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Laser irradiation activates spinal adenosine A1 receptor to alleviate osteoarthritis pain in monosodium iodoacetate injected rats
Authors: Li Yuan , Wu Fan , Lao Lixing , Shen Xueyong
Published: July 2020

The analgesic role of the adenosine A1 receptor is thought to involve the modulation of the spinal N-methyl D-aspartate receptor-mediated nociceptive pathway, which is suggested to be an underlying mechanism in chronic pain. Knee osteoarthritis is a degenerative condition accompanied by chronic pain. We have demonstrated that 10.6-μm laser irradiation has an antinociceptive effect in the monosodium iodoacetate -induced knee osteoarthritis in rats. However, its mechanism of action has yet to be explored. In the present work, we investigate the mechanism of 10.6-μm laser irradiation mediated antinociception in the monosodium iodoacetate -induced knee osteoarthritis. Results showed that the 10.6-μm laser significantly reversed the monosodium iodoacetate -induced nociceptive behaviors for up to 28 days. Moreover, the up-regulation of the A1 receptor and the down-regulated phosphorylation of the N-methyl D-aspartate receptor 1 subunit of the N-methyl D-aspartate receptor were observed in the spinal cord dorsal horn in the monosodium iodoacetate injected rats treated by laser irradiation. Intrathecal injection of 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine markedly reversed the effects of laser irradiation, as evidenced both by behavioral pain tests and by levels of spinal phosphorylation of N-methyl D-aspartate receptor 1. These results suggest that the spinal A1 receptor contributes to the antinociceptive effects of 10.6-μm laser, at least in part by inhibiting phosphorylation of N-methyl D-aspartate receptor 1 in the monosodium iodoacetate -induced knee osteoarthritis pain.
Computerized cognitive rehabilitation for treatment of cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: an explorative study
Authors: Vilou Irini , Bakirtzis Christos , Artemiadis Artemios , Ioannidis Panagiotis , Papadimitriou Malamati , Konstantinopoulou Eleni , Aretouli Eleni , Messinis Lambros , Nasios Grigorios , Dardiotis Efthimios , Helen Kosmidis Mary , Grigoriadis Nikolaos
Published: July 2020

In this explorative study, forty-seven patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis were randomized to a custom 6-week cognitive rehabilitation intervention (n = 23) using the BrainHQTM web-based platform and to a control group condition (n = 24). Cognitive rehabilitation intervention consisted of two 40-minute sessions per week. All patients were tested with the Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis battery, the Stroop Color-Word Test, and the trail making test, while the Beck Depression Inventory - Fast Screen questionnaire was used as a measure of mood and the cognitive reserve index as a measure of cognitive reserve. We used the reliable change index, to calculate clinically meaningful changes of performance, and to discriminate between responders and non-responders of this intervention. Statistically significant improvement of the group receiving treatment was observed mainly on measures of verbal and non-verbal episodic memory and, to a lesser extent, on reading speed, selective attention/response inhibition, and visual attention. Verbal memory and visual attention improvements remained significant after considering the corrected for multiple comparisons level of significance. According to reliable change index scores, 12/23 (52.2%) of patients in the intervention group presented meaningful improvement in at least one measure (Greek Verbal Learning Test: 26%, Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised: 17.4%, Stroop-Words test: 13%). This explorative study provides evidence that, at least in the short term, cognitive rehabilitation may improve the cognitive performance of multiple sclerosis patients.
Reversible bradycardia secondary to myxedema coma: case-report
Authors: Kousa Omar , Mansour Mohamed , Awad Dana , Essa Amr , Qasim Abdallah , Sharma Arindam , Holmberg Mark
Published: July 2020

Myxedema coma occurs mostly in patients with long-standing untreated or undertreated hypothyroidism. Bradycardia is a well-known cardiac manifestation for myxedema coma; however, not all bradycardia with hypothyroidism are sinus bradycardia. Sick sinus syndrome is a group of arrhythmias caused by the malfunction of the natural pacemaker of the heart. Tachy-Brady syndrome is considered to be a type of sick sinus syndrome, where the heart alternates between tachycardia and bradycardia, and it is usually treated with pacemaker implantation along with rate slowing medical therapy. Here we report a case of an 83-year-old female who presented with myxedema coma and atrial fibrillation with tachycardia and intermittent slow ventricular response. We attempt to review the relationship between these two diseases and conclude that appropriate diagnosis of myxedema coma, may be beneficial in reducing the need for pacemaker implantation.
Short-term and long-term outcomes of bailout versus planned coronary rotational atherectomy
Authors: Qi Zhanru , Zheng Hongyan , Wei Zhonghai , Dai Qing , Xie Jun , Wang Lian , Zhang Jingmei , Song Jie
Published: July 2020

