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Su una similitudine in Stazio Achilleide 1.178–181 e suo intento programmatico
Authors: Uccellini Renée 
Published: November 2020

In this paper, I propose a reading of a simile in Statius’ Achilleid (1.178–181), inside the Achilles’ first appearance on the scene. In a few lines, Statius condenses an athletic–heroic image, prefiguring the future epic hero of the Trojan war, but paradoxically expressed with an allusive erotic–elegiac language, inspired on the Challimacus’, Theocritus’ and elegiac also style. In particular, the Propertian model, recalled here and in other places of the Achilleid with certain references to elegy 3.14, reveals itself not only as a simple lexical repertoire todraw from, but also a wise exemplum for the metapoetic reflection, particularly supported within the first book of Achilleid , and focused on the ‘curve’ of the cultivated literary genre.
In questo contributo propongo alcune riflessioni su una similitudine nell’Achilleide di Stazio (1.178–181), contenuta nella prima apparizione di Achille sulla scena. In pochi versi Stazio condensa un’immagine atletico–eroica, prefigurazione del futuro eroe epico della guerratroiana, ma paradossalmente espressa con un linguaggio formulare allusivamente erotico– elegiaco, di stampo callimacheo, teocriteo ed anche elegiaco. In particolare, il modello properziano, richiamato qui e in altri luoghi dell’Achilleide con sicuri riferimenti all’elegia 3.14, si rivela non solamente un mero repertorio lessicale al quale attingere, ma anche un sapiente exemplum per la riflessione metapoetica, particolarmente sostenuta all’interno del primo libro dell’Achilleide , ed incentrata sulla ‘curvatura’ del genere letterario coltivato.
Las representaciones contemporáneas de tragedias griegas y su relación con problemas de actualidad: tres ejemplos en Andalucía
Authors: Cuevas Caballero Marta 
Published: November 2020

Teniendo siempre en mente la intemporalidad de los textos clásicos, en este trabajo se ha analizado, a partir de la lectura de traducciones de los textos griegos y del estudio de grabaciones de tres montajes andaluces, la relación con problemas de actualidad que tendríantres tragedias griegas: Prometeo encadenado , Antígona y Medea . De este modo, atendiendo a la escenografía, el vestuario y la música, se observa que en Prometeo (2014), Antígona o la felicidad (2006) y Medea, la extranjera (2004) se reflejan temas intemporales como lacorrupción, el poder, la felicidad, la hipocresía, la xenofobia o la condición de la mujer, a través de recursos escénicos, dramáticos y artísticos que remiten a la significación contemporánea de esos temas, acercándolos, por tanto, al público y demostrando su plena relación con la actualidad.
Always considering the timelessness of classical texts, the connection between three Greek tragedies, Prometheus Bound , Antigone and Medea , and current issues has been analysed in this work basing on the reading of Greek texts translations and the study of three videorecorded Andalusian performances. This way, focusing on scenography, costumes and music, it is observed that in Prometeo (Prometheus , 2014), Antígona o la felicidad (Antigone or Happiness , 2006) and Medea, la extranjera (Medea the Foreigner, 2004), timeless topics such as corruption, power, happiness, hypocrisy, xenophobia or the status of women are reflected through scenic, dramatic and artistic resources that refer to the contemporary significance of those topics, bringing them closer to the audience and proving their full relationship to contemporary issues.
ANYBODY LIVING A PRIVATE LIFE IS A BELIEVER IN MONEY. GERTRUDE STEIN, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AND THE ABSTRACTION OF MONEY
Authors: Daugaard Solveig 
Published: November 2020

The article considers Gertrude Stein’s reflections about the increasing abstraction of economics in response to the Great Depression and Roosevelt’s New Deal in a number of explicitly political pieces from the mid-1930s, including “A Political Series” (1935), and her five brief newspaper commentaries on “money”: ”Money”, “More About Money”, “Still More About Money”, “All About Money”, and “My Last About Money” (1936). The article then relates them to Walter Benjamin’s and Giorgio Agamben’s ideas about the religious implications of the money system that resonate with Stein’s salute to the “believer in money” as security against contemporary authoritarian tendencies. Stein’s opinion pieces argue against taxation, unionism, and public spending, yet also demonstrate the slippery passage between her explicit conservatism, her economic liberalism and her still present radicalism and critique of patriarchal authority as they recycle crucial elements from contemporaneous works such The Geographical History of America (1935) and Everybody’s Autobiography (1937).
Early survey with bibliometric analysis on machine learning approaches in controlling COVID-19 outbreaks
Authors: Chiroma Haruna , Ezugwu Absalom E. , Jauro Fatsuma , Al-Garadi Mohammed A. , Abdullahi Idris N. , Shuib Liyana 
Published: November 2020

