bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Weight Change and Development of Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis Among Metabolically Healthy Adults: A Cohort Study
Authors: Sinn Dong Hyun , Kang Danbee , Cho Soo Jin , Chang Yoosoo , Ryu Seungho , Song Young Bin , Paik Seung Woon , Hong Yun Soo , Zhao Di , Guallar Eliseo , Cho Juhee , Gwak Geum-Youn
Published: September 2019

Background

The benefit of weight loss for reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in metabolically healthy obese people is unknown.

Objectives

We evaluated the association between weight change and incident subclinical carotid atherosclerosis (SCA) in metabolically healthy but overweight or obese subjects.

Methods

Cohort study of 3117 metabolically healthy overweight or obese adults who did not have any metabolic syndrome components or insulin resistance at baseline. SCA was assessed using carotid artery ultrasonography. The study outcome was the development of incident SCA among participants free of the disease at baseline.

Results

During 12 248 person-years of follow-up (median 3.42 years), 747 participants developed SCA. The proportions of participants with no reduction or increased weight, reduction in weight from 0.1% to 4.9%, and reduction in weight ≥ 5% during follow-up were 47.0%, 44.4%, and 8.6%, respectively. The fully-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for incident SCA in participants with a reduction in weight of 0.1% to 4.9% and ≥ 5% compared with those with no reduction or increased weight were 0.84 (95% CI, 0.72–0.98) and 0.66 (95% CI, 0.50–0.87), respectively.

Conclusions

In a large cohort study of metabolically healthy but overweight or obese adult men and women, weight reduction was associated with a lower incidence of SCA. Our findings suggest that metabolically healthy overweight or obese subjects may benefit from weight reduction in terms of CVD risk.
“As if His Heart Died”: A Reinterpretation of Moteuczoma’s Cowardice in the Conquest History of the Florentine Codex
Authors: Dufendach Rebecca
Published: September 2019

The first encounters between Nahuas and Spaniards from 1519 to 1521 resulted in widespread deaths in the indigenous communities of central Mexico. Although the first recorded disease epidemic is often acknowledged as a factor in the loss of rule to the invaders, Moteuczoma receives much of the blame. Historians contend that Moteuczoma’s cowardice facilitated the defeat of his people. Instead, this article argues that descriptions of the pain and fright that afflicted Moteuczoma and his people in Book XII of the Florentine Codex are references to long-standing cultural concepts of illness. This article uses colonial and modern ethnographic sources to illuminate enduring Mesoamerican concepts of health and sickness. The chaos and loss of life connected to the first epidemic in 1520 contributed significantly to the fall of Tenochtitlan. This article reveals how Nahuas remembered and understood the startling arrival of the Spaniards and the first terrifying disease epidemic during the invasion.
The Serpent Within: Birth Rituals and Midwifery Practices in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerican Cultures
Authors: Vail Gabrielle
Published: September 2019

This article focuses on female-gendered activities in Mesoamerican culture and reveals a strong link between conception, pregnancy, and childbirth on the one hand and weaving and other activities that produce cloth on the other. Supporting evidence from sources such as codices painted during the Postclassic period (13th to 15th centuries) in the northern Maya area indicates that these associations have a longtime depth, spanning at least a millennium. Ethnohistoric sources from highland Guatemala, paired with contemporary practices in that region, provide further insights into beliefs and rituals associated with childbirth and midwifery among prehispanic Maya populations. A review of colonial-period Nahuatl sources provides a comparative perspective for framing the Maya data within the broader context of pre-Conquest Mesoamerica.

Despite the events that have transpired during the past five hundred years in this region, this study finds that many of the elements that were key to this conceptual framework during the Pre-Hispanic period continue to be important today, although their range is more restricted now than it was during the Postclassic and colonial periods. Striking commonalities, as noted, are those that link weaving activities with pregnancy and childbirth. Additionally, objects and iconography related to women and birth—in the form of serpents, umbilical cords, and ropes—tie the act of birth to primordial creation events and highlight the association between midwife and creator grandmother.
Perinatal Rites in theRitual of the Bacabs, a Colonial Maya Manuscript
Authors: Knowlton Timothy W. , Dzidz Yam Edber
Published: September 2019

Pregnancy and childbirth were among indigenous Maya women’s most dangerous life experiences, with very high maternal and perinatal death rates from pre-Hispanic times through the first decades of the twentieth century. This article contributes to the knowledge of colonial Yucatec Maya women through the interpretation of documentary evidence of three indigenous rites meant to facilitate women’s perinatal health and successful childbirth. This evidence is contained in the eighteenth-century collection of healing chants known as the “ritual of the bacabs.” The chants include those for cooling the steam bath used in indigenous perinatal treatments, for difficulty in childbirth, and for rites surrounding the disposal of the afterbirth. Through an analysis that combines philological approaches with ethnographic interviews of contemporary Maya speakers, this article provides new insights into the intersection between ritual and culture-specific notions of the body among the colonial Maya.
Thermodynamic examination of pH and magnesium effect on U6 RNA internal loop
Authors: O'Connell Allison A. , Hanson Jared A. , McCaskill Darryl C. , Moore Ethan T. , Lewis Daniel C. , Grover Neena
Published: September 2019

