bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Sistemas alternativos de captación y almacenamiento de agua desde la perspectiva del metabolismo social, Quibdó, Colombia
Authors: Torres Chamat Carlos Alberto , Morales Pinzón Tito
Published: February 2023

El metabolismo social estudia las relaciones de intercambio entre la sociedad y la naturaleza. Este permite analizar la sostenibilidad de los recursos naturales, como el agua, ligada a las relaciones entre la sociedad y la naturaleza. En este sentido, los grupos poblacionales tienen un peso significativo en el incremento del consumo de recursos y la trasformación de la energía. Por eso, los sistemas alternativos de captación y almacenamiento de agua son importantes, pues permiten su autogestión. Esta investigación buscó caracterizar los sistemas de captación y almacenamiento de aguas lluvias presentes en la ciudad de Quibdó, en las áreas no conectadas al sistema de acueducto, en relación con el metabolismo social. Para ello, se utilizó una metodología de enfoque mixto, con técnicas cualitativas y recolección de información cuantitativa. Se realizaron visitas a 150 viviendas en las cuales se evidenciaron los sistemas de almacenamiento y las estructuras para el almacenamiento del agua; de estas, el 41,8 % fueron tanques elevados y el 40,2 % tanques bajos. Se encontró en un hogar un consumo promedio de agua de lluvia de 500 L/día, utilizados en usos potables (preparación de alimentos, hidratación y atención a bebes y niños) y usos no potables enfocados principalmente en aseo (personal, vivienda, lavado de ropa). Dependiendo de la capacidad de almacenamiento de agua de la vivienda, esta puede durar entre uno y cinco días sin precipitación de lluvias; sin embargo, en temporadas de lluvias hay una recarga constante de los sistemas de almacenamiento que evita la carencia del agua.
Cancer Detection Based on Medical Image Analysis with the Help of
Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques: A Systematic Literature
Review
Authors: Sood Tamanna , Bhatia Rajesh , Khandnor Padmavati
Published: February 2023

Background:

Cancer is a deadly disease. It is crucial to diagnose cancer in its early stages.
This can be done with medical imaging. Medical imaging helps us scan and view internal organs. The
analysis of these images is a very important task in the identification and classification of cancer. Over
the past years, the occurrence of cancer has been increasing, so has been the load on the medical fraternity.
Fortunately, with the growth of Artificial Intelligence in the past decade, many tools and techniques
have emerged which may help doctors in the analysis of medical images.

Methodology:

This is a systematic study covering various tools and techniques used for medical image
analysis in the field of cancer detection. It focuses on machine learning and deep learning technologies,
their performances, and their shortcomings. Also, the various types of imaging techniques and the different
datasets used have been discussed extensively. This work also discusses the various preprocessing
techniques that have been performed on medical images for better classification.

Results:

A total of 270 studies from 5 different publications and 5 different conferences have been
included and compared on the above-cited parameters.

Conclusion:

Recommendations for future work have been given towards the end.
The Deficits of the Methodological and Reporting Quality of Randomized
Controlled Trials in the Field of Prosthetics and Orthotics in Iran: A
Systematic Review
Authors: Shahabi Saeed , Kiekens Carlotte , Mojgani Parviz , Arienti Chiara , ShahAli Shabnam , Lankarani Kamran Bagheri
Published: February 2023

Introduction:

Due to the development of the academic field of prosthetics and orthotics
(P&O) in recent years, scientific studies in this domain have increased. However, relevant
published studies, especially randomized controlled trials (RCTs), are not always of acceptable
quality. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the methodological and reporting quality of RCTs
in the field of P&O in Iran to recognize existing shortcomings.

Methods:

Six electronic databases, including PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, the
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, were
searched from January 1, 2000, to July 15, 2022. The Cochrane risk of bias tool was applied to
evaluate the methodological quality of the included studies. In addition, the Consolidated Standards
of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) 2010 checklist was used to assess the reporting quality of the
included studies.

Results:

35 RCTs published from 2007 to 2021 were included in our final analysis. The
methodological quality of 18 RCTs was poor, and the quality of the rest of the studies was good (n
= 7) or fair (n = 10). In addition, the median score (IQR) of the reporting quality of RCTs in
accordance with the CONSORT items was 18 (13-24.5) out of 35. The results of the relationship
analysis indicated a moderate correlation between the CONSORT score and the publication year of
the included RCTs. Nonetheless, there was a low correlation between the CONSORT scores and
the journals' impact factors

Conclusion:

The overall methodological and reporting quality of RCTs in the field of P&O in Iran
was not found to be optimal. To enhance the methodological quality, some items should be
considered more strictly, such as blinding of outcome assessment, allocation concealment, and
random sequence generation. Furthermore, the criteria of CONSORT, as reporting quality
checklist, should be adopted in writing the papers, especially methods-related items
Effector Proteins of Type IV Secretion System: Weapons of Brucella Used
to Fight Against Host Immunity
Authors: Zheng Min , Lin Ruiqi , Zhu Jinying , Dong Qiao , Chen Jingjing , Jiang Pengfei , Zhang Huan , Liu Jinling , Chen Zeliang
Published: February 2023