Background and ObjectiveThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe mortality across the globe, with the USA as the current epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic even though the initial outbreak was in Wuhan, China. Many studies successfully applied machine learning to fight COVID-19 pandemic from a different perspective. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no comprehensive survey with bibliometric analysis has been conducted yet on the adoption of machine learning to fight COVID-19. Therefore, the main goal of this study is to bridge this gap by carrying out an in-depth survey with bibliometric analysis on the adoption of machine learning-based technologies to fight COVID-19 pandemic from a different perspective, including an extensive systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis.MethodsWe applied a literature survey methodology to retrieved data from academic databases and subsequently employed a bibliometric technique to analyze the accessed records. Besides, the concise summary, sources of COVID-19 datasets, taxonomy, synthesis and analysis are presented in this study. It was found that the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is mainly utilized in developing COVID-19 diagnosis and prognosis tools, mostly from chest X-ray and chest CT scan images. Similarly, in this study, we performed a bibliometric analysis of machine learning-based COVID-19 related publications in the Scopus and Web of Science citation indexes. Finally, we propose a new perspective for solving the challenges identified as direction for future research. We believe the survey with bibliometric analysis can help researchers easily detect areas that require further development and identify potential collaborators.ResultsThe findings of the analysis presented in this article reveal that machine learning-based COVID-19 diagnose tools received the most considerable attention from researchers. Specifically, the analyses of results show that energy and resources are more dispenses towards COVID-19 automated diagnose tools while COVID-19 drugs and vaccine development remains grossly underexploited. Besides, the machine learning-based algorithm that is predominantly utilized by researchers in developing the diagnostic tool is CNN mainly from X-rays and CT scan images.ConclusionsThe challenges hindering practical work on the application of machine learning-based technologies to fight COVID-19 and new perspective to solve the identified problems are presented in this article. Furthermore, we believed that the presented survey with bibliometric analysis could make it easier for researchers to identify areas that need further development and possibly identify potential collaborators at author, country and institutional level, with the overall aim of furthering research in the focused area of machine learning application to disease control.
Effects of whole-body vibrations on neuromuscular fatigue: a study with sets of different durations
Authors: Kalc Miloš , Ritzmann Ramona , Strojnik Vojko 
Published: November 2020

BackgroundWhole body vibrations have been used as an exercise modality or as a tool to study neuromuscular integration. There is increasing evidence that longer WBV exposures (up to 10 minutes) induce an acute impairment in neuromuscular function. However, the magnitude and origin of WBV induced fatigue is poorly understood.PurposeThe study aimed to investigate the magnitude and origin of neuromuscular fatigue induced by half-squat long-exposure whole-body vibration intervention (WBV) with sets of different duration and compare it to non-vibration (SHAM) conditions.MethodsTen young, recreationally trained adults participated in six fatiguing trials, each consisting of maintaining a squatting position for several sets of the duration of 30, 60 or 180 seconds. The static squatting was superimposed with vibrations (WBV30, WBV60, WBV180) or without vibrations (SHAM30, SHAM60, SHAM180) for a total exercise exposure of 9-minutes in each trial. Maximum voluntary contraction (MVC), level of voluntary activation (%VA), low- (T20) and high-frequency (T100) doublets, low-to-high-frequency fatigue ratio (T20/100) and single twitch peak torque (TWPT) were assessed before, immediately after, then 15 and 30 minutes after each fatiguing protocol.ResultInferential statistics using RM ANOVA and post hoc tests revealed statistically significant declines from baseline values in MVC, T20, T100, T20/100and TWPTin all trials, but not in %VA. No significant differences were found between WBV and SHAM conditions.ConclusionOur findings suggest that the origin of fatigue induced by WBV is not significantly different compared to control conditions without vibrations. The lack of significant differences in %VA and the significant decline in other assessed parameters suggest that fatiguing protocols used in this study induced peripheral fatigue of a similar magnitude in all trials.
Patterns of Ocular Trauma Presenting to the Tertiary Eye Care Centre in the Islands of Andaman and Nicobar
Authors: Das Sujit , Rana Manika 
Published: November 2020

