bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Innovative Hospital Management
Authors: Fritzsche Holger , Ataide Elmer Jeto Gomes , Bi Afshan , Kalva Rohit , Tripathi Sandeep , Boese Axel , Friebe Michael , Gonschorek Tim
Published: October 2019

The healthcare industry is consistently developing a constant supply of medical equipment, e.g. radiation protection wear. These must be inspected regularly to ensure safety and quality. As this equipment keeps on moving from department to department, it has to be located in one place for annual inspection and must be properly documented after quality check. Conventionally, barcodes, QR codes, and manual entry of the required data are used as a tracking method which requires tedious human efforts without delivering the expected results for registration, tracking, and maintenance. A fully or semi-automated computerized system would be desirable in this case. Radio frequency identification systems which consist of tag, reader, and database can be used for tracking. This article presents new innovative RFID based system which is dedicated to quality assurance of radiological protection wear specifically lead aprons. This process facilitates the service management of hospitals.
Disaster Crisis Communication Innovations
Authors: Pathak Shubham
Published: October 2019

Disaster crisis communication is essential for providing adequate and successful disaster management process during disaster events. This article analyses the disaster communication in Thailand during the 2011 floods. The newspapers and government agencies found it difficult to provide timely and accessible flood information to the public. The methodology involves qualitative analysis of the data collected by questionnaire survey, key informant interviews and print news headlines from three leading newspapers in Thailand. The article involves adoption of structuration theory for analyzing the severe implication and inadequate crisis communication in Thailand during 2011 floods. The findings include the gaps in the disaster communication systems at the government level towards the local community. There is a need to provide user friendly disaster communication system to assist in resilient communities. All channels of communication including television and media, smartphones, open source data and social media must be incorporated in a comprehensive disaster communication system.
Effect of Information Architecture on the Usability of a University Website
Authors: Singla Bhim Sain , Aggarwal Himanshu
Published: October 2019

A well-planned information architecture (IA) of a website can enhance the end users' efficiency, learnability, controllability and intention to revisit the site. Its significance is even more in the context of academic websites where the generation, management, and distribution of information are among the major activities. However, it remains a neglected issue as designers of academic websites have overlooked the important aspect of ‘intuitive user navigation' and focused primarily on its ‘look and feel.' Thus, the current study aims to analyze and compare the effectiveness of information architectural designs of some randomly selected university websites of Punjab (India) through a usability testing technique. For this purpose, the performance metric measured was the information seeking time. The usability session of each subject was captured through Camtasia Studio software. The findings of this study highlight the shortcomings of presently designed academic websites which adversely affect the usability of a website.
Strategy for Performing Critical Projects in a Data Center Using DevSecOps Approach and Risk Management
Authors: Diaz Edgar Oswaldo , Muñoz Mirna
Published: October 2019

This article describes the new needs that launched the evolution of the DevSecOps + Risk Management approach as well as a brief description of it. Also, the article presents two cases in which the DevSecOps approach was implemented. The results of implementing the approach showed that the implantation allows: (1) reinforcing the implementation of critical projects in the data center; (2) providing a strategy to automate the processes of critical mission projects in a successfully way; (3) generating added value in the timely delivery of information, with levels of service oriented to the end customer satisfaction; (4) enabling the establishment of adequate service levels to keep operational continuity and; (5) allowing both a quantitative and qualitative analysis of risk.
Monitoring and Maintenance of Web Service Processes in Health Units
Authors: Ferreira Diana , Neto Cristiana , Abelha António
Published: October 2019

The delivery of quality health care is a demanding information technology challenge. The last years have witnessed profound changes in healthcare institutions to improve patient experience. Those changes focus on the needs of the health professionals that directly contact with the patients. However, it is equally important to aid the professionals that work in the background of the health units. This study proposes the monitoring and maintenance of web service processes that occur in the Centro Hospitalar do Porto (CHP) through an intuitive and user-friendly platform developed in ReactJS. These processes are responsible for critical tasks within the hospital and thus, the daily control of its activities ensure that there are no unnecessary failures, supporting an efficient health care delivery. The development of the application followed the Design Science Research (DSR) methodology and was submitted to a Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis which results were considered optimistic.
H-Index and Its Variants
Authors: Jan Rosy , Ahmad Riyaz
Published: October 2019

H-index is an accepted norm to rank scientists and makes them eligible for various professional benefits. However, taking into consideration the associated flaws of the h-index, a diversified set of parameters have been proposed by the scientific community to rank authors in a better way. Imaginary case studies and datasets are used to find out the practical and actual utility of the proposed indicators. To analyze the individual behaviour of each index, these indices are comprehensively evaluated on an extensive data set. This study emphasizes the scrutiny of the h-index, some of its variants, and extensions to rank authors. There appears to be a correlation between high citation rates for a published researcher and the award of prestigious accolades. Thus, the inclusion of a researcher in the list is based on high citation rates and the authority has claimed a direct connection between the citation rates and prestigious awards. In this context, the work initiated to find out the h-index and its variants for the selected researchers incorporated in the hall of citation laureates from the field of medicine. It is clear from the correlation analysis that there is a difference in the degree of correlation between the h-index and its variants. The A-index is weakly correlated, and M-Quotient is strongly correlated with h-index. Thus, most of the h-index variants are merely mathematically and arithmetically modified and does not add any new information as these are highly correlated and are based on the h-core. Thus, more useful and reasonable approaches could be developed for multidimensional and contextualized evaluations of scientific performance rather than cocooning them with mere numbers.
Visualizing Co-citations of Technology Acceptance Models in Education
Authors: Yu Zhonggen
Published: October 2019