U6 RNA contains a 1 × 2-nt internal loop that folds and unfold during spliceosomal assembly and activation. The 1 × 2 loop consists of a C67•A79 base pair that forms an additional hydrogen bond upon protonation, C67•A+79, and uracil (U80) that coordinates the catalytically essential magnesium ions. We designed a series of RNA and DNA constructs with a 1 × 2 loop sequence contained in the ISL, and its modifications, to measure the thermodynamic effects of protonation and magnesium binding using UV-visible thermal denaturation experiments. We show that the wild-type RNA construct gains 0.43 kcal/mol in 1 M KCl upon lowering the pH from 7.5 to 5.5; the presence of magnesium ions increases its stability by 2.17 kcal/mol at pH 7.5 over 1 M KCl. Modifications of the helix closing base pairs from C–G to U•G causes a loss in protonation-dependent stability and a decrease in stability in the presence of magnesium ions, especially in the C68U construct. A79G single-nucleotide bulge loop construct showed the largest gain in stability in the presence of magnesium ions. The DNA wild-type construct shows a smaller effect on stability upon lowering the pH and in the presence of magnesium ions, highlighting differences in RNA and DNA structures. A U6 RNA 1 × 2 loop sequence is rare in the databases examined.
Consumption on the Internet: Who’s influencing who?
Authors: Kasaras Konstantinos , Klimis Georgios-Michail , Michailidou Martha
Published: September 2019

This paper exhibits the results of the experiment that took place at Panteion University of Athens. For the operationalization purposes of the experiment, a web site was constructed that hosted 12 songs from unknown artists, while 196 students participated. The main research question is related to how we decide to consume or decline a cultural product, after getting information about the decisions of the previous participants. Namely, to what extent each successive actor complies with the group behavior after observing their preceding choices and possibly abandons his own private selection. In order to estimate whether this imitation tendency can cause mass consumption phenomena, we used the cross-sectional absolute deviation (Chang et al., 2000) which measures the existence of herding. The decisions of the previous participants in the first experimental group were presented as the impersonal choice of users and in the second as the preferences of the opinion leaders in a network of participants. According to the outcomes of the research the influence of the impersonal mass choice is stronger compared to that of the opinion leaders who failed to cause a phenomenon of high statistical value.
Lessons learned from the Advancing Maternal Immunization collaboration: identifying evidence gaps for informed respiratory syncytial virus maternal immunization decision-making
Authors: Groman Devin , Higgins Deborah , Khan Sadaf , Simpson Evan , Pecenka Clint , Newhouse Lauren , Letson G. William , Gudmastad Mark , Baral Ranju , Fleming Jessica A.
Published: September 2019

In an increasingly crowded vaccine landscape, global and country decision-makers will require evidence-based and disease-specific information when prioritizing new public health interventions. The Advancing Maternal Immunization collaboration (AMI) was designed to develop a cross-program strategy to advance respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) maternal immunization (MI) availability and accessibility in low- and middle-income countries by completing a comprehensive RSV MI gap analysis and developing an actionable roadmap report. By engaging and coordinating key stakeholders using a web-based communication platform and developing standardized tools, AMI was able to facilitate interaction and consensus between members. This paper describes the methodology used to create and manage AMI’s work. We share lessons learned from our approach to inform other groups conducting similar work requiring cross-sectoral engagement. This approach could be adapted to efficiently conduct gap analyses for other health interventions that require input and coordination across a variety of topic areas, disciplines, geographies, and stakeholders.
Low-density genetically diverse natural Wolbachia infections in malaria vectors in Kayin state, Myanmar
Authors: Sawasdichai Sunisa , Chaumeau Victor , Dah Tee , Kulabkeeree Thithiworada , Kajeechiwa Ladda , Phanaphadungtham Monthicha , Trakoolchengkaew Muesuwa , Kittiphanakun Praphan , Akararungrot Yanada , Oo Kyi , Delmas Gilles , White Nicholas J. , Nosten François H.
Published: September 2019

Background: Natural Wolbachia infections in malaria mosquitoes were recently reported in Africa, and negatively correlated with the development of Plasmodium falciparum in the vectors. The occurrence and effects of Wolbachia infections outside Africa have not been described and may have been underestimated.

Methods: Mosquitoes were collected by human-landing catch during May and June 2017 in ten villages in Kayin state, Myanmar. Closely related species of malaria vectors were identified with molecular assays. Wolbachia infection rates were assessed with quantitative real-time PCR.

Results: Low titer of Wolbachia DNA was detected in 13/370 samples in six malaria vector species. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA sequences revealed a high diversity of Wolbachia strains and identified lineages different from those described in the African malaria mosquitoes.

Conclusion: These low-density genetically diverse natural Wolbachia infections question the ecology and biology of Wolbachia-Anopheles interactions in Southeast Asia. Their effects on malaria transmission and mosquito vectors are yet to be determined.
Introduction to the Special Issue on IoT Cloud Solutions for Societal Applications
Authors: Benedict Shajulin , Gerndt Michael
Published: September 2019

Addressing societal problems such as air pollution, water contamination, corruption, healthcare management, agricultural assistance, and so forth has increased in the recent past using several highend technologies, including IoT cloud.