Brucella is an intracellular bacterial pathogen capable of long-term persistence in the host,
resulting in chronic infections in livestock and wildlife. The type IV secretion system (T4SS) is an important
virulence factor of Brucella and is composed of 12 protein complexes encoded by the VirB operon.
T4SS exerts its function through its secreted 15 effector proteins. The effector proteins act on important
signaling pathways in host cells, inducing host immune responses and promoting the survival and
replication of Brucella in host cells to promote persistent infection. In this article, we describe the intracellular
circulation of Brucella-infected cells and survey the role of Brucella VirB T4SS in regulating
inflammatory responses and suppressing host immune responses during infection. In addition, the important
mechanisms of these 15 effector proteins in resisting the host immune response during Brucella
infection are elucidated. For example, VceC and VceA assist in achieving sustained survival of Brucella
in host cells by affecting autophagy and apoptosis. BtpB, together with BtpA, controls the activation of
dendritic cells during infection, induces inflammatory responses, and controls host immunity. This article
reviews the effector proteins secreted by Brucella T4SS and their involvement in immune responses,
which can provide a reliable theoretical basis for the subsequent mechanism of hijacking the host cell
signaling pathway by bacteria and contribute to the development of better vaccines to effectively treat
Brucella bacterial infection.
scTSSR-D: Gene Expression Recovery by Two-side Self-Representation
and Dropout Information for scRNA-seq Data
Authors: Liu Meng , Chen Wenhao , Zhao Jianping , Zheng Chunhou , Guo Feilong
Published: February 2023

Background:

Single-cell RNA sequencing is an advanced technology that makes it possible to
unravel cellular heterogeneity and conduct single-cell analysis of gene expression. However, owing to
technical defects, many dropout events occur during sequencing, bringing about adverse effects on
downstream analysis.

Methods:

To solve the dropout events existing in single-cell RNA sequencing, we propose an imputation
method scTSSR-D, which recovers gene expression by two-side self-representation and dropout information.
scTSSR-D is the first global method that combines a partial imputation method to impute dropout
values. In other words, we make full use of genes, cells, and dropout information when recovering
the gene expression.

Results:

The results show scTSSR-D outperforms other existing methods in the following experiments:
capturing the Gini coefficient and gene-to-gene correlations observed in single-molecule RNA fluorescence
in situ hybridization, down-sampling experiments, differential expression analysis, and the accuracy
of cell clustering.

Conclusion:

scTSSR-D is a more stable and reliable method to recover gene expression. Meanwhile, our
method improves even more dramatically on large datasets compared to the result of existing methods.
In-vivo and In-vitro Investigations to Assess Traumatic Brain Injury
Authors: Bhardwaj Hemlata , Vasudeva Neeru , Sharma Sunil
Published: February 2023

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major source of death and disability worldwide; however, its pathogenesis is no longer regarded as an immediate, irreversible process that occurs at the time of injury. Long-term alterations in personality, sensory-motor function, and cognition are common among trauma survivors. The pathophysiology of brain injury is very complex, so it is difficult to understand. Establishing models such as weight drop, controlled cortical impact, fluid percussion, Accelerationdeceleration, hydrodynamic and cell line culture, etc., to simulate the event within controlled conditions has been a critical step in better understanding traumatic brain injury and enabling improved therapy. Establishing effective in vivo and in vitro models of traumatic brain injury and mathematical models is described here as part of the discovery of neuroprotective techniques. Some models, such as weight drop, fluid percussion, and cortical impact, help us understand the pathology of brain injury and provide suitable and effective therapeutic doses of the drug. A chemical mechanism such as prolonged or toxic exposure to chemicals and gases causes toxic encephalopathy, an acquired brain injury that may or may not be reversible. This review provides a comprehensive overview of numerous in-vivo and in-vitro models and molecular pathways to advance the knowledge of TBI. It covers traumatic brain damage pathophysiology, including apoptosis, the function of chemicals and genes, and a brief discussion on putative pharmacological remedies.
3-bit Shift Register Using QCA Nanotechnology
Authors: Kumar Sharma Vijay , Anjalideep Kun , Kumar Harsh , Kumar Akshay , Nagpal Rishita
Published: February 2023

Background::

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a new emerging nanotechnology
that has been proven to be an improved alternative to complementary metal oxide semiconductor
(CMOS) technology. It consists of a group of cells that can perform computational functions when
combined and arranged in a particular manner.

Objective::

The Flip-Flops are widely affiliated with the circuits of logical and arithmetic unit structures
that are used for the processors. Data (D) Flip-Flop is the most important and widely used Flip-Flop
among all different types due to its better performance and efficiency. Hence, an efficient D Flip-Flop
needs to be developed using QCA nanotechnology.

