bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Two Months at Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti
Authors: Coffman Stephan
Published: May 2023

I recently spent two months as a volunteer physician at Hospital Albert Schweitzer, in Deschapelles, Haiti. The hospital was built in 1956 by William Larrimer Mellon, a son of the founder of Gulf Oil and Mellon Bank. In 1947, he read an article in LIFE magazine about Albert Schweitzer’s hospital in Lambarane, West Africa. Inspired by the story, Mellon decided to go to medical school and start a similar hospital in the western hemisphere. He wrote to Schweitzer and the two began a lifelong friendship. At the age of 37, he entered Tulane University Medical School. As a third year student, Mellon traveled to Haiti to do research on tropical ulcers. When he saw the critical need for medical care in Haiti, he decided that it was here, in the poorest country in the western hemisphere, that he would start a hospital. The hospital was built in the Artibonite River Valley, approximately 70 miles north of Port au Prince, Haiti’s capitol. Mellon spent his entire fortune funding the hospital’s endeavors and worked there until his death in 1989. His wife, Gwen Grant Mellon, still lives and works at the hospital.
Diabetes Self-Management Education: Promoting Healthy Behaviors and Reducing Long-Term Costs
Authors: Riley Jennifer
Published: May 2023

Diabetes self-management education has been considered an integral component of clinical management since the 1930’s.1 Through the years, it has evolved from a didactic learning process to one of an empowerment approach.2 It is no longer considered simply “survival skill” education but is geared as an ongoing process of learning the knowledge and skills necessary to promote behavior change and positive health outcomes. Goals of diabetes education include optimizing metabolic control, prevention of acute and chronic complications, and optimizing quality of life while controlling costs.3 Provision of this education process is ideally met through a diabetes educator: a health care professional who has mastered the core of knowledge and skills of diabetes management and who has met the experiential requirements to become a CDE.4
FORMATION OF NATIONAL AND VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF FUTURE TEACHERS UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF MARITAL STATE
Authors: Bezliudna Nataliia
Published: May 2023

The article proves that under the conditions of the full-scale war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the significance of the spiritual and value orientations of national state-building became particularly important, since the war, first of all, is aimed at the destruction of the nation-building and state-building values of the Ukrainian people. By defending our own national values, we are, in fact, defending the state and spiritual sovereignty of Ukraine, protecting its national identity. The guarantee of Ukraineʼs victory in this war, the preservation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity, is not only the development of a combat-ready Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also the preservation of the spiritual integrity of our society, national identity, the development of the economy, culture, science, and art. In accordance with such realities, a new social order has appeared ‒ the formation of a nationally conscious generation of Ukrainians with a highly developed system of values, among which the first place will belong to the values of the highest, spiritual level.The necessity of forming the civic consciousness of future teachers, confirming their convictions about national value priorities, about the value of language, history, and faith in strengthening the Ukrainian state is substantiated. It is substantiated that humanitarian training of future teachers is important in this context. It is proven that a modern institution of higher pedagogical education should not only provide quality educational services, but also become a kind of outpost for the formation of national-value orientations of future teachers, and ways of improving this process are given. It was found that effective ways of forming the professional and value orientations of future teachers are the popularization of the Ukrainian language, the promotion of the development of the best features of the Ukrainian mentality and opposition to manifestations of national inferiority, the establishment of patriotic values, beliefs and respect for the cultural and historical past of Ukraine in the consciousness and feelings of the individual.

Keywords: values; national values; national value orientations; formation of values; future teachers; martial law; educational process; institution of higher pedagogical education.
Comparative Assessment of the Quality of Life and the Level of Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis
Authors:   Kuban State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Bolotova E.V. ,   Krasnodar, Russian Federation, Yumukyan K.A. ,   Kuban State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia; Krasnodar, Russian Federation,   Scientific Research Institute — Prof. S.V. Ochapovskiy Regional Clinical Hospital No.1; Krasnodar, Russian Federation, Dudnikova A.V. ,   Kuban State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia; Krasnodar, Russian Federation
Published: May 2023

