bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
When a person with dementia is leaving hospital
Authors: Mendes Aysha
Published: January 2019

People with dementia can find change particularly difficult. Aysha Mendes looks at how to minimise distress experienced by these patients when they leave the ward to return home or move to a new care setting
Support for present and future leaders
Authors: Foster Sam
Published: January 2019

Sam Foster, Chief Nurse, Oxford University Hospitals, considers how clinical leaders in the NHS can best be empowered to lead, in light of the recent Kerr report
A safety lancet for neonatal blood spot tests: a design that facilitates pain-free, atraumatic samples
Authors: Goodwin Sarah , Supachana Nichole
Published: January 2019

Safety lancets are used to collect capillary blood samples to test if neonates have rare but serious congenital conditions, such as sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis, congenital hypothyroidism and inherited metabolic diseases. Blood samples are taken from the heel, but the procedure can cause the neonate pain or discomfort, as well as a risk of local trauma to the nerves and blood vessels, bleeding, infection and scarring. This article explores the need for blood sampling in neonates, discusses the procedure and outlines the types of lancets available. It describes the Neoheel Safety Lancet (Smiths Medical), whose features are designed to avoid pain and trauma during the procedure. Three case studies are included to describe its use in clinical practice.
The orthodontic/endodontic interface part 4
Authors: Anwar Hamza , Darcey James , Malik Ovais H
Published: January 2019

Abstract: The final part of this four part series will review the effects of orthodontic treatment with endodontically treated teeth. There are few published articles on the challenges faced when treatment planning cases with the integration of both endodontics and orthodontics. This article will aim to summarize the implications of endodontic treatment on orthodontic tooth movement using current evidence, followed by some case examples highlighting aspects of the orthodontic-endodontic interface.

CPD/Clinical Relevance: With an increase in the number of patients undergoing orthodontic treatment, there is a greater need for clinicians to be aware of the orthodontic management of endodontically treated teeth and also managing endodontic complications during orthodontic treatment.
Genomic information in livestock has multiple uses in precision breeding and management
Authors: Berry Donagh P
Published: January 2019

Genomics is the study of the structure, function, evolution and mapping of genomes which comprises DNA. All cells have DNA which, in its interaction with the past and prevailing environment, influences animal performance. The DNA of an animal is inherited from its parents and does not change throughout the life of the animal. Hence, DNA provides a rich source of information on individual animals, which can be readily exploited in precision breeding and management decisions. Other than its use to augment the accuracy of estimating animal genetic merit, genomics can also be used in: parentage assignment; traceability; monitoring of major genes and congenital defects including karyotype disorders; estimating coancestry or inbreeding; quantifying breed composition; and facilitating more precise mating and management decisions. Generating genotype information on animals is now relatively inexpensive contributing to a high return on investment for farmers, breeders and even down-stream industries.
Management of claw horn lesions; a practitioner's guide through the literature
Authors: Newsome Reuben , Reilly Beth , Reader Jon
Published: January 2019

The authors of this article are members of the Cattle Lameness Academy, part of Synergy Farm Health, a veterinary practice covering Dorset, Somerset and East Devon. Following on from a recent and comprehensive review of foot trimming technique ( Manning et al, 2016 ), the current authors were invited to discuss the evidence base for current foot trimming interventions, claw horn lesion treatments and specifically how these can inform clinical practice. The evidence pertaining to claw horn lesion treatments was reviewed by Potterton et al (2012) although several key studies have been published since. Additionally, a recent review of how statistics have improved our understanding of the lameness disease process has also been published ( Randall et al, 2018a ). The purpose of the current article is therefore to provide the practitioner with a guide through key pieces of literature, highlight the problems that arise from gaps in the literature and discuss the methods that we can adopt to manage lameness when the reviewed literature is scarce.
When students cannot relate…
Authors: Sobel Daniel
Published: January 2019

Continuing his series offering practical solutions to common difficulties experienced by vulnerable pupils, Daniel Sobel looks at the varying ‘relating’ challenges we might encounter
The revitalization of a craft economy: The case of Scottish knitting
Authors: Halbert Jade
Published: January 2019

In the 1980s, Vivienne Weir knitted for money at home, her skills – little remunerated – realizing in luxurious yarns the fashionable imaginings of a local designer. In 2018, Kate Davies knits at home, her skills the foundation of a successful eponymous knitwear design, yarn production and publishing business. What separates these women is more than time – in contemporary Scotland, knitting is a valid and valued entrepreneurial pursuit, and so-called home-knitters form part of a vast network of crafters whose turn from home-craft to design-focused entrepreneurship represents a significant contribution to the £1 billion per annum that the fashion and textile industries generate for Scotland. Through analysis of the business activities of both women, collected through personal testimony interviews, this article examines the revitalization of knitting in Scotland as a viable and lucrative entrepreneurial activity. It compares and contrasts the historical case study of Vivienne who was not afforded the opportunity to realize her potential and make a business from her skills, with the contemporary story of Kate who has translated her skills in hand-knitting and passion for design into a profitable enterprise. It argues that the revitalization of the craft economy of knitting in Scotland has been galvanized by the rise of a new generation of knitters determined to rewrite the Scottish aesthetic lexicon in knitwear design; a new appreciation for the heritage and tradition of skilled knitting, and a newfound understanding of the economic, social and cultural value of knit-craft. In an age of increasing automation in fashion and textiles, and concerns around the social and environmental impacts of mass-manufacturing, this article demonstrates the importance of a dynamic craft economy in knitting to the Scottish fashion and textile industries.

