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Аліментарна водно-нітратна метгемоглобінемія в дітей Тернопільської області
Authors: Kabakova А.B. , Shulhai A.-M.A. , Shulhai A.-M.A.
Published: June 2017

У статті розглядається проблема поширення забруднення нітратами та нітритами води й харчових продуктів, що призводить до виникнення аліментарної водно-нітратної метгемоглобінемії. Також наведено результати власного дослідження, що мало на меті встановити актуальність проблеми метгемоглобінемії, виділити ступені тяжкості залежно від рівня метгемоглобіну та запропонувати ефективні схеми медикаментозної корекції. Доведена клінічна ефективність застосування гепатопротекторів при аліментарній водно-нітратній метгемоглобінемії в дітей різного віку та доцільність їх застосування в комплексному лікуванні даної проблеми.
Неалкогольний стеатогепатит і ожиріння як одні з основних предикторів розвитку метаболічного синдрому у дітей та підлітків
Authors: Belousova O.Yu.
Published: June 2017

У даній статті йдеться про важливість виділення метаболічного синдрому в педіатричній гастроентерологічній практиці, тому що в дитячому віці вже зустрічаються майже всі основні компоненти метаболічного синдрому. Крім того, цей стан, діагностований на ранніх етапах розвитку, є теоретично оборотним, тобто при призначенні адекватного лікування можна добитися зменшення вираженості основних його проявів і запобігти розвитку цукрового діабету 2-го типу, дисліпідемії та кардіоваскулярних захворювань. Основними предикторами розвитку даної патології є ожиріння, яке має тенденцію до постійного росту, і неалкогольний стеатогепатит, що часто маніфестує в підлітковому віці. Обговорюється доцільність застосування препаратів, що впливають на печінковий метаболізм і здатні чинити гіполіпідемічну дію, зокрема есенціальних фосфоліпідів.
Роль санаційної терапії носоглотки і ротової порожнини в профілактиці гнійних ускладнень верхніх дихальних шляхів у пацієнтів, які перебувають на тривалій штучній вентиляції
Authors: Sokolov A.S. , Ievleva V.I. , Vinokurova O.S. , Rustamova V.S.
Published: June 2017

Вторинне бактеріальне запалення часто істотно ускладнює перебіг основного захворювання у пацієнтів, які перебувають у відділенні інтенсивної терапії. В останні роки все більша увага приділяється нозокоміальному синуситу як гнійно-септичному захворюванню носоглотки. Утруднення відтоку ексудату через супутній набряк та інфільтрацію слизової оболонки зменшує ймовірність одужання навіть при застосуванні адекватної антибактеріальної терапії, що забезпечує стерилізацію секрету синусів. Тому антибактеріальна терапія повинна поєднуватися з активним місцевим лікуванням. Використання 0,02% розчину декаметоксину в комплексі санаційної терапії носової порожнини, ротоглотки і лікуванні гнійних риносинуситів, ускладнених фарингітами, є ефективним методом боротьби з дисемінацією нозокоміальної інфекції, що дозволяє скоротити середні терміни перебування у відділеннях реанімації та інтенсивної терапії, зменшити строки застосування антибіотиків, і не виявило побічних ефектів. На відміну від стандартної схеми застосування в лікуванні гнійних риносинуситів і фарингітів хлоргексидинвмісних препаратів і фурациліну 0,02% розчин декаметоксину дозволяє одночасно зробити санацію носа, придаткових пазух і глотки, тому що не має токсичної дії на миготливий епітелій і не викликає алергічних реакцій.
Особливості діагностики сепсису у вагітних та породіль
Authors: Pidhirnyi Ya.M.
Published: June 2017

Фізіологічні особливості вагітної жінки вносять корективи в класичну картину діагностики та лікування сепсису/септичного шоку в даної категорії хворих. Метою дослідження було визначити особливості перебігу сепсису та септичного шоку у вагітних та породіль з урахуванням настанови Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2012–2016. Проблема сепсису залишається на даний час дуже гострою, у тому числі в акушерстві. На сьогодні у світі інфекції посідають третє місце в структурі материнської летальності й становлять близько 15 %. У статті обговорено результати діагностики та лікування 37 вагітних/породіль із сепсисом, що виник унаслідок перитоніту на ґрунті хоріоамніоніту та післяпологового ендометриту, які надійшли в клініку анестезіології та інтенсивної терапії Львівської обласної клінічної лікарні з 2010 по 2016 р. Усім хворим було проведено інтенсивну терапію (волемічна ресусцитація, кардіореспіраторна підтримка, антибактеріальна терапія) та операційне втручання (усунення причин перитоніту, санація та дренування черевної порожнини). Загальний стан хворих оцінювали в 14,5 ± 1,5 бала за шкалою АРАСНЕ ІІ, а стан поліорганної дисфункції оцінювали в 5,0 ± 1,0 бала за шкалою SOFA.
Профілактика і лікування пролежнів у відділенні інтенсивної терапії (огляд літератури)
Authors: Maltseva L.O. , Mosensev N.F. , Mishchenko О.A. , Lisnichaya V.M. , Sakovych Ye.F.
Published: June 2017

