bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
INDEX FUTURES INTRODUCTION AND STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY: EMPIRICAL STUDY IN VIETNAM
Authors: 子 鬼谷
Published: November 2021

This paper aims at answering the question whether the VN30 index futures introduction has an impact on stock market volatility in Vietnam. Apply GARCH model of volatility with additive dummy variable from 28/7/2000 to 10/9/2020, the result shows that when the first listed index futures contract appears, it makes the volatility of VNIndex increases. The result is still robust after excluding the turmoil period of Vietnam stock market. This paper implies that policy maker should be more careful in promoting derivatives market in Vietnam.
Resume buku ''Agama dan Bayang - Bayang Etis Syaikh Yusuf Al – Makassari'' Bab 3
Authors: Ramadan Rafli
Published: November 2021

Konsep etika religius menitik beratkan pada perbuatan dan pengamalan dari ajaran agama. Etika religius Syaikh Yusuf dipandang sangat relevan dengan kondisi di Indonesia padasaat ini, karena pemikirannya mengandung kritik sosial dengan menawarkan hakikat Islam secara lahir dan batin atau mengerti syari’at dan tasawuf, lebih-lebih jika dikaitkan dengan perkembangan dakwah Islam di Indonesia saat ini. Di tengah kegandrungan juru dakwahyang mengadopsi ulama Timur Tengah atau Arab, eksistensi tokoh lokal justru jauh lebih kontekstual dengan karakteristik masyarakat Indonesia.Untuk memahami landasan etika religius Syaikh Yusuf, kita perlu mengetahui terlebih dahulu beberapa konsep kunci dalam karya-karyanya. Konsep-konsep tersebut merupakan empat tingkatan dalam praktik sufisme, yaitu syari’at, tarekat, hakikat, dan makrifat.
Differential expression of angiopoietin 1 in cancers of the breast.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: November 2021

Breast cancer affects women at relatively high frequency (1). We mined published microarray datasets (2, 3) to determine in an unbiased fashion and at the systems level genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer. We report here significant differential expression of the gene encoding angiopoietin 1, ANGPT1, when comparing primary tumors of the breast to the tissue of origin, the normal breast. ANGPT1 mRNA was present at significantly lower quantities in tumors of the breast as compared to normal breast tissue. Analysis of human survival data revealed that expression of ANGPT1 in primary tumors of the breast was correlated with overall survival in patients with luminal B and normal-like subtype cancer, demonstrating a relationship between primary tumor expression of a differentially expressed gene and patient survival outcomes influenced by PAM50 molecular subtype. ANGPT1 may be of relevance to initiation, maintenance or progression of cancers of the female breast.
LITERATURE REVIEW INHALASI AROMATERAPI PADA PASIEN HEMODIALISIS YANG MENGALAMI KECEMASAN
Authors: Andas Amzal Mortin , Alfian Muhamad Luthfi
Published: November 2021

Background: In hemodial therapy can cause various kinds of problems, one of which is anxiety. Anxiety becomes a common problem, the results of studies in patients undergoing hemodialysis showed 183 patients (100%) experienced anxiety. One therapy for overcoming anxiety is aromatherapy inhalation therapy. Purpose: The study of this literature aims to determine the effect of aromatherapy inhalation on hemodialysis patients with anxiety problems. Method: In this scientific paper is a literature review search using electronic databases namely google schoolar and pubmed. The keywords used with search are hemodialysis or hemodialysis, aromatherapy or aromatherapy and anxiety or anxiety. inclusion criteria used in the article are accessible full text, no pay available in English and Indonesian. The number of journals used is limited to the last 10 years, results are found 1 journal from google schoolar and 4 pubmed, of 5 articles discussing the effectiveness of inhalation aromatherapy for decreased anxiety in hemodialysis patients. Results: From the literature review results from the 5 articles show that inhalation aromatherapy is effective in reducing anxiety levels in hemodialysis patients. Conclusion: the results of a literature review review show that aromatherapy inhalation can reduce anxiety in hemodialysis patients.
Inventory of Statewide STEM Education Networks: Final Report
Authors: Magilaro Susan G. , Ernst Jeremy V.
Published: November 2021

This inventory of statewide and regional STEM education networks in the United States is a resource for P-12 schools, higher education, business and industries, and other community stakeholders to advance collaboration, engagement, stakeholder support, and further understanding of best practices to sustain these partnerships.
The Effects of Consensus Messages and the Importance of a Pre-Test: A Comment on Chinn and Hart (2021)
Authors: Linden Sander van der , Goldberg Matthew H. , Maertens Rakoen , Kerr John R , Maibach Edward , Leiserowitz Anthony
Published: November 2021