The article and the research undertaken focus on the particularities of Scottish hand-knitting through the two case studies and the specific context of Scottish developmental initiatives. However, it is also intended to indicate the resonances of this specific research with other instances of the burgeoning of ‘traditional’ craft practices and products (often undertaken by women) as marketable within a global environment. Such marketability involves complex interactions between notions of the ‘traditional’, cultural identity and affiliation and how these might be displayed or affirmed in clothing (by designers/producers and consumers). The notion of ‘authenticity’ and how this interacts with ideas of innovation and the fashionable are also explored, along with the importance of the Internet and social media to the success, or otherwise, of such entrepreneurial endeavours.
The semiotics of fashion design: A proposal for higher education
Authors: Guedes M. Graça , Buest Andreana
Published: January 2019

Although the role of semiotics was established as a tool to interpret fashion as a communication system, as a discipline it is virtually absent from the curricula of graduate and postgraduate programmes. In this article, we argue that semiotics can provide epistemological support for the development of a framework for fashion design education. Semiotics is required not only as a tool for designers to (re)interpret the complex and often abstract or conceptual/emotional relations between the design object (clothes) and the wearer, but also as a creative tool. We propose a framework where semiotic analysis is present throughout the structures of fashion design higher education programmes, in order to offer adequate support to fashion design projects. We also discuss the facets of semiotics relevant for fashion design, with an emphasis on the perspective of higher education settings.
Fire, Earth, Ecstasy: Gossiping with the Gods
Authors: Atladóttir Dagmar , Huber Sandra
Published: January 2019

Dagmar Atladóttir and Sandra Huber combine practices of Icelandic paganism and contemporary witchcraft, via methodologies of ceramics and automatic writing, to create a God’s Nail, which attunes to voices between myths, fantasies, and deities. Created with earth and water, and passed through fire in the kiln, the God’s Nail points to histories of the accused witches burned at the stake during the European witch-hunts as well as the importance of the elements in contemporary witchcraft. Situated within the wildfires that were raging during the summer of their collaboration, the essay also discusses the violence of colonization and capitalism that was unleashed during the ‘burning times,’ the trend of ‘witchiness,’ and the importance of occulted channels of communication, which can act as refrains between the seen and unseen, heard and unheard.
Sound, Disability, & Durere amidst Smoke and Smoulder
Authors: Fratila Stefana
Published: January 2019

Fratila re-thinks and re-imagines how disabled persons have a role to play in the pro-jected ‘future’ using sound as a primary medium. As public and private spaces con-verge and set categories like the ‘virtual’ and the ‘real’ become more and more inse-parable, the disruption of an exclusionary framework becomes a priority for artists, researchers and curators alike. Rather than merely taking up existing public spaces as a ‘disabled’ sound artist/researcher, she engages her audience in dialogue around the future and potential for ‘disability’. Fratila’s work considers the ways in which our growing use of/growing reliance upon digital technology and media can give way to ‘disability’ being employed towards progress and understood as necessary to our fu-ture, with specific reference to her multimedia installation, Durere (translated from Romanian: Pain), a motion-sensor activated instrument that weaves together interac-tivity and disability against the backdrop of an ever-evolving ‘future’ using sound, video and 3D-printed models of the weights she uses daily for her chronic illness.
Reflecting Torpor
Authors: Schaefer Sandrine
Published: January 2019

Reflecting Torpordocuments methods, research, and reflections on a performance artwork titledTorpor(Pace Investigations No.5)that was developed on site at the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity by artist Sandrine Schaefer.The text engages ideas and strategies around how the acceleration and deceleration of actions can make mechanical, geological, and felt timepalpable. Other themes explored in this reflective text include, surveillance, site-sensitivity, the body as material, anthropocentrism, witness participation, visibility, and TRAnsferenCE.
Nicolas Baier, Asterisms
Authors: Mackay Ian
Published: January 2019

Nicolas Baier, Asterisms Division Gallery, Toronto 27 October 2017 to 13 January 2018
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media
Authors: Cumming Jesse
Published: January 2019

This review examines Shannon Mattern’s book Code And Clay, Data And Dirt: Five Thousand Years Of Urban Media. The review places the publication in the context of the sub-discipline of Media Archaeology and examines the themes the author introduces of ‘deep mapping’, which examines the historical as well as international implications of urban media technologies.
In memoriam... Mary Cecil, Victoria Callihoo (née Belcourt), and Eleanor (Helene) Thomas Garneau
Authors: Postcommodity  , Waterman Alex , Ociciwan  , Bockley Todd
Published: January 2019