У статті з позиції Міжнародної національної нарадо-рекомендаційної ради з пролежнів, Європейської рекомендаційної ради з пролежнів, Всесвітнього альянсу з проблем пролежнів наведено питання термінології, статистики, факторів ризику розвитку, міжнародної класифікації, основних напрямків профілактики, диференціальної діагностики, інспекції шкірних покривів і документування; наведено шкали для прогнозування ризику розвитку пролежнів (PUSH Toll, 2008); викладені вузлові питання інтенсивної терапії залежно від результатів категорії пролежнів; надано правило SPECIAL; рекомендації робочої групи ICSI. Наведено практичні рекомендації Американської колегії фізіотерапевтів. Особливу увагу приділено принципам нутритивної терапії за наявності пролежнів.
Європейська асоціація урології. Резюме рекомендацій з урологічних інфекцій у педіатричній урології — 2017
Authors: Ivanova M.D. , Ivanov D.D.
Published: June 2017

3.12.5. Резюме доказовості та рекомендації для ведення уретропельвікальної (УП) та уретровезикальної (УВ) обструкції
Клінічні практичні керівництва з ведення пацієнтів похилого віку з хронічною хворобою нирок стадії 3б або вище (рШКФ < 45 мл/хв/1,73 м2) Найкраща європейська ниркова практика
Authors: Ivanova M.D. , Ivanov D.D.
Published: June 2017

Основні рекомендаціїРівень доказовості рекомендацій (A–D) та їх наслідків у практиці (1, 2) зазначено в кінці розділу «Основні рекомендації».Додаток з Національного центру обміну інформацією: The European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) (Найкраща європейська ниркова практика) також надає додаткові поради для клінічної практики. Ці поради не оцінюються, спираються на одне або кілька тверджень і призначені тільки для полегшення практичної реалізації.
Учений-дослідник Дмитро Яворницький у колі медиків
Authors: Chaban M.P. , Shevtsova Z.I. , Gaponov V.V.
Published: June 2017

Проведено вивчення стосунків дослідника запорозького козацтва академіка Дмитра Яворницького з представниками медичної спільноти. Відображено вплив Д. Яворницького на формування світогляду та громадянської позиції медиків. Наведено відомості про життєвий шлях, професійну та громадську діяльність найбільш колоритних постатей медичних працівників з оточення Дмитра Яворницького.
Self vs. Parent: Factors Influencing Likelihood of Hiring a Healthcare Advocate
Authors: May April C. , Casteel Danielle , McKinnon Symone A. , Cronan Terry A.
Published: June 2017

Objective: To determine how the factors that may lead an individual to hire a healthcare advocate to aid him/herself in navigating the healthcare system when dealing with chronic or complex health issues differ from the factors that are considered when deciding to hire a healthcare advocate for one’s parent.

Methods: 1,740 randomly selected participants completed a brief vignette-based questionnaire that indicated their likelihood of hiring an HCA for oneself or a parent. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used to test the effects of predisposing, enabling, and illness factors on the predicted likelihood.

Results: Although neither model fit well statistically, both fit well descriptively. The direct path from predisposing to enabling factors and the indirect path from predisposing factors to illness level were significant in both models.

Discussion: Understanding the factors that influence the decision to hire an HCA could help health providers target patients who are most likely to use HCA services, thereby reducing the burden on the healthcare system and improving quality of care.
ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY FROM TEN SPECIES OF MYRTACEAE
Authors: Ramadhania Zelika Mega , Insanu Muhamad , Gunarti Neni Sri , Wirasutisna Komar Ruslan , Sukrasno Sukrasno , Hartati Rika
Published: June 2017

Objective:Antioxidants are compounds that can inhibit free radical reactivity. They become very interesting to be observed because they can prevent some diseases like goat arthritis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration etc.  Since Indonesia is rich for its biodiversity, there are a lot of plants that have potential to be developed as new alternative antioxidants. The aim of this research was to evaluate antioxidant activity from ten species of myrtaceae (Syzygium cumini, S. samarangense, S. aqueum, S. aromaticum, S. polyantum, S. jambos, S. malaccense, Psidium guajava, Eucalyptus deglupta and Melaleuca leucadendra).Methods:Continuous extraction with Soxhlet apparatus was selected as extraction method. Three solvents (n-hexane, ethyl acetate and methanol) with different polarity were used in this process. DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging activity were used to evaluate antioxidant activity with ascorbic acid as a standard drug.Results:Based on the experiments, methanol extracts showed higher activity than other extracts with their IC50was below than 25 µg/ml.The lowest IC50 was exhibited by methanol extract of S. jambos, which was 7.8 µg/ml.Conclusion:It can be concluded that S. jambos is potential to be developed as a new alternative antioxidant.
OPTIMATION OF ETHANOL CONCENTRATION IN EXTRACTION OF EUGENOL FROM GALANGAL RHIZOME
Authors: Yugatama Adi , Ardiyati Nur Wahida , Yulianti Ira
Published: June 2017

Objective: The main objective of this study was to determine the optimal ethanol concentration as solvent for extracting eugenol from galangal.Methods: Galangal rhizome extraction was conducted with kinetic maceration at 50°C with various ethanol concentration as solvent (0%, 30%, 50%, 70%, and 96%). A 1:10 ratio of rhizome and ethanol was applied. The extract was obtained, then its eugenol concentration was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively by thin-layer chromatography-densitometer with n-hexane:ethyl acetate (4:1) by using mobile phase and silica gel 60 F254 as stationary phase and applying a wavelength of 283 nm.Results: The result of qualitative analysis showed that extract of 70% and 96% ethanol had a spot with Rf value 0.63, which was equal to the Rf value of standard eugenol. Standard curve equation for the 70% ethanol extract was y=89318x+656.07 (r=0.9993) and for the 96% ethanol extract was y=8658x+1743 (r=0.9999). The result of the quantitative analysis showed that the 70% and 96% ethanol extract contained 4.85% and 4.79% eugenol, respectively.Conclusion: Extraction of galangal rhizome in 70% and 96% ethanol was positively containing eugenol. Highest eugenol concentration (4.85%) was obtained from galangal rhizome extraction in 70% ethanol.
THE SPERMICIDE GELS FORMULATION FROM THE DURIAN’S (DuriozibethinusMurr.) CORTEX EXTRACT: THE DECOLOURIZATION AND SOLID DISPERSION
Authors: Kartinah Nani , Fitriana Mia , Nurliani Anni , Hardian Revani
Published: June 2017

