plot and is beguiling the reader. For Chaucer, however, uncertainty extends to the narrator, and what is reached by the ending is only a hypothesis. There is also a choice of narrators. The beguilement of the reader in the suspense of a story becomes confrontation with something like a real problem of choosing from past to future. Where there is a real problem, there may be various trials of possible solutions. Each plan has steps taken in a distinctive pattern, and we learn distinct and ingenious ways of conceiving of what we may do in the course of time. Thus, among Chaucer’s other works, the loose gathering of Canterbury Tales rehearses tales of divergent strategy and scope for which contentious individual narrators were further invented. I will particularly consider "The Nun’s Priest’s Tale," but add some observations about Troilus and Criseyde.
Challenging the Boundaries of Medieval Romance: Thomas Chestre’s Lybeaus Desconus
Authors: Ward Renée
Published: March 2021

Critics such as M. Mills and Derek Pearsall marginalize English medieval popular romance in comparison to the idealized courtly romance. Pearsall writes that popular romances have "no inviolate identity" (93), a view which Mills shares in his study of Thomas Chestre’s work when he writes that Chestre’s Southern Octavian, Sir Launfal and Lybeaus Desconus are indistinguishable ("Composition" 90). Mills asserts that Chestre corrupts his sources and overuses formulaic phrases characteristic of tail-rhyme romance, and argues that these stylistic features are evidence of Chestre’s authorial inadequacy (Lybeaus 64-65). While recent critics such as Carol Fewster and W. A. Davenport are more generous to Chestre, the unfavourable precedent of Mills still dominates criticism, and indeed, Davenport maintains that Chestre is a "second-rank" writer and that Lybeaus Desconus is his "least successful" work (4, 100). However, a re-examination of Chestre’s Lybeaus Desconus reveals that Chestre is not an inept and inadequate "disour" (Mills, "Reviser" 20), but rather a writer who redefines the popular romance hero and thus the genre through his version of the story of the fair unknown. This paper focuses on two arguments presented by Mills as key evidence of Chestre’s ineptness in order to demonstrate how Chestre successfully rewrites and therefore challenges the tradition of medieval popular romance: passages in Lybeaus that Mills consider corruptions of source material, and a formulaic expression that Mills classifies as an example of Chestre’s limited and overused vocabulary.
O PÓ REVELADOR E O SEU PROCESSO DE ADESÃO AOS RESQUÍCIOS PRESENTES NAS IMPRESSÕES PAPILARES LATENTES
Authors: Carvalho Daniel Da Silva , Cunha Wiliam Ferreira da , Lobo Bernardo José Munhoz , De Oliveira Neto Pedro Henrique
Published: March 2021

O presente estudo se propõe a detalhar os aspectos técnico-científicos relacionados a alguns dos fatores que influenciam o processo de adesão do pó revelador aos resquícios presentes nas impressões papilares latentes. Também serão apresentados alguns dos tipos de pós mais comumente utilizados. A distância, a pureza e a natureza química dos componentes da interface pó-crista papilar impressa determinarão se a revelação será efetiva ou não. Nesse sentido, ficará evidente que o balanço energético entre as forças adesivas e coesivas na interface pó-crista papilar impressa está relacionado às interações intermoleculares, ao tamanho, à forma, à energia livre de superfície e à molhabilidade entre os componentes dessa interface.
ASAS TRANSPARANSI DALAM PROSES PENGANGKATAN PERANGKAT NAGARI
Authors: Ilosa Abdiana , Sukri Saipul Al , Rudiadi Rudiadi
Published: March 2021

Village officials have a great obligation and responsibility to help the Village Head carry out his duties, obligations and provide the best service to the community. The selection of the right village officials will support the implementation of these tasks and obligations. Considering the position of the village apparatus that is so important, the recruitment process, procedures and requirements that are appropriate for the candidate village apparatus are needed.The purpose of this study was to determine the implementation and constraints of the principle of transparency in the appointment of the sontang cubadak Nagari village in Pasaman, West Sumatra. Data collection in this study used interview techniques (key informants). While the types and sources of data used in this study are primary and secondary data. From there the data is then analyzed in a qualitative descriptive way. The results of this study provide evidence that transparency does not occur in the process of appointing Sontang Cubadak Nagari. This happens because of the lack of transparency in the selection, recruitment of candidates for the device. This is evidenced from the many people of Sontang Cubadak village who do not know the process and only know the results of the appointment. In addition, the supervision of the sub-district and the lack of good communication between the Nagari government and the community also caused the failure of the appointment of the Sontang Cubadak village government apparatus. Keyword: Regional Autonomy, Transparency Principle, Nagari’s Officer
A new species of the weevil genus Mecysmoderes from southern India (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Authors: Korotyaev B.A.
Published: March 2021

