bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Survey to healthcare professionals on the practicality of AI services for healthcare
Authors: Väänänen Antti , Haataja Keijo , Toivanen Pekka
Published: July 2020

Background:Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already in use in many fields of healthcare, and utilization of AI in state-of-the art healthcare services is growing, with many studies showing that AI can provide benefits in healthcare processes. However, there is a need for research about healthcare professionals’ willingness to use AI-based services, and their consideration about in which cases AI could provide better healthcare outcomes and reduce healthcare professionals’ workload.

Methods:We studied the latest technologies and methods from current healthcare AI services’ end-users to create a survey on healthcare services, including use cases that could be beneficial for healthcare professionals.  We focused on studying Information and Communication Technology (ICT) applications and services which utilize modern AI features. The purpose of our survey for healthcare professionals was to provide an analysis of the healthcare services that utilize AI features, which could provide better health outcomes from a healthcare professional and care process point of view.

Results:AI features, such as health monitoring, medication management, and connected machines are considered to have high benefit in healthcare workflow. Moreover, we found that the majority (67.8%) of healthcare professionals are willing to use AI for supporting decision making or even providing independent diagnosis. In total, 28.9% of healthcare professionals are willing to use AI in a restricted manner to help professionals in care processes. Only 3.3% of respondents are not willing to use AI-based services at all.

Conclusions:Our survey indicated that the willingness of healthcare professionals to use different AI in healthcare technology solutions is high.
Tourism statistics
Authors: Panova Anna
Published: July 2020

Contains a detailed overview of the basic concepts of the General theory of statistics, groups of statistics, absolute, relative and average values, statistical study of the relationship of socio-economic phenomena, time series and methods for the detection of trend in time series, indices and their use in tourism. The theoretical material is illustrated with examples from tourism and hospitality. Detail the history of the development, the subject and objectives, the indicator system of tourism statistics.
Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation.
For undergraduate students, graduate destinations 43.03.02, 43.04.02 "Tourism" and 43.03.03, 43.04.03 "Hospitality". It will be useful to employees of organizations of tourism, as well as receiving the second higher economic education.
PROPIEDADES PSICOMÉTRICAS DEL VIVIDNESS OF VISUAL IMAGERY QUESTIONNAIRE (VVIQ-RV-12) EN ESPAÑA
Authors: Flores María del Pilar Aparicio , Esteve Faubel José María , Vicent María , Sanmartín Ricardo
Published: July 2020

El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo examinar las propiedades psicométricas del Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ) en una muestra de 614 universitarios españoles entre 21 y 39 años de edad. El AFE arrojó un modelo del VVIQ compuesto por 12 ítems estructurados en 4 factores (Imágenes Espaciales en Movimiento [IEM]; Imágenes Familiares [IF]; Recuerdo de Objetos Detallados [ROD]; Capacidad Creativa de Imágenes [CCI]), que explicaron respectivamente el 12.99, 13.53, 12.97 y 12.70% del total de la varianza. Este modelo fue confirmado a través de AFC, obteniendo adecuados índices de ajuste de los datos. Se obtuvieron índices de fiabilidad aceptables para el total de la escala (α = .82) y los cuatro factores (α = .72-.82). El análisis de la validez discriminante de la escala mostró correlaciones positivas y significativas entre las Preocupaciones Perfeccionistas y los factores IEM y ROD.
El impacto de la secuencia visual en la comprensión simbólica de acciones en imágenes
Authors: Jauck Daniela , Peralta Olga
Published: July 2020

ResumenLa comprensión simbólica de imágenes que representan acciones constituye un desafío cognitivo a edades tempranas. Esta investigación indaga el impacto de la presentación de la secuencia visual de acciones dirigidas hacia un fin en la comprensión simbólica de las imágenes que las representan. Niños/as de 30 a 36 meses de edad fueron asignados/as a dos condiciones en las que se manipuló la presencia o ausencia de la secuencia. Los niños/as observaron por medio de una tableta imágenes de distintas acciones; luego, debían escoger un objeto real que mostraba el resultado de cada acción. Se encontró que la presencia de la secuencia constituyó un factor clave en la comprensión de las imágenes como representaciones acciones.Palabras clave: secuencia, acciones, imágenes, comprensión simbólica temprana The impact of the visual sequence on the symbolic understanding of actions on imagesAbstract The symbolic understanding of images that represent actions constitutes a cognitive challenge at early ages. This research investigates the impact of the presentation of the visual sequence of goal directed actions on the symbolic understanding of the images representing them. Thirty-to-36 months-old children were assigned to two conditions in which the presence or absence of the sequence was manipulated. Children observed on a tablet images of different actions; afterwards they had to choose a real object that showed the result of each action. It was found that the presence of the sequence constituted a key factor on the early symbolic comprehension of the images as representations of actions.Keywords: sequence, actions, images, early symbolic understanding
Data Association via Set Packing for Computer Vision Applications
Authors: Yarkony Julian , Adulyasak Yossiri , Singh Maneesh , Desaulniers Guy
Published: July 2020

