bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
STATUS KEBERSIHAN GIGI DAN KEBIASAAN MENGGOSOK GIGI PADA PASIEN ORTODONTIA
Authors: Khudrah Khudrah , Sukma Ayu , Purnama Tedi
Published: April 2022

Latar belakang: penyakit karies dan periodontal merupakan penyakit yang disebabkan oleh kurangnya kebersihan gigi dan mulut yang buruk. Hal ini juga dapat terjadi pada pengguna alat ortodontik yang tidak memperhatikan kebersihan gigi dan mulutnya sehingga sisa makanan yang tidak dibersihkan dapat menimbulkan plak dan karang gigi. Tujuan: penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui gambaran status kebersihan gigi dan kebiasaan menggosok gigi pada pasien ortodontia Metode: Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif dengan sampel penelitian ini menggunakan teknik purvosive sampling sebanyak 53 responden. Hasil: status kebersihan gigi didapatkan responden yang memiliki kategori sangat baik sebanyak 4 orang (7,5%), kategori baik sebanyak 28 orang (52,8%), kategori sedang sebanyak 20 orang (37,7%) dan status kebersihan gigi kategori buruk sebanyak 1 orang (1,9%). Gambaran kebiasaan menggosok gigi dengan benar sebanyak 40 orang (75,5%) dan kebiasaan menggosok gigi salah sebanyak 13 orang (24,5%). Gambaran status kebersihan gigi dan kebiasaan menggosok gigi berdasarkan jenis kelamin diperoleh status kebersihan gigi dan kebiasaan menggosok gigi dengan jenis kelamin perempuan lebih baik dibandingkan laki-laki. Kesimpulan: Pasien ortodontia memiliki kebiasaan menggosok gigi dengan benar dan status kebersihan gigi kategori baik.
Planejamento estratégico das morbidades hospitalares do município de Caiapônia – Goiás
Authors: Oliveira Filho Lair Ferreira de , Oliveira Maria Liz Cunha de , Freire Milton Rodrigues
Published: April 2022

Objetivo: Analisar as internações hospitalares no município de Caiapônia, Goiás e apresentar um planejamento estratégico para uma determinada equipe da Estratégia Saúde da Família visando à redução das internações hospitalares por agravos evitáveis. Método: Esta é uma pesquisa de abordagem quantitativa, do tipo descritivo e transversal que utilizou dados do Sistema de Informações Hospitalares do DATASUS para listar os principais problemas de saúde do município que conduziram as inúmeras internações hospitalares no ano de 2018. Utilizaram a metodologia TUC para definir o problema prioritário e realizar o planejamento estratégico. Resultados: 249 pessoas internaram no município de Caiapônia no ano de 2018 por doenças infecciosas e parasitárias, as doenças do aparelho respiratório, as doenças do aparelho digestivo, doenças do aparelho geniturinário, gravidez, parto e puerpério, doenças do sistema nervoso, doenças endócrinas, nutricionais e metabólicas e neoplasias, doenças da pele e doenças mentais e comportamentais. Notou-se que a rede causal das internações se repetia nas três principais doenças. Os pesquisadores decidiram focar nas inúmeras internações por doenças infecciosas e parasitárias e traçar estratégias para redução dessas internações no próximo ano. Conclusão: O elevado número de internações hospitalares para um município pequeno pode ser um resultado de deficiência no serviço da atenção básica. As possíveis causas são: falta de priorização do gestor na atenção básica, concentrando no modelo hospitalocêntrico; falta de compreensão por parte da secretaria municipal de saúde da importância da atenção básica nas ações de promoção e prevenção e rotatividade de médicos em determinadas equipes de Atenção Básica por um período considerável.
Descritores: Estratégia saúde da família; planejamento estratégico; Doenças transmissíveis
Creative writing: Creating self-confidence
Authors: Guzmán Urrego Luna , Ramírez Valencia Astrid Ramírez Valencia
Published: April 2022

Developing teenage students’ self-confidence could be difficult. Their age, likes, beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions are constant obstacles to learning a new language, even more, if they do not feel comfortable in their classroom. This article reflects on the implementation of creative writing and how other aspects as critical thinking, development of language skills, motivation, among others, can be improved while focusing on writing in a “funny way” based on the information gathered through different researches and personal teaching experience.
Análisis del rendimiento académico mediante técnicas de aprendizaje automático con métodos de ensamble
Authors: Contreras Bravo Leonardo Emiro , Fuentes López Héctor Javier , Rivas Trujilllo Edwin
Published: April 2022

En los últimos años el campo educativo se ha visto permeado por modelos y algoritmos de análisis de datos que pretenden la búsqueda de conocimiento a partir de los datos para mejorar el rendimiento académico y otros indicadores. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es predecir el rendimiento académico de estudiantes mediante técnicas de aprendizaje automático. Se analizan 324 variables mediante métodos de selección de características, con el fin de determinar las variables influyentes. El modelo de predicción del rendimiento académico universitario es evaluado por medio de algoritmos supervisados (KNN, SVC, Naive Bayes y árbol de decisión), los cuales son optimizados mediante lenguaje Python. Además, son implementados algoritmos de ensamble que permiten mejorar la exactitud de los clasificadores previos. Se implementan métodos Bagging (CART, Random Forest; ExtraTreesClassifier), métodos Boosting (AdaBoost, GBM, XGBoost, CatBoost, Light Boost) y Voting (Blending, Stacking). Los resultados muestran que los algoritmos Stacking y Blending con valores de precisión en cada semestre que oscilan alrededor de 85% y 75% para entrenamiento y prueba respetivamente arrojan los mejores resultados.
Percepciones de metodologías en didáctica de la matemática en programas del SENA
Authors: Moreno Mayorga Elizabeth , Vergel Ortega Mawency , Paz Montes Luisa Stella
Published: April 2022