Chinn and Hart (2021) argue that their experiment on the effects of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change revealed “mixed” and “inconsistent findings”. We note that Chinn and Hart (2021) provide clear and consistent evidence that the scientific consensus message has positive indirect effects on climate beliefs, attitudes, and support for public action, and that these effects are more pronounced among conservatives (as predicted). Importantly, however, the authors’ claim that these positive findings might simply be the result of an experimental design choice: the use of a pre-test of the dependent variables. Here we argue that no convincing evidence is provided for the conclusion that pre-tests should not be used. In fact, contrary to the authors’ recommendation, we make the case that the inclusion of a pre-test in randomized controlled designs increases power and precision. Furthermore, we point to its central importance for the ability to capture and evaluate the Gateway Belief Model’s (GBM) key predictions about changes in public attitudes.
Human third-party observers accurately track fighting skill and vigour along their unique paths to victory
Authors: Caton Neil Robert , Dixson Barnaby
Published: November 2021

Sexual selection via male-male contest competition has shaped the evolution of agonistic displays, weaponry, and fighting styles, and is further argued to have shaped human psychological mechanisms to detect, process, and respond appropriately to cues of fighting ability. Drawing on the largest fight-specific dataset to date across the sports and biological sciences (N = 2,765), we examined how different indicators of fighting ability in humans reflect unique paths to victory and indicate different forms of perceived and actual resource-holding power (RHP). Overall, we discovered that: (1) both striking skill and vigour, and grappling skill and vigour, individually and collectively predict RHP; (2) different RHP indicators are distinguished by a unique path to victory (e.g., striking skill is a knockout-typical strategy, whereas grappling vigour is a submission-typical strategy); and (3) third-party observers accurately track fighting skill and vigour along their unique paths to victory. Our argument that different measures of RHP are associated with unique paths to victory, and third-party observers accurately track fighting vigour and skill along their unique paths to victory, advance our understanding not only of human contest competition, but animal contest theory more broadly.
The Cognitive, Affective, and Somatic Empathy Scales – German version (CASES-G)
Authors: Schleicher Daniel , Jarvers Irina , Raine Adrian , Brunner Romuald
Published: November 2021

Here, the German version of the Cognitive, Affective, and Somatic Empathy Scales (CASES; Raine and Chen, 2018) is presented.
How “is” shapes “ought” for folk-biological concepts
Authors: Foster-Hanson Emily , Lombrozo Tania
Published: November 2021

Knowing which features are frequent among a biological kind (e.g., that most zebras have stripes) shapes people’s representations of what category members are like (e.g., that typical zebras have stripes) and normative judgments about what they ought to be like (e.g., that zebras should have stripes). In the current work, we ask if people’s inclination to explain why features are frequent is a key mechanism through which what “is” shapes beliefs about what “ought” to be. Across four studies (N = 591), we find that frequent features are often explained by appeal to feature function (e.g., that stripes are for camouflage), that functional explanations in turn shape judgments of typicality, and that functional explanations and typicality both predict normative judgments that category members ought to have functional features. We also identify the causal assumptions that license inferences from feature frequency and function, as well as the nature of the normative inferences that are drawn: by specifying an instrumental goal (e.g., camouflage), functional explanations establish a basis for normative evaluation. These findings shed light on how and why our representations of how the natural world is shape our judgments of how it ought to be.
Strength and Vulnerability: Indirect Effects of Age on Changes in Occupational Well-Being through Emotion Regulation and Physiological Disease
Authors: Zacher Hannes , Rudolph Cort
Published: November 2021

The strength and vulnerability integration (SAVI) model posits that development across the adult lifespan is accompanied by improvements in emotion regulation and declines in physiological flexibility. Due to these age-related changes, emotional well-being is expected to be higher among older (vs. younger) adults when they experience no or only minor stressors. In contrast, more intense stressors should lead to lower well-being among older adults. We develop and test a conceptual model based on the SAVI model in the work context that focuses on experienced incivility as a moderator of the indirect effects of employee age on changes in two indicators of occupational well-being (i.e., job satisfaction, emotional exhaustion) through emotion regulation and physiological disease. Experienced incivility is a workplace stressor that may weaken the beneficial effects of emotion regulation and intensify the detrimental effects of physiological disease. Data were collected from 781 employees across three time points, spanning four months. Results showed that age had indirect effects on (a) increases in job satisfaction through emotion regulation, (b) decreases in emotional exhaustion through emotion regulation, (c) decreases in job satisfaction through physiological disease, and (d) increases in emotional exhaustion through physiological disease. Out of four hypothesized interaction effects, only the indirect effect of age on decreases in emotional exhaustion through emotion regulation was, as expected, weaker and non-significant when experienced incivility was high (vs. low). These findings provide partial support for our model and imply that future theory development on age and occupational well-being should consider both age-related strengths and vulnerabilities.
Negative Emotion Reduces Visual Working Memory Recall Variability: A Meta-analytical Review
Authors: Xie Weizhen , Ye Chaoxiong , Zhang Weiwei
Published: November 2021

Negative emotion is often hypothesized to trigger a more deliberate processing mode.This effect can manifest as increased precision of information maintained in working memory (WM) captured by reduced WM recall variability. However, some recent evidence shows that WM representations are immune to any emotional influences. Here, we meta-analyze existing evidence based on data from 13 experiments across 491 participants who performed a delay estimation WM task under negative and neutral emotions. We find that negative emotion modestly reduces WM recall variability and increases recall failures relative to the neutral condition. These effects are moderated by participants’ self-report negative experiences during emotion induction. Collectively, these data suggest that negative emotion influences how muchand how well one can remember in WM.
What are the effective features of consultation? A mixed methods approach
Authors: Langford Patrick
Published: November 2021

