bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Non-communicable diseases in the Western Area District, Sierra Leone, following the Ebola outbreak
Authors: Koroma Ibrahim Baimba , Javadi Dena , Hann Katrina , Harries Anthony D , Smart Francis , Samba Thomas 
Published: November 2019

Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. During infectious disease outbreaks, such as the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa from 2014-2015, the health system is often strained, and diagnosis, management and care of NCDs may be compromised. This study assessed numbers and distribution of NCDs in all health facilities in the Western-Area District, Sierra Leone, in the post-Ebola period (June–December 2015) comparing findings with the pre-Ebola (June–December 2013) and Ebola outbreak (June–December 2014) periods. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using secondary data from routine records of aggregate monthly NCD reports. Data were analysed using Open EPI and comparisons were made between the post-Ebola and pre-Ebola/Ebola periods using the chi-square test. Results: There were 10,011 people reported with NCDs during the three six-month periods, with 6194 (62%) presenting at peripheral health units (PHU). Reported NCDs decreased during Ebola and increased post-Ebola, but did not recover to pre-Ebola levels. Hypertension cases remained fairly constant throughout being mainly managed at PHU. Numbers with diabetes mellitus generally stayed the same except for a significant post-Ebola increase in tertiary hospitals. Small numbers were reported with mental health disorders across all facilities in all time periods. Conclusion: NCD reporting is recovering in the immediate post-Ebola period. Decentralization of NCD care is welcome and is an effective strategy for management as evidenced by hypertension. To be successful, this must be supported by strengthening other elements of the health system such as training of health workers, robust information and referral systems and reliable medicine supply chains.
Two Fragments from a Single Tablet?
Authors: Burlingame Andrew , Pardee Dennis 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
This article presents material, palaeographic, and epistolographic arguments in support of the hypothesis that two epistolary fragments recovered at the site of Raʾs Šamra in 1954—RS 18.286[A] and RS 18.[400]—originally belonged to a single tablet. Similar data suggest that the fragment RS 18.286[B], long thought to belong to the same tablet as RS 18.286[A], cannot in fact be accepted to have originated from this tablet. The reconfiguration of these fragments results in new interpretive possibilities and leads us to believe that the tablet of which RS 18.286[A] and RS 18.[400] comprise two parts originally bore a message from the queen to her son—the only such letter in our possession and hence a potentially important addition to our knowledge of Ugaritic epistolary protocol within the royal family.
Optimal bandwidth selection for recursive Gumbel kernel density estimators
Authors: Slaoui Yousri 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
In this paper, we propose a data driven bandwidth selection of the recursive Gumbel kernel estimators of a probability density function based on a stochastic approximation algorithm. The choice of the bandwidth selection approaches is investigated by a second generation plug-in method. Convergence properties of the proposed recursive Gumbel kernel estimators are established. The uniform strong consistency of the proposed recursive Gumbel kernel estimators is derived. The new recursive Gumbel kernel estimators are compared to the non-recursive Gumbel kernel estimator and the performance of the two estimators are illustrated via simulations as well as a real application.
Existence, location, possession, and copula in Malabar Indo-Portuguese
Authors: Krajinović Ana 
Published: November 2019