Aim: To assess the quality of life, the level of anxiety and depression in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) depending on disease active/inactive status. Design: comparative prospective study. Materials and methods. In 2018–2020, a clinical study was conducted in Prof. S. V. Ochapovskiy Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1, which enrolled 218 patients: 178 patients with UC (139 patients with active disease and 39 patients with inactive disease) and 40 healthy volunteers (control group). In addition to routine examinations and faecal inflammatory markers, all patients underwent a quality-of-life assessment using The Short Form-36 (SF-36) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ), Clinical Activity Index (CAI), anxiety and depression evaluation using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HADS) scale. Results. The lowest mean values for SF-36 and the strongest correlations with CAI were observed in UC patients for the following domains: viability scale, overall health and emotional functioning (р < 0.05). Significant differences were recorded for IBDQ in mean values and correlations between the points on the scale and CAI for all domains (р = 0.0001). The strongest correlations were observed for the overall points and the “intestinal factor” domain (р = 0.0001). Lower mean values for SF-36 were in patients with chronic diseases not related to UC; for IBDQ, the situation was opposite — patients with extraintestinal UC signs had lower mean values. We found a correlation between HADS and CAI points which shows severity of an UC episode (r = 0.560; р = 0.01). Conclusions. The results demonstrate the importance of evaluation of the quality of life of patients with UC using both specific and nonspecific questionnaires, since they complement each other and allow personalising therapeutic approaches for patients with UC. Keywords: ulcerative colitis; inflammatory bowel diseases; quality of life; anxiety; depression.
Specificity of Therapy Selection for Patients with Nontuberculous Lung Mycobacteriosis
Authors:   Central Scientific and Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Vladimirova E.B. ,   Moscow, Russian Federation, Shmelev E.I. ,   Central Scientific and Research Institute of Tuberculosis; Moscow, Russian Federation, Makaryants N.N. ,   Central Scientific and Research Institute of Tuberculosis; Moscow, Russian Federation, Zaitseva A.S. ,   Central Scientific and Research Institute of Tuberculosis; Moscow, Russian Federation, Kasimtseva S.A. ,   Central Scientific and Research Institute of Tuberculosis; Moscow, Russian Federation, Smirnova T.G. ,   Central Scientific and Research Institute of Tuberculosis; Moscow, Russian Federation
Published: May 2023

Aim: To identify the incidence and the characteristics of adverse reactions, to mitigate them, and to determine possible adjustments in antimicrobial therapy. Design: Observational retrospective long-term study. Materials and methods. We examined 125 patients with nontuberculous lung mycobacteriosis. 73.6% of cases had concomitant diseases. Results. The therapy for nontuberculous mycobacteriosis was prescribed in 115 patients, depending on drug susceptibility, and included at least 3 drug products. 31.3% of patients had adverse reactions; one third of these patients had allergic reactions. Hepatotoxic reactions were recorded in 16.5% of cases, cardiotoxic — in 12.2%, ototoxic — in 10.4%, optic neuritis was diagnosed in 5 % of cases. In 31.3% of cases, the therapy was adjusted, in 13.9% of cases, the therapy was reviewed and alternative treatment was offered. The complete antibacterial course was prescribed to 79 (68.7%) patients. Conclusion. The therapy for nontuberculous mycobacteriosis should be selected in inpatient settings with laboratory and functional monitoring. Keywords: nontuberculous lung mycobacteriosis, antimicrobial therapy, adverse reactions.
ПРОБЛЕМИ РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ ДУАЛЬНОЇ ОСВІТИ В НАВЧАЛЬНИХ ЗАКЛАДАХ АВСТРІ
Authors: Опушко НАДІЯ
Published: May 2023

The modern system of vocational education and training is focused on training specialists who have not only theory but also relevant practical skills in their chosen field. Dual education is a successful combination of theory and practice that allows training highly qualified specialists who are fully prepared to perform professional activities.The article presents the results of a study of the formation and development ofvocational education and training (VET) in Austria, identifies the features of dual education in different types of vocational education institutions, and establishes the peculiarities of VET functioning, which depend on socio-economic, political and social factors.Based on the analysis of the scientific and pedagogical literature of domestic and foreign scholars, the study of expert assessments on the problem of VET in the Austrianeducation system, the author defines the conditions for obtaining vocational education in the dual form of education in educational institutions and enterprises, and outlines the common and distinctive features of the Austrian practice of implementing thedual form of education with the countries of the European Union as a common educational space.
Динаміка професійної самосвідомості майбутнього психолога в процесі навчання у закладі вищої освіти
Authors: Шахов Володимир , Шахов Владислав
Published: May 2023

The articleelucidates the peculiarities of the formation of professional self-awareness of future psychologists in the process of professional training of students in higher education institutions. On the basis of the conducted empirical research, the dynamics of the development of self-identification, self-evaluation, and guidance on the profession as structural components of the professional self-awareness of future psychologists during their studies at higher education institutions have been clarified. The problemof professional identity and self-awareness and the difficulties that arise on the path of formation and professional development of the personality of the future psychologist are highlighted.At the time of graduation from the higher education institution, professional self-awareness is not fully formed, its formation continues even at later stages of professionalization. However, the period of professional training is decisive in terms of the formation of professional self-awareness, since it is during this period that cardinal changes occur in the motivational and value sphere of the individual, values, guidelines and all components of self-awareness, adequate to the nature and content of professional activity, are formed.For the formation of self-awareness of a specialist, special psychological and pedagogical conditions are necessary, which help to anticipate the current state. The basic condition for the formation of professional self-awareness is the systematically organized and purposeful involvement of students in practical activities related to solving professional problems
ФОРМУВАННЯ ЧИННИКІВ РОЗВИТКУ ТА ПЕРСПЕКТИВНОСТІ ОСВІТИ ДОРОСЛИХ В УКРАЇНІ
Authors: Шаманська Олена , Бурлака НЕля
Published: May 2023