Method::

This paper proposes a new design for D Flip-Flop in QCA nanotechnology. The proposed D
Flip-Flop has 28 quantum cells and covers an area of 0.03 μm2 . Furthermore, the paper presents a new
design for a 3-bit Shift Register using the proposed D Flip-Flops in QCA nanotechnology keeping in
mind the importance of the same in storing and transferring multiple bits of data.

Result::

The proposed D Flip-Flop and the 3-bit Shift Register are compared with the existing QCAbased
designs. The proposed Shift Register has 100 quantum cells and covers an area of 0.11 μm2 .

Conclusion::

The comparison concludes that the proposed D Flip-Flop and the 3-bit Shift Register
have used a lesser number of QCA cells and covered smaller areas than the previous works. The proposed
designs have been designed in a single layer without any crossover.
Solid Oxide Membrane-assisted Controllable Electrolytic Fabrication of
Ti5Si3/TiC Composites in Molten Salt
Authors: Zheng Kai , Li Jierui , Shi Cuilian , Luo Haitao , Gong Haifeng
Published: February 2023

Background:

The titanium silicide Ti5Si3 possesses many desirable properties, such as
a high melting point, excellent high-temperature oxidation resistance, low density, and relatively
high hardness, and it is considered a promising structural intermetallic compound. However, like
most ceramic materials, originating from low symmetry (D88) in its crystal structure, Ti5Si3 has
poor fracture toughness and limited flexibility at room temperature, and at high temperatures, its
creep resistance also drops sharply, which hinders its application. To overcome these shortcomings,
it is suggested that TiC is a practical addition to Ti5Si3 to overcome the brittleness. Compared
with monolithic Ti5Si3, Ti5Si3/TiC composites have a higher fracture toughness. Ti5Si3/TiC
composites can be prepared by many ways, which commonly require high energy cost, complex
processes and provide low efficiency. Therefore, the search for environmentally friendly strategies
for the production of Ti5Si3/TiC is still ongoing.

Objective:

This article proves that we can successfully prepare Ti5Si3/TiC composites from
CaTiO3/SiO2/C precursor by using SOM technology and explores the reaction mechanism of
electrochemical process.

Methods:

In the process of electroreduction of CaTiO3/SiO2/C particles into Ti5Si3/TiC composites,
we mainly used SOM technology at 1273 K and 4.0 V in molten CaCl2 and under an argon
atmosphere.

Results:

The results show that the Ti5Si3/TiC composites can also be successfully electrosynthesized
from CaTiO3/SiO2/C precursors by using SOM-based anode systems at 1273 K and 4.0 V
in molten CaCl2.

Conclusion:

This work demonstrates that Ti5Si3/TiC composites have been successfully electrosynthesized
from CaTiO3/SiO2/C precursors using SOM-based anode systems at 1273 K and
4.0 V in molten CaCl2. The Ti5Si3/TiC has a smooth surface and micro/nano-porous structure.
The formation routes for Ti5Si3 and TiC are independent. In summary, the SOM-assisted controllable
electroreduction process has the potential to provide a novel one-step route from CaTiO3/
SiO2/C precursors to Ti5Si3/TiC composites in molten salts.
Approach to transferring force-based fatigue curves into stress-related fatigue curves for clinch joints
Authors: Ewenz L.
Published: February 2023

Abstract. Cyclic strength is essential in many lightweight design concepts where the design is to be pushed to the limits of strength. While joining dissimilar metals such as aluminum and steel is a challenge of its own, fatigue life prediction for this joining type is all the more challenging. Here, clinching as a mechanical joining process offers many advantages. However, a generalized evaluation of the fatigue properties is complex since many influencing factors, such as the joint's geometry, the high plastic deformation, the proportion of bonding mechanisms, have to be considered. Force versus number of cycles (F-N) curves are the established basis to describe the fatigue behavior of clinch joints. However, a generalized evaluation of the service life requires stress versus number of cycles (S-N) curves. This research gives a first approach to transferring F-N curves to S-N curves on the basis of nominal stress determination in the damage relevant clinch cross section. The material combination used, EN AW-6014 and HCT590, offers excellent practical relevance since both materials are widely used in the automotive industry.
Contact pressure-dependent friction compensation in upsetting tests with miniaturized specimens
Authors: Hetz P.
Published: February 2023