Objective: The efficacy of the Durio zibethinus cortex extract as spermicidal agent was investigated on mice sperms and human sperms. The intense color spoiled the final product appearance. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of decolorization and the best formula for preparation the spermicide gel from D. zibethinus cortex extract.Methods: The extract of the D. zibethinus cortex was prepared by two-step methods before made into the spermicide gels preparation. First, decolorization used activated carbon and second, the extract was formed into solid dispersion with variation of the polyethylene glycol (PEG) 6000 concentration were 2%, 4%, 6%, and 10%. The extract quality was investigated by total phenolic. The gel preparation was evaluated for pH value, viscosity, and spreadability.Results: The decolorization reduced 23.25% of total phenolic. The variation of the PEG 6000 concentration increased the viscosity (p<0.05) but decreased pH value and the spreadability (p<0.05).Conclusion: The decolorization increased final product appearance and formulation with 2% of PEG 6000 was found to be the best.
DIURETIC ACTIVITY OF MATOA LEAVES EXTRACTS (Pometiapinnata) AND ITS INFLUENCE ON POTASSIUM AND SODIUM LEVELS
Authors: Purwidyaningrum Ika , Sukandar Elin Yulinah , Fidrianny Irda
Published: June 2017

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine diuretic activity of matoa leaves (Pometiapinnata) extracts and fraction and its influence on potassium and sodium levels.Methods: Matoa leaves were extracted by reflux method followed by evaporation using rotary evaporator. The subjects were male Wistar rats that were divided into 11 group furosemide (3.6 mg/kg bw), control group CMC 0.5%, matoa leaves extracts with doses of 50 mg/kg bw, 100 mg/kg bw, 150 mg/kg bw, matoa leaves aqueous fraction with dose of 10.94 mg/kg bw, 21.88 mg/kg bw, 32.82 mg/kg bw, matoa leaves ethyl acetate fraction with dose of 4.35 mg/kg bw, 8.71 mg/kg bw, 13.06 mg/kg bw. Rats were placed in metabolic cagesduring observation study. Urine volume was measured for 5 to 24 hours. Potassium and sodium levels in urine were determined by using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry.Results: The effective dose of matoa leaves extract and fractions for diuretic activity was matoaleaves ethyl acetate fraction 8.71 mg/kg bw which could increase the excretion of sodium and potassium in the urine of the male Wistar rats.Conclusion:Matoa leaves extract and fractions could increase the excretion of sodium and potassium in the urine of the male Wistar rats.
ANTIBACTERIA ACTIVITY OF PAPUAN ANT-NEST (MYRMECODIA PENDANSL.M. Perry) ETHANOL EXTRACT AGAINST SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE
Authors: Kusuma Arif Satria , Kusuma Sri Agung Fitri , Sulistiyaningsih Sulistiyaningsih
Published: June 2017

This research aimed to determine antibacteria activity of ant-nest extract against Shigella dysenteriae and to determine its Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) – Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) range of concentration. S. dysenteriae continues to be a major health problem in Indonesia, which usually leads to death, due to diarrhoea and dysentery, predominantly in children below the age of 5. Bacterial invasion of the colonic epithelium leads to severe inflammation together with bacterial dissemination generates abscesses and ulcerations. Myrmecodia pendans, also locally known by indigenous Papuans as ant-nest is native to Southeast Asia. This tropical plant has proven to be rich in bioactive constituents and highly valued as an alternative choice for cancer/tumor treatments and an efficacious herbal drug to prevent and cure diarrhea.Ant-nest dried plant were obtained from Wamena, Papua. The extract was obtained using maceration method with 70% ethanol, from 500.42 g dried plant we can obtain 77.47 g dry extract (15.48% rendement). Phytochemical screening result showed that the ethanol extracts of ant-nest contains metabolites such as alkaloids, flavonoids, tanins, saponins, and steroids/terpenoids. Antibacteria activity test were then performed by using perforated agar method with various extract concentration (10, 20, 40, and 60 % (g/ml)). Largest inhibition zone was shown by 60% extract concentration with 1.74 cm diameter. MIC-MBC concentration determinated by using microdilution method. The result shown that concentration of MIC – MBC lays in range of 14 – 16 % (g/ml).
ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF WATER APPLE (Syzygium aqueum) FRUIT ANDFRAGRANT MANGO (Mangifera odorata) FRUIT
Authors: Saptarini Nyi Mekar , Herawati Irma Erika
Published: June 2017