Consultation is an integral part of many Educational Psychologist’s (EPs) work. Yet there is a large heterogeneity in understanding and use of this tool. Such diversity makes evaluating its efficacy difficult. This research therefore sought to identify what the effective features of consultation are by linking observed features to changes in agreed outcomes for children and young people (CYP). Mixed methods were employed to explore what EPs believe are the key features of consultation, what the barriers to effective consultation are, what happens in a consultation for a child or young person, and what combination of features can be identified in consultations which lead to positive changes for CYP.To explore EP views towards the effective features of consultation, 30 EPs were interviewed. Observable features of consultation were tallied for six consultations. For those consultations, goals were identified by participants and a baseline rating was given for each goal using Target Monitoring Evaluation (TME) forms. There were 10 goals identified. Change for these goals was recorded through completing the same form 6-8 weeks later, to allow analysis of which combination of features were present for children with differing progress towards outcomes. This was assessed using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). The most effective features of consultation, as identified by EPs, included the expert knowledge EPs have, the collaborative nature of consultation, and creating a shared understanding of the CYP and context for all participants. Consultations which were most likely to see positive change for CYP were ones in which the consultation was not dominated by gaining an understanding of the presenting problem. These results give clarity as to what the features of an effective consultation are through a mixed methods analysis. The findings have implications for EPs who use consultation, as well as consultees and those whom consultations are for.
Sentence first, arguments after: Mechanisms of morphosyntax acquisition
Authors: Getz Heidi
Published: November 2021

Natural languages contain complex grammatical patterns. For example, in German, finite verbs occur second in main clauses while non-finite verbs occur last, as in 'dein Bruder möchte in den Zoo gehen' (“Your brother wants to go to the zoo”). Children easily acquire this type of morphosyntactic contingency (Poeppel & Wexler, 1993; Deprez & Pierce, 1994). There is extensive debate in the literature over the nature of children’s linguistic representations, but there are considerably fewer mechanistic ideas about how knowledge is actually acquired. Regarding German, one approach might be to learn the position of prosodically prominent open-class words (“verbs go 2nd or last”) and then fill in the morphological details. Alternatively, one could work in the opposite direction, learning the position of closed-class morphemes (“-te goes 2nd and -en goes last”) and fitting open-class items into the resulting structure. This second approach is counter-intuitive, but I will argue that it is the one learners take.Previous research suggests that learners focus distributional analysis on closed-class items because of their distinctive perceptual properties (Braine, 1963; Morgan, Meier, & Newport, 1987; Shi, Werker & Morgan, 1999; Valian & Coulson, 1988). The Anchoring Hypothesis (Valian & Coulson, 1988) posits that, because these items tend to occur at grammatically important points in the sentence (e.g., phrase edges), focusing on them helps learners acquire grammatical structure. Here I ask how learners use closed-class items to acquire complex morphosyntactic patterns such as the verb form/position contingency in German. Experiments 1-4 refute concerns that morphosyntactic contingencies like those in German are too complex to learn distributionally. Experiments 5-8 explore the mechanisms underlying learning, showing that adults and children analyze closed-class items as predictive of the presence and position of open-class items, but not the reverse. In these experiments, subtle mathematical distinctions in learners’ input had significant effects on learning, illuminating the biased computations underlying anchored distributional analysis. Taken together, results suggest that learners organize knowledge of language patterns relative to a small set of closed-class items—just as patterns are represented in modern syntactic theory (Rizzi & Cinque, 2016).
Modernistskiy ekfrasis v esse Mariny Tsvetayevoy „Natal'ya Goncharova. Zhizn' i tvorchestvo”
Authors: Medvedev Alexander
Published: November 2021

This article examines Marina Tsvetaeva’s modernist perception of the personality and paintings of the greatest representative of the Russian avant-garde of the 20th century in the essay “Natalia Goncharova. Life and Work” (“Наталья Гончарова. Жизнь и творчество”, 1929). Goncharova’s paintings that Tsvetaeva describes in her essay are indicated. The principles of modernist poetics and ekphrasis are revealed (lyrical subjectivism, ontology, consonance, anagrammatic disclosure of the inner form of a word, mythologization, reader co-creation, dialogism). The similarity between Tsvetaeva’s understanding of painting and poetry is compared to the ontological understanding of art by Martin Heidegger. This can be explained by the tradition of ontological poetry (Friedrich Hölderlin and Rainer Maria Rilke), which is important for both. The ontology of Goncharova’s painting is also considered in the context of the ontology of animals in Russian philosophy at the beginning of the 20th century (Vasily Rozanov) and in the Tahitian Painting of Paul Gauguin. Special attention is paid to ekphrastic poetics (style, tropes, consonance), with the help of which Tsvetaeva authentically transfers the ontologism of Goncharov’s painting in its stylistic diversity (cubism, neo-primitivism, rayonism) to the verbal level. Tsvetaeva and Goncharova in the respective Russian and European context (Gauguin, Rozanov, Heidegger, Rilke) appear as exponents of the ontological turn in the culture of the first half of the 20th century.
Viysʹkova Kafedra Lʹvivsʹkoho Universytetu: prosopohrafichna rekonstruktsiya (1944–1991)
Authors: Shelestak Larysa
Published: November 2021

