bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Untargeted metabolomics confirms the association between plasma branched chain amino acids and residual feed intake in beef heifers
Authors: Jorge-Smeding Ezequiel , Polakof Sergio , Bonnet Muriel , Durand Stephanie , Centeno Delphine , Pétéra Mélanie , Taussat Sébastien , Cantalapiedra-Hijar Gonzalo
Published: November 2022

This study explored plasma biomarkers and metabolic pathways underlying feed efficiency measured as residual feed intake (RFI) in Charolais heifers. A total of 48 RFI extreme individuals (High-RFI, n = 24; Low-RFI, n = 24) were selected from a population of 142 heifers for classical plasma metabolite and hormone quantification and plasma metabolomic profiling through untargeted LC-MS. Most efficient heifers (Low-RFI) had greater (P = 0.03) plasma concentrations of IGF-1 and tended to have (P = 0.06) a lower back fat depth compared to least efficient heifers. However, no changes were noted (P ≥ 0.10) for plasma concentrations of glucose, insulin, non-esterified fatty acids, β-hydroxybutyrate and urea. The plasma metabolomic dataset comprised 3,457 ions with none significantly differing between RFI classes after false discovery rate correction (FDR > 0.10). Among the 101 ions having a raw P < 0.05 for the RFI effect, 13 were putatively annotated by using internal databases and 6 compounds were further confirmed with standards. Metabolic pathway analysis from these 6 confirmed compounds revealed that the branched chain amino acid metabolism was significantly (FDR < 0.05) impacted by the RFI classes. Our results confirmed for the first time in beef heifers previous findings obtained in male beef cattle and pointing to changes in branched-chain amino acids metabolism along with that of body composition as biological mechanisms related to RFI. Further studies are warranted to ascertain whether there is a cause-and-effect relationship between these mechanisms and RFI.
microbeSEG: A deep learning software tool with OMERO data management for efficient and accurate cell segmentation
Authors: Scherr Tim , Seiffarth Johannes , Wollenhaupt Bastian , Neumann Oliver , Schilling Marcel P. , Kohlheyer Dietrich , Scharr Hanno , Nöh Katharina , Mikut Ralf
Published: November 2022

In biotechnology, cell growth is one of the most important properties for the characterization and optimization of microbial cultures. Novel live-cell imaging methods are leading to an ever better understanding of cell cultures and their development. The key to analyzing acquired data is accurate and automated cell segmentation at the single-cell level. Therefore, we present microbeSEG, a user-friendly Python-based cell segmentation tool with a graphical user interface and OMERO data management. microbeSEG utilizes a state-of-the-art deep learning-based segmentation method and can be used for instance segmentation of a wide range of cell morphologies and imaging techniques, e.g., phase contrast or fluorescence microscopy. The main focus of microbeSEG is a comprehensible, easy, efficient, and complete workflow from the creation of training data to the final application of the trained segmentation model. We demonstrate that accurate cell segmentation results can be obtained within 45 minutes of user time. Utilizing public segmentation datasets or pre-labeling further accelerates the microbeSEG workflow. This opens the door for accurate and efficient data analysis of microbial cultures.
Modifying (M)CoVaR and constructing tail risk networks through analytic higher-order moments: Evidence from the global forex markets
Authors: Hakim Arief , Salman A. N. M. , Ashari Yeva , Syuhada Khreshna
Published: November 2022

In a financial system, entities (e.g., companies or markets) face systemic risk that could lead to financial instability. To prevent this impact, we require quantitative systemic risk management we can carry out using conditional value-at-risk (CoVaR) and a network model. The former measures any targeted entity’s tail risk conditional on another entity being financially distressed; the latter represents the financial system through a set of nodes and a set of edges. In this study, we modify CoVaR along with its multivariate extension (MCoVaR) considering the joint conditioning events of multiple entities. We accomplish this by first employing a multivariate Johnson’s SU risk model to capture the asymmetry and leptokurticity of the entities’ asset returns. We then adopt the Cornish–Fisher expansion to account for the analytic higher-order conditional moments in modifying (M)CoVaR. In addition, we attempt to construct a conditional tail risk network. We identify its edges using a corresponding Delta (M)CoVaR reflecting the systemic risk contribution and further compute the strength and clustering coefficient of its nodes. When applying the financial system to global foreign exchange (forex) markets before and during COVID-19, we revealed that the resulting expanded (M)CoVaR forecast exhibited a better conditional coverage performance than its unexpanded version. Its superior performance appeared to be more evident over the COVID-19 period. Furthermore, our network analysis shows that advanced and emerging forex markets generally play roles as net transmitters and net receivers of systemic risk, respectively. The former (respectively, the latter) also possessed a high tendency to cluster with their neighbors in the network during (respectively, before) COVID-19. Overall, the interconnectedness and clustering tendency of the examined global forex markets substantially increased as the pandemic progressed.
Spatial variation of overweight/obesity and associated factor among reproductive age group women in Ethiopia, evidence from EDHS 2016
Authors: Enyew Ermias Bekele , Birhanu Abraham Yeneneh , Mewosha Wondwossen Zemene
Published: November 2022

Background

Globally, at least 4.7 million people die from being overweight or obese. In Ethiopia, the level of overweight and obesity among women grew from 3% to 8%. However, as far as my literature searching, studies concerning the spatial variation of overweight/obesity and factors associated are not researched in Ethiopia using geospatial techniques. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the spatial variation of overweight/obesity and factor associated among reproductive age group women in Ethiopia using geospatial techniques.