Abstract. Components produced by sheet metal forming can so far only be characterized locally to a limited extent using conventional tests, such as the tensile test or the hydraulic cupping test, due to the size of the specimen. A new approach based on miniaturized upsetting specimens taken from the sheet plane allows to determine the material properties of semi-finished products locally, for example in radii. However, in addition to this specific advantage, challenges such as friction between the specimen and the tool also appear with this testing method. For an accurate determination of the material parameters, it is therefore necessary to correct the test force by the friction coefficient. According to the state of the art, a variety of tests for friction coefficient characterization exist. By using a novel numerical method, friction coefficients for upsetting tests can be calculated contact pressure-dependent by means of an experimental single layer upsetting test. Therefore, in this paper, this method will be used for the first time to compensate the friction part in an upsetting test with miniaturized specimens as a function the contact pressure. This can improve the experimental mapping of the material behavior in the uniaxial compression stress state with increasing strain and hardening, since share of friction force increases with a higher deformation in the upsetting test. In contrast, a friction coefficient compensation based on an average value is provided in order to analyze, whether or in which case a contact pressure-dependent friction compensation is appropriate. In particular, for upsetting tests with miniaturized specimens, these results are relevant, since a major advantage of this test compared to conventional tests besides the local component characterization is the determination of material properties at high strains.
Characterization of macroscopic local deformation behavior of thermo-mechanically graded high strength aluminum and steel alloys
Authors: Scharifi E.
Published: February 2023

Abstract. In this study, the local deformation behavior of the transition zone of thermo-mechanically graded boron steel 22MnB5 and high strength aluminum alloy AA7075 is investigated using an in-situ approach. For this aim, forming tool segments are differentially heated in order to obtain locally tailored microstructures and dissimilar mechanical properties based on the process-induced microstructural phenomena. Material strength distribution is examined by Vickers hardness measurements after thermo-mechanical processing. Tracking of the material- and geometry-dependent local deformation behavior of the resulted transition zone is performed by tensile tests coupled with digital image correlation technique. The experimental results reveal within the transition zone a characteristic reversed S-shape hardness distribution, similar to a sigmoidal curve. The local deformation characterization indicates the occurrence of plastic deformation mainly in the soft zones at the heated forming tools segments, while the harder zones at the cooled tool segments exhibit only an elastic deformation and remain undeformed. By comparing the macroscopic local deformation evolution shortly before failure, absolute strain values up to von Mises = 0.62 and von Mises = 0.28 and a distinct reduction in the area are obtained for 22MnB5 and AA7075, respectively. The occurred plastic strain pattern show the formation of shear bands after a homogenous localization at the necking point.
Definition and validation of a customized classification system for sheet metal bending parts
Authors: Schmid D.
Published: February 2023

Abstract. The industry demands an increasing individualization, which leads to a rising variety of sheet metal parts. The consequence for sheet metal manufacturers are larger amounts of product data, smaller batch sizes and a larger quantity of different parts per year. The challenge for an efficient company is the availability and use of the corporate product data. Classification is a suitable tool for organizing corporate product data sets. In order to better reflect the individualization of customer demands and the resulting flexible manufacturing processes in a classification system, a method is needed to adapt the classification system based on the frequently used feature list. In the context of this paper, features are defined and parts are classified that are manufactured with the technology of air bending. It is a contribution to the creation of more precise approaches to the sheet metal part classification with simultaneous validation by a measurable characteristic. Focus is placed on the validation of the system with empirical measurement data. This allows every company to optimize and validate their own classification system.
Computer vision for industrial defect detection
Authors: Landgraf J.
Published: February 2023

Abstract. Despite the continuous progress in computer vision, its application to many industrial tasks like the detection and size measurement of non-trivial defects is still a demanding problem. In this paper, typical challenges, workflows, and key performance indicators are discussed and the application of AI-based Semantic Image Segmentation methods is demonstrated to the detection of minute damages on metal surfaces using the d-fine vision toolbox. A performance improvement for a public data set above prior results is reported and the successful transfer of the approach to real-world sheet metal parts produced by voestalpine Automotive Components Schmölln GmbH is shown.
Investigation on the inter-ply friction when deforming magnesium-based fibre metal laminates at elevated temperature
Authors: Liu Z.
Published: February 2023

Abstract. Inter-ply friction plays a dominant role in inducing defects (e.g., wrinkling) during the hot stamping process of fibre metal laminates (FMLs). In particular, the metal/prepreg inter-ply friction is highly affected by the process parameters at elevated temperature as the molten matrix is significantly sensitive to possible changes in these parameters. In this paper, the metal/prepreg inter-ply friction was experimentally investigated at increasing relative sliding displacement and varying normal pressure. To do that, pull-through tests with a stop-start control strategy were conducted at elevated temperature. The obtained results showed the transition of the lubrication mode given by the Stribeck theory from a hydrodynamic to a mixed one as the relative sliding displacement rose at whatever normal pressure level. An increase in the inter-ply friction coefficient was found as well.
Discourse in an EFL setting
Authors: Almuhailib Badar
Published: February 2023