The goal of this study was to compare in-hospital and long-term events between bailout rotational atherectomy (RA) and planned RA. In this retrospective study, All patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using RA at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital from November 2011 to December 2018 were enrolled in this study. Planned RA was defined as RA performed immediately before balloon pre-dilation, while bailout RA was defined as RA after failure to expand the balloon or perform any other procedure. In-hospital and long-term major adverse cardiac events (MACE, defined as cardiac mortality, myocardial infarction (MI), target vessel revascularization (TVR) and stroke) were compared between the two groups. After statistical analysis, a total of 211 patients underwent PCI with RA during the study period: 153 in the planned RA group, and 58 in the bailout group. The incidence of coronary dissection was significantly higher in the bailout RA group than in the planned RA group (22.4% vs. 6.5%, P = 0.001). However, no significant difference in in-hospital MACE was found between the two groups (12.1% vs. 13.7%, P = 0.752). There was no difference in all-cause mortality (9.1% vs. 12.5%, P = 0.504) or long-term MACE (13.8% vs. 17.1%, P = 0.560) between the groups. Bailout RA was associated with a significantly longer procedural time (139.86 ± 56.24 min vs. 105.56 ± 36.71 min, P < 0.001) than planned RA. Therefore, compared with bailout RA, planned RA is associated with shorter procedural time and reduced incidence of coronary dissection, with no difference in MACE or mortality.
Radiofrequency catheter ablation without radiation exposure in a 13th week pregnant woman with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Authors: Jeong Hyung Ki , Yoon Namsik , Park Hyung Wook , Cho Jeong Gwan
Published: July 2020

A 36-year-old woman with 12-week gestation visited the emergency department, complaining of palpitations. Her electrocardiography (ECG) demonstrated ventricular pre-excitation combined with atrial fibrillation. The polarity of the delta waves in leads V5, V6, I, and aVL were positive and negative in leads V1, III, and aVF, suggesting that the accessory pathway (AP) was located on the right posterior free wall. She did not want to take any medicine to prevent the tachycardia. Moreover, the shortest pre-excited RR interval during the atrial fibrillation was 200 ms, so we decided to ablate the AP without fluoroscopy. An electrophysiology study was performed with guidance of a 3-dimension (3D) navigation system and intracardiac echocardiography (ICE). We ablated the right free wall AP without fluoroscopy. A follow-up ECG no longer exhibited any delta waves. Even in the early period of pregnancy, catheter ablation might be performed safely using ICE and a 3D navigation system without fluoroscopy. Therefore, it could more often be considered as a therapeutic option in pregnant women without concern for radiation exposure.
Pelatihan Penggunaan Model Pembelajaran Jurisprudensial Pada Guru Di KB TK Surya Marta Yogyakarta
Authors: Nurgiansah T Heru , Pringgowijoyo Yitno
Published: July 2020

ABSTRAK Kemampuan seorang guru profesional dapat diukur berdasarkan bagaimana guru mampu menyampaikan materi dengan beragam model pembelajaran menarik. Salah satu model pembelajaran yang dapat digunakan oleh guru salah satunya adalah model jurisprudensial. Model pembelajaran ini mampu merangsang anak atau siswa untuk mampu berbicara ilmiah dalam arti mampu menyampaikan pendapat dan mempertahankan argumennya. Tak banyak guru yang mampu dan mengerti dengan penggunaan model ini, untuk itu pengabdi memutuskan untuk melakukan pelatihan dengan memberikan materi tentang model pembelajaran jurisprudensial ini pada guru guru di KB TK Surya Marta Yogyakarta.Kata Kunci: Model Jurisprudesial, Pembelajaran, Guru  ABSTRACT The ability of a professional teacher can be measured based on how teachers are able to convey material with a variety of interesting learning models. One of the learning models that can be used by one teacher is a jurisprudential model. This learning Model is capable of stimulating children or students to be able to speak scientifically in the sense of being able to convey opinions and retain their arguments. There are not many teachers who are able and understand with the use of this model, therefore decided to do training by giving material about this model of jurisprudential learning in teachers teachers at KB TK Surya Marta Yogyakarta.Keywords: Model jurisprudence, learning, teachers
Early continuity in neuronal correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and youths
Authors: Fehlbaum Lynn V. , Borbás Réka , Paul Katharina , Raschle Nora Maria
Published: July 2020

The ability to understand mental states of others is known as Theory of Mind or mentalizing. Neuroimaging studies in adults have reported activation increases in medial prefrontal, inferior frontal, temporoparietal cortices and precuneus during mentalizing. In children/youths, activation in some areas of this social brain network are suggested to develop early, while other areas mature later. We compared neuroimaging evidence in children/youths and adults during mentalizing using coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses to inform about brain regions consistently or differentially engaged across age. Healthy adults (N=5286) recruited medial prefrontal and middle/inferior frontal cortices, precuneus, temporoparietal junction and middle temporal gyri during mentalizing, which were functionally connected to bilateral inferior/superior parietal lobule and thalamus/striatum. Children and youths (N=479) recruited similar, but fewer regions, including temporoparietal junction, precuneus, medial prefrontal and middle temporal cortices. Subgroup analyses revealed an early continuous engagement of middle medial prefrontal cortex, precuneus and right temporoparietal junction in children (8–11y) and youths (12–18y). Youths additionally recruited the left temporoparietal junction and middle/inferior temporal cortex. Overall, the observed continuous engagement of the medial prefrontal cortex, precuneus and right temporoparietal junction during mentalizing across all ages reflects an early specialization of some of the key social brain regions.
GABARAPL1 is differentially expressed in the brains of patients with psychotic disorders.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: July 2020

