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Visual Culture, Disciplinary Engagement and Drawing: Pedagogical Possibilities for an Indian Way of Architectural Thinking
Authors:   OP Jindal Global University, India, Talha Farooqi Abu , Banerjea Sourav ,   Ansal University, India
Published: November 2021

Architectural thinking and design process have always been dependent upon the representational medium and language of architecture – conventional drawings, diagramming, models, and iconography, to name a few. As a result of technological advancement (therefore possibilities) and socio-economic change, representation techniques have evolved, from conventional processes to ‘augment-ed reality’. Representation techniques and means in the production of architecture are critical to cover the conceptual range in which architecture can be created. This paper places this issue within the larger heterogeneous culture comprising technological, social, eco-nomic aspects and aims to unravel the conceptual underpinnings of the existing architectural thinking, representational culture in India. It examines ‘drawing’ as a convincing and disciplinary medium of language and representation and steers towards a ‘representation-al maxim’ between technology and value, discipline and consumption, tradition and modernity in the context of architectural thinking process in India.The forces of capitalism, globalization, consumer culture, celebrity and media culture, visual culture, technocracy have been instrumental in creating reality-based representational systems, which are reluctant to engage with the discipline of architecture and think beyond it. Steenson1 remarks about Augmented Reality “A novel form of spatial representation, which substitutes for the actual experience”. With access to augmented reality technology, the client no longer has to interpret the traditional plans, section and elevations, nor look into printed photomontage or virtual walkthroughs. He will be able to stand in his yet to come living room, go, on foot, from there to the kitchen, visit the bedrooms and, by doing so, get an ‘augmented’ experience of those spaces. Software is the agent of consumption, and it is only in the architectural process (thinking & delving), that this consumptive culture subsides, notwithstanding the fact that, for many architects and students, software and technology are steadily and consciously becoming ‘ends’ rather than ‘means’ in the design process.
The Teacher’s Hunch and its Foundations: A Case for Epistemological Awareness in Architectural Education
Authors:   Delft University of Technology, Mejia Jorge
Published: November 2021

Certainty, opinion throughout faculties and schools of architecture, teachers and students engaged in conventional education exchange an enormous amount of information, in a process intended to provide the latter with the skills required to become independent professionals. While part of the exchanged information can be recognized as clearly fitting within that formative goal, it is not uncommon for tutors to also suggest possible lines of inquiry that might sometimes seem arbitrary. Rather than taking those apparently incoherent indications for confusing or diversionary, I am convinced that they play a key role, not only in the education of the architect, but – most importantly – in the development of the architectural profession as a whole. In order to recognize the origin, importance and value of the architecture teacher’s hunch, in the following pages I will make a case for epistemological awareness as a sine qua non for the teacher’s hunch to become a productive source of professional knowledge. Without that awareness, what are taken for hunches might indeed be interpreted as whimsical, mysterious and fundamentally inoperative information.
Rethinking the Crit: A New Pedagogy in Architectural Education
Authors:   TU Dublin, Flynn Patrick , Dunn Miriam ,   SAUL, University of Limerick, O’Connor Maureen ,   CIT Crawford College of Art & Design Cork, Price Mark ,   School of Architecture, UCD, Dublin
Published: November 2021

The ‘crit’, short for ‘criticism’, is an assessment practice central to the education of the architect, internationally. It has its roots in the psychologist, Jean Piaget’s constructivism framework which at its core aims to place the student at the centre of the learning experience and allow them to develop critical thinking and creative skills through learning-by-doing. The ‘crit’ also aims to foster a culture of learning and reflective practice as described by Donald Schon in The Reflective Practitioner – How Professionals Think In Action, 1983, so the student gains agency over their education. Because crits take place in architecture and art schools, it might be assumed that they serve these educational ends. However, there is a great deal of evidence – both empirical and critical – to suggest that crits encourage conformity rather than creativity, and that they serve dominant cultural paradigms rather than the ideal of open-ended learning.
Critical Historiography and the Design Studio Pedagogy
Authors:   University of Colorado, Denver, Ameri Amir H.
Published: November 2021

The cultures that in their divergent multiplicity were once effectively segregated in space and time, find themselves in close proximity, dialogue and potential competition and conflict in both literal and virtual space as a direct consequence of globalization. Coupled as globalization is with the technologies of the information age, it has dramatically and fundamentally transformed our cultural and cross-cultural modes of communication and exchange, and along with it our cultural experience of space and time. These transformations are not formal and aesthetic per se, but more profoundly cultural and ideological. As such, they are measurably changing all cultures involved in unforeseeable directions. These changes, along with a multi-cultural context to architectural practice in a global economy require a shift of emphasis in architectural pedagogy to better prepare the next generation of architects to meet the unique demands of a plurality of cultures in a state of flux and change.
A Performative Threshold Between Teaching Research and Practice: Atlas Poliphilo as Scaffold
Authors:   ALICE, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Dietz Dieter , Dupuis Aurélie ,   ALICE, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Lafontaine Carboni Julien ,   ALICE, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Negueruela Del Castillo Darío ,   ALICE, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne
Published: November 2021