In fact, innovations have become the key factor of economic growth in several developing and developed countries. For instance, Atal Innovation Mission of India has promoted innovations that addresses the needs of the society through IoT cloud based technologies at AIC-IIITKottayam; TUM-Germany and several top ranked universities across the globe have driven the research or product developments targeting the benefits of the society – energy, healthcare, agriculture, economic health, and so forth.

Existing IoT based societal applications require a large volume of data for the analysis; a secure environment for handling data (either in the cloud or edge environments); and, a diligent planning while handling heterogeneous devices on federated cloud environments. In fact, scalability of cloud resources is the backbone for IoT cloud environments, while edge computing is required for short response times. Many IoT applications are based on automatic decision making applying machine learning on huge data sets and thus, these techniques influenced a large group of researchers in the IoT cloud domain.

This special issue on “IoT Cloud Solutions for Societal Applications” discusses security aspects and a decision making in IoT applications. Syed et al discuss IoT security requirements, challenges, and in the context of smart cities, smart health, smart building, smart transport, and smart industry applications; Naveen et al have carried out a theoretical evaluation using spacio-temporal distance networks in a deep learning network in order to perform the action recognition tasks in IoT environments.
Virtual Channel aware Scheduling for Real Time Data-Flows on Network on-Chip
Authors: Meghabber Amine , Loukil Lakhdar , Olejnik Richard , Benyamina Abou El Hassan , Aroui Abdelkader
Published: September 2019

The increasing complexity of real-time applications presents a challenge to researchers and software designers. The tasks of these applications usually exchange large volume of data-flows and often need to satisfy real-time constraints. Although the Network on-Chip (NoC) paradigm offers an underlying communication infrastructure that gives more hardware resources, it is unable to safe tasks and data-flows deadlines. In recent works, preemptive wormhole switching with fixed priority has been introduced to meet real-time constraints of real-time applications. However, it suffers some bottleneck such as hardware requirement where none of these works takes account of the number of implemented virtual channels on the router. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel scheduler for soft real-time data-flows application that takes into account the lack on resource in routers in term of Virtual channels. Experimental results obtained on a benchmark of synthetic and soft real applications have shown the efficiency of our approach in term of real-time constraints satisfaction for data-flow traffics and hardware requirements.
Ensemble Spatio-Temporal Distance Net for Skeleton Based Action Recognition
Authors: Naveenkumar M , Domnic S
Published: September 2019

The performance of an efficient and accurate action recognition system heavily depends on distinctive representations for a different class of action sequences. To address this issue, we propose an ensemble network in this paper. We design two multilayer Long Short Term Memory networks to capture spatial and temporal dynamics of the entire sequence, referred to as Spatial-distance Net (SdNet) and Temporal-distance Net (TdNet) respectively. More specifically, SdNet captures the spatial dynamics of joints within a frame and TdNet explores the temporal dynamics of joints between frames along the sequence. Finally, two nets are fused as one Ensemble network, referred to as Spatio -Temporal distance Net (STdNet) to explore both spatial and temporal dynamics. The efficacy of the proposed method is evaluated on two widely used datasets, UTD MHAD and NTU RGB+D, and the proposed STdNet achieved 91.16% and 80.03% accuracies respectively.
SIMD Implementation of the Aho-Corasick Algorithm using Intel AVX2
Authors: Ourlis Lazhar , Bellala Djamel
Published: September 2019

The Aho-Corasick (AC) algorithm is a multiple pattern exact string-matching algorithm proposed by Alfred V. Aho and Margaret J. Corasick. It is used to locate all occurrences of a finite set of patterns within an input text simultaneously. The AC algorithm is in the heart of many applications including digital forensics such as digital signatures demonstrating the authenticity of a digital message or document, full text search (utility programs such as grep, awk and sed of Unix systems), information retrieval (biological sequence analysis and gene identification), intrusion detection systems (IDS) in computer networks like SNORT, web filtering, spam filters, and antimalware solutions (virus scanner). In this paper we present a vectorized version of the AC algorithm designed with the use of packed instructions based on the Intel streaming SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) extensions AVX2 (Advanced Vector Extensions 2.0) technology. This paper shows that the vectorized AC algorithm reduces significantly the time matching process comparing to the implementation of the original AC algorithm.
Arte cênica e aprendizado: potencialidades para as organizações
Authors: Palongan Elisângela Conceição Vieira , Silva Luis Fernando Moreira , Cassandre Marcio Pascoal
Published: September 2019