Mothed

A total weighted sample of 10,928 reproductive age women were included in the study. ArcGIS version10.7 was used to explore the spatial variation of overweight/obesity. Bernoulli based model was used to analyze the purely spatial cluster detection of overweight/obesity through SaTScan version 9.6.1 software. Ordinary Least Square analysis and geographically weighted regression analysis was employed to assess the association between an outcome variable and explanatory variables by using ArcGIS 10.7 software. P value of less than 0.05 was used to declare statically significant.

Result

The spatial distribution of overweight/obesity in Ethiopia was clustered. Statistically, a significant-high hot spot overweight/obesity was identified at Addis Ababa, harrari, Dire Dawa. SaTScan identified 66 primary spatial clusters (RR = 4.17, P < 0.001) located at Addis Ababa, southeast amhara, central part of oromia region and northern part of SNNP region. In geographically weighted regression, rich wealth index, women’s age (35–39 and 40–44 years), watching TV, internet use and not working were statistically significant that affecting spatial variation of overweight/obesity.

Conclusion

In Ethiopia, overweight/obesity varies across the region. Statistically, significant-high hot spots of overweight/obesity were detected in Addis Ababa, Harari, Dire Dawa, some parts of Amhara and afar region, most of the Oromia and Somalia region, and the South Nation Nationality and People region of Ethiopia. Therefore, the ministry of health and the Ethiopian public health institute, try to initiate policies and practices that could include providing funding for physical education as well as recreational centers in communities most in need. In addition, public and private mass media create awareness of healthy lifestyles is promoted by health education regarding increased physical activity and reduced sedentary behavior through various media platforms.
Healthcare provider and patient/family perceptions of continuous pressure imaging technology for prevention of pressure injuries: A secondary analysis of patients enrolled in a randomized control trial
Authors: Ocampo Wrechelle , Sola Darlene Y. , Baylis Barry W. , Conly John M. , Hogan David B. , Kaufman Jaime , Kiplagat Linet , Stelfox Henry T. , Ghali William A. , Ho Chester
Published: November 2022

Introduction

Despite the availability of various pressure injury (PI) prevention strategies (e.g., risk identification, use of pressure re-distribution surfaces, frequent repositioning), they persist as a significant issue for healthcare systems worldwide. Continuous pressure imaging (CPI) is a novel technology that could be integrated within a comprehensive approach to the prevention of PIs. We studied the perceptions of healthcare providers and patients/families to identify facilitators and barriers to the use of this technology.

Methods

Hospitalized patients/family members from a randomized controlled trial assessing the efficacy of CPI in preventing PIs completed a survey after 72 hours (or upon discharge from hospital) of CPI monitoring. They were asked questions about prior and current experience with CPI technology. For healthcare providers, perceptions on the use of the device and its impact on care were explored through a survey distributed by email or hard copies.

Results

A total of 125 healthcare providers and 525 patients/family members completed the surveys. Of the healthcare providers, 95% either agreed/strongly agreed that the CPI technology was easy to use and 65% stated that the device improved how they provided pressure relief for patients. Identified issues with the device were cost, the fitting of the mattress cover, and the fixation of the patients/families on the device. Over a quarter of the patient/family respondents agreed/strongly agreed that the device influenced how pressure relief was provided. This response was statistically associated with whether the monitor was turned on (intervention arm; 52.7%) or off (control arm; 4.2%).

Discussion and conclusion

CPI technology was positively perceived by healthcare providers. Most patients/families felt it influenced care when the CPI monitor was turned on. Concerns raised around cost and the ease of use of these devices by healthcare providers may affect the decisions of healthcare system administrators to adopt and implement this technology.
Translation and psychometric evaluation of Smartphone Addiction Scale—Short Version (SAS-SV) among Chinese college students
Authors: Zhao Hao , Rafik-Galea Shameem , Fitriana Mimi , Song Tian-Jiao
Published: November 2022

Background

Smartphone addiction is very prevalent among college students, especially Chinese college students, and it can cause many psychological problems for college students. However, there is no valid research instrument to evaluate Chinese college students’ smartphone addiction.

Objective

This study aimed to translate the Smartphone Addiction Scale—Short Version (SAS-SV) into Chinese and evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the Smartphone Addiction Scale- Chinese Short version (SAS-CSV) among Chinese college students.

Methods

The SAS-SV was translated into Chinese using the forward-backward method. The SAS-CSV was completed by 557 Chinese college students (sample 1: n = 279; sample 2: n = 278). 62 college students were randomly selected from the 557 Chinese college students to be meas- ured twice, with an interval of two weeks. The reliability of the SAS-CSV was evaluated by internal consistency reliability and test-retest reliability, and the validity of the SAS-CSV was evaluated by content validity, structural validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity.