With the rapid development of information and communication technologies, studies devoted to technology-assisted education have been soaring up. Nevertheless, the studies on technology acceptance model (TAM) appear relatively fewer. This study, through reviewing high quality papers, analyzed the co-citations of TAM on the basis of the basic TAM and numerous extended TAMs. Co-citations of TAM were revealed and discussed in terms of citation counts, bursts, betweenness centrality, and sigma. It also reviews the basic concept underlying user acceptance models, as well as its extended TAMs in details. Future research into the TAM may resort to statistical support, as well as critical analysis. The interdisciplinary research design is also needed between computer science, education, psychology, statistics and mathematics.
O impacto do uso de relatórios gerenciais na eficácia das decisões: um estudo com gerentes de uma rede de supermercado
Authors: Oyadomari José Carlos Tiomatsu , Viana Paulo Henrique Lopes , Dultra-de-Lima Ronaldo Gomes , Mendonça Neto Octavio Ribeiro de , Nisiyama Edelcio Koitiro
Published: October 2019

Este estudo tem por objetivo verificar as relações existentes entre dimensão facilitadora do uso dos relatórios gerenciais, processo decisório e eficácia das decisões, bem como identificar as diferenças na forma do uso dos relatórios tendo em vista diferentes características dos gerentes de uma rede de varejo. O artigo inova ao estudar de forma integrada os relacionamentos entre diferentes aspectos do sistema de controle gerencial (dimensão facilitadora e intensidade do uso) e diferentes dimensões das decisões (velocidade e qualidade). Um survey foi aplicado a 77 gerentes de lojas de uma organização de varejo. Os resultados mostram que há uma relação estatística positiva e significante entre a dimensão facilitadora dos relatórios gerenciais e a intensidade de seu uso, e também que a intensidade de uso está positivamente associada tanto à velocidade quanto à qualidade da decisão. Os resultados ainda sugerem que a alta velocidade de decisão está relacionada positivamente com melhores desempenhos não monetários, entretanto, a estatística desta relação não é significante. Já a relação negativa entre velocidade e qualidade da decisão não foi validada estatisticamente.
How to apply cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Authors: Foundation Heart
Published: October 2019

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Would you manage without your society?
Authors: Irwin-Carruthers S. H.
Published: October 2019

No abstract available
La maladie de Lyme chez le chien
Authors: Boulouis Henri-Jean , Chabanne Luc
Published: October 2019

La maladie de Lyme est caractérisée chez le Chien par une arthrite induisant une boiterie, de l’anorexie, de la fièvre, une léthargie, une adénomégalie et parfois une glomérulonéphrite fatale. En absence de mise en évidence de Borrelia dans les prélèvements, le diagnostic repose essentiellement sur un faisceau d’arguments épidémiologique, clinique, sérologique et thérapeutique, après exclusion des autres causes aboutissant au même tableau clinique. La thérapeutique s’appuie sur une antibiothérapie principalement à base de doxycycline. La prévention passe par l’utilisation d’acaricides contre

Ixodes spp., vecteurs des Borrelia et éventuellement l’administration d’un vaccin.
Enjeux liés aux maladies endémiques à fort poids dans le sud
Authors: Leboucq Nadège
Published: October 2019

La persistance de principales maladies animales transfrontalières et endémiques dans les pays du Sud (fièvre aphteuse, peste des petits ruminants, rage, etc.) témoigne du défaut des Services vétérinaires nationaux à fournir des méthodes de contrôle efficaces et à maintenir une présence dans les localités où ils sont le plus utiles : auprès des populations pauvres et des communautés reculées qui dépendent essentiellement de l’élevage pour subsister. Investir durablement dans les capacités des Services vétérinaires aiderait à préserver la santé et la sécurité alimentaire mondiale, à développer les économies et à améliorer les conditions de vie de quelque 1,3 milliard de personnes dont les moyens de subsistance dépendent de la santé des animaux. L’ Organisation mondiale de la santé animale (OIE) s’emploie à promouvoir la qualité des Services vétérinaires et des Services chargés de la santé des animaux aquatiques comme un bien public mondial et déploie avec l’aide de ses partenaires internationaux et régionaux tout un arsenal d’activités de renforcement de capacités de ses pays membres - en particulier ceux du Sud - en vue du contrôle et de l’éradication des grandes enzooties concernant les animaux terrestres et aquatiques.
Traitement chirurgical physiologique de l’hémiplégie laryngée chez le cheval
Authors: Rossignol Fabrice
Published: October 2019