No dia a dia das organizações há a busca constante por inovações, novos modelos de gestão e aprendizado. Exigências e obrigações são requeridas do ser humano, que precisa desempenhar papéis distintos nos ambientes em que atua. Ao mesmo tempo em que tem emoções tolhidas, precisa expandir a capacidade criativa. Nas mais variadas culturas, o teatro, tem sido um facilitador no desenvolvimento da aprendizagem e da criatividade humana. Nesse contexto, em que o teatro desempenha diversas funções, o objetivo deste ensaio é discutir a inserção da arte cênica no processo de aprendizagem e sua utilização como recurso para a Aprendizagem Organizacional.
Fragmentação de municípios catarinenses e desempenho econômico-financeiro
Authors: Rodrigues Antonio Felipe Oliveira , Schenitzler Edimeia Liliani , Sallum Silvio Bhering , Raupp Fabiano Maury
Published: September 2019

Este artigo analisa como o fenômeno da fragmentação dos municípios catarinenses impacta no seu desempenho econômico-financeiro. Para tanto, foi realizada uma análise descritiva dos dados, além de testes estatísticos com o objetivo de determinar um modelo de previsão de despesa que apresentasse o ajuste com as menores distorções possíveis. Concluiu-se que a fusão de municípios é uma forma de aumentar a eficiência econômica e melhorar o bem-estar das cidades catarinenses com população pequena, cabendo aos legisladores estabelecer normas que incentivem um novo rearranjo territorial, fato que pode aumentar a eficiência dos recursos públicos e atender as principais necessidades dos cidadãos.
Sol, chuva e temporal: o significado do trabalho informal sob a perspectiva dos camelôs que trabalham no centro da cidade de Manaus
Authors: Gomes Sueny Ferreira , Souza Júnior Armando Araújo de , Costa Geraldo Vieira da
Published: September 2019

Este artigo apresenta um estudo sobre o significado do trabalho informal sob a ótica dos camelôs que trabalham no centro da cidade de Manaus - AM. Foi realizada uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, de cunho descritivo e baseada em dados coletados por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas. As conclusões apontam que a informalidade se molda de acordo com as características da história, rotina, temores e pretensões da categoria, se tornando assim parte da identidade do camelô. Ademais, constata-se a falta de oportunidades que os camelôs têm em reivindicar suas pautas junto ao sindicato e a própria prefeitura da cidade.
The Great Digital Revolution: Humanitarian and Pedagogical Aspects
Authors: Андреев А. , Andreev A.
Published: September 2019

The article suggests a new view at the effect of digital revolution in economy. And in this connection here are defined the functions of such concepts as the sociocentrism, individocentrism, personacentrism (personality-centeredness). Also the article justifies the prospects of new pedagogical strategy.
Moral Leadership as a Tool of Social Conflict Management among Youth
Authors: Викторук Елена , Viktoruk Elena , Минеев В. , Mineev V. , Артемьева Светлана , Artemyeva Svetlana
Published: September 2019

The article discusses the features of moral leadership and its potential for overcoming social tensions. The type of leader is largely determined by the approach to managing intra- and intergroup conflicts. Therefore, the focus is put on the contiguity of conflict as a multifaceted social phenomenon and the phenomenon of leadership. In the 21st century, authoritarian, instrumental methods of coping with social conflicts become ineffective. Traditional forms of governance are much exhausted. The purpose of the article is to outline the contours of some type of leadership, which is based on moral and ethical regulation. The roots of the phenomenon of moral leadership are traced both in the peculiarities of modern society and in the history of moral practices. The establishment of the institution of moral leadership involves the emergence of new communities, forms of activity, and social roles. The moral factor modifies the social conflict, translates it mainly into the moral dimension, makes it constructive. Using elements of logical analysis, as well as historical-genetic and biographical methods, the authors show that in the history of civilization it was the ancient philosophers who influenced others by example and became the first moral leaders in the full sense of the word. And the very philosophy — given the cohesion of philosophical discourse and the philosophical lifestyle — has become a space in which the traditional type of leadership has transformed into an innovative one. The authors conclude that modern society urgently needs a revival of the spirit of practical philosophy. On the one hand, for its growth and improvement, the institution of moral leadership needs a deep ethical and philosophical reflection. On the other hand, philosophy, which has now found itself in the shadow of instrumental scientific knowledge, thanks to its relevance for moral practices, gets a chance to once again take its rightful place in the life of civilization.
The System of Measuring the Conflictological Competence of Students Majoring in "Social Work" in the Process of Higher Education
Authors: Алпысбаева М. , Alpysbaeva M. , Манашова Гульмира , Manashova Gulmira , Рабаданова Р. , Rabadanova R. , Шишов Сергей , Shishov Sergey
Published: September 2019

The authors study the problem of forming conflictological competence in students in the context of university education. The purpose of the article is to develop and test the pedagogical system of forming conflictological competence among students of the specialty "Social work" in the educational process of the university. The authors present a system of measuring the conflictological competence of students majoring in "Social work" in the process of higher education.
Specifics of the Professional and Personal Deformation of the Health Service Employees of the Internal Affairs Ministry
Authors: Кадникова Оксана , Kadnikova Oksana , Смагина Светлана , Smagina Svetlana , Степанова Татьяна , Stepanova Tat'yana
Published: September 2019