Turn taking is an important micro-skill in conversation and being governed to some extent by the cultural context, it may need to be explicitly taught while training learners for proficiency, interactional success, and performance in a foreign language. The premise is that these learners are being trained to fulfil a prospective need for interaction with native or second language speakers. Moreover, in the language classroom, smooth functioning and transfer of information can only be ensured when learners’ current turn taking patterns and the desirable ones are compared. This study aims to observe the active factors in the process of turn taking using Sacks et al.'s (1978) as the theoretical basis in the first year tutorial EFL class with a total of eight intermediate and upper intermediate learners at Qassim University, KSA. Video recorded data from twelve speaking skills analysed using a speech analysis software (Praat V 6.2.22 version) along with time notations, discourse particles, overlaps, and turn transfer notes taken simultaneously. Data showed that the EFL learners most frequently took self-select (241 times) as the form of turn taking while the role of particles in turn transfer was minimal, indicating the learners’ poor paralinguistic skills in English.
Análisis histórico de suelos por salinización en jurisdicción de la Corporación Autónoma Regional (CAR). Retos y oportunidades
Authors: González-Forero Rosalina , Ariza-Marín Vivian Karina , Ávila-Bernal Julián David , Afanador-Padilla Rocío , Sánchez-Amaya Alberto
Published: February 2023

La degradación de los recursos naturales es una preocupación a nivel mundial y en particular aquella causada en los suelos por vía química es alarmante; dentro de las causas de este fenómeno se destaca la agricultura intensiva y el riego artificial. Debido a lo anterior, la entidad determinó la necesidad de un monitoreo adecuado y seguimiento, que está en cabeza de las auto-ridades ambientales. En este sentido, la Corporación Autónoma Regional (CAR), en asocio con la Universidad de La Salle, formuló un proyecto de investigación en el que se estableció el estado actual de la salinidad en los suelos de la jurisdicción y acciones de mejora para un buen monitoreo. Sin embargo, para llevar a cabo este monitoreo se llegó a la conclusión de que es menester involucrar actores como la Fuerza Pública, ya que su acompañamiento es indispensable para educar, sensibilizar y acopiar la información necesaria.
Variedades de caucho
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

La selección de clones adecuados para la siembra de caucho debe desarrollar características como capacidad en la producción de látex, tolerancia a plagas y enfermedades, entre otros.
Tutorado o red
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

En este clip se presentan las pautas de tutorado necesarias para mantener una producción de maracuyá saludables.
Transporte y almacenamiento de los frutos de mora
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

La postcosecha, es el conjunto de actividades que ocurren desde el momento en que se cosecha la fruta, hasta que es usada por el consumidor. En este clip se presenta en procedimiento de transporte y almacenamiento de la mora.
Sistema de fertirriego
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

En este clip se muestra el fertirriego en los cultivos de mango el cual combina la aplicación de agua de riego con los fertilizantes obteniendo mejor calidad.
Condiciones del suelo para cultivos de cebolla de rama
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

En este clip se muestran las condiciones que debe tener el suelo para establecer un cultivo de cebolla de rama en el departamento de Boyacá.
Control de los ácaros en maracuyá
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

En este clip se muestra el control y medidas fitosanitarias de la arañita roja en el cultivo de maracuyá.
Control de malezas en ahuyama
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

Durante los primeros meses de crecimiento de las plantas comienza la competencia contra de las malezas, realizando buenos controles en el cultivo de ahuyama.
Control de malezas en bananito
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

En este clip se presentan las recomendaciones para controlar las malezas en la producción de bananito.
Control de los trips en maracuyá
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

Dados los requerimientos de la industria, un buen manejo de plagas es un requisito indispensable para obtener un producto de calidad, en este clip se dan recomendaciones para el control de trips en el cultivo de maracuyá.
Control de piojo blanco
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

En este clip se da a conocer como se controla el piojo blanco en los cítricos, el cual puede distorsionar el tejido de hojas en formación y reducir el vigor de la planta.
Control del ácaro del tostado
Authors:   Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Bogotá (Colombia),   Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, (Colombia)
Published: February 2023

En este clip se muestra cómo es el control del ácaro del tostado en cítricos.
Effect of high-protein milk on lipid profiles and blood glucose in young adult
Authors: Harna Harna , Kusharto Clara Meliyanti , Roosita Katrin , Irawan Andi Muh Asrul , Sa’pang Mertien , Swamilaksita Prita Dhyani
Published: February 2023

Background: High-protein milk is a complex food that contains several potentially bioactive compounds that might affect blood glucose and cholesterol. Epidemiological data indicate that high-protein milk consumption is associated with a decrease in the prevalence of metabolic disorders or maintaining metabolic health.Objective: This study aimed to analyze the effect of high-protein milk on cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), triglycerides, and fasting blood glucose.Methods: This study used an experimental trial with the designed randomized controlled trial. The subjects were divided into two groups: 24 subjects in the treatment group and 23 subjects in the control group. The treatment group was given high-protein milk and nutritional education for 90 days. The control groups were given nutritional education.Results: The results showed that blood glucose did not have a significant difference between the two groups (p>0.05), but it decreased 1.75±3.6 mg/dl after high-protein milk intervention. Blood cholesterol and LDL showed significant differences between the two groups (p<0.05). HDL and triglycerides showed no significant difference between the two groups (p>0.05).Conclusion: Intervention of high-protein milk could significantly reduce cholesterol and LDL levels and reduce blood glucose after 90 days of intervention in the young adult age group. High-protein milk can be a recommendation to prevent metabolic syndrome.
Integration of Accounting Education, Research and Practice, A Burning Issue in India
Authors: Das Pradip Kumar
Published: February 2023

