bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Patients’ sensory perception and satisfaction with use of metered dose inhalers and dry powder inhalers in moderate persistent asthma
Authors: Gupta Mahesh C. , Khanna Jyoti , Chaudhry Dhruva
Published: August 2019

Background: Inhalers containing corticosteroid and a long acting β2 agonist (LABA) are widely used in asthma treatment. This study assessed the patient sensory perception and satisfaction of budesonide/formoterol fixed dose combination by pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDI) with spacer and dry powder inhalers (DPI) in patients of moderate persistent asthma.Methods: This was a 6 week prospective, randomized, open label, comparative, parallel group clinical study. All patients had a forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) of 60-80% predicted normal. The patients were assessed for sensory perception and satisfaction in group I (pMDIs with spacers) and group II (DPIs) using patient evaluation questionnaire (PEQ) and patient satisfaction and preference questionnaire (PASAPQ) at the end of 6th week.Results: In PEQ, statistical analysis of the mean attribute ratings showed that both the devices were easy to use by patients. More medication was felt reaching throat using DPIs. Patients on DPI liked the taste and felt it to be less strong than patients on pMDIs. The overall liking was statistically comparable in two groups. In PASAPQ, the patients on DPI group were very satisfied with the treatment than pMDI (p<0.05).Conclusion: Overall liking of both DPIs and pMDIs was comparable and patients on DPI were satisfied more with the treatment device. Patient sensory perception and satisfaction may be taken into account in selecting device to improve compliance to treatment.
A non-interventional comparative study between medical and dental undergraduates regarding their knowledge, attitude and practice of antibiotic use in a tertiary care teaching rural hospital: emphasis on WHO fact-sheets
Authors: Dass Ervilla , Patel Aneri , Patel Huzaifa , Patel Dhruvesh , Patel Himanshi , Patel Harvi , Patel Bhavya
Published: August 2019

Background: The threat of antibiotic resistance is rapidly progressing and intensifying. The awareness generation of antibiotic use, its seriousness and significance are the first step towards restricting its progress. It is in this regards that this comparative questionnaire-based study was conducted.Methods: The knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) among medical and dental students of a tertiary care teaching rural hospital was assessed.  Before initiating the study, their written consent was taken, and 125 structured questionnaires were distributed to medical and dental students. Data collected was further entered in Microsoft excel sheet and further comparison of KAP between them was analysed.Results: The results were depicted in percentage. Regarding the indiscriminate and injudicious use of antibiotics can lead to prolongation of illness, the medical students were more aware 82.4% compared to the dental 65.6%. When asked about additional burden of medical cost to the patient, the medical students responded with yes 88.8% and dental student’s response of yes was 47.22%. Also, medical 90.4% students had heard about antibiotic resistance and 60.8% from dental students, which implies that UG students should be made more aware of antibiotic resistance and its consequences.Conclusions: Thus, the results of the study give useful information about the knowledge, attitudes and practices of medical and dental students, that can be further utilized to plan suitable educational interventions that target at improving the knowledge for prescribing antimicrobial medicines. This can further help in minimizing the development of bacterial resistance.
A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study of knowledge, attitude and practice of antibiotic usage among the undergraduate students of a tertiary care teaching rural hospital: with an emphasis of WHO fact-sheets
Authors: Dass Ervilla , Patel Aneri , Patel Huzaifa , Patel Dhruvesh , Patel Himanshi , Patel Harvi , Patel Bhavya
Published: August 2019

Background: Awareness regarding the antibiotic usage forms vital way to overcome the quickly deepening problem of antibiotic resistance. Hence, all the medical students should be made aware of the current emerging health related issues as future clinicians. It is in this regards that this study was undertaken among undergraduate (UG) students, in order to assess their knowledge, attitude & practice concerning antibiotic use.Methods: The present observational study was conducted over a period of four months starting from May 2018 till August 2018 among undergraduates. A total of 250 structured questionnaires were distributed. Data collected was further entered in Microsoft excel sheet and further analysed.Results: Total 250 students participated in this present study. Out of them, nearly 75.6% had heard about antibiotic resistance while 24.4% denied. Regarding the improper use of antibiotics that can cause antibiotic resistance 70% was aware. Moreover, nearly 40.4% attended a CME about rational use of antibiotics. The belief that the antibiotics are safe drugs hence they can be commonly used was reported by 48%. The results were grouped into knowledge, attitude and practice regarding the antibiotic use.Conclusions: Thus, the result gives us useful insight regarding KAP of the undergraduate students who will be future prescribers of antibiotics. This can be further applied to plan desirable educational informative interventions that focus on improving the knowledge for prescribing antibiotics in future clinicians, which can further help in reducing the development of antibiotic resistance.
The evaluation of safety and efficacy of percutaneous nephrostomy in young adult patients with severe hydronephrosis due to uretropelvic junction obstructions
Authors: Chandra Mahesh , Bachches Nikhil , Bhattacharya Anish , Attri Ashok
Published: August 2019