We used public and published microarray data (1, 2) to identify the most significant gene expression changes in the brains of patients with psychotic disorders. We identified the 𝛄-aminobutyric acid receptor-associated protein-like 1 GABARAPL13 as differentially expressed in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia as well as in the parvalbumin-positive layer 3 neurons of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. The brain tissues of patients with psychotic disorders expressed significantly lower levels of GABARAPL1 than that of non-affected control subjects. GABARAPL1 may be relevant to the biology of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.
COVID-19 Therapy With Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSC) and Convalescent Plasma Should Consider Exosome I
Authors: askenase phil
Published: July 2020

Exosome extracellular vesicles as biologic therapy for COVID-19 therapy are discussed for two areas. The first involves growing use of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) for the profound clinical cytokine storm and severe pneumonia in Covid-19 patients. Instead, it is recommended to switch to treat instead with their MSC-released exosomes. This is because many reports in the literature of have shown definitively that the release of exosomes from the in vivo administered MSC is actually responsible for their beneficial effects. Further, the exosomes are superior, simpler and clinically more convenient compared to their parental MSC. Additionally, in the context of COVID-19, the known tendency of MSC to aggregate causing lung dysfunction might synergize with the pneumonia aspects, and the tendency of MSC peripheral vascular micro aggregates might synergize with the vascular clots of the COVID-19 disease process, causing significant central or peripheral vascular insufficiency. The second involves use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma for its content of acquired immune antibodies that must consider the role in this therapy of billions of exosomes in the plasma. Many of these derive from activated immune modulating cells and likely transfer miRNAs that acting epigenetically to also influence the recipient response to the virus. These immune activated plasma exosomes may either be responsible for positive effects of the plasma beyond the contained immune antibodies, or could be inhibitory. Pre selection of plasma with the best antibodies and the best exosomes would produce the most optimum therapy for very severely affected COVID-19 patients.
Guidance for Ship Operators for the Protection of the Health of Seafarers to limit the Spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak by ICS
Authors: Arifin Mohammad Danil
Published: July 2020

COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus, has developed into a pandemic. In order for maritime shipping to continue its operations, shipping companies should undertake measures to protect their members of crew and passengers. In the new guidance document "Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Guidance for Ship Operators for the Protection of the Health of Seafarers", the International Chamber of Shipping ICS explains the right protection measures for the novel coronavirus and how to react if a case of illness or a suspect case occurs on board. The purpose is to help shipping companies follow advice provided by United Nations agencies including the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), as well as the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). In the guidance document, it is explained how seafarers should generally protect themselves preventatively, especially with hygienic preventative measures such as regular hand washing and the right conduct when coughing and sneezing (i.e. with a tissue or in the crook of the arm). ICS published posters that can be put up by ship operators on board their ships for information purposes. They are free for download on the ICS website and can be found in Annex A of the Guidance. The crew should be informed about how to deal with suspect and confirmed cases. A ship-specific outbreak management plan should be developed for concrete guidance of the crew.
Animal Mimicry as OBT - Wilderness Therapy
Authors: Bheemaiah Anil Kumar
Published: July 2020

Abstract:Animal Mimicry using the Alexa Skill ‘Animal Sounds’ for mimicking animal cries, in ritualistic group outdoor therapy, is a part of adventure, wilderness and OBT. Part of therapeutic camping. In this paper, the author conducts ten ten minute sessions of animal mimicry, channeling vital energies in a close primordial connection to the elements , twilight and nature, with a positive outcome in decreasing stress, improving attention, removing negative trauma, and improving sensori-motor coordination as indicated in a social responsiveness scale.Keywords: Animal Mimicry, Adventure Therapy, Wilderness Therapy, OBT, Autism Spectrum, Struggling Youth, Detox, Vitality
Change in Mental Health Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Appraisals and Daily Life Experiences
Authors: Brose Annette , Blanke Elisabeth Sophie , Schmiedek Florian , Kramer Andrea C. , Schmidt Andrea , Neubauer Andreas B.
Published: July 2020