Mecysmoderes (Coeliosomus) alexanderi sp. n. is described from southern India. The new species differs from other members of the subgenus Coeliosomus in the strongly widened apically tibiae with elongate apical combs composed of sparse stout spines, nearly straight rostrum, more strongly convex dorsally elytra with regularly granulate intervals, and in the presence of a sharp tooth on the inner surface of hind tibia one-third way from apex in male. The structure of the head, with a sharp although shallow depression separating the frons from vertex, is apparently unique in the genus.
A new genus of the tribe Cryptini from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
Authors: Kasparyan D.R. , Ruíz-Cancino E.
Published: March 2021

A new cryptine genus with a new species, Fortipalpa yucatanica, is described from Mexico in the subtribe Gabuniina.
A new species of Lagoleptus from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tryphoninae)
Authors: Kasparyan D.R.
Published: March 2021

Lagoleptus fulviceps sp. n. is described from Mexico. It differs from all other congeners in the reddish yellow head.
An Analysis of Students’ Ability in Translating Text
Authors: Andriani Desi
Published: March 2021

Translating text is look like an easy work, but it is a complicated job. A translation text may not have different meaning from the source text to the target language of the text. Translating text from Indonesia to English should not change the sense of language since our culture is different from abroad culture. Translating text from Indonesia to English is more difficult than from English to Indonesia. Since, English has grammar where grammar should not be error. Then, translator also should pay attention to word choice of English. The purposes of carrying this research are to know students’ ability in translating text and common errors made by students in translating text from English to Indonesia at English education students of UPI YPTK Padang in 2019/2020 academic year. This research was descriptive one. The sample of this research was 30 students of English study program of UPI YPTK Padang. The data were collected by using test. The result of the test showed that students had different ability in translating text. In general, students’ ability in translating text was categorized good.
APLIKASI KAIDAH KEBAHASAAN BAHASA INDONESIA DALAM TAJUK BERITA SURAT KABAR SEBAGAI KONSUMSI INFORMASI PUBLIK DI KOTA MAKASSAR
Authors: Juanda Juanda , Azis Azis
Published: March 2021

The purpose of this research is to determine the use of Indonesian standard in headline news in newspaper discourse relate to the diction/vocabulary; writing; sentence structure; and use of vernacular languages, and foreign terms. This research focuses on the use of Indonesian standard in the headline newspaper of Harian Fajar newspaper. This research is a qualitative method of content analysis. The source data are from daily Harian Fajar Tajuk Newspaper.  The result showed that the diction or vocabulary in the discourse of headline news used language hyperbole, oxymoron, and personification. The writing word such as acronyms, technical terms. The majority of the style of language used by the writer is hyperbole. The writer used many acronyms.  The technical terms are dominated by English vocabulary. The writing is not appropriate, namely:  the writing of the word, the error in the writing of letters, capital letters, the compound word, and preposition di. Particle that often arise in the writing errors is pun. These of punctuation is not appropriate, namely the use of comma, in the details of words and the use of hyphen in the decoding in the words. The sentence structure in the form of the head line news of Harian Fajar is to be a symbol (+), proverbs, advice, and imperative sentence. The ambiguous sentence, conjunction occur due to improving is not appropriate, ie: untuk kemudian, padahal agar, mesti,  sehingga, jadi, karena, disebabkan oleh, dan bahwa.  Many sentences  found in the data are ineffective. One of the reasons is became of a combination of the two ideas in a sentence.  There is a tendency of the writer to write down his words affix me- writer the based words only and many sentences do not have clear subject.
Discriminations on the Labor Market in Ukraine
Authors: Todoriuk Sergii , Vodianka Liubov , Blyzniuk Vladyslava
Published: March 2021

The article found that there is discrimination on the labor market in Ukraine at this stage. Its classification features have been selected and described and the features that most frequently discriminate on the labor sphere in Ukraine are highlighted. The manifestations of labor and gender discrimination in the labor market are analyzed, as well as the categories of persons in Ukraine who directly experience its manifestations. The main problems of discrimination in contemporary Ukrainian society that cause labor and gender discrimination are revealed. Regulatory acts of regulation on the sphere of labor discrimination are investigated, as well as mechanisms of their regulation. The place of Ukraine and neighboring countries in the ranking of the Gender Index is considered. The main tasks, the implementation of which ensures the achievement of the purposes of Sustainable Development, is considered. The study found ways to overcome possible further manifestations of these types of discrimination in the Ukrainian labor market and the conditions for their future achievement
Gender differences in health anxiety and musculoskeletal symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Kirmizi Muge , Yalcinkaya Gamze , Sengul Yesim Salik
Published: March 2021