This is a study based on archival materials and systematized biographical information about the teachers of the military department, who worked there since its establishment in 1944 up to its disbandment during 1991–1993. The article shows features and specifics of the teaching staff of the military department of the University of Lviv, which were caused by the reforms of military education in the Soviet Union. The prosopographic method, which is used in the research, allows us to learn the different aspects of the activities in the military department. It demonstrates changes in the teaching staff throughout the existence of the department.
Factors Associated with Intermittent, Constant, and Mixed Pain in People with Knee Osteoarthritis
Authors: Hoteit Fatme , Erhmann Feldman Debbie , Carlesso Lisa C.
Published: November 2021

Purpose: To explore factors associated with intermittent, constant, and mixed pain in people with knee osteoarthritis. Method: We conducted a secondary analysis of a cross-sectional multicentre study with adults ≥ 40 years with knee osteoarthritis. Participants completed questionnaires on personal (e.g., demographics, comorbidities), physical (e.g., physical function), psychological (e.g., depressive symptoms), pain (e.g., qualities), and tests for physical performance and nervous system sensitivity. We qualified patients’ pain as intermittent, constant, or mixed using the Modified painDETECT Questionnaire and assessed associations with the variables using multinomial logistic regression. Results: The 279 participants had an average age of 63.8 years (SD 9.6), BMI of 31.5 kg/m2 (SD 8.7), and 58.6% were female. Older age (odds ratio [OR] 0.95; 95% CI: 0.90, 1.00) and higher self-reported physical function (OR 0.94; 95% CI: 0.91, 0.98) were associated with a lower likelihood of mixed pain compared with intermittent pain. Higher pain intensity (OR 1.25; 95% CI: 1.07, 1.47) was related to a 25% higher likelihood of mixed pain compared with intermittent pain. Conclusions: This study provides initial data for associations of personal, pain, and physical function factors with different pain patterns. Awareness of these factors can help clinicians develop targeted strategies for managing patients’ pain.
Review Paper on Effect of Micronutrients for Crop Production
Authors: Zewide Israel , Sherefu Abde
Published: November 2021

Micronutrients are essentially as important as macronutrients to have better growth, yield and quality in plants. There requirement by plants is in trace amounts. Boron, iron, copper, zinc, manganese, magnesium and molybdenum constitute main micronutrients required by different crops in variable quantities. The requirement of micronutrients is partly met from the soil or through chemical fertilizer or through other sources. Various physical and metabolic functions are governed by these mineral nutrients. Boron is particularly essential in pollen germination, copper plays major role in photosynthesis and increases sugar content in fruits, chlorophyll synthesis and phosphorus availability is enhanced by manganese, iron acts as an oxygen carrier and promotes chlorophyll formation, while, zinc aids plant growth hormones and enzyme system. Yield and quality of agricultural products increased with micronutrients application, therefore human and animal health is protected with feed of enrichment plant materials. Each essential element only when can perform its role in plant nutrition properly that other necessary elements are available in balanced ratios for plant. therefore in the plant manganese plays an important role on oxidation and reduction processes, as electron transport in photosynthesis. Manganese deficiency has very serious effects on non-structural carbohydrates, and roots carbohydrates especially. Crops quality and quantity decreased due to manganese deficiency, and this is due to low fertility of pollen and low in carbohydrates during grain filling. In the xylem routes zinc is transmitted to divalent form or with organic acids bond. In the phloem sap zinc makes up complex with organic acids with low molecular weight, and increases its concentration. Zinc deficiency can be seen in eroded, calcareous and weathering acidic soils. Zinc deficiency is often accompanied with iron deficiency in calcareous soils. Iron in the soil is the fourth abundant element on earth, but its amount was low or not available for the plants and microorganisms needs, due to low solubility of minerals containing iron in many places the world, especially in arid region with alkaline soils.
Are Platelet Aggregation Tests the Best Way to Assess New Drugs for Arterial Disease
Authors: M. Noble Mark I.
Published: November 2021

Over many years, laboratory testing of platelet aggregability have been carried out in attempts to develop drugs that would prevent thrombosis in arteries. The problems encountered included the question of methodology. Blood samples have to be anticoagulated in order to study the platelets. Anti-coagulation with citrate and tests on derived platelet rich plasma did not correlate at all well with thrombus growth in the stenosed coronary arteries of experimental animals and citrate removes the calcium ions which are vital for platelet function. Anticoagulation with heparin also interfered with platelet function, so that now, hirudins are the preferred anticoagulant. However it was observed that if, instead of stimulating platelet aggregation with adrenaline or ADP, serotonin was applied to the preparation, very little aggregation took place in spite of serotonin 5HT2A antagonists being the most potent inhibitors of thrombus growth in experimental animals. Another indicator that primary platelet agggregation is not a predictor of in vivo efficacy was the finding that 5HT2A antagonism inhibited aggregate growth. In a stenosed artery the platelets are activated by increased shear stress and blood turbulence with release of platelet serotonin causing positive feedback activation of more platelets. At present, there does not seem to be a bench in vitro test that accurately predicts in vivo efficacy in stenosed artery occlusive thrombosis.
Acute polyarthritis revealing celiac disease of the elderly
Authors: S Bouomrani
Published: November 2021