In... memoriam Mary Cecil, Victoria Callihoo (née Belcourt), and Eleanor (Helene) Thomas Garneau adds a new score and production by Postcommodity and Alex Waterman to a suite of four early scores by the American composer Robert Ashley. The fifth score honours the lives of Mary Cecil, Victoria Callihoo (née Belcourt), and Eleanor (Helene) Thomas Garneau, three Indigenous women from territory at the turn of the Century as it became the province of Alberta. This significant addition continues Ashley’s project investigating the connections between musical forms and constructs of historicization, opening a conversation regarding whom and how we memorialize individuals and inscribe their legacies.
The Ashes Series
Authors: Bilal Wafaa
Published: January 2019

The Ashes Series depicts the suffering of war not through human displays of emotion, but rather through the absence of human life in once occupied homes. It investigates the impact of the destruction of these private, domestic spaces in war and media images of such destruction. These intimate spaces are literally ripped open and become public through external violence and the act of destruction. The images exist in the aftermath of atrocity, with the presence of the human spirit represented only by the monochromatic whiteness of the ashes. The Ashes Series represents the artist’s attempt to make sense of destruction and to preserve the moment of serenity after the dust has settled: to give the ephemeral moment extended life in a mix of beauty and violence.
A Stuck Place
Authors: Aiello Rosa
Published: January 2019

An excerpt about living together from a near-future dystopian novel, Calypso’s Way. In the cosmology of the novel feudalism, expanded family collectivities, and organized crime co-exist. Smoke appears, like a minor character in the story, to indicate events that once occurred in a corner of the fictional world where domesticity is urgent, grave, and incessant, and characters survive by performing the tasks of the everyday. If the work stops, then what?
B2-es szintű nyelvvizsga bizonyítvány: útlevél a diplomás élethez, társadalmi mobilitáshoz
Authors: Fekete Adrienn , Csépes Ildikó
Published: January 2019

Tanulmányunk célja, hogy rávilágítson az érettségi, valamint a nyelvvizsga bizonyítvány által hitelesített idegen nyelvi sikeresség és a diploma nyújtotta társadalmi mobilitás lehetséges viszonyára a jelenleg hatályban lévő törvényi szabályozás keretei között. Ennek okán vizsgálatunk arra a kérdésre keresi a választ, hogy milyen összefüggések mutathatóak ki az angol nyelvből emelt szinten (B2 szint) érettségizők, valamint a középfokon (B2-es szint) angol nyelvből vizsgázók sikeressége, életkora, társadalmi neme és születési helye között. A Nyelvvizsgáztatási Akkreditációs Központ (NYAK) adataira támaszkodva vizsgálatunk célja, hogy (1) feltárja a nyelvek népszerűsége és a vizsgázók sikeressége közötti tendenciákat, valamint (2) bemutassa a B2-es szinten vizsgázókat a fent említett négy változó mentén. Mivel a nyelvtanulás sikerességét a közoktatás által szabályozott módon, illetve államilag akkreditált, de piaci keretek között is mérik, célunk továbbá (3) az angol nyelvi emelt szintű érettségi adatok és az angol középfokú, komplex típusú nyelvvizsga adatok összevetése a vizsgázók sikeressége és a vizsgázás éve (2005-2015) mentén. A vizsgálat eredménye alapján azt feltételezzük, hogy a társadalmi mobilitás a nemek tekintetében és területi vonatkozásban eltérően valósul meg.
Az osztálytársak szerepe a motivációs klíma észlelésében
Authors: Fejes Balázs József
Published: January 2019