Ambient for accounting education has metamorphosed and resolute young challenges have dawned on the matter due to liberalization. Sociological, technological and economic changes badly impact accounting practice and cogitations. Therefore, accounting education needs licit contemplation in this novel scenario. Accountancy research at doctorate in India is quite exiguous. There is also insufficient synergism among accounting education, research and practice. These diversities postulate the essentials of integration between accounting education, research and practice in consilience of the greatlier sustainable development. Accounting education behooves paradigm swing in exordium apropos accounting teaching, research and practice. This paper contemplates the calamity issues of accounting education, research and practice in India musing the changing economic context of business and industry and backing that the subject is appropriated in fidelity by the bloom yawping for technical subjects.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TIME OF USE OF ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (ART) AND THE AMOUNT OF VIRAL LOAD IN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME
Authors: JUWITA DIAN AYU , QALBI YONANDA AINUL , FITRIA NAJMIATUL
Published: February 2023

Objective: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) remains a health problem in the world, including in Indonesia, with increasing residents of people living with HIV/AIDS every year. Viral load measurement is a better predictor than clinical or immunological measures to evaluate the success or failure of ART. This study aimed to fig. out the sociodemographic characteristics and the relationship between the duration of antiretroviral therapy and viral load in HIV/AIDS patients.

Methods: A descriptive and analytic study with a retrospective approach was getting through in this research. There were 61 patients included in this study.

Results: As many as 86.89% of men reported having HIV infection. The biggest risk transmission factor through sexual intercourse by 100%. The most commonly used antiretroviral treatment is TDF+FTC+EFV (Tenofovir+Emtricitabine+Efavirenz) by 50,82%. There were 17 patients and 44 with detectable and undetectable results, respectively (p 0.05).

Conclusion: A statistical analysis of the duration of antiretroviral therapy and viral load concluded that the viral load decreases until it is undetectable with the longer use of ART.
HR-LCMS-BASED METABOLITE PROFILING, AND ANTI-COLAGENASE PROPERTIES OF ETHANOLIC EXTRACT OF PIDADA MERAH: COMPUTATIONAL AND IN VITRO STUDY
Authors: SYAMSUL EKA SISWANTO , UMAR SALMAN , WAHYUNI FATMA SRI , MARTIEN RONNY , LESTARI DWI , HAMIDI DACHRIYANUS
Published: February 2023

Objective: Extract of pidada merah (Sonneratia caseolaris) leaves has very strong antioxidant activity and has potential as anti-aging. This study aimed to determine the anti-collagenase activity in silico and in vitro. Molecular docking includes exploring proteins or nucleotides, modeling 3D structures, and calculating bond energies. Collagenases are enzymes that can hydrolyze native collagen into fragment collagen peptides. Methods: Investigation of in silico docking activity for collagenase receptors (966C). We performed metabolomics analysis through HR-LCMS on the extract pidada merah. To explore the use value of anti-collagenase, we analyzed the molecular docking of metabolites profiling pidada merah. In vitro study used a collagenase assay kit. Results: Metabolite profiling on the HR-LCMS from Pidada Merah extract are A (AL_8810), B (NP_001596), C (NP_018716) and D (NP_021797). The anti-collagenase test showed the IC50 value = 26.74±0.40 ppm, which is the very strong category. NP_018716 has the lowest binding energy value with the target protein, which is -6.0, and binds to THR241 (2.24Å) and SER239 (3.35Å) and is the best compound according to calculations. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that the Extract Pidada merah has the Potential to be developed as a new drug for antiaging.
“The great night of Europe is shot through with long, sinister trains”: Transnational memory and European identity in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Sepharad
Authors: Paulsen Lasse-Emil
Published: February 2023

Since 1975 Spain has been engaged in the recuperation of the memory of the Francoist past. For a long time, under the headline “Spain is different”, the public debate has reflected a view of the Spanish experience as a particular event tied to the nation state. However, since the turn of the millennium such a notion is constantly being challenged by global and transnational influences that affect and reshape the local memory discourse(s). The following article aims to show how the novel Sepharad by the Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina could be read as a literary manifestation of a “multidirectional memory”, in which different memory scenarios in dialogue inscribe the memory of the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent dictatorship into a common European memory context. In this sense, the novel can be read as a paradigmatic example of a transnational memory discourse, which tries to transcend traditional Manichean divisions between “us” and ‘them”, instead focusing on the persecuted and oppressed and warning us of the presence of totalitarian and exclusionary logics in our contemporary society.
"The pleasure of fiends": Degenerate Laughter in Stoker's Dracula
Authors: Bartlett Mackenzie
Published: February 2023