Results

The SAS-CSV presented good content validity, high internal consistency (sample 1: α = 0.829; sample 2: α = 0.881), and good test-retest reliability (ICC: 0.975; 95% CI: 0.966–0.985). After one exploratory factor analysis, three components (tolerance, withdrawal, and negative effect) with eigenvalues greater than 1 were obtained, and the cumulative variance contribution was 50.995%. The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that all the fit indexes reached the standard of good model fit (χ2/df = 1.883, RMSEA = 0.056, NFI = 0.954, RFI = 0.935, IFI = 0.978, TLI = 0.969, CFI = 0.978). The SAS-CSV presented good convergent validity for the factor loading of all the items ranged from 0.626 to 0.892 (higher than 0.50), the three latent variables’ AVE ranged from 0.524 to 0.637 (higher than 0.50), and the three latent variables’ CR ranged from 0.813 to 0.838 (higher than 0.70). Moreover, the square roots of the AVE of component 1 (tolerance), component 2 (withdrawal) and component 3 (negative effect) were 0.724, 0.778, and 0.798, respectively, higher than they were with other correlation coefficients, indicating that the SAS-CSV had good discrimination validity.

Conclusion

The SAS-CSV is a valid instrument for measuring smartphone addiction among Chinese college students.
Identifying pathways to religious service attendance among older adults: A lagged exposure-wide analysis
Authors: Cowden Richard G. , Nakamura Julia S. , Chen Zhuo Job , Case Brendan , Kim Eric S. , VanderWeele Tyler J.
Published: November 2022

We used prospective data (spanning 8 years) from a national sample of older U.S. adults aged > 50 years (the Health and Retirement Study, N = 13,771) to evaluate potential factors that lead to subsequent religious service attendance. We applied a lagged exposure-wide epidemiologic design and evaluated 60 candidate predictors of regular subsequent religious service attendance. Candidate predictors were drawn from the following domains: health behaviors, physical health, psychological well-being, psychological distress, social factors, and work. After rigorous adjustment for a rich set of potential confounders, we observed modest evidence that changes in some indices of physical health, psychological well-being, psychological distress, and social functioning predicted regular religious service attendance four years later. Our findings suggest that there may be opportunities to support more regular religious service attendance among older adults who positively self-identify with a religious/spiritual tradition (e.g., aid services for those with functional limitations, psychological interventions to increase hope), which could have downstream benefits for various dimensions of well-being in the later years of life.
Acute coronary syndrome risk prediction based on gradient boosted tree feature selection and recursive feature elimination: A dataset-specific modeling study
Authors: Lin Huizhong , Xue Yutao , Chen Kaizhi , Zhong Shangping , Chen Lianglong
Published: November 2022

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a serious cardiovascular disease that can lead to cardiac arrest if not diagnosed promptly. However, in the actual diagnosis and treatment of ACS, there will be a large number of redundant related features that interfere with the judgment of professionals. Further, existing methods have difficulty identifying high-quality ACS features from these data, and the interpretability work is insufficient. In response to this problem, this paper uses a hybrid feature selection method based on gradient boosting trees and recursive feature elimination with cross-validation (RFECV) to reduce ACS feature redundancy and uses interpretable feature learning for feature selection to retain the most discriminative features. While reducing the feature set search space, this method can balance model simplicity and learning performance to select the best feature subset. We leverage the interpretability of gradient boosting trees to aid in understanding key features of ACS, linking the eigenvalue meaning of instances to model risk predictions to provide interpretability for the classifier. The data set used in this paper is patient records after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a tertiary hospital in Fujian Province, China from 2016 to 2021. In this paper, we experimentally explored the impact of our method on ACS risk prediction. We extracted 25 key variables from 430 complex ACS medical features, with a feature reduction rate of 94.19%, and identified 5 key ACS factors. Compared with different baseline methods (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Extreme Gradient Boosting, Multilayer Perceptron, and 1D Convolutional Networks), the results show that our method achieves the highest Accuracy of 98.8%.
Validity of clinical disease activity index (CDAI) to evaluate the disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis patients in Sri Lanka: A prospective follow up study based on newly diagnosed patients
Authors: Dissanayake Keerthie , Jayasinghe Chandrika , Wanigasekara Priyani , Dissanayake Jayampathy , Sominanda Ajith
Published: November 2022

Routine use of the Disease Activity Score-28 (DAS28) to assess the disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is limited due to its dependency on laboratory investigations and the complex calculations involved. In contrast, the clinical disease activity index (CDAI) is simple to calculate, which makes the "treat to target" strategy for the management of RA more practical. We aimed to assess the validity of CDAI compared to DAS28 in RA patients in Sri Lanka. A total of 103 newly diagnosed RA patients were recruited, and their disease activity was calculated using DAS 28 and CDAI during the first visit to the clinic (0 months) and re-assessed at 4 and 9 months of follow-up visits. The validity of the CDAI, compared to DAS 28, was evaluated. Patients had a female preponderance (6:1) and a short symptom duration (mean = 6.33 months). Internal consistency reliability of CDAI, as assessed by Cronbach’s α test, was 0.868. Convergent validity was assessed by correlation and Kappa statistics. Strong positive correlations were observed between CDAI and DAS 28 at the baseline (0 months), 4 and 9 months of evaluation (Spearman’s r = 0.935, 0.935, 0.910, respectively). Moderate-good inter-rater agreements between the DAS-28 and CDAI were observed (Weighted kappa of 0.660, 0.519, and 0.741 at 0, 4, and 9 months respectively). Discriminant validity, as assessed by ROC curves at 0, 4th, and 9th months of the evaluation, showed the area under the curve (AUC) of 0.958, 0.979, and 0.910, respectively. The suggested cut-off points for different CDAI disease activity categories according to ROC curves were ≤ 4 (Remission), > 4 to ≤ 6 (low), > 6 to ≤ 18 (moderate), > 18 (high). These findings indicate that the CDAI has good concordance with DAS 28 in assessing the disease activity in RA patients, in this study sample.
Performing maternities: During and after COVID-19: Part 1
Authors: Aughterson Kate , Moriarty Jessica
Published: November 2022

