bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Patient and caregiver perspectives of select non-communicable diseases in India: A scoping review
Authors: Nila Sindhu , Dutta Eliza , Prakash S. S. , Korula Sophy , Oommen Anu Mary
Published: January 2024

Background and objectives

Patient-reported measures of encounters in healthcare settings and consideration of their preferences could provide valuable inputs to improve healthcare quality. Although there are increasing reports of user experiences regarding health care in India in recent times, there is a lack of evidence from Indian healthcare settings on the care provided for patients with chronic diseases.

Methods

We selected diabetes mellitus and cancer as representatives of two common conditions requiring different care pathways. We conducted a scoping review of studies reporting experiences or preferences of patients/caregivers for these conditions, in PubMed, Global Index Medicus and grey literature, from the year 2000 onwards. Both published and emergent themes were derived from the data and summarised as a narrative synthesis.

Results

Of 95 included studies (49 diabetes, 46 cancer), 73% (65) were exclusively quantitative surveys, 79% included only patients (75), and 59.5% (44) were conducted in government centres. Studies were concentrated in a few states in India, with the underrepresentation of vulnerable population groups and representative studies. There was a lack of standardised tools and comprehensive approaches for assessing experiences and preferences of patients and caregivers, concerning diabetes and cancers in India. The commonest type of care assessed was therapeutic (74), with 14 cancer studies on diagnosis and nine on palliative care. Repeated visits to crowded centres, drug refill issues, unavailability of specific services in government facilities, and expensive private care characterised diabetes care, while cancer care involved delayed diagnosis and treatment, communication, and pain management issues.

Conclusions

There is a need for robust approaches and standardised tools to measure responsiveness of the healthcare system to patient needs, across geographical and population subgroups in India. Health system reforms are needed to improve access to high-quality care for treatment and palliation of cancer and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes.
Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies, Winston Mano and viola c. milton (eds) (2021)
Authors: Xiang Yu
Published: January 2024

Review of: Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies, Winston Mano and viola c. milton (eds) (2021)

Oxon: Routledge, 286 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-13857-477-9, h/bk, $52.95
Considerations on an embedded pile’s effective length in an analytical calculation according to the commentary on the STN 73 1002 standard
Authors: Stacho Jakub , Súľovská Monika
Published: January 2024

The analytical model for calculating the bearing capacity of a pile, presented in the commentary to STN 73 1002 – Pile Foundations, gives a recommendation to reduce the pile’s length in the calculation of the shaft resistance. The recommendation is based on Caquot-Kérisel’s theory. Especially in the case of embedded piles, reducing a pile’s length in the calculation can cause the shaft friction of the embedded pile to be neglected, and the calculated resistance of the pile is thus significantly lower. The results of instrumented static load tests of embedded piles were analysed. The main aim of the study was to verify the validity of reducing the pile’s length in the analytical calculation of the shaft resistance. The results of the static load tests analysed did not show any reduction in the shaft friction on the embedded part of the pile. In the form of a parametric study, the effect of reducing the pile’s length in the calculation of shaft friction was analysed for different dimensions of embedded piles.
Possibilities of complex numerical modelling at the Czech Geotechnical Society workplace
Authors: Vaníček Martin , Jirásko Daniel , Šiška Zdeněk
Published: January 2024

In the paper, there are examples of complex geotechnical problems in both 2D and 3D that are modelled using PLAXIS software on the specialist workstation provided by the Czech Geotechnical Society to their members.
Necrose em papila interdentária após uso de ácido hialurônico: opções de
tratamento
Authors: Jellmayer Juliana Aparecida , Ferreira Geny Jussara Wagner Alves , Pizzaia Maria Letícia , Santos Pâmela Leticia , Oliveira Aline Cristina , Margonar Rogério , Queiroz Thallita Pereira
Published: January 2024

A reconstrução de black spaces usando ácido hialurônico (AH) vem aumentando
significativamente. Todavia, há riscos de comprometimento vascular, que pode ser seguido
de necrose. Para essas complicações, o diagnóstico precoce e o tratamento imediato são
extremamente importantes. Assim, o objetivo desse artigo foi relatar um caso de necrose
em papila após a aplicação de AH, bem como o tratamento dessa complicação. Paciente do
sexo feminino, 42 anos de idade, com queixa de “espaço entre os dentes da frente”, na
qual foi proposta a aplicação de AH na papila interdentária na região entre os dentes
#11 e #21. A aplicação de AH foi realizada de 2 a 3 mm apical à ponta de cada papila
deficiente, por quatro sessões, com intervalo de 21 dias entre elas. Na quarta sessão, a
paciente queixou-se de dor, sangramento papilar e nasal, sensibilidade e depressão
gengival, ardência nasal e coriza. Na avaliação clínica, constatou-se papila
esbranquiçada, compatível com comprometimento vascular. Assim, foi realizado o
tratamento imediato por meio da aplicação de hialuronidase associada a ozonioterapia, em
duas sessões. A paciente foi reavaliada a cada 24 horas, observando-se sua recuperação.
Ela foi, então, reavaliada após 6 e 12 meses, e apresentou um ganho de papila de 82,4%,
em comparação à condição inicial. Assim, foi possível concluir que são inúmeros os
benefícios oferecidos pelo AH; todavia, complicações podem ocorrer e exigem um adequado
diagnóstico e tratamento, para se evitar sequelas.
Técnica Lady Lips para construção transformadora dos lábios
Authors: Beleti Junior Alcides , Basile Ana Carolina Nogueira Bientinez , Abrantes Helena Bittar
Published: January 2024