Intro: When confronted with major threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, people often experience (temporary) decline in well-being. The central purpose of this study was to identify mechanisms underlying stability and change of well-being in times of threat like the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined change in mental health symptoms and its relationships with appraisals of the pandemic and daily life experiences during the pandemic, including affective states, stress, and mindfulness. Methods: We conducted a study across 3.5 weeks, including pretest, posttest, and a diary phase in-between. In this report, we worked with a sample of 460 adults, pre- and post-test information, as well as a total of 7189 observations from the diary phase. Results: Results showed that less fortunate change in mental health symptoms across three weeks was predicted by more negative affect and less mindfulness, specifically less attention to the present moment, in daily life. Furthermore, less fortunate change in mental health symptoms was correlated with change towards less fortunate appraisals of the appraisals. Finally, we showed that more general views of the pandemic (i.e., appraisals) were interrelated to experiences in daily life, with more negative appraisals of the pandemic predicting more negative affect and stressor occurrence as well as less mindfulness.Discussion: These findings speak to the dynamic nature of well-being and appraisals in times of threat, and they show how experiences in daily life matter for change in well-being
Draw a River (DAR) : An Art Therapy in Wilderness Therapy.
Authors: Bheemaiah Anil Kumar
Published: July 2020

Abstract:Welcome the future with an Amazon Drone Pad with a vinyl art wrap of an art piece on river restoration, complete with Signify LiFi based drone landing lights. The Paper illustrates the use of Gestalt, CBT and MBAT based art therapies as wilderness therapy in the understanding of Autopilot thinking in oneself. Experiential outdoor therapy is described in digital art used to promote river restoration in conjunction with future secure deliveries of camping logistic supplies by amazon drones. Towards this goal , the creation of art wraps for drone pads , with LiFi lights is presented in this paper.Draw a River (DAR) is introduced as a form of Art Therapy, either in surreal automatism or symbolic automation The theme being of restoring rivers.Keywords: Vayu Vaidya, Amazon Delivery Drone Pads, Art Wrap, Gestalt, CBT, MBAT,
A psychological network approach to attitudes and preventive behaviors during pandemics: A COVID-19 study in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands
Authors: Chambon Monique , Dalege Jonas , Elberse Janneke , van Harreveld Frenk
Published: July 2020

Preventive behaviors are crucial to prevent spread of the coronavirus causing COVID-19. We adopted a complex psychological systems approach to obtain a descriptive account of the network of attitudes and behaviors related to COVID-19. A survey study (N = 1022) was conducted with subsamples from the United Kingdom (n = 502) and the Netherlands (n = 520). The results highlight the importance of people’s support for, and perceived efficacy of, the measures and preventive behaviors. This also applies to the perceived norm of family and friends adopting these behaviors. The networks in both countries were largely similar but also showed notable differences. The interplay of psychological factors in the networks is also highlighted, resulting in our appeal to policymakers to take complexity and mutual dependence of psychological factors into account. Future research should study effects of interventions aimed at these factors, including effects on the network, to make causal inferences.
I know better! Emerging metacognition allows adolescents to ignore false advice
Authors: Moses-Payne Madeleine E , Habicht Johanna , Bowler Aislinn , Steinbeis Nikolaus , Hauser Tobias U.
Published: July 2020

Adolescents aspire for independence. Successful independence means knowing when to rely on one’s own knowledge and when to listen to others. A critical prerequisite thus is a well-developed metacognitive ability to accurately assess the quality of one’s own knowledge. Little is known about whether the strive to become an independent decision-maker in adolescence is underpinned by the necessary metacognitive skills. Here, we demonstrate that metacognition matures from childhood to adolescence (N=107) and that this process coincides with greater independent decision making. We show that adolescents, in contrast to children, take on others’ advice less often, but only when the advice is misleading. Finally, we demonstrate that adolescents’ reduced reliance on others’ feedback is fully explained by their increased metacognitive skills, suggesting that a developing ability to introspect may support independent decision making in adolescence.
Hierarchical beat perception develops throughout childhood and adolescence and is enhanced in those with musical training
Authors: Nave-Blodgett Jessica Erin , Snyder Joel S. , Hannon Erin
Published: July 2020

Most music is temporally organized within a metrical hierarchy, having nested periodic patterns that give rise to the experience of stronger (downbeat) and weaker (upbeat) events. Musical meter presumably makes it possible to dance, sing, and play instruments in synchrony with others. It is nevertheless unclear whether or not listeners perceive multiple levels of periodicity simultaneously, and if they do, when and how they learn to do this. We tested children, adolescents, and musically trained and untrained adults with a new meter perception task. We presented excerpts of human-performed music paired with metronomes that matched or mismatched the metrical structure of the music at two hierarchical levels (beat and measure), and asked listeners to provide a rating of fit of metronome and music. Fit ratings suggested that adults with and without musical training were sensitive to both levels of meter simultaneously, but ratings were more strongly influenced by beat-level than by measure-level synchrony. Sensitivity to two simultaneous levels of meter was not evident in children or adolescents. Sensitivity to the beat alone was apparent in the youngest children and increased with age, whereas sensitivity to the measure alone was not present in younger children (5-8-year-olds). These findings suggest a prolonged period of development and refinement of hierarchical beat perception, and surprisingly weak overall ability to attend to two beat levels at the same time across all ages.
Who is Open to Authoritarian Governance within Western Democracies?
Authors: Malka Ariel , Lelkes Yphtach , Bakker Bert N. , Spivack Eliyahu
Published: July 2020