Objective:
The purpose of this study is to identify the patterns of ocular trauma, determine the groups at risk, types of injuries, visual and post traumatic anatomical outcomes in patients presenting to our hospital − ANIIMS, Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Method:
It is a prospective hospital based observational study done over a period of two years on ocular trauma cases presenting to the emergency or referred to the ophthalmology department from June 2016 to June 2018. A questionnaire was made and data was collected on the patientʼs age, gender, affected eye, aetiology, location of trauma, visual acuity, intra-ocular pressure (IOP) and subsequent gonioscopy, hospital admission, maximum stay in the hospital and primary and secondary surgical intervention done.

Results:
The study included 77 eyes of 70 patients. Males were affected in 84% of cases. The highest incidence of trauma was seen in the age group of 21-30 years (34%). Children below 10 years were found in 14% cases. Blunt ocular trauma was found in 38 patients (25.7%) whereas penetrating injuries were found in six eyes (8.6%). Road traffic accident was found as the most common cause of trauma (25.7%). Hospitalization was done in 30 patients (42.85%) and the maximum stay in the hospital was three days. Primary surgical interventions were required in 25 patients (35.71%).

Conclusions:
Road traffic accident is one of the major cases related to blunt ocular trauma and early intervention can prevent ocular morbidity. Children are at a higher risk for accidental ocular injuries especially with sharp objects. Safety is the key in preventing ocular injuries and thereby can reduce the burden on the individual as well as on the socioeconomic and health resources of any nation.
Evaluation of Corneal Endothelial Cells and Morphology in Mitomycin-C Augmented Trabeculectomy
Authors: Dhiman Shalini , Kumar Ankur , Kumar Kishor 
Published: November 2020

Purpose:
To evaluate the effect of Mitomycin-C (MMC) on corneal endothelial cells and morphology in Mitomycin-C augmented trabeculectomy

Methods:
In this study, 40 eyes of patients underwent trabeculectomy with Mitomycin-C (group 1) and 40 eyes of patients underwent trabeculectomy without Mitomycin-C (group 2). Specular microscopy was performed at 1 month and 3 month postoperatively. Outcome variables included corneal endothelial cell density (CECD), coefficient of variation of cell size (CV), central corneal thickness (CCT), hexagonality.

Results:
Overall, mean preoperative CECD was 2538.21+/-259.98 mm2, postoperatively at 1 month and 3 month it was significantly reduced to 2377.11+/-270.36 mm2 and 2340.56+/-272.39 mm2 respectively. (p <0.05). Overall, mean preoperative CV was 31+/-5.93%, postoperatively at 1 month and 3 month it was non-significantly increased to 33.19+/-6.02% and 34.30+/-5.97% respectively. (p>0.05). Overall, mean preoperative hexagonality was 53.63+/-4.47%, postoperatively at 1 month and 3 month it was non significantly reduced to 51.54+/-4.50% and 50.41+/-4.49% respectively (p>0.05). Overall, mean preoperative CCT was 514.41+/-13.786um, postoperatively at 1 month and 3 month it was significantly increased to 523.58+/-14.99um and 520.69+/-14.80 um respectively. (p<0.05).

Conclusion:
Mitomycin-C application in trabeculectomy cause significant corneal endothelial loss. Most of the damage occurs intraoperatively, or in the early postoperative period.
Evaluation of the Prevalence and Risk Factors of Dry Eye in Young Population
Authors: Bhatt Rupal , Prajapati Vaishali , Viramgami Urvi 
Published: November 2020

Purpose:
To evaluate prevalence and causative risk factors of dry eye in pediatric population.