Au cours des dernières années le traitement chirurgical de l’hémiplégie laryngée a considérablement évolué. Bien que la laryngoplastie reste le traitement de référence, la technique de greffe de nerf cervical représente le seul moyen de rétablir physiologiquement la fonction laryngée avec un risque de complications inférieur. Des critères objectifs de sélection puis de suivi des candidats permettent d’offrir un bon pronostic aux chevaux de sport ou de course, bien que plus de recul soit nécessaire sur ces derniers. L’endoscopie au repos et à l’exercice, l’échographie laryngée, et le test d’électro-stimulation du nerf greffé apportent des informations essentielles sur le grade du cornage, sur le degré d’amyotrophie du muscle cricoaryténoïdien dorsal (CAD) ainsi que le suivi de sa réinnervation et de sa récupération fonctionnelle. Cette technique chirurgicale a déjà montré son efficacité dans des grades précoces d’hémiplégie laryngée et lorsque le temps de réhabilitation est compatible avec le programme sportif des chevaux. Ce traitement physiologique de l’hémiplégie laryngée pourrait être élargi dans l’avenir à des grades plus avancés en l’associant avec un neurostimulateur relié à une électrode fixée sur le nerf greffé dans le but d’améliorer la réhabilitation du muscle CAD et la fonction laryngée à l’exercice.
Pratiques de liberté chez Michel Foucault: questions ouvertes - entretien avec Philippe Chevalier
Authors: De Souza Pedro
Published: October 2019

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Vivências de “grades afora”: rotinas e experiências disrupturas do trabalho prisional no Recife oitocentista
Authors: Britto Aurélio De  Moura
Published: October 2019

O propósito deste artigo é investigar as dinâmicas do trabalho prisional na Casa de Detenção do Recife durante o século XIX. Manuseando diversas fontes primárias, buscamos avançar para além da retórica dos gestores e dos regulamentos prisionais e enfatizar alguns aspectos do trabalho prisional como a possibilidade dos detentos transitarem fora do perímetro das instituições prisionais, quando da execução de algumas das suas atividades laborais. Não raro, essa modalidade de trabalho conferia aos presos uma vivência menos isolada do que se supunha e permitia uma experiência de “liberdade parcelar”. A observação dos presos em suasandanças pela cidade permite dimensionar os fluxos que atravessavam e interligavam a sociedade recifense e o universo do encarceramento e sublinhar as inúmeras implicações dessa contiguidade para o cotidiano prisional. No que concerne ao recorte cronológico, nossa observação está circunscrita à gestão de Rufino de Almeida (1861-1875).
A corporação cristã em perspectiva transnacional: interações e transferências entre as organizações católicas para trabalhadores de Camaragibe (Brasil) e Val-des-Bois (França)
Authors: Amaral Deivison Gonçalves
Published: October 2019

O artigo analisa as interações e transferências transnacionais entre corporações operárias confessionais e o ativismo de leigos católicos, especialmente de empresários, entre Brasil e França. Busca especialmente entender as conexões do militante Carlos Alberto de Menezes, de Pernambuco, com Léon Harmel, de Val-des-Bois, França, na última década do século XIX e primeira do século XX. Especial atenção é dada ao modelo de corporação cristã e à cultura do bon patron que Menezes aprendeu com Harmel, trouxe ao Brasil, adaptou e recriou em Camaragibe.
Engaging stakeholders through social media and emergent organizations: The West Virginia Water Crisis Recovery as a case study
Authors: Getchell, PhD Morgan C. , Sellnow, PhD Timothy L.
Published: October 2019

The West Virginia water contamination crisis began on the morning of January 9, 2014, and left approximately 300,000 customers of the West Virginia American Water Company unable to use the water in their homes for any purpose other than flushing their toilets. Given the lack of appropriate response from the established organizations involved, many emergent organizations formed to help fill unmet informational and physical needs of the affected population. Crisis researchers have observed these ephemeral organizations for decades, but the recent proliferation of information communication technologies have made their activities more widespread and observable. In West Virginia, their activities were indispensable to the affected population and helped restore a sense of normalcy. This article analyzes four emergent organizations that formed in response to the West Virginia water contamination and the functions they performed in different phases of this crisis.
Strong anthropogenic control of secondary organic aerosol formation from isoprene in Beijing
Authors: Bryant Daniel J. , Dixon William J. , Hopkins James R. , Dunmore Rachel E. , Pereira Kelly L. , Shaw Marvin , Squires Freya A. , Bannan Thomas J. , Mehra Archit , Worrall Stephen D. , Bacak Asan , Coe Hugh , Percival Carl J. , Whalley Lisa K. , Heard Dwayne E. , Slater Eloise J. , Ouyang Bin , Cui Tianqu , Surratt Jason D. , Liu Di , Shi Zongbo , Harrison Roy , Sun Yele , Xu Weiqi , Lewis Alastair C. , Lee James D. , Rickard Andrew R. , Hamilton Jacqueline F.
Published: October 2019