This editorial shows and argues that multiple experiences of experiencing maternity across the world during the global pandemic can be mediated, expressed and accessed through notions and practices of performativity. In collecting the diversity of artistic, poetic and critical expressions in this edition, the editors have simultaneously opened a window on intimate parental experiences during lockdown and provided a space to make political those experiences. It establishes the key debates and approaches of the contributors, mapping how the articles work together providing critical/creative responses to notions of and experiences with maternities during the pandemic. In this sense, both journal edition and editorial participate in the feminist rhetorical re-calibration of ‘ethos’ as collaborative co-construction of meaning between speaker and listener, artist and viewer, writer and reader.
Caring for our futures: Epistolary praxis and the promise of slow
Authors: Buller Rachel Epp
Published: November 2022

This creative–critical article advocates for the promise of letters in imagining possible futures. The piece includes ten of my Letters to the Future, epistolary poems written as fictocritical conversations between the texts that I read and imagined future readers. In the letters, I write of listening and care, patterns and methods of making passed between our hands, embodied forms of knowledge and slow practices, as I imagine and speak to our future caring communities. The letters are interspersed with short scholarly reflections on feminist epistolary history, traditions of matrilineal knowledge and slow reading as maternal performance. As part of my multimodal research-creation project on listening as artistic practice, this epistolary work takes visual form in drawings, paper-cut installations and letterpress prints, exhibited most recently at the University of Alberta in 2022.
Poems for Performing Maternities: Poetries of Maternity
Authors: Karlsson Elin
Published: November 2022

I write to put the imagined threats and horrors of the very early days of motherhood into words on paper rather than leaving them as self-depleting, snowballing, internal echoes bounding within a recently emptied body. My contribution to this publication consists of four poems. Poetry provides a space for honesty. It can be pretty and seductive but just as often grimy and fearful and, in all honesty, it is most likely neither fully but a messy mix of it all. For me, the fear and worry that took place within the domestic in the very first part of motherhood was particularly connected to breastfeeding and the perceived pressures of extended family. The poems might highlight difficult feelings that seem less than ideal. But through bringing these to the fore, I want my poetic work to challenge ideals that surround the maternal role. The aim is to give mothers some much-needed recognition at a time when it is so easy to feel alienated and strange. I am also so aware that I am writing for my growing daughter. My most valued future reader. At the time of writing, the poems provide a welcome, an introduction and an important lesson that dog food is inedible. Which brings about another priority of mine, extending across all my work. Though the core matter of my work is so serious, humour and light heartedness provide an amazing tool to reach towards the audience and bring it close.
The birth of a lullaby and these COVID years
Authors: Ireland Jilly
Published: November 2022

This article describes the birth of a lullaby. It follows a long history of songs used to lull babies into a quiet or sleepy state. This particular lullaby grew from a community-based maternity care intervention on the south coast of England. The project, funded by the Burdett Fund for Nurses and supported by the Foundation of Nursing Studies was co-created by local women and care providers from maternity; health visiting and the Children’s Centre. The format was a weekly information and support meeting called ‘Bump, baby and beyond’ held in a local Children’s Centre. Each week women shared their questions, worries and dreams with the group over lunch and during the activities that followed. The aims – agreed at an early stakeholder planning event – were to help build confidence for labour and parenthood and to make connections with a supportive local network. An initial list of activities was drawn up via focus groups and refined after piloting a ‘rolling programme’. The author, a community midwife, facilitated the majority of group sessions and wrote a poem as a reflection after the eighteen-month project had come to an end. This eventually became the lullaby which can be viewed on YouTube. The article describes what grew from an alliance between women, health and social care workers and the active support of the funding body project facilitator. References are made to maternity services; academic literature about singing and neuroscience and the therapeutic effects of singing. During the global COVID-19 pandemic, singing for relaxation and soothing has an even stronger resonance.
Poetic voices: Women’s experience of miscarriage
Authors: de Cruz Lois
Published: November 2022