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the antioxidant activity of fruit of water apple and fragrant mango against 1,1-diphenyl-2- picrylhydrazyl as a free radical.Methods: This study was conducted by visible spectrophotometry.Results: The water apple and fragrant mango contain reducing compounds including vitamin C. The vitamin C content of water apple and fragrant mango fruit was 0.087% (w/w) and 0.050% (w/w), respectively. The inhibitory concentration 50% value of fresh fruit of water apple and fragrant mango was 4.857 μg/ml and 4.379 μg/ml, respectively.Conclusion: Antioxidant activity of water apple fruit was higher than fragrant mango fruit.
ANTIBIOTICS ADMINISTRATION TO ENHANCE THE SUCCESS OF THERAPY IN SEPSIS PATIENTS
Authors: Budi Samuel , Ikawati Zullies , Dwiprahasto Iwan , Nuryastuti Titik
Published: June 2017

Objective: Sepsis is reported to cause 9.3% death from the total 250,000 patients in the United States. De-escalation of antibiotics is expected to increase the effectiveness of therapy, to decrease in the level of antibiotic resistance and to reduce mortality in sepsis patients. The purpose of this study was to describe the frequency and characteristics of de-escalation of antibiotics in patients with sepsis and its influence on patient.Method: The study was conducted retrospectively with purposive sampling in hospitalized patients in a hospital in Yogyakarta, to the patients whose age are above 15 years, in the month of January to December 2015. Totally 162 patients were included, in demographic, antibiotic regimens, duration of antibiotic treatment, de-escalation of antibiotics treatment, the culture results, mortality, and length of hospital stay (LoS).Result: The result showed that 116 patients were without de-escalation of antibiotics where the majority of cases is the absence of changes in the types of antibiotics that are given from the start of the therapy until the treatment is completed. The age of the most sepsis patients treated is about 46-60 years (36.4%), LOS was 6-10 days highest (27.2%), the number of patient received antibiotics for hospitalized majority 1-2 types of antibiotics (46.9%), originally most of the patients’ room are as many as those from emergency unit 63.6%, clinical outcomes patients who were recovered as many as 46.3%, the most co-morbidities that frequently appear in sepsis patients is pneumonia is 616.6% cases. Patients who were examined culture is 29%.Conclusion: Giving antibiotics is appropriate and adequate to prevent the possibility of resistance and death and the de-escalation strategy is a strategy that is safely used to treat patients with sepsis.
EVALUATION OF THE PHARMACY SUPPORT SYSTEM IN THE DETECTION OF DRUG-RELATED PROBLEMS
Authors: Andayani Tri Murti , Rahmawati Fita , Rochman Rifky
Published: June 2017

Objective: The efficiency and speed of a system in identifying DRPs can support and optimize the performance of pharmacists. The objective of this research was to determine the time of analysis and the number of DRPs incidences identified by pharmacists with and without Pharmacy Support Systems (PSS).Methods: The present research was observational with cross-sectional design. The data collection was done prospectively in outpatients at hospital during January 2016. Observations were conducted to the difference between the analysis and the number of DRPs incidence identified by the pharmacists with and without the assistance of PSS. The research population was outpatient at a number of hospitals in Yogyakarta. The tools used in this research were PSS which were a clinical information system that can identify potential DRPs and included three main parts, namely the patients’ profile, drug information, and analysis of DRPs. The identification result of DRPs was consisted of six DRPs categories, i.e. without treatment indication, treatment without indication, ineffective drug, too low dose, too high dose, and undesirable drug reactions.Results: Pharmacists without PSS require faster time to analyze the prescription of outpatients. The time majority spent by pharmacists with PSS in reviewing the patients’ prescription lies in the length of time the patients enter the therapy-related data obtained manually by patients until the warning being displayed, and making clinical decision related to the DRPs. The statistical test result using Goodness of fit test and Fisher between categories of DRPs incidences detected by pharmacists with and without the assistance of PPS indicates significant differences (P <0.05). Pharmacists with PSS can detect DRPs that are not detected by the pharmacist without PSS. DRPs mostly identified by pharmacists with the assistance of PSS are drug interactions and improper doses. Improper doses primarily identified in geriatric and pediatric patients’ prescription.Conclusion: Pharmacists with PSS software can detect DRPs that are not detected by pharmacists only. But pharmacists using the software PSS requires a longer time in the identification of DRPs compared to pharmacists without using PSS.
THE CORRELATION OF TRANEXAMIC ACID USED AS ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY TO GLASGOW COMA SCALE FOR THE FIRST 7 DAYS IN HAEMORRHAGIC STROKE PATIENTS
Authors: Setiawan Christianus Heru , Ikawati Zullies , Gofir Abdul
Published: June 2017

Objective: Treatment of haemorrhagic stroke using tranexamic acid is still used in some hospitals, to prevent the occurrence of the complication called rebleeding. Rebleeding is an important cause of bad outcomes that result loss of consciousness and even death. The administration of the antifibrinolytic tranexamic acid in patients with haemorrhagic stroke can reduce the occurrence of rebleeding but it also can increase poor outcome caused by cerebral ischemia that can worsen the patient's condition.Methods: This study used observational study design, cohort, prospective, and multicenter. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the use of tranexamic acid in patients with haemorrhagic stroke. Statistical testing is done by analyzing the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score on day 1st, day 3rd, and day 7th between the treatment groups haemorrhagic stroke patients who received tranexamic acid therapy as antifibrinolytic therapy in Bethesda Hospital for 23 patients compared with a control group of patients haemorrhagic stroke who did not receive therapy as tranexamic acid antifibrinolytic therapy in the Dr. Sardjito Hospital for 23 patients.Results: The statistical analysis of the independent t-test showed that there was no significant difference between the average GCS score of day 1st (P=262), day 3rd (P=0.293), and day 7th (P=0.648) between treatment group and control group. The statistical analysis of the Mann-Whitney showed that there was not significant difference comparing the difference between the pre and post GCS score at treatment group and control group (P=0.158).Conclusion: Administration of tranexamic acid in patients with haemorrhagic stroke (treatment group) gives the same clinical response compared to the patients who did not receive tranexamic acid therapy (control group) based on assessment of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score.
LINGUISTICS-BASED PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT NAMING METHODS: A MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY ON OTC MEDICINE PRODUCTS IN INDONESIA
Authors: Pamungkas Kasno , Abdulah Rizky
Published: June 2017