This article examines the specifics of the professional and personal deformation of the health service employees of the Internal Affairs Ministry as a special category. For the purpose of the research we used a complex of psycho diagnostical methodics including the Tikhomirova’s questionnaire on the level of professional personality deformation, the questionnaire of professional deformation as well as the technique of Tikhonova - Komb of the methodology of studying frustration reactions of health professionals under stressful professional situations, the questionnaire of Maslach-Vodopianova on professional burnout, the questionnaire on empathy adapted from Megrabian’s technique. We also used the technique of the professional activity motivation by K. Zamfir modified by A.A. Rean and methods of mathematical and statistical data processing. The authors have empirically identified psychological features of professional deformation of the health workers including a predominance of self-defensive extrapunitive reaction under conflict situations with patients, the development of professional burnout within the type of the low professional success coupled with signs of emotional exhaustion, the predominance of the external motivation to work as well as the reduced level of empathy. The career duration and educational level have proved to have influence on the specifics of the professional and personal deformation of the health service employees.
Characteristic Features of Technical Mindset and Ways of Developing It in Future Engineers
Authors: Лысенко Е. , Lysenko E.
Published: September 2019

The paper substantiates the importance of studying the technical mindset of an engineer and finding the ways and means of forming this professionally important type of thinking in university students. The author reveals the essence and the three-component structure of the technical mindset and outlines its characteristic features (integration, creativeness, efficiency and reflexivity), which can serve as a tool for diagnosing the development level of the technical mindset in the study process. In the course of empirical research conducted on the basis of the Institute of Mechanical and Power Engineering named after V.P. Goryachkin, it was established that the development level of the technical mindset in students of all years is above average; the dynamics of results in different years of study is unstable; lecturers can poorly visualize the process of developing the technical mindset; students find it difficult to introspect the changes that occur in the study process. The conclusion is made about the need for an engineering university of purposeful and systematic work on the development of the technical mindset. The author proposes some ways of developing the technical mindset features in students in the classroom environment.
Possibilities of Wolfram-Technologies in Training in Elements of Probability Theory of Students of an Economic Bachelor Degree
Authors: Власов Дмитрий , Vlasov Dmitriy , Синчуков Александр , Sinchukov Aleksandr
Published: September 2019

The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of future social lawyers in colleges of a professional information culture. The article contains the results of empirical studies aimed at identifying the relationship between the level of formation of future lawyers of the middle tier of the professional information culture and the degree of expression of their negative communicative attitudes. The study was carried out on the basis of Moscow colleges, implementing programs of secondary vocational education in the direction of training 40.02.01 “The Law and Organization of Social Security” (a program for in-depth training of middle-level specialists of the APSP). In the empirical study was attended by 225 college students enrolled in graduate courses relevant training. In the article, the authors reveal the essence and content of the professional information culture of future lawyers as a psychological and pedagogical phenomenon, determines ways of measuring the level of its formation, conducts an empirical study, as a result of which it comes to a conclusion about the importance and significance of correcting communicative attitudes spheres.
Video Project as a Method of Teaching a Foreign Language in the Department of Linguistics
Authors: Федорова А. , Fedorova A. , Быстрова А. , Bystrova A.
Published: September 2019

The article is devoted to project-based learning as a method of forming communicative competence in a foreign language in the department of Linguistics. The pedagogical approach to the student-film making process which allows learners to elicit and develop their explanatory, pragmatic and creative potentials is analysed. This method aims at independent and mutual student research, critical evaluation of information sources and further information transfer to new contexts and ideas. The main benefits of implementing the project method in the contemporary teaching process are considered. The study focuses on the main requirements and rubric of student films. The article shows four stages of filmmaking, the role and functions of a teacher at each stage. It is concluded that during the video production process the role of a teacher is a facilitator who contributes to turning students into active, keen graduates who are able to analyse themselves. The results of a survey conducted among students on the video project are analysed.
Advantages of Simulation Training in the Preparation of a Medical Intern
Authors: Янкина Н. , Yankina N. , Шишов Сергей , Shishov Sergey
Published: September 2019

The article deals with simulation training in the training of a resident doctor: the relevance of the problem; research methods; survey of residency graduates. Based on the research results, it is concluded that simulation training has a number of serious advantages.
Analysis of the Possibilities for the Implementation and Formation of Leadership Qualities among Teachers in the Modern Educational Environment
Authors: Андрюкова Д. , Andryukova D. , Виноградова Н. , Vinogradova N.
Published: September 2019

In modern socio-cultural conditions, there is a request for professional growth of the teacher. It is confirmed by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation (5) and teachers (1). The problem is to increase the number and level of complexity of the requirements for teachers and the lack of theoretical and practical information base for both working and future teachers. The purpose of the study: to develop a Handbook designed to help in the possible implementation of the request for professional growth of the teacher, the formation of the teacher-leader. Research problem:

1) to study the features of teachers ' perception of the phenomenon of leadership and understanding the role of a leader for a teacher within his profession.