Recent events have raised concern about potential threats to democracy within Western countries. If Western citizens who are open to authoritarian governance share a common set of political preferences, then authoritarian elites can attract mass coalitions that are willing to subvert democracy to achieve shared ideological goals. With this in mind we explored which ideological groups are most open to authoritarian governance within Western general publics using World Values Survey data from fourteen Western democracies and three recent Latin American Public Opinion Project samples from Canada and the United States. Two key findings emerged. First, cultural conservatism was consistently associated with openness to authoritarian governance. Second, within half of the democracies studied, including all of the English-speaking ones, Western citizens holding a protection-based attitude package — combining cultural conservatism with left economic attitudes — were the most open to authoritarian governance. Within other countries, protection-based and consistently right-wing attitude packages were associated with similarly high levels of openness to authoritarian governance. We discuss implications for radical right populism and the possibility of splitting potentially undemocratic mass coalitions along economic lines.
Sensitive measures of cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Authors: Klooster Nathaniel , Humphries Stacey , Cardillo Eileen , Hartung Franziska , Xie Long , Das Sandhitsu , Yushkevich Paul , Pilania Arun , Wang Jieqiong , Wolk David , Chatterjee Anjan
Published: July 2020

Sensitive measures of cognition are needed in preclinical and prodromal Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to track cognitive change and evaluate potential interventions. We hypothesize that measures of semantic richness and figurative language are sensitive to cognitive impairment in prodromal AD. The neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) pathology of AD is first observed in BA35, the medial portion of the perirhinal cortex. The importance of the perirhinal cortex for semantic memory may explain early impairments of semantic memory in preclinical AD. Additionally, our research has tied figurative language impairment to neurodegenerative disease. We predict that people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) will perform worse on these tasks than participants with normal cognition (CN), and task performance will relate to atrophy in Brodmann Area 35 (BA35). On productive and receptive measures of semantic memory and tests of figurative language comprehension (including metaphor and verbal analogy), CN participants performed better than people with MCI. These experimental tasks outperformed standard neuropsychological assessments in differentiating patients with MCI from CN. Performance on the semantic memory tasks related to MTL structural integrity, including BA35, while standard neuropsychological assessments of semantic memory did not, demonstrating the sensitivity of these experimental measures. A visuo-spatial analogy task did not differentiate groups, confirming the specificity of semantic and figurative language tasks. These experimental measures appear sensitive to cognitive change and neurodegeneration early in the AD trajectory and may prove useful in tracking cognitive change in clinical trials aimed at early intervention.
Judging Accidental Harm: Due Care and Foreseeability of Side Effects
Authors: Margoni Francesco , Surian Luca
Published: July 2020

Both in philosophy and in cognitive psychology, models of moral judgment predict that individuals take into account both agents’ intentions and actions’ outcomes. The present research focused on a third crucial piece of information, agents’ negligence. In Study 1, participants judged the moral wrongness and punishability of agents’ unintended actions that resulted in negative side effects. Whether the agent acted with or without due care and whether she had or did not have information to foresee the negative side effects of her action were manipulated orthogonally in the scenarios. We found that careless agents were condemned more than careful agents, especially when negative side effects could have been prevented. In Study 2, we manipulated due care in acting in non-paradigmatic cases where the agents’ primary intention was to bring about the outcome although not knowing that such outcome was actually negative for others. Here participants judged actions performed with care more wrong and punishable than actions performed without caring, suggesting that the absence of negligence was taken as evidence of the presence of a negative intention in the agents. Together, these findings highlight the need to improve existing processing models of moral judgment to account for people’s evaluation of agents’ intentions and actions’ outcomes in all those cases in which negligence can be attributed.
Evaluating maternal psychopathology biases in reports of child temperament: An investigation of measurement invariance
Authors: Olino Thomas M , Guerra Karina , Hayden Elizabeth P. , Klein Daniel
Published: July 2020

Parent, especially mothers’, reports of child temperament are frequently used in research and clinical practice, but there are concerns that maternal characteristics, including a history of psychopathology, may bias reports on these measures. However, whether maternal reports of youth temperament show structural differences based on mothers’ psychiatric history is unclear. We therefore conducted tests of measurement invariance to examine whether maternal psychopathology was associated with structural aspects of child temperament as a means of evaluating potential biases related to mothers’ mental disorder history. From two community-based studies of child temperament, 935 mothers completed the Child Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ), as well as semi-structured diagnostic interviews that assessed their own lifetime history of depressive, anxiety, and substance use disorders. Mothers also completed a measure of depressive symptoms concurrent to their completion of the CBQ. We found little evidence that mothers’ current depressive symptoms or history of depressive, anxiety, or substance use disorders were associated with the structure of their reports of child temperament. Thus, there is little empirical support for systematic biases in reports of youth temperament as indexed by psychometric modeling.
The neural basis of metaphor comprehension: evidence from left hemisphere degeneration
Authors: Klooster Nathaniel , McQuire Margeurite , Grossman Murray , McMillan Corey , Chatterjee Anjan , Cardillo Eileen
Published: July 2020