O papel dos lábios na construção de uma face harmoniosa vem sendo discutido há
muitos anos, assim como as características dos lábios equilibrados. Diversas técnicas
para construir ou recuperar os lábios ideais já foram desenvolvidas. Contudo, a
necessidade de individualizar os tratamentos, trazendo saúde e beleza para os lábios dos
pacientes, levou os presentes autores a estudarem e desenvolverem a técnica Lady Lips.
Os princípios desse protocolo foram embasados no preparo tecidual para criar espaço para
adequação do preenchedor, após bioestimulação de colágeno local. Assim, o presente
estudo tem como objetivo descrever o protocolo dessa técnica, que permite construir
lábios harmoniosos, de forma individualizada para cada paciente. É importante
compreender esse protocolo, suas indicações e a aplicabilidade da técnica, para torná-la
segura e reproduzível, promovendo maior grau de satisfação dos pacientes submetidos a
esse tipo de harmonização facial.
Rejuvenescimento facial com o uso da policaprolactona: relato de caso
Authors: Oliveira Soraia Amaral Rocha
Published: January 2024

Introdução: Os bioestimuladores injetáveis colaboram de forma muito significativa no rejuvenescimento da face. O Ellansé® é um bioestimulador à base de policaprolactona que atua na indução da neocolagênese e na restauração do volume facial perdido, minimizando os efeitos do envelhecimento. Objetivo: O objetivo desse artigo é relatar um caso clínico no qual se buscou o rejuvenescimento facial utilizando a policaprolactona Ellansé-M®, com o propósito de demonstrar sua eficácia e segurança. Relato de caso: Paciente com 74 anos de idade, que apresentava linhas de expressão nos terços superior, médio e inferior da face, com flacidez nos terços médio e inferior, além de ângulo e corpo mandibular sem definição. Resultados: Após 90 dias do procedimento, observou-se considerável e satisfatória produção de colágeno, rejuvenescimento e efeito preenchedor. Conclusão: Pode-se concluir que o uso do Ellansé® traz excelentes resultados, promovendo, simultaneamente, as ações preenchedora e bioestimuladora, sendo um produto seguro, desde que respeitadas a técnica e indicação corretas.
Jean-Luc Nancy: przyjemność (w) dekonstrukcji
Authors: Kowalik Bartosz
Published: January 2024

The article deals primarily with the concept of pleasure in Jean-Luc Nancy’s thought. It occurs in many texts by the philosopher and connects with key concepts of his deconstructive project: the body, relational ontology and the writing. For Nancy, pleasure is, among other things, a particular somatic experience, the effect of peculiar writing practice, and finally, the experience of non-identity of a singular plural subject. The distinctive feature of pleasure (in various conceptualizations) is the opening that it makes every time, which Nancy derives from his deconstructive considerations on the works of Freud, Kant and Barthes. In the thesis, Nancy’s revised concept of pleasure as an opening is also referenced to Derrida’s thought in order to analyse the general relations between pleasure and deconstruction and to consider how deconstruction can be a source of pleasure.
Wspomnienie o Profesorze Stanisławie Balbusie
Authors: Burzyńska Anna
Published: January 2024

The article concerns the recently deceased Professor Stanisław Balbus as a literary scholar, literary critic, academic teacher and poet.
Spłakane deszczem...
Authors: Krajewska Anna
Published: January 2024

A text dedicated to the memory of Professor Stanisław Balbus, a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal “Przestrzenie Teorii” [Spaces in Theory].
Bruegel według Majewskiego. Literackie i malarskie problemy adaptacji
Authors: Wysłouch Seweryna
Published: January 2024

Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross (2011) is a full-length feature film, a screen adaptation of Pieter Bruegel’s painting The Way of the Cross (1564). Majewski proves to be an excellent interpreter of Bruegel’s art, whom he considers a philosopher, an epic, and a poet. He relies on the research of Michael F. Gibson, and in his plotting he draws on a long-standing tradition of literary experience and digital technology (without this, it would have been impossible to faithfully reproduce the overall plan and realities of the painting). Majewski exposes the palimpsest nature of the narrative and shapes the film like a contemporary novel of space. In order to make the ideas of the screened painting comprehensible and to emphasize the fictionality of the depicted world, he introduces various versions of “literature about literature”. In the film, he perfectly integrates painterly features (word reduction, stop motion, long static camera shots) and literary features (the structure of an episodic novel of manners).
Kod, platforma, interfejs. Strategie czytania Nieszuflady w perspektywie krytyki genetycznej na przykładzie twórczości Tomasza Pułki
Authors: Chorzewska-Rubik Paulina
Published: January 2024

The article discusses the strategy of reading the body of texts published by Tomasz Pułka on the Nieszuflada poetry portal, which is almost completely overlooked in literary reception and publishing practice. The author answers the question of how the technological aspects of the publication, such as the user interface and code, are relevant in the context of the philological and genetic reading of the texts posted on the portal. The source code of the website is treated as material for philological research.
Kinship w ujęciu posthumanistycznym. Międzygatunkowe rodziny przyszłości
Authors: Gajewska Grażyna
Published: January 2024