In the article determines the formation of development and prospects factors of adult education in Ukraine. The authors have justified the features and importance of adult education in the present social and economic development. Adult education should be treated as the important component of adult continuing education, taking into account all the realities of professional development and adult personality development. The main factors of the development and prospects of adult education in Ukraine are identified as: professional development and development of an adult person; availability of objective necessity of systematic ovulation by modern information systems and technologies; modern needs in the labor market; systematic satisfaction of needs of individual adult person with regard to his personal and professional development; legislative provision of the process of education for adults; socio-economic development of the country. Moreover, the article highlights the main tasks of improvement and development of the adult education system in Ukraine, among them: improvement of normative and legal support; study and systematic monitoring of the labor market; optimization of the adult education structure according to actual needs in the labor market in regions, branches and the country in general; improvement of educational-methodical, informational and material-technical support of the general system of adult education; deepening and development of international cooperation in the field of adult education; formation and application of modern innovation methods of education and teaching for adult person.
РОЗВИТОК КРЕАТИВНОСТІ МАЙБУТНІХ БАКАЛАВРІВ ХОРЕОГРАФІЇ
Authors: Фрицюк Валентина , Фрицюк Василь , Кулик Денис
Published: May 2023

The article proves that creativity is an important professional quality of future bachelors of choreography. Success in professional activity can be achieved only by a choreographer who has a high level of creativity. He must be a creative person. Therefore, the problem of developing the creativity of future choreographers in the process of their professional training in a higher education institution is important. The article describes methods of developing students' creativity: it is important to arouse students' interest in the problem of creativity, to provide information about the essence of creativity, to tell about the main indicators of creativity. It is important to explain the importance of creativity in the professional development of a future choreographer. To solve these tasks, analytical discussions, debates, role-playing games, acting out of pedagogical situations were used, problematic situations were created (different views were expressed on the very definition of creativity and creativity, on the possibility of creativity formation, on the meaning of creativity in modern society and choreographic art, etc.). Problematic situations were solved by joint discussion of different views, their correlation with the students' own performance experience, which led to independent conclusions about the relationship between choreographic performance and the formation of creativity. It has been proven that the educational discipline «Art pedagogy and psychology of art education» has significant potential for the development of creativity of future choreographers. The subject of study of the academic discipline is familiarization with the scientific and theoretical foundations of the theory, history and pedagogy of art education, its scientific apparatus; systematization of knowledge about the art education system.
СТАНОВЛЕННЯ СИСТЕМИ ЕСТЕТИЧНОГО ВИХОВАННЯ В КОНТЕКСТІ НОВОЇ ОСВІТНЬОЇ ПОЛІТИКИ В УКРАЇНІ (1919 –1924)
Authors: Куркіна Сніжана
Published: May 2023

In the proposed article, an attempt is made to carry out an unbiased analysis of the problem of the formation of the aesthetic education system in the context of the new educational policy, which began to be implemented after the final establishment of Soviet power in Ukraine in the early 20s of the 20th century. The complex socio-political, economic, social situation against which another educational reform was carried out was analyzed. The author researches and introduces into scientific circulation little-known works, state documents, orders, codes, tries to compare the ideas and views of Ukrainian and Russian scientists, educationists of the specified period on the problem of aesthetic education of children and school youth in the newly createdstate. It is proved that the formation of the system of aesthetic education took place in the context of the implementation of general educational reforms carried out in Ukraine in the initial period ofthe establishment of Bolshevik power and efforts to bring Ukrainian school education, which already had its own developments in the form of theories and methods of progressive Ukrainian scientists, practicing teachers, to contemporary Russian samples. Theeducational plans of schools proposed for implementation are analyzed, the place of aesthetic and artistic subjects in these plans is shown. It has been proven that in the initial period of the reforms, the new government was quite lenient towards the principle of local studies, the study of the history of Ukraine, the introduction of the process of teaching in the native language using local, understandable material for students, etc. This made it possible to involve the best Ukrainian teachers and publicfigures in the development of new projects, regulations, and curricula in order to quickly adapt the idea of a labor school and social education to the conditions and realities of life existing at that time in Ukraine. But, starting from the end of 1919, despite the efforts to maintain the position of preserving teaching in the Ukrainian language in the school, supporting local traditions and culture, which was mostly carried out at the expense of subjects of the aesthetic cycle, the very phrase "national school" ceased to be used, and later acquired a negative connotation value. The course to support the idea of national, patriotic education, which should have been carried out by introducing aesthetic and artistic subjects into school plans, is gradually losing popularity, becoming impossible and unacceptable under the new conditions. Many Ukrainian scientists and teachers emigrated abroad, most paid with their lives for "wrong", ideologically unsustainable beliefs, some renounced their views and tried to adapt to the new political regime and the conditions it proposed.
La reproducción del ideal de la mujer hispana en Filipinas a través de los conventos y colegios femeninos: imágenes, actitudes y conductas de género en el siglo XVII
Authors:   Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Azcapotzalco, Sales-Colín Kortajarena Ostwald
Published: May 2023