BACKGROUND: Health anxiety is often associated with musculoskeletal symptoms and gender, but there are limited studies that investigate these relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to compare the genders regarding health anxiety and musculoskeletal symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic and to investigate the relationship of musculoskeletal symptoms with physical activity and health anxiety. METHODS: Assessments were performed through an online questionnaire. Eighty-five males and eighty-five females were included by matching genders in terms of age, body mass index, education level, number of days spent at home during the pandemic, and physical activity. The Short Health Anxiety Inventory, the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form, and the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire were used to assess health anxiety, physical activity, and musculoskeletal symptoms, respectively. RESULTS: Females had a higher level of health anxiety and more musculoskeletal symptoms than males (p< 0.05). There were weak to moderate correlations in females and weak correlations in males between musculoskeletal symptoms and health anxiety (p< 0.05). Also, a weak negative correlation was found between physical activity and musculoskeletal symptoms in both genders (p< 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Females are more anxious and have more musculoskeletal symptoms during the pandemic than males. Also, health anxiety is related to musculoskeletal symptoms in both genders.
CircRNA_100565 contributes to cisplatin resistance of NSCLC cells by regulating proliferation, apoptosis and autophagy via miR-337-3p/ADAM28 axis
Authors: Zhong Youqing , Lin Hui , Li Qi , Liu Chang , Shen Jinmei
Published: March 2021

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been revealed to involve in the chemoresistance of various cancers, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Here, we further investigate the role of circRNA_100565 in NSCLC cisplatin (DDP) resistance. The expression of circRNA_100565 and microRNA (miR)-337-3p, and ADAM metallopeptidase domain 28 (ADAM28) mRNA was detected using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Cell viability and apoptosis were measured by cell counting kit-8 assay and flow cytometry, respectively. Western blot was used to detect the level of ADAM28 and autophagy-related protein. The interaction between miR-337-3p and circRNA_100565 or ADAM28 was confirmed by dual-luciferase reporter assay or pull-down assay. In vivo experiments were conducted via the murine xenograft model. We found CircRNA_100565 was up-regulated in NSCLC DDP-resistant tissues and cell lines, and its high expression was associated with shorter overall survival of NSCLC patients. CircRNA_100565 deletion mitigated DDP resistance, reflected by the suppression of proliferation and autophagy, the reduction of IC50 value, as well as enhancement of apoptosis in DDP-resistant NSCLC cells. MiR-377-3p was confirmed to directly bind to circRNA_100565 or ADAM28 3’-UTR. Moreover, circRNA_100565 indirectly regulated ADAM28 expression by sponging miR-377-3p in NSCLC cells. Additionally, circRNA_100565 deletion-induced sensitivity of NSCLC resistant cells to DDP could be remarkably attenuated by miR-377-3p inhibition or ADAM28 re-expression. Meanwhile, circRNA_100565 knockdown contributed to the anti-tumor effects of DDP on NSCLC in vivo. CONCLUSION: CircRNA_100565 was an independent prognostic factor for NSCLC patient survival, and enhanced the resistance of NSCLC cells to cisplatin by regulating cell proliferation, apoptosis and autophagy via miR-337-3p/ADAM28 axis, shedding light on the development of a novel therapeutic strategy to boost the effectiveness of NSCLC chemotherapy.
Microvascular free flaps from the lower abdomen for preservation of amputation length in the lower extremity
Authors: Wenny Raphael , Schmidt Manfred , Zaussinger Maximilian , Zucal Isabel , Duscher Dominik , Huemer Georg M.
Published: March 2021