Significant progress has been made in the field of computer vision because of the development of supervised machine learning algorithms, which efficiently extract information from high-dimensional data such as images and videos. Such techniques are particularly effective at recognizing the presence or absence of entities in the domains where labeled data are abundant. However, supervised learning is not sufficient in applications where one needs to annotate each unique entity in crowded scenes respecting known domain-specific structures of those entities. This problem, known as data association, provides fertile ground for the application of combinatorial optimization. In this review paper, we present a unified framework based on column generation for some computer vision applications, namely multiperson tracking, multiperson pose estimation, and multicell segmentation, which can be formulated as set packing problems with a massive number of variables. To solve them, column generation algorithms are applied to circumvent the need to enumerate all variables explicitly. To enhance the solution process, we provide a general approach for applying subset-row inequalities to tighten the formulations and introduce novel dual-optimal inequalities to reduce the dual search space. The proposed algorithms and their enhancements are successfully applied to solve the three aforementioned computer vision problems and achieve superior performance over benchmark approaches. The common framework presented allows us to leverage operations research methodologies to efficiently tackle computer vision problems.
Review of normal gastrointestinal tract, ulcerative colitis, proctitis and rectal medication adherence
Authors: Naeck-Boolauky Pineshwari , Adio Jitka , Burch Jennie
Published: July 2020

The gastrointestinal (GI) tract has a number of functions—ingestion, digestion, absorption and elimination. When the GI tract is working normally, it is efficient. However, this can change when disease, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) occurs. IBD is a long-term relapsing and remitting autoimmune disease; it incorporates ulcerative colitis (UC). In UC, part or all the mucosa lining the rectum and colon becomes inflamed and ulcerated. UC that affects the rectum only is called proctitis. Effective treatment is essential. It is better to target the rectal mucosa directly in proctitis, using topical rectal medications in enemas or suppositories, as these have fewer side-effects and resolve symptoms more quickly than systemic drugs. However, patients may not feel clear about aspects of their IBD care and can find it difficult to initiate and comply with treatment and maintenance regimens. Nurses need to educate and support them to achieve optimal therapeutic outcomes in both the immediate and long terms.
Influences on childhood immunisation decision-making in London's Gypsy and Traveller communities
Authors: Ellis Nicola , Walker-Todd Ellie , Heffernan Catherine
Published: July 2020

Aims:

Uptake of childhood immunisations is lower among Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities than in the general UK population. This small-scale study aimed to elicit insights from GRT mothers on their interaction with health services in London around childhood immunisations. The purpose was to inform a larger piece of work by the NHS England and Improvement (London) Public Health Commissioning Team to inform their planning to improve access to vaccination services for GRT communities in London.

Study design:

An exploratory qualitative study using semi-structured interviews and a focus group.

Methods:

There was purposive sampling of mothers from any GRT background from south-west London using snowballing methods. One focus group and three interviews were conducted. A thematic analysis approach was used.

Results:

A total of nine women were recruited and seven participated between March and April 2018. Five themes were identified: adherence with antenatal care, self-declared parenting expertise, family support, childhood immunisations, keep children healthy but ‘they say wait on the MMR until they are talking’.

Conclusion:

Compliance with antenatal care, strong parenting beliefs and cohesive family support are strong influences on decision-making regarding immunisations. The women interviewed emphasised their own expertise in child rearing. This was occasionally at odds with the health advice provided by health professionals. The women widely shared their experiences of health professionals with other family and community members and this impacted on others' intention to vaccinate. These are key issues that should be considered when trying to improve uptake of immunisations in GRT families in a face-to-face manner. Equally, it warrants further exploration in a larger-scale study to see whether this reflects the wider community and in order to tailor supplementary immunisation activities to improve uptake.
Time to rethink vascular access in patients with breast cancer
Authors: McDiarmid Sheryl , Larocque Gail
Published: July 2020

Breast cancer management is a rapidly evolving field. Diagnosis and treatment options have changed dramatically over the years, as have options for vascular access devices used to administer therapies. We now need to critically rethink vascular access device options for our breast cancer patients.

Breast cancer (BC) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Canadian women. Although BC incidence continues to rise, the overall mortality rate in Canada is the lowest it has been for 70 years. The five-year net survival is 87%, and 83% of women are alive at 10 years. New oral therapies, shorter dose-dense treatments, and decreased use of anthracycline-base regimens are reducing the need for central venous access devices during acute treatment phases. However, these survivors go on to develop other health issues requiring routine venipuncture and insertion of vascular access devices.

Breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) is a chronic complication that has no cure and no proven prevention strategies. Approximately 21% of breast cancer survivors are at risk of developing BCRL. Of those patients who do develop BCRL, 70% do so within two years of surgery, 90% within three years, and another one percent per year thereafter. The literature supports axillary lymph node dissection, mastectomy, administration of chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and obesity, as risk factors for the development of BCRL. However, 40% of patients who develop BCRL have no identifiable risk factors. Broader risk reduction strategies developed are not evidence based, the most commonly cited being avoidance of needle sticks. Large cohort studies have found no significant association between blood draws and intravenous infusion in the surgical arm with the development of BCRL. Recommendations that effectively eliminate vascular access on the surgical side for the patient's entire lifetime are neither necessary nor realistic.