Despite the ubiquity of metaphor in cognition and communication, it is absent from standard clinical assessments of language, and the neural systems that support metaphor processing are debated. Previous research shows that patients with focal brain lesions can display selective impairments in processing metaphor, suggesting that figurative language abilities may be disproportionately vulnerable to brain injury. We hypothesized that metaphor processing is especially vulnerable to neurodegenerative disease, and that the left hemisphere is critical for normal metaphor processing. To evaluate these hypotheses, we tested metaphor comprehension in patients with left-hemisphere neurodegeneration (LHND), and in demographically- matched healthy control subjects (HC). Stimuli consisted of moderately-familiar metaphors and closely matched literal sentences sharing the same source term (The interview was a painful crawl/ The infant’s motion was a crawl). Written sentences were presented, followed by four modifier-noun answer choices (one target and three foils). HC, though reliably better at literal than metaphor trials, comprehended both sentence conditions well. By contrast, LHND participants performed disproportionately poorly on metaphor comprehension. Anatomical analyses show relationships between metaphor accuracy and patient atrophy in left middle and superior temporal gyri, and the left inferior frontal gyrus, areas that have been implicated in supporting metaphor comprehension in previous imaging research. The behavioral results also suggest deficits of metaphor comprehension may be a sensitive measure of cognitive dysfunction in some forms of neurodegenerative disease.
Skolem’s “paradox” as logic of ground: The mutual foundation of both proper and improper interpretations
Authors: Penchev Vasil Dinev
Published: July 2020

A principle, according to which any scientific theory can be mathematized, is investigated. That theory is presupposed to be a consistent text, which can be exhaustedly represented by a certain mathematical structure constructively. In thus used, the term “theory” includes all hypotheses as yet unconfirmed as already rejected. The investigation of the sketch of a possible proof of the principle demonstrates that it should be accepted rather a metamathematical axiom about the relation of mathematics and reality.Its investigation needs philosophical means. Husserl’s phenomenology is what is used, and then the conception of “bracketing reality” is modelled to generalize Peano arithmetic in its relation to set theory in the foundation of mathematics. The obtained model is equivalent to the generalization of Peano arithmetic by means of replacing the axiom of induction with that of transfinite induction.A comparison to Mach’s doctrine is used to be revealed the fundamental and philosophical reductionism of Husserl’s phenomenology leading to a kind of Pythagoreanism in the final analysis.Accepting or rejecting the principle, two kinds of mathematics appear differing from each other by its relation to reality. Accepting the principle, mathematics has to include reality within itself in a kind of Pythagoreanism. These two kinds are called in paper correspondingly Hilbert mathematics and Gödel mathematics. The sketch of the proof of the principle demonstrates that the generalization of Peano arithmetic as above can be interpreted as a model of Hilbert mathematics into Gödel mathematics therefore showing that the former is not less consistent than the latter, and the principle is an independent axiom.An information interpretation of Hilbert mathematics is involved. It is a kind of ontology of information. Thus the problem which of the two mathematics is more relevant to our being (rather than reality for reality is external only to Gödel mathematics) is discussed. An information interpretation of the Schrödinger equation is involved to illustrate the above problem.
Diffraction or Delusion: An Ethnoarchaeological Investigation to the Magico-Medicinal Practices (MMPs) of Mayong, Assam
Authors: Kumar Rakesh , Ansari Shahida
Published: July 2020

Magic and Medicine were intertwined in ancient civilization and are acutely embedded in folk healing culture currently. The Indigenous Knowledge (IK) of healing as cultural intangible heritage have been widely discussed by anthropologists, historians and fictional novelists. But within archaeological discourse, these practices have been neglected by the community of archaeologists. Here, the focus has been placed to the ethnoarchaeological investigation of the Black Magic (BM) practices of Mayong, Assam through the re-elucidation of its the material culture and symbolism used during Magico-Medicinal Practices (MMPs) or Magical Practices (MPs). Whereas, the fundamental objective is to critically review the existing archaeological as well as a socio-cultural approach to IK of Magico-Medicinal healing, in which MMPs and MPs have been diminished to the extent of social exclusion.Keyword: Indigenous Knowledge; Magico-Medicinal Practices; cultural intangible heritage; ethnoarchaeological, material culture and symbolism.
Analysis of SCADA Application on Distribution System Reliability
Authors: Marpaung Noveri Lysbetti , Ervianto Edy , Amri Rahyul , Illahi Hayatul
Published: July 2020