I wish to suggest that in order to study laughter in horror fiction we must move beyond the paradigm that equates laughter with comedy. As humour critic Marcel Gutwirth notes, "laughter is not all bounty: it has its dark, its killing side... violence of some degree may well be of its essence, though held in check" (8). I hope to demonstrate that the horror of what I will term "monstrous laughter" in a text like Bram Stoker's Dracula is that the violent "dark side" of laughter is very deliberately not held in check. Like a contagion, it is released indiscriminately upon the world, threatening to contaminate the hearers – and by extension the readers of the text – with the perverse perspective of the laughing villains who find humour in murder and mayhem.
Screaming through the century: The female voice as cathartic/transformative force, from Berg's Lulu to Tykwer's Run Lola Run
Authors: Macmillan Maree
Published: February 2023

Alban Berg's opera Lulu, dating from the early part of the twentieth century, and Tom Tykwer's film from the end of the century, Lola rennt, (known to English-speaking audiences as Run Lola Run), have one striking feature in common: both culminate in an ear-splitting scream. At first glance, these two works appear poles apart in time, genre and cultural context, although both are Teutonic in origin. Berg's "high-art" opera, based on the serial techniques of the Schoenberg school of composition, derives from Frank Wedekind's fin-de-siècle Lulu plays, Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box. By contrast, Tykwer's film is an end-of-millennium "art-house" film that, on its release, quickly became a cult movie in Germany and beyond; fast-paced, visually and technically innovative, and backed by a driving techno soundtrack, its resonances with many aspects of video games and hypermedia position it as a text that heralds the twenty-first century. This article will explore how the screams (marking points of transformation at the denouement of each of these early and late twentieth-century works) are very different.
Created Lives: The Evolution of Literary Biography
Authors: Otty Andrew
Published: February 2023

The danger when discussing evolution, in any field, is to imagine that it is a linear process—a teleology. In this paper, I will discuss the developments, and new forms, which have appeared in the genre of literary biography over the past half-century. However, anyone who takes the Times Literary Supplement or London Review of Books, or who has browsed the shelves of Waterstones—the UK's leading bookseller—recently, will be aware that documentary biography, in a form that has not changed significantly since Boswell's Life of Johnson, remains dominant. We must think in terms of what the palaeontologist Yoel Rak calls the "Star Wars Bar" theory of evolution (McKie 38-67)—that Neanderthals and documentary biographers exist alongside Homo sapiens and New Journalists, until the Darwinian fitness of one or other ceases to be sufficient and that species, or form, becomes extinct.
Poetry as Compass: Chaos, Complexity, and the Creative Voice
Authors: Schlee Claudia S.
Published: February 2023

In the following article, I will relate poetry as a genre to complex systems and explain why this approach lends itself particularly well to a study about creativity. This will require us to alter our view and to move from a mechanistic model for explaining the emergence of life, to a systemic model. In other words, instead of reducing a phenomenon to a single object or concept in order to understand it, we will attempt to see it within its larger context by focusing on the lateral connections between its various parts.
Playing Before God: Theology and Play in Dialogue
Authors: Gabelman Daniel
Published: February 2023

The Christian Church’s sometimes hostile relationship to any form of play has often been noted. The Scottish singer/songwriter Michael Marra has observed that in Scotland today there are still communities that chain up swing-sets on Sunday—a practice which implies that playing can be sinful, at least if done on the most theological day of the week. Play likewise often returns the insult by making religion a frequent object of satire and ridicule, as for example with Moliere’s Tartuffe, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and frequent episodes of popular shows like The Simpsons and South Park. But is the relationship between theology and play really as troubled as a first glance might indicate? A closer look at both play and theology might, I want to suggest, reveal some surprising affinities, and putting the two in dialogue with one another might just provide both with helpful correctives.
Angelopoulos' Ulysses Gaze: Where the Old meets the New
Authors: Makriyannakis Vangelis
Published: February 2023

In this essay I will attempt to outline how Angelopoulos deals with the concepts of time and memory through an approach that does not treat the image as a 'given' to be illustrated, but as an open field where questions on perception and representation are asked. This leads me to question the director's insistence on the use of long takes and their apparent function as an attempt to trace meaning in what the director sees as an era of confusion after the collapse of the grand narratives of the Left. Deleuze's concept of the time image comes as one of the useful terms to speak about the film in the attempt to trace its originality.
I Wrote Eugene Onegin: Voices of Subversion and Submission in Soviet Anecdotes
Authors: Henderson Sally P. C.
Published: February 2023