Background: Majority of poorly functioning kidney (PFK) due to primary ureteropelvic junction obstructions (UPJO) in young adult have potential to recover after an attempted percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN). The split renal function measured by nuclear renal scan may not be sufficient enough to predict recovery of such kidney. Therefore, this study was undertaken to determine the functional recovery and potential salvageability of PFK due UPJO. Objective of the study was to evaluate safety and efficacy of PCN in adult patients with severe hydronephrosis due to PUJO.Methods: A total of 25 (10 male and 15 female) young adult patients of severe hydronephrosis due to PUJO and SRF<20% underwent PCN procedures. Only, those who had significant improvement in their SRF ≥10% and developed PCN output ≥400 ml/day underwent Anderson-Hyenas pyeloplasty and rest underwent nephrectomy.Results: Both male and female young patients had significantly improvement after 6 weeks of PCN, their mean pre-PCN SRF changed from 16.30% and 12.27% to became 28.10±08.41% and 18.53±09.89%, respectively. Those with age <30 years improved most with ≥10% increase in the mean SRF and in 72% patients average PCN output increased from 279.80±93.90 ml/day to 445.20±160.341 ml/day at 6 weeks period. Overall, the patients with average PCN output ≥400 ml/day had a mean improvement of 10.33±05.48% in SRF. However, 5(20%) developed haematuria, 8% fever, 16% displaced PCN tip with no major puncture site bleed.Conclusions: The trial of PCN before definite surgery in young adult patients with poorly functioning kidney due to UPJO not only predicts renal renal function recovery but also prevent unwarranted renal loss.
Anomalous drainage of left superior venacava into left atrium
Authors: Nirmala Chandrashekar Chandana , Seetharama Bhat Padebettu Subramanya , Cholenahally Nanjappa Manjunath
Published: August 2019

The anomalies of drainage of systemic venous communications to the heart are many. But only few cause significant hemodynamic alteration and thus, complications. When they do, they need to be surgically corrected. We report an unusual case of a patient who was found to have left pulmonary veins draining into the left superior venacava (LSVC), which in turn was opening into the roof of the left atrium that had unroofed coronary sinus morphology. Innominate vein was absent. LSVC was divided cranial to where the pulmonary veins were draining into it. Lower end was suture closed. Proximal part of the LSVC was anastamosed to left pulmonary artery.
Comparison of efficacy between levosalbutamol and levosalbutamol-ipratropum nebulization in mild to moderate childhood asthma
Authors: Ramanathan R. , Mahalakshmi B.
Published: August 2019

Background: The objective of the study was to compare the efficacy between levosalbutamol and ipratropium combination over levosalbutamol nebulisation in reversing airflow obstruction and improve oxygenation, evaluated using the pulmonary asthma score, SaO2, and PEFR in mild and moderate asthma.Methods: A prospective, randomized, study was performed in RMMCH pediatric emergency department. Children between 6 and 12 years of age who presented with mild to moderate asthma exacerberations were enrolled in the study. They were randomly allocated into two different groups: one nebulised with levosalbutamol alone and another with addition of ipratropium bromide to levosalbutamol. Baseline Peak expiratory flow rate and Final absolute values or change from baseline 60-120 minutes after the inhalation are measured. Patients were evaluated using the pulmonary score.Results: After treatment there is improvement in the mean pulmonary asthma scores and PEFR percentage in A+B group than A group, but it is not statistically significant (p value >0.05). There is statistically significant improvement in pulmonary asthma score and PEFR in each of the groups after nebulisation and pulmonary asthma score has a sensitivity of 66.7% and 65.6% in diagnosing severity of asthma in relation to PEFR.
Effect of sleep duration and quality in the severity of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Indians
Authors: D. Sadanand C. , S. Madhuvan H. , N. Ravishankar S. , R. Thimmareddy S.
Published: August 2019

Background: Rapid urbanization has caused increase in the incidence of Diabetes and Sleep debt. This study is intended to see any correlation between Diabetes and sleep quality.Methods: Diabetes subjects who had there HbA1c done in the past three months were enrolled and their sleep was studied using Pittsburg sleep quality index (PSQI) which is simple, reliable epidemiological tool with high sensitivity and specificity. Subjects with chronic pain were excluded.Results: The mean PSQI score of males was more than that of female which was statistically insignificant. Urban diabetes subjects had a higher PSQI score than rural subjects. Pearson correlation (r) was 0.22 for HbA1c and PSQI score which was statistically significant with p=0.04.  Though the subjects with less than 5 hours of sleep had a higher HbA1c compared to those with more than 5 hours of sleep this was statistically insignificant.Conclusions: This study showed positive correlation between sleep quality and Diabetes.
A comparative study of knowledge and practice regarding menstrual hygiene among private and government schools of Jaipur city
Authors: Sharma Nikita , Meena K. K. , Gaur Kusum , Sharma Dharmesh
Published: August 2019

Background: Menstruation is a normal physiological process to the females but sometimes it is considered as unclean phenomenon in the society. Hence this community based study was carried out with the objective to assess the difference in level of knowledge and practice regarding menstrual hygiene among school going adolescent girls of government and private school.Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from July 2017 to April 2018 to find out the difference in prevailing knowledge and practices regarding menstrual hygiene between private and government school going adolescent girls of Jaipur city. Data were collected by the predesigned and pretested structured questionnaire.Results: 87.57% girls from private schools were aware of menstruation prior to attainment of menarche. The difference in knowledge regarding menstruation in students of private and government school was significant. More than three fourth of the participants (76.95%) were from private school use sanitary pad.Conclusions: Knowledge and practice regarding menstruation was better in private school girls as compared to those of government school. Significantly more number of girls in the private schools was using sanitary pads as compared to government school girls.
Clinical study of preauricular sinus and its management
Authors: Maradesha P. S. , H. R. Divya , M. K. Veenapani
Published: August 2019

Background: Preauricular sinus is the common congenital disease with tendency for repeated infections. It can present as a pit or depression at the anterior margin of ascending limb of helix. It is due to defect in auricular embryogenesis, which results in preauricular sinus.