Vascular access specialists can provide leadership by developing standardized, evidence-informed recommendations for safe vascular access and infusion practices for this patient population.
The role of certain Brauer and Rado results in the nonnegative inverse spectral problems
Authors: Julio Ana , Soto Ricardo
Published: July 2020

It is said that a list $\Lambda =\{\lambda _{1},\ldots ,\lambda _{n}\}$ of complex numbers is realizable, if it is the spectrum of a nonnegative matrix $A$. It is said that $\Lambda $ is universally realizable if it is realizable for each possible Jordan canonical form allowed by $\Lambda$. This work does not contain new results. As its title says, its goal is to show and emphasize the relevance and importance of certain results, by Brauer and Rado, in the study of nonnegative inverse spectral problems. It is shown that virtually all known results, which give sufficient conditions for $\Lambda$ to be realizable or universally realizable, can be obtained from results by Brauer and Rado. Moreover, from these results, a realizing matrix may always be constructed.
Stories of Learning: A Case Study of Norwegian Plumbers and Apprentices in TVET at the Construction Site and in a Training Agency
Authors: Lensjø Marit
Published: July 2020

Context: Through a dual model, based on 2 years of education in upper secondary school followed by two and a half year of apprenticeship training, Norwegian plumbing education has become an integrated part of the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET). Competence and skills are described in national plumbing curriculum. However, there is little information on how learning and training, interaction and relations between craftsmen and apprentices take place and develops at the workplace. The objective of this article is to identify significant learning processes by studying apprentices in a training agency and in communities of plumbers at the building site. Approach: The study has an ethnographic approach, based on a combination of fieldwork and interviews with apprentices, plumbers and a vocational teacher. During one year of fieldwork I followed a group of plumbing apprentices in a training agency, and in their plumbing companies at different construction sites. As a former plumber and vocational teacher, I was able to participate as a plumber and researcher and thus I had a unique position to work along with the apprentices and plumbers. This enabled me to observe interaction, learning and training in their communities of practices as an insider.Findings: The study showed that the process of learning practical skills, a professional language and a technical rationale was time consuming, challenging and sometimes tiering. In return the apprentices discovered proficiency, gained confidence and were considered as participants in the community of plumbers. A central finding is the great value of working in a community of plumbers at the building site, combined by studying sanitary and heating technology at the training agency. Among peers at the training agency, the apprentices were challenged to build and explore complex pipe laying, and to discuss technical regulations and rationale with each other and the vocational teacher. Conclusion: Craftsmen, like plumbers, consecutively handle a variety of technical work tasks and situations. Inside practice, the plumbers are close to materials and systems on construction site, where pipes, cableways and building structures looks different from the plan and the progress on paper. As experts, the plumbers often solve problems more functional and cost effective than suggested in the blueprint. The study shows how apprentices and plumbers develop skills, tacit knowledge and professionality through involvement with relevant things and situations, and by sharing experiences and technical expertise in communities of peers and plumbers.
Near-perfect broadband infrared metamaterial absorber utilizing nickel
Authors: Parsamyan Henrik
Published: July 2020

We propose a thin, compact, broadband, polarization and angle insensitive metamaterial absorber based on a tungsten reflector, a silicon spacer, and a top pattern composed of a double square-like ring resonator utilizing nickel (Ni). In such a structure, a high absorption (above 80%) bandwidth

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from 3.52 up to 8.32 µm corresponding to the relative bandwidth

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can be achieved with deeply subwavelength unit cell dimensions. Here the physical origin of the broadband absorption is associated with low

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-factor dipole modes of the top pattern inner and outer sides functioning as rectangular nanoantennas. Owing to the structural symmetry, the absorber shows a good incidence angle tolerance in the relatively wide range for both transverse electric and transverse magnetic polarizations. The effective parameters of the Ni-based absorber were retrieved using the constitutive effective medium theory, and the absorption characteristics of the effective medium and metamaterial were compared.
Optimized design for a terahertz parametric oscillator based on degenerate four-wave mixing in silicon nitride
Authors: Amini Tahereh , Jahangiri Fazel
Published: July 2020

We propose terahertz wave generation using a parametric oscillator based on phase-matched and non-phase-matched degenerate four-wave mixing processes within a silicon nitride Fabry–Perot microcavity. The central frequency of the generated terahertz waves would be tunable over the frequency range of 3.6–5.73 THz by varying the wavelength of the pump wave. The best phase-matching condition is achieved at a frequency of 5 THz, and an optimum peak power of 329 W is obtained at a frequency of 4.29 THz.
Force sensitivity and fringe contrast characteristics of spheroidal Fabry-Perot interferometers
Authors: Wei Guozhao , Jiang Qi
Published: July 2020