Abstract. Isoprene-derived secondary organic aerosol (iSOA) is a significant contributor to organic carbon (OC) in some forested regions, such as tropical rainforests and the Southeast US. However, its contribution to organic aerosol in urban areas, with high levels of anthropogenic pollutants, is poorly understood. In this study we examined the formation of anthropogenic-influenced iSOA during summer in Beijing, China. Local isoprene emissions and high levels of anthropogenic pollutants, in particular NOx and particulate SO42−, led to the formation of iSOA under both high- and low-NO oxidation conditions, with significant heterogeneous transformations of isoprene-derived oxidation products to particulate organosulfates (OSs) and nitrooxy-organosulfates (NOSs). Ultra-pressure liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry was combined with a rapid automated data processing technique to quantify 31 proposed iSOA tracers in offline PM2.5 filter extracts. The co-elution of the inorganic ions in the extracts caused matrix effects that impacted two authentic standards differently. The average concentration of iSOA OSs and NOSs was 82.5 ng m−3, around three times higher than the observed concentrations of their oxygenated precursors (2-methyltetrols and 2-methylglyceric acid). OS formation was dependant on both photochemistry and sulfate available for reactive uptake as shown by a strong correlation with the product of ozone (O3) and particulate sulfate (SO42−). A greater proportion of high-NO OS products were observed in Beijing compared to previous studies in less polluted environments. The iSOA derived OSs and NOSs represented on average 0.62 % of the oxidised organic aerosol measured by aerosol mass spectrometry, but this increased to ~ 3 % on certain days. These results indicate for the first time that iSOA formation in urban Beijing is strongly controlled by anthropogenic emissions and results in extensive conversion to heterogeneous OS products.
Significant seasonal changes in optical properties of brown carbon in the
mid-latitude atmosphere
Authors: Han Heejun , Kim Guebuem , Shin Kyung-Hoon , Lee Dong-Hun
Published: October 2019

Abstract. Atmospheric brown carbon (BrC) plays significant roles in the light absorption and photochemistry of the atmosphere. Although the occurrence and sources of BrC have been studied extensively, its removal processes and optical characteristics in the atmosphere have been poorly understood. In this study, we examined the seasonal changes in sources and sinks of BrC and water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) in the atmosphere of Seoul, Korea. Our results showed that the concentrations of BrC and WSOC decreased by approximately 80 % and 30 %, respectively, from the cold season (Oct–Jan) to the warm season (Jun–Sep). Excitation–emission matrix (EEM) spectra showed that the humic-like substance (HULIS) was the dominant fraction of BrC as the other components were not measurable. The air mass back trajectories of fire burning practices and the variations in K and V contents in the water-soluble aerosols during all seasons showed no measureable decrease in input of biomass-burning sources in summer. However, there was a significant shift in photo-resistivity of light-absorbing organic aerosols in the summer, indicating significantly larger removals of ultraviolet (UV) degradable BrC. This was confirmed by laboratory UV radiation experiments on the optical property changes of BrC and WSOC in aerosol samples. Thus, our results suggest that the photo-degradation has dominant roles in controlling the quantity and quality of light-absorbing organic aerosols in the different seasons in the mid-latitude atmosphere.
Learning about the vertical structure of radar reflectivity using hydrometeor classes and neural networks in the Swiss Alps
Authors: van den Heuvel Floor , Foresti Loris , Gabella Marco , Germann Urs , Berne Alexis
Published: October 2019

Abstract. The use of radar for precipitation measurement in mountainous regions is complicated by many factors, especially beam shielding by terrain features, which, for example, reduces the visibility of the shallow precipitation systems during the cold season. When extrapolating the radar measurements aloft for quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) at the ground, these must be corrected for the vertical change of the radar echo caused by the growth and transformation of precipitation. Building on the availability of polarimetric data and a hydrometeor classification algorithm, this work explores the potential of machine learning methods to study the vertical structure of precipitation in Switzerland and to propose a more localised vertical profile correction. It first establishes the ground work for the use of machine learning methods in this context: from volumetric data of 30 precipitation events vertical cones with 500 m vertical resolution are extracted. It is shown that these cones can well represent the vertical structure of different types of precipitation events (stratiform, convective, snowfall). The reflectivity data and the hydrometeor proportions from the extracted cones constitute the input for the training of artificial neural networks (ANN), which are used to predict the vertical change in reflectivity. Lower height levels are gradually removed in order to test the ANN's ability to extrapolate the radar measurements to the ground level. It is found that ANN models using the information on hydrometeor proportions can predict from altitudes between 500 and 1000 metres higher than the ANN based on only reflectivity data. In comparison with more traditional vertical profile correction techniques the ANNs show less prediction errors made from all height levels up to 4000 m a.s.l., above which the ANNs lose predictive skill and the performance levels off to a constant value.
Π-theorem generalization of the ice-age theory
Authors: Verbitsky Mikhail Y. , Crucifix Michel
Published: October 2019

Abstract. Analyzing a dynamical system describing the global climate variations requires, in principle, exploring a large space spanned by the numerous parameters involved in this model. Dimensional analysis is traditionally employed to deal with equations governing physical phenomena to reduce the number of parameters to be explored, but it does not work well with dynamical ice-age models, because, as a rule, the number of parameters in such systems is much larger than the number of independent dimensions. Physical reasoning may however allow us to reduce the number of effective parameters and apply dimensional analysis in a way that is insightful. We show this with a specific ice-age model (Verbitsky et al., 2018) which is a low-order dynamical system based on ice-flow physics coupled with a linear climate feedback. In this model, the ratio of positive-to-negative feedback is effectively captured by an adimensional number called the V-number, which aggregates several parameters and, hence, reduces the number of governing parameters. This allows us to apply the central theorem of the dimensional analysis, the π-theorem, efficiently. Specifically, we show that the relationship between the amplitude and duration of glacial cycles is governed by a property of scale-invariance that does not depend on the physical nature of the underlying positive and negative feedbacks incorporated by the system. This specific example suggests a broader idea, that is, the scale invariance can be deduced as a general property of ice age dynamics, if the latter are effectively governed by a single ratio between positive and negative feedbacks.
An autonomous and low-power instrument platform for monitoring water and solid discharges in mesoscale rivers
Authors: Nord Guillaume , Michielin Yoann , Biron Romain , Esteves Michel , Freche Guilhem , Geay Thomas , Hauet Alexandre , Legoût Cédric , Mercier Bernard
Published: October 2019