Methods: This is the prospective study conducted in Mysore Medical College. All preauricular sinus patients were included for this study. 20 patients of all gender underwent surgery by supra-auricular dissection.  

Results: In all the cases plane of temporalis fascia identified, skin anterior to the sinus is excised along with a piece of adjoining helical cartilage. With this method no recurrences were encountered.

Conclusions: Standard surgical technique i.e. sinusectomy has more recurrence rate. In our study we observed that surgical outcome after supra–auricular dissection method had no recurrences.
Treatment of clavicle fracture using wise lock clavicle hook plate and wise lock superior anterior clavicle plate
Authors: Thakur Soni , Sharma Shagun , Kumar Mohit , Rawat Pooja , Luthra Gaurav
Published: August 2019

Background: Clavicle fracture is common in adults associated with high non-union rate and post-operative complications. The aim of this prospective study was to reduce the postoperative complications in clavicle fracture (Type 15-A2 and 15-B1) by using wise lock plates (manufactured by Auxein Medical Private Limited).

Methods: In this prospective study of 25 patients (11 patients had 15-A2 fracture, 14 patients had 15-B1 fracture) recruited with one year follows up period followed by physical exercises after one month of the surgery. The fractures were treated with two different plates: 3.5 mm wise lock clavicle hook plate and 3.5 mm wise lock superior anterior clavicle plate. X-ray was used to check the union, non-union. Functional outcome of the patients were assessed by the visual analogue scale (VAS) score at post-operative follow up at 4 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months and 1 year.

Results: Postoperative outcome was good with none of the patients showing non-union or delay in the union of fracture site. The encountered complication registered were residual pain which was mild (4 cases), and hypoesthesia (2 cases).

Conclusions: Osteosynthesis of clavicle fracture with 3.5 mm diameter locking plates attributed as superior, anterior and hook plating system showed excellent results with low rate of complications.
CAMPOS SOCIAIS EM DISPUTA: BASES DO PENSAMENTO E AÇÃO DE ARTHUR REIS
Authors: Mendonça Rosiel do Nascimento
Published: August 2019

Partindo dos conceitos de campo social e capital simbólico de Pierre Bourdieu, o presente artigo analisa a trajetória política e intelectual do historiador amazonense Arthur Cézar Ferreira Reis (1906-1993), que exerceu o cargo de governador do Amazonas durante os primeiros anos da ditadura militar. Para isso, fazemos uso de um corpus documental coletado em jornais dos anos 1960 e no acervo pessoal de Arthur Reis, depositado no Centro Cultural Povos da Amazônia, em Manaus (AM).
REALIDADE E PERSPECTIVAS DE ACESSO AOS BENS DOCUMENTAIS E À INFORMAÇÃO NAS IFES DO ESTADO DE RORAIMA
Authors: Rosa Tatiana Costa , Baptaglin Leila Adriana
Published: August 2019

A presente investigação objetivou compreender a atual situação do acesso ao patrimônio documental e à informação. Para isso, foram realizadas pesquisas de campo, utilizando-se entrevistas abertas, diretamente com os sujeitos envolvidos com a gestão documental e o acesso à informação das Instituições Federais de Ensino Superior do Estado de Roraima: o IFRR e a UFRR. As narrativas dos sujeitos entrevistados foram compreendidas por meio da análise do conteúdo, segmentada em duas categorias, as quais foram elaboradas com base em dois tópicos guias pré-estabelecidos no roteiro da entrevista, são elas: 1. Acesso, na qual contempla-se aspectos acerca do acesso aos documentos e à informação das IFES e 2. Perspectivas, na qual explana-se sobre as perspectivas e o desenvolvimento de futuras ações destas instituições frente ao acesso e ao patrimônio documental. Por meio dos resultados obtidos constatou-se que o acesso vem ocorrendo, ainda que não de forma satisfatória e as perspectivas voltadas aos bens documentais e ao acesso a eles e às informações são promissoras nas IFES do Estado de Roraima.
POLÍTICAS MIGRATORIAS Y DINÁMICAS TRANSFRONTERIZAS
Authors: Gil Adriana González
Published: August 2019

El caso colombiano en materia de desplazamientos internos y migraciones forzadas transfronterizas sirve de punto de partida para la reflexión que aquí se presenta. Un análisis exploratorio de los requerimientos de atención de la población migrante y de las respuestas estatales a sus demandas, en contextos de creciente conflictividad durante los años recientes, subyace a la mirada comparada que se pretende establecer entre los casos de Colombia y México. Las dinámicas migratorias recientes en los corredores fronterizos de Colombia –con Ecuador, Venezuela y Panamá- y de México y el denominado Triángulo Norte Centroamericano -El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala-, ponen en evidencia contextos en los cuales se destaca una creciente movilidad forzada en condiciones de precarización sociomaterial y de vulneración de los derechos ciudadanos de una amplia población que se moviliza, y frente a la cual se observa una limitada y diferencial respuesta gubernamental y social. Aunque se trata todavía de una reflexión preliminar, interesa abordar aquí el debate que suscita el proceso de transformación de las políticas migratorias, de cara a las necesidades de protección de poblaciones altamente vulnerables y a la creciente tendencia a la securitización de las medidas adoptadas, presente también, en las dinámicas transfronterizas sur-sur.
MORBIMORTALIDADE POR VIOLÊNCIA ENTRE OS VENEZUELANOS OCORRIDA NO ESTADO DE RORAIMA, BRASIL
Authors: Benedetti Maria Soledade G. , Araújo Márian Benedetti
Published: August 2019