Hunches allow us to navigate in a trans-scalar world. Without them, teachers, researchers and practitioners would be left aimless.Hunches relate to the embodied and synthetic nature of the knowledge we produce, but also to its unfolding. Instead of denying importance of hunches or minimizing their impact, can we imagine to build a more apt framework for the kinds of encounters and negotiation they facilitate? Shall we do it within pre-existing academic and practical knowledge? Can we set up a pedagogical experience that sets a time and space to collectively integrate and share hunches, to experiment with them and to ultimately operationalize them in designerly or scientific manners? In this paper, we introduce and discuss our experience with Atlas Poliphilo, an experimental studio that runs its second iteration during the spring semester 2019. Neither a design studio nor a seminar, the Atlas sets up a framework for collaborative enquiry that further elaborates on them. The course gathers students from civil and environmental engineering together with students of architecture, and landscape architecture to work collaboratively for one semester. This experience is framed in our work on new visions for the trans-border Greater Geneva as one of the selected teams aiming at tackling its current social, economic and environmental challenges and constructing a framework to think and discuss its growth in the next 35 years.This interdisciplinary course addresses an alternative of perceiving and integrating the constitutive complexity of the territory and the intertwined trajectories of all its different agents. Departing from the situated experiences of the students within a given site of exploration, the course aims at carefully unfolding their many dimensions – the relational and performative aspects of involvement, bodily experience, environmental context and objects, individual and collective cultural frames – allowing to experiment with them and to render them explicit. This is grounded on the conviction that an ability to affect is reciprocated by a capacity of being affected.
Practice Based Research in the Context of Spatial Transformation: A South African Perspective
Authors:   University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Luckan Yashaen , Pillay Nischolan ,   University of Johannesburg
Published: November 2021

The spatial inequities of apartheid severely compromised the advancement of historically marginalised societies in South Africa. Exclusive barriers to access and opportunity defined an underlying geo-social intent for the oppression of societies, hereafter referred to as historically disadvantaged communities. The socio-economic injustices extended beyond physical spatial barriers into the realm of intellectual imprisonment effected by pedagogic exclusion. This ultimately prevented knowledge generation by exclusion of lived experiences in historically disadvantaged communities. The research approach is informed by a problem which focuses on pedagogic exclusion and the critical role of inclusive pedagogies and participatory approaches to research in architectural education for the advancement of society in order to promote spatial transformation.
Vestido de noiva rasgado: acordes intertextuais em Por escrito, de Elvira Vigna
Authors: Bora Leonardo Augusto
Published: November 2021

Uma das formas de acesso ao cerne narrativo do romance Por escrito, de Elvira Vigna, publicado em 2014, é a análise do mais explícito diálogo intertextual empreendido pela autora: a presença de uma tentativa de montagem de Vestido de noiva, peça de Nelson Rodrigues originalmente encenada em 1943. Por detrás das cortinas da “adaptação musical que nunca houve” jazem escondidas incontáveis reflexões sobre o caráter das personagens (especialmente da narradora e protagonista, Valderez, e da bailarina russa Aleksandra, a intérprete de Alaíde) e sobre o próprio processo de escrita, o que dá a Por escrito o teor metalinguístico observado por Beatriz Resende em crítica publicada n’O Globo, em 26/10/2014. Na visão de Resende, Vigna redigiu uma história marcada por “nenhum drama e nenhum afeto” – história cuja protagonista prefere ficar à margem, transitando pelos não-lugares. A menção aos três planos da peça de Rodrigues conduz o leitor a um emaranhado de dúvidas e questionamentos – centelhas criativas deste trabalho, que lança questionamentos acerca da transitoriedade (dança entre “liberdade” e “loucura”) da prosa de Elvira Vigna.
SIMONE BRANTES E LAURA LIUZZI: "Qualquer outro poema que se faça, nesse momento, é um poema de resistência. Qualquer poesia é uma poesia de resistência". (Simone Brantes) "Poesia é um exercício de escolha, de decantação, e a nossa atividade no mundo, também. O tempo todo temos que escolher, e essa talvez seja a coisa mais política que a gente faça". (Laura Liuzzi)
Authors: Guimarães de Faria Maria Lucia
Published: November 2021

A entrevista com Simone Barntes e Laura Liuzzi aconteceu durante o IX Encontro do Fórum de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, que teve por título “Poesia, prosa, política” e foi realizado na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro nos dias 11 e 12 de setembro de 2018. Maria Lucia Guimarães de Faria, uma das organizadoras do evento, recebeu as poetas Simone Brantes e Laura Liuzzi para este papo distenso e informal. A conversa transitou por assuntos variados, desde questões gerais de poesia e literatura na cena contemporânea até aspectos específicos da poesia de cada uma, suas obras e lidas poéticas.
Progress in high crystalline quality AlN grown on sapphire for high-efficiency deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes
Authors: Xu F. J. , Shen B.
Published: November 2021