Force/strain sensitivity and fringe contrast are important parameters of spheroidal Fabry-Perot interferometers (FPIs). A static structural model and a ray optics model are proposed in this paper for analyses of force/strain sensitivity and fringe contrast. The models proposed show that the sensitivity and fringe contrast of FPIs with spheroidal cavities can be controlled through the dimensions of the spheroids. To corroborate the analyses, three spheroidal FPIs are fabricated via a chemical etching method and static force experiments are carried out. The maximum relative errors of force sensitivity and fringe contrast are 5.2% and -6.4%, respectively. We believe that this research will contribute to improvements in the performance of spheroidal FPIs.
Dual-probe 1D hybrid fs/ps rotational CARS for simultaneous single-shot temperature, pressure, and O2/N2 measurements
Authors: Escofet-Martin David , Ojo Anthony O. , Collins Joshua , Mecker Nils Torge , Linne Mark , Peterson Brian
Published: July 2020

We employ dual-probe one-dimensional (1D) femtosecond (fs)/picosecond (ps) hybrid rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (HRCARS) to investigate simultaneous temperature, pressure, and

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measurements for gas-phase diagnostics. The dual-probe HRCARS technique allows for simultaneous measurements from the time and frequency-domain. A novel approach for measuring pressure, which offers high accuracy (

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) and precision (0.42%), is presented. The technique is first demonstrated in a chamber for a range of pressures (1–1.5 bar). This technique shows an impressive capability of resolving 1D pressure gradients arising from a

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jet impinging on a surface, both in laminar and turbulent conditions. The technique is shown to be capable of resolving single-shot pressure gradients (0.04 bar/mm) originating from kinetic energy conversion to pressure and resolves characteristic

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structures from laminar and turbulent mixing.
Coupling a single dipole to a long-range surface plasmon device
Authors: Vu Cam Nhung , Laverdant Julien
Published: July 2020

Embedding a thin layer of a noble metal between two symmetric media results in the hybridization of the surface plasmons, leading to the existence of a long-range surface plasmon (LRSP). In this Letter, we investigate numerically the coupling of a single dipole, as a probe, to this LRSP. Different de-excitation channels are available such as free space radiation and plasmonic modes in different proportions. In a more realistic approach, with finite layers, guided modes in the dielectric may also be excited. The study of the local density of optical states allows us to separate, identify, and reconstruct the different modes. The critical role of the orientation as well as the position of the dipole leads to an interplay between the LRSP and the guided modes. The coupling efficiency with these modes is evaluated. Besides providing a deep understanding of a LRSP in realistic devices, these results could be used as guidelines for future optoelectronic device designs.
Entomological Scheimpflug lidar for estimating unique insect classes in-situ field test from Ivory Coast
Authors: Kouakou Benoit K. , Jansson Samuel , Brydegaard Mikkel , Zoueu Jeremie T.
Published: July 2020

Acquisition of entomological data with high-frequency lidar is an emerging research field in rapid development. The technique offers very high numbers of observations per time unit, suitable for statistical models. In this work, we use a near-infrared Scheimpflug lidar with a sampling frequency of 3.5 kHz to assess the activity of free flying organisms. In-situ measurements were done during the rainy season in Ivory Coast, and hierarchical cluster analysis was used to quantify the amount of unique modulation signatures. Here we propose a method to estimate the number of observed species within a certain air volume for a given time span. This paves the way for rapid in-situ biodiversity assessment in accordance with recent priorities for protection of pollinator diversity during global changes.
Shop talk: The influence of hip hop on Filipino–American barbers in San Diego
Authors: Vito Christopher
Published: July 2020

Barber culture frequently intersects with hip hop. Barbershops often incorporate rap music, street wear apparel and popular culture into their daily environment. In tandem, an important part of hip hop culture is the haircuts and designs that people choose to get. Many Filipino-Americans across the United States utilize barber and hip hop culture to help create their own unique sense of identity – a sense of identity forged in the fires of diaspora and postcolonial oppression. In this first instalment of the GHHS ‘Show and Prove’ section – short essays on hip hop visual culture, arts and images – I illustrate the ways in which Filipino-Americans in San Diego use barber shops both as a means of entrepreneurialism and as a conduit to create a cultural identity that incorporates hip hop with their own histories of migration and marginalization. I interview Filipino-American entrepreneur Marc Canonizado, who opened his first San Diego-based business, Goodfellas Barbershop Shave Parlor, in 2014. We explore the complex linkages between barbershops, Filipino-Americans and hip hop culture, as well as discuss his life story and plans for the future.
‘Wot do u call it? Doof doof’: Articulations of glocality in Australian grime music
Authors: de Lacey Alex
Published: July 2020