Abstract. We present the development of the RIPLE platform designed for the monitoring at high temporal frequency (~ 10 min) of water discharge, solid fluxes (bedload and suspended load) and properties of fine particles (settling velocity) in mesoscale rivers. This platform responds to a request to continuously measure these variables in rivers using a single, centralized device, and in the most direct way possible. The platform integrates the following instruments: (i) for water discharge: water level and surface velocity radars, digital cameras, echo-sounder; (ii) for fine sediment load: turbidimeters, automatic samplers including the SCAF (sediment settling velocity characterization device), (iii) for bedload: a hydrophone, (iv) for water quality: a conductivity probe and water sampling. As far as water discharge monitoring is concerned, priority has been given to non-intrusive instruments to improve the robustness of the system. All the instruments are driven by a data logger (Campbell® CR6), which stores locally the data and then upload them to a remote server every hour during the day using a 3G modem. SMS (Short Message Service) alerts can be sent depending on scheduled conditions (e.g. low battery voltage, water level threshold, all samples of the automatic sampler collected). The platform has been designed to be as autonomous as possible: it is powered by a battery supplied by a solar panel. Limiting the power consumption of the platform was one of the main technical challenges, because of the quantity of instruments integrated. A simple 100 W solar panel is sufficient to power up the entire platform, even during winter or low insulation conditions. The RIPLE platform has been designed to facilitate its use and maintenance. A user-friendly interface has been developed enabling to visualize the data collected by the platform from an internet connection. It is also possible to remotely configure the platform within this interface, for example to modify water sampling thresholds or alert thresholds. Finally, the platform is relatively easy to move from one site to another site because its installation requires little civil engineering. To date, RIPLE has been tested on two rivers of the Alps in France: the Romanche river in Bourg d'Oisans (45.1158° N, 6.0134° E, 710 m elevation) from September, 2016 to July, 2018 and the Galabre river in La Robine sur Galabre (44.1586° N, 6.2360° E, 680 m elevation) since October, 2018, demonstrating the proper functioning of the platform.
Psicologia e Cinema
Authors: Bispo Sirlene Pereira , Mello Ivone Maia de
Published: October 2019

Este artigo relata uma ação extensionista desenvolvida pelo projeto Cinema: subjetividade, cultura e poder, da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, através de conversações com elementos da metodologia de grupo focal, abordando o tema do racismo através de texto/filme/comentário de convidado. Trabalhamos com a ideia de mito negro, trazida por Neusa Sousa, e interiorização da inferioridade de Frantz Fanon. As questões levantadas pelo público incluíam aspectos subjetivos e sociais vivenciados pelos participantes e perguntas sobre formas de tratar o sofrimento psíquico decorrente do racismo. Conclui-se que os resultados da atividade produziram impactos significativos para os presentes, por constituir-se como espaço de fala,  debate e elaborações acerca do racismo na universidade, racismo estrutural e representatividade, permitindo posterior multiplicação desse debate.
The Impact of Saving and Financial Development on Economic Growth in Turkey
Authors: Altaee Hatem Hatef Abdulkadhim , Al-Jafari Mohamed Khaled
Published: October 2019

Since saving and financial development are vital to economic growth, this research empirically investigates the impact of saving and financial development on economic growth in Turkey. Therefore, a time series data from 1968 until 2017 were tested utilizing both the error correction model (ECM) and the autoregressive distributed lag approach (ARDL). The findings reveal an existence of a short-run and a long-run positive and significant effect of savings and financial development on economic growth. Conventional inputs such as capital and labor proved to be the most important factors in achieving economic growth in Turkey. The study concludes that an appropriate policy mix will enhance domestic saving in the country.
Imágenes de la osadía en la lírica de Fernando de HerreraImages of daring in the poetry of Fernando de Herrera
Authors: Álvarez Javier
Published: October 2019

Daring is a key concept in Fernando de Herrera’s poetry. Thus, it is present throughout his work as a whole; it especially appears in the background in a great part of his lyrical work, especially in his evocations of mythological characters. The majority of them share the fate of suffering torture in the shame in pain of their sacrilegious daring. Since the Sevillian poet usually compares himself with them, a comparative reading of these compositions is essential to determine what, exactly, Herrera’s daring consists of.
Czynniki ryzyka zaburzeń gojenia i przedłużonej hospitalizacji u chorych po amputacji kończyny dolnej powyżej stawu kolanowego
Authors: Orłowski Maciej , Pluta Paulina , Kowalczyk Aleksandra , Kasprzak-Szczepańska Katarzyna , Pająk Marta , Dziki Adam
Published: October 2019