AlGaN with a high Al fraction and low-dimensional structure is an important material for deep ultraviolet (DUV) optoelectronic devices. However, due to a lack of high-quality and low-cost homogeneous AlN substrates, AlN is mainly prepared by heteroepitaxy on sapphire with a large lattice mismatch. The resulting defect density and residual stress in AlN films become a bottleneck for enhancing the performance of AlGaN-based DUV light-emitting devices. In this paper, the research advances in epitaxial growth and threading dislocation (TD) control of AlN on sapphire substrates at Peking University are described, including decreasing the tilt of AlN grains by nitridation pretreatment of sapphire, forming TD loops by growth mode alternations, bending and terminating TDs at the sidewall of voids by an image force on nano-patterned sapphire substrates, promoting the climbing and meeting of TDs by extrinsic supersaturated vacancies, etc. Based on high-quality AlN with a TD density of ∼108 cm−2, 276 nm DUV light-emitting diodes are fabricated with a light output power of 17.3 mW at an injection current of 100 mA.
ROBOTIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY USING SENHANCE PLATFORM IN KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Authors: Eismontas Vitalijus , Deduchovas Olegas , Samalavičius Narimantas Evaldas , Martinkėnas Arvydas , Janušonis Vinsas
Published: November 2021

In this retrospective study we report the first experience of robotic cholecystectomies in Baltic countries. From Nov 2018 to Mar 2021, 72 robotic cholecystectomies were performed in Klaipėda University Hospital using the Senhance (TransEnterix) robotic system. Patients were diagnosed with symptomatic gallstone disease and had no life-threatening co-morbidities. We retrospectively investigated patient demographics and pre-, peri- and postoperative data. Eighteen male and fifty four female patients were included in this study (n = 72). Mean age was 53 years (range 21–85); mean BMI was 26.6 kg/ m² (range 21.1–43.7). Mean docking time was 10 min (range 1–55), and mean operative time was 80 min (range 50–138). There were no conversions to standard lapa­roscopy or open surgery. There were no intra-operative complications. There was one post-operative bleeding from the gallbladder bed and subhepatic hematoma, su­ccessfully treated by laparoscopy. This study demons­trates the feasibility of robotic surgery in performing minimally invasive cholecystectomies.
COVID-19 PANDEMIJOS POVEIKIS SERGANČIŲJŲ ODOS NAVIKAIS STACIONARINĖS ONKOLOGINĖS PAGALBOS PRIEINAMUMUI
Authors: Janušonis Vinsas , Kasap Gaivilė , Janušonytė Henrieta
Published: November 2021

COVID-19 pandemijos metu, palyginus su ikipande­miniu laikotarpiu, buvo sutrikdyta onkologinių ligonių, tarp jų ir sergančiųjų odos navikais, sveikatos priežiūra.

Tyrimo tikslas – ištirti ir palyginti pacientų, sergančių odos navikais, stacionarinės medicinos pagalbos priei­namumą iki COVID-19 pandemijos ir pandemijos metu. Atliekant tyrimą, analizuotos įvairių šalių autorių publi­kacijos, tirtos odos navikais sirgusių ir hospitalizuotų pa­cientų ligos istorijos. Straipsnyje atskleisti įvairūs odos navikais sirgusių pacientų sveikatos priežiūros aspektai ir epidemijos įtaka šių pacientų sveikatos priežiūrai. Nusta­tyta, kad nors odos navikais sirgusių pacientų medicinos pagalbos prieinamumas epidemijos metu buvo ribotas, tačiau visa medicinos pagalba – planinė ir neatidėliotina buvo teikiama.
PENERAPAN METODE CLUSTERING PADA ANALISIS REALISASI PENDAPATAN ASLI DAERAH DENGAN ALGORITMA K-MEANS
Authors: Apuilino Iman Seno Aji Farell , Achmadi Sentot , Ariwibisono FX
Published: November 2021

Retribusi Daerah adalah pungutan daerah sebagai pembayaran atas jasa atau pemberian izin tertentu yang khusus disediakan dan atau diberikan oleh Pemerintah Daerah untuk kepentingan orang pribadi atau badan menurut UU No. 28 tahun 2009. Pemasukan Pajak Daerah dan Retribusi Daerah tersebut lalu dikumpulkan oleh para Pejabat Pajak untuk digolongkan serta dianalisis. Dalam proses tersebut, data retribusi pendapatan asli daerah yang masuk akan diinputkan ke dalam Microsoft Excel, sehingga saat dilakukan penganalisisan serta pengelompokan secara manual menggunakan Microsoft Excel, menjadi tidak efektif karena data yang diolah sangat banyak sehingga menyebabkan tampilan sedikit membingungkan dan rawan terhadap kesalahan input pada proses perhitungan. Selain memakan waktu untuk melakukan perhitungan, terjadinya kesalahan perhitungan dapat mengakibatkan terjadinya kesalahan analisis oleh para Pegawai Pajak

Pada penelitian ini, akan dibuat sebuah sistem berbasis web dengan menggunakan metode K-Means, yang dapat membantu Pegawai Pajak dalam menganalisis dan juga pengelompokan hasil pemasukan seluruh retribusi PAD. Sehingga sebanyak apapun data yang diinputkan, hasil perhituungan diharapkan akan konsisten sesuai dengan metode K-Means dan kesalahan perhitungan dapat diminimalisir karena perhitungan telah dilakukan secara otomatis. Dalam proses analisis dan penggolongan data retribusi pendapatan asli daerah, perhitungan dilakukan berdasarkan kriteria yang telah ditentukan oleh instansi terkait, Kriteria - kriteria tersebut nantinya akan diproses dengan perhitungan metode K-Means berbasis web yang menggunakan framework Laravel dan bahasa pemograman PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) dengan Database MySQL.