2) to analyze the difficulties in the pedagogical sphere, relevant at the moment. 3) the opinions of teachers about the specifics of their profession are revealed. The topic of the phenomenon of leadership in the pedagogical sphere and improving the quality of education was considered in the works of M. Barber, M. Murshed [2], I.B. Bicheva, O.M. Filatova [3], S.S. Lutkin [4], I.L. Feldman [6], S.N. Yaroshenko [7].
Auditor Education Trends in the Digital Economy
Authors: Казакова Наталия , Kazakova Nataliya
Published: September 2019

Th e article considers the impact of global world, national processes and the digitalization of the economy on the profession of an auditor, the education of auditors, the convergence of the professions of an auditor, internal auditor, controller, fi nancial security specialist, business analyst, and as a result, the transition to a competently oriented model of qualifi cation certifi cation of auditors in compliance with international standards for the education of auditors.
The Concept of the Organizational and Economic Mechanism for the Functioning of Internal Control
Authors: Аристархова М. , Aristarhova M. , Фахрутдинов В. , Fahrutdinov V.
Published: September 2019

Th e presented article touches upon topical issues of the functioning of internal control at the enterprise. A toolkit has been developed for the organizational and economic mechanism for the functioning of internal control, which includes principles, functions, logic, the time aspect, controlling, and norms. Th e structural and functional components of internal control are highlighted. An adaptive organizational structure of the risk management and internal control system has been formed, which can be the basis for the formation of a model for the functioning of the internal control of a gas transmission company
Organization of Payroll Accounting As a Stimulating Factor for Increasing the Success of the Company
Authors: Парасоцкая Н. , Parasotskaya N.
Published: September 2019

Th e article deals with the problems associated with the accounting of wages in the organization as a motivating factor to increase its success, as well as possible ways to solve them.
Bridging Academia and Industry: How Geographic Hubs Connect University Science and Corporate Technology
Authors: Bikard Michaël , Marx Matt
Published: September 2019

Innovative firms rely increasingly on academic science, yet they exploit only a small fraction of all academic discoveries. Which discoveries in academia do firms build upon? We posit that hubs play the role of bridges between academic science and corporate technology. Tracking citations from patents to approximately 10 million academic articles, we find that hubs facilitate the flow of academic science into corporate inventions in two ways. First, hub-based discoveries in academia are of higher quality and are more applied. Second, firms—in particular young, innovative, science-oriented ones—pay disproportionate attention to hub-based discoveries. We address concerns regarding unobserved heterogeneity by confirming the role of firms’ attention to hub-based science in a set of 147 simultaneous discoveries. Importantly, hubs not only facilitate localized knowledge flow but also extend the geographic reach of academic science, attracting the attention of distant firms.

This paper was accepted by Ashish Arora, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Technical Note—Nonstationary Stochastic Optimization Under Lp,q-Variation Measures
Authors: Chen Xi , Wang Yining , Wang Yu-Xiang
Published: September 2019

Most existing literature in stochastic optimization assumes that the underlying cost function does not change over time. However, in practice, cost functions may be nonstationary and change along the time horizon. In “Nonstationary Stochastic Optimization Under L_{p,q}-Variation Measures,” X. Chen, Y. Wang, and Y.-X. Wang study nonstationary sequential stochastic optimization problems and consider a general L_{p,q}-variation functional to quantify the nonstationarity of underlying cost functions. The L_{p,q}-variation functional generalizes a previously considered variation constraint and captures local temporal and spatial changes of cost functions. The matching regret upper and lower bounds are provided. The regret bound shows interesting phenomena under this general variation functional, such as the curse of dimensionality, which shares a similar spirit as in nonparametric statistics.
Ensino-Aprendizagem com Game of Thrones: aplicando ferramentas de Análise de Política Externa para analisar o Dragão, o Leão e o Lobo | Teaching-Learning with Game of Thrones: Applying Foreign Policy Analysis Tools to analyze the Dragon, the Lion and the Wolf
Authors: Gonçalves Fernanda Cristina Nanci Izidro , Marins Carolina Mendes
Published: September 2019

Este artigo aplica ferramentas teóricas utilizadas para analisar liderança eprocesso decisório na subdisciplina de Análise de Política Externa (APE) à série Game of Thrones. Busca-se demonstrar que a série e seus protagonistas podem ser utilizados como instrumentos para o aprendizado aplicado do conteúdo teórico de APE no campo de estudo de Relações Internacionais. Por meio de um exemplo prático, este artigo apresenta como é possível aplicar ferramentas de Análise de Traços de Liderança a três dos principais personagens de GOT: Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen e Cersei Lannister. Conclui-se que a aplicação de novos métodos para compreensão do conteúdo teórico das disciplinas enriquece, estimula e facilita o processo de ensino-aprendizagem.Palavras-chave: Análise de Política Externa; Game of Thrones; Ensino-Aprendizagem.ABSTRACTThis article applies theoretical tools used to analyze leadership and decision making in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) to Game of Thrones. It demonstrates that the series and its protagonists can be used as instruments for an applied learning of the FPA theoretical content in the field of International Relations. Through a practical example, this article presents how it is possible to apply Leadership Trait Analysis tools to three of GOT's main characters: Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and Cersei Lannister. It is concluded that the application of new methods to understand theoretical content enriches, stimulates and facilitates the teaching-learning process.Keywords: Foreign Policy Analysis; Game of Thrones; Teaching-Learning.Recebido em 23 out.2018 | Aceito em 22 ago.2019
Epidemiology of paediatric elbow fractures: A retrospective multi-centre study of 488 fractures
Authors: Okubo H. , Nakasone M. , Kinjo M. , Onaka K. , Futenma C. , Kanaya F.
Published: September 2019

Purpose

Elbow fractures are common in children and occur during daily activities. The aim of this study is to evaluate the epidemiology of paediatric elbow fractures over a two-year period in Okinawa, a southern subtropical island in Japan.