Recently, there has been some attention paid to miscarriage in the media, yet societal attitudes towards the stigma and disenfranchisement some women experience after miscarriage are slow to change. Miscarriage is a common event. Statistics show that more than a quarter of all pregnancies result in miscarriage, with the majority occurring in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. However, there is very little research into its long-term impact on women. The article is loosely based on my Ph.D. research findings on the long-term effects of miscarriage on some women many decades after the event. Here, I want to raise awareness of the long-term psychological effects of miscarriage and to consider the needs of women who miscarry. I also reflect on my own experience of miscarriage more than twenty years ago and I use a reflexive approach in which I embrace my subjectivity and bring it into the heart of my writing. I present my research findings through poetic inquiry, as I feel that poetry is a powerful medium for evoking lived experience. I have represented my data in poetic form, keeping as close as possible to the participants’ original words. This method allowed me to distil my participants’ experiences of miscarriage and to present these in a redolent and intimate way. I include a companion poem, where I reflect on the experience of writing this article and ponder on the impact miscarriage still has on me now. I believe that poetry can be a powerful medium for evoking lived experience and that it gives voice to my research participants allowing them to speak powerfully of their experience of miscarriage. I hope that in the future there will be a deeper understanding from health professionals and by society in general about the impact of miscarriage so that women will be better heard and supported.
Performing in the pandemic: The COVID-19 chronicles of Asian mother artists
Authors: Wason Singh Ruchika
Published: November 2022

This article seeks to collect stories and make heard the voices of mother artists of Asian descent/Asia, about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on documenting the implications of their experiences during the pandemic, on their maternal role performance and their studio practice. Some of the points of departure proposed to the artists include disruptions in routines, re-prioritization of work, changes in durational attention given to the work before the pandemic, the psychological and physiological impact of the pandemic on individual health to impede role performance, and the impact of the challenges/changes on the sense of self/identity. At the same time there is also a curiosity about the coping mechanisms they might have sought to counter the situations. I have curated the collection of narratives by inviting Phaptawan Suwannakudt (Australia and Thailand), Nidhi Agarwal (India), Monika Lin (China and United States), Tazeen Qayyum (Canada and Pakistan) and Arisa Chinen (Japan) to share their stories. Their artistic responses will be in the form of text and image.
Application of Robotics in Manufacturing Industry
Authors: richard Rommel
Published: November 2022

ABSTRACT

Usage for robotic systems can be found in many manufacturing companies, including stores and

factories. Robotic systems are crucial towards the smart factory in just this modern generation of

industry, which has resulted in a major increase in output. Organizations could lower

manufacturing costs, increase output efficiency, and improve product and service by using robotic

technology. This robot arm requires a substantial investment; however, it also offers substantial

rewards. Automated machines are thus worthwhile investments because they operate productively

in manufacture. Business robots are equipment that can be configured to carry out manufacturingrelated

operations for automobiles. Machines are used in many numerous sectors for terms of

installed capacity and high levels of output. These robots can perform intricate sequences of tasks.

Production robotics can carry out a variety of tasks, including assembly as well as elements that

enable. These are indeed created to carry out a variety of assembly tasks and decrease the time

required to produce them. Throughout fact, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning algorithms

were built into robotic arms that aid its manufacturers in reacting to critical situations. Robotic

systems usage in automotive plants have risen because of the quick development of automated

systems and robotics techniques. Many industrial machines were employed that carry out a variety

of repeatable activities, producing high-quality output. As a result, industrialized automation has

use in a variety of manufacturing-related tasks. It is made to be used in hazardous environments

such as those involved in explosive disarming, thorough monitoring of radioisotopes, etc.
Attempt to an Analysis of the biological neural system algorithm of human body induced earthquake precursors
Authors: da Cao
Published: November 2022

Ada is the sixth player in the second China AETE (Artificial Intelligence Earthquake Prediction) Competition, We have statistically verified his earthquake prediction records from 2011 to 2022. The accuracy rate of earthquake prediction is more than 70% (63% of the total number of predicted earthquakes with magnitude 5.5), and the confidence level is 95%. Since the reliable earthquake precursor signal described by Ada is quite consistent with the characteristics of the Alfven wave, we propose a hypothesis on how to trigger an impending earthquake on the Alfven (Q G) wave model of Gillette et al. The plume of the upper mantle plume invades the asthenosphere as the deep layers of Earth's interior are in a state of convection, where heavy, cold melts fall and hot, light melts rise. Under specific conditions, it is possible to generate bulk and surface plasma sheet in magma or lithosphere, thus forming Alfven nonlinear isolated wavelet. The Alfven wave frequently disturbs the geomagnetic field, releasing huge heat and kinetic energy, just like pulling the trigger to trigger an impending earthquake.

How to explain Ada senses complex phenomena such as Alfven waves and how to locate the epicenter of earthquakes, we boldly speculate that there may be special magnetic induction cells in the human specific functions, and try to analyze how the advanced biological nervous system decodes earthquake precursors and the algorithm process of locating the epicenter, and put forward several viewpoints that are worthy of in-depth research in frontier science.
The Impact of Board Characteristics and Ownership Concentration on the Financial Statement of Selected Deposit Bank in Nigeria.
Authors: Udoh Onyenum Ruth
Published: November 2022