Grime music emerged at the turn of the millennium in the United Kingdom. While grounded and street-level at its outset, the form has since become global in reach. This article focuses on performance practice in the East Australian grime scene and its development over time. Principally, it attends to how MCs and DJs articulate a sense of belonging to both the UK and their local communities in Melbourne and Sydney, through lyrical and musical signification. These articulations are shown to be an example of ‘glocal’ performance practice, which is locally situated yet globally rendering. The article also demonstrates how these artists’ conceptions of legitimate practice are heavily mediated by YouTube videos of canonical UK practice, owing to their geographical dislocation from the genre’s initial point of origin. As a result, radio performances – known as ‘sets’ – and live shows are often prioritized over recorded releases. These findings are supported by interviews with Australian artists, and musical analysis of two key performances: a radio set on Australian broadcaster Triple J from November 2018 and a global grime showcase on London’s Rinse FM from January 2019.
Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America, Erik Nielson and Andrea L. Dennis (2019)
Authors: Rana Salman A.
Published: July 2020

Review of: Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America, Erik Nielson and Andrea L. Dennis (2019)

New York: The New Press, 204 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-62097-340-0, h/bk, USD 24.99
Sounding Race in Rap Songs, Loren Kajikawa (2015)
Authors: Faber Tamar
Published: July 2020

Review of: Sounding Race in Rap Songs, Loren Kajikawa (2015)

Oakland: University of California Press, 224 pp.,

ISBN 978-0-52028-399-2, p/bk, $29.95, h/bk, $85.00
A love interrupted: A Tribe Called Quest’s resilient path of rhythm
Authors: McNally James
Published: July 2020

In 2016, the rap group A Tribe Called Quest returned with their long-awaited sixth and final album, We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service. Behind it was a long and turbulent story without which the record’s full significance cannot be properly understood. In this longform critical essay, hip hop scholar and critic James McNally examines that history, drawing on an extensive archive of historic interviews and visual material to illuminate the impact this pivotal group made on hip hop’s golden age. It maps the disruption in music and values created by the freewheeling collective they belonged to, the Native Tongues; in particular the new, looser, more expressive modes of Blackness and everyteen vitality they injected into hip hop’s late-1980s moral and stylistic universe. Unpacking the tropes of familiality the Native Tongues promoted, the essay is drawn in particular to the de facto sibling relationship between Tribe’s two core MCs – Malik ‘Phife’ Taylor and Kamaal ‘Q-Tip’ Fareed (born Jonathan Davis). It argues their friendship – as ultimately embodied in the sound of Tribe’s music, but also, increasingly, as public biographical knowledge – was central to the group’s appeal. Engaging with their fraternal ambivalence as well as their love, and with the group’s drawn-out implosion after 1998’s The Love Movement, the essay explores themes around masculine friendship and platonic male love, around estrangement, reconciliation and resilience, and, ultimately – following the interruption of We Got It From Here… by Taylor’s untimely death – the personal tragedy of loss. Bringing these themes together, ‘A Love Interrupted’ provides a critical reading of A Tribe Called Quest’s poignant final album.
Forgotten cinemas: The institutional uses of documentary in twentieth-century Mexico (1930–80)
Authors: Quiroz Claudia Arroyo , Mantecón Álvaro Vázquez , Wood David M. J. , López Ana M.
Published: July 2020

The special issue presented in this introduction focuses on the uses of documentary cinema in Mexico between 1930 and 1980 as part of the wider cultural policy of a variety of institutions that made films to express particular discourses or to promote their agendas. The institutions under study include state agencies, international bodies, private media companies and marginal political organizations.
Docudrama for the emerging post-war order: Documentary film, internationalism and indigenous subjects in 1950s Mexico1
Authors: Wood David M. J.
Published: July 2020

This article focuses on the productive tensions between the competing ideological discourses of post-war internationalism, Mexican post-revolutionary nationalism and local indigenous representational paradigms in the activities of the film unit of the UNESCO-sponsored adult education centre (CREFAL) in the town of Pátzcuaro, Mexico in the 1950s, which combined village screenings of educational, promotional and informative movies from the world over, with the local production of pedagogical documentary shorts by non-professional filmmakers from across Latin America. Inspired by the work of British documentarian Paul Rotha, whose United Nation picture World Without End (Mexico/Thailand/United Kingdom, 1953, codirected with Basil Wright) was partly filmed at CREFAL, these films frequently resorted to a docudrama format that enabled amateur documentary filmmakers to engage with the agendas of their indigenous subjects even as they subordinated them to the United Nation’s call to hygiene, progress and civic values. In doing so, they responded creatively to appeals by theorists such as Kracauer and Grierson for a critical realist cinema. They also acted as a link between the so-called ‘classical’ pre-war documentary movements in the United Kingdom, North America and elsewhere, and the later, socially committed new cinemas.
El uso del cine en la política indigenista mexicana: El cine del Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI) de su primera etapa (1956–70)
Authors: Arroyo Quiroz Claudia
Published: July 2020

This article studies the cinema produced by the National Indigenist Institute (INI) in its initial stage (1956–70), to investigate how this institution used the moving image to promote its agendas. Through an analysis of the discursive and formal characteristics of the three films produced during that era (Nuevos horizontes, Arenas [1956] 2010; Todos somos mexicanos, Arenas [1958] 2008; and Misión de Chichimecas, López [1970] 2008), I show how an audio-visual rhetoric was configured in which the voice-over expresses the guidelines of the indigenista policy, but also opens up a space for the self-expression of the indigenous characters and for their languages. Likewise, I underline the specificity of the INI’s cinema during this early period in the wider context of Mexican cinema and in relation to different filmic representations of indigenous people.
Antimicrobial resistance profiles in bacterial species isolated from fecal samples of free-ranging long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) living in Lopburi Old Town, Thailand
Authors: Boonkusol Duangjai , Thongyuan Suporn , Jangsuwan Nantana , Sanyathitiseree Pornchai
Published: July 2020

Background and Aim: At present, increasing in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) population in Lopburi old town caused several problems in its community, in particular with sanitation problem. The present study aimed to explore species distribution and antimicrobial resistance patterns in bacteria isolated from feces of the free-ranging long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Lopburi Old Town, Thailand.