A célorientációs elmélet keretei között az osztályterem motivációs jellemzőinek holisztikus mutatóiként a célstruktúrákat alkalmazzák. Kulcskérdés, hogy e mutatók az osztálytermi környezet mely sajátosságaival állnak kapcsolatban, ennek ismerete a tanulási motiváció formálásához beavatkozási pontokat kínálhat. Korábbi munkánkban a Midgley és munkatársai (2000) által fejlesztett, a célstruktúrák megismerésére általánosan használt kérdőívre alapozva fejlesztettünk magyar nyelvű eszközt; majd egy további írásbeli kikérdezés során a skálákhoz nyílt végű kérdéseket kapcsoltunk matematikához kötődően, felső tagozatos tanulók körében (Fejes, Rausch és Török, 2015). Jelen kutatás célja, hogy kvantitatív megközelítéssel is ellenőrizze a korábbi kvalitatív vizsgálatban feltárt jellemzők általánosíthatóságát. Kutatási kérdéseink a következők: (1) A kvalitatív vizsgálat alapján kirajzolódó tényezőkből lehetséges-e Likert-skálával mérhető konstruktumokat létrehozni? (2) Milyen az új konstruktumok egymáshoz viszonyított jelentősége? (3) Milyen e konstruktumoknak a korábban feltárt, a motiváció szempontjából lényeges környezeti faktorokhoz viszonyított jelentősége? A tanulói válaszok kvalitatív elemzésére építve három új skálát hoztunk létre (pedagógiai célú interakció az osztálytársakkal, az osztálytársak elismerése, közösségről kialakított kép). Emellett az elsajátítási és viszonyító célstruktúrát mértük, továbbá a tanári érzelmi támogatása elnevezésű, a korábbi vizsgálatok szerint központi jelentőségű skálát használtuk. A Likert-skálás állításokat a matematika tantárgy kapcsán fogalmaztuk meg, mérésünkben 6–8. évfolyamos diákok vettek részt, 248 fő. Néhány kérdőívtétel elhagyásával a faktoranalízisek szerint kirajzolódott a várt struktúra, ugyanakkor az osztálytársak elismerése elnevezésű változó két faktort alkotott. Az új faktort az osztálytársak kigúnyolása elnevezéssel szerepeltettük az elemzésben. A létrehozott konstruktumok megbízhatósága jónak mondható. A korrelációk szerint az új konstruktumok jelentősége a korábban feltárt lényeges környezeti változók (pl. tanár érzelmi támogatása) szerepéhez viszonyítva is jelentős.
Utilization of Infrared Thermography in Cattle Production and Its Application Potency in Indonesia
Authors: Bansi Diana
Published: January 2019

Infrared thermography (IRT) is a non-invasive remote sensing method to detect temperature. Many studies have shown that temperature in several regions of the body could be representative of core body temperature. Body temperature of cattle can be used to evaluate health status, stress, thermal balance, and feed efficiency. The aim of this article is to review utilization of IRT in cattle production system and its potency to be applied in Indonesia. The ability of IRT to detect even the small change of body surface temperature has made this device is very useful in cattle production industry. Infrared thermography has been used as a tool to detect an early detection of inflammation as sign of some diseases such as mastitis, foot and mouth disease. Infrared thermography can also evaluate feed efficiency through detection of heat production produced by metabolism process. Some important constraints of cattle production in Indonesia such as diseases and low feed efficiency may have strong correlation with body temperature change. Therefore, IRT is very potential to be applied in cattle farms in Indonesia.
Design and Development of Web Based Employee Payroll Information System Using Codeigniter Framework and Extreme Programming Method
Authors: Mahardika Devara Eko Katon , Siregar Maria Ulfah
Published: January 2019

Abstract—Universitas Proklamasi 45 Yogyakarta is a private university which is supervised by a Foundation that has implemented various information systems in various fields of work. However, in the payroll process the employees are still done manually and have not utilized a computerized system, such as attendance recap, wage recapitulation in addition to basic salary, as well as the sum of salary received by employees. This makes the payroll process less effective and efficient. This study aims to establish a proposed system that is a web-based employee payroll information system at the Universitas Proklamasi 45 Yogyakarta with the PHP programming language using Codeigniter Framework and MySQL as its database. The system development method used is the Extreme Programming method. This method was chosen because it promotes intense communication between the client and the system developer so that when there are changes or errors in the system, the developer is always ready to fix it. Extreme Programming also has a simple stage, namely planning, design, coding, and testing. The results of this study are the result of a web-based employee payroll information system that has various actors involved in the management and processing of its data. With this information system, the employee payroll process becomes more effective and efficient, because payroll data is processed and calculated by the system so that it has a high level of data accuracy and does not require a long time in the calculation process.
BEBERAPA MODIFIKASI PADA ALGORITMA KRIPTOGRAFI AFFINE CIPHER
Authors: Wijayanti Dian Eka
Published: January 2019

Affine Cipher Cryptography Technique is one of the techniques in classical cryptography which is quite simple so it is very vulnerable to cryptanalysis. Affine cipher's advantage is having an algorithm that can be modified with various techniques. The modifications that can be made to Affine Cipher is to combine Affine cipher's algorithm with other ciphers, replace Affine cipher's key with various functions and matrices and expand the space for plaintext and ciphertexts on Affine cipher. Affine cipher can also be applied to the stream cipher as a keystream generator. This research discusses several modifications of Affine cipher algorithm and performs several other modifications.  These modifications are combining Affine Chiper and Vigenere Cipher on , combining Affine, Vigenere and Hill Cipher with invertible matrix applications on . Furthermore, a comparison of the three modifications will be carried out to obtain a new cryptographic method that is more resilient to the cryptanalysis process.
MODEL REGRESI LINIER BAYESIAN DENGAN APLIKASI PADA DATA PENUNDAAN PENERBANGAN
Authors: Lestari Vemmie Nastiti , Subanar Subanar
Published: January 2019