The objective of this article is to present an interpretation on the reproduction of the ideal of the Hispanic woman in Manila based on the contemporary and local notion of social ‘quality’. My research is based on the premise that an attempt was made to implement in the Philippines the same organizational model that was created for the American world. My approach differs from traditional historiography by objecting to the use of the terms ‘whiteness’ – used to refer to presumed Spanish women in Manila –, ‘racism’, and ‘Spanish woman’; I argue that these categories favor prejudiced and incomplete visions and are not part of the contemporary vocabulary in the first half of the 17th century. Thus, I analyze how the meaning of ‘quality woman’ was constructed in the Philippines as a determining criterion for inclusion and belonging to the elite of the city of Manila. Finally, I demonstrate the existence of a scale of preferences for ‘quality women’ and ‘women of less position’ which, in the vocabulary of the time, were known as ‘women of all qualities’.
НАСЛІДКИ ЦИФРОВОГО РОЗРИВУ ТА ШЛЯХИ ЙОГО ПОДОЛАННЯ
Authors: ЄРМОЛЕНКО Оксана , ВЛАСЕНКО Тетяна , ШАПОВАЛОВА Інга
Published: May 2023

У статті розглядається проблема цифрового розриву, причини виникнення та напрямки щодо подолання негативних наслідків цього явища. Природа цифрового розриву є досить складною та дискусійною; тож, точне виявлення причин його виникнення є головним етапом для вчасного розпізнавання, вивчення та застосування дієвих рішень. Цифровий розрив в Україні та й у всьому сучасному світі доволі великий. Доведено, що є сильна залежність між цифровим розривом та бідністю. Уряди країн, де цифровий розрив має відчутні наслідки, мають рішуче діяти, розробляючи та втілюючи інструменти електронного урядування, для підвищення готовності суспільства до сучасних інформаційно-комунікаційних технологій (ІКТ), заохочування та навчання використанню ІКТ, а також підтримування розвитку навичок ІКТ у зручний спосіб. Задачею урядів мають стати створення та розгортання доступних електронних послуг та зрозумілого ІКТ-наповнення. Крім того, вони мають допомагати розвитку належного та недискримінаційного середовища для електронного урядування через нормативно-правову базу, стратегічні напрямки та державні гарантії. Електронне урядування може стати подібним потужним інструментом для подолання розриву, наприклад, забезпечення доступного широкосмугового доступу. Робиться значний акцент на тому, щоб надати дітям та молоді широкий доступ до онлайн-навчання світового рівня як вдома, так і в школах. Оскільки таким чином відбудеться якісна зміна рівня освіченості серед суспільства та зменшуватиметься цифровий бар’єр, а як результат – і його негативні наслідки. Ще одним із суттєвих кроків до зменшення цифрової нерівності є створення мереж мобільного широкосмугового зв'язку. Але є перепони на цьому шляху – запровадження нових генерацій зв’язку потребує доволі багато ресурсів усіх учасників ринку, тож цей процес може зайняти тривалий час. На сьогодні в усьому світі прямують до запровадження національного широкосмугового LTE покриття (4G). У дослідженні здійснено перелік ключових елементів розвитку електронного урядування як визначального чинника подолання цифрового розриву. Для створення стійкого суспільства, уряди та зацікавлені сторони мають зосередитися на забезпеченні рівних можливостей для молоді та майбутніх поколінь.
Multi-branch selection fusion fine-grained classification algorithm based on coordinate attention localization
Authors: Zhang Feng , Wang Gaocai , Wu Man , Huang Shuqiang
Published: May 2023

Object localization has been the focus of research in Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). With the aim of improving the accuracy and precision of object localization in multi-branch networks, as well as the robustness and universality of object localization methods, our study mainly focus on how to combine coordinate attention and feature activation map for target localization. The model in this paper is a three-branch model including raw branch, object branch and part branch. The images are fed directly into the raw branch. Coordinate Attention Object Localization Module (CAOLM) is used to localize and crop objects in the image to generate the input for the object branch. Attention Partial Proposal Module (APPM) is used to propose part regions at different scales. The three classes of input images undergo end-to-end weakly supervised learning through different branches of the network. The model expands the receptive field to capture multi-scale features by Selective Branch Atrous Spatial Pooling Pyramid (SB-ASPP). It can fuse the feature maps obtained from the raw branch and the object branch with Selective Branch Block (SBBlock), and the complete features of the raw branch are used to supplement the missing information of the object branch. Extensive experimental results on CUB-200-2011, FGVC-Aircraft and Stanford Cars datasets show that our method has the best classification performance on FGVC-Aircraft and also has competitive performance on other datasets. Few parameters and fast inference speed are also the advantages of our model.
Tuned long short-term memory model for Ethereum price forecasting via an arithmetic optimization algorithm
Authors: Jovanovic Luka , Strumberger Ivana , Bacanin Nebojsa , Zivkovic Miodrag , Antonijevic Milos , Bisevac Petar
Published: May 2023