Objective: Objective of the study was to assess the linguistics-based product naming methods of some over the counter (OTC) medicine in Indonesia and their impacts to companies and consumers.Methods: The study uses qualitative descriptive method carried out among 57 data randomly taken from the lists of OTC medicine issued by some pharmaceutical companies in Indonesia. The data were classified into the morphological theory regarding the word formation methods which discusses the process of forming the words, product naming strategy and theory of OTC products taken from FDA.Results: This study shows that a proper and precise OTC medicine naming method can employ the linguistics aspect especially word formation theory to describe the kinds, characteristics, and the usage of the products. The word formation methods found in this study are blending 59.6% (34 products), clipping 1.7% (1 product), compounding 3.5% (2 products), and unknown method 35% (20 products). In the context of product naming strategies, 65% of the data employs superiority and product advantage emphasizes, usability or ability conducted by the product, and showing what can be obtained using the product. While the remains 35% does not employ the product naming strategies properly except easy to pronounce. The unknown OTC medicine naming method is not on target with the OTC medicine consumers in Indonesia since the meaning of the product names are not easily recognized from their namings.Conclusion: From the results, it can be underlined that the product naming processes should be in line with the product naming strategies to have effective and understandable names of OTC medicine. There are 59.6% using blending naming, 1.7% using clipping, 3.5% using compounding, and 35% using unknown method. In the context of product naming strategies, 65% employs superiority and product advantage emphasizes, usability or ability conducted by the product, showing what can be obtained using the product; 35% does not employ the product naming strategies properly except easy to pronounce. The ineffective and not understandable names of OTC could lead to disadvantages for both companies and consumers.
ACTIVITY TEST OF ETHANOLIC EXTRACT FROM SEMBUNG’S ROOT (BLUMEA BALSEMIFERA[L/]/DC) ON INCREASING APPETITE OF WISTAR FEMALE MICE
Authors: Sunarti Sunarti , Pramukantoro Ganet Eko
Published: June 2017

Objectives: Empirically, root of Sembung can be used as an appetite enhancer/booster. Increasing appetite effect could be seen from increasing animal body weight and reducing leftover food every time-observation. The aim of this study was to analysis of ethanolic extract of Sembung’s root on increasing appetite that exposured in Wistar female mice.Methods: This research was laboratory experimental which used 25 female Swiss Wistar. Rats, then, were randomly divided into 5 groups (n=5) , CMC 0.5%, normal control, ethanolic extract from sembung’s rootdose II 600 mg/kg body weight, dose II 1200 mg/kg body weight, dose III 1800 mg/kg body weight). Tests conducted for 14 days with 2 parameters: weight gain and the remaining amount of feed. The second parameter is then calculated AUC of total body weight and food scraps. Data was analyzed using statistical test of one-way ANOVA. Results:The results shown that ethanolic extract of root of Blumea balsamifera (L.) DC could increase that the AUC value of the averagebody weight with average Dose I: 199.51 ± 6.19, Dose II: 198.26±9.35, Dose III: 196.81 ± 7.58, negative control: 187.71 ± 3.79and normal control: 187.64 ± 5.00. While the average AUC value of the remaining amount of food at first dose was 10.94 ± 1.96 showed the lowest value. ANOVA test presented significant value (P <0.05) in reducing amount of leftover food and increasing body weight.Conclusion: Exposuring of ethanolic extract of Sembung’s root Blumeabalsamifera (L.) DC indicated increasing appetite behaviour of female Wistar rats.
Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Electroquímica, S.C.
Authors: Medina Portillo Liliana
Published: June 2017

RESUMEN: El Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Electroquímica, S.C., fue fundado en septiembre de 1991. Su creación obedece a la necesidad de vincular la industria con la academia y la investigación. Cuenta con una sede localizada en Sanfandila, Pedro Escobedo, a sólo 30 km. de la ciudad de Querétaro, una subsede en Tijuana, B.C., en el Consorcio Tecnológico de Baja California y una oficina de vinculación en la zona conurbada de Corregidora, Qro. Forma parte del Organismo de Transferencia de Tecnología – OTT. SinerTec OTT creado para integrar las capacidades científicas y tecnológicas, así como para operar de manera óptima y eficiente los procesos de las entidades participantes. 

Nuestros investigadores, quienes forman parte del SNI, dedican sus investigaciones al desarrollo e innovación relacionado con nanotecnología, lo que nos permite dar respuestas a la sociedad en temas que van desde salud, cuidado del medio ambiente, recubrimientos y celdas solares. 