Bayesian linear regression is an approach to linear regression where statistical analysis depend of Bayesian inference. The Bayesian model on big data uses a summary of data statistics as input; Statistical summary can be calculated from each subset, then a statistical summary of the full dataset is obtained from the sum of the summary statistics for each subset. Recent developments in data science and research, produce large datasets that are too large to be analyzed as a whole due to the limitations of computer memory or storage capacity. To overcome this, a program package was introduced from R namely BayesSummaryStatLM for the Bayesian linear regression model with the Markov Chain Monte Carlo implementation that overcomes this limitation. Then the program package from R, ff is used to read data in large datasets while calculating statistics summary. In this study Bayesian linear regression model used with several choices of prior distribution for unknown model parameters, and illustrates in simulation data and real datasets for flight delay data in US 2008. The application of simulation data and flight delay data produces a plot of density functions for the β parameters has a shape resembling a plot of Normal distribution density function, whereas for plot  parameters the density function has a shape resembling the plot of Inverse Gamma distribution density function. In the simulation data, the estimator for each parameter produced has a value that approach to the value of the specified parameter (True Value). This is also indicated by the narrow credible interval for each parameters.
Translanguaging instead of standardisation: Writing Romani at school
Authors: Heltai János Imre
Published: January 2019

In most public education in the western world the existence of a standardized language variety is still regarded as a precondition of teaching writing. This stance generates a problem in situations where no standardized variety matches the children’s home language practices and no traditions of an extended and standardised literacy exist. Roma students in Hungary have to acquire writing skills in the majority language (Hungarian), since the teaching of writing cannot rely on a standardized Romani language. In this way, school writing activities seem unrelated to the local discoursal practices of their own community. This puts Romani-speaking children at a disadvantage in learning to write, and reduces their chances of academic success. This paper reports on an ongoing project in Tiszavasvári, Hungary, designed to offer an alternative to approaches that wish to eliminate the disadvantages of Roma students by creating a standardized language. It explores the possibility of applying a translanguaging approach to the teaching of writing, arguing that if teachers allow students to draw on their local Romani-bounded non-standardised language practices, including the grassroots literacy activities occurring in the community, their general writing skills can be improved. For this to happen, teachers must be trained in translanguaging pedagogy, so that they can transcend the boundaries staked out by monolingual ideologies. The hitherto prevailing view that posits an indissoluble connection between standard, school and writing should be set aside. It should also be realized that general linguistic competences can, and should, be separated from language-specific competences. A key endeavour of the Tiszavasvári project has been to convert teachers to the translanguaging stance, and some promising signs can be reported. The introduction of local translanguaging practices into the teaching of writing fostered new learning practices among the students and began to change the pedagogical stance of teachers participating in the project.
Stability analysis of a rotationally restrained microbar embedded in an elastic matrix using strain gradient elasticity
Authors: Yayli Mustafa Özgür
Published: January 2019

The buckling of rotationally restrained microbars embedded in an elastic matrix is studied within the framework of strain gradient elasticity theory. The elastic matrix is modeled in this study as Winkler’s one-parameter elastic matrix. Fourier sine series with a Fourier coefficient is used for describing the deflection of the microbar. An eigenvalue problem is obtained for buckling modes with the aid of implementing Stokes’ transformation to force boundary conditions. This mathematical model bridges the gap between rigid and the restrained boundary conditions. The influences of rotational restraints, small scale parameter and surrounding elastic matrix on the critical buckling load are discussed and compared with those available in the literature. It is concluded from analytical results that the critical buckling load of microbar is dependent upon rotational restraints, surrounding elastic matrix and the material scale parameter. Similarly, the dependencies of the critical buckling load on material scale parameter, surrounding elastic medium and rotational restraints are significant.
Parallel real-world LU decomposition: Gauss vs. Crout algorithm
Authors: Stabrowski Marek
Published: January 2019

This paper presents numerical experiments with assorted versions of parallel LU matrix decomposition algorithms (Gauss and Crout algorithm). The tests have been carried out on the hardware platform with fourcore Skylake processor featuring hyperthreading technology doubling virtually core number. Parallelization algorithms have been implemented with the aid of classic POSIX threads library. Experiments have shown that basic 4-thread acceleration of all parallel implementations is almost equal to the number of threads/processors. Both algorithms are worth considering in real-world applications (Florida University collection). Gauss algorithm is a better performer, with respect to timing, in the case of matrices with lower density of nonzeros, as opposed to higher density matrices. The latter are processed more efficiently with the aid of Crout algorithm implementation.
Transparency as Ideology, Ideology as Transparency: Towards a Critique of the Meta-aesthetics of Neoliberal Hegemony
Authors: Valdovinos Jorge I.
Published: January 2019