Machine learning as a subset of artificial intelligence presents a promising set of algorithms for tackling increasingly complex challenges. A notable ability of this subgroup of algorithms to tackle tasks without explicit programming coupled with the expanding availability of computational resources and information transparency has made it possible to utilize algorithms to forecast prices. In recent years, cryptocurrency has increased in popularity and has seen wider adoption as a payment method. Cryptocurrency trading and mining have become a potentially very lucrative venture. However, due to the instability of cryptocurrency prices, casting accurate predictions can be quite challenging. A novel way of approaching this challenge is by tackling it through time-series forecasting. A particularly promising method for tackling this type of problem is through the utilization of long-short-term memory artificial neural networks to attain accurate prediction results. However, the forecasting accuracy of machine learning models is highly dependent on adequate hyperparameter settings. Thus, this work presents an improved variation of the arithmetic optimization algorithm, tasked with selecting the best values of a long-short term neural network casting price predictions. The presented approach has been evaluated on publicly available real-world Ethereum trading price data. The attained results of a comparative analysis against several popular metaheuristics indicate that the presented method achieved excellent results, and outperformed aforementioned algorithms in one and four-step ahead predictions.
Hybrid optimisation and machine learning models for wind and solar data prediction
Authors: Amoura Yahia , Torres Santiago , Lima José , Pereira Ana I.
Published: May 2023

The exponential growth in energy demand is leading to massive energy consumption from fossil resources causing a negative effects for the environment. It is essential to promote sustainable solutions based on renewable energies infrastructures such as microgrids integrated to the existing network or as stand alone solution. Moreover, the major focus of today is being able to integrate a higher percentages of renewable electricity into the energy mix. The variability of wind and solar energy requires knowing the relevant long-term patterns for developing better procedures and capabilities to facilitate integration to the network. Precise prediction is essential for an adequate use of these renewable sources. This article proposes machine learning approaches compared to an hybrid method, based on the combination of machine learning with optimisation approaches. The results show the improvement in the accuracy of the machine learning models results once the optimisation approach is used.
Comparative deep learning studies for indirect tunnel monitoring with and without Fourier pre-processing
Authors: Rosso Marco Martino , Aloisio Angelo , Randazzo Vincenzo , Tanzi Leonardo , Cirrincione Giansalvo , Marano Giuseppe Carlo
Published: May 2023

In the last decades, the majority of the existing infrastructure heritage is approaching the end of its nominal design life mainly due to aging, deterioration, and degradation phenomena, threatening the safety levels of these strategic routes of communications. For civil engineers and researchers devoted to assessing and monitoring the structural health (SHM) of existing structures, the demand for innovative indirect non-destructive testing (NDT) methods aided with artificial intelligence (AI) is progressively spreading. In the present study, the authors analyzed the exertion of various deep learning models in order to increase the productivity of classifying ground penetrating radar (GPR) images for SHM purposes, especially focusing on road tunnel linings evaluations. Specifically, the authors presented a comparative study employing two convolutional models, i.e. the ResNet-50 and the EfficientNet-B0, and a recent transformer model, i.e. the Vision Transformer (ViT). Precisely, the authors evaluated the effects of training the models with or without pre-processed data through the bi-dimensional Fourier transform. Despite the theoretical advantages envisaged by adopting this kind of pre-processing technique on GPR images, the best classification performances have been still manifested by the classifiers trained without the Fourier pre-processing.
Research on community evolution based on node influence and multi-attribute fusion
Authors: Chen Jing , Zhao Haitong , Liu Mingxin , Liu Miaomiao
Published: May 2023

For the problem of low discrimination accuracy of evolutionary events in dynamic social networks, a community evolution model (EMNI) based on node influence and multi-attribute fusion is proposed. Firstly, the topological structure information of nodes is obtained by random walk and local clustering coefficient, and the influence of nodes is evaluated according to the topological structure of nodes. Secondly, in order to improve the accuracy of discriminating community similarity, a community similarity discrimination method based on multi-attribute fusion is proposed. The model EMNI combined the characteristics of community stability and community difference, and redefined seven evolutionary events. Finally, the effectiveness of the EMNI model in identifying community evolution events is verified on different data sets. The experimental results show that the EMNI model is better than GED, PECT and SGCI, which is able to identify more evolutionary events and the distribution of events is also more balanced.
An agglomerative hierarchical clustering approach to identify coexisting bacteria in groups of bacterial vaginosis patients
Authors: Hernández-Gómez Henry Jesús , Canul-Reich Juana , Hernández-Ocaña Betania , de la Cruz Hernández Erick
Published: May 2023