Methods:
It was a prospective observational study, conducted in 500 patients (1000 eyes), who visited at outpatient department of pediatric ophthalmology of our tertiary eye care center. All patients were screened for ocular surface disease index. Of those, having score >13 were further evaluated for the dry eye tests. The 60 eyes of 30 patients were selected and studied for the causes, types of dry eye.

Results:
Out of 500 out patients, 30 patients (60 eyes) have >13 score, with clinically proven bilateral dry eye. The most commonly affected age group was 7-18 years. The most common association were Vernal Kerato-Conjunctivitis (VKC), Meibomian Gland Dysfunction (MGD) & Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)- as over use of mobile.

Conclusion:
The evaporative dry eye due to MGD & CVS is common in pediatric age group, while the aqueous deficiency dry eye is not so. The use of mobiles, tablets, computers leads to increase the rate of dry eye in children, which also affect the outdoor activity, study of child & child over all development.
Effect of Environmental Protection Cost on Return on Equity of Petroleum Marketing Companies in Nigeria?
Authors: Kaoje Abdulsalam Nasiru, , Idris Sani, , Danrimi Mohammed Lawal, , Kurfi Shafiu Abubakar , Abubakar Aminu, 
Published: November 2020

This paper evaluates the effect of environmental protection cost on return on equity of petroleum marketing companies in Nigeria. A panel data spanning a period of fifteen years from 2004-2018 was used, which was sourced from Nigerian Stock Exchange Factbook and annual account and report of twelve (12) petroleum marketing companies in Nigeria. Regression was used in testing the hypothesis of the paper. The paper found that environmental protection cost has positive and significant effect on return on asset of petroleum marketing companies in Nigeria. Therefore, the paper recommends that management of petroleum marketing companies in Nigeria should increase their participation on Environmental protection and Environmental remediation and pollution control to their host communities in order to maximized profitability most especially the return on asset of the sampled petroleum marketing companies in Nigeria.
Present day Agricultural Education Ecosystem and Assessment on Educational Aspirations of Farm Graduates
Authors: Anandaraja N. , Sivabalan K. C. , Lalson Molu T. 
Published: November 2020

In the global ecosystem, swift changes are happening in the knowledge sphere. The present study aims to find out the aspirations of the agricultural graduates regarding their education and agriculture. The study was conducted in the three Agricultural Colleges of Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) through open online survey. Well-structured questionnaire was prepared using ‘Google forms’, an online application and data was collected by publishing it online in KAU Student’s Community through ‘Facebook’. Among the sixty four respondents, all the respondents were B.Sc. Agriculture degree holders from KAU and vast majority of the respondents were girls. Majority of the respondents are having medium level of educational, agricultural aaspirations. More than three fifth of the respondents (67.19%) are most interested doing post-graduation in agricultural sciences after completing their graduation. Over one third of respondents (39.10%) were mostly interested to become innovative and progressive farmers, where as less than one-third of the respondents (29.7%) are most interested in starting agricultural subsidiary enterprises.
Analysis of the Adverse Drug Reactions and Associated Cost Burden on the Patients in a South Indian Teaching Hospital
Authors: Venkatasubbaiah Meda , Reddy P. Dwarakanadha , Satyanarayana Suggala V. 
Published: November 2020

Objectives: To analyse the adverse drug reactions (ADR) and related economic burden on the health care system and health seekers
Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted in a South Indian tertiary care teaching hospital from July 2016 – December 2018.ADRs were analyzed for their causality, severity, predictability, and preventability through standard scales and were reported to the Pharmacovigilance Program of India (PvPI) through a specified updated Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) suspected ADR reporting form. The total cost burden including both direct and indirect were calculated by assessing the ADR management including the clinical investigations done. The indirect cost was calculated based on the per capita analysis by using the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of our study area.
Results: Among 458 ADRs, 81.88% were reported in Adult population with an almost same incidence in both the genders, majority were probable (41.70%) and Antibiotics were most commonly involved (16.18%). Around 60% ADRs were treated with at least one drug, 27% ADRs required either hospitalization or increased length of Hospitalization. A total of 989164.5 Indian Rupee (INR) was spent by the hospital and the patients for the management of ADRs, of which 79% was direct cost and 21% was indirect cost.
Conclusion: In this hospital, 26.88% of patients were identified with ADRs that were associated with high direct costs, due to hospitalization/extended hospitalizations, which resulted in an extra economic burden to the healthcare sector and seekers for the management of ADRs.
A Tetra-Primer Amplification Refractory Mutation System–Polymerase Chain Reaction (T-ARMS-PCR) for Genotyping of rs8099917 & rs12979860 IL28B Polymorphisms and Its Correlation of Various Variables in Iranian HCV Patients
Authors: Bahari Ali , Hashemi Mohammad , Bahari Gholam Reza , Fakharian Tahereh , Gerayli Sina , Zadeh Abbas Esmail , Sima Hamid Reza , Mozaffari Hooman Mosannan , Bakhshipour Ali Reza , Bari Zohreh 
Published: November 2020