The author analyzes the works of Patricia Piccinini (sculpture), Shaun Tan (literature) and Joon-ho Bong (film) in terms of the post-humanist idea of interspecies familiarity. The text begins with an explanation of the term Kinship, and then indicates to what extent post-humanism extends its scope and describes the emotional ties between human and other-than-human members of the household. The author presents this kind of post-humanist, multi-genre family life in three different versions: in the field of visual arts, these will be works from the Welcome Guest, and Families of the Future by Piccinini, in the field of the literature – Tan’s Tales from the Inner City, and the film representation – Okja by Bong. Although each of these works brings out slightly different aspects and contexts of the post-humanist vision of the concept of Kinship, they share an openness to what is other-than-human, combined with care and tenderness.
A generalized super-twisting algorithm-based adaptive fixed-time controller for spacecraft pose tracking
Authors: Gong Kejie , Wang Yong , Duan Yurui , Mei Yafei , Jiang Yu , Luo Da
Published: January 2024

A generalized super-twisting second-order sliding mode adaptive fixed-time control law, which is used for spacecraft pose tracking in the presence of internal and external uncertainties, is proposed. Lie group SE(3) (for special Euclidean group), which is the configuration space for rigid body motion, is used for modeling the six-degrees-of-freedom dynamics of spacecraft. A fixed-time sliding mode surface is proposed and applied to design an generalized super-twisting sliding mode control law. A novel dual-layer adaption law for the controller is proposed to the ensure the gains varying rapidly with the disturbance. The adaptive second-order sliding mode controller guarantees a uniform exact convergence for the closed-loop tracking control system with less energy consumption. Numerical simulations are performed to demonstrate the excellent performances of the control law.
Topological amenability of semihypergroups
Authors: Bandyopadhyay Choiti
Published: January 2024

In this article, we introduce and explore the notion of topological amenability in the broad setting of (locally compact) semihypergroups. We acquire several stationary, ergodic and Banach algebraic characterizations of the same in terms of convergence of certain probability measures, total variation of convolution with probability measures and translation of certain functionals, as well as the F-algebraic properties of the associated measure algebra. We further investigate the interplay between restriction of convolution product and convolution of restrictions of measures on a sub-semihypergroup. Finally, we discuss and characterize topological amenability of sub-semihypergroups in terms of certain invariance properties attained on the corresponding measure algebra of the parent semihypergroup. This in turn provides us with an affirmative answer to an open question posed by J. Wong in 1980.
Topological embeddings into transformation monoids
Authors: Bardyla Serhii , Elliott Luke , Mitchell James D. , Péresse Yann
Published: January 2024

In this paper we consider the questions of which topological semigroups embed topologically into the full transformation monoid

ℕ
ℕ

{\mathbb{N}^{\mathbb{N}}}

or the symmetric inverse monoid

I
ℕ

{I_{\mathbb{N}}}

with their respective canonical Polish semigroup topologies. We characterise those topological semigroups that embed topologically into

ℕ
ℕ

{\mathbb{N}^{\mathbb{N}}}

and belong to any of the following classes: commutative semigroups, compact semigroups, groups, and certain Clifford semigroups. We prove analogous characterisations for topological inverse semigroups and

I
ℕ

{I_{\mathbb{N}}}

. We construct several examples of countable Polish topological semigroups that do not embed into

ℕ
ℕ

{\mathbb{N}^{\mathbb{N}}}

, which answer, in the negative, a recent open problem of Elliott et al. Additionally, we obtain two sufficient conditions for a topological Clifford semigroup to be metrizable, and prove that inversion is automatically continuous in every Clifford subsemigroup of

ℕ
ℕ

{\mathbb{N}^{\mathbb{N}}}

. The former complements recent works of Banakh et al.
Strategies to improve the thermal performance of solar collectors
Authors: Alshuraiaan Bader
Published: January 2024

The paper evaluates a passive method for heat transfer improvement in heat exchangers, which implies the use of nanofluids. All calculations were carried out with a constant volumetric flow rate. The study examines three fluids with 0–4 % volume concentrations of CuO, MgO, and Al2O3 particles. The results indicate an increase in the heat transfer coefficient with increasing temperature. An Al2O3 nanofluid (4 % concentration) contributed to the best thermal performance. The incorporation of a 4 % content of MgO yielded an augmentation in heat transfer ranging from 15 % to 22 %, whereas an analogous concentration of CuO led to a more substantial enhancement of 25 %. Notably, the introduction of nanoparticles of Al2O3 produces a remarkable augmentation in heat transfer performance, with potential improvements of up to 36 %. The Nusselt number increases with increasing particle volume fraction and Reynolds number, according to results obtained for several nanoparticles (Al2O3, CuO, SiO2, and ZnO) with volume percentages in the range of 1–4 % and nanoparticle diameters of 25–70 nm. For all nanofluids, the time-averaged Nusselt number rises with a solid phase volume fraction increase of less than 5 %.
GAGA for nonreciprocal emitters: genetic algorithm gradient ascent optimization of compact magnetophotonic crystals
Authors: Gold Hannah , Pajovic Simo , Mukherjee Abhishek , Boriskina Svetlana V.
Published: January 2024

Fundamental limits of thermal radiation are imposed by Kirchhoff’s law, which assumes the electromagnetic reciprocity of a material or material system. Thus, breaking reciprocity can enable breaking barriers in thermal efficiency engineering. In this work, we present a subwavelength, 1D photonic crystal composed of Weyl semimetal and dielectric layers, whose structure was optimized to maximize the nonreciprocity of infrared radiation absorptance in a planar and compact design. To engineer an ultra-compact absorber structure that does not require gratings or prisms to couple light, we used a genetic algorithm (GA) to maximize nonreciprocity in the design globally, followed by the application of the numerical gradient ascent (GAGA) algorithm as a local optimization to further enhance the design. We chose Weyl semimetals as active layers in our design as they possess strong, intrinsic nonreciprocity, and do not require an external magnetic field. The resulting GAGA-generated 1D magnetophotonic crystal offers high nonreciprocity (quantified by absorptance contrast) while maintaining an ultra-compact design with much fewer layers than prior work. We account for both s- and p-polarized absorptance spectra to create a final, eight-layer design suitable for thermal applications, which simultaneously minimizes the parasitic, reciprocal absorptance of s-polarized light.
Integral Laplacian graphs with a unique repeated Laplacian eigenvalue, I
Authors: Hameed Abdul , Tyaglov Mikhail
Published: January 2024