Polymicrobial syndromes such as Bacterial Vaginosis (BV), where there is a great diversity of microorganisms and causal connotations, turn it into a disease with complex dynamics in the bacteria’s coexistence in groups of patients. The main aim of this study was to explore a dataset of patients with BV to determine a more informed number of groups to create for further analysis of bacteria’s coexistence. The Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering (AHC) algorithm was applied to a BV dataset from an urban population in southeastern Mexico consisting of 201 patient records with 59 patient attributes and three classes (BV-positive, BV-negative, BV-indeterminate). In the clustering results obtained, it is possible to identify different remarkable groups of patients. The most prevalent coexisting bacteria among patients with BV were Atopobium + Gardnerella vaginalis with 37.50%, Atopobium + Megasphaera with 15.68% in the first experiment. Whereas, in the second experiment, the coexisting bacteria were Atopobium + Megasphaera + Mycoplasma hominis with 33.33% and Atopobium + Gardnerella vaginalis + Mycoplasma hominis with 25%. Finally, we provided evidence that via the AHC algorithm, it was possible to identify an optimal number of clusters with high intra-similarity and inter-dissimilarity. Furthermore, this approach allowed us to create a clustering model that helps analyze the complex dynamics between bacteria in groups of patients with BV.
Active learning for ordinal classification on incomplete data
Authors: He Deniu
Published: May 2023

Existing active learning algorithms typically assume that the data provided are complete. Nonetheless, data with missing values are common in real-world applications, and active learning on incomplete data is less studied. This paper studies the problem of active learning for ordinal classification on incomplete data. Although cutting-edge imputation methods can be used to impute the missing values before commencing active learning, inaccurately imputed instances are unavoidable and may degrade the ordinal classifier’s performance once labeled. Therefore, the crucial question in this work is how to reduce the negative impact of imprecisely filled instances on active learning. First, to avoid selecting filled instances with high imputation imprecision, we propose penalizing the query selection with a novel imputation uncertainty measure that combines a feature-level imputation uncertainty and a knowledge-level imputation uncertainty. Second, to mitigate the adverse influence of potentially labeled imprecisely imputed instances, we suggest using a diversity-based uncertainty sampling strategy to select query instances in specified candidate instance regions. Extensive experiments on nine public ordinal classification datasets with varying value missing rates show that the proposed approach outperforms several baseline methods.
Metabolic Asymmetry Relates to Clinical Characteristics and Brain Network Abnormalities in Alzheimer’s Disease
Authors: Lin Huamei , Pan Tingting , Wang Min , Ge Jingjie , Lu Jiaying , Ju Zizhao , Chen Keliang , Zhang Huiwei , Guan Yihui , Zhao Qianhua , Shan Baoci , Nie Binbin , Zuo Chuantao , Wu Ping
Published: May 2023

Background: Metabolic asymmetry has been observed in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but different studies have inconsistent viewpoints. Objective: To analyze the asymmetry of cerebral glucose metabolism in AD and investigate its clinical significance and potential metabolic network abnormalities. Methods: Standardized uptake value ratios (SUVRs) were obtained from 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) images of all participants, and the asymmetry indices (AIs) were calculated according to the SUVRs. AD group was divided into left/right-dominant or bilateral symmetric hypometabolism (AD-L/AD-R or AD-BI) when more than half of the AIs of the 20 regions of interest (ROIs) were < –2SD, >2SD, or between±1SD. Differences in clinical features among the three AD groups were compared, and the abnormal network characteristics underlying metabolic asymmetry were explored. Results: In AD group, the proportions of AD-L, AD-R, and AD-BI were 28.4%, 17.9%, and 18.5%, respectively. AD-L/AD-R groups had younger age of onset and faster rate of cognitive decline than AD-BI group (p < 0.05). The absolute values of AIs in half of the 20 ROIs became higher at follow-up than at baseline (p < 0.05). Compared with those in AD-BI group, metabolic connection strength of network, global efficiency, cluster coefficient, degree centrality and local efficiency were lower, but shortest path length was longer in AD-L and AD-R groups (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Asymmetric and symmetric hypometabolism may represent different clinical subtypes of AD, which may provide a clue for future studies on the heterogeneity of AD and help to optimize the design of clinical trials.
Research on security encryption mechanism of physical Layer based on iterative quantization method
Authors: Jing Weizhe , Ma Dongjuan , Yang Hua , Guo Min , Xue Qiang , Liu Wenqing , Zhang Yanyan , Ju Yun
Published: May 2023