Methods

This was a retrospective study of 488 elbow fractures in children younger than 15 years old treated at 11 hospitals in Okinawa. Data included age, gender, calendar month, type of fracture, operation rate, mechanism of injury, and aetiology.

Results

The most frequent age was 6 years old, with 47.5% of all elbow fractures occurring in an age range from 6 to 10 years old. The fracture rate for boys was 1.6 times higher than that for girls. The incidence was the highest in May (56 fractures) and the lowest in August (25 fractures). Supracondylar fractures were the most common type (44%), followed by lateral condyle fractures (22%); 45% of all fractures were treated operatively. Medial epicondyle fractures had the highest rate of operative treatment (91%). In the 6 to 10-year-old group, 19% of all fractures occurred while skateboarding or caster-boarding, the most frequent aetiology.

Conclusions

Supracondylar fractures are the most common fracture type in 4 to 7-year-old boys. In the 6 to 10-year-old group, skateboarding and caster-boarding are the most frequent and increasing cause of elbow fractures. Therefore, some preventive measures are needed.

Level of evidence

Level IV, case series
Структура и свойства материалов на основе сплавов и тонких пленок ниобия с оловом
Authors: Новоженов Владимир Антонович , Стручева Наталья Егоровна , Ганиев Изатулло Наврузович , Обидов Зиёдулло Рахматович
Published: September 2019

Методами дифференциального термического (ДТА), рентгенофазового (РФА), энергодисперсионного анализа исследованы структура и свойства материалов на основе сплавов и тонких пленок ниобия с оловом. Условия синтеза и температурные интервалы устойчивости к окислению определяли из данных ДТА. Исследование устойчивости пленок на воздухе проводили, выдерживая их при комнатной температуре 1-3 месяца и при нагревании до 100 и 250 °С в течение 2 часов. Сплавы получали непосредственным сплавлением компонентов при 800 °С с последующим размалыванием, прессованием и спеканием при 500 °С в течение 100 часов. Фазовый состав сплавов устанавливали методом РФА. Рентгенофазовый анализ тонких пленок показал, что на поверхности подложки при осаждении из газовой фазы обычно осаждаются термодинамически наиболее устойчивые соединения в системе. Исследование рельефа поверхности с помощью атомно-силового микроскопа показало, что поверхность пленок остается неизменной при выдержке при нормальной температуре до 3 месяцев. Определенные четырехзондовым методом величины сопротивления показывают, что сопротивление пленок увеличилось примерно на 20-30 % по сравнению с компактными веществами.
Группы движений собственно гельмгольцевой трехмерной геометрии и симплициальной трехмерной геометрии III типа
Authors: Богданова Рада Александровна , Кыров Владимир Александрович
Published: September 2019

Основными задачами теории феноменологически симметричных (ФС) геометрий (геометрий локальной максимальной подвижности) являются их полная классификация, вывод уравнения феноменологической симметрии и нахождение групп движений для каждой из них. ФС геометрия задается на многообразии функцией пары точек. Феноменологическая симметрия трехмерных ФС геометрий состоит в наличии функциональной связи между значениями функции пары точек для всех пар из пяти произвольных точек. Их классификация была впервые построена В.Х. Левом и позже дополнена В.А. Кыровым симплициальной геометрией III типа. Методами установления групповой симметрии ФС геометрий являются метод решения функциональных уравнений на множество движений, разработанный для двумерных и некоторых трехмерных ФС геометрий, и метод экспоненциального отображения.Методом экспоненциального отображения для собственно гельмгольцевой и симплициальнойIII типа трехмерных ФС геометрий находятся явные выражения групп движений. Данные вычисленияпроизводятся с использованием аппарата комплексного анализа и формулируются в виде отдельной теоремы. Группы движений этих геометрий являются действиями группы Ли SL2(C)R в пространстве R3.
Об одной задаче движения внешней нагрузки по вязкому битому льду в канале
Authors: Завьялова Кристина Николаевна , Шишмарев Константин Александрович
Published: September 2019

Рассматривается задача определения колебаний битого льда в канале в результате движения внешней нагрузки.

В пункте 1 приведен обзор литературы.

В пункте 2 приведена постановка задачи. Приводится прямоугольный канал с конечными глубиной и шириной. Жидкость в канале идеальная и покрыта битым льдом. Битый лед моделируется тонкой упругой пластиной с нулевой жесткостью. Внешняя нагрузка моделируется гладким локализованным давлением и движется по верхней поверхности битого льда с постоянной скоростью. Рассматривается модельная задача с учетом вязкости битого льда. Течение, вызванное прогибом битого льда, является потенциальным. Прогибы битого льда и потенциал течения жидкости удовлетворяют условию затухания в отдалении от нагрузки.