The setSi,n={0,1,2,…,n−1,n}\{i}{S}_{i,n}=\left\{0,1,2,\ldots ,n-1,n\right\}\setminus \left\{i\right\},1⩽i⩽n1\leqslant i\leqslant n, is called Laplacian realizable if there exists an undirected simple graph whose Laplacian spectrum isSi,n{S}_{i,n}. The existence of such graphs was established by Fallat et al. (On graphs whose Laplacian matrices have distinct integer eigenvalues, J. Graph Theory50(2005), 162–174). In this article, we consider graphs whose Laplacian spectra have the formS{i,j}nm={0,1,2,…,m−1,m,m,m+1,…,n−1,n}\{i,j},0<i<j⩽n,{S}_{{\left\{i,j\right\}}_{n}^{m}}=\left\{0,1,2,\ldots ,m-1,m,m,m+1,\ldots ,n-1,n\right\}\setminus \left\{i,j\right\},\hspace{1.0em}0\lt i\lt j\leqslant n,and completely describe those withm=n−1m=n-1andm=nm=n. We also show close relations between graphs realizingSi,n{S}_{i,n}andS{i,j}nm{S}_{{\left\{i,j\right\}}_{n}^{m}}and discuss the so-calledSn,n{S}_{n,n}-conjecture and the corresponding conjecture forS{i,n}nm{S}_{{\left\{i,n\right\}}_{n}^{m}}.
Armida on the Beach: A Cinquecento Rhetorical Model of the Emotions and Its Musical Reception
Authors: O’Rourke Russell
Published: January 2024

For music to arouse the emotions, observes the sixteenth-century Venetian music theorist Gioseffo Zarlino, four ingredients are required: harmony, rhythm, text, and “a well-disposed subject [soggetto ben disposto] fit to receive some emotion [passione].” The last point—that listeners must be properly “disposed” toward an emotion before they can be moved—features in contemporaneous writings as diverse as Torquato Tasso’s epic Gerusalemme liberata (1581) and Bartolomeo Cavalcanti’s manual on oratory La retorica (1558). The present article unveils this neglected aspect of Cinquecento theories of music and emotion and explores its relevance to the Italian madrigal. Specifically, I propose the importance to sixteenth-century conversations about music and the affetti of what I call the two-stage model of emotional arousal, a paradigm according to which the onset of emotion in any listener takes place in two phases: first, a subtle inclination toward a given emotion; and second, the true “movement” of the soul that constitutes the emotion itself. Hitherto unidentified in both musicology and the humanities in general, this model stems, I show, from the ancient rhetorical tradition, with Aristotle’s Rhetoric its probable fons et origo. After tracing the model’s influence across a corpus of literary and theoretical texts, I study its implications for musical analysis in a madrigal cycle by Giaches de Wert on stanzas by Tasso: “Vezzosi augelli,” “Qual musico gentil,” and “Forsennata gridava,” all from the composer’s Ottavo libro de madrigali (1586). This case study invites reconsideration of staple text-setting devices of the genre, including declamatory homophony and the madrigalism.
Evliya’s Song: Listening to the Early Modern Ottoman Court
Authors: Olley Jacob
Published: January 2024

This article discusses the relationship between music, sound, writing, and power in the early modern Ottoman Empire. It focuses on a description of a musical gathering at the court of Murad IV (r. 1623–40) in the Seyahatnâme (Book of travels), written by the courtier and musician Evliya Çelebi (1611–ca. 1685). The article draws on literature from historical anthropology, sound studies, and Ottoman cultural history to produce a multilayered reading that underscores the importance of music and other sonic practices in Ottoman courtly culture. Shifting between micro and macro perspectives, the article discusses the role of ceremonial music, Qur’anic recitation, the call to prayer, and patronage networks in the projection of imperial power. It then discusses the social implications of debates about the religious permissibility of music and the distinction between elites and commoners. Elite music-making is situated within a larger context of kin relations, patronage networks, and intimate male companionship. Themes of sensual pleasure, intoxication, and eroticism are discussed as poetic and philosophical tropes that are embodied in the intersubjective space of musical performance. Finally, the article highlights the role of textual practices in the construction of Ottoman music as a discursive formation. A situating of Evliya’s writing practices within the larger textual archive of Ottoman music raises methodological and epistemological questions about the relationship between aural experience and inscription, and about notions of historiographic and ethnographic truth. These questions are connected to current disciplinary debates about writing, sound, and power, particularly in the context of empire.
The Literary Echoes in Milton Babbitt’s Music
Authors: Maggart Alison
Published: January 2024