Los docentes de la sociedad actual deben plantear situaciones de enseñanza innovadoras, con el uso de recursos novedosos para favorecer el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de las matemáticas, así como para reflexionar sobre su experiencia y necesidades formativas para la implementación de la innovación. En este sentido, surge el estudio cuyo objetivo fue evaluar la validez de un programa para la innovación en didáctica de la matemática para docentes del SENA en San José de Cúcuta, Norte de Santander. Tuvo como soporte teórico la teoría del Conectivismo. La metodología seguida de diseño descriptivo - fenomenológico. Los resultados reflejan que, en la variable, didáctica de la matemática, la praxis pedagógica es deficiente en cuanto que muy poco se promueve la construcción de saberes, pues lo que más se exige es la memorización de los mismos, aun cuando el instructor actúa como mediador; en la variable innovación, se consigue que el pensamiento crítico y la creatividad son propiciados por los contenidos, pero los procesos para la resolución de problemas y la argumentación no son permanentes. Además, aun, cuando las clases se desarrollan por plataformas virtuales, las mismas no contribuyen a consolidar aprendizajes, por cuanto, las actividades tienden más al uso de materiales impresos que de Recursos Educativos Digitales. Se concluye que es necesaria la puesta en marcha de una propuesta de un programa para la innovación en didáctica de la matemática dirigido a los docentes del SENA, la cual se diseñó y quedó constituida por tres unidades temáticas. Para su valoración se organizó un proceso de evaluación con cuatro indicadores: facilidad en la interacción con los componentes del curso, funcionalidad del Recurso Educativo Digital-RED, Photomath, pertinencia sobre la calidad del diseño del curso y percepción sobre la utilidad del curso.
Manejabilidad del concreto convencional mediante implementación de agregados alternativos
Authors: Cárdenas Gutiérrez JA , Jácome Carrascal José Leonardo , Vergel Ortega Mawency
Published: April 2022

La manejabilidad del concreto es una característica de suprema importancia para la elaboración de estructuras esbeltas y exigentes que demanda la sociedad actual, por lo tanto, es indispensable que se reciclen o desarrollen nuevos materiales dentro de la industria de la construcción que tengan bajo impacto medio ambiental, pero que a su vez cumplan con cada una de las propiedades mínimas que debe tener el concreto como piedra artificial. 

En esta investigación se realizaron diferentes dosificaciones de material reciclado de la industria cerámica con el fin de determinar el nivel de asentamiento del concreto con agregado reciclado respecto al concreto convencional.
Tendencia al síndrome de Burnout académico en estudiantes de arquitectura en tiempos de pandemia
Authors: García Martínez Miriam Deisy , Díaz Umaña Yannette , Vergel Mawency
Published: April 2022

Este estudio tiene como objetivo establecer la tendencia de los perfiles que caracterizan el síndrome de Burnout percibido en los estudiantes de arquitectura de la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander de Cúcuta, en el 2021. La muestra total fue de 251 estudiantes de primer a decimo semestre, distribuidos en 118 mujeres y 133 Hombres, con edades desde los 17 hasta los 37 años, y una edad media de 21.45 años. El abordaje adoptado en la investigación se enmarcó dentro de un enfoque cuantitativo con un diseño descriptivo tipo encuesta. Entre los hallazgos encontrados se resalta indicadores relacionados con género y con semestre cursado al momento de hacer la indagación.
El gesto gráfico en infantes con necesidades educativas
Authors: Prada Núñez Raúl , Gamboa Suárez Audin Aloiso , Avendaño Castro William Rodrigo
Published: April 2022

Esta investigación de naturaleza cualitativa a pesar de reportar resultados de un estudio de casos, aporta un antecedente investigativo que puede ser ampliado en lo que respecta al diagnóstico del proceso de escritura en niños de seis años con necesidades educativas especiales. Se parte de un estudio previo en el que se propone un instrumento, que sirve de insumo para sobre él adelantar un proceso de validación por medio del contraste entre los resultados obtenidos del trabajo de campo y las observaciones dadas por un panel de expertos. Se resalta como una limitante, la dificultad para tener acceso a los infantes.
La extracción minera y la gestión empresarial sostenible en Colombia en el periodo 2010-2020
Authors: Rodríguez Ramírez Alfonso , Montalvo Ramos José Eder , Rosero Juan Pablo
Published: April 2022

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la importancia de la gestión empresarial de la sostenibilidad en el sector del extractivismo minero en Colombia para el periodo comprendido entre 2010-2020, como una contribución a la literatura de gestión de empresas, a partir de una metodología basada en el enfoque mixto, enmarcada en un tipo de estudio descriptivo, con información proveniente de fuentes secundarias. En los resultados puede destacarse que la producción minera es un tipo de industria que genera importantes beneficios al territorio colombiano, pues es un sector que atrae gran parte de la IED, no obstante, la falta de regulación y control sobre esta industria permite a las empresas lograr una importante rentabilidad, lo que indica la necesidad de adoptar practicas sostenibles buscando mitigar los impactos tanto ambientales como sociales.
Aproximaciones a las competencias TIC de docentes de una facultad de ciencias de la salud
Authors: Álvarez Yáñez Débora Milena , Maldonado Estévez Erika Alejandra , Lozano Cárdenas Félix Joaquín
Published: April 2022