Analisar a morbidade e a mortalidade por violência ocorrida em Roraima entre os venezuelanos no período de 2009 a agosto de 2018. MÉTODO: Estudo descritivo, por meio dos dados de morbidade de violência sexual e autoprovocada (tentativa de suicídio) do SINAN, e de mortalidade por acidente de transporte terrestre (ATT), lesão interpessoal (homicídio), e lesão autoprovocada (suicídio) do SIM, ambos da vigilância em saúde estadual. RESULTADOS: Foram notificados 7.261 casos de violência no estado, destas, 21,1% por violência sexual e 17,5% por tentativa de suicídio. Os imigrantes concentraram 0,4% das violências, destes, 80,6% ocorreram entre venezuelanos, nessa população, 24% (n=6) foram por violência sexual e 20% (n=5) por tentativa de suicídio. As violências sexuais foram por estupro; 33,3% entre 5-9 anos e 77,7% de 10-14 anos; e 83,3% no sexo feminino. As tentativas de suicídio, 80% foram no sexo masculino; 20% nas faixas etárias de 15- 19 anos, 20-29 anos e 30-39 anos, cada, e 40% de 40-49 anos. O SIM captou 3.176 mortes por violências no estado (16% do total). Entre os venezuelanos, ocorreram 56 mortes, destas 55,3% (n=31) por violências, sendo ATT (80,7%), homicídio (12,9%) e suicídio (6,5%). DISCUSSÃO/ CONCLUSÃO: A partir de 2016 Roraima registrou um aumento significativo do fluxo imigratório de venezuelanos que fogem da atual crise econômica do País, e essas pessoas ficam vulneráveis as várias formas de violência, tanto no papel de vítima como podem ser agressores.
DESLOCAMENTOS MACUXI E WAPICHANA EM BOA VISTA – RORAIMA: PERSPECTIVAS A PARTIR DA ANCESTRALIDADE
Authors: Melo Luciana Marinho
Published: August 2019

Neste artigo abordo a presença dos povos indígenas pertencentes às etnias Macuxi e Wapichana no contexto urbano da cidade de Boa Vista, Roraima, a partir da perspectiva da ancestralidade. O argumento que apresento ao longo do texto é de que a circulação de pessoas autodeclaradas indígenas na capital roraimense é justificada por meio de uma compreensão de território que transcende os limites políticos de fronteiras estabelecidos pelo Estado brasileiro. Este entendimento não é compartilhado pelos demais citadinos, tampouco pelos agentes do Estado, que consideram ilegítima a permanência de povos indígenas na cidade, desencadeando manifestações racistas direcionadas a este último. No texto, apresento os posicionamentos dos agentes do Estado, bem como as estratégias adotadas pelas lideranças Macuxi e Wapichana para reconhecimento da presença indígena em contexto urbano.
VENEZUELA ENTRE LA HEGEMONÍA Y LA CONTRA-HEGEMONÍA (UNA LECTURA CONTEXTUAL PARA COMPRENDER UNA COMPLEJIDAD SOCIO-HISTÓRICA)
Authors: Fernández Adrián Padilla
Published: August 2019

En el artículo se realiza un ejercicio de reconstrucción histórica que intenta responder a la problematización en torno al cuadro conflictivo venezolano de la contemporaneidad, el cual se ha convertido en foco de atención de los más diversos medios de comunicación que a escala mundial contribuyen en la construcción de una matriz informativa que configura lo que se conoce como “opinión pública internacional”. Se parte de la premisa de que para comprender la complejidad socio-histórica que está implicada en esa realidad es necesario considerar la condición de Venezuela como país petrolero, valorar su localización geopolítica en el contexto de la acción hegemónica de los Estados Unidos y, de igual modo, se debe reflexionar sobre los efectos de la crisis global del modelo capitalista y la emergencia de nuevos polos que van configurando nuevas hegemonías dentro de las dinámicas del capitalismo global. Finalmente, se destaca el papel de un pueblo que como sujeto colectivo se enfrentó hace 200 años a uno de los factores de poder más significativos de su tiempo como lo fue el Estado monárquico español, y que hoy está en el ojo del huracán de una confrontación que pudiera tener una peligrosa expresión a escala planetaria.
O HORIZONTE COMUNICATIVO DA MIGRAÇÃO VENEZUELANA NA CIDADE DE BOA VISTA - RORAIMA
Authors: Morais Vângela Maria Isidoro de , Lima Damião Marques de
Published: August 2019

A cidade informa. Esta afirmação que está no centro da escrita do presente artigo é direcionada para refletir o processo migratório de venezuelanos para o Brasil, no cenário de Boa Vista, capital de Roraima. A abordagem se baseia em duas questões fundamentais: o que os estímulos visuais da cidade comunicam? E como os migrantes venezuelanos constroem e significam essa experiência em ruas, esquinas, praças e outros espaços públicos? Sob a forma caminhante, organizam-se as apropriações simbólicas entre o que diz o olhar mais panorâmico sobre a urbe e as narrativas dos migrantes. Um campo analítico, baseado em algumas situações concretas, onde a percepção visual e a vivência dos sujeitos se amalgamam na elaboração de uma interpretação possível a partir desses fluxos e tensões culturais.
La relevancia de la reconstrucción modelo-teórica para la interpretación de la química cuántica
Authors: Martínez-González Juan Camilo
Published: August 2019