Hasil dari pengujian metode pada 115 data yang telah diuji dengan sistem ini, sebanyak 37 data masuk kedalam cluster C8 sebagai golongan restoran dan juga 31 data masuk kedalam cluster C7 sebagai golongan cafe, yang artinya pemasukan pajak restoran dan café memiliki pengaruh yang cukup besar dalam retribusi pendapatan asli daerah di Kabupaten Gresik. Dari hasil perhitungan antara manual menggunakan Ms. Excel dibandingkan perhitungan di sistem yang telah dibuat memiliki rata – rata error sebesar 0.32% dengan tingkat keakuratan sebesar 99.68%. Berdasarkan hasil pengujian fungsional menunjukkan jika sistem yang telah dibuat dapat berjalan dengan baik dan sesuai dengan fungsi yang tersedia. Sistem yang telah dibuat diuji coba dengan menggunakan 3 aplikasi browser yaitu Microsft Edge 91.0.864.54 (Official build) (64-bit), Google Chrome 91.0.4472.114 (Official Build) (64-bit) dan Mozilla Firefox 89.0.1 (64-bit).
SISTEM INFORMASI GEOGRAFIS HASIL PRODUKSI PADI DI KABUPATEN MALANG MENGGUNAKAN METODE K-MEANS CLUSTERING
Authors: Prasetya Yongki Yudha , Faisol Ahmad , Vendyansah Nurlaily
Published: November 2021

Kabupaten Malang adalah daerah yang ikut serta dalam pemasok  produksi padi di  Negeri ini. Kabupaten Malang sendiri memiliki 33 Kecamatan yang sebagian besar penduduk nya bekerja sebagai petani padi. Dalam bertani padi ada kalanya di tiap-tiap kecamatan tersebut mengalami kenaikan ataupun penurunan produksi.  Dalam pengolahan hasil produksi padi tersebut petani sendiri kadang tidak mengetahui hasil produksi padi di daerahnya. Dalam kondisi saat ini informasi sangat mendukung program ketahanan pangan dalam bidang pertanian. Pengumpulan informasi data produksi pertanian yang cepat dan akurat memudahkan dalam pengelolaan data. Dengan dibuatnya Sistem Informasi Geografis sangat membantu dalam pengolahan data produksi padi di Kabupaten Malang. Dengan adanya permasalahan tersebut maka dibuat sistem informasi geografis pemetaan hasil produksi padi di kabupaten malang dengan harapan dinas paertanian dapat mengelompokkan hasil produksi padi tiap kecamatan di kabupaten malang menggunakan metode clustering. Salah satu metode clustering yang digunakan pada sistem ini adalah metode k-means. Data yang diolah dalam penelitian ini yaitu data produksi padi tahun 2018-2020 dinas pertanian Kabupaten Malang. Sistem dibuat menggunakan website dengan framework Codeigniter, sedangkan untuk pemetaan produksi padi pada penelitian ini menggunakan Leaflet. Dari hasil pengujian sistem informasi geografis menggunakan K-Means Clustering dengan 3 cluster untuk pengelompokan hasil produksi padi di Kabupaten Malang, dengan menggunakan 99 sampel data, terdapat hasil pengelompokan sebanyak 44 (45%) masuk dalam kategori produksi banyak, 40 (40%) kategori produksi sedang dan 15 (15%) produksi kurang memuaskan. Berdasarkan hasil pengujian kinerja sistem dengan membandingkan pengelompokan secara manual atau data lama dengan pengelompokan pada sistem, sistem ini cukup baik dalam mengklasifikasi warga kurang mampu dengan tingkat akurasi 100%.
Fibrosis retroperitoneal idiopática
Authors: Garzón Andrés , Díaz María C , Fernández-Ávila Daniel G , Gutiérrez Juan M
Published: November 2021

Resumen Objetivo: Describir un caso clínico Metodología: reporte de caso Resultados: Mujer de 36 años de edad quien consulta por cuadro clínico de ocho meses de evolución consistente en dolor abdominal, asociado a diarrea y emesis, siendo manejada inicialmente como cuadro de colon irritable. Ante la persistencia del dolor solicitan estudios imagenológicos con hallazgos sugestivos de masa retroperitoneal por lo cual remiten para valoración por cirugía. Al examen físico se encuentra dolor a la palpación abdominal generalizada sin adenopatías o masas. Paraclínicos con resonancia abdominal evidenciando masa sólida retro peritoneal de localización para aórtica izquierda y espacio inter aorto-cavo, englobando de forma circunferencial la aorta abdominal a la emergencia de arterias renales comprometiendo tejidos adyacentes, con disminución del tamaño del riñón izquierdo, compensando con hipertrofia del riñón derecho. Marcadores tumorales negativos, colonoscopia sin evidencia de masas. Es llevada a biopsia guiada por TAC con patología conclusiva de fibrosis retroperitoneal idiopática. Conclusión: Se presenta un caso de fibrosis retrooperitoneal idiopática, enfermedad de muy baja frecuencia de presentación en la práctica clínica diaria Abstract Objective: To describe a clinical case Methodology: Case report Results: 36-year-old female who consulted for clinical history of eight-month of abdominal pain, diarrhea and emesis, was threated initially as irritable bowel disease. The continuing pain request imaging with findings suggestive of retroperitoneal mass, therefore referred for evaluation for surgery. On physical examination as positive findings abdominal tenderness without generalized lymphadenopathy or masses. MRI shows abdominal retroperitoneal solid mass localized to left aortic aorto-cava intercostal space, encompassing a circumferential abdominal aorta to the emergence of compromising renal arteries adjacent tissues, decreasing the size of the left kidney hypertrophy compensating right kidney. Negative tumor markers, colonoscopy without evidence of masses. It is carried by CT-guided biopsy pathology idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis conclusive. Conclusion: We present a case of idiophatic fibrosis retroperitoneal, disease of low frequency in daily practice
Incidentaloma adrenal
Authors: Román González Alejandro , Londoño Maria del Pilar Universidad de Antioquia , Diaz James , Builes Barrera Carlos Alfonso , Gutiérrez Johnayro
Published: November 2021