BACKGROUND: The length of the amputation stump is crucial for optimal prosthetic fitting and rehabilitation. Especially in traumatic amputation, direct closure of the stump may be challenging, and bone shortening is frequently needed. To avoid excessive bone shortening, coverage of exposed bone with free flaps is a versatile option. OBJECTIVE: Here we present our experience with the utilization of free flaps from the lower abdomen for the coverage of amputations stumps of the lower extremity. METHODS: Between March 2008 and October 2010, five patients (three female, two male) with complex wounds on amputation stumps of the lower extremity were treated with a mean age of 50 years (range: 15–72 years). Six abdominal free flaps were performed in five patients (one bilateral case), including four deep inferior epigastric artery (DIEP-) and two muscle-sparing transverse rectus abdominis muscle (ms-TRAM-) flaps. Patient’s and operative data were collected retrospectively. RESULTS: One complete flap failure occurred (overall success rate: 83.3%). Three of five patients gained full ambulatory status. CONCLUSIONS: Due to the low donor site morbidity a long vascular pedicle and the large amount of available tissue, abdominal based free flaps represent our first choice for microsurgical reconstruction of lower extremity stumps.
A deep learning- based frechet and dirichlet model for intrusion detection in IWSN
Authors: Alzubi Omar A.
Published: March 2021

Industrial Wireless Sensor Network (IWSN) includes numerous sensor nodes that collect data about target objects and transmit to sink nodes (SN). During data transmission among nodes, intrusion detection is carried to improve data security and privacy. Intrusion detection system (IDS) examines the network for intrusions based on user activities. Several works have been done in the field of intrusion detection and different measures are carried out to increase data security from the issues related to black hole, Sybil attack, Worm hole, identity replication attack and etc. In various existing approaches, secure data transmission is not achieved, therefore resulted in compromising the security and privacy of IWSNs. Accurate intrusion detection is still challenging task in terms of improving security and intrusion detection rate. In order to improve intrusion detection rate (IDR) with minimum time, generalized Frechet Hyperbolic Deep and Dirichlet Secured (FHD-DS) data communication model is introduced. At first, Frechet Hyperbolic Deep Traffic (FHDT) feature extraction method is designed to extract more relevant network activities and inherent traffic features. With the help of extracted features, anomalous or normal data is predicted. Followed by Statistical Dirichlet Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection model is applied to discover intrusion. Here, Dirichlet distribution is evaluated to attain secure data transmission and significantly detect intrusions in WSNs. Experimental evaluation is carried out with KDD cup 99 dataset on factors such as IDR, intrusion detection time (IDT) and data delivery rate (DDR). The observed results show that the generalized FHD-DS data communication method achieves higher IDR with minimum time.
Application of computer image segmentation algorithm based on visual features
Authors: Du Yuetao , Yang Nana
Published: March 2021

In order to further satisfy the needs of visual perception, a computer image segmentation algorithm based on visual characteristics is proposed. The computer image geometric features are linearly segmented to obtain multiple sub-panels and various geometric features of each sub-panel are extracted. The geometric features are input as low-level features into the deep neural network model to learn to generate high-level features. Finally, based on the high-level features, the clustering center is obtained by Gaussian mixture model, and the final segmentation result is obtained by using graph cut. The results of experiments on Princeton standard data set and COSEG dataset show that the rand index RI value is the best value for each 3D model, which shows that the proposed method is better than the traditional segmentation method. It has good consistent segmentation results. The research showed that using a variety of geometric features compared to a single geometric feature, the obtained features have a more comprehensive geometric meaning, which can effectively make image segmentation meet the visual characteristics requirements.
Research on operating efficiency of incubators based on DEA: A case study of China’s yangtze river economic belt
Authors: Lijun Wang , Yaqian Pang , Mengdong Chen
Published: March 2021

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to measure the comprehensive efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency of science and technology business incubators in 11 provinces and cities of the Yangtze River economic belt from 2011 to 2017, and the situation of incubators in the Yangtze River economic belt was analyzed from the overall, horizontal and vertical perspectives. Results show that the overall operation efficiency of science and technology business incubators in the Yangtze River economic belt is relatively high, but it shows a downward trend in the sample period, and it is found that the development of science and technology business incubators in the Yangtze River economic belt is unbalanced, there are regional differences, and some provinces and cities have serious redundancy of incubator personnel and incubation funds. On this basis, some suggestions are put forward, such as reducing the number of managers and tutors, adjusting the dominant position of government investment in science and technology business incubators, and creating resource input sharing enterprise output circulation chain.
New stability theorem for uncertain pantograph differential equations
Authors: Jia Zhifu , Liu Xinsheng , Zhang Yu
Published: March 2021