AbstractThis paper offers a diachronic and a contact-based analysis of existential, locative, possessive, and copulative constructions in Malabar Indo-Portuguese creole (MIP). The existential, locative, and possessive predicates are all expressed with the copulative verbtæ, and nominal and property-denoting predicates can either have the copulatæor zero copula. I analyze these copulative constructions by establishing their sources in the Portuguese lexifier and Malayalam substrate/adstrate. I show that although the Portuguese verbster‘have’ andestar‘be’ have paved the way to the semantics oftæ, Malayalam had a strong impact on the morphosyntax and semantics of existential, locative, possessive, and copulative constructions in MIP. This influence is most notable in the case of possessives, which take dative subjects. These findings are compared to the relevant structures in other South Asian languages and show that the existence of locative possession is a strong areal feature of South Asia. I also show that the variability of copula usage in nominal and property-denoting predicates can be explained by variable input from Portuguese and Malayalam copulative constructions. One of the most salient features influenced by Malayalam is the choice of what are etymologically Portuguese nouns instead of adjectives in property-denoting predicates.
Syllable structure and stratification in Bangla
Authors: Kar Somdev , Truckenbrodt Hubert 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
This study attempts to analyse the permissible syllable structures and the aspiration and voicing of word-initial and word-final segments in the syllable structure of Bangla. A corpus study leads to a detailed analysis of Bangla syllable structure restrictions, relative to the three traditional strata of the Bangla lexicon, namely, Native Bangla (NB, Tadbhava), Sanskrit borrowings (SB, Tatsama and Ardha-Tatsama), and other borrowings (OB, Deshi and Bideshi), following Ito and Mester’s work on the Japanese lexicon. Complex codas are allowed only in OB. Complex onsets are ruled out in NB while they have the maximal form s+C+liquid in SB and OB. There is no onset maximisation: Medial clusters in all strata avoid complex onsets if a consonant can be syllabified into the preceding coda (Vp.lV rather than V.plV). Aspiration is banned from the coda in NB but not generally in SB and OB, where restrictions that are more complex obtain. Obstruent voicing contrasts are present in onset and coda, but voicing agreement is enforced in obstruent clusters. Analyses of these restrictions are presented in Optimality Theory: the different strata of the lexicon may have different phonologies, i. e. different constraint ranking.
Ultrastrong coupling in single plexcitonic nanocubes
Authors: Xiong Xiao , You Jia-Bin , Bai Ping , Png Ching Eng , Zhou Zhang-Kai , Wu Lin 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Light-matter strong coupling is defined when the coupling strength exceeds the losses in the system, whereas ultrastrong coupling is not simply strong coupling with even larger coupling strength. Instead, ultrastrong coupling regime arises when the coupling strength is comparable to the transition frequency in the system. At present, ultrastrong light-matter interactions have been achieved in superconducting circuits, semiconductor polaritons, and organic molecules, where these systems are typically at the micrometer scale. In this work, we investigated ultrastrong coupling in a nanoparticle plexcitonic system, i.e. a single gold nanocube coated with quantum emitters and positioned on a gold film. We observed a normalized coupling rate η ~ 0.12 to the antenna mode in such coated nanocube-on-mirror (c-NCoM) configuration at the multilayer emitter level. In contrast to the gap mode that squeezes all the optical fields into the gap region, the antenna mode in c-NCoM provides multiple exterior hot spots at the upper corners of the nanocube, which can be exploited for qubit entanglement within a single nanocube. The concurrence between adjacent emitters is estimated up to 0.6. This theoretical study establishes a promising route toward building a scalable quantum network using single plexcitonic nanocubes as quantum nodes.
A review on sources and health impacts of bisphenol A
Authors: Abraham Anna , Chakraborty Paromita 
Published: November 2019

AbstractBisphenol-A (BPA) is a synthetic chemical used in the manufacturing of polycarbonates and epoxy resins. This paper is a review of studies reporting the occurrences and concentrations of BPA in the environment and associated impact on human health. Studies have found that at high temperature conditions such as open burning of dumped waste in developing nations can relocate BPA from plastic waste into the environment. BPA is a proven endocrine disruptor capable of mimicking or blocking the receptors and altering hormone concentrations and its metabolism. Even though it is consumed in a low dose, it can stimulate cellular responses and affect body functions. Biomonitoring studies show that human and animal exposure to BPA is rapid and continuous. In-depth studies are needed to understand the fate of these compounds particularly in the developing nations and the associated adverse health impacts of BPA due to prolonged exposure.
Utilisation of appropriately treated wastewater for some further beneficial purposes: a review of the disinfection method of treated wastewater using UV radiation technology
Authors: Zewde Abraham Amenay , Li Zifu , Zhang Lingling , Odey Emanuel Alepu , Xiaoqin Zhou 
Published: November 2019