El CIDETEQ ofrece posgrados en electroquímica, y en ciencia y tecnología en ingeniería ambiental desde 2003. Contamos con un importante acervo de publicaciones arbitradas, solicitudes de patentes y patentes. 
Instructivo para autores
Authors: CEIICH Redacción
Published: June 2017

Lineamientos para los autores que deseen enviar un artículo para publicación en  Mundo Nano. Revista Interdisciplinaria en Nanociencias y Nanotecnología.
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Authors: Martínez Laguna Ygnacio , Espinosa Rosales José Eduardo , Eguibar Cuenca José Ramón , González Ronquillo Ana Lilia , Palomino Merino Martín Rodolfo , Hernández Cocoletzi Heriberto , Martínez Juárez Javier
Published: June 2017

Las nanociencias tienen una larga tradición en la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) y han sido cultivadas en distintas dependencias académicas como el Instituto de Ciencias, la Facultad de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas, la Facultad de Ciencias de la Electrónica, el Instituto de Física “Ing. Luis Rivera Terrazas”, la Facultad de Ingeniería, la Facultad de Ingeniería Química. En estas unidades académicas se diseñan nuevos materiales nanoestructurados, se evalúan sus propiedades ópticas, eléctricas, químicas el efecto de diferentes agentes dopantes sobre dichas propiedades valoradas mediante equipo de vanguardia. Los materiales con base en carbón y silicio ocupan un lugar importante entre las investigaciones que se desarrollan a los cuales se les evalúan distintas propiedades mediante pruebas que determinen sus posibles usos en diferentes campos del conocimiento. De manera importante los investigadores que desarrollan estas líneas de generación y aplicación del conocimiento son miembros tanto del padrón de investigadores BUAP, como del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores y están organizados en cuerpos académicos registrados en el Programa para el Desarrollo Profesional Docente (PRODEP) de la Secretaría de Educación Pública.

Es importante destacar que existen varios posgrados ligados a estos grupos de investigación, como son las maestrías y doctorados en ciencias de materiales, de física aplicada o en dispositivos semiconductores, además de las maestrías en ingeniería química y en ciencias de la electrónica. Estos resultados muestran que la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla es una institución con investigación de vanguardia en el campo de los materiales nanoestructurados y sus propiedades; así como sus posibles aplicaciones mediante la obtención de patentes y licenciamientos. Contamos con una infraestructura experimental moderna, pero que requiere incrementarse para estar al máximo nivel posible en Puebla y la región, para detonar la innovación e incentivar aún más nuestras relaciones con los sectores sociales e industrial.
Universidad Tecnológica de Tula-Tepeji
Authors: López Acosta Sandra , Nolasco Arizmendi Víctor Alfredo
Published: June 2017

El Programa Educativo de Nanotecnología de la Universidad Tecnológica de Tula-Tepeji (UTTT) forma, en seis cuatrimestres, técnicos superiores universitarios, siguiendo cuatro ejes pedagógicos. El último cuatrimestre del programa es una estadía en el sector productivo para desarrollar un proyecto que atienda una necesidad real aplicando los conocimientos que adquirieron en el programa. Los estudiantes reciben una formación que los convierte en profesionistas integrales con conocimientos y destrezas para producir y caracterizar materiales nanotecnológicos, facilitando su ingreso al mercado laboral. El programa tiene relación con empresas, universidades y centros de investigación para estadías de los estudiantes e infraestructura que incluye instalaciones y equipo básico y avanzado.

Los profesores del programa hacen investigación y desarrollos tecnológicos en el área de biotecnología y nanotecnología ambiental con colaboración académica interna y con otras instituciones del país. Además, el programa participa en actividades de difusión de la ciencia y la nanotecnología. Con el Programa Educativo de Nanotecnología, la UTTT participa en un área estratégica y de alta innovación para el país.
Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo
Authors: Sánchez Valente Jaime , Toledo Antonio José Antonio
Published: June 2017

En el mundo actual es indudable que el uso de la nanotecnología es indispensable, para la manipulación de los materiales desde sus unidades básicas de construcción, con el fin de controlar las distintas propiedades fisicoquímicas de los mismos. Por tal motivo, en el presente trabajo se expone el empleo de la nanotecnología en el Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo (IMP), como una herramienta para el diseño y desarrollo de nuevos materiales, así como la infraestructura con la que cuenta el IMP para su caracterización, escalamiento y evaluación a nivel micro y piloto.
Mundo Nano. Revista Interdisciplinaria en Nanociencias y Nanotecnología, Vol. 9 No. 17 julio-diciembre 2016
Authors: UNAM CEIICH
Published: June 2017

El Catálogo nacional de instituciones de investigación con actividades en nanociencias y nanotecnología es una iniciativa de nanoUNAM, consorcio académico de la UNAM integrado en 2009 por el Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnológico (CCADET), el Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología (CNyN) y el Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades (CEIICH). nanoUNAM está interesado desde sus orígenes en impulsar el diálogo interdisciplinario de alta calidad sobre los avances, promesas e implicaciones de las nanociencias y la nanotecnología (NyN) con el objeto de enriquecer la toma de decisiones nacionales referentes a la maximización y distribución de beneficios, la definición de responsabilidades y la minimización de costos innecesarios o no deseados; razón por la cual está integrado por entidades, tanto del subsistema de la Investigación Científica como del subsistema de Humanidades. 
On the choice of contact parameters for the forced response calculation of a bladed disk with underplatform dampers
Authors: Gastaldi Chiara , Grossi Emanuele , Berruti Teresa M.
Published: June 2017