Streszczenie
Wstęp: Amputacja kończyny dolnej jest operacją wykonywaną w ostateczności, gdy wszelkie inne możliwości terapeutyczne uległy wyczerpaniu. Czas leczenia trwa od kilku do kilkunastu miesięcy i jest zależny od rozległości amputacji, ogólnego stanu zdrowia pacjenta oraz przebiegu procesu gojenia kikuta.
Materiały i metody: Wykonano retrospektywną analizę korzystając z bazy danych Oddziału Chirurgii Ogólnej i Naczyniowej Wojewódzkiego Specjalistycznego Szpitala im. M. Pirogowa w Łodzi. Analizie zostali poddani pacjenci u których w 2017 roku wykonano amputację kończyny dolnej na poziomie uda. Zakwalifikowano do pracy 92 chorych poddanych leczeniu operacyjnemu. Chorych podzielono na dwie grupy: bez powikłań gojenia oraz chorzy z powikłaniami gojenia kikuta. Przeanalizowano dokumentację medyczną obu grup, pod kątem czynników ryzyka zaburzeń gojenia. Uzyskane dane poddano analizie statystycznej.
Wyniki: Pacjenci z zaburzeniami gojenia kikuta mieli najczęściej minimalne krwawienie oraz wyższe wyniki w skali ASA w porównaniu do pacjentów bez powikłań gojenia. Dla pozostałych parametrów nie wykazano różnic pomiędzy obiema grupami. Pacjenci z powikłaniami potrzebowali średnio 28 dni na zagojenie rany oraz spędzali średnio 40 dni w szpitalu, w porównaniu do odpowiednio 14 i 21 dni dla pacjentów bez powikłań. Odsetek zgonów w grupie pacjentów z powikłaniami był również istotnie wyższy (35%) niż w grupie pacjentów bez powikłań (5%).
Wnioski: Do istotnych statystycznie czynników zwiększających ryzyko zaburzeń gojenia kikuta należą: wysoki stopień skali ASA oraz minimalne krwawienie z mięśni podczas wykonywania zabiegu. Chorzy u których wystąpiło to powikłanie narażeni są na większe ryzyko przedłużonej hospitalizacji oraz zgonu w okresie pooperacyjnym.
W pracy tej wykazano istotne statystycznie czynniki ryzyka zaburzeń gojenia kikuta po amputacji oraz potwierdzono negatywny wpływ tego powikłania na długość hospitalizacji oraz ryzyko zgonu.
Speckle Denoising With NL Filter and Stochastic Distances Under the Haar Wavelet Domain
Authors: Penna Pedro A. A. , Mascarenhas Nelson D. A.
Published: October 2019

Synthetic aperture radar SAR imaging systems have a coherent processing that causes the appearance of the multiplicative speckle noise. This noise gives a granular appearance to the terrestrial surface scene impairing its interpretation. The similarity between patches approach is applied by the current state-of-the-art filters in remote sensing area. The goal of this manuscript is to present a method to transform the non-local means (NLM) algorithm capable to mitigate the noise. Singlelook speckle and the NLM under the Haar wavelet domain are considered in our research with intensity SAR images. To achieve our goal, we used the Exponential-Polynomial (EP) and Gamma distributions to describe the Haar coefficients. Also, stochastic distances based on these two mentioned distributions were formulated and embedded in the original NLM technique. Finally, we present analyses and comparisons of real scenarios to demonstrate the competitive performance of the proposed method with some recent filters of the literature.
Detecção de Desfolha de Soja Utilizando Redes Neurais Convolucionais
Authors: Bressan Patrik , Gonçalves Wesley
Published: October 2019

The agribusiness represents a significant portion of the global economy. In Brazil, agribusiness has a significant share of the country’s economy and represented 21.6% of GDP in 2017. To increase productivity, proper management of a crop, including pest control, is of vital importance. Annually, plant pests cause losses of 20% to 40% of production. For this reason, it is important to monitor the level of defoliation to take preventive actions. Therefore, in this work an automatic methodology is proposed using Convolutional Neural Networks, to detect the level of defoliation from leaf images in the soybean crop. In addition to detecting the presence of defoliation, the proposed methodology also provides the affected regions of the leaf through the segmentation of the image. Experimental results showed 83% accuracy using the proposed methodology versus 60% of SegNet CNN. The results are promising considering that the images were captured in the field, which presents challenges such as lighting, stages of development, scale, among others.
Development of Embedded Algorithm for Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Authors: Rosa Paulo , Silveira Onias , de Melo João , Moreira Leandro , Rodrigues Luiz
Published: October 2019

The Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem is recurrent in today's robotics. One challenge of it is the extensive computational cost to create complex maps in real-time. Various applications, mainly search and rescue operate in GPS denied scenarios, with possible difficulty communicating with an external base. A portable SLAM system capable of being run in a microcomputer would greatly help such operations. This paper mentions the unfinished into this topic and discusses further steps that shall be taken in the upcoming months.
Object-based Method for Identifying New Constructions around Water Reservoirs: Preliminary Results
Authors: Hamidishad Nayereh , Cesar Junior Roberto
Published: October 2019