Introduction: Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune disease that typically occurs in childhood and young age. Late-onset forms (after 60 years) are rare and often underestimated in current medical practice, as is joint damage during this disease. We report an original case of CD in an elderly patient revealed by acute polyarthritis. Observation: A 62-year-old patient with no significant pathological history was explored for acute polyarthritis of both large and small joints. The physical examination noted synovitis of the hands and wrists without articular deformities, and a marked mucocutaneous pallor. The biology revealed a microcytic anemia at 8 g/dl with stigmas of malabsorption (low cholesterol and hypocalcemia). No inflammatory syndrome was noted. Joint X-rays were without abnormalities. Immunological tests for chronic inflammatory rheumatisms were negative. Gastroduodenal fibroscopy was performed and histological examination of duodenal biopsies showed diffuse villous atrophy with marked inflammatory infiltrate. Anti- endomysium and anti-transglutaminase antibodies were positive confirming the diagnosis of CD. Under gluten-free diet, the evolution was favorable with totally disappearance of articular signs. Conclusion: Joint manifestations during CD are rare. The revealing forms are exceptional and can make a differential diagnosis with chronic inflammatory rheumatism, in particular that associations with CD was described. CD deserves to be evoked in front of any unexplained arthritis of the elderly, even without any specific digestive symptomatology of this disease.
Research Article: Impact of Cooking Fuel Choices on Maternal Lung Functions in Selected Rural and Urban Areas of Copperbelt Province, Zambia
Authors: Mulenga David
Published: November 2021

Background: Considering the respiratory health risk of exposure to biomass cooking fuel emissions, this study was conducted to elucidate the relationship between cooking fuel choices and declined pulmonary function in rural and urban population in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study of 1,170 healthy nonsmoking pregnant women from Masaiti and Ndola predominantly using biomass fuel for cooking. Questionnaire based data was acquired along with standardized measures of lung function. MIR Spirobank G (Italy) was used in spirometry based on American Thoracic Standards. Results: The present study found that over two thirds (69.2%) of pregnant women in the study population use biomass for cooking and only 12.4 % use electricity only. Declined lung function was found to be statistically significantly associated with cooking fuel choices (p – value 0.005) and a weak association was observed with gravida at a p-value of 0.056. Pregnant women using crop residues as cooking fuel were two times more likely to have a declined lung function [AOR 2.33 (1.27, 4.30)] compared with pregnant women using mixed fuel type (biomass and electricity) and those using electricity only were 57% less likely to have a declined lung function [AOD 0.43 (0.26, 0.69)]. Conclusion: Use of biomass for cooking among pregnant women is a strong determinant of declined lung function. Interventions to improve maternal respiratory health outcomes in Zambia and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa should involve making cleaner cooking fuel energy options available and accessible by ordinary women from both rural and urban areas.
Short Communication: Role of Leadership in Doctor-Patient Relationship & Execution on Patient’s Case Management in Primary Care
Authors: Naeem Shahzad
Published: November 2021

Primary care physicians (PCP) needs to plan, organize, implement, and evaluate as care director and coordinator. In primary care there is need to implement leadership model in health sector and medicine. Transformational leadership can be described as style of leadership which is appropriate for health sector. It is alike to the approach which is patient centered. Case management must be well organized, prepared, arranged and described as per needs of patient. The same must be agreed and implemented with suitable individual roles. Leaders are required to do numerous aspects linked to management, managerial and decision making process to carry out the requisite actions. Same process and procedures are also required be completed by Primary care physicians for achievement of patient’s targeted administration, supervision and management. Such happenings and actions contain from preparation, planning, development till structuring networks. Primary care physicians are anticipated to possess transformational leadership capabilities and to assist their performance in role of care coordinators. This all can be attained through integrated, holistic, continuous, comprehensive approach and by building relations with all stakeholders.
Factors Related to Biochemical Relapse in Patients Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy with Lymphadenectomy.
Authors: Oliveira Paula Grimar de , Alencar Santos João Emerson de , Araújo Souza Luiz Carlos de
Published: November 2021