At his death, Milton Babbitt’s library contained nearly two thousand books, covering a huge array of disciplines and subjects. This literature offers intriguing new contexts for understanding Babbitt’s aesthetics and compositional practice. While scholars have pointed to the influence on his music of analytic philosophy, logic, information theory, and mathematics, I direct attention to the literary, poetic, and linguistic texts and theory that he read. I first outline the ways in which Babbitt’s choices and settings of poetry paralleled trends in postwar US literature departments. Then, drawing from the sources in his library, I describe the roles that ambiguity, cross-reference, allusion, and intertextuality play in three of his songs: The Virginal Book (1988), Quatrains (1993), and Pantun (2000). As I demonstrate, the structuralist poetics of Babbitt’s music results from his creative “misreadings” of Schenkerian analysis, generative-transformational linguistics, and mid-century literary theory on phonology, ambiguity, and intertextuality. Moreover, I argue that Babbitt’s allusive aesthetic should be understood in relation to the rich Jewish exegetical traditions that inspired mid-century theories of literary influence and “echo” (such as those proposed by Harold Bloom and John Hollander). Indeed, reading from Babbitt’s library suggests that for those within his milieu, a composerly imagination that relished and celebrated the proliferative interpretative possibilities of formal structural correspondence reflected a uniquely Jewish artistic and creative sensibility. Listening for these intertexts not only highlights the poetic tensions and allusive ambiguities in Babbitt’s musical structures and punning titles, but also nuances our understandings of postwar US serial aesthetics and ideology.
Customer Education in Omnichannel Marketing – A Systematic Literature Review
Authors:   University of Lodz, Gotwald Beata
Published: January 2024

Purpose – The text aims to present the results of the analysis on the state of knowledge on Customer Education (CE) and propose future research directions in market‑ ing area. The filtering criteria was the chance to apply the gathered information in the marketing area. Research method – The method of the systematic literature review was applied. Regarding customer education keywords, I examined two databases (SCOPUS and Web of Science). Then the results were analysed with the assistance of VOSviewer and using content analysis (qualitative research). A total number of 79 articles was analysed. Results – Customer Education (CE) is rarely examined, especially in marketing. The concept evolves from instructions to co-creation. Bibliographic analysis shows the relation of CE with CX, customer satisfaction and loyalty to the organisation when it aims for internal and external customers. Originality /value/implications/recommendations – Due to the novelty of the problem and its development in business, it is worth stimulating debate on CE in science. The paper aims to fill a gap in literature reviews on the issue and might be a voice in pointing out future research directions. Future research can gravitate toward new channels of CE, learning communities, and the relationship between CE and: customer behaviour, CX, application of AI and data mining, and usage of learning management systems (LMS).
Association between obesity, food composition, physical activity and physical fitness of adolescents residents in the matola city
Authors: Sousa Manjate José Luís , Salvador Chavane Félix , Lúcio Nhantumbo Leonardo
Published: January 2024

Introduction: The etiology of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, as well as its relationship with physical activity, fitness and caloric intake underlie greater investigative interest. Objectives: examine the associations between dietary composition, physical activity levels and physical fitness in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity in Matola city. Methods: 106 subjects of both sexes aged 10 to 15 years old (61 girls and 45 boys) were selected for convenience. Anthropometric measurements consisted of weight, height and waist circumference, measured according to the procedures described by Lohman et al.1 The body mass index resulted from the weight ratio by the square of height. The battery of motor test Fitnessgram2 was used to assess physical fitness. The modified and adapted by Florindo et al.3 for children and adolescents of the Baecke4 questionnaire was administered to assess physical activity. The feed composition was determined from information obtained through the questionnaire on eating habits. To examine the association between the variables of interest was applied to the Chi-Square in SPSS 21.0 program, 95% confidence interval. Results: There were obvious higher proportions of subjects classified as unfit in almost all tests of physical fitness, especially aerobic capacity, where the proportions, differ significantly (apt: 2 (1.9%); unfit: 104 (98.1%), X2 = 13.396; p<0.01). The physical activity of vigorous intensity proved to be associated with all indicators of physical fitness. The food composition did not limit the results observed in physical fitness. Conclusions: confirmed the negative influence of both overweight, as obesity on physical fitness; the association between physical fitness and physical activity seemed to be determined by the intensity of this; the feed composition was not consistently associated with any variable.
Diabetes and hypertension are common comorbidities among Covid-19 patients in Northern Sudan-Atbara
Authors: Abderahman Nahla Ahmed Mohammed , Aldeen Ahmed Yhya Eshage Gamer , Mohammed Esraa AbdAlrhman , Mohammed Gateem Yousif Babiker , Osman Asma Merghani Hassan , Osman Hiba Mahgoub Ali , Ismaeil Abderrhman Ahmed Mohamed , Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim
Published: January 2024

Objectives: The current study aims to identify the clinical and pathological characteristics of Sudanese Covid-19 patients who have either diabetes, hypertension, or both. Method: A retrospective study was carried out in Atbara Isolation Center for Covid-19 patients in River Nile State-Sudan. Data on the clinical and demographic characteristics of 80 Covid-19 patients of various ages and genders who visited the isolation center between December 2021 and February 2022 were gathered from their medical records. Three groups of subjects diabetic, hypertension, and diabetic-hypertensive were created. Result: The mean age of study group was 66 years old. Severe pathological features of Covid-19 were noticed among all study groups. The percenage of patients with low oxygen saturation was 92.3% of diabetics, 89.7% of hypertensive, and 90.9% of diabetic-hypertensive. Lymphocytopenia was observed in 90.9% of diabetic patients, and 82.6% of hypertensive patients, while all diabetic-hypertensive exhibited low lymphocyte count. A percentage of 23.1%, 28.0%, and 30.8% of diabetic, hypertensive, and diabetic-hypertensive patient had low platelet count, respectively. Conclusion: We concluded that diabetic, hypertensive and diabetic-hypertensive patient who were affected with Covid-19 were elderly and suffering from severe pathological features of disease, particularly in those who had both diabetes and hypertension. An intensive care is suggested for Covid-19 patients with diabetes, hypertension, as well as those who were affected with two comorbidities.
New records of Procellariiformes in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago: who is looking out for them?
Authors: Santos Lucas Penna Soares , Olmos Fábio , Rocha Taysa Alves , de Queiroz Brito Maria Clara Gonçalves , Lima Gisiane Rodrigues , Luna Cecilia Licarião Barreto , Torres Rodrigo Augusto , Araujo Ricardo , Serafini Patricia Pereira
Published: January 2024