Identifying new constructions in large cities can be done simply, quickly, and at low cost by applying image processing techniques on time-series remote sensing (RS) images and producing land cover maps. In recent years, object-based (OB) image classification has attracted significant attention as a method for land cover mapping. This method consists of two steps: segmentation and classification. In this research, we will develop a new approach based on image processing techniques to be utilized in the OB classification method for the analysis of urban growth. In this approach, we propose a multi-phase segmentation for the segmentation step and a rule-based method for the classification step. Besides speeding up the process of OB classification, the accuracy of the final preliminary results is another advantage of the proposed approach. Moreover, for collecting RS images, a two-zoom level data collection is adopted using an open source RGB RS database. An important application of analyzing RS images is the detection of non-authorized communities formation around water reservoirs. Therefore, in our preliminary experiments, we selected three different regions around Guarapiranga reservoir in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for collecting our RS images.
Utilização de Redes Neurais Completamente Convolucionais para identificação e medição de crânios fetais
Authors: Skeika Everton Leonardo , Andrade Mauren Louise Sguario Coelho de , Siqueira Hugo
Published: October 2019

A ultrassonografia é uma técnica de diagnóstico por imagem não invasiva e não radioativa frequentemente utilizada no acompanhamento do desenvolvimento fetal durante a gestação. A avaliação precisa é importante para a análise do crescimento do feto, diagnóstico de malformações e de possíveis doenças congênitas, garantindo assim o bem-estar da mãe e do feto durante a gravidez. Porém, para uma medição precisa de estruturas anatômicas do feto é necessário conhecimento especializado do médico obstetra. Além de ser um processo tedioso e demorado, a extração do contorno é influenciada pela sua experiência. Neste sentido, o objetivo do trabalho é propor a adaptação da rede neural completamente convolucional V-Net para segmentação de crânios fetais presentes em imagens de ultrassonografia bidimensional, além da construção de um algoritmo para o cálculo da circunferência dos mesmos. Resultados preliminares sugerem que a metodologia pode ser utilizada de forma automática como ferramenta auxiliar no acompanhamento do desenvolvimento fetal.
Reconhecimento de Objetos em Linhas de Distribuição de Energia Utilizando IBM Cloud
Authors: de Oliveira Raianny Proença de Camargo , dos Santos Valéria Nunes , Maurício Cláudio Roberto Marquetto
Published: October 2019

O reconhecimento visual de objetos em uma imagem e a habilidade de classificá-los é umas das principais áreas de pesquisa utilizando a inteligência artificial. Atualmente, existem diversos frameworks disponíveis para auxiliar nesta tarefa. IBM Cloud é um desses frameworks no qual oferece um amplo catálogo de ferramentas na área de inteligência artificial, uma delas é a IBM Watson Visual Recognition. Foi criado um modelo através dessa API que utiliza algoritmos de Deep Learning para analisar imagens. O objetivo principal do modelo é o reconhecimento de oito tipos de objetos distintos em linhas de distribuição de energia. Todas as imagens utilizadas no experimento foram coletadas em aproximadamente 10 regiões diferentes da cidade. Os resultados obtidos no modelo criado no artigo foram comparados com o classificador geral da IBM. A taxa de acerto foi de pelo menos um componente reconhecido corretamente em 33 das 40 imagens utilizadas para testes, ou seja, classificou corretamente 82,5% do conjunto de imagens testes, apresentando uma acurácia acima de 50% para o objeto reconhecido. Os serviços utilizados para todo o experimento são do plano lite, gratuito. Logo, este artigo demonstra a capacidade da ferramenta mesmo com as limitações dessa versão.
Use of reorderable matrices and heatmaps to support data analysis of students transcripts
Authors: Barros Rafael Tavares Carvalho , Mendes Thiago Gonçalves , da Silva Celmar Guimarães
Published: October 2019

For a course coordinator, the analysis of several students’ transcripts to identify the situation of subjects or students is often an old-fashioned process executed through a textual and numerical approach. This work is part of a larger project aimed at choosing appropriate visual representations to help course coordinators to analyze sets of students transcripts. In this work, we developed a system that allows the visualization of student transcripts through a heatmap of student grades per subject. The heatmap represent grades based on a user-defined color scale. To assist in the analysis, it is possible to reorder subjects and students using the optimal leaf order algorithm, or even to reorder according to the grades of a specific subject or student. In addition, some features have been developed to meet visual guidelines, such as overview, zoom, filter and details-on-demand.
Catharsis et plaisir tragique selon Aristote
Authors: Marx William ,   Editua Polirom
Published: October 2019

Catharsis and tragic pleasure according to Aristotle. According to Aristotle, tragedies induce three different kinds of pleasures. First, there is the cognitive pleasure of imitation, since it is pleasurable to recognize in the imitation an object one already knows. Second, there is the aesthetic pleasure linked to the material parameters of the tragedy, that is the language, the show, and the performance (verses, singing, acting). Third, there is the “specific” pleasure of tragedy. This specific pleasure is linked to the affects of pity and fear through the process of catharsis. Although pity and fear are two opposite affects depending on the position of the subject relatively to an event, the spectator of the tragedy is bound to experience both of them simultaneously because of the ethical similarity the playwright must keep between him and the tragic hero. But pity and fear are also two opposite affects on the physiological level : pity is a warm affect, fear a cold one. Catharsis is then a physiological balancing of pity by fear, of warmth by cold, and reciprocally, and this continuous suppression of excesses of temperature through the tragic imitation, while bringing a feeling of relief and pleasure, rids the spectator of all excessive affects. Catharsis provides a healthy and hygienic pleasure, and so can Aristotle effectively reply to Plato’s criticism of tragedy.
Interpreter l’Elegie parenetique archaique
Authors: Gheerbrant Xavier ,   Editua Polirom
Published: October 2019