El presente artículo tiene como soporte un proyecto de investigación que complementa el análisis de las prácticas pedagógicas mediadas por TIC de un grupo de docentes de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, mediante un estudio con enfoque complementario, de tipo descriptivo, desarrollado a través de técnicas como la revisión documental, la encuesta de diagnóstico, la observación directa y la entrevista semiestructurada. Dentro de los hallazgos se contempla que los profesores y profesoras consideran las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación como herramientas que están presentes en sus labores diarias, dentro y fuera de la institución, a las cuales tienen acceso desde diversas plataformas y dispositivos; sin embargo, su uso y apropiación aún se enmarca en el ámbito de la educación tradicional y persisten temores y obstáculos frente a su implementación y mayor aprovechamiento, originados en el desconocimiento de las posibilidades y múltiples escenarios que ofrecen las TIC para el procesos de enseñanzaaprendizaje, la limitación de recursos y la falta de tiempo por parte del docente. En este sentido, se considera importante que la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander adopte mecanismos oportunos y pertinentes para la formación en TIC de los docentes de esta Facultad, con el fin de promover su apropiación y actualización en el tema, en aras de fortalecer sus prácticas pedagógicas desde una reflexión crítica y constructiva que permita el desarrollo de competencias para dar respuesta a las necesidades y contextos de formación que hoy acontecen en la denominada sociedad del conocimiento.
Durmiendo con el dinosaurio: De emociones, hábitos y efectos en la educación en tiempos de pandemia
Authors: Pérez Fernández Blanca Johana , Urbina Cárdenas Jesús Ernesto , Gamboa Suárez Audin Aloiso
Published: April 2022

La crisis emocional generada por la pandemia del Covid-19 en estudiantes, transformó los contextos familiares, académicos, laborales y los proyectos de vida de los jóvenes escolarizados. Por esta razón este estudio pretende mostrar cómo ha afectado la pandemia las emociones, los hábitos y las prácticas de aprendizaje en estudiantes de dos universidades, durante el periodo de confinamiento por causa del Covid-19. La ruta metodológica se determinó desde el paradigma cuantitativo descriptivo y se aplicó una encuesta a 188 estudiantes de las dos instituciones utilizando un muestreo probabilístico. Los resultados mas imporantes dan cuenta que dentro de las afectaciones emocionales más recurrentes se encuentra el estrés derivado del encierro y recarga en tiempo dedicado al estudio y el uso constante de elementos de bioseguridad. Del mismo modo, la investigación concluye que algunos de los aspectos positivos derivados de la pandemia han sido la transformación de hábitos saludables y de bioseguridad.
Percepciones de seguridad ciudadana en jóvenes escolarizados en una ciudad fronteriza
Authors: Gamboa Suárez Audin Aloiso , Prada Núñez Raúl , Avendaño Castro William Rodrigo
Published: April 2022

El presente artículo de investigación muestra los resultados de un amplio estudio que buscó identificar las percepciones que tienen jóvenes universitarios en una ciudad fronteriza sobre la seguridad ciudadana. La ruta metodológica se enmarca en el paradigma cuantitativo – descriptivo. Se aplicó una encuesta de percepción a 216 estudiantes universitarios de cuatro programas académicos de una facultad de educación de una universidad pública. Los resultados permiten evidenciar que un porcentaje importante de los encuestados ha sido victima de algún delito, donde predomina el abuso de autoridad, el hurto y la intimidación con armas.
Domain analysis of the literature on COVID-19 in Information Science’s national context
Authors: Evangelista Isadora Victorino , Costa Marcos Oliveira da , Rosa Samuel Santos da , Barros Thiago Henrique Bragato , Laipelt Rita do Carmo Ferreira , Monteiro-Krebs Luciana
Published: April 2022

In the past two years, science has been mobilized around studies centered on the new pandemic phenomenon known as COVID-19, a variation of the coronavirus with higher transmission capacity and higher mortality. Thus, as a way of investigating the state of the art of this topic in the field of Information Science, this research sought to answer the following question: what is the Brazilian scientific production in Information Science regarding the COVID-19 pandemic? As main justification, we understand that systematically identifying and disseminating those studies may help the construction of an appropriate theoretical survey on the theme in the national scope. To support our research theoretically and methodologically, we reserved a section to explore Domain Analysis (DA). Proposed by Hjørland and Albrechtsen (1995) around Information Science, this approach allows us to analyze domains of knowledge from their social interactions as discursive communities. Then, we describe the context of information in health, specifically the COVID-19 pandemic context. This is a quali-quantitative research: we made a textual analysis of the keywords found in the articles that make up the corpus and applied bibliometric criteria to identify occurrence patterns of the most productive authors and journals. Being a descriptive-exploratory research, we aimed to describe how the pandemic phenomenon influenced textual production in the context of Information Science, seeking to better explore the theme and look for possible understandings and reflections about the subject. It was possible to infer that the scientific dissemination of knowledge around this theme is closely related to research in information in health, and it even includes a new term in this perspective: “infodemia” (infodemic), a term that is related to the vastness of information made available via the web, especially on social media. In addition to that, the incidence frequency of terms such as comunidade (community) and competência em informação (information competence)
“Os professores não sabiam o que fazer comigo!”
Authors: Eugênio Josiane , Da Silva Alex Sander
Published: April 2022