Banks are the foundation of every economy, having a strong and thriving banking sector with good corporate governance procedures is crucial for all economies. Board Characteristics in this study include board size, board activity and ownership concentration.Achieving and sustaining public trust and confidence inthe financial system requires effective boards and corporate governance procedures. They are essential to their correct operation since they impact how well the banking industry performs across the globe. Ineffective board may result from corporate governance, which ultimately may contribute to bank collapse.This study sought to determine the effects of board characteristics and ownership concentration on the financial performance of bank.
Death and the Body Politic: Burial Reforms and Mourning Practices in Nineteenth-Century Chile
Authors: Melstrom Tina
Published: November 2022

In 1821, the Supreme Director of the Chilean Republic (Bernardo O’Higgins) announced a controversial reglamento that established a new national cemetery known as the Cementerio General and attempted to control mourning practices in the new Republic. In addition to responding to growing public health concerns surrounding interments within Church walls and limiting displays of public grief, O’Higgins envisioned using the cemetery as a space from which he could establish a national “Pantheon,” thus serving as a catalyst for regulating the (dead) Chilean body politic in the decades following independence. This paper explores how O’Higgins’s 1821 reglamento, restrained until 1883 by opposition from the Catholic Church, complemented other practices that reinforced patriarchal ideologies privileging elite men in nineteenth-century Latin America. The paper also reveals how the body was a space of transverse oppression that treated the deaths of elite women differently from those of poor or non-Catholic women.
Nuestra Misión(1940): Maternidad simbólica y regeneración nacional en la propaganda cinematográfica de la Sección Femenina
Authors: Oroz Elena
Published: November 2022

Este artículo explora el papel desempeñado por la Sección Femenina de Falange (SF) en la promoción del programa demográfico franquista durante la inmediata posguerra a través del cinematográfico, el medio que encarnó como ningún otro la moderna cultura de masas durante el la primera mitad del siglo XX y que constituyó una herramienta clave en los procesos nacionalizadores del periodo. Para ello, se toma como estudio de caso Nuestra Misión (1940), el único documental producido por el Departamento de Cinematografía de la SF que de esta etapa se conserva y cuya producción se enmarcó en las políticas pronatalistas del Franquismo. El filme está dedicado al Cuerpo de Divulgadoras de la SF, un equipo nacional de enfermeras destinado a la asistencia sanitaria y social materno-infantil. Mediante una reconstrucción del contexto de producción y de un análisis textual y de contenido del filme, se adopta una perspectiva interseccional para dirimir cómo confluyeron las políticas de género y las implicaciones nacionalistas presentes en la retórica de la misión desplegada por la SF. Se examina cómo la agencia y la representación cinematográfica del cuerpo femenino fascista se negoció a través de un ambivalente proceso dialéctico que, basado en lógicas de compromiso y sumisión a la causa nacional, implicó, por un lado, la imaginación de España como una entidad esencialista cuya regeneración requería de una paradójica intervención autoritaria mediada a través de las mujeres; y, por otro, la asunción estratégica de unos roles femeninos aparentemente tradicionales y concordantes con las retrógradas políticas de género franquistas.
Surveilling Gender through Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Spanish-Algerian Spaces
Authors: Velasco Sherry
Published: November 2022

Influenced by feminist perspectives on urban and architectural studies, this essay examines the relationship between premodern Muslim urbanism and gendered relations, an issue that has received little attention in Hispanic cultural studies to date. This discussion will center on two particular features of domestic architecture and city planning typical of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Algiers: the location and nature of street-facing windows and the communicable rooftops. Focusing primarily on Christian writers such as Antonio de Sosa, Miguel de Cervantes, and Lope de Vega, Velasco explores how their accounts document the ways in which women in Algiers could find unexpected and illicit ways of turning the high windows and the communicable rooftops to their advantage. Despite the constraints presented by an urban design and domestic architecture intended to segregate the sexes and control behavior, women in early modern Algiers (many of whom were recent immigrants from Spain) found ways to utilize their built environment to observe and navigate the world around them, gain access to a public domain commonly reserved for men, and sustain networks with other women in ways that might bypass traditional spatial, social, and personal restrictions and limitations. Through female-only gatherings and other forms of camaraderie that made use of traditional Islamic urbanism, Muslim women in Algiers found ways to challenge long-standing dichotomies of male/female, public/private, interior/exterior, visible/hidden, and chaste/lustful.
¿Tejedoras o asesinas? Machismo, violencia y regeneración enO club da calcetade María Reimóndez
Authors: Moszczyńska-Dürst Katarzyna
Published: November 2022

El objetivo de este artículo consiste en ver cómo O club da calceta (2006) —la novela bestseller de la escritora gallega María Reimóndez— involucra al público lector en el análisis de la violencia en clave de género, reproduciendo la pugna discursiva entre distintas prácticas y posturas feministas. Por un lado, ofrece un diagnóstico de distintas facetas de la violencia patriarcal que padecen las mujeres en la Galicia de la primera década del siglo XXI. Por otro, cuestiona la tradicional oposición binaria entre las mujeres pacíficas, protectoras y dadoras de vida y los hombres violentos, vinculados por su “naturaleza” a los mundos bélicos y criminales. Asimismo, este artículo se centra en el análisis de la estrategia más llamativa de la novela que consiste en no describir los crímenes cometidos por las protagonistas, convirtiéndolos en lo “no-dicho” subyacente a esta narración. Por último, se explicará en qué medida María Reimóndez proporciona una “promesa de felicidad” (Sara Ahmed) basada en la creación de comunidades de mujeres y la reescritura del pensamiento feminista.
Morphological, Physiological, Productivity, and Nutritional Characteristics of Saline-Tolerant Forage Plants
Authors: Harmini Harmini , Fanindi Achmad , Hadiatry Maureen Chrisye
Published: November 2022