Con el uso creciente de las tecnologías en imágenes diagnósticas, se han descubierto lesiones adrenales en pacientes sin sospecha o manifestaciones clínicas de una enfermedad originada en las glándulas suprarrenales, hallazgo conocido como incidentaloma suprarrenal. Estas lesiones pueden ser benignas como los mielolipomas, infecciones por hongos y micobacterias o lesiones infrecuentes como los schwanomas. También se pueden encontrar adenomas, los cuales pueden ser productores de hormonas o no productores. Finalmente, se pueden encontrar lesiones malignas, como carcinomas adrenales. Ante la presencia de un incidentaloma suprarrenal con tamaño mayor de 4 centímetros, irregularidad en los bordes, alta atenuación de la lesión (en unidades Hounsfield) y un bajo porcentaje de lavado en el estudio contrastado se favorece el diagnóstico de carcinoma, en cuyo caso el manejo es quirúrgico, una vez se haya descartado la producción hormonal (verbigracia feocromocitoma). Ahora bien, si la lesión no sugiere malignidad, la siguiente pregunta que se debe contestar es si el incidentaloma es productor o no de hormonas. En este sentido se debe evaluar la posibilidad de síndrome de Cushing (mediante una prueba de supresión con dosis bajas de dexametasona), feocromocitoma (con medición de metanefrinas en orina o en plasma) y si es hipertenso descartar hiperaldosteronismo primario midiendo la relación aldosterona/ renina. Acorde a estos resultados se definirá la conducta quirúrgica o el seguimiento clínico e imaginológico.
Acrometástasis de miembros inferiores: Reporte de dos casos
Authors: Ramirez Quintero Juan David , Gomez Rueda Narly Viviana
Published: November 2021

Las metástasis óseas distales a codo y rodilla, acrometástasis, son de baja ocurrencia, se asocian a malignidad avanzada y son indicadores de pobre pronóstico; sólo en el 10% de los casos son la primera expresión clínica de la neoplasia. Su reconocimiento es importante ya que se asemejan a enfermedades benignas frecuentes, retardando el diagnóstico y disminuyendo la expectativa de vida de los pacientes. Se presentan dos casos de pacientes con acrometástasis en miembros inferiores; el primero como la manifestación inicial de recidiva de un carcinoma de células renales; y el segundo como parte del extenso compromiso metastásico de un carcinoma de pulmón en su debut.
La tabla de supervivencia, posibilidad de vida y de más vida
Authors: Martinez Betancur Octavio
Published: November 2021

La garantía de la salud en el orden político inglés decimonónico en el cual la duración media de la vida estaba determinada por la situación del individuo en la estructura de clases, no era posible ante un estado carente de organismos sanitarios de administración y control de la salubridad pública, además del influjo arrollador del sector económico egoísta, individualista y privatizador, y por la ausencia de ciudadanía activa que propiciara la agencia de espacios de acción colectiva y de acción política. Fue necesario el advenimiento de artefactos matemáticos como la tabla de supervivencia, para convencer al cuerpo social y político liberal de la época de la posibilidad de cada vez más y mejor vida, e iniciar la larga marcha de la participación política democrática hacia el estatus de ciudadano
Acroosteólisis en esclerosis sistémica
Authors: Mesa Miguel Antonio , Facio-Lince Garcia Andrea
Published: November 2021

Paciente femenina de 42 años de edad, con diagnóstico de esclerosis sistémica de larga data.
Learning From Human Correction For Data-Centric Deep Learning
Authors: Guo Tong
Published: November 2021

In industry NLP application, our manually labeled data has a certain number of noisy data. We present a simple method to find the noisy data and relabel them manually, meanwhile we collect the correction information. Then we present novel method to incorporate the human correction information into deep learning model. Human know how to correct noisy data. So the correction information can be inject into deep learning model. We do the experiment on our own text classification dataset, which is manually labeled, because we relabel the noisy data in our dataset for our industry application. The experiment result shows that our method improve the classification accuracy from 91.7% to 92.5%. The 91.7% baseline is based on BERT training on the corrected dataset, which is hard to surpass.
Hardware Design of a Tele-EEG Device For Detection of Neurophysiological Condition
Authors: Aminaie Pouya
Published: November 2021