Este estudo, de cunho qualitativo, teve como objetivo analisar as intersecções entre gênero, deficiência e raça/etnia que compõe aspectos identitários de uma mulher negra com deficiência, acadêmica do curso de pedagogia. Nesse sentido, buscou-se refletir sobre as seguintes questões centrais: De que maneira as questões de gênero, raça/etnia e deficiência produziram e produzem aspectos identitários na trajetória de vida desta mulher? Como os estudos feministas da deficiência podem contribuir para a compreensão das intersecções entre gênero, deficiência, raça/etnia do ponto de vista analítico e político? No que se refere ao instrumento de coleta de dados, optou-se pela utilização de uma entrevista semiestruturada, dialógica, com perguntas abertas, respondidas por áudios de WhatsApp em função do momento pandêmico causado pelo vírus Covid-19. Ao longo do percurso investigativo percebeu-se que o capacitismo ancora todos os sistemas interdependentes e interconstitutivos de exclusão e opressão, juntamente com o racismo, sexismo, constituem a narrativa da participante, estando presente nos mais diversos espaços e âmbitos, relatados a partir de suas experiências e vivências. As reflexões aqui desenvolvidas, apontaram para importância da transversalidade da deficiência nas políticas de gênero e na necessidade de incorporação dos debates sobre esta temática na história dos feminismos de forma interseccional.
Atividades para o 3º, 4º e 5º ano do Ensino Fundamental I
Authors: Gandin Rosangela Valachinski , BRANCO VERONICA , Souza Renata Junqueira de
Published: April 2022

O objetivo deste é expor a percepção de crianças participantes da fase 02 do estudo A arte de aprender a escrever aventuras autorais nos primeiros anos do ensino fundamental. Durante o ano letivo de 2019, as professoras, também participantes, aplicaram uma sequência didática que incluía atividades de estudo dos elementos de composição de conto de aventura, da onomatopeia, da cadeia referencial e dos conectores discursivos, organizados em cinco grupos de conteúdo, contendo avaliação formativa e revisão da escrita após conclusão de cada grupo, encerrando com revisão geral, edição do texto e avaliações somativas. Das 110 crianças participantes, matriculadas em duas escolas municipais do Paraná, 75 compareceram ao encontro, após a conclusão de toda sequência didática, para responder o questionário. Destas, 69 crianças, que tiveram o questionário analisado, afirmaram que entenderam a importância da revisão textual. 67 delas disseram que as atividades auxiliaram a escrever o conto. Enfim, as atividades foram bem apreciadas e, no entendimento dos participantes, elas geraram aprendizagem das etapas da escrita de Calkins (1989) e a vivência do autor-pessoa, autor-contemplador e autor-artista de Bakhtin (2011). Por isso, infere-se que a sequência didática é aplicável no 3º, 4º e 5º ano do Ensino Fundamental, consoante à BNCC (2017).
A filosofia wolffiana aplicada à medicina e à fisiologia
Authors: ARAUJO Saulo de Freitas
Published: April 2022

Johann Friedrich Schreiber – Elementorum medicinae physico-mathematicorum, Tomus I. In R. Theis, W. Schneiders, J.-P. Paccioni, & S. Carboncini (Eds.), Christian Wolff’s Gesammelte Werke, III. Abteilung, Band 162. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2021.
Kant in africa and africa in kant
Authors: Valentim Inácio , Rainsborough Marita , Jesus Paulo
Published: April 2022

Immanuel Kant devotes his thought to the diversity and unity of humanity both in the natural and cultural domains, especially through the foundation or, at least, renovation, of two complementary disciplines: Geography and Anthropology. Thinking of Africa based on Kantian philosophy is an exercise that exposes essential tensions, inherent in questioning the meaning of universality and particularity, as well as its relations. From the angle of the critical power of human intelligence, one can find Kantian resonances in the ideas of freedom and liberation that animate all contemporary African cultural expressions, with an anti- and post-colonial outlook, from politics to the arts, through religion, law, economy and education. However, simultaneously, the Aufklärung that Kant announces and lives, is located in European history, in the mutation of Modernity whose passion for the Universal remains deeply anchored in the concrete body of 18th-century Europe divided between Feudalism and Liberalism, but always inclined towards physical and spiritual possession of the world, aimed at the expansion of its Faith and its Empire, identifying the apex of the supposedly progressive history of humanity with its Logos and its civilizing Ethos. Therefore, Kant’s German-Christian Eurocentrism is a constitutive position that challenges the self-critical power of all Critical Reason. Moreover, if Kant rejects and disapproves of colonial violence as a war of aggression that destroys the conditions of perpetual peace, offending Cosmopolitan Justice, he remains nevertheless permeable to Eurocentric stereotypes that represent the character of black otherness and its cultural creations, oscillating between a hierarchical and an egalitarian view of humanity’s ethnic-racial differences.
Vaccine coverage and measles incidence in Northern Brazil
Authors: Miranda Parra Carolina , Albuquerque Lima Ribeiro Mariane , Maria Pinheiro Bezerra Italla , Regina Ribeiro Maura , Carlos de Abreu Luiz
Published: April 2022