AbstractDue to world population growth, global climate change and the deteriorated quality of water, water supply struggles to keep up the clean water demand to meet human needs. Ultraviolet (UV) technology holds a great potential in advancing water and wastewater treatment to improve the efficiency of safe treatment. Over the last 20 years, the UV light disinfection industry has shown a tremendous growth. Therefore, reuse of wastewater contributes significantly to an efficient and sustainable water usage. Disinfection is a requirement for wastewater reuse due to the presence of a swarm of pathogens (e.g. bacteria, viruses, worms and protozoa) in secondary effluents. UV technology is widely favoured due to its environmentally friendly, chemical-free ability to provide high-log reductions of all known microorganisms, including chlorine-resistant strains such as Cryptosporidium. The UV disinfection process does not create disinfection by-products and unlike the chlorine UV disinfection process, it is not reliant on water temperature and pH. UV disinfection can eliminate the need to generate, handle, transport or store toxic/hazardous or corrosive chemicals and requires less space than other methods. As UV does not leave any residual effect that can be harmful to humans or aquatic life, it is safer for plant operators.
Temporary Visual Deprivation Causes Decorrelation of Spatiotemporal Population Responses in Adult Mouse Auditory Cortex
Authors: Solarana Krystyna , Liu Ji , Bowen Zac , Lee Hey-Kyoung , Kanold Patrick O. 
Published: November 2019

AbstractAlthough within-modality sensory plasticity is limited to early developmental periods, cross-modal plasticity can occur even in adults.In vivoelectrophysiological studies have shown that transient visual deprivation (dark exposure, DE) in adult mice improves the frequency selectivity and discrimination of neurons in thalamorecipient layer 4 (L4) of primary auditory cortex (A1). Since sound information is processed hierarchically in A1 by populations of neurons, we investigated whether DE alters network activity in A1 L4 and layer 2/3 (L2/3). We examined neuronal populations in both L4 and L2/3 usingin vivotwo-photon calcium (Ca2+) imaging of transgenic mice expressing GCaMP6s. We find that one week of DE in adult mice increased the sound evoked responses and frequency selectivity of both L4 and L2/3 neurons. Moreover, after DE the frequency representation changed with L4 and L2/3 showing a reduced representation of cells with best frequencies (BFs) between 8 and 16 kHz and an increased representation of cells with BFs above 32 kHz. Cells in L4 and L2/3 showed decreased pairwise signal correlations (SCs) consistent with sharper tuning curves. The decreases in SCs were larger in L4 than in L2/3. The decreased pairwise correlations indicate a sparsification of A1 responses to tonal stimuli. Thus, cross-modal experience in adults can both alter the sound-evoked responses of A1 neurons and change activity correlations within A1 potentially enhancing the encoding of auditory stimuli.
Early-Life Predictors of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Authors: Kalberg Wendy O. , May Philip A. , Buckley David , Hasken Julie M. , Marais Anna-Susan , De Vries Marlene M. , Bezuidenhout Heidre , Manning Melanie A. , Robinson Luther K. , Adam Margaret P. , Hoyme Derek B. , Parry Charles D.H. , Seedat Soraya , Elliott Amy J. , Hoyme H. Eugene 
Published: November 2019

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) comprise the continuum of disabilities associated with prenatal alcohol exposure. Although infancy remains the most effective time for initiation of intervention services, current diagnostic schemes demonstrate the greatest confidence, accuracy, and reliability in school-aged children. Our aims for the current study were to identify growth, dysmorphology, and neurodevelopmental features in infants that were most predictive of FASD at age 5, thereby improving the timeliness of diagnoses.

METHODS:
A cohort of pregnant South African women attending primary health care clinics or giving birth in provincial hospitals was enrolled in the project. Children were followed longitudinally from birth to 60 months to determine their physical and developmental trajectories (N = 155). Standardized protocols were used to assess growth, dysmorphology, and development at 6 weeks and at 9, 18, 42, and 60 months. A structured maternal interview, including estimation of prenatal alcohol intake, was administered at 42 or 60 months.

RESULTS:
Growth restriction and total dysmorphology scores differentiated among children with and without FASD as early as 9 months (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.777; P &lt; .001; 95% confidence interval: 0.705–0.849), although children who were severely affected could be identified earlier. Assessment of developmental milestones revealed significant developmental differences emerging among children with and without FASD between 18 and 42 months. Mothers of children with FASD were significantly smaller, with lower BMIs and higher alcohol intake during pregnancy, than mothers of children without FASD.