Little is known on seabirds of the order Procellariiformes which visit the Brazilian oceanic islands. Herein, we present new records of five birds found stranded in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago: Fregetta tropica melanoleuca Salvadori, 1908, Ardenna grisea (Gmelin, 1789), Puffinus lherminieri Lesson, 1839, and Hydrobates leucorhous (Vieillot, 1818). Citizen‑science platforms include only one documentation for each of these species, but there is potential for greater detection. Pelagic birds have rarely been reported in recent decades, and continued monitoring is needed for better understanding of their distribution patterns.
Towards Synthesis
Authors: Petersen Lauritz Holm
Published: January 2024

The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion, edited by Yair Lior and Justin Lane. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. xv + 523 pages, $163.22. ISBN: 9781138331679
Sprzeczność czynności prawnej z przepisami prawa podatkowego a zastosowanie art. 58 k.c.
Authors: Skwirowska Justyna
Published: January 2024

Wpływ prawa podatkowego na regulacje prawa cywilnego jest tematyką, która zdaje się być dogłębnie przeanalizowana przez przedstawicieli nauki prawa cywilnego, natomiast spory z nią związane, dotyczące prób przeciwdziałania unikaniu opodatkowania poprzez stosowanie art. 58 k.c. przez analogię – jedynie historyczne. Prima facie prawo podatkowe nie może skutkować zastosowaniem sankcji nieważności na gruncie prywatnoprawnym. Niemniej zdarzają się orzeczenia sądów powszechnych oraz Sądu Najwyższego, które dopatrują się nieważności czynności prawnej z powodu sprzeczności z normami prawa podatkowego. Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu ukazanie oraz ocenę takich rozstrzygnięć.
O doskonaleniu zawodowym radców prawnych z perspektywy odpowiedzialności dyscyplinarnej
Authors: Szwajczak Natalia
Published: January 2024

W obecnym stanie prawnym doskonalenie zawodowe radców prawnych, jako przedstawicieli zawodu zaufania publicznego, jest ich obowiązkiem usankcjonowanym odpowiedzialnością dyscyplinarną. Autorka posługując się metodą analizy dogmatycznej i historycznoprawnej przedstawia ewolucję przedmiotowych przepisów korporacyjnych i ustawowych oraz poglądów formułowanych na tym tle na przestrzeni ostatnich kilkunastu lat. Pokazując przykład wypełniania przez samorząd zawodowy jego zadań ustawowych, artykuł jednocześnie nawiązuje do sprawowanej przez ten samorząd pieczy nad należytym wykonywaniem zawodu zaufania publicznego jako uzasadnienia dla egzekwowania obowiązku doskonalenia zawodowego przez organy samorządu. Na przykładzie problematyki doskonalenia zawodowego radców prawnych, artykuł ma na celu przybliżenie zagadnienia podstaw odpowiedzialności dyscyplinarnej członków samorządu zawodowego za zachowania naruszające regulacje wewnętrzne korporacji i konieczności zachowywania granic norm kompetencyjnych przez organy samorządu zawodowego przy podejmowaniu przez nie uchwał.
Sprawozdanie ze Zjazdu Katedr i Zakładów Prawa Finansowego i Prawa Podatkowego pt. „Misja prawa finansowego – wyzwania współczesności”
Authors: Łubina Joanna
Published: January 2024

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Istotny charakter pewności prawa w zakresie prawa podatkowego
Authors: Meszka Justyna
Published: January 2024

Przedmiotem niniejszego artykułu jest problem pewności prawa na gruncie polskiego porządku prawnego, zwłaszcza w aspekcie prawa podatkowego. Pewność prawa odgrywa znaczącą rolę w stosunkach między jednostką a państwem. Cel opracowania stanowi ukazanie istoty oraz niezbędności omawianego przymiotu prawa. Przy badaniu powyższego tematu posłużyły akty prawne, literatura dotycząca wskazanego obszaru oraz aktualne orzecznictwo.
On the study of the stress-strength reliability in Weibull-$F$ Models
Authors: PAKDAMAN Zohreh , ALİZADEH NOUGHABİ Reza
Published: January 2024

In this paper, the problem of inferencing on the stress-strength reliability under Weibull-$F$ Models when the stress and strength systems belong to the different families of distributions from the Weibull-$F$ Model is considered. Some stochastic comparisons between the survival distribution functions of this model are obtained. Also, the asymptotic and several bootstrap confidence intervals of stress-strength reliability are studied. The efficiency of asymptotic and bootstrap confidence intervals are analyzed by simulation. The numerical example based on real-life data is displayed as an illustration.
ENHANCING BANKING SYSTEMS THROUGH BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY: A CURRENCY SITUATION STUDY
Authors: Leka (Moçka) Blerta , Leka Daniel , Malaj Ariet
Published: January 2024