Introduction: Measles is an immunopreventable viral disease, acute exanthematous and extremely transmissible. Infection occurs directly, from person to person, through respiratory secretions. The measles vaccine is low-cost and effective, but measles still affects around 40 million people worldwide and is responsible for at least 800,000 deaths, mainly in developing countries.
Objective: To analyze vaccination coverage and measles incidence in Northern Brazil.
Methods: This is an ecological study. Secondary data were used regarding vaccination coverage of the viral double, viral triple and viral tetra and incidence of measles in residents in the States of the Northern Region, Brazil, from 2010 to 2018.
Results: Confirmed measles cases in 2010 to 2018 in the Northern region of Brazil it registered 10,249, were reported in Amazonas (95.65%), Roraima (3.53%), Pará (0.80%) and Rondônia (0.02%). Outbreaks of measles cases in the Northern Region were reported in 2018, the highest incidence rate was in Amazonas with 237.7. Vaccination coverage in the North Region varied between the lowest rate in 2013 with 56.88% and the highest vaccination coverage achieved in 2010, with 104.02%.
Conclusion: It was possible to observe a reduction in vaccination coverage during the study period, not reaching the percentage recommended by the Ministry of Health and increasing the incidence of measles in the Northern Region of Brazil and these indicators are important to determine the strategies to be carried out by the National Program for Immunization and Epidemiological Surveillance.
Characteristics associated with sport practice among adolescents from a city in Southern Brazil
Authors: Alves Junior Carlos Alencar Souza , Da Silva Andressa Ferreira , Pereira Eduarda Valim , De Farias Joni Márcio , Silva Diego Augusto Santos
Published: April 2022

Introduction: Physical inactivity is a major public health problem. It is necessary to acquire healthy behaviors in childhood, since the habits acquired tend to last until adult life.
Objective: The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and characteristics related to sport practice in adolescents from a city in southern Brazil.
Methods: A cross-sectional, epidemiological study was carried out with 582 adolescents aged 11-17 years. Independent, dependent variables and covariates were evaluated by means of questionnaire. Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) were measured. Multinomial logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval.
Results: Students from public and private schools who did not participate in any sport team were more likely of presenting abdominal obesity (OR: 2.17; 95% CI: 1.16-5.09 and OR: 2.15; 95% CI: 1.13-4.09, respectively) and not practicing sports in childhood (OR: 1.38; 95% CI: 0.98-2.45 and OR: 1.87; 95% CI: 1.98-2.80, respectively), and those who participated in one sport team were more likely of not practicing sports in childhood (OR: 2.60; 95% CI: 1.45-4.65 and OR: 1.26; 95% CI: 1.20 -1.33, respectively), when compared to those who participated in two or more sport teams. Students from public school who participated in one sport teams were more likely of having abdominal obesity (OR: 3.50; 95% CI: 1.02-12.92) when compared to adolescents who participated in two or more sport teams.
Conclusions: Results can help in possible school-based interventions to promote sport practice.
A falta capacidade discriminatória em tarefas motoras do Movement Assessment Battery for Children – 2: O que a Teoria de Resposta ao Item revela?
Authors: Felipe Nazario Patrik , Ferreira Luciana , Malheiros Caruzzo Nayara , Aparecida Pereira dos Santos Viviane , Luiz Lopes Vieira José
Published: April 2022

Introduction: The American Psychiatric Association reveals that 6% of school-age children have developmental coordination disorder.
Objective: This study aimed at assessing the suitability of the tasks proposed by the MABC-2 motor assessment instrument based on the psychometric properties of such an instrument and the analysis of the Item Response Theory.
Methods: 582 children ranging in age from 3 to 5 years old of both sexes participated in the study. The motor tasks suitability for children was verified by using the Gradual Response Model, and applying the Maximum Likelihood Estimation method.
Results: The motor task ‘bicycle trail’ showed a lower discriminatory power and was removed from the analysis. Considering the ‘Aiming & Catching’ dimension, ‘Threading Beads’ was the motor task with the highest degree of difficulty. Regarding balance, the ‘One Leg Balance’ task was classified as having a high degree of difficulty; on the other hand, the motor tasks ‘Jumping on mats’ and ‘Catching Beanbag’ required below average motor performance levels, that is, they are tasks with low discrimination capacity. The results showed that the low discriminative capacity of some MABC-2 items regarding this study sample makes it difficult to correctly classify the child’s general motor performance level.
Conclusion: The findings show that there is a need to review the suitability of the MABC-2 motor tasks in order to equate the difficulty and discriminatory capacity of the tasks so that standardization more appropriate to the reality of children from different populations is established.
Gastroschisis in Brazil within a Global Context
Authors: Maria Muniz Virginia , Lima Netto Antônio , Bresciani Salaroli Luciane , Zandonade Eliana
Published: April 2022