CONCLUSIONS:
Assessment of a combination of growth, dysmorphology, and neurobehavioral characteristics allows for accurate identification of most children with FASD as early as 9 to 18 months.
Musculoskeletal Pain, Physical Function, and Quality of Life After Bariatric Surgery
Authors: Bout-Tabaku Sharon , Gupta Resmi , Jenkins Todd M. , Ryder Justin R. , Baughcum Amy E. , Jackson Rebecca D. , Inge Thomas H. , Dixon John B. , Helmrath Michael A. , Courcoulas Anita P. , Mitchell James E. , Harmon Carroll M. , Xie Changchun , Michalsky Marc P. ,   TEEN-LABS CONSORTIUM
Published: November 2019

OBJECTIVES:
To evaluate the longitudinal effects of metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) on the prevalence of musculoskeletal and lower extremity (LE) pain, physical function, and health-related quality of life.

METHODS:
The Teen Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery study (NCT00474318) prospectively collected data on 242 adolescents undergoing MBS at 5 centers over a 3-year follow-up. Joint pain and physical function outcomes were assessed by using the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index, Impact of Weight on Quality of Life – Kids, and the Short Form 36 Health Survey. Adolescents with Blount disease (n = 9) were excluded.

RESULTS:
Prevalent musculoskeletal and LE pain were reduced by 40% within 12 months and persisted over 3 years. Adjusted models revealed a 6% lower odds of having musculoskeletal pain (odds ratio = 0.94, 95% confidence interval: 0.92–0.99) and a 10% lower odds of having LE pain (odds ratio = 0.90, 95% confidence interval: 0.86–0.95) per 10% reduction of BMI. The prevalence of poor physical function (Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index score &gt;0) declined from 49% to &lt;20% at 6 months (P &lt; .05), Physical comfort and the physical component scores, measured by the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life – Kids and the Short Form 36 Health Survey, improved at 6 months postsurgery and beyond (P &lt; .01). Poor physical function predicted persistent joint pain after MBS.

CONCLUSIONS:
Joint pain, impaired physical function, and impaired health-related quality of life significantly improve after MBS. These benefits in patient-reported outcomes support the use of MBS in adolescents with severe obesity and musculoskeletal pain and suggest that MBS in adolescence may reverse and reduce multiple risk factors for future joint disease.
MULTİTRAVMALI HASTADA BRONŞ RÜPTÜRÜ : OLGU SUNUMU
Authors: AKIN Süleyman Emre , ARAS Necip Fazıl 
Published: November 2019

Bronş rüptürü künt ve penetran toraks travması
sonrası nadir olarak görülen, erken teşhis edilip uygun cerrahi tedavi
yapılmadığında ölümcül olabilen bir durumdur. Yüksekten düşme sonrası bronş rüptürü
tespit edilerek cerrahi tedavi uygulanan olgumuzu nadir görülmesi nedeni ile
sunmayı amaçladık
Podstawowe czynniki wpływające na funkcjonowanie systemu readaptacji społecznej skazanych – diagnoza i rozwój
Authors: Stasiorowski Sławomir 
Published: November 2019

Zmieniający się obraz polityki karnej Państwa i wiodąca w niej rola kar alternatywnych wobec kary pozbawienia wolności, tj. kary grzywny oraz ograniczenia wolności, przy jednoczesnym ograniczeniu funkcji wychowawczo-resocjalizacyjnej kuratora sądowego, prowadzą niepostrzeżenie do ewolucji jego zadań. Jednocześnie rosną oczekiwania w zakresie podniesienia skuteczności działań mających na celu pomoc skazanemu opuszczającemu jednostkę penitencjarną w społecznej readaptacji, która zazwyczaj postrzegana jest przez pryzmat świadczeń i usług o charakterze wspierającym, materialnym lub administracyjnym. Dostrzegając te zjawiska, autor artykułu prezentuje systemowe podejście do readaptacji społecznej skazanych oparte na nowym, hybrydalnym modelu przygotowania skazanego do życia na wolności. System opierający się na wzajemnej wiedzy o sobie jego uczestników jest nieskomplikowany, zrozumiały i winien być powszechny. Centralną w nim rolę upatruje w instytucji kuratora sądowego, którego zadania nie zostały precyzyjnie określone przepisami prawa. Jednocześnie wskazano na możliwości, jakie daje obserwacja funkcjonującego systemu pod względem jego skuteczności, która może być wykorzystywana w prognozie powrotności do przestępstwa sprawców objętych jego oddziaływaniami.
Köpek ısırığı sonrası Proteus penneri'ye bağlı yara infeksiyonu gelişen olgu
Authors: ÖZSOY Metin , ŞENOL Selin , CESUR Salih , SEVİM Şükran , KINIKLI Sami , GÜL Sultan 
Published: November 2019