Underplatform dampers (UPDs) are still in use to reduce the vibration amplitude of turbine blades and to shift the position of resonant frequencies. The dynamics of blades with UPDs is nonlinear and the analysis is challenging from both the experimental and the numerical point of view. A key point in obtaining a predictive numerical tool is the choice of the correct contact parameters (contact stiffness and friction coefficient) that are required as input to the contact model. The paper presents different approaches to choose these parameters: the contact stiffness in normal and tangential direction are both calculated and measured. The calculation is based on the analytical models in literature, the measurements are carried out on a dedicated test rig. The friction coefficient is also measured. Test results of the forced response of the same bladed disk with UPDs are available for each blade, they come from an experimental campaign under controlled excitation and centrifugal force. The forced response of the bladed disk is not used as a mean to tune the contact parameters, but rather as a validation tool: the effect of the different choices of contact parameters in the code is highlighted by the comparison of the calculated and experimental forced response of the bladed disk.
Expanded Architecture 01-06
Authors: Sarah Breen Lovett
Published: June 2017

The exposition of practice-based research is focused on using moving image installation to reflect upon our relationship to architecture. Through a site-specific practice, existing architectural elements are re-framed, re-focused and projected back onto themselves — either through the content of the moving image, or the construction of the installation. The exposition considers what this series of works have revealed about the use of moving image installation to reflect upon our relationship to architecture; particularly the possibility of creating tension between the architecture and the image, as well as the self in space.
A Place, Constructed
Authors: Laura F. Gibellini
Published: June 2017

The exposition introduces the artist’s research into the concept of ‘place’. To do this, the weave has been conceived of as a place in itself and as a space for mapping some fundamental considerations implicit in the artist’s own practice. Layering image, moving image and text, the exposition seeks to avoid illustration, denying an explanatory relationship between the text and image or vice versa. Rather, in form and tone it seeks to make sense in a sort of delayed time — over time — little by little, as a collage of the different ideas, which form practice. The exposition is brought together as a momentary presentation, as part of an ongoing reflection, as fragments of a particular train of thought that expand, like a drawing, over time.
A Work on Progress
Authors: David Overend
Published: June 2017

The exposition functions as a critical reflection on A Work on Progress, a practice-as-research performance/installation. Aiming to provide an alternative to the commodification of theatre, the project explores the possibility of moving beyond postmodern strategies of cultural resistance, such as the self-reflexivity of ‘postdramatic’ theatre. Drawing on Nicholas Bourriaud’s models of ‘relational aesthetics’ and ‘postproduction’, A Work on Progress aims to develop a ‘relational theatre practice’, which operates through strategies of use and reconfiguration. The work consisted of a room filled with ‘tools’ of theatrical production, which were available for visitors to the space to use in a variety of ways. The exposition documents and analyses the unrehearsed performances that took place when the work was staged in Glasgow in 2010, suggesting that through the continual changes and reconfigurations that took place throughout the event, a progressive politics might be located, which aspires to an alternative form of theatre production.
Thanks to Lysenko, we got Haldane
Authors: Abhishek Hazra
Published: June 2017

The exposition contextualises a set of artworks that reflect on the notion of error - both scientific and political - and the epistemological implications of partisanship. The artworks juxtapose diverse historical contexts, which might or might not share actual causal linkages.
Cargo: Dwelling in the Archive of Slavery at the Cape
Authors: Mark Fleishman
Published: June 2017

In 2006, together with a group of collaborators, representatives from two Cape Town-based performance companies with connections to the University of Cape Town, I set out to create a production on the history of slavery at the Cape. The production, Cargo, was first produced as part of the Spier Arts Summer Season in March 2007 in Stellenbosch and then at the National Festival of the Arts in Grahamstown and the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town later that year. Cargo is the fourth part of a series of productions based on ‘key sites of memory’ in and around the city of Cape Town. The term is taken from Pierre Nora (1989) and refers to a conglomerate of physical, material and archival sites that function to concentrate remembrance in a world in which, to paraphrase James E. Young, the more we monumentalize, the more we seem to have “divested ourselves of the obligation to remember” (2000: 94). In making each of the works in the series, my collaborators and I faced two fundamental and interconnected problems related to the themes of time and silence: How to find an appropriate image in the present for something that has past and how to make the archive speak in unspeakable ways. The productions were created through a dramaturgical process based on the idea of ‘dwelling’ borrowed from the anthropologist Tim Ingold (2000) based on a question posed by Heidegger on the difference between ‘building’ and ‘dwelling’ (1971).
Song No 3 – Singing through Gestures
Authors: Cathy van Eck
Published: June 2017

This exposition discusses the performance Song No 3 in the context of research into the use of loudspeakers and microphones as musical instruments, and analyses what kind of categories of movements are generally used in music as well as how these different categories are connected to each other. Song No 3 is a performance for a performer with a small loudspeaker in front of her mouth and a microphone in her hand.
This exposition analyses what kind of categories of movements are generally used in music as well as how these different categories are connected to each other. Whereas some are more perceived as ‘silent’ movements, others clearly have a audible result. Due to working with loudspeakers, microphones and digital sound processing, the audible results of movements in a performance can be changed during the performance itself and these changes are essential elements of the composition.
Miltä hiljaisuus kuulostaa? What does silence sound like?
Authors: Elina Saloranta
Published: June 2017

The contribution consists of a nine-minute video Room and a text entitled ’What Does Silence Sound Like?’ The video records changes that take place in a bedroom after the occupant’s death. The text describes the making of the video soundtrack, focusing on the question of how to render auditive the silence of an emptying room. The text is mostly in the form of a dialogue, and it is based on taped conversations between Saloranta and sound designer Tatu Virtamo.
Altering distances and a common fixed point theorem in Menger probabilistic metric spaces
Authors: Jesic Sinisa , Cirovic Natasa , O’Regan Donal
Published: June 2017