Introduction: global disparity in outcomes of gastroschisis is visible. Survival rates in high-income countries have improved since 1960, and are currently around 100%, due to progress in pediatric surgery and neonatal intensive care. However, in low- and middle-income countries mortality rates can reach all cases.
Objective: this study aims to map the existing literature on gastroschisis in Brazil within a global context.
Methods: scoping Review. PubMed, Scielo Brazil, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS) and Google Scholar, were searched from January 2000 to May 2020.
Results: eight studies met the inclusion criteria. The consolidated data of 912 patients were: Mean maternal age of 20.7 years, antenatal diagnosis rate of 80.2%, cesarean section rate of 77.7%. Mean of hospital stay of 40.8 days. Mean mortality rate of 25.3 %. Risk factors associated with death were: prematurity, low birth weight, low APGAR score, reinterventions, sepsis, birth-to-surgery interval greater than 4 hours, fewer prenatal visits, delayed prenatal diagnosis.
Conclusion: studies on gastroschisis in Brazil were scarce, most of carried out in southeast of country. This study suggests that there are regional contrasts on gastroschisis outcomes in Brazil. The worst results are in regions with low economic resources, a similar situation found in international literature. This review should be validated with future studies to investigate the situation of pregnant women with fetuses with gastroschisis, especially in low-resource regions, in Brazil.
AVALIAÇÃO DO SEGUIMENTO DA SÍFILIS CONGÊNITA 2016-2019 EM VITÓRIA-ES
Authors: Rejane Barroso Barcelos Mara , de Fátima Almeida Lima Eliane , Frank Dutra Arlete , Comerio Tatiane , Caniçali Primo Cândida
Published: April 2022

Introduction: congenital syphilis remains a serious public health problem in Brazil and worldwide, being fetal and antenatal infections the main causes of global morbidity and mortality.
Objective: to analyze the cases of congenital syphilis and an outcome indicator of the quality of care for the mother/newborn binomial in Vitória (ES), in the 2016-2019 quadrennium.
Methods: study with a quantitative approach, which evaluated the indicator “congenital syphilis follow-up”. Data were collected in the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), for the period from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2019. The information regarding the follow-up of NB occurred by searching an electronic medical record, from August 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021.
Results: in the 2016-2019 quadrennium, the municipality of Vitória had 169 cases of congenital syphilis, according to the year of diagnosis criterion. This indicator decreased over the quadrennium: 64 cases in 2016 (37.9%), 43 in 2017 (25.4%), 37 in 2018 (21.9%) and 25 in 2019 (14.8 %). The nontreponemal test was reactive in 62.7% of cases. In 10.7% there were alterations in the laboratory analysis of the CSF; 3%, alteration in the examination of long bones; 5.3%, non-treponemal CSF reagent test, and 11.8% were symptomatic at birth. The congenital syphilis incidence rate, which was 14.65/1000 live births in 2016, reached 5.58/1000 live births in 2019. The follow-up indicator for congenital syphilis cases that were born alive was 69.8 % in 2016, 79.5% in 2017, 84.4% in 2018 and 85.7% in 2019.
Conclusion: there was a significant reduction in the number of cases of congenital syphilis, in the incidence rate of the disease and progressive improvement in the follow-up of congenital syphilis, having, as a guideline, the Plan to Eliminate Syphilis.
Outcome Measure Epidemiological of Female Inmates in West Amazon, Brazil
Authors: Djannaro Eliamen da Costa Vitor , Maria Pinheiro Bezerra Italla , Eduardo Siqueira Carlos , Naildo Cardoso Leitão Francisco , Gomes da Silva Leonardo , Elena Guerrero  Daboin Blanca , Elmusharaf Khalifa , Carlos de Abreu Luiz
Published: April 2022

Introduction: the prison system in the Brazilian state of Acre, located in the Western region of the Amazon, is a branch of the criminal justice system that has been suffering from issues such as overcrowding and growth in internal organized crime. The prevalence of these matters directly affects the resocialization of prisoners and inhibits the successful re-engineering of their social values and beliefs.
Objective: to analyze the epidemiological profile of jailed women in the State of Acre, Brazil.
Methods: in a cross-sectional descriptive study, 129 participants were recruited from female penitentiaries in the state of Acre. Conducted between August and December of 2017, data was collected through a validated questionnaire, divided into modules, using both open and closed-ended items.
Results: we found that most women who participated in the study were single (n = 86, 66.7%), had brown skin (n = 93, 72.1%), had children (n=102, 79.1%), resided in the state of Acre (n=117, 90.5%). The mean age of the sample was 27.69 years. Among those participants who reported having partners (n = 40, 31%), we found that half had partners who were also incarcerated (n = 20, 50%). The study results also indicate that drug trafficking (n = 86, 66.7%) was the major cause for female incarceration, followed by homicide crime (n = 16, 12.4%). Over half of the participants were in prison for the first time (n = 75, 58.1%), with a high recidivism rate observed in the total sample (n = 54, 41.9%). A majority of the participants (n = 97, 75.2%) kept in touch with members of their families and a smaller portion (n = 15, 11.6%) received conjugal visits. With regard to social activities, slightly more than half (n = 75, 58.1%) worked and the majority (n = 114, 88.4%) did not study while jailed.
Conclusion: the difficulties associated with accessing inmate data and the lack of peer-reviewed studies on inmate health in Brazil suggests that the public policies recommended by the PNSSP and the National Policy for Comprehensive Health Care for Women should be reevaluated.
COVID-19 and influenza: implications in the public health context
Authors: Ricardo Pérez-Rieraa Andrés , Barbosa Barros Raimundo , Nikus Kjell , Elmusharaf Khalifa
Published: April 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 continues to have a major impact on health and social systems around the world. it becomes necessary to monitor these diseases so that there are parameters for better decision making on the appropriate clinical management of these respective diseases. The two viruses manifest themselves in a similar way, causing respiratory diseases that can present asymptomatically, as well as from the cold to severe respiratory problems until death. The form of transmission is similar, through contact with droplets or particles of saliva and secretions, which implies preventive actions that involve the same hygiene measures, use of masks and the need to cough using the elbow or disposable tissues. This characterizes a syndemic.
Association between excess peripheral, central and general adiposity with high blood pressure in adolescents in southern Brazil.
Authors: Narciso Santiago Leandro , Custódio Martins Priscila , Augusto Santos Silva Diego
Published: April 2022