Along with the increasing commodification of all aspects of culture and the persistent aestheticisation of everyday life under late capitalism, there is an equally increasing longing for objectivity, immediacy, and trust. As the mediation of our everyday experiences augments, a generalised feeling of mistrust in institutions reigns; the sense of a need to bypass them increases, and the call for more “transparency” intensifies. As transparency manages to bypass critical examination, the term becomes a source of tacit social consensus. This paper argues that the proliferation of contemporary discourses favouring transparency has become one of the fundamental vehicles for the legitimation of neoliberal hegemony, due to transparency's own conceptual structure-a formula with a particularly sharp capacity for translating structures of power into structures of feeling. While the ideology of transparency promises a movement towards the abolition of unequal flows of information at the basis of relations of power and exploitation, it simultaneously sustains a regime of hyper-visibility based on asymmetrical mechanisms of accountability for the sake of profit. The solution is not “more” transparency or “better” information, but to critically examine the emancipatory potential of transparency at the conceptual level, inspecting the architecture that supports its parasitic logic.
Beyond Emotion: Empathy, Social Contagion and Cultural Literacy
Authors: Crawshaw Robert
Published: January 2019

This paper reviews the implications for research in cultural literacy of the current hypothesis that revolutionary advances in communication technology are inseparable from an over-reliance on emotion, both in the representation of global disaster and human suffering and as a means of manipulating public behaviour in the political and commercial spheres. It explores the view that feeling has become a simulacrum or form of “hyperreality” whose “contagion” through targeted exploitation is an obstacle to deeper understanding of social processes. It summarises the challenges which this presents for research into the nature of cultural literacy by critically considering three current paradigms: affect theory, clinical psychology including neuroscience, and memetics with due regard for recent attempts to model social behaviour through computer-based simulation. Its conclusions are that historical comparisons between past and present of the processes whereby cultural artefacts mediate emotion, combined with highly contextualised empirical fieldwork into their contemporary impact, should be key foci of critical research into cultural literacy, using the full range of technological instruments available.
Major food groups contributing to sodium intake in school-attending adolescents
Authors: Pinto Rafael Lavourinha , de Souza Bárbara da Silva Nalin , Pereira Rosangela Alves , Sichieri Rosely , Yokoo Edna Massae
Published: January 2019

Background

Excessive sodium intake is a risk factor for developing systemic arterial hypertension. Increased blood pressure during childhood increases the risk of hypertension in adulthood. Assessing sodium intake across different eating places is important, as the meals offered in different places can influence dietary quality.

Objective

This study aimed to assess the contribution of different food groups to the mean of sodium intake of school-attending adolescents in the city of Niterói, a metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Subjects

A total of 347 public school students aged between 10 and 18 years participated in the study.

Methods

Food consumption was based on two 24-h dietary recalls. The reported items were grouped into 31 food groups and the percentage of contribution of each food group to total mean sodium intake was estimated. Sodium intake according to eating place was also estimated.

Results

The food groups mostly contributing to total sodium intake were rice, beans, savory biscuits, breads, beef, poultry, processed meat, filled cookies, pasta and potatoes. The highest sodium intake within the food groups occurred at home, except for savory biscuits and pizza, which showed a higher sodium intake percentage at school. Savory biscuits were the third-most consumed item contributing to the total sodium intake and were the main source of sodium when consumed at school (48.9%).

Conclusion

Most sodium intake stemmed from ultra-processed food consumed at school. Therefore, actions to promote healthy eating habits within the school environment are necessary.
Engineering Flat Gain Tunable Raman-Parametric Hybrid L-Band Amplifier for Narrow Band Multi-Channel Terabits System
Authors: Kaur Gaganpreet
Published: January 2019

We present a model of a Raman-parametric hybrid amplifier for flat gain amplification of narrowband Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed (DWDM) terabits capacity system. In the proposed configuration Raman pump has been cascaded with one – pump parametric amplifier. While Raman amplifier typically uses a long length single mode fiber as a gain medium, the Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers (FOPA) uses a small length of Highly Non-Linear Fibers (HNLF). This allows for maximum optimization of the gain achieved using Raman as well as parametric processes. We focus on the signal degradation due to non-linear crosstalk arising because of multi-pump configuration, in particular, due to the generated idlers within the operational bandwidth. As the channel spacing is reduced, fiber non-linearities increase significantly. The dilemma to use the fewer number of high powered pumps Vs, the use of increased number of relatively low powered pumps has been investigated for DWDM system. The optimization of the pump powers has been evaluated in terms of signal degradation, gain, gain variation and OSNR. It has been demonstrated that a maximum gain of 45.38 dB for 96×40 Gbps, 25 GHz system is attainable up to 200 km of transmission distance while maintaining OSNR>18 dB using the proposed hybrid. No gain compensation or gain optimization technique has been used. The findings of this work establish flat gain in narrowband DWDM systems is achievable through proper optimization of pump wavelengths and their powers.
Ideals and congruences in pseudo-BCH algebras
Authors: Walendziak Andrzej
Published: January 2019

We introduce the concept of a translation ideal in pseudo-BCH algebras and investigate its properties. We prove that for any pseudo-BCH algebra 𝔛 there is a one-to-one order-preserving correspondence between the closed translation ideals of 𝔛 and the relative congruences on 𝔛.
Uniqueness and periodicity for meromorphic functions with partial sharing values
Authors: Lin Weichuan , Chen Shengjiang , Gao Xiaoman
Published: January 2019