Objectives - Analyze the prevalence of biochemical recurrence (BCR) in patients submitted to radical prostatectomy with lymphadenectomy (RP-LD) the most prevalent clinical and pathological staging in the BCR and to correlate the sum of the Gleason score (GS) in the surgical specimen in patients who presented BCR. Method - Analysis of 100 patients diagnosed with prostate adenocarcinoma who performed RP-LD between 2013 to 2017. All subjects underwent transrectal prostate biopsy due to PSA or rectal examination and RP-LD. The lymphadenectomy considered in the study was the iliac-obturator, and the surgical pieces were analyzed to determine the pathological staging and its descriptors. All patients who had two or more PSA measurements >0.2 ng/ml and who had undergone RP-LD were considered postoperative. Results -About 22% of the patients submitted to RP-LD presented BCR. Patients with BCR had a 59-76 age range, mean age of 66.27 years, and median age of 63.50 years. The most prevalent preoperative PSA in patients with BCR was between 10-20 ng/ml (40.90%) and the most prevalent clinical stage was cT2 (59.10%). Regarding the Gleason score, the BCR patients had the most prevalent 6 (36.37%) score in the biopsy and score 7 (4 + 3) (36.37%) in the surgical specimen. All patients (100%) with BCR presented perineural invasion, with pT3 staging (81.81%) and pN0 (77.28%) being the most prevalent in patients with BCR. Patients with BCR presented a correlation (p<0.05) between the increase in the sum of pathological GS and the increase in pTN staging. Conclusion - All these variables were important in the determination of BCR in patients submitted to RP-LD, thus demonstrating the importance of this information in the analysis of the prognosis and in the follow-up of these patients.
A Behavioral Learning Theory Public Health Promotion and Education Campaign Plan for COVID-19
Authors: Marie Portugal Lisa
Published: November 2021

The article includes a COVID-19 public health promotion and education campaign plan to prompt change by applying major behavioral change principles and procedures. Best practices research to motivate, support, and sustain health behavior change includes the application of Behavioral Learning Theory when educating the public regarding COVID-19 health challenges. Topics evaluated include: (1) Behavioral Learning Theory, (2) 6-month timeline for accomplishing three COVID-19 public health communication objectives, and (3) SWOT analysis.
The use of Decasan in the local treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases of the tonsils
Authors: Bill B , Kushnir A
Published: November 2021

The local sanitation in 40 patients with recurrent tonsillitis was carried out, using Decasan for washing of the lacunae of the palatine tonsils. Clinical observations and bacteriological studies have shown greater efficacy of Decasan in relation to the main pathogens of the tonsillar lacunae, compared to antibiotic solutions traditionally used for washing. Decasan is a highly effective and safe antiseptic for local treatment of patients with chronic inflammatory diseases of the tonsils, contributing to the restoration of local biocenosis, which is confirmed by an increase in the plaiting of normal microflora from the surface of the tonsillar lacunae.
Coupled finite-discrete element modeling and potential applications in civil engineering
Authors: Kien Nguyen Trung , Trung Vo Thanh , Hoang Nguyen Nhu
Published: November 2021

Since its appearance at the last of seventy decades, the Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) has been widely used in the modeling of geomaterials but regrettably limited to small scales problems by considering grains interactions. Recently, a new trend has emerged in combining DEM with other methods. The coupled approach allows extending the methods toward a wide range of civil engineering applications. Among them, FEM×DEM coupling has been the topic of research over the past decade. The FEM×DEM coupling has been mainly developed in two categories: direct interaction and multi-scale coupled models. In the first regard, this paper summarizes the basic principle of FEM and DEM, then reviews a number of possible direct coupling strategies between FEM and DEM together with potential applications in civil engineering. The second objective is to develop a model that combines these two above mentioned methods in a multi-scale approach. The results obtained by the developed model have been proved to efficiently tackle the complicated problem in engineering applications by assessing both macro and micro features and establishing the linking information between them.
E-Gov Implementation Analysis Through SILPa KAMI Application in DISKOMINFOARPUS, Cimahi City
Authors: Susanty Yunni , Yuningsih Yuyu
Published: November 2021

The development of information and communication technology (ICT) has been implemented in various fields, including in government. To support the implementation of e-Government (e-Gov) and improve the quality of public services, many technology-based applications have been created by government agencies, both central and local governments. DISKOMINFOARPUS Cimahi City built an application called SILPa KAMI to support the vision of Cimahi Smart City. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method that aims to determine how the implementation and sustainability of the SILPa KAMI application and what kind of characteristics the agencies should have so it can replicate this application. The results of the study reveal that the implementation of the SILPa KAMI application is running well because it has fulfilled various success factors of e-Gov implementation which is also marked by the sustainability even though there are still obstacles. Also, the use of ICT based on the e-leadership aspect, the information network infrastructure aspect, the information management aspect, the business environment aspect, as well as the community and human resources aspect has been optimally utilized. This application is relatively easy to be replicated by other agencies. The agencies that can replicate this application must have the availability of budget, the availability of related facilities and infrastructure and the availability of reliable ICT managers.
ASN Berinovasi dalam Menghadapi Refocusing Anggaran Di Masa Pandemi Covid 19
Authors: Kartika Ray Septianis
Published: November 2021