В пункте 3 приведен алгоритм решения задачи. Решение ищется в виде бегущей волны в системе координат, движущейся совместно с нагрузкой. Задача решена с использованием преобразования Фурье вдоль канала и методом разделения переменных. Решение получено в виде интегралов от образа Фурье прогиба битого льда. Данные интегралы решаются численно для некоторых заданных параметров задачи.

В заключение приведены основные результаты работы.
Об атомарности внешних мер
Authors: Саженков Александр Николаевич , Плотникова Елена Александровна
Published: September 2019

Исследуется понятие неатомарности для абстрактных внешних мер, определенных на булевом кольце и принимающих значения в произвольном множестве. Для скалярных функций множеств неатомарность множества означает его представимость в виде объединения конечного числа попарно непересекающихся множеств, на любых принадлежащих кольцу подмножествах которых модуль значения функции будет меньше любого заранее заданного положительного числа.

Топологии, связанные с внешней мерой, рассматриваемые нами, являются согласованными со структурой булевого кольца и имеющими определенным образом составленную базу фильтра окрестностей нуля. В такой топологии операции конъюнкции, дизъюнкции, сложения и умножения являются равномерно непрерывными. В работах Л.Я. Савельева представлен обзор современного состояния результатов по обширному кругу вопросов, связанных с внешними мерами и топологиями.

Рассматриваются понятие абстрактной внешней меры, которое охватывает широкий класс мер, и понятие внешней топологии, даны два определения ограниченности в топологической абелевой группе и исследована взаимосвязь этих определений. В основных результатах работы понятие неатомарности меры характеризуется как свойство ограниченности области определения внешней меры в подходящей топологической группе.
К геометрии бутылки Клейна
Authors: Чешкова Мира Артемовна
Published: September 2019

Данная публикация продолжает серию работ автора о моделировании односторонних поверхностей. На односторонней поверхности существует замкнутая кривая (дезориентирующий контур), обладающая тем свойством, что при обходе локальная ориентация в касательном пространстве меняет знак.

Односторонней поверхностью является бутылка Клейна.

Рассматриваются две гладкие вектор-функции. Предполагается, что одна из них есть 2π периодическая, другая 2π — антипериодическая.

С использованием найденных функций определяются уравнения бутылки Клейна, дезориентирующие контуры и уравнения двух листов Мебиуса, на которые разрезается бутылка Клейна. В работе исследуется инверсия бутылки Клейна.

Доказывается, что если бутылка Клейна не проходит через центр инверсии, то инверсия бутылки Клейна есть бутылка Клейна. Доказывается также, что если бутылка Клейна не проходит через центр инверсии, то дезориентирующие контуры бутылки Клейна при инверсии перейдут в дезориентирующие контуры.

С помощью системы компьютерной математики строятся исследуемые поверхности.
Alpha-Fetoprotein and its Receptor: More Than Oncofoetal Antigens.
Authors: Pak Vladimir N
Published: September 2019

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Severe Vitamin D Deficiency in Saudi Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Authors: Aljabri K.S. , Bokhari S. A.
Published: September 2019

Introduction
It has been demonstrated that vitamin D deficiency is associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We conducted a cross sectional study to investigate the prevalence severe vitamin D deficiency in patients with T2DM.

Method
A cross-sectional single centre study was conducted in 4053 patients with T2DM. Patients with T2DM attended the Diabetes Centre at King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia between January 2018 and December 2018 were recruited.

Results
There were 4053 patients with T2DM, 1145 male and 2908 female (28 % vs.72% respectively). The mean age was 53.9 ±16.5 years. The mean and median 25-OHD concentrations were 57.8±30.5 and 51.9 respectively. Severe vitamin D deficiency (25-OHD<25 nmol/l) was found in 1916 (9.5%). Moreover, severe vitamin D deficiency was not statistically significant more prevalent among females than males with male to female ratio 1:2.3 (70% vs. 30% respectively, p=0.6). In addition, severe vitamin D deficient patients were statistically significant younger than non-vitamin D deficient (48.0±16.7 vs. 54.6±16.3 respectively, p<0.0001). Severe vitamin D deficient patients have statistically significant higher HbA1c than non-vitamin D deficient (8.3 ±2.3 vs. 7.6±1.9 respectively, p<0.0001). The mean 25-OHD was upward as age advanced with highest frequency of vitamin D deficiency was found in the age group ≥60 years (27%) with males statistically significant most frequent than females in the age group ≥60 years (39 s, 22 respectively, p=0.003).

Regression analysis of odd ratio of risk factors for patients with severe vitamin D deficiency showed that age and HbA1c were statistically significant associated with vitamin D deficiency.

Conclusions
The prevalence of severe vitamin D deficiency in patients with T2DM is low and that more females with T2DM are affected with vitamin D deficiency than males.