We prove a periodic theorem of meromorphic functions of hyper-orderρ2(f) < 1. As an application, we obtain the corresponding uniqueness theorem on periodic meromorphic functions. In addition, we show the accuracy of the results by giving some examples.
Mild solution of stochastic partial differential equation with nonlocal conditions and noncompact semigroups
Authors: Zhang Xuping , Chen Pengyu , Abdelmonem Ahmed , Li Yongxiang
Published: January 2019

The aim of this paper is to discuss the existence of mild solutions for a class of semilinear stochastic partial differential equation with nonlocal initial conditions and noncompact semigroups in a real separable Hilbert space. Combined with the theory of stochastic analysis and operator semigroups, a generalized Darbo’s fixed point theorem and a new estimation technique of the measure of noncompactness, we obtained the existence of mild solutions under the situation that the nonlinear term and nonlocal function satisfy some appropriate local growth conditions and a noncompactness measure condition. In addition, the condition of uniformly continuity of the nonlinearity is not required and also the strong restriction on the constants in the condition of noncompactness measure is completely deleted in this paper. An example to illustrate the feasibility of the main results is also given.
Entropy as an integral operator
Authors: Rahimi Mehdi
Published: January 2019

In this paper, we introduce the concept of entropy kernel operator for compact dynamical systems of finite Kolmogorov entropy. It is a compact positive operator on a Hilbert space. Then we state the Kolmogorov entropy in terms of the eigenvalues of the entropy kernel operator.
The convergence-theoretic approach to weakly first countable spaces and symmetrizable spaces
Authors: Chigr Fadoua , Mynard Frédéric
Published: January 2019

This article fits in the context of the approach to topological problems in terms of the underlying convergence space structures, and serves as yet another illustration of the power of the method. More specifically, we spell out convergence-theoretic characterizations of the notions of weak base, weakly first-countable space, semi-metrizable space, and symmetrizable spaces. With the help of the already established similar characterizations of the notions of Frchet-Ursyohn, sequential, and accessibility spaces, we give a simple algebraic proof of a classical result regarding when a symmetrizable (respectively, weakly first-countable, respectively sequential) space is semi-metrizable (respectively first-countable, respectively Fréchet) that clarifies the situation for non-Hausdorff spaces. Using additionally known results on the commutation of the topologizer with product, we obtain simple algebraic proofs of various results of Y. Tanaka on the stability under product of symmetrizability and weak first-countability, and we obtain the same way a new characterization of spaces whose product with every metrizable topology is weakly first-countable, respectively symmetrizable.
Effect of ZnSO4 fertilizer on soil chemical properties, performance and proximate quality of sweet potato in a derived savanna ecology of Nigeria
Authors: Adekiya A.O. , Aboyeji C.M. , Agbede T.M. , Dunsin O. , Adebiyi O.T.V.
Published: January 2019

Micro-nutrients especially zinc can not only increase the yield of sweet potato but can also improve the quality of tubers. Hence, experiments were carried out in 2015 and 2016 cropping seasons to determine the impact of various levels of ZnSO4 fertilizer on soil chemical properties, foliage and storage root yields and proximate qualities of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.). The experiments consisted of 5 levels (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 kg ha-1) of ZnSO4 fertilizer. These were arranged in a randomized complete block design and replicated three times. ZnSO4 increased (with the exception of P) soil chemical properties compared with the control. N, K, Ca, Mg and Zn were increased up to the 20 kg ha-1 ZnSO4 level in both years. ZnSO4 reduced P concentrations in soil as the level increased. For sweet potato performance, 5 kg ha-1 ZnSO4 fertilizer had the highest values of foliage yield (vine length and vine weight) and storage root yield. Using the mean of the two years and compared with the control, ZnSO4 fertilizer at 5 kg ha-1 increased storage root yield of sweet potato by 17.4%. On fitting the mean storage root yield data of the two years with a cubic equation, the optimum rate of Zn for sweet potato was found to be 3.9 kg ha-1 to achieve the maximum sweet potato yield. In this study, relative to the control, ZnSO4 fertilizer increased moisture and decreased the fibre contents of sweet potato. There were no consistent patterns of variation between the 5, 10, 15 and 20 kg ha-1 ZnSO4 treatments for proximate qualities except that the highest values of fat, protein, carbohydrate and ash was at 5 kg ha-1 ZnSO4.
Fast recognition method of moving video images based on BP neural networks
Authors: Shao Yu , Witarsyah Deden
Published: January 2019

At present, the accuracy of real-time moving video image recognition methods are poor. Also energy consumption is high and fault tolerance is not ideal. Consequently this paper proposes a method of moving video image recognition based on BP neural networks. The moving video image is divided into two parts: the key content and the background by binary gray image. By collecting training cubes. The D-SFA algorithm is used to extract moving video image features and to construct feature representation. The image features are extracted by collecting training cubes. The BP neural network is constructed to get the error function. The error signal is returned continuously along the original path. By modifying the weights of neurons in each layer, the weights propagate to the input layer step by step, and then propagates forward. The two processes are repeated to minimize the error signal. The result of image feature extraction is regarded as the input of BP neural network, and the result of moving video image recognition is output. And fault tolerance in real-time is better than the current method. Also the recognition energy consumption is low, and our method is more practical.
Compressed sensing image restoration algorithm based on improved SURF operator
Authors: Zhou Guodong , Zhang Huailiang , Lucas Raquel Martínez
Published: January 2019