Materials and Methods: Fresh fecal samples were collected from October 2018 to July 2019 from seven troops of macaques. Bacterial colonies were identified based on Gram stain and standard biochemical techniques. Sensitivity toward eight different antibiotics, including amoxicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanate, cephalexin, clindamycin, doxycycline, enrofloxacin, erythromycin, and gentamicin, was analyzed using the disk diffusion method.

Results: A total of 1050 fecal samples were collected. Five unique bacterial species were identified, including Escherichia coli, Enterobacter spp., Proteus spp., Salmonella Group B, and Citrobacter spp. in 100%, 25.71%, 18%, 1.71%, and 0.57% of the fecal specimens, respectively. Among 70 distinct isolates of E. coli, 63 (93%) were resistant to multiple drugs, including amoxicillin, cephalexin, clindamycin, and erythromycin; one isolate (6%) was resistant to clindamycin only. Furthermore, 17 isolates (94%) of Salmonella Group B were resistant to both clindamycin and erythromycin. Five of the six Citrobacter spp. isolates (83%) were also multidrug-resistant (to cephalexin, clindamycin, and erythromycin); the one remaining Citrobacter spp. isolate (6%) was resistant to both clindamycin and erythromycin. However, a high percentage of E. coli, Salmonella Group B and Citrobacter spp. remained susceptible to amoxicillin-clavulanate, enrofloxacin, and doxycycline.

Conclusion: Our findings provide the basic information for the selection of empirical therapy and for the evaluation of the scale of antibiotic resistance associated with macaques living in Lopburi Old Town.
Protocol of Femur Extraction from Bats in Fluid-Preserved Collections
Authors: Louzada Nathália Siqueira Veríssimo , de Moraes Neto Carlos Rodrigues , Nogueira Marcelo Rodrigues , Pessôa Leila Maria
Published: July 2020

The anatomy of appendicular bones has been demonstrated to be informative for taxonomic, paleontological, and functional studies of bats. Its use in such studies, however, is limited by the small number of skeletons available for this taxonomic group in scientific collections. Here we describe a protocol for the extraction of the femur from fluid-preserved bats. This protocol was successfully tested on a large sample, including 58 species in 43 genera and 9 families (a total of 183 specimens), and is minimally invasive, requiring only two incisions in the leg at disarticulation points (knee and coxofemoral joints). This method provides material for appendicular anatomical research with minimal damage to external morphology.
Diagnóstico da gestão de resíduos da construção civil a partir da leitura da paisagem urbana
Authors: Quaglio Renan Serraglio , Arana Alba Regina Azevedo
Published: July 2020

A construção civil pode ser identificada como um dos setores que mais causam impactos ao meio ambiente devido à exploração dos recursos naturais e elevado índice de geração de resíduos. Neste contexto, este estudo tem por objetivo elencar as principais áreas de descarte inadequado dos Resíduos de Construção e DemoliçãoRCD no município de Presidente Bernardes-SP apresentando suas características e análise espacial. Os procedimentos metodológicos para a caracterização das áreas foram constituídos por visitas aos pontos de descarte, efetuação de registro fotográfico, demarcação de coordenadas geográficas e observação direta da composição dos RCD. Após uma investigação detalhada do perímetro urbano e acessos do município foram demarcados 40 pontos de descarte irregular que possuíam mais de 3 m³ de RCD depositados. Á área do município foi subdividida de acordo com as feições urbanas. Em todos os pontos analisados foram identificados resíduos da Classe A, 82,5% da Classe B, 47,5% da Classe C e D, também foi verificado que 20% dos pontos apresentavam resíduos domiciliares evidenciando o poder de atratividade dos RCD. A partir dos resultados foi possível relacionar as principais áreas de descarte irregular, bem como estimar o volume de resíduos descartados e sua composição fornecendo subsídios à implantação de uma gestão diferenciada no município.
Demencia y mayores. Análisis de las medidas judiciales de protección
Authors: Ruiz Martínez-Cañavate Manuel
Published: July 2020