Refocusing anggaran menjadi permasalahan ketika program kegiatan tidak dapat terealisasi sesuai target. Efeknya adalah mempengaruhi volume pegawai untuk bekerja. Menghadapi hal tersebut, maka sangat penting melihat bagaimana ASN dapat maksimal bekerja ditengah keterbatasan anggaran.  Kajian ini melihat dari dimensi kualifikasi, kompetensi, kinerja dan disiplin. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana kinerja ASN dalam menghadapi refocusing anggaran dengan melihat keempat dimensi tersebut. Metodenya dengan deskriptif kualitatif, respondenya berasal dari unsur pemerintah pusat dan pemerintah daerah yang terekam dalam aplikasi goggle form. Hasil dari kajian teranalisa bahwa dimensi kualifikasi mengaitkan antara pendidikan dan golongan, dimensi kompetensi mengukur kompetensi ASN dari jabatannya, dimensi kinerja responden yang telah mengetahui informasi refocusing sebanyak 66,53 % dan  62,50 % berpendapat refocusing anggaran mempengaruhi kinerja, serta 81,65 % menyetujui kebijakan refocusing. Dimensi disiplin berbicara pada perencanaan kegiatan, kajian mandiri dan inovasi kerja. Temuan kajian adalah Pertama ,ASN tetap beraktivitas sebagaimana biasanya meski refocusing sudah dilakukan, Kedua, Produktivitas ASN ditunjukkan dengan realisasi anggaran dan capaian pemenuhan angka kredit tahunan bagi peneliti, Ketiga Pejabat fungsional umum melakukan rencana aksi dalam menghadapi situasi melalui mengalihkan kegiatan non prioritas menjadi kegiatan yang berbasis output. Sarannya adalah pertama manajerial perencanaan secara terintegrasi, kedua riset berbasis output. ketiga mewujudkan inovasi kerja yang komprehensif. Dengan demikian capaian lembaga dan target lembaga akan tercapai tanpa mengurangi kebermanfaatannya.
Analisis Program Bantuan Presiden Produktif Usaha Mikro, Kecil, dan Menengah Pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19 Kabupaten Sleman Yogyakarta
Authors: Wijayaningsih Nadia Fitri , Purnomo Eko Priyo , Fathani Aqil Teguh , Salsabila Lubna
Published: November 2021

Terjadinya konraksi laju ekonomi di Sleman DIY ditunjukan dengan adanya data laju PDRB yang sekali lagi menunjukkan kontraksi dari tahun 2019 ke 2020. Dalam menindaklanjuti permasalahan tersebut, pemerintah memberikan bantuan pemerintah berupa Bantuan Produktif Usaha Mikro atau BanPres Produktif kepada UMKM yang terdampak dalam pandemi Covid-19. Bantuan tersebut diberikan menimbang dengan adanya Peraturan Menteri Koperasi, Usaha Kecil, dan Menengah Republik Indonesia Nomor 6 Tahun 2020 tentang pedoman umum penyaluran bantuan pemerintah bagi pelaku usaha mikro dalam pemulihan ekonomi nasiional sebagai benttuk menghadapi ancaman perekonomian nasional hingga penyelamatan ekonomi nasional pada masa pandemi Covid-19. Tujuan penelitian yang dilakukan peneliti yaitu dapat  mengetahui apakah bantuan presiden yang dilakukan pemerintah kepada UMKM dalam menyelamatkan ekonomi nasional ketika masa pandemi Covid-19 tepat sasaran atau tidak dengan prosedur atau kebijakan yang telah ditetapkan pemerintah. Teori yanng digunakan yaitu implementasi kebijakan yang dilakukan pemerintah terhadap program bantuan presiden. Penelitian menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan menggunakan sumber data yang digunakan peneliti adalah data sekunder. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan terdapat Bantan Presiden yang diberikan kepada pelaku UMKM kurang efektif dikarenakan dari tata cara penyaluran BanPres yang bermasalah yaitu pada tahap pengusulan calon penerima, pembersihan data dan validasi data dari calon penerima bantuan.Kata Kunci : UMKM,  Ekonomi, BanPres, Pandemi.
Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia
Authors: Pratiwi Pratiwi
Published: November 2021

Dua dekade lebih telah menjadi jangka waktu terlaksananya desentralisasi di Indonesia sejak disahkannya Undang-Undang No. 22 tahun 1999. Banyak studi telah mengevaluasi berbagai sisi dari desentralisasi di Indonesia seperti dampak desentralisasi fiskal, meningkatnya partisipasi masyarakat pada era desentralisasi, serta dampak desentralisasi terhadap pelayanan publik. Buku yang ditulis oleh beberapa mahasiswa jenjang doktoral pada Universitas Groningen, Belanda ini menawarkan sisi yang berbeda yakni reformasi dan proses demokratisasi pada masa desentralisasi dan dampaknya pada masyarakat yang lebih berkelanjutan secara sosial, ekonomi, dan lingkungan.Dalam menyajikan pembahasannya, buku ini dibagi ke dalam tiga bagian yakni refleksi teori mengenai desentralisasi untuk masyarakat berkelanjutan, desentralisasi dalam pembuatan kebijakan, dan tantangan dalam implementasi desentralisasi di perkotaan dalam mewujudkan masa depan berkelanjutan.
Valery Podoroga: Philosophy as a Life Form
Authors: Petrovsky Helen
Published: November 2021