Reliability of Electrical Power Distribution to consumer is strongly influenced by its distribution system. Therefore, electrical power distribution system with high reliability is needed. In distribution of electrical power, reliability level of distribution system is very necessary, because it is influential strongly factor towards continuity of electrical energy distribution to consumers. Parameters can be used to determine reliability level of Electrical Power Distribution System are SAIDI, SAIFI, and CAIDI. SCADA on Electrical Power Ditribution System is needed because it can monitor, control, configure and record working system real time. Besides it, SCADA also can handle interruption temporary or permanently in short time by using remote. Aim of this research is to compare distribution system reliability indexes such as SAIFI, SAIDI and CAIDI before and after integrated with SCADA in Bukittinggi Rayon of PT PLN (Persero), Western Sumatera, Indonesia. This research uses Distribution System Data from 2015 and 2016. Result of this  rresearch is Realibility Indexes before Integrated with SCADA(2015) are 15.40 hours/customer, 46.36 interruption/year, 0.33 hour/year, while after Integrated with SCADA(2016) are 2.14 hours/customer, 22.41 interruption/year, 0.10 hour/year. for SAIDI, SAIFI CAIDI Indexes respectivel y. It can be concluded that The increase of Reliability Index after integrated with SCADA are 86.1% for SAIDI, 51.66% for SAIFI, 69.7% for CAIDI.
Identifikasi keberbakatan sepak bola pada siswa sekolah sepak bola hizbul wathan yogyakarta
Authors: Eko Yulianto Wahyu Wibowo
Published: July 2020

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi bakat siswa Sekolah Sepak Bola Hizbul Wathan (SSB HW) Kota Yogyakarta secara ilmiah. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan metode survei. Instrumen penelitian menggunakan tes Identifikasi Keberbakatan Sepak bola APORI. Subjek  penelitian adalah Siswa SSB HW Kelompok Usia (KU) 11-13 tahun yang berjumlah 34 siswa. Teknik analisis data menggunakan sofftware keberbakatan sepak bola dan analisis deskriptif presentase. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa keberbakatan siswa SSB HW Kota Yogyakarta KU 11-13 Tahun berada pada sebaran kategori kategori sangat kurang berbakat, kurang berbakat  , cukup berbakat, Berbakat, dan sangat berbakat. Berdasarkan nilai rata-rata nilai yang didapat dapat disimpulkan bahwa  tingkat keberbakatan siswa SSB HW Kota Yogyakarta masuk dalam kategori “Cukup Berbakat”. Hasil ini dipengaruhi oleh beberapa faktor yaitu: Genetik (keturunan), Biologis (gizi dan neurologik), dan Lingkungan (orang tua, latihan dan pelatih)
DAO, Blockchain and Cryptography
Authors: Gkikaki Mairi , Rowan Clare , DuPont Isaac Quinn
Published: July 2020

In Classical Athens, as well as in our modern digital era, governance has been achieved through tokens. Tokens enabled voting on projects, representation, and belonging. The Distributed Autonomous Organisation (DAO) launched on the basis of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology was conceived as a form of algorithmic governance with applications in the organisation of companies. The visionaries of the DAO envisaged, among other things, a new form of sociality, which would be transparent and fair and based on a decentralised, unstoppable, public blockchain. These hopes were dashed when the DAO was exploited and drained of millions of dollars' worth of tokens within days after launching. The conversation published in the present article is conceived as an interdisciplinary discussion about the phenomenon of the Decentralised Autonomous Organisation and its impact on perceptions of sociality. Topics include the idea of the DAO as an algorithmic authority, the lessons learned when the project failed, the revolutionary beginnings of cryptocurrency technology and its potential in voting technologies, as well as the changing notions of cryptography in light of cryptocurrency technologies.
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Pemodelan Dan Peramalan Indeks Harga Konsumen (IHK) Kota Sampit Dengan Seasonal Arima (Sarima)
Authors: Purwandari Agustina Elisa Dyah
Published: July 2020

AbstractSampit is one of 82 cities in Indonesia which calculate inflation. Inflation is an increase of prices on goods and services in a region. Government’s control is very important because inflation relates to the real income, the exchange rate, import exports, and so on. Inflation is based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Because of CPI is a monthly data prices, it is highly influenced by seasonal factors. Therefore, CPI data modelling is needed because it helps the government to make appropriate policies. Method that can be used for time series data with seasonal influences is Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA). The results of the study show that the right model for Sampit’s CPI is SARIMA with the order p = 1, d = 1, P = 1, D = 1, Q = 1, s = 12. It is the best model that can built and be used for forecasting because with 95 percent of confidence, the model explains 87.23 percent of data. Forecasting in this research use interval analysis and found that January 2020 may be the highest increase of CPI (inflation) in 2020. Keywords: CPI, Inflation, SARIMA
The Vigor and Viability Seed Testing of Three Tobacco Varieties on Various Seed Germination Media
Authors: Hidayat RS Taufiq , Ridhawati Aprilia
Published: July 2020