En el presente trabajo se analizan las reconstrucciones estructuralistas de la mecánica cuántica que suministra Hettema (2012) a la luz del problema de la reducción de la química a la mecánica cuántica a través de la química cuántica. La meta consiste en mostrar que, esas reconstrucciones operan como un contraargumento a la posición reduccionista ya que, en realidad, no reconstruyen toda la mecánica cuántica, sino una mecánica cuántica “modificada” para los fines de la química. Finalmente subrayo el papel que esta reconstrucción de la mecánica cuántica juega en las discusiones acerca de los vínculos interteóricos entre química y física.
Historicismo, historia y filosofía de la ciencia
Authors: Martínez Muñoz Sergio F.
Published: August 2019

Cuando se reconoce que la objetividad del conocimiento científico no puede argumentarse mediante criterios a priori, se plantean dos tipos de proyecto para caracterizar dicha objetividad: las propuestas naturalizadas que intentan sustentarla en la ciencia misma y las propuestas historicistas que buscan apoyarla en la historia de la ciencia. Hacemos ver que la compatibilidad de esos dos tipos de proyecto se logra dejando de lado modelos individualistas de la cognición humana y centrando la atención de la filosofía de la ciencia en prácticas (y no en teorías).
Integración de analogías en la modelación científica
Authors: Carrillo-Escalera Natalia
Published: August 2019

La discusión sobre modelación científica se ha centrado en la relación representacional entre el modelo, como producto terminado, y un supuesto sistema diana en el mundo. Esta aproximación tiene algunos problemas para dar cuenta de procesos de modelación en los que aún está por definirse el objeto de la modelación. En este trabajo muestro que un análisis histórico de la modelación complementa el análisis representacionalista, ya que permite rescatar el proceso de integración de analogías que juega un papel en la generación de criterios de relevancia que permiten configurar el objeto de investigación. A su vez, esto apoya la tesis de que el análisis filosófico de algunas normas en la modelación requiere una reconstrucción histórica de cómo llegaron a instaurarse.
‘Trading Boots for Dancing Shoes’: Women and the Military Expression of the American Century in France, 1917–1967
Authors: Doppler-Speranza François
Published: August 2019

This article examines the role of women in public diplomacy operations on and around U.S. military bases in France, especially during the Cold War. It aims to illustrate the diplomatic role of military officers’ wives in France and shows the vested interest of the military establishment in cooperating with civilian offices of public diplomacy. The more the United States demonstrated its leadership on the global scene, manifested by a wave of unprecedented military incursions into foreign territories, the more tight government control gave way to a strategy focusing on informal contacts between women of both countries at the local level. This article argues that military wives, often considered a traditional instrument of America’s effort to engage with foreign populations, contributed to the ‘parabellicist’ approach in U.S. public diplomacy, a strategy which aimed to generate ‘a nation in arms’, as has been suggested. The article contends that women’s social and cultural initiatives intended not to influence French women by pushing American values, but to support the U.S. national security effort from the bottom up, which was the most critical challenge underlying the ‘American Century’ in France.
Gramática sistêmico-funcional & gramática do design visual: metafunções da linguagem na análise do gênero publicitário digital
Authors: Nepomuceno Arlete Ribeiro , De Paes Vera Lúcia Viana
Published: August 2019

Nosso objetivo neste artigo é investigar significações de recursos semióticos como elementos ideológicos do gênero anúncio publicitário no meio digital. Valendo-se de uma pesquisa de cunho qualitativo-interpretativo, o corpus constitui-se de uma peça publicitária de O Boticário no Instagram, na qual se priorizam categorias de análise das metafunções ideacional e interpessoal da Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional, bem como das metafunções representacional e interativa da Gramática do Design Visual (Teoria Multimodal). Os resultados elencados nessas categorias metafuncionais mostram que a estratégia publicitária de associar valores culturais a produtos e marcas visam construir identidades, conceitos, estilos e hábitos, por intermédio do imaginário coletivo, trabalhado a partir dos processos mentais, assim como pelas semioses representadas nas imagens.
Escrita e semiologia
Authors: Basílio Raquel Dias
Published: August 2019

A relação entre Semiologia e Escrita apresenta uma reflexão necessária sobre os processos de atualização da linguagem por meio da incessante produção de sentido. A fim de preencher a lacuna bibliográfica sobre a escrita do ponto de vista sistêmico no seio das recentes pesquisas sobre a linguagem, recorremos aos escritos de F. de Saussure (1879-1916) publicados por J. Starobinski (1971). A construção dos dados de análise ocorreu por meio da delimitação dos documentos essenciais ao tema dentro do quadro teórico/filosófico saussuriano. Os documentos analisados neste artigo apontam, inicialmente, para o componente anagramático como um modo de compreender a escrita como sistemas semiológicos produtores de significação.
A biscritualidade nos mais antigos manuais da língua alemã para um público português
Authors: Kemmler Rolf
Published: August 2019

Com o fim de servir como ponto de partida para futuros estudos que visam analisar o uso da Fraktur (os chamados ‘carateres góticos’) ou mesmo das vertentes manuscritas Kurrentschrift vs. Sütterlinschrift nos manuais da língua alemã para um público português, é com base no artigo do investigador austríaco Bernd Marizzi (2012b) sobre os inícios da tradição espanhola e a biscritualidade observada nas suas manifestações, que o presente artigo visa oferecer algumas reflexões sobre a ocorrência semelhante de formas de escrita divergentes na representação das línguas alemã e portuguesa em obras metalinguísticas que têm o português como metalinguagem.
Mimese e vt pictura poesis
Authors: Silva Amós Coêlho da
Published: August 2019

Neste ensaio, faz-se uma breve comparação entre uma passagem bíblica, homérica e um fragmento intertextual de Oscar Wilde para caracterização da identidade do Ocidente em sua busca de conhecimento do mundo através de aspectos míticos e religiosos nas fronteiras da poesia. Examina-se a consistência histórica em Aristóteles, Horácio da mimese e da écfrase, na tradição da Vt pictura poiesis, quanto ao sentido figurativo das artes literárias e plásticas da Antiguidade à luz da preocupação didática pela expressão icônica. Périplo de Ulisses e sua vitória contra a ferocidade de Polifemo. A estética da mimese e écfrase, além de interlocução intertextual, em Catulo e Ovídio no episódio mítico entre Ariadne e Teseu. Exame de elementos míticos não só como lição ou experimentos estéticos da vida, mas também através de uma análise das fronteiras entre o poético e o mítico. A etimologia analisando a mensagem mítica pelo apoio linguístico do étimo grego e latino.
DIAS, Elizangela. De uma página a outra: o reclame em livros manuscritos e impressos dos séculos XVI a XIX
Authors: Módolo Marcelo
Published: August 2019

Resenha crítica do livro "De uma página a outra: o reclame em livros manuscritos e impressos dos séculos XVI a XIX" de Elizangela Dias.
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Classification of printed and handwritten text using hybrid techniques for gurumukhi script
Authors: Kaur Manpreet , Singh Balwinder
Published: August 2019

Text classification is a crucial step for optical character recognition. The output of the scanner is non- editable. Though one cannot make any change in scanned text image, if required. Thus, this provides the feed for the theory of optical character recognition. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of converting scanned images of machine printed or handwritten text into a computer readable format. The process of OCR involves several steps including pre-processing after image acquisition, segmentation, feature extraction, and classification. The incorrect classification is like a garbage in and garbage out. Existing methods focuses only upon the classification of unmixed characters in Arab, English, Latin, Farsi, Bangla, and Devnagari script. The Hybrid Techniques is solving the mixed (Machine printed and handwritten) character classification problem. Classification is carried out on different kind of daily use forms like as self declaration forms, admission forms, verification forms, university forms, certificates, banking forms, dairy forms, Punjab govt forms etc. The proposed technique is capable to classify the handwritten and machine printed text written in Gurumukhi script in mixed text. The proposed technique has been tested on 150 different kinds of forms in Gurumukhi and Roman scripts. The proposed techniques achieve 93% accuracy on mixed character form and 96% accuracy achieves on unmixed character forms. The overall accuracy of the proposed technique is 94.5%.
Digital Signature Verification System to Enhance Customer Services in the Banking Industry
Authors: Chijindu Asogwa Tochukwu , Angela Ugwu Edith , Steven Aniekwe
Published: August 2019

Recently in most banks (especially in Africa), there exist various cases of banking staff denying services to customer due to signature differences. This has resulted to a lot of misunderstandings, insults, quarrels, and even losses to most financial institutions. This work presents digital signature verification system to enhance customer services in the banking industry, with the aim of improving the staff customer relationship within the banking domain. This will be developed using image acquisition tool, image processing tools and machine learning (clustering technique). The system will be implemented using mathlab as the software development too. The accuracy of 98% was recorded as the system was validated using a prepared testing and training image containing various real and forged signatures.
Mobile Cloud Computing as Competence Intensifier
Authors: Sarode Neeta P. , Bakal Dr. J.W.
Published: August 2019

Since the arrival of mobile devices, such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s), smartphones, tablets etc., and their amalgamation with cloud computing is bringing up and transforming ubiquitous computing into actual existence. This concept of ubiquitous computing straightens out the way to unusual and experimental applications, in which the mobile devices are integrated and provide assistance to the users. This paper discusses about the concept of mobile cloud computing, identify advantages and disadvantages of collaborating mobile applications with cloud and identify benefits of leveraging mobile learning services on cloud. Mobile cloud computing induces innumerable benefits and overcomes the technical limitations of mobile learning.
Decision Making in the Process against Children Diversion Dealing with the Law Has not Aged 12 Years
Authors: Arya Yarsita I Pande Ketut , Rodliyah  , Cahyowati RR.
Published: August 2019

This study aims to examine and analyze the concept of decision making in the diversion process for children facing the law who are not yet 12 years old; and law enforcement decision making in the diversion process for children who are faced with a law that is not yet 12 years old (Study of the Chairperson of the Mataram District Court Number: 22/Pen.Div/2017/PN Mtr). The concept of decision making in the diversion process for children facing the law that is not yet 12 years old is the judge in imposing sanctions for children considering recommendations in the social research report made by community counselors to express and find data and information objectively about the development and background of life children from various sociological, psychological and other aspects while still paying attention to the best interests of the child. Law enforcement of decision making in the diversion process against children who are faced with a law that is not yet 12 years old emphasizes restorative justice which is the goal in the implementation of the diversion of cases of children facing the law. Law enforcement officials both Investigators, Community Guidance and Professional Social Workers conduct deliberations to reach a decision based on restorative justice that prioritizes the best interests of children.
Evaluation of Baseline Hematologic Parameters of Steady State Sickle Cell Disease Patients at The Chantal Biya’s Foundation, Yaounde- Cameroon
Authors: Adelaide Bih , Mudih Ngala Solange , Yanda Alima , Fergus Ambe Akaba , Florent Jutcha , Yong Worti Ingrid Sulem -
Published: August 2019

Introduction

Sickle cell disease is a genetic abnormality involving the hemoglobin. Although it is primarily a red blood cell disorder, the white blood cells and platelets are also affected by the mutation. The consequence hemoglobin S causing polymerization of hemoglobin, results in hemolysis and anemia. This study aims to provide baseline hematologic parameters in steady state sickle cell disease patients compared with the reference values of normal healthy subjects used at the Chantal Biya Foundation (CBF), in order to monitor other sicklers in Cameroon.

Methodology

A comparative analysis of sickle cell hematologic parameters with control hematologic parameters of normal healthy subjects (reference values of healthy subjects used at the Chantal Biya Foundation) was carried out.

Results

A total of 62 sickle cell disease patients in steady state who complied with the selection criteria were recruited. Of the 62, 29 were females and 33 were males. The age range was from 1 year to 19 years and an average age of 6 ± 4.19 SD. Results from sickle cell patients showed an increase in white blood cells (WBCs), neutrophils and lymphocytes and a great decrease in the mean values of hematocrit Hct. as well as RBC indices, but no great or slight difference in the values of basophils compared with the reference values of normal healthy subjects in the CBF Yaoundé, 2015.

Conclusion

Sickle cell disease patients in steady state have lower values of red cells parameters, but higher values of white cells and platelets count when compared with the reference values of normal healthy subjects used at the Chantal Biya Foundation.
Pregabalin Abuse in between Jordanian youths need to concern
Authors: A. Obiesat Dr. Maxim , Marashdeh Dr. Muath F. , K Al-Zoubi Dr. Arafat , M. Al-Alwan Dr. Malik , Al-Odat Dr. Raya T.
Published: August 2019

Pregabalin is a medication used extensively in neurosurgery and mental health care as it is sometimes used in primary health care in medical conditions but is increasingly reported as a potential increase of use leads to misuse and abuse. The fact, increase both levels of abuse and death; along with the growing non-medical use through black market have been reported in Jordan.
Approximation Models For Water Wave Equations
Authors: Bezati Leonard , Hajrulla Shkelqim , Lapa Kristofor
Published: August 2019

Abstract: In this work we are interested in developing approximate models for water waves equation. We present the derivation of the new equations uses approximation of the phase velocity that arises in the linear water wave theory. We treat the (KdV) equation and similarly the C-H equation. Both of them describe unidirectional shallow water waves equation.

At the same time, together with the (BBM) equation we propose, we provide the best approximation of the phase velocity for small wave numbers that can be obtained with second and third-order equations. We can extend the results of [3, 4].  A comparison between the methods is mentioned in this article.

Key words:  C-H equation, KdV equation, approximation, water wave equation, numerical methods.

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[3]. D. J. Benney, “Long non-linear waves in fluid flows,” Journal of Mathematical    

      Physics, vol. 45, pp. 52–63, 1966. View at Google Scholar · View at Zentralblatt MATH

 [4]. Bezati, L., Hajrulla, S., & Hoxha, F. (2018). Finite Volume Methods for Non-Linear  

       Eqs. International Journal of Scientific Research and Management, 6(02), M-  2018.
Frequency of Hypoglycemia in Severe Malaria in Children Aged 5 To 144 Months In Kinshasa
Authors: Lupemba Jacques Muziazia , Guan Fei , Mwamunyi Mercy Julian , Lei Jiahui
Published: August 2019

Background: Hypoglycemia is an important complication of severe malaria, especially in children and pregnant women.   In 2017 Kikimi  hospital changed quinine treatment policy from 15 mg/kg loading (plus 10 mg/kg 12-hourly) to 20 mg/kg loading (plus 10 mg/kg 8-hourly) to comply with new WHO guidelines. This presented us with the opportunity to examine whether there was any dose relationship of quinine and hypoglycemia occurrence, in particular, in severe malaria in children from 5 to 144 months.

Methods: The study was retrospective of children aged 5 to 144 months admitted to KIkimi hospital with severe malaria between April 2017 and July 2018, before and after the introduction of the new quinine treatment regimen by the WHO. The patient's blood glucose at four hours was measured until intravenous quinine was stopped. Clinical events immediately before or simultaneously with each episode of hypoglycemia (glucose <= 3.0 mmol / l) were recorded.

Results: Age group at high parasitemia was 13 to 48 months and165 children received the old quinine diet and 125 the new diet. We found no evidence of an increase in the prevalence of hypoglycemia (<= 3.0 mmol / L) with the new regimen compared with the old one (15% versus 15%); similar results were noted for deep hypoglycaemia (<2.2 mmol / L) 9% v 6%, p = 0.09. The episodes coincided with the indicators of the severity of the disease: coma (55%), circulatory insufficiency (36%) and respiratory distress (19%), but less frequently with convulsions (11).

Conclusion: With a single case of malaria falciparum infection with high parasitemia in children aged 13 to 48 months. There was no evidence to indicate a dose relationship between quinine and the occurrence of hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia was associated with disruption of glucose perfusion and transfusion. Close monitoring of blood glucose should be targeted during complications in children who remain seriously ill.
Rearchitecting Data for Researchers: A Collaborative Model for Enabling Institutional Learning Analytics in Higher Education
Authors: Lonn Steven , Koester Benjamin
Published: August 2019

This article presents the case of the Learning Analytics Architecture (LARC) dataset, a collaborative effort at the University of Michigan to develop a common and extensible tool using administrative data and designed primarily for learning analytics researchers to investigate enrolled students’ academic careers, demographics, and related teaching and learning outcomes. The institutional context prior to the creation of the dataset and the rationale, design, development, and maintenance involved in creating LARC are all detailed. Also discussed are the procedures for access, documentation, and ensuring the continued usability and relevance of the dataset for a growing learning analytics and data science research community. The authors conclude the case description with recommendations for institutions seeking to replicate this effort.
Словник "Исторической Палеи" по списку синодального собрания № 591 второй половины ХV века – глоттометрическая характеристика
Authors: Илиева Татяна
Published: August 2019

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The Christian Nubia and the Arabs
Authors: Martens-Czarnecka Małgorzata
Published: August 2019

Nubia constituted the area in the Nile Valley in the present day Sudan, the area which spread from the first cataract up to the place where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile. The area was inhabited by the population using a common language – Old Nubian. In the second half of the sixth century thanks to the missions send by the Byzantine Court, Nubia accepted Christianity as a state religion. Nubia immediately found itself in the area of influence of Byzantine culture. Byzantine administration, liturgy of the Eastern Church and the Greek language were introduced. In 641 the Arab conquest of Egypt took place. Soon after that in 642, the Arab army entered the Nubian territory and from this date centuries of clashes and peace treaties characterized relations between Nubians and Arab peoples. The 13th century marks slow decline of the kingdom of Nubia. Hostile Negro tribes from the South and South-West appear in the Mid Valley of Nile. Fights weaken the kingdom; slow islamization of the country follows, royal rule and Christian faith falls and together with those culture and arts deteriorates. The history of military as well as political or commercial Nubian-Arabic contacts over entire period of existence of Christian kingdom of Nubia undoubtedly had to bring about certain artistic trends in Nubia originating from rich heritage of Muslim culture. The culture of Christian Nubia originally based to considerable extent on Byzantine art, in course of time, subjected to more and more intense Arabic influence, significantly changed. Arabic components seen in Nubian church architecture, wall painting and art crafts became predominant, which over following centuries led to creation of Arabic culture of the contemporary Sudan.
O „русизмах” Берлинского сборника
Authors: Stankov Rostislav
Published: August 2019

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The Image of the Town: Medieval Sofia in Original Bulgarian Works from the 16th Century
Authors: Tsibranska-Kostova Mariyana
Published: August 2019

The paper follows out the way of denomination and description of Sofia town in manuscripts from different genre during the period of the 15th-17th centuries, namely: the original hagiographic and hymnographic works of the men of letters from the 16th century Sofia literary school; the bedrolls; some marginal notes. This type of sources is rich enough not only for shaping the image of the town according to the linguistic evidences it was depicted with, but for making some general conclusions about its place in the so called “linguistic world view” as a semiotic model for approaching the lifestyle, the spiritual culture and the Bulgarian ethnic consciousness during the Ottoman domination. The chosen frame of time is not hazardous. It was a transitory period for both naming process and the creation of a new cultural situation, when the ideological and political dominant of the medieval town (the capital in particular) as an incarnation of the ruler’s institution has been already changed. Moreover, with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 the very Byzantine prototype of the town-mother and the spiritual center of the Orthodox world were destroyed. It is a matter of scholarly interest to give an idea on how another, different (new) model of the town was created in the Bulgarian cultural space to replace the past glorious vision, and how it reproduced the tradition. Briefly, how does the text create an image? It is a way to introduce the notion of hierotopy and its language in the original Bulgarian works of the given period. The specifically Bulgarian material inscribes itself in the common typological frames of the Balkan medieval culture in Ottoman times. The paradigm of holiness and the formation of the holly space require those aspects to be carried out in the light of the complex interdependency between the text, the image and the historical context – a binding triad that will be the base for the attending presentation.
The role of oxidation-reduction mechanisms in pathogenesis of thyroid orbitopathy
Authors: Łach Olga , Wojnarowicz Jakub , Nowak Mariusz
Published: August 2019

Tlen w organizmie człowieka pełni zarówno funkcję przekaźnika regulującego bioenergetykę komórkową, jak i substratu w reakcjach oksydacyjno-redukcyjnych, przyczyniając się do powstania wysoce reaktywnych form tlenu (RFT). Obronne mechanizmy antyoksydacyjne organizmu obejmują układy enzymatyczny oraz nieenzymatyczny. Choroba Gravesa-Basedowa, której podłożem jest proces autoimmunologiczny, to główna przyczyna nadczynności tarczycy. Najczęstszym z pozatarczycowych objawów jest zapalenie autoimmunologiczne tkanek oczodołu, zwane orbitopatią tarczycową (OT). W warunkach fizjologicznych istnieje równowaga między wytwarzaniem RFT a aktywnością antyoksydacyjną. Zaburzenie tej równowagi może prowadzić do rozwoju stresu oksydacyjnego. W pracy przedstawiono przegląd piśmiennictwa dotyczącego zaburzeń procesów oksydacyjno-redukcyjnych w OT.