Third-party eavesdropping is a unsolved problem in the process of data transmission in the physical layer of IoT (Internet of Things) in Power Systems. The security encryption effect is affected by channel noise and the half-duplex nature of the wireless channel, which leads to low key consistency and key generation rate. To address this problem, a reliable solution for physical layer communication security is proposed in this paper. First, the solution improved the key consistency by dynamically adjusting the length of the training sequence during feature extraction; Second, using an iterative quantization method to quantify the RSS (Received Signal Strength) measurements to improve generation rate of the key. Finally, based on the short-time energy method for the extraction of wireless frame interval features, by monitoring the change of inter-frame interval features, we can quickly determine whether there is an eavesdropping device into the link. Simulation results show that the reciprocity of legitimate channels R (R will be explained in detail in the following) is improved by 0.1, the key generation rate is increased by about 70%, and the beacon frames are extracted from the wireless link with good results compared to the methods that do not use dynamic adjustment of the pilot signal during the channel probing phase. The result shows that this method can effectively prevents third-party eavesdropping, effectively improves the key consistency and generation rate, and effectively implements beacon frame detection.
Extended QUALIFLEX method for MAGDM under Picture 2-Tuple Linguistic environment and applications to college English classroom teaching quality evaluation
Authors: Yuan Pei
Published: May 2023

With the globalization of the world’s economy, culture, science and technology, and the increasing frequency of international cooperation and exchanges, English will play an increasingly important role. For non-English majors in Chinese colleges and universities, college English is a public compulsory basic course, which plays a very important role in expanding students’ knowledge, improving foreign language cultural literacy and comprehensive language use ability. An important part of college English classroom teaching is teaching evaluation, which not only helps teachers obtain teaching feedback information, improve teaching management, and ensure teaching quality, but also effectively helps students adjust learning strategies, improve learning methods, and improve learning efficiency. The English classroom teaching quality evaluation could be deemed as a classic multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problem. In this paper, as a useful outranking approach, the extended QUALIFLEX method is utilized to address some MAGDM issues by using picture 2-tuple linguistic sets (P2TLSs). In addition, integrating the QUALIFLEX method with P2TLSs, the extended QUALIFLEX method with P2TLNs is constructed and all calculating procedures are simply depicted. Eventually, an empirical application of English classroom teaching quality evaluation has been offered to demonstrate this novel method.
Study on fuzzy comprehensive competitiveness evaluation of urban exhibition industry with hesitant fuzzy information
Authors: Li Yan
Published: May 2023

With the development of socialist market economy, the exhibition industry has emerged as the tertiary industry matures in a globalized economic environment. As a new economic form, the exhibition economy presents new opportunities for economic development. The research on the exhibition industry at home and abroad has been relatively mature, and there has been a scientific analysis of the industrial linkage effect of the exhibition industry. The strong industrial linkage effect has made the exhibition industry occupy a very important position in the economic development of cities. However, in the development of China’s urban exhibition industry today, it is no longer a simple question of developing and enhancing the strategic position of the exhibition industry in economic development, but rather a question of how to enhance the competitiveness of China’s urban exhibition industry. Only when the level of competitiveness is improved can the economic and social benefits brought by the exhibition industry be brought into full play. The fuzzy comprehensive competitiveness evaluation of urban exhibition industry is a classical multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems. Recently, the TODIM and VIKOR method has been used to cope with MAGDM issues. The hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs) are used as a tool for characterizing uncertain information during the fuzzy comprehensive competitiveness evaluation of urban exhibition industry. In this manuscript, the hesitant fuzzy TODIM-VIKOR (HF-TODIM-VIKOR) method is built to solve the MADM under HFSs. In the end, a numerical case study for fuzzy comprehensive competitiveness evaluation of urban exhibition industry is given to validate the proposed method.
Personality assessment in military – Bright and dark sides of the assessment measures: A review
Authors: Sohail Marva , Naeem Fatima , Javaid Muhammad Umair , Ibikunle Afeez Kayode
Published: May 2023

BACKGROUND: Personality assessment has its own bright and dark sides, especially in the military setting. It is at play since the emergence of clinical psychology and its application in the recruitment process during World War I and II. Change in personality assessment trends, the evolution of complex personality traits, and changing geopolitical settings across the world necessitate the development of cost-effective, time-efficient, and reliable assessment measures that overcome issues in current assessment measures and fulfil the needs of present times OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to explore the evolution of personality assessment measures and their uses in military settings along with the comparison of self-report and non-self-report measures. It would give directions for the development of new measures to overcome the issues and drawbacks associated with current measures of research. METHODS: The research question was formulated using the most valid SPIDER technique for a comprehensive search. PubMed, Google Scholar, and PsycNet databases were searched. 19 articles were selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria out of 775 articles. RESULTS: Thematic analyses show that personality assessment in the military is done to a) detect psychopathology, b) detect aberrant responses, c) recruit new personnel, d) predict training and performance outcomes, and e) predict leadership. The research contributes to the body of knowledge by showing an integrated picture of the most widely used assessment tools and the purpose it serves. CONCLUSION: There is a need to develop assessment measures that are culture free and can assess more complex personality attributes.
Effect of ergonomics awareness in controlling work-related musculoskeletal-pain among dental students: A cross-sectional study
Authors: Sabbagh Heba Jafar , Shagagi Asma M. , Basheer Hanin M. , Mahmoud Rawa A. , Arafah Alaa Mohammad
Published: May 2023