Because of  a source of feed, saline-tolerant forage plants are one of the factors promoting the development of ruminant livestock on saline soils. Developing tolerant forage on saline soils necessitates several requirements cause saline soil stress reduces forage crop productivity. The strategy for developing forage on saline soils is to create forage that is characterized by morphology, physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. These characteristics must be identified in order for the forage developed to truly adapt to saline land and become local varieties or new high yielding varieties as a result of saline tolerant breeding. Forage production, performance (architecture), and nutrition are expected benefits of tolerant saline soils forage. Cultivation technology must support the genetic advantage of forage varieties on saline soils in order for their genetic potential to emerge. Planting superior forage varieties on saline land is expected to meet the ongoing need for feed while also developing livestock on sub-optimal land.
Microclimate and development of Coffea canephora intercropped with Carica papaya: measures to mitigate climate change
Authors: Trevisan Evelyn , Oliveira Marcos Góes , Pereira Valani Gustavo , Oliosi Gleison , Zucoloto Moises , Bonomo Robson , Luiz Partelli Fábio
Published: November 2022

Intercropped systems with Conilon coffee might provide a better environment for coffee production. The aim of this study was to assess the microclimate and development of Conilon coffee intercropped with papaya trees. Papaya was planted with spacing of 3.20 x 2.40 m. The coffee trees were planted after eight months, with spacing of 3.20 x 1.60 m, in-between papaya trees (in the same row). The measurements were taken 0, 40 and 80 cm away from the coffee plants, both in the north and south direction. Concomitantly, an adjoining full sunlight coffee system (not intercropped) was also assessed. The measurements included atmospheric parameters (temperature, irradiance, and relative humidity) and vegetative parameters for the coffee plants (leaf area, relative chlorophyll index, length of plagiotropic branches, length of orthotopic branches and number of nodes) in three periods of the year. The intercropped system of Conilon coffee and papaya trees led to a decrease in both irradiance and temperature, and higher means of relative humidity during daytime in all the periods assessed, which contributes to a better environment for coffee cultivation. The shadow provided by papaya trees in the coffee plants contributed to a higher leaf area but did not affect neither the growth of both plagiotropic and orthotopic branches, nor the number of nodes and the etiolation. The intercropped system of Conilon coffee and papaya trees may be potentially used as a farming system to mitigate climate change.
CERTIFICADO DE POTENCIAL ADICIONAL DE CONSTRUÇÃO A PARTIR DE DADOS LIDAR E PARAMETRIZAÇÃO NO CITYENGINE
Authors: De Araújo Adolfo Lino , De Oliveira Francisco Henrique , Bertoncini André Luis da Silva , Sena Pedro Savas
Published: November 2022

O presente trabalho apresenta uma proposta metodológica para avaliar o potencial adicional de construção urbana apartir de dados LiDAR e uso de parametrização de objetos tridimensionais. O objetivo da pesquisa foi quantificar ovalor do potencial de construção do espaço não construído com fins de lançamento de CEPAC (Certificados de PotencialAdicional de Construção), a partir da modelagem com o software CityEngine e a utilização de dados aéreos deperfilamento a laser (LiDAR). A área de estudo está localizada em Joinville-SC, de onde foram recolhidos os dados eos parâmetros urbanísticos definidos por legislação específica em nível federal e municipal para caracterizar o potencialadicional de construção.
DETECÇÃO DE OCLUSÃO VIA MÉTODO BASEADO EM GRADIENTES DE ALTURA: REFINAMENTO DE RESULTADO COM O USO DE MORFOLOGIA MATEMÁTICA
Authors: De Oliveira Henrique Cândido , Dal Poz Aluir Porfírio , Galo Mauricio
Published: November 2022

Atualmente, é frequente o uso de ortoimagens em projetos de infraestrutura e planejamento, realizados em regiõesurbanas. Sabe-se que estas áreas apresentam, em algumas cidades, uma grande quantidade de edifi cações altas, queprovocam o aparecimento de regiões de oclusão. Isso ocorre devido à projeção perspectiva na qual são obtidas a maiorparte das imagens e ao uso de modelos digitais, que representam apenas o terreno, na geração da ortoimagem. Esteartigo tem por objetivo principal a avaliação do uso de diferentes operadores morfológicos aplicados ao refi namentoda detecção de oclusão em imagens aéreas, para fi ns de geração de ortoimagens verdadeiras. O método de detecçãode oclusão considerado utiliza, em vez de modelos de edifi cações pré-defi nidos, apenas um modelo digital de superfície,e se baseia nos gradientes de altura. Os gradientes de altura são destinados à identifi cação do início das áreas deoclusão - em direções radiais. Para a avaliação do refi namento por meio de ferramentas de morfologia matemática,foram comparados os operadores de dilatação e fechamento, considerando um conjunto de dados reais composto porimagens aéreas e dados LASER, da região de Presidente Prudente-SP / Brasil, com densidade aproximada de 8 pontos/m2. Os resultados obtidos, por meio da análise visual e quantitativa, com base nos índices de completeza e nívelde acerto, indicam que os operadores testados proporcionam níveis de acerto similar, com pequena vantagem para ooperador fechamento. Por outro lado, o operador morfológico dilatação proporcionou, para o experimento realizado,uma completeza aproximadamente 6% maior que a obtida pelo operador fechamento, indicando a dilatação como ooperador mais adequado para o refi namento das áreas de oclusão a partir do método apresentado.
AVALIAÇÃO POSICIONAL DE MODELO DIGITAL DE SUPERFÍCIE DERIVADO DE CÂMARA DE PEQUENO FORMATO
Authors: Marotta Giuliano Sant'Anna , Cicerelli Rejane Ennes , Ferreira Alexandre Moreno Richwi , Roig Henrique Llacer , De Abreu Mário Alexandre
Published: November 2022