This paper presents a common fixed point theorem for two compatible
self-mappings satisfying nonlinear contractive type condition defined using
a ?-function. This result extends previous results due to B. S. Choudhury,
K. Das, A new contraction principle in Menger spaces, Acta Mathematica
Sinica 24 (2008) 1379-1386, and the result due to D. Mihe?, Altering
distances in probabilistic Menger spaces, Nonlinear Analysis 71 (2009)
2734-2738.
On the strong convergence forweighted sums of negatively superadditive dependent random variables
Authors: Zheng Lulu , Wang Xuejun , Yang Wenzhi
Published: June 2017

In this paper, we present some results on the complete convergence for arrays
of rowwise negatively superadditive dependent (NSD, in short) random
variables by using the Rosenthal-type maximal inequality, Kolmogorov
exponential inequality and the truncation method. The results obtained in
the paper extend the corresponding ones for weighted sums of negatively
associated random variables with identical distribution to the case of
arrays of rowwise NSD random variables without identical distribution.
Global stability analysis of the equilibrium of an improved time-delayed dynamic model to describe the development of T cells in the thymus
Authors: Li Yang , Ma Wanbiao , Xiao Liming , Yang Weitao
Published: June 2017

In this paper, based on some biological meaning, triple-negative T cells
(TN) and the immature single-positive T cells (CD3-4+8- and CD3-4-8+)
have been introduced into well known Mehr?s nonlinear dynamic model which is
used to describe proliferation, differentiation and death of T cells in the
thymus (Modeling positive and negative selection and differentiation
processes in the thymus, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 175 (1995)
103-126), and a class of improved nonlinear dynamic model with seven state
variables and time delays has been proposed. Then, by using
quasi-steady-state approximation and some classical analysis techniques of
functional differential equations, the local and global stability of the
equilibrium of the model have been analysed. Finally, some numerical
simulations are given to summarize the applications of the theoretical
results.
On a class of solvable higher-order difference equations
Authors: Stevic Stevo , Alghamdi Mohammed , Alotaibi Abdullah , Elsayed Elsayed
Published: June 2017

Closed form formulas for well-defined solutions of the next difference
equation xn = xn-2xn-k-2/xn-k(an + bnxn-2xn-k-2), n ? N0, where k ?
N, (an)n?N0, (bn)n?N0, and initial values x-i, i = 1,k+2 are real
numbers, are given. Long-term behavior of well-defined solutions of the
equation when (an)n?N0 and (bn)n?N0 are constant sequences is described in
detail by using the formulas. We also describe the domain of undefinable
solutions of the equation. Our results explain and considerably improve some
recent results in the literature.
Aggression as an international crime
Authors: Vucic Mihajlo
Published: June 2017

The jurisdiction of the permanent International Criminal Court for the crime
of aggression is due to activate during 2017. As the voting of the members
of the Court?s Statute gets closer, critiques to its competence to prosecute
aggression grow stronger, which is at the same time confusing and
counterproductive. Those not at all negligible voices state that only
Security Council can properly decide if an act of aggression was committed,
that the aggression is a non-justiciable political crime, that the two-step
procedure of ICC in its deliberations on aggression is contrary to a rule of
consent of the state to judicial proceedings, that the possible overflow of
proceedings will initiate national prosecutions toward third states and its
officials which would endanger international legal rules on states and
officials immunity from foreign jurisdiction. The author argues that all
these critiques are either wrong in their views or overlook the fact that
their views can easily be put against other international crimes which do
not, however, suffer from their attacks. It is obvious that historical
landmark of future criminal prosecutions for the development of
international law and the stability of the international community is
downgraded. The author concludes that, notwithstanding numerous problems
that accompany it, the conception of aggression from the Statute of
International Criminal Court will benefit the general prevention of unlawful
uses of force in international relations and will diminish impunity for the
?crime of all crimes?.
The limits of EU conditionality towards neighborhood countries: The case of the Eastern Partnership
Authors: Ristic Katarina
Published: June 2017

The paper examines the limits of the European Union policy making towards the
Eastern Neighbours, as well as towards the Russian Federation. In-depth
analyses of the existing contractual relations proved that the EU
neighborhood policy is a nonfunctional mixture of foreign policy
interventionism, enlargement policy and conditionality instruments. The
article has found that high economic interests, security and peace
intentions and fight against the global threats in the Eastern Neighborhood
are not subject to the typical EU conditionality, since proven instruments
work only under the umbrella of the enlargement policy and membership
prospect. The author has concluded that the EU will have to look old/new
form of partnerships for the neighborhood countries in order to keep
stability, peace and security around its borders. Current relations with the
Eastern Partnership countries are neither developed, neither confident,
despite the hybrid legal frameworks with some of them. A vital strategic
partner in the East remains the Russian Federation, and it is expected that
relations in the Eastern Neighborhood will be adjusted to the current
position of Russia in this region. This can not be dependent, even of the
membership prospect for Ukraine, Moldova or Georgia, which seems to be
inadequate offer at the moment, like it was at all the previous historical
moments and developments. New agreements signed with these three countries
did not help prevent conflicts, tensions, or the huge pro-Russian opposition
in these countries. Implementation of comprehensive Association
Agreements/Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements are yet to come, and
these countries still lack democratic and efficient governance, and
implementation of the number of paragraphs from the previous Partnership and
Cooperation Agreements. PCAs are still in force with the rest of the
countries of the Eastern Partnership (except Belarus). DCFTA Agreement with
Ukraine is not yet ratified by all EU member states (Netherlands).