Uncertain pantograph differential equation (UPDE for short) is a special unbounded uncertain delay differential equation. Stability in measure, stability almost surely and stability in p-th moment for uncertain pantograph differential equation have been investigated, which are not applicable for all situations, for the sake of completeness, this paper mainly gives the concept of stability in distribution, and proves the sufficient condition for uncertain pantograph differential equation being stable in distribution. In addition, the relationships among stability almost surely, stability in measure, stability in p-th moment, and stability in distribution for the uncertain pantograph differential equation are also discussed.
The effect of underlying distribution of asset returns on efficiency in DEA models
Authors: Mirsadeghpour Zoghi S.M. , Sanei M. , Tohidi G. , Banihashemi Sh. , Modarresi N.
Published: March 2021

According to modern finance theory and increasing need for efficient investments, we evaluate the portfolio performance based on the data envelopment analysis method. By the fact that stock market’s return distributions usually exhibit skewness, kurtosis and heavy-tails, we consider some appropriate underlying distributions that affect the input and output of the model. In this regard, the multivariate skewed t and the multivariate generalized hyperbolic as the heavy-tailed distributions of Normal mean-variance mixture are applied. The models are inspired by the Range Directional Measure (RDM) model to deal with negative values. The value-at-risk (VaR) and conditional VaR (CVaR) as risk measures are used in these optimization problems. We estimate the parameters of such distributions by Expectation Maximization algorithm. Then we present an empirical investigation to measure the relative efficiency of two sets of seven groups of companies from different industries of Iran stock exchange market. By comparing the results of introduced models with previous RDM approach, we show that how well the distribution of assets affect the performance evaluation.
Video-Based Analyses of Parkinson’s Disease Severity: A Brief Review
Authors: Sibley Krista G. , Girges Christine , Hoque Ehsan , Foltynie Thomas
Published: March 2021

Remote and objective assessment of the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease is an area of great interest particularly since the COVID-19 crisis emerged. In this paper, we focus on a) the challenges of assessing motor severity via videos and b) the use of emerging video-based Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning techniques to quantitate human movement and its potential utility in assessing motor severity in patients with Parkinson’s disease. While we conclude that video-based assessment may be an accessible and useful way of monitoring motor severity of Parkinson’s disease, the potential of video-based AI to diagnose and quantify disease severity in the clinical context is dependent on research with large, diverse samples, and further validation using carefully considered performance standards.
A Long Way to Go: Patient Perspectives on Digital Health for Parkinson’s Disease
Authors: Riggare Sara , Stamford Jon , Hägglund Maria
Published: March 2021

Digital health promises to improve healthcare, health, and wellness through the use of digital technologies. The purpose of this commentary is to review and discuss the field of digital health for Parkinson’s disease (PD) focusing on the needs, expectations, and wishes of people with PD (PwP). Our analysis shows that PwP want to use digital technologies to actively manage the full complexity of living with PD on an individual level, including the unpredictability and variability of the condition. Current digital health projects focusing on PD, however, does not live up to the expectations of PwP. We conclude that for digital health to reach its full potential, the right of PwP to access their own data needs to be recognised, PwP should routinely receive personalised feedback based on their data, and active involvement of PwP as an equal partner in digital health development needs to be the norm.
Raman spectroscopic analysis of skin penetration and moisturizing effects of Bionics vernix caseosa cream compared with Vaseline
Authors: Meng Hong , Yin Yating , Wu Wenhai , Liu Yuhong , Li Li , Dong Yinmao , Fan Yi , Li Yue , He Yifan
Published: March 2021

BACKGROUND: The stratum corneum (SC) is the outermost layer of human skin and deemed as barrier against chemical exposure and water loss. Moisturizers have beneficial effects in treating dry skin, especially the SC. Confocal Raman spectroscopy (CRS) was used to evaluate the efficacy of moisturizers on skin hydration and penetration, with such agents posing inherent characteristics of being noninvasive, nondestructive, timesaving, and cost effective. Bionics vernix caseosa (BVC) cream mimics the composition of vernix caseosa (VC), which could protect the newborn skin. METHODS: This research applied CRS to evaluate the penetration depth and water content variation during the intervention with two moisturizers, BVC cream and Vaseline. Volunteers received the 2 h application of BVC cream and Vaseline on the forearms. The evaluations on 0 h, 2 h, 4 h and 6 h were performed clinical assessment. Experimental data was processed by least square method and analysis of variance (ANOVA). RESULTS: The penetration depth of Vaseline was deeper than that of Bionics vernix caseosa cream. Specifically, BVC cream penetrated 18 μm into human skin, while Vaseline penetrated at least 20 μm. Compared with Vaseline, only BVC cream increased skin hydration, with a moisturizing effect lasting for 4 h. At 6 h, the Vaseline moisturizing effect decreased significantly.