The book by Magali Année, Tyrtee et Kallinos (Paris, 2017), claims to establish new and ambitious grounds on which to found an interpretation of Tyrtaeus’ and Kallinos’ works. By analysing the underlining networks of phonic‑syllabic repetitions in the available fragments, she studies how those two poets have elaborated a paroenetic‑incantatory diction to make the audience accept the content of the exhortation as an already‑lived experience. For instance, she argues that any item in the phonic sequence ‑μεν/μην/μον/μν‑, even as a palindrome, refers to the action denoted by the verb μένειν, “to resist”. Année elaborates the conditions for the plausibility of her original interpretation through a re‑evaluation of the frameworks through which archaic poems are usually interpreted, and she proposes a new edition of the testimonies and fragments on the ground of radical textual conservatism. After summarising the author’s arguments in detail, I conclude that, in spite of their merits, they fail to meet the author’s objectives completely. I discuss in turn : how the author arranges the new edition of the testimonies and fragments ; how she argues for her central view about phonic‑syllabic repetitions and the elaboration of the secondary layer of meaning ; and how she analyses meter, which she presents as one of the bases for phonic‑pragmatic constructs ; and how she conceives of her hermeneutical approach. On this last point, I specifically address the author’s view on the relationship between testimonies and fragments, the type of meaning she focuses on, the deconstruction of pre‑interpretations, and textual conservatism. I argue that the Année’s proposed underlying network of meaning comes at the expense of “meaning” in the more usual sense ; we could however have expected her to elaborate on how her proposed layer of meaning enriches or enhances our understanding of the more usual layer. Tyrtee et Kallinos therefore represents an alternative to traditional interpretative approaches, with limits of its own, rather than a re‑founding.
A manuscript fragment of Vincent de Beauvais’ Speculum historiale in Romania (Sibiu, National Archives, U. V. 1926)
Authors: Dincă Adinel ,   Editua Polirom
Published: October 2019

Die Identifizierung eines fragmentarisch erhaltenen Textes aus dem Speculum Historiale, das von Vincent de Beauvais um die Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts zusammengestellt wurde – eine im Mittelalter überall sehr geschätzte historiographische Arbeit – könnte eine Diskussion über den Wert der Geschichtsschreibung innerhalb der Lesepraxis im vormodernen Siebenbürgen anregen. In vorliegendem Aufsatz wird versucht, auf verschiedene Aspekte einzugehen, in erster Linie auf Fragen der Datierung und der Lokalisierung dieses Fragments. Es wird dann weiter argumentiert, dass die beiden noch vorhandenen Blätter ursprünglich Teil einer Handschrift waren, bislang die östlichste Rezeption des Textes in dieser Form darstellt ; die Handschrift war bereits um 1500 im Besitz eines Siebenbürgers.
Le plaisir dans la cite platonicienne
Authors: Renaut Olivier ,   Editua Polirom
Published: October 2019

This article aims at showing that the definition of pleasure in Plato’s dialogues cannot be separated from a political educational program and an anthropology that consider pleasure as the main vehicle towards virtue. The political use of pleasure is as important as its definition, insofar as its manifestation and content are the prerogatives of the legislator. All pleasures are politically meaningful in the Republic and in the Laws, and among them especially the triad hunger, thirst and sex ; in making pleasures a “public” issue, as pleasures are object of surveillance and political control, Plato gives several means in order to shape the way pleasures are felt in the city, and in order to make the community of pleasure and pain a fundamental role in unifying the city under the reason’s commands.
Aristote : le plaisir des differences
Authors: Jaulin Annick ,   Editua Polirom
Published: October 2019

Given the necessary connection between pleasure and energeia, the value of an aristotelian pleasure depends on the value of its correlative activity. Since the absolute pleasures the philokalos takes in his virtuous activities might go hand in hand with pains, the definition of absolute pleasure cannot rely on the distinction between mixed pleasure (pleasure with pain) versus pure pleasure (pleasure without pain). So, how can we characterize the pleasures of the temperate man (sophron) ? My thesis is that the right way to define the pleasures of the temperate man is to describe them as pleasures derived from differences. A pleasure derived from differences is involved in the pleasure human beings get from the formal use of their senses. It then belongs to the kind of pleasure they take in knowing. This formal use of the senses helps understanding how the pleasures of the temperate man can be separated from the pleasures enjoyed by children and animals.
Contribution of Architect Daina Danneberga to the Architecture in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Authors: Gudro Ilze , Krastiņš Jānis
Published: October 2019

The article reflects the contribution of the renowned Latvian architect Daina Danneberga to Latvian architecture, as well as the significant events and growth of her life. While living and working in Soviet times, the architect has designed both residential and public buildings, which are still in use and whose cultural and historical significance has surely increased over the time. The most recognizable object designed by the architect is the Student Campus of Riga Polytechnic Institute (RPI), now Riga Technical University (RTU), on the Ķīpsala Island. It was designed by D. Danneberga from 1969 to 1986. The architect has also developed projects for several other educational institutions as well as public and residential buildings, both in Latvia and abroad.