The main idea of this research originates from the patients such that each patient with neural disorder should refer to a medical center to check his brain's health condition to sample his EEG signals and present the results to a specialist for further investigation. If this process can be done remotely by tele-medicine techniques, it will save cost and time. In tele-medicine method, the patient can record the EEG signal alone at home and send the results to his physician. To this end, this research employs Bluetooth to connect the interface system to the computer, and the patient can send the results to his physician after saving the data. Thus, the main purpose of designing this BCI system is to record EEG signals using a microcontroller and transmit them via Bluetooth to a computer and mobile phone such that the signal can be represented instantaneously in a GUI.
Conductive Polymers for Bidirectional Neural Interfaces: Fundamentals Aspects and in Vivo Applications
Authors: Bianchi Michele , De Salvo Anna , Asplund Maria , Carli Stefano , Lauro Michele
Di , Schulze-Bonhage Andreas , Stieglitz Thomas , Fadiga Luciano , Biscarini Fabio
Published: November 2021

This is a Review paper on the use of conductive polymers in neural interfaces aimed at bidirectional communication with the brain.
Kale seed priming with red seaweed biostimulant
Authors: Lemes Ternus Fernando , Neumann Silva Vanessa , Mendes Milanesi Paola , Tortelli Brenda
Published: November 2021

Seed priming is a treatment that can contribute to improve seed physiological potential and increase its tolerance to abiotic stresses. Thus, this work evaluated the effect of kale seed priming with red seaweed biostimulant on physiological seed potential, seed health and tolerance to high temperature at germination. The experimental design was completely randomised, with a 2´x4 factorial scheme. Treatments consisted of doses of 0, 0.25, 0.50 and 1.0 mL L–1 of red algae Solieria sp. biostimulant, and temperatures of 20 and 30°C. The biostimulant used was subjected to chromatographic analysis to detect bioactive compounds. Seed imbibition curves were used to determine priming duration procedure. Treatments effects were evaluated by seed health, germination, root and shoot length, and dry mass, under ideal (20°C) and stress (30°C) temperatures. The results were submitted to analysis of variance, Tukey’s test (temperatures) and regression (doses). The 22-h imbibition period is adequate for kale seed priming with Solieria sp. biostimulant. Kale seed priming with Solieria sp. does not interfere with seed health. The temperature of 30°C reduces kale seed germination index, as seedling root growth. The use of Solieria sp. biostimulant does not promote kale seed physiological potential.
Responses of different quality parameters of Chia to arbuscular mycorrhiza and plant growth regulator
Authors: Ashour Hossam Ahmed , Esmail Sanaa E.A. , El- Attar Asmaa
Published: November 2021

Field experiment was conducted to evaluate the influence of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi (AMF) and foliar spray of plant growth regulators (PGRs) and their interaction on vegetative growth, seed yield and yield attributes and some biochemical criteria of chia (Salvia hispanica L.), in a split plot design with three replications. Plants grown in absence or presence of AMF were sprayed every 2 weeks with benzyl adenine (BA), CPPU [N-(2-chloro-4-pyridinyl)-N’-phenylurea], common name forchlorfenuron, and Naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) at 50, 20 and 50 ppm respectively, while control plants were sprayed with tap water. The results revealed that, inoculation with AMF generally caused significant augmentation in all studied growth, yield and yield attributes, total chlorophylls and carbohydrates content in leaves, augmentation in nutritional values of seeds like carbohydrates %, macronutrient, micronutrients, proteins %, total flavonoids, oil % compared to non-inoculated plants. In absence or presence of AMF, application of PGRs generally caused significant increases in the studied parameters compared to control. The interaction between NAA and AMF was more effective since gave higher increases in the studied parameters. It can be concluded that, cultivation of chia plant in presence of mycorrhiza with foliar application of NAA at 50 ppm is recommended for enhancing growth, and nutritional values of seed yield.
Genetic diversity in Colocasia esculenta and Xanthosoma mafaffa in Togo, West Africa
Authors: Bammite Damigou , Matthews Peter Joseph , Dagnon Yao Dodzi , Agbogan Akouèthê , Agre Paterne , Akintayo Oluyemi Titilola , Odah Komi , Dansi Alexandre , Abberton Michael , Tozo Koffi Sodokè
Published: November 2021

Taro and new cocoyam are root and leaf crops commonly grown in tropical to warm temperate regions. In Togo, they are neglected and underutilised. Here we report the genetic diversity of 26 accessions of taro and 101 accessions of new cocoyam. Analysis of simple sequence repeats revealed low polymorphic information content of 0.43 and 0.25 in taro and new cocoyam, respectively. PCA scatterplots and Neighbour Joining dendrograms based on the SSR data clustered accessions into groups that more-or-less correspond to morphological diversity in both species. AMOVA within and between morphological groups revealed greater variances within groups than between. This indicates weak genetic differentiation between morphological groups, particularly for taro. Genetic diversity was greater among taro cultivars. Taro has a longer history of introduction and dispersal in Africa, and has had more opportunity for multiple introduction and local cultivar development. Different strategies are suggested for future development of these crops in Togo and Africa. For taro, further studies of existing diversity and recent experimental introduction, has spread widely in Africa with little genetic diversity. For this crop, international collaboration is needed to clarify taxonomy,  and to introduced further cultivars for evaluation under local conditions in Africa.
Stress Properties Optimization of a Composite Sandwich Structure by Application of Hybrid Taguchi-GRA-PCA
Authors:   Department of Mechanical & Automation Engineering, GBPEC, New Delhi, India., Kumar Anil , Angra Surjit ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT, Kurukshetra, India., Chanda Arindam Kumar ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT, Kurukshetra, India.
Published: November 2021