Blockchain technology, initially designed for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, has emerged as a powerful tool in the financial sector. This study explores its potential integration into the Albanian banking system. The Albanian banking sector, like others worldwide, faces challenges in currency management, security, and efficiency. The research assesses how blockchain can address these issues and aligns with Albania's existing regulatory framework. The study begins with an overview of Albania's banking sector, highlighting key regulations and practices. It emphasizes the limitations of traditional banking systems, particularly related to transparency, security, and cross-border transactions. Blockchain technology's key attributes, such as immutability and transparency, are examined as potential solutions. Specific blockchain applications in Albania, like cross-border payments, digital identity verification, and supply chain finance, are considered. The comparative analysis evaluates how blockchain can enhance efficiency, reduce transaction costs, and increase access to financial services in the Albanian banking system. It also highlights the need for regulatory adjustments to accommodate this technology. Challenges, including regulatory compliance, cybersecurity concerns, and interoperability, are addressed, along with strategies to mitigate them.This research provides a comprehensive view of the opportunities and challenges of blockchain technology in Albania's banking system, aiming to inform policymakers, financial institutions, and stakeholders about the potential benefits of adopting blockchain solutions while considering regulatory adjustments to create a secure and efficient financial landscape in Albania.
Why are (financialised) workers becoming more resigned and conformist and less claimants? Empirical evidence for Portugal
Authors: Barradas Ricardo
Published: January 2024

The deregulation and flexibilisation of labour relations has been on the active neoliberal agenda of policymakers all over the world, including in Portugal. Against this backdrop, labour conditions have been worsening since the 1970s and 1980s, and workers have progressively lost some labour rights, which is noticeable in stagnant (or falling) wages, the rise of personal income inequalities, the proliferation of atypical work, the increase of precariousness, the surge of emotional abuses in the workplace, the deterioration of work–life balance and the spread of informal work. Nonetheless, workers have evidenced higher resignation and conformism and lesser claimant behaviour in order to demand higher wages and better labour conditions, which is visible in the strong reduction in strike activity in the last four decades. Our argument asserts that workers’ financialisation and indebtedness levels restrain their demands for higher wages and better labour conditions due to the fear of decreasing their income and losing their jobs and the consequent risks of default. This paper aims to assess the relationship between workers’ financialisation and indebtedness levels and their strike activity by performing a time-series econometric analysis focused on Portugal during the period of 1979 to 2021. We conclude that workers’ financialisation and indebtedness levels have a negative effect on strike activity in Portugal, both in the short term and in the long term, especially on strike volume and strike duration. We also conclude that workers’ financialisation and indebtedness levels have been one of the main drivers behind the decline of strike activity in Portugal in the last four decades.
RELIABILITY NASH AND MOE’S GRADES IN PATIENTS WITH ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS
Authors: NASCIMENTO DAVID ISRAEL DE CARVALHO , FREITAS JúNIOR HAROLDO OLIVEIRA DE , LEAL JEFFERSON SOARES , RIBEIRO LUDMILA LAGES , BARRETO MARIANA MAIA LEMOS , FRANçA LUIZ CLAUDIO DE MOURA
Published: January 2024

ABSTRACT Objective: Evaluate the inter and intra-observer reliability of Nash and Moe’s grades, used to assess patients diagnosed with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS). Methodology: Forty-seven representative x-rays of patients with AIS were randomly selected to evaluate the apical vertebral rotation (AVR) using Nash and Moe’s grades. The evaluation of the AVR was made independently in two distinct moments by two observers. The inclusion criteria in the study were a patient diagnosed with AIS and an orthostasis radiography with a good-quality image. An agreement study between the evaluations and the inter and intraobserver’s reliability was determined using Kappa’s statistics with a confidence interval of 95%. Results: The interobservers’ Kappa’s value in the first evaluation was 0,44 (CI 95%; 0,22-0,66) and 0,37 (CI 95%; 0,17-0,56) in the second. In the intraobservers’ evaluations, the Kappa’s value for examiner 1 was 0,61 (CI 95%; 0,40-0,81) and 0,46 (CI 95%; 0,22-0,70) for examiner 2. Conclusion: This study’s results demonstrated that Nash and Moe’s grades are unreliable for evaluating vertebral rotation in patients with AIS. Level of Evidence III; A Cross-Sectional Study.
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF VERTEBRAL FRACTURES EVALUATED AT IOT-FMUSP FROM 2019 TO 2022
Authors: GABANA EDELVAN , FREITAS MATHEUS TRINDADE BRUXELAS DE , MARCON RAPHAEL MARTUS , CRISTANTE ALEXANDRE FOGAçA , BARROS FILHO TARCíSIO ELOY PESSOA DE
Published: January 2024

ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the epidemic profile of patients with spinal fractures referred for evaluation by Spine Group of IOT-HCFMUSP between 2019 and 2022. To enable the effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on these epidemic profiles. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of patients with spinal fractures referred by the São Paulo Center for the Regulation of Health Offers and Services (CROSS) to the Spine Group of IOT-HCFMUSP between 2019 and 2022. The epidemiological profile between the pre-pandemic Covid-19 period and the period of the Covid-19 pandemic until December 2022 in the city of São Paulo was compared. Results: The medical records of 427 patients were analyzed between March 2019 and December 2022. During the period, males accounted for 71.9% of cases, and the mean age was 46.7 years. Falls from heights were the most frequent trauma mechanism (63.7%), followed by motorcycle accidents (14.3%). The absence of neurological deficit occurred in 76.8% of the cases, and the most injured region was the lumbar region (39.3%). There were changes in the epidemiological profile during the Covid-19 pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic. Conclusions: A predominance of middle-aged males was observed, in addition to the trauma mechanism of falling from a height, as well as the absence of a neurological deficit in the initial evaluation. The lumbar and cervical regions were the most frequent sites of injury. The pandemic period interfered with the epidemiological profile presented and in the time interval between the injury and the evaluation at the IOT-HCFMUSP. Level of Evidence IV; Case Series.
IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SPINE SURGERIES IN A HIGH COMPLEXITY EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
Authors: LOMAZ MATEUS BERGAMO , SANCHES MURILO RIBEIRO , ORCINO JULIANE LEITE , ABE GUILHERME DE MATOS , SANTANA MATHEUS PEREIRA , DAHER MURILO TAVARES
Published: January 2024

ABSTRACT Objective: To study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on spine surgeries at a Reference Center for High Complexity Urgencies in Goiás. Methods: A retrospective, observational study was carried out based on data from medical records of patients undergoing spine surgery between September 2017 and September 2021. Volunteers were divided into two groups: before and during the pandemic, considering April 2020 as a starting point. The following was extracted from the medical records: age, gender, education, etiology, neurological deficit, region of the spine addressed, mechanism of trauma, fractured vertebrae, type of fracture, length of stay in the ICU, COVID test (PCR), and deaths. Student t, chi-square, and Fisher’s exact statistical tests were used to compare the preand post-pandemic profiles. In addition, Spearman’s correlation test was applied to verify the correlation between variables, considering p<0.05. Results: 388 medical records were analyzed, showing a 15% increase in spine surgeries during the pandemic. There was a significant difference in the etiology of surgeries (p=0.05), with lumbar trauma being more prevalent in men and also more cases of neurological deficits (p=0.001). There was also a reduction in the length of stay in the ICU (p=0.0001), which was lower during the pandemic. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic did not directly impact the number of surgeries performed at a Reference Hospital in High Complexity Urgencies in Goiás, but there was a prioritization of emergency surgeries. Level of Evidence II; Retrospective Study.
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMUNOLOCALIZAÇÃO DO RECEPTOR DO FOSFATIDIL INOSITOL-3 (IP3R) EM CARCINOMAS BASOCELULAR E DE CÉLULAS ESCAMOSAS DE PELE
Authors: Gruber Cristiane Regina , Skare Thelma Larocca , Giovanini Allan Fernando , Sigwalt Marcos Fabiano , Rastelli Graziela J. Crescente , Tabushi Fernando Issamu
Published: January 2024

Introdução: As neoplasias de pele não melanoma (carcinoma basocelular (CBC) e carcinoma espinocelular (CEC) formam o grupo mais comum de todos os tipos de neoplasias. Embora o câncer ainda não esteja sendo pautado como canalopatia, tem sido sugerido que bombas e canais iônicos contribuem para a sua progressão por afetar a autofagia. Proteínas iônicas, em especial as de canais de cálcio, como o receptor da fosfatidil inositol 3 (IP3R) participam de maneira ativa na autofagia por estarem envolvidas na etapa inicial de formação do autofagossomo, podendo se tornar em alvo terapêutico importante neste contexto.

Objetivo: Avaliar a expressão imuno histoquímica do IP3R em ambos os tumores de pele.

Método: Foi realizada imuno histoquímica em 60 lâminas de câncer não melanoma utilizando anticorpos primários anti-IP3R verificando a sua expressão.

Resultados: Pela primeira vez foi identificada a imunolocalização do IP3R em câncer de pele não melanoma, sendo evidente em mais de 90% das células neoplásicas em todas as lâminas estudadas, independentemente do padrão histológico, invasão e demais características tumorais. Diferentemente do visualizado no controle interno de pele normal, no qual houve imunolocalização de IP3R em células basais, nos tumores, a expressão imuno histoquímica ocorreu em todo o corpo da neoplasia.

Conclusão: Houve imunolocalização de IP3R em células tumorais tanto em CBC quanto em CEC. Não foi possível estabelecer correlação entre as características tumorais e a expressão de IP3R, pois a imunomarcação apresentou-se de forma similar em todas as amostras analisadas. Apesar disso, IP3R está associado à fisiopatologia do câncer de pele não melanoma, mas a sua expressão não parece estar associada à agressividade tumoral.
First records of Aulacus striatus Jurine, 1807 (Hymenoptera Aulacidae) and its host, Xiphydria picta Konow, 1897 (Hymenoptera: Xiphydriidae), from Türkiye
Authors: CAN İlyas
Published: January 2024

This study was performed in the Yeşilırmak delta of Samsun province located in northern Türkiye to reveal the diversity of rare wasp species. For this purpose, specimens belonging to the family Aulacidae and Xiphydriidae were collected with Malaise traps from various localities in the study area between 2022 and 2023. As a result, the occurrence of the parasitoid wasp Aulacus striatus Jurine, 1807 (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae) was reported for the first time in Türkiye. This is also the first record of genus Aulacus Jurine, 1807 (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae) from the country. Additionally, two putative hosts of A. striatus, Xiphydria picta Konow, 1897 and Xiphydria prolongata (Geoffroy, 1785) have been collected. Of these species, X. picta is new to the Turkish fauna. With these new records, the number of aulacids in Türkiye is raised up to six species in two genera, while the number of xiphydriids is raised up to three within one genus.