Veículos Aéreos Não Tripulados (VANT) vêm sendo, nos últimos anos, empregados para finalidades diversas. Para tornarviável a aplicação de microVANT em aerolevantamentos, é necessária a utilização de sensores leves e de baixo custo.No entanto, para assegurar qualidade posicional e verificar a sua aplicabilidade prática, torna-se necessário analisar aspotencialidades das tecnologias citadas. Este trabalho avalia os Modelos Digitais de Superfície (MDS) gerados a partirdas imagens obtidas por uma câmara de pequeno formato a bordo de um microVANT, tomando como referência MDSgerado por perfilhamento realizado por sistema LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) aerotransportado por aeronavetripulada. Com a análise estatística dos resultados, verificou-se que o microVANT e a câmara de pequeno formato utilizados neste trabalho possibilitam a geração de MDS de boa qualidade, similar ao gerado por processamento LiDAR.
ESTIMATIVA DAS VARIAÇÕES SAZONAIS NO FLUXO DA GELEIRA GREY, PATAGÔNIA, POR IMAGENS SAR
Authors: Mendonça Luís Felipe , Arigony-Neto Jorge , Mendes Junior Claudio , Santos Virginia , Jaña Ricardo
Published: November 2022

Este trabalho apresenta estimativas da velocidade de fl uxo da geleira Grey, localizada no Campo de Gelo PatagônicoSul, para o período de outubro de 2011 e janeiro a abril de 2012. Obtidos através de um algoritmo baseado no cálculode correlação cruzada entre pares de imagens SAR COSMO-SkyMed, os valores de velocidade foram posteriormenteinterpolados, de forma a gerar superfícies contínuas que ilustrem a direção e intensidade de fl uxo da geleira. Os resultados foram comparados com dados meteorológicos, disponibilizados pelo Serviço Meteorológico Argentino, parainterpretar o padrão sazonal na velocidade de deslocamento. Outubro e abril registraram valores médios de velocidadede fl uxo de 1,2 ± 0,6 md-1e 1,1 ± 0,5 md-1, respectivamente. Durante o período de verão, os meses de janeiro, fevereiroe março apresentaram valores de velocidade de fl uxo de 1,5 ± 0,7 md-1; 1,3 ± 0,6 md-1 e 1,4 ± 0,7 md-1 variando diretamente com a temperatura média mensal. Com um coefi ciente de correlação estimado em 0,96; os resultados indicamque os valores mensais do fl uxo da geleira Grey possuem uma relação positiva com a temperatura do ar na superfície.A técnica desenvolvida, a partir do algoritmo correlCorresp aplicada em ambiente MATLAB, permitiu uma análiseaprimorada das variações na velocidade superfi cial de geleiras nas mais distintas escalas temporal e espacial.
SMALL AREA HOUSING DEFICIT ESTIMATION: A SPATIAL MICROSIMULATION APPROACH
Authors: Feitosa Flavia da Fonseca , Rosemback Roberta Guerra , Jacovine Thiago Corrêa
Published: November 2022

This paper presents a new methodology for measuring housing deficit at small areas. It combines the advantages of two types of census data: (a) individual-level sample data, which are very useful for depicting many dimensions of the housing deficit, but do not present detailed geographic information; and (b) universal data with detailed spatial resolution (census tracts), but aggregated. For that, we explore an approach based on spatial microsimulation. We simulate spatial microdata by using aggregate data as constraints to expand and allocate individual-level data to census tracts. This procedure allowed us to estimate a particular dimension of the housing deficit (housing cost) at higher spatial resolution.
HYDROGRAPH: EXPLORING GEOGRAPHIC DATA IN GRAPH DATABASES
Authors: Daltio Jaudete , Medeiros Claudia Bauzer
Published: November 2022

Water becomes, every day, more scarce. Reliable information about volume and quality in each watershed is important to management and proper planning of their use. Data-intensive science is being increasingly needed in this context. Associated analysis processes require handling the drainage network that represents a watershed. This paper presents an ongoing work that explores geographic watershed data using graph databases - a scalable and flexible kind of NoSQL databases. The Brazilian Watershed database is used as a case study. The mapping between geographic and graph models is based on the natural network that emerges from the topological relationships among geographic entities.