Background: Selecting patients for new direct acting antiviral treatment of HCV has prompted a conflicting matter worldwide because of its high cost and limited availability. Genotyping of IL28B polymorphisms will aid clinical decision making for identifying priorities of urgent treatment in resource-limited countries.
Objectives: The aim of the present study was to design a simple tetra-primer amplification refractory mutation system–polymerase chain reaction (T-ARMS-PCR) for genotyping of the rs8099917 and rs12979860 IL28B gene polymorphisms. Furthermore, we identify the correlation of variables such as gender, serum ALT level, histology of liver and baseline viral load with these polymorphisms.
Patients and Methods: We efficiently designed a T-ARMS-PCR for detection of rs12979860 and rs8099917 IL28B gene polymorphisms. Using this method, we genotyped 148 hepatitis C patients. To ensure T-ARMS genotyping quality, we, regenotyped samples with the PCR- sequencing method.
Results: Results of genotyping of rs12979860 and rs8099917 by T-ARMS PCR method were 100% concordant with the sequencing results. Among these 148 patients with chronic hepatitis C, the frequency of the rs12979860 CT, TT and CC genotypes was 72.3%, 14.2% and 13.5%, respectively and the frequency of the rs8099917 TT, GT and GG genotypes was 58.1%, 38.5% and 3.4%. Low frequency (2.7%) of association of two unfavourable homozygous genotypes (TT rs12979860 / GG rs809917) as well as 56.7% of association of 3 or 4 favorable alleles could explain good response of Iranians to HCV treatment with interferon-based regimens. About correlation of polymorphisms with different variables, only high viral load showed a statistically significant correlation to unfavorable genotype of TT rs12979860 ( p value = 0/05 ) and there was no correlation of serum ALT level, gender and histology of liver to IL28B genotypes.
Conclusions: We report that rs8099917 polymorphisms could predict outcomes better than rs12979860 in Iranian HCV patients.
Acute Renal Problems Still a Great Challenge in Obstetrics
Authors: Abbasi Madiha , Samreen Erum , Parveen Naheed , Nazia Shafaq , Naz Farah 
Published: November 2020

Objective: To assess the early risk factors and outcomes of the patients presented with acute renal issues, at tertiary care Hospital.
Methodology: This descriptive study was conducted at gynaecology and obstetrics department of Liaquat University of medical and health Sciences. Study duration was six months from June 2019 to November 2019. Women having age more than 18 years, developed renal impairment as serum creatinine level more than 1.2 mg/dl were included. All data was collected via self-made proforma. SPSS version 20 was used for the data analysis.
Results: Total 58 women having renal problems during pregnancy were studied, their mean age was 28.40+4.68 years and mean gestational age was 28.40+4.68 years. Most of the women 70.2% were un-booked. Parity 1-3 was commonest. Anaemic women were on high risk of renal impairment as most of the patients had moderate anemia. Hypertension was in 35.1% patients, placental abruption was in 10.5% cases, tow patients had diabetes, 12.3% presented with pregnancy induced hypertension and postpartum haemorrhage was in 05.3% cases. There was a significant negative correlation between haemoglobin level and serum creatinine level, (r-value 0.029).
Conclusion: Anemia was the commonest reason for renal impairment during pregnancy. Most of the women were un-booked, having high parity and were presented with anemia. This morbidity can be decreased and prevented by stabilizing the haemoglobin level by taking proper antenatal care.