El envejecimiento progresivo de la población contribuye a aumentar los casos de demencia. El derecho proporciona algunas herramientas de protección, principalmente a partir de las decisiones judiciales de incapacitación e internamiento involuntario. Del examen del marco jurídico de dichas instituciones y sus posibilidades prácticas se desprende la necesidad de lograr recursos más flexibles y adaptables a cada situación. La neurociencia puede mejorar los medios de prueba para acreditar el grado de capacidad personal. Los Principios Internaciones sobre Demencia se basan en los fundamentos de la bioética.
The ternary approach: A modeling tool and a method to handle complex perceived reality
Authors: Lambert Claude
Published: July 2020

In this paper, we propose a journey whose departure is a legitimate need to define the context and at the same time the system and its boundaries. We suggest that this process is both common and intentional apart from the systemic practice. It helps to make sense of observation. Unusually it is suggested here in this work we cannot build on solid foundations and determined but on the fundamental lack linked to the observation process itself. On a first step, we develop the theme of the limit, without confusing it with the border. We explain the concept of Limit throught the following three constants: incompleteness, indeterminacy and self-reference. We show that these three expressions are both singular and coextensive. In their overlapping antagonistic relationships occur.Based on the interplay between these concepts, we develop a method of understanding of the perceived complexity. Then we will briefly present a rigorous and practical heuristic tool implementation. This is a development of knowledge that takes its source in the heart of unknowability. Like Hubble has shown that there is no center to the universe, we propose to place the unknowability at the center of the process of observation. That means we place the observer at the heart of a world to understand and to act, rather than man at the center of a universe to explain and demonstrate.
The complex system of knowledge economy and the quest of governance for stakeholders’ networks
Authors: Miglietta Angelo , Peirone Dario
Published: July 2020

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Business Strategies of the Companies listed on the FTSE MIB index of Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange
Authors: Profumo Riccardo
Published: July 2020

The aim of the research is to provide a gross evaluation of the entrepreneurial system’s ability to create new industries.The research focuses on the most important Italian firms: the companies listed on the FTSE MIB index of Borsa Italiana.The way to comprehend the entrepreneurial system’s capability to create new industries, is by understanding the innovation level they are able to generate by the strategic planning activity. The model used for this research is the “Value Life Cycle Model” developed by Mr Francesco Zanotti.The overall result shows that the FTSE MIB Companies don’t have a strategic goal of creating new industries. The innovation level inside the business strategies designed by the FTSE MIB companies is generally very low.
Access to quality resources and environment and health issues
Authors: Steenhout Anne
Published: July 2020

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Tackling Foundations of Systemic Complexityon Reality and Decision Systems
Authors: Duarteramos Hermínio
Published: July 2020

What is reality? That’s an old question, a big question raised by so many thinkers, since very ancient times. Many responses hasbeen given, so many answers are purposed in thesedays. Here weadvance on quantum territoriesand we also approach the human decision theory to interpret the complex meaning of reality under new systemic complexity viewpoints.
Tratando de evaluar la dignidad humanaen un grupo social
Authors: Caselles Antonio
Published: July 2020

Este estudio trata de avanzar en el camino de crear un instrumento consensuado para monitorizar la evolución de la calidad de vida de los seres humanos en todos sus aspectos. Basándose en diversos estudios recientes sobre valores humanos, calidad de vida ybienestar subjetivo, así como en la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, este estudio localiza como valor supremo la dignidad humanay como valores subsidiarios la el desarrollo, la libertady la igualdad(que a su vez tiene como valores subsidiarios la solidaridad, la justiciay la paz).Cada uno de estos valores es desagregado considerando la literatura al respecto hasta llegar a variables medibles. Estas se convierten en índices y se agregan por nivelesutilizando promedios geométricos. Obviamente, lo que se propone es una tentativa inicial; el instrumento definitivo necesitará estudios más profundos y más amplios consensos.
Evolution of hegemonies: The power in time. Systemic Complexity of Empires and the Globalization
Authors: Duarteramos Hermínio
Published: July 2020

Generally, very wide systems are complex, and they afford particular methodology implementations to obtain reasonable operation outputs.Here we are looking for a strategy to rational interpretations on empire data collected from different civilizations in the universal history, in order to understand complex globalization trends as itoccurs in our days.
Dynamics of resiliency in human systems
Authors: Koninckx Guy
Published: July 2020

For an operative organization, certain prerequisites must be met. Presence of resilience capabilities and an enabling environment does not provide a sufficient context for the emergence of resilience. Dynamics of organizational resiliency’s process are multiple. Considering resilience as " a person’s or group’s ability to project himself into the future despite destabilizing events, conditions of tough life, sometimes severe trauma" underlines the importance of individual and of environment in which they evolve. The couple “individual – environment” can be observed at the micro, meso and macro level. It is the same for organizational resilience.Resilience can be seen in different forms: as a capacity for resistance, reconstruction or innovation. The resiliency’s process it built into time. It allows to extract elements of a collection of events, and connect these to emergence of sense. The basic tool is the link. These dynamic is similar to the development of sense at individual and collective level. The process is performed by an actor, "a resiliency tutor”and / or stakeholder’s group. Exercised in many ways it is assigned to somebody, or somebody appropriates this role. However it can be exercised unintentionally. Anyway, just like first mentioned, they are link’s weavers and bearers of meaning. They play a key role in organizations dealing with destabilizing events. It belongs to the organization to take the initiative to introduce a dynamic of "resilience". This role may also be provided by a service, a group of people, or a resilience cell. Let us not forget that members can find an internal support and / or external support to the organization.
Projection of Sensitive Reality into Cellular Topology
Authors: Maurice Olivier , Reineix Alain , Durand Philippe , Dubois François , Beaussart Eric
Published: July 2020