A sandwich structure is always designed to have maximum Strength and Stiffness. In this research, three main design factors i.e. facesheet thickness, core height and panel with each having three different values (levels) have been chosen and a L9 Orthogonal Array has been generated using Taguchi Design in Minitab software. The Sheet Stresses and Shear Stresses have been calculated for all 9 configurations. From Taguchi Analysis it has been observed that the optimum level for different design parameters are F/S thickness .8mm, Core Height 8mm and Panel Width 50mm.Then PCA assisted GRA has been performed on the two responses and it has been observed that the optimum parameter level are F/S thickness. 8mm, Core Height 8mm and Panel Width 50mm. ANOVA analysis has also been performed to find out the effect of selected design elements on the two types of stress values of the sandwich panel. It has been observed that the Facesheet Thickness has the maximum effect on Sandwich Stresses.
Design and Development of Experimental Based Phase Modulated Model Predictive Control for Torque Ripple Reduction of MMC Fed BLDC Motor
Authors:   Electrical Engineering Department, MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, India, Jaiswal Rahul , Agarwal Anshul ,   Electrical Engineering Department, NIT Delhi, New Delhi, India, Negi Richa ,   Electrical Engineering Department, MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, India, Vikram Abhishek ,   Anchor Semiconductor, Santa Clara, USA
Published: November 2021

This article represents the torque ripple performance of modular multilevel converter (MMC) fed brushless dc (BLDC) motor using different current control technique. For reducing the ripple current in BLDC motor, a phase-modulated model predictive control (PMMPC) technique has been proposed. The stator ripple current is almost negligible using PMMPC. This PMMPC current control method is a significant minimization of torque ripple in BLDC motor. A comparative torque ripple behaviour of MMC fed BLDC motor has been done using phase-modulated model predictive control, model predictive control (MPC) and proportional integral (PI) control at different switching frequency. It has been observed that a PMMPC current control technique is more efficient as compared to the MPC as well as PI current control technique. It has also been observed that the torque ripple performance is improved while using PMMPC as compared to the MPC and PI controller. Simulation results have been verified with the help of experimental result and these results are obtained in good agreement to the simulated results.
A Short Review on 3-d Printing of FRP Composites Using Stereolithography
Authors:   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mangalmay Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, UP (India), Gautam Girish Dutt , Rani Sunita ,   Department of Information Technology, Jagannath International Management School, New Delhi (India), Raghuwanshi Sudhanshu ,   Department of Information Technology, Shark Tech Intelligence Pvt. Ltd., Noida, UP (India), Singh Samendra ,   Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Mangalmay Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, UP (India), Choudhary Shweta ,   Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, UP (India), Pandit Jyotsna ,   Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities, Mangalmay Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, UP (India)
Published: November 2021

A higher product diversification range with excellent physical, mechanical and chemical properties make Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials a prominent candidate for engineering applications. But, conventional manufacturing techniques always face critical issues during the development of FRP's complex and intrinsic profile. In recent years, Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3-D printing proves itself a robust technique to produce application-specific parts of FRP composites with a higher degree of customization. In comparison to other 3D printing techniques, Stereolithography (SLA) is able to create mechanically stable objects with higher processing speed. This information paves the way for the present review article. This paper reviews the recent advancement of SLA technique to develop objects of FRP composite materials.
A PSO Based Cloud Framework for Knowledge Extraction
Authors:   National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India, Kanchibhotlaa Chaitanya , Venkatesh Pruthvi Raj ,   Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India, Somayajulu DVLN ,   National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India, P Radhakrishna ,   National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India
Published: November 2021

Many industries, such as oil, construction, banking, and insurance, have substantial historical physical data. Companies store this data in physical warehouses that are geographically distributed and usually taken care of by record management companies. Storing large volumes of historical physical data poses many critical challenges, such as increased maintenance cost, high time for recovery, and unsearchable data. Many companies digitize this data and consolidate this data into cloud repositories as part of their Digital Transformation (DT) journey to address these challenges. This DT process introduces many other technical challenges while dealing with poor scans, huge file size, geographically distributed files, and confidential documents. Though there are options to resolve each of these limitations individually, there are no frameworks that deal with digitization and historical data storage in its entirety. Moreover, they cannot handle a large number of documents having variable file sizes. This paper presents a generic cloud-based high-performance computing framework for knowledge extraction, comprising document classification based on neural networks and particle swarm optimization (PSO), data extraction, metadata enrichment, image enhancement using image processing (IP) techniques, and high data availability to users using cloud-based search. The proposed framework is executed on two cloud providers, i.e., Azure and AWS, to test its efficacy.
Effect of Risk Mitigation on Profitability of Insurance Industries in Nigeria
Authors:   Department of Banking and Finance, Faculty of Administration and Management Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun state, Nigeria, Olaiya Kehinde , Arikewuyo Kareem ,   Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, Southwestern University, Okun - Owa, Nigeria, Shogunro Ashim ,   Department of Actuarial science and Insurance, Faculty of Management Science, University of Lagos, Yunusa Lateef ,   Department of Banking and Finance, Faculty of Administration and Management Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye
Published: November 2021