Introduction: excess adiposity is one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, including high blood pressure. Children and adolescents with obesity and hypertension are at greater risk of morbidity and mortality in adulthood.
Objective: to analyze the association between excess peripheral, central and general adiposity with high blood pressure in adolescents in southern Brazil.
Methods: this is a cross-sectional study with 1,132 adolescents (16.50 ± 1.14 years) of both sexes. Measurements were performed with the oscillometric method using digital sphygmomanometer, considering high systolic and diastolic blood pressure, values above the 95th percentile for sex and age. Peripheral adiposity (triceps skinfold) and central adiposity (subscapular skinfold) were classified as high from the 90th percentile of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference distribution. For excess general adiposity, triceps and subscapular skinfold above the 90th percentile were simultaneously considered. Logistic regression was used with 5% significance level.
Results: male adolescents with high peripheral, central and general adiposity were, respectively, 2.43 (95% CI: 1.14; 5.19), 3.50 (95% CI: 1.66; 7.41) and 2.47 (95% CI: 1.01; 6.18) times more likely of having high SBP. Male adolescents with excess general adiposity were more likely of developing high diastolic blood pressure (OR: 3.31; 95% CI: 1.41; 7.70). Female adolescents with excess central and general adiposity were 4.15 (95% CI: 1.97; 8.77) and 3.30 (95% CI: 1.41; 7.77) times more likely of developing high diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
Conclusion: male adolescents with excess peripheral, central and general adiposity were more likely of having high systolic blood pressure and high diastolic blood pressure when presenting high general adiposity. In addition, female adolescents with high excess central and general adiposity were more likely of having high diastolic blood pressure.
Effect of Synchronized Sound Waves in the form of Indian Classical Ragaas on Phytohormonal Analysis of Medicinal Plant Species
Authors: Rout Pragyan P. , Swain Rageshree , Padhi Sanhita
Published: April 2022

Music, based on the synchronized sound waves has a tremendous impact on the living beings. Different frequencies of synchronized sound are now-a-days used in therapy (being popularly called as music therapy). However, the impact of music on physical and physiological processes of the living beings has been acknowledged since ages. Rhythmic and comforting music has an influence on behavior of all living organisms such as humans, plants and animals. According to various studies, Indian Classical music has been confirmed to encourage plant growth positively and it is observed to dominate the other important genres of music such as metal-rock, rock, rap, pop, and monotonous sounds. The present research work was aimed at finding the exclusive impact and effect of the synchronized sound waves and their frequencies in different strings and closed-pipe Indian classical instrumental music displayed through various Ragaas, viz: Raga Kedar (flute), Raga Kedar (santoor), Raga-Rageshree (sitar), Raga-Bhairavi (flute), Raga- Shree (Sarangi), Raga- Milan ki Todi (Sarod), Raga- Ramkali (Sitar) on phytohormonal analysis in Insulin (Chamaecostus cuspidatus) and stevia (Stevia rebaudiana). Enhanced phytohormonal levels were observed in the plant species treated with different Indian classical Ragaas. In both Chamaecostus cuspidatus and Stevia rebaudiana the total concentration of GA3 was found to be 37.33mg/ml and 96.77mg/ml in treated plants respectively. Similarly in Chamaecostus cuspidatus and Stevia rebaudiana the concentration of IAA at 222nm was found to be 2.33 and 7.71mg/ml and at 280nm was found to be 8.45mg/ml and 41.90mg/ml in treated plants respectively.
Ecological Studies on Bryophytes of Maredumilli Forest Division (AP), Eastern Ghats of India
Authors: Rao G. M. Narasimha , Babu N. V. Jayanth
Published: April 2022

Eastern Ghats of East Godavari District consists of a series of detached hill ranges of heterogeneous composition offers variety of plants from lower group of plant kingdom to higher group of plants. Low temperature and high rainfall promote the growth and development of various plant groups especially aerophytic algae (sub aerophytic algae/corticolous algae), Bryophytes and Pteridophytes along with angiosperms. Present investigation was undertaken to study the distribution of bryophytes in the Maredumilli forest division in relation to its seasonal changes. Studies were made in three different seasons of the year during October 2018 to September 2019. A total of 10 species were reported and its frequency was measured by quadrate method. Higher frequency values were recorded during the post monsoon season while lower frequency values were observed in pre monsoon season.
The Shadow of the Past Hangs Over Post-Apartheid South African Fiction in English
Authors: Ngom Dr. Mamadou Abdou Babou
Published: April 2022