BACKGROUND: Dentistry is a profession that demands a high level of physical work and excessive repetitive movements in strained positions, both of which are risk factors for developing musculoskeletal pain (MS-P). OBJECTIVE: This study aims to assess the awareness of ergonomics and physical activities in controlling MS-P among dental students. METHODS: A cross-sectional study conducted at a university dental hospital in Saudi Arabia, through a validated self-administered questionnaire, distributed to undergraduates and postgraduate’s dental students. RESULTS: Out of 402 students responded to the questionnaire, 337(83.8%) reported suffering from MS-P with 67.7% of participants did not take any measures to alleviate their symptoms and the majority reported limited physical activity. Females reported significantly higher MS-P than males. Lower back (56.5%), neck (56.2%) and shoulder (50%) were the most frequently reported MS-P. Unexpectedly, undergraduate reporting significantly more pain than interns and postgraduate students (P = 0.009). The dental students’ awareness of ergonomics and MSDs were insufficient. CONCLUSION: Physical activity, student’s awareness of MSD and ergonomics were the major factors for controlling MS-Ps. Therefore, this study highlights the importance of enhancing students’ knowledge of the importance of controlling work-related MS-P, especially during their university educational hours.
Perubahan Konstitusi : Dinamika Politik Dan Hukum Dalam Negara Yang Demokratis
Authors: Firmansyah Firmansyah
Published: May 2023

The constitution is essentially the legal basis of a country, and has a function as a tool of social control, meaning that the law determines the charac-teristics of society. However, the law must be able to respond to changing conditions of the people. This paper uses a normative legal research method, with a conceptual approach. The data source is secondary legal materials, which are analyzed qualitatively. Talking about changing the constitution, there are several aspects that need to be studied carefully. First, the relationship between the constitution and the dynamic condition of society. Second, the aspect of domination between politics and law. When correlated, the constitution and society have a dynamic relationship, meaning that the constitution can follow changes and the dynamics of development in society. As for carrying out the formation and amendment of the constitution, politics and law are two aspects that complement each other and act as a counterweight to each other. Therefore, community involvement in the formation and amendment of the constitution is some-thing that must be considered.
Pelaksanaan Pemerintahan Desa Berdasarkan Prinsip Good Governance
Authors: Khoiriah Siti
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Good governance as part of the reform agenda is basically a condition that is aspired to in every aspect of government that interacts with society, especially rural communities. This highly aspired condition is based on an understanding of the principles that apply good governance, including: accountability, transparency, transparency, rule of law, justice, participation, decentralization, togetherness, professionalism, responsiveness, effectiveness and efficiency, and competitiveness. All of this illustrates that the character of the village as a self-governing community is much broader and more capable. The main task carried out by the village government is to create a democratic life, to provide good social services so that it can bring its citizens to a prosperous, peaceful, and just life. This leads to the practice of village good governance in Indonesia.
Key words: good governance, and village.
Islam, Fatwa dan Negara: Pluralisme Hukum Perceraian di Aceh, Indonesia
Authors: Muhazir Muhazir
Published: May 2023

This article examines the Legal pluralism of divorce in Aceh, even though the government has regulated divorce laws that apply nationally. However, the Ulama Consultative Assembly (MPU) of Aceh Has issued a fatwa whose legal substance was different from the divorce regulations made by the government, coupled with the legal conditions for divorce in Acehnese people who are fanatical to the school (mazhab) of Shafi'i which is theoretically different from the divorce law in Indonesia. This type of research is doctrinal with a legal pluralism approach. This article aims to analyze the dynamics of divorce law in Acehnese society. The results show that there are three kinds of law that normatively and sociologically apply in Aceh, namely fikih munakat, fatwa and state law, and each has its own legal concept regarding divorce.
Klausula Eksonerasi Dalam Bisnis Perspektif Hukum Progresif
Authors: Kurniawan I Gede Agus
Published: May 2023

Exoneration clause using progressive law. This research is normative legal research with a doctrinal approach, while the legal materials used are primary legal materials, secondary legal materials, and non-legal materials. The discussion show that the essence of the exoneration clause is the unilateral desire of one of the parties in the business process, therefore it is necessary to implement the principle of proportionality to achieve balance in the agreement. In addition, from a progressive legal perspective, the dignity of the parties in a business relationship is important for assessing an exoneration clause.