The purpose of this paper is to discuss about the abstract representation of some reality in a given referential into a cellular topology[1]. From this projection, tensorial algebra can then be employed to translate mathematically the behavior of this perceptible reality[2]. The first discussion wears on an experience realized on some object. We speak firstly of the perception of the object. How it can be seen, identified depending on various point of views. It fixes the reference frame where the observation is made. In this reference frame, environment involves domains for which parameters are defined: temperature, pressure, etc. A stimulus can be applied on known conditions in this environment and defined observable can be measured. From this pragmatic but stilling complex experience, a law can be extracted giving a relation between the stimulus and the observable. This law can be seen as a function, part of a non-linear metric when the same object is enclosed in a larger system[3]. Conditions on the domains and experiences must be detailed in order to control the system behavior, but masked parameters can influence the evolution of the system, being possible explanations for emergences. The whole system is modeling using “gamma matrices”, transformers and “tenfolds”.
The social field designed by architecture
Authors: Minati Gianfranco
Published: July 2020

In the literature disciplinary researches, e.g., physics, studied the behaviour of elements, such as particles, in a context provided with properties, e.g., electromagnetic and gravitational. This context is classically considered as field, i.e., a physical quantity associated to each point of space-time. Social sciences and psychology use the concept of Force Field introduced by the social psychologist Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) The Force Field or life space was assumed to be -in any individual or social group- changing with experience and intended as representation of the environment, personal values, emotions and goals. We may say the cognitive system combined with representations and stimuli of the environment. This short essay focuses on Architecture as design of structures able to represent and induce properties of the cognitive systems possessed by inhabitants as well their transformation processes relating to social processes in progress. The subject is studied by Environmental Psychology, in the conceptual framework of Space Syntax. On one hand, the structure of space created through Architecture both represents and induces the social field within which inhabitants behave. On the other hand, inhabitants behave by using such a social field. Within this conceptual framework we may hypothesise the existence of a process of self-architecture by social systems. We explore the coherence, in such social fields, between different aspects such as architecture, design, fashion, music and painting.
The diversity of housing typologies in the service of the complexification of inhabitant's needs and expectations: Observations in the heart of Hainaut
Authors: Vanzande Ornella , Pouleur Jean-Alexandre
Published: July 2020

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Le fantasme du démiurge : L'architecte soumis à la tentation du pouvoir
Authors: Claeys Damien
Published: July 2020

Confronté aux limites perceptives de la conscience, l'être humain développe pour agir une configuration augmentée, évolutive et opérationnelle du réel. Le décalage permanent entre les réactions parfois incompréhensibles du réel (incertitude) et la réalité patiemment construite par l'être humain (pseudo-certitude) est à la source d'une angoisse existentielle latente.Pour permettre à chacun d'agir dans la vie de tous les jours, cette angoisse existentielle est transmise à d'autres en leurs donnant la responsabilité de configurer le réel augmenté à notre place.Parmi d'autres, deux processus permettent à certains de configurer le réel augmenté à la place d'autres: la mise en place de systèmes politiques pour configurer leréel augmenté du peuple en jouant sur les interactions entre les membres du système socioculturel et la projetation/fabrication d'artefacts architecturaux pour configurer l'environnement écosystémique dans lequel habite le peuple.Des rapports étroits existent entre les systèmes politiques et l'architecture puisque ces deux processus équilibrent, chacun à leur manière, les rapports dialogiques entre l'être (auto)organisé, le système socioculturel et l'environnement écosystémique.Des jeux de pouvoir existent entre le gouvernant attiré par la figure du guide et l'architecte obsédé par le fantasme du démiurge.
La Frontière, un impératif en matière de gouvernance
Authors: Makarovitsch Alexandre
Published: July 2020

Ce rapide tour d’horizon, à comme but de sensibiliser le lecteur auxfrontières dans le cadre des systèmes. Il s’agira dans une première partie de les décrire, de les positionner, de donner quelques exemples afin de montrer leur importance etleur utilité.Dans une deuxième partie, l’accent est mis sur les processus de gouvernance, notamment dans les démocraties. Elles sont indispensables comme outil dans le cadre d’une approche systémique, elle-même indispensable quand on traite de la gouvernance des systèmes complexes comme les sociétés actuelles, comme les entreprises, les institutions.Un point à ne pas négliger en matière de prise en compte des frontières, est l’éducation.Ce document ne s’occupe pas des problèmes classiques de frontières géographiques et méta-géographiques, le sujet étant amplement traité par ailleurs.
Thinking outside of the box! How does systemic thinking help creative, inventive and change processes?
Authors: Claeys Damien
Published: July 2020

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