This paper sets out to rake stock of how the demons of apartheid-era South Africa impact the new dispensation over twenty-five years after the first democratic elections ever held in South Africa. Also, through a methodological approach predicated upon an fictional opus made up of different novelists, and upon perspectives drawn the social sciences, not least philosophy, history, sociology, the paper seeks to highlight the invaluable contribution of South African writers-black and white alike- to the demise of was later known as institutionalized racism. The article argues that protest literature’s unyielding resolve to grittily spotlight the materiality of the black condition in South Africa from 1948-when the National Party came to power with a racist agenda-to 1990 was crucial to raising international awareness about the horrors of apartheid, and, accordingly, the overarching need to call time on it. For all that, the paper explains, the racial chickens are coming home to roost since the downtrodden of yesteryear are perceived by their former oppressors as being driven by a vengeful agenda. With the end of institutionalized racism, the paper contends, Postapartheid South African novelists tend to move away from racial determinism that hallmarked apartheid-era writing to embrace novelistic themes appertaining to the concerns and challenges that plague modern-day South Africa.
Exploration on the Construction of Mixed "Golden Courses" in Higher Vocational Education——Take "Comprehensive German" as an example
Authors: Cao Jie
Published: April 2022

"Comprehensive German" course, as a professional core course, establishes the course objectives according to the talent training plan, reconstructs the teaching content based on enterprise research, and implements classroom teaching in accordance with the "student-centered" teaching concept. It has formed unique teaching characteristics, and strives to build a mixed "golden course" in higher vocational colleges.
A Study on the Professional Key Competences of Kindergarten Teachers
Authors: BAI Bin , AI Jingjing
Published: April 2022

Professional key competences comprise the necessary personality traits and action competences that meet the requirements of work. For kindergarten, they are an important reference for selecting and training teachers. This study uses the paradigm of qualitative research and is based on job analysis and the semi-structured interview method. Researchers conducted 37 semi-structured interviews with 29 kindergarten teachers from different provinces in China. A three-level professional key competence model of kindergarten teachers is preliminarily constructed. The inner layer of the model is the core professional values of kindergarten teachers, the middle layer comprises the four core personality traits of kindergarten teachers, and the outer layer comprises the nine key action competences of kindergarten teachers. The results of this study have important reference value for the training of kindergarten teachers and for the team building of teaching staff.
Analysis of Ochani River in Ebubu, Eleme Local Government Area, Rivers State
Authors: Omenuihu Okwakpam Ikechi , Tonye Kio
Published: April 2022

Surface water undergoes immense strain, and it has been estimated that, owing to its simple disposability, human waste and toxic industrial discharges is released untreated into the surface water. The most affected to this transformation is the surface water caused by anthropogenic contaminants. It is in the light of this that the study assessed the physicochemical and heavy metal parameters in the surface water at Ochani River in Ebubu, Eleme Local Government Area. The water samples were collected 500meters apart from different points, and the adjourning river which serve as the ‘control point’. Analysis of heavy metals and physicochemical parameters were done using appropriate measures and standard procedures. The finding indicate that the lead values obtained from the analysis of the sampled water is 0.001mg/l; copper value <0.001mg/l; Zinc values range from 0.002mg/l to 0.004mg/l, while Iron values obtained from the sampled water analysis ranged from 0.336mg/l to 0.724mg/l; and the value of chromium is ranging from 0.001mg/l to 0.004. The laboratory analysis of pH and turbidty values ranged from 5.34 to 5.54 and, 60 - 70 NTU, respectively. These obtained values are below the maximum limit for DPR and WHO surface water standards. Therefore, the study recommend that Ochani River is not safe for human intake.
Are Dioxins the Causative Agent of Polycystic Ovaries Syndrome?
Authors: Hamad Mosab Nouraldein Mohammed
Published: April 2022

Stein-Leventhal syndrome (Polycystic ovaries syndrome), represent one of the major obstacles facing reproductive medicine researchers, because there is no information about the etiology of it, and that made them fail to draw smile on faces of millions of women around the world, who are suffering from it. Scientists said that it is attributed to genetic and environmental factors, and we hypothesized that it was caused by environmental pollution by dioxins (specifically heavy metals), which disturb aryl hydrocarbon receptor and that lead to disturbing of nuclear receptors and then express genes which lead to hormonal, metabolic and immunological abnormalities appear in PCOS patients. And fortunately this hypothesis supports our hypothesis about the etiology of COVID-19 and its variants, clinically and epidemiologically. PCOS can be transmitted transmammry, sexually from Dixon exposed male partners, and due to direct exposure to Dixon either via explosion or by excessive use of makeup .Experimental studies is required to test our hypothesis.
Item Difficulty as a Source of Variability in Student Achievement in the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE): Application of Generalizability Theory
Authors: Cobbinah Andrews , Brew Ruth Keziah Annan- , Quansah Frank
Published: April 2022

Students’ achievement in core subjects in the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) has been a subject of concern for stakeholders due to poor performance. The purpose of this study is to assess whether item difficulty is a significant source of variability to the measurement of students’ achievement in WASSCE in Ghana, using the generalizability theory. The study had three specific objectives: (1) to examine the sources of variability (e.g., item) to students’ achievement in WASSCE in Ghana, (2) to assess the dependability of students’ responses in relation to their ability, (3) evaluate how many items are sufficient to provide an optimum measure of student achievement. The one-facet crossed random design was adopted as the research design. Data were obtained from students’ achievement in 2015 WASSCE in the four subjects, namely, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and English Language. The generalized analysis of variance (GENOVA) was used for the analysis, conducting both G-study and D-study. The analysis revealed that the findings from this study showed that item difficulty had minimal effect on the variability in students’ achievement in English Language and Mathematics. The result further revealed that item difficulty had a significant effect on variability in students’ achievement in Science and Social Studies. Only the English Language test showed relatively low reliability. The study recommended the item difficulty and content structure of the Science and Social Studies multiple-choice test should be evaluated by WAEC officials and their examiners.