Seed viability is one of the most important physiological quality benchmarks of seeds. The use of appropriate germination media can affect the results of seed viability testing. This study aims to determine the optimal germination media in tobacco seed viability testing. This research was conducted at the Seed Laboratory of the Indonesian Sweetener and Fiber Crops Research Institute, Malang in January - March 2019. The research method used a two-factorial randomized block design (RAK). The first factor is tobacco seed varieties consisting of Kasturi in 2007, Bojonegoro in 2012 and Kemloko in 2014. The second factor is the seed germination media consisting of straw paper, cotton, towel tissue, paperboard and newspaper. The results showed that the Kemloko variety of tobacco seeds germinated in the towel tissue had the best seed vigor and viability percentage. Seed germination media with paperboard, towel tissue and straw paper can be used to test the viability of tobacco seeds because they have a percentage of simultaneous growth, percentage of the growth speed, percentage of germination, percentage of the growth potential maximum and normal seedling dry weight which are equally well
The Growth and Production Improvement of Soybean Plant (Glycine max L.) by Applying The Local Microorganisms of Fruit Waste in Palopo
Authors: Hairuddin Rahman
Published: July 2020

This study was aimed to find out the effective local microorganism of fruit wastes concentration on the growth and production of the soybean plants. This study was conducted in the trial land of Campus 2, Faculty of Agriculture, Cokroaminoto University, Palopo from September to December 2019. The method used in this study was the randomized block design with 5 treatments and 4 replications, therefore there were 20 experimental units. Each experimental unit comprised 2 plant units, therefore there were 40 plant samples on the given concentration of P0: Control, P1: 50 mL/L fruit waste local microorganism concentration, P2: 100 mL/L fruit waste local microorganism concentration, P3: 150 mL/L fruit waste local microorganism concentration, and P4: 200 mL/L fruit waste local microorganism concentration. The results showed that the local microorganism application on the soybean plants had no significant effects on the plant height, total of leaves, flowering period, and a total of pods. The local fruit waste microorganism with 100 mL concentration was capable of improving the plant height, total of leaves, flowering period, and a total of pods with the respective average of 31.9 cm, 51.6 leaves, 21,8 days, and 35 soybean pods
Overcoming the crisis in the Economic and Monetary Union
Authors: Grosse Tomasz Grzegorz
Published: July 2020

The purpose of the article is to assess the extent to which it has been possible to overcome the crisis situation in the economic and political/systemic dimension in Europe. The events of the crisis in the Eurozone mobilised the national and European elites to respond above all with respect to the economic situation. But in part, the changes concerned also the political dimension or precipitated consequences of a systemic character (related to the mechanisms of European integration). Some ideas were only discussed and did not gain practical implementation due to differing opinions and interests among the leading political actors, above all the EU member states. As a result, the crisis was overcome to a partial or incomplete extent both in the economic and political respect.
Prawne regulacje pobierania i transplantacji narządów oraz tkanek w ujęciu europejskiej konwencji bioetycznej
Authors: Kołodyński Patryk , Drab Paulina
Published: July 2020

Over the past several years, transplantology has become one of the fastest developing areas of medicine. The reason is, first and foremost, a significant improvement of the results of successful transplants. However, much controversy arouse among the public, on both medical and ethical grounds. The article presents the most important concepts and regulations relating to the collection and transplantation of organs and tissues in the context of the European Convention on Bioethics. It analyses the convention and its additional protocol. The article provides the definition of transplantation and distinguishes its types, taking into account the medical criteria for organ transplants. Moreover, authors explained the issue of organ donation ex vivo and ex mortuo. The European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine clearly regulates the legal aspects concerning the transplantation and related basic concepts, and therefore provides a reliable source of information about organ transplantation and tissue. This act is a part of the international legal order, which includes the established codification of bioethical standards.
Brytyjskie i węgierskie referenda z 2016 r. Uwagi o roli instytucji demokracji bezpośredniej w procesie integracji europejskiej
Authors: Musiał-Karg Magdalena
Published: July 2020

The practice of using direct democracy in the European Union’s countries shows that the so called “European” issues have become increasingly popular subject of public debate and then of referendum voting. The motivation to analyse the British and Hungarian referendums of 2016 was the popularity and importance of the issues both for the UK and for Hungary, as well as for the whole European Union. The main thesis posed in the article is that in recent years referendums have become very popular as instruments of making decisions on the European crises (Grexit, Brexit, migration crisis). The main objective of this paper is to answer the question about the use of a referendum on issues of European integration and on the course and consequences of the British and Hungarian referendum in 2016.
The image of the EU in Polish magazines. Based on the analysis of the contents of “Polityka”, “Wprost” and “Newsweek” published in 2013
Authors: Stasiak-Jazukiewicz Ewa
Published: July 2020

The article discusses the results of a study carried out within a broader research project on the crisis of communication in the EU. The aim of the project was to confirm or falsify a thesis on crisis of communication in the EU. The range of communication activities undertaken by the organisation’s structure was determined, communication strategy of the EU was studied, the use information channels, and the content of communications Polish media was analysed. The subject of this article is the image of the EU emerging in 2013 from “Newsweek Polska”, “Polityka” and “Wprost” and the convergence of their media content with the objectives of the EU information policy. Quantitative and qualitative content analyses were used as well as framing analysis, identifying the interpretation schemes used by journalists. Based on the agenda-setting theory the media agenda was set and juxtaposed with a timeline of events in the EU in year 2013.