The article is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding Russian philosopher Valery Podoroga (1946–2020). Although his rich legacy is still awaiting to be read in a careful and thoughtful manner, even now it is possible to discern those nodal points that allow us to conduct an ongoing dialogue with Podoroga. Among them is a philosophical approach that has been named “analytical anthropology”. One of its key elements is a kind of vindication of the sensible dimension in philosophy, which in Podoroga takes the form of his marked interest in the inner logic of a work defined by the play of psychomimetic forces. What is at stake is an encounter with the work on the corporeal level, when the reader is gripped by its energy, and it is the task of the analytical anthropologist to reconstruct the latter’s unique pattern in the work. However, this position seems to carry an inherent tension: although observation is defined as non-participant (a version of phenomenological reduction), the observer, in one way or another, brings to a close that which is still in a state of becoming (the work as a “living” form). This is the grounds for singling out two lines of thinking in Podoroga himself, namely, the line of Eisenstein and that of Mamardashvili. Being the philosopher’s intellectual mentors, they become the two poles defining the development of Podoroga’s own thought. If S.M. Eisenstein stands for experimentation pure and simple, M.K. Mamardashvili expresses the value of individual effort and of reflection as a philosophical procedure. On the one hand, we see Podoroga’s interest in the play of forces, energies and impulses, which points to the movement of matter itself, while on the other, he keeps searching for form and those ultimate grounds that clearly bear on metaphysics. The two mentioned poles are reflected in the following pair: (preconceptual) image vs. concept. Although Podoroga himself attempts to draw a line between the internal and the external — and the work is located precisely on this borderline — the contemporary world demands that we address the work as one of nature’s forms among so many others.
On the Role of the Comical in Valery Podoroga's Project of Anthropology of Power
Authors: Zherebkina Irina
Published: November 2021

The article analyzes the concepts of comic and laugh in some texts by V.A. Podoroga on anthropology of power, and his view on critical potential of the comic for the philosophical analysis of modern politics and culture. Based on Podoroga's study of M.M. Bakhtin’s theory of laughter culture, grotesque images of corporeality by A. Artaud, A.F. Losev and S. Eisenstein, author argues that Podoroga understands the comic in the context of his theory of the phenomenology of body in which the laughter is associated with the grotesque, when the funny manifests itself in inseparability from the terrible and horrible. The article examines how Podoroga's concept of grotesque correlates with thoughts about the comic and laughter of A. Bergson and Ljubljana philosophical school (S. Zižek, A. Zupancic). It is argued that the prohibition on reading the experience of transgressive corporeality and sexuality (texts of A. Artaud, A.F. Losev and drawings of S. Eisenstein) in terms of the comic, introduced by Podoroga, is canceled when he understands sex not as a sign, a symbol of the sublime, but as a social construct, gender. It is revealed that in the case of gender study of the anthropology of power by Podoroga on the example of post-soviet gender identities and strategies of hegemonic masculinity (on the example of reading M. Proust by M.K. Mamardashvili) he is applying similar to Zižek's strategies of comization, emphasizing the moment of transgression in the comic.
Computational Robotics: An Alternative Approach for Predicting Terrorist Networks
Authors: Nwanga E.M. , Okafor K.C. , Chukwudebe G.A. , Achumba I.E.
Published: November 2021

Increasing terrorist activities globally have attracted the attention of many researchers, policy makers and security agencies towards counterterrorism. The clandestine nature of terrorist networks have made them difficult for detection. Existing works have failed to explore computational characterization to design an efficient threat-mining surveillance system. In this paper, a computationally-aware surveillance robot that auto-generates threat information, and transmit same to the cloud-analytics engine is developed. The system offers hidden intelligence to security agencies without any form of interception by terrorist elements. A miniaturized surveillance robot with Hidden Markov Model (MSRHMM) for terrorist computational dissection is then derived. Also, the computational framework for MERHMM is discussed while showing the adjacency matrix of terrorist network as a determinant factor for its operation. The model indicates that the terrorist network have a property of symmetric adjacency matrix while the social network have both asymmetric and symmetric adjacency matrix. Similarly, the characteristic determinant of adjacency matrix as an important operator for terrorist network is computed to be -1 while that of a symmetric and an asymmetric in social network is 0 and 1 respectively. In conclusion, it was observed that the unique properties of terrorist networks such as symmetric and idempotent property conferred a special protection for the terrorist network resilience. Computational robotics is shown to have the capability of utilizing the hidden intelligence in attack prediction of terrorist elements. This concept is expected to contribute in national security challenges, defense and military intelligence.
Does large-scale digital collaboration contribute to crisis management? An analysis of projects from the #WirVsVirus hackathon implemented in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Thiele Lukas , Pruin Andree
Published: November 2021

In recent years, collaborative approaches to crisis management involving citizens have gained increasing attention. One example is the #WirVsVirus hackathon, which was conducted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and had over 28,000 participants. Because research on large-scale, digital collaboration in crisis situations is scarce, consequences of their use in crisis management remain unclear. This article relies on the open governance paradigm as a lens for studying two projects emerging from the hackathon. Based on nine qualitative expert interviews, we ask how digital open governance affects governance capacity and legitimacy in crisis management. Our findings suggest that digital open governance can contribute to governance capacity and legitimacy, as it mobilises large, diverse groups of citizens to quickly develop citizen-centric, ready-to-use solutions for crisisrelated problems. However, we also identified potential problems, including risks regarding legitimacy and accountability, difficulties with scalable solutions, and questionable long-term impacts.