What is the difference between capitalism and communism? Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the other way round.This was a question aired on the Armenian Radio, a station renowned for offering freedom of speech in Soviet Russia, which notoriously voiced the officially forbidden yet widely accepted truths of Soviet existence. The Armenian Radio was created only discursively, in the vast body of quips and anecdotes that are a marked feature of popular Soviet discourse: regardless of the political observation or clarity, the above quotation is merely a joke. In this article, it is my intention to use these anecdotes as a means of exploring the power relationship at the centre of the soviet regime, to see these voices as part of what Foucault calls a "popular" or "disqualified knowledge," and to explore what the very process of joke telling reveals about the nature of struggle and resistance, under Foucault's premise of "using resistances as a chemical catalyst so as to bring to light power relations" ("Subject and Power" 211).
"The vanguard - and the most articulate audience": Queer Camp, Jack Smith and John Waters
Authors: De Villiers Nicholas
Published: February 2023

I wish to take the "Camp eye" as a point of departure for an examination of camp (lower-case "c") as a way of seeing, a set of relations with the world, a mode of artistic production, a refined form of irony, and an effective mode of critique. To do this I feel we must avoid Sontag's stress on "campy" objects, and instead look at what she calls the "vulgar" use of the term as a verb: "to camp." As a verb, camp implies activity and process; this invigorates the radical possibilities that lie within it. I will however tentatively suggest not a "canon" but a tradition of camp ways of seeing, a distinctly queer avant-garde tradition full of intertextual cross-referencing, allusion, and mutual admiration. The two figures I have chosen to illustrate this more contingent concept of camp are John Waters and Jack Smith. This essay will involve a reading of two re-released films: Smith's Flaming Creatures (1962) and Waters's Pink Flamingos (1972). Both films have earned great notoriety in terms of efforts to censor their distribution due to "obscene" (explicit, homoerotic, transvestite) content, and an equally avid following with circulation ranging from East Village midnight screenings to Congressional hearings.
The Wide Camp Sea, or Notes on Sontag
Authors: Krishtalka Sholem
Published: February 2023

Just as camp under-girds my persona, it contains my project. It provides the universe for my work; it sets the physical laws, determines the essential relationships, and establishes the particular gravity that holds down my ideas. Understand: I don't want to define camp. I'll approach definition, as a by-product of my explications. I make no pretense to tracing limits. If anything, I want to be expansive. I might fail in my attempt at expansiveness, but that's alright; camp has a particular generosity towards failure. Didn't Susan Sontag declare, on camp's behalf, that it consists in "a seriousness that fails"? (285)
Apocalyptic Nostalgia in the Prologue of Don DeLillo’s Underworld
Authors: Laist Randy
Published: February 2023

Characters in Don DeLillo's novels repeatedly grapple with the existential contradiction which Frank Kermode has called the "immanent apocalypse" and which Jean Baudrillard has identified as a nuclear "implosion." DeLillo's fictions commonly depict the post-apocalyptic sensibility Kermode and Baudrillard describe; a historical transition from the conventional kind of apocalypse - the end that will happen - to the postmodern variety - the end that is always already happening. DeLillo's most concise illustration of this condition is arguably the prologue to his 1997 opus, Underworld. Originally published in 1993 in Harper's as "Pafko at the Wall," this 50-page vignette tells the story of the famous Dodgers-Giants game in 1951, the game concluded by Bobby Thompson's three-run, game-winning, pennant-deciding homer that came to be known as "The Shot Heard 'Round the World." DeLillo evokes and manipulates the nostalgia inherent in this collective memory to dramatize the manner in which apocalypticism enters into the structure of Cold War perception. According to DeLillo's conceit in the prologue, the crack of Thompson's bat announces the postmodernizing of the apocalyptic imagination in the American psyche. This narrative device allows DeLillo to interrogate the apocalyptic shift from various points of view, as well as to induct the reader into a sense of his or her own situatedness within this historical reinscription.
The Critical Mass of Language: Post-Trinity Representation
Authors: Spoth Daniel F.
Published: February 2023

To its viewers, the first atomic bomb test (codenamed "Trinity") appeared as not merely a dazzling, unprecedented leap forward in the history of science, not merely the swift, fiery eradication of all of their long-held fears and anxieties concerning the success of the project, but also a monumental event in the history of language (Thomas Farrell saw in it "that beauty the great poets dream about but describe most poorly and inadequately"). This article seeks to interrogate not only the poeticizing of the Trinity test by its architects and the subsequent revulsion toward the event felt by artists worldwide, but also the representational dilemma that the possibility of a "poetic" bomb creates: how can artistic representation of the invisible, the sublime, and the incomprehensible adapt itself to the new technological sublimity of the merciless, neutral variety that the bomb incarnates? The article addresses this question through a study of both nonliterary texts (eyewitness accounts) and literary representation (a reading of Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing and William Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech). Its conclusion is that the bomb, pace the accounts of the Trinity eyewitnesses, in fact less suggests a variety of representation that renders all others insignificant (thus exempting it from moral, social, or spiritual concerns) than it insists upon the reimagining of older poetic tropes. Trinity, by suggesting an apocalyptic conflict between older modes of signification and the new "atomic poetics," in fact symbiotically relies upon the traditions from which it splits.