Risk management plays a critical part in every organization‘s profit maximization through risk cost minimization for wise protection, which cannot be overstated. Risk mitigation (rmt), risk monitoring (rmn), risk management environment, procedure, and policies (epp), and risk measurement (rme) in relation to the profitability of the insurance industry in Nigeria were randomly selected from a wellstructured 5-point Likert scale questionnaire ranging rom ‘5 strongly agree‘ to ‘4 agree‘, ‘3 undecided‘ to ‘1 strongly disagree‘. Using the StataSE 14 statistical software, one hundred and twenty (120) questionnaires were recovered from respondents, accounting for 83 percent of the total questionnaires sent using the multiple regression statistical methodology. Risk reduction and risk monitoring have a considerable impact on the profitability of insurance companies in Nigeria, according to the findings. As a result, it concluded that risk mitigation and monitoring are important factors in determining industry profitability, and those insurance regulators should work to ensure that risk identification, assessment, measurement, and control mechanisms are implemented in accordance with best global practices in order to avoid financial crises and improve insurance performance.
CURRENT STATE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF VIBRATION EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGIES
Authors: Tverdokhlib Igor , Omelyanov Oleg
Published: November 2021

The article considers the state of scientific and technical developments in the field of improving the efficiency of vibration technology. Production activity in most branches of industrial production is provided by the work of various technological machines and vehicles. The operation of machines, equipment, mechanisms, apparatus and devices in the conditions of the need to ensure high productivity is often accompanied by significant dynamic loads, vibration processes and manifestations of shock interactions of machine elements. Ensuring the reliability and safety of machines requires at all stages of their life cycle serious attention to compliance with certain restrictions on the parameters of the dynamic state of technical objects, the development of methods and means of assessing control and management of dynamic interactions. Modern mechanical engineering is a scientific basis for solving the main problems of machine dynamics, which, in general, is based on scientific potential created by domestic and foreign scientists in the field of theoretical and applied mechanics, theory of mechanisms, dynamics and strength of machines, development of scientific directions in automatic control theory. applied system synthesis, etc. The results of scientific research are reflected in the works of famous scientists.
The formed practice of pre-design researches of the created machines, the equipment and the equipment is based on wide use of means of mathematical modeling, application of means of computer engineering. The choice of equipment in production is based on cost, productivity, size, energy consumption, etc.
In this regard, there is a question of the need to find and develop new approaches, methods and means to ensure the efficiency and reliability of technological machines and equipment.
Kelayakan Ekonomi Budidaya Nilam (Pogostemon cablin) di Desa Puundoho Kecamatan Pakue Utara Kabupaten Kolaka Utara
Authors: Syamsuri Syamsuri , Alang Hasria
Published: November 2021

Economic potential is the capacity of an area that contains potential resources, both natural resources and human resources, to be developed and become an opportunity in improving the community’s economy by looking at the real income of the people in that place. One way that can be done to improve the community’s economy is optimizing the superior plants in the area. Economic development can be done by maximizing the effect of commodities that already exist and cultivated for a long time. Puundoho Village is one of the villages with superior crops grown, namely Patchouli. Patchouli oil has high economic value because it contains compounds, terpenoids, phytosterols, flavonoids, organic acids, lignin, alkaloids, glycosides, alcohol, and aldehydes are used in the health and cosmetic fields. The purpose of the study was to see the feasibility of the economic potential of Patchouli (P. cablin) in Puundoho Village using Analisis Revenue Cost Ratio (R/C). The research was conducted from January to February 2021. The method used in this research is qualitative and quantitative. It was collecting data through observation and interviews. The results ratio showed 5,86, so it can be interpreted that Patchouli Industry is feasible to develop.
Analysis of Organic Vegetable Farmers Income During the Covid 19 Pandemic (Case Study of Aunupe Village, Wolasi Sub District, South Konawe District)
Authors: Ibrahim Ikbal , Salam Idrus , Limi Muhammad Aswar
Published: November 2021

This study aims to determine the income of farmers and the feasibility of farming organic vegetables in Aunupe Village, Wolasi Sub District, during the Covid 19 pandemic. The research was conducted in October-November 2020. The variables in this study included: Respondent identity, including (age, education, number of family dependents, farming experience), income indicators (land area, variable costs, fixed costs, production, revenue, and income). The population in this study were all organic vegetable farmers in Aunupe Village, Wolasi Sub District, Konawe Selatan District, 60 families with a sample of 38 households. The sample was determined by simple random sampling (Simple Random Sampling). The results showed that the income of organic vegetable farming in Aunupe Village, Wolasi Sub District during the Covid 19 pandemic in one production cycle (30 days) was IDR680,062 and the R / C ratio of organic vegetable farming was 3.28, so it is feasible to continue.
Factors Affecting Land Conversion From Rice Plants to Lime Plants in Watabenua Village Landono District
Authors: Maulana Rimat , Yunus Lukman , Fyka Samsul Alam
Published: November 2021

This study aims to determine what factors influence land conversion from lowland rice plantations to lime plantations in Watabenua Village, Landono District. The population in this study were all farmers who had converted land in Watabenua Village, Landono District, South Konawe Regency, and as many as 33 people, where all were used as samples by the census method 33 respondents. The analytical method used is multiple linear regression analysis. The results of this study are the factors that affect the conversion of land from lowland rice plantations to lime plantations in Watabenua Village are the cost of citrus production. In contrast, the factors that do not affect land conversion are rice income, the distance between irrigation water sources to rice fields, the price of another product, namely oranges.