Aiming at the excellent descriptive ability of SURF operator for local features of images, except for the shortcoming of global feature description ability, a compressed sensing image restoration algorithm based on improved SURF operator is proposed. The SURF feature vector set of the image is extracted, and the vector set data is reduced into a single high-dimensional feature vector by using a histogram algorithm, and then the image HSV color histogram is extracted.MSA image decomposition algorithm is used to obtain sparse representation of image feature vectors. Total variation curvature diffusion method and Bayesian weighting method perform image restoration for data smoothing feature and local similarity feature of texture part respectively. A compressed sensing image restoration model is obtained by using Schatten-p norm, and image color supplement is performed on the model. The compressed sensing image is iteratively solved by alternating optimization method, and the compressed sensing image is restored. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has good restoration performance, and the restored image has finer edge and texture structure and better visual effect.
Localization and recognition algorithm for fuzzy anomaly data in big data networks
Authors: Zhang Huajie , Zhang Sen , Hanafiah Marlia Mohd
Published: January 2019

In order to accurately detect the fuzzy anomaly data existing in big data networks, it is necessary to study the localization and recognition algorithm. The current algorithms have problems related to poor noise reduction, low recognition efficiency, high energy consumption and low accuracy. A novel localization and recognition algorithm for fuzzy anomaly data in big data networks is proposed. The multi-wavelet denoising method is used to remove the noise signals existing in the network. The k-means algorithm is utilized for network clustering, and the association mode between nodes and the unitary linearity regression model is adopted to eliminate spatially and temporally redundant data that exist in big data networks. The similarity anomaly detection method based on multi-feature aggregation identifies fuzzy anomaly data existing in big data networks, establishes an anomaly data localization model, and completes the localization and recognition of fuzzy anomaly data. Experimental results show that the proposed method has good noise reduction, high recognition efficiency, low energy consumption and high accuracy of localization and recognition.
Ethics and inscription in social robot design. A visual ethnography
Authors: Wallace Jamie
Published: January 2019

In this paper, by turning to examples of visual inscriptions adopted within HRI research, and more specifically social robotic interaction, I wish to explore through visual ethnography some of the challenges faced in designing ethical robots. Firstly, visual ethnography allows for an alternative categorisation of the inscriptions of HRI based on visual characteristics. Secondly, visual inscriptions show multiple and paradoxical meanings when appearing juxtaposed revealing challenges of diminished and asymmetric consideration of human orientated concerns in favour of technical and experimental certainty. Thirdly, by taking a human orientated perspective of experimental arrangements, the understanding of ethics becomes a way of framing and of looking at inscriptions. The paper calls for a better understanding of the role of inscription practices in HRI generally in order to find new approaches useful to bolster a more robust inclusion of ethics within the field.
“I’ll take care of you,” said the robot
Authors: Fosch-Villaronga Eduard , Albo-Canals Jordi
Published: January 2019

The insertion of robotic and artificial intelligent (AI) systems in therapeutic settings is accelerating. In this paper, we investigate the legal and ethical challenges of the growing inclusion of social robots in therapy. Typical examples of such systems are Kaspar, Hookie, Pleo, Tito, Robota,Nao, Leka or Keepon. Although recent studies support the adoption of robotic technologies for therapy and education, these technological developments interact socially with children, elderly or disabled, and may raise concerns that range from physical to cognitive safety, including data protection. Research in other fields also suggests that technology has a profound and alerting impact on us and our human nature. This article brings all these findings into the debate on whether the adoption of therapeutic AI and robot technologies are adequate, not only to raise awareness of the possible impacts of this technology but also to help steer the development and use of AI and robot technologies in therapeutic settings in the appropriate direction. Our contribution seeks to provide a thoughtful analysis of some issues concerning the use and development of social robots in therapy, in the hope that this can inform the policy debate and set the scene for further research.
Reliable Signals and Limit Conditions for Automated Trading Systems
Authors: Păuna Cristian
Published: January 2019

Automated trading software is a significant part of the business intelligence system in a modern investment company today. The buy and sell orders are built and sent almost instantly by computers using special trading and computational strategies. The trading decisions are made by automated algorithms. In this paper it will be presented one of these mathematical models which generate trading signals based only on the time price series. The algorithm combines several known computing techniques to build a trading indicator to automate the trades. With this method, buy decisions on oversold intervals and sell decisions on overbought price values can be built. Limit conditions in order to close the long and short trades can be also automatically generated. More trading signal types based on this model will be revealed. Trading results obtained with all these signals will be presented in order to qualify this methodology developed especially for algorithmic trading.