Proteus penneri (P.penneri)
invaziv infeksiyon hastalalıklarına neden olabilen, nadir görülen bir Gram
negatif basildir. P.penneri üriner sistem infeksiyonu, yara infeksiyonu,
sepsis gibi klinik tablolara neden olabilir. Bu yazıda , köpek ısırığı
sonrasında P.penneri'ye bağlı sağ
kolunda yara infeksiyonu ve pürülan akıntı gelişen, amoksisilin-klavunat
tedavisine yanıt vermeyen 57 yaşında bir kadın olgu sunuldu. Hastaya
antibiyogram sonucuna göre piperasilin-tazobaktam tedavisi 3x4.5 gr dozda
intravenöz (i.v.) yolla başlandı, tedavi 7 gün süreyle uygulandı. Tedavi
sonrası lezyon bölgesindeki akıntı ve yara yeri infeksiyonu tamamen düzeldi.
Congratulations! JACIII Best Paper, Young Researcher, & Best Review Paper Awards 2019
Authors:   Editorial Office
Published: November 2019

We are pleased to announce that the JACIII Awards of 2019 have been decided by the JACIII Editorial Board. This year, the award winning papers were severely and fairly selected among 399 papers published in JACIII Vols. 20 (2016) to 22 (2018). The awarding achievements of 2019 are as follows:

JACIII BEST PAPER AWARD 2019
Title: Analyzing Potential of Personal Values-Based User Modeling for Long Tail Item Recommendation
Authors: Yasufumi Takama, Yu-Sheng Chen, Ryori Misawa, and Hiroshi Ishikawa
<a href="https://www.fujipress.jp/jaciii/jc/jacii002200040506/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.22 No.4, pp. 506-513, July 2018</a>

JACIII YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD 2019
Title: Characteristics of Rough Set C-Means Clustering
Authors: Seiki Ubukata, Keisuke Umado, Akira Notsu, and Katsuhiro Honda
<a href="https://www.fujipress.jp/jaciii/jc/jacii002200040551/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.22 No.4, pp. 551-564, July 2018</a>

JACIII BEST REVIEW PAPER AWARD 2019
Title: A Survey of Video-Based Crowd Anomaly Detection in Dense Scenes
Authors: Junjie Ma, Yaping Dai, and Kaoru Hirota
<a href="https://www.fujipress.jp//jaciii/jc/jacii002100020235/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.21 No.2, pp. 235-246, March 2017</a>
Reduced flow in the left ventricle after anterior acute myocardial infarction: a case control study using 4D flow MRI
Authors: Corrado Philip A , Macdonald Jacob A. , Francois Christopher J. , Aggarwal Niti R. , Weinsaft Jonathan W. , Wieben Oliver 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Background: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) alters left ventricular (LV) hemodynamics, resulting in decreased global LV ejection fraction and global LV kinetic energy. We hypothesize that anterior AMI effects localized alterations in LV flow and developed a regional approach to analyze these local changes with 4D flow MRI.
Methods: 4D flow cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) data was compared between 12 anterior AMI patients (11 males; 66±12yo; prospectively acquired in 2016-2017) and 19 healthy volunteers (10 males; 40±16yo; retrospective from 2010-2011 study). The LV cavity was contoured on short axis cine steady-state free procession CMR and partitioned into three regions: base, mid-ventricle, and apex. 4D flow data was registered to the short axis segmentation. Peak systolic and diastolic through-plane flows were compared region-by-region between groups using linear models of flow with age, sex, and heart rate as covariates.
Results: Peak systolic flow was reduced in anterior AMI subjects compared to controls in the LV mid-ventricle (fitted reduction = 3.9 L/min; P=0.01) and apex (fitted reduction = 1.4 L/min; P=0.02). Peak diastolic flow was also lower in anterior AMI subjects compared to controls in the apex (fitted reduction = 2.4 L/min; P=0.01).
Conclusions: A regional method to analyze 4D LV flow data was applied in anterior AMI patients and controls. Anterior AMI